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Mary-Jane O'Regan

MICHAEL MULCAHY’S INSPIRING WOMEN

Date: August 22, 2019 - High Society

THE CROWDED calendar of women-in-business awards just got a little more crowded with the arrival of Michael ‘RSVP’ Mulcahy’s Graham Norton Gin Inspiring Awards 2019. And it looks like everyone is in with a shout. There is an unusually broad array of nominees, suggesting that getting on to the list was easier done than said…. Read more »

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Eugene Downes

EUGENE DOWNES’S LOW-HANGING FRUIT

Date: August 22, 2019 - Behind the Scenes

WITH THE 2019 Kilkenny Arts Festival (KAF) having just finished, it was the first outing for the new director, Olga Barry. Her predecessor, Eugene Downes, meanwhile, is getting to grips with the brand new job of cultural director at the Department of Foreign Affairs (which has yet to officially announce the new appointment). Given the… Read more »

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Robert Nairac

CAPTAIN NAIRAC’S ACTIVITIES

Date: August 22, 2019 - Hush Hush

Last week, the head of the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims’ Remains (ICLVR) Geoff Knupfer was busy pouring cold water on a widely reported story that Captain Robert Nairac’s body had finally been found in a forest in County Louth. But Knupfer, a former Manchester Special Branch commander, had made it clear beforehand… Read more »

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Barry Connell

BARRY CONNELL’S NEW ROLE

Date: August 22, 2019 - Sport of Kings

BARRY CONNELL has decided to take matters into his own hands and take out a training licence. The former stockbroker has tried his hand at being an amateur jockey and an owner, so he may as well go the whole hog and start training his horses. He previously tried outsourcing them to different trainers before,… Read more »

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Vol 37 No 17

Date: August 22, 2019 -

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BRIAN MCDONAGH’S ‘FRONT’ COMPANY

Date: August 22, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

GRANJA LTD, a company linked to Brian McDonagh – the man at the centre of efforts to stop a proposal by Apple (since abandoned) to develop a €850m data centre in Athenry, Co Galway – has been quietly wound up. Fans of Goldhawk will recall that Granja described itself as the owner of an investment… Read more »

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Finian McGrath

SHANE ROSS’S RHINOCEROS

Date: August 22, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

DESPITE BREXIT, Leo Varadkar’s and Micheál Martin’s unofficial negotiators continue to court the Greens, Labour and the Social Democrats with sweet talk of a broad coalition after an election. Both parties may be overlooking the rhinoceros in the room. The political and media analysis has been that either FF or FG with around 55 seats… Read more »

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Betty Purcell

EMILY AND BETTY AND ORLAGH

Date: August 22, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

IT WILL be interesting to see if three members of the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (IHREC) – the current chief commissioner and two past members – are reappointed to the board. Justice minister Charlie Flanagan faced a revolt from the commissioners when he dispensed with the previous method of appointments, which had involved… Read more »

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FUNDING THE HARE KRISHNAS

Date: August 22, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

THE FOOD Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) has been busy in recent weeks, most notably forcing the shut down of spring water production at the troubled Celtic Pure plant in Monaghan. More surprisingly, it has been upsetting the Hare Krishnas. Last month the established Govindas restaurant on Dublin’s Middle Abbey Street was served with a… Read more »

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Gary Kavanagh

BURKIAN EXPANSION

Date: August 22, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

THIS WEEK saw the official social media launch of gript.ie, a conservative online media platform that features some familiar faces. Not surprisingly, there is significant overlap with the pioneer in this field – the Edmund Burke Institute (EBI). Conservative ideology has been in the headlines here recently as a result of heated reactions to the… Read more »

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Colin Wallace

IRA KIDNAP DISPUTE

Date: August 22, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

FORMER RTÉ executive David Blake Knox (DBK) has provoked a reaction from more than one quarter with his recently published book, The Killing of Thomas Niedermayer. The kidnap and IRA murder of Belfast-based German industrialist Niedermayer in 1973 and the subsequent multiple suicides in the Niedermayer family carry more than enough material for a gripping… Read more »

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Jim Farrell

JIM FARRELL’S SECURITY SITUATION

Date: August 22, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

GOLDHAWK WAS intrigued to see the name of his old friend and security expert, Jim Farrell, crop up in an ex-parte (one side only) High Court petition to wind up an outfit called Business Mobile Security Services Ltd (BMSS). He supplied one of the affidavits on the basis of which Judge Senan Allen provisionally wound… Read more »

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BERNADETTE MCALISKEY’S U-TURN

Date: August 22, 2019 - Hush Hush

SOUTHERN PARTITIONISTS and neo-Unionists in the hated Free State (especially those with nice lawns and big beef farmers with much grassland) will be immensely relieved at Bernadette McAliskey’s u-turn on a united Ireland. McAliskey, once the most powerful advocate of civil rights and a united Ireland, has renounced her 40-year-long Republicanism, publicly asking last week,… Read more »

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THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: August 22, 2019 - The Hot Air Brigade

Women are great at politics, this is the gas thing, we’re great at it. If you believe our future is best served in unity… and we can achieve much more together than we’ve ever achieved divided, I’m your woman. Mary Lou McDonald, Irish Mirror, submitted by reader The Operation Transformation presenter, 40, wed the restaurateur… Read more »

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Mike Nesbitt

UNITED IRELAND ECONOMICS

Date: August 22, 2019 - Northwind

Brexit has changed the game in the north and people in the south have begun to notice. Taoiseach Leo Varadkar turned up at Féile an Phobail in west Belfast and, sitting beside Mary Lou McDonald, engaged in a discussion about a new Ireland instead of dismissing the idea out of hand. He acknowledged that, for… Read more »

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Michael Creed

BRUTON’S BOMBSHELL

Date: August 22, 2019 - Fowl Emissions

With the political focus on urgent climate mitigation, a deep retrofit is probably the most effective single action an average Irish family could take to permanently reduce their carbon footprint. But the government effectively torpedoed the entire project for the time being. By any standards, retrofitting is a no-brainer – the work creates sustainable local… Read more »

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“JUDGEMENTAL” QUINN

Date: August 22, 2019 - Fowl Emissions

What is it about articulate females that gets ultra-Catholics into such a lather? Iona Institute director David Quinn has shown an extraordinary interest in young Swedish climate firebrand Greta Thunberg, firing off tweet after tweet in what he must think plays well with his base, ie mockery of ‘green’ politics in general and Greta in… Read more »

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Niall Collins

ISRAELI IRISH OFFENSIVE

Date: August 22, 2019 - Last Refuge

THE ONSLAUGHT against alleged anti-semitism in Britain is driven by efforts to undermine Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour leadership, while in Ireland the claim that criticism of Israel is automatically anti-semitic is regarded by most as a disingenuous justification of Israel’s treatment of Palestinians. However, there are signs that the Israeli Embassy and the Tel Aviv propaganda… Read more »

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Regina Doherty

BITCHIN’ BLUESHIRT BARRY

Date: August 22, 2019 - Last Refuge

WITH ONE Young Fine Gael (YFG) leader, Killian Foley-Walsh, in a spot of bother about his attendance at a right-wing youth conference in the US, another former YFG leader, Barry Walsh, has been championing the 1930s Blueshirts in an Irish Times letters debate. Walsh has not declared his distinguished CV as a YFG luminary, nor… Read more »

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Brendan Howlin

LABOUR AND BIG TOBACCO

Date: August 22, 2019 - Last Refuge

WHAT IS it about the Labour Party and Big Tobacco? Several leading Labour players down the years have been involved in lobbying and PR work for tobacco companies, while the party simultaneously professed to be deeply concerned at the damage to the nation’s health caused by cigarettes. As junior health minister in the last Fine… Read more »

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Eoghan Harris

BREXIT BACKSLIDE

Date: August 22, 2019 - Fit to Print?

Sindo columnist Eoghan Harris is driving a campaign to force the government to yield on the backstop. And the divisions in the main media are widening as a no-deal Brexit looms larger. Harris targeted Irish Times deputy political editor Fiach Kelly last Sunday for his hard line on the backstop, inferring that Kelly did not… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: August 22, 2019 - Bog Cuttings

WUFF JUSTICE A MAN was sentenced to two months in prison after a court heard that he threw a dog into the Garavogue River because it was “annoying” him. Stephen Connolly of 18 Willow Park, Maugheraboy, pleaded guilty to the offence as well as public order charges at Sligo District Court. Gardaí were called to… Read more »

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Jessica Harrington

DEMPSEY’S GOLDEN GOOSE

Date: August 22, 2019 - High Society

THERE WAS good and bad news for Matt Dempsey and his board at the Irish National Stud (INS), where the clock is starting to run down on the golden goose that is Invincible Spirit. Chairman Dempsey is joined on the board by racing royalty Jessica Harrington, while others directors include Dermot Weld’s son and assistant,… Read more »

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ADDING UP AT KILKENNY ARTS FESTIVAL

Date: August 22, 2019 - Behind the Scenes

THE 2017 loss at the Kilkenny Arts Festival (KAF) led to a number of steps being taken to bring the festival back into the black, including a “significant reduction in programme and production costs”. The good news is that the belt-tightening paid off. According to the 2018 accounts that have just been made available on… Read more »

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WILLIE MULLINS’S RESERVES

Date: August 22, 2019 - Sport of Kings

AT GALWAY last year, Willie Mullins caused a bit of a stir when withdrawing Ballycasey from the Galway Plate to allow stablemate and reserve Patrick’s Park to run. Ruby Walsh had been jocked up on Saturnas and punters had taken the hint that he was the number one Mullins hope, backing it accordingly. Walsh, however,… Read more »

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CARELESS BRIAN HAYES

Date: August 22, 2019 - Sport of Kings

THERE WAS a nasty incident in a steeplechase at Killarney last month when the eventual third-place finisher, Rock Road, partnered by Brian Hayes, appeared to wander coming to the second last and, in doing so, impeded the following Mister Butler, who crashed into the fence giving rider Paul Cawley a spectacular somersaulting fall. Cawley was… Read more »

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THE SCALES OF INJUSTICE

Date: August 22, 2019 - Sport of Kings

YOUNG JOCKEY Liam Quinlan and Tipperary trainer John Ryan were the victims of a unfortunate and slightly bizarre episode at Sligo recently, when their Kilcarry View was disqualified after winning a maiden hurdle. Upon weighing in, Quinlan was 1.2 lbs short of his weighing out figure of 154.1 lbs and, with both jockey and trainer… Read more »

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Brian Conlon

FIRST DERIVATIVES AFTER BRIAN CONLON

Date: August 22, 2019 - Moneybags

THE DEATH last month of Brian Conlon is a blow not just for his family and his company, First Derivatives (FD), but also for the town of Newry where he established FD. Although FD has 15 offices throughout the world, spread from America to the Middle and Far East and Australia, the core has always… Read more »

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Andrew Sheehy

ANDREW SHEEHY’S ROMANIAN TRAVAILS

Date: August 22, 2019 - Briefcases

GOLDHAWK spotted an interesting High Court judgment recently relating to businessman Andrew Sheehy, who is being pursued for €4m by a vulture fund over an Eastern European land deal. Kerryman Sheehy made the headlines a few years ago when his brother, Coleman Sheehy (aka Frankie Sheehy), was appointed to the board of Irish Water in… Read more »

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Gabriel Dooley

GABRIEL DOOLEY’S TAX BILL

Date: August 22, 2019 - Briefcases

THERE IS more woe for Wicklow auctioneer Gabriel Dooley, who has just been whacked by the dreaded taxman for U91,000. The trouble started for Dooley in 2011, when Anglo appointed a receiver to his property vehicle, International Inns Ltd, which had debts of over €2m. Then he was named on the Revenue’s list of tax… Read more »

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BRENDAN MORRISSEY LAID BARE

Date: August 22, 2019 - Briefcases

THE operators of a small Midlands music festival have hit a bum note. Bare Festival Ltd, the entity behind the BARE in the Woods festival, has just had a paltry €12,000 judgment registered against it by Dublin event security firm Maps Security Ltd. Morrissey informed Goldhawk today (23/8/19) that he had that day satisfied the… Read more »

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GOFF LALOR’S BANKRUPTCY

Date: August 22, 2019 - Briefcases

BANKRUPT Goff Lalor, who previously described himself as “founder and CEO of a number of successful companies”, has found success rather hard to come by in recent times. The latest bad news is that the official assignee, Chris Lehane, is seeking a whopping 15-year-long bankruptcy for Lalor as a result of his alleged lack of… Read more »

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BROTHERLY LOVE

Date: August 22, 2019 - Briefcases

SPARE a thought for Louth businessman Niall Wiseman, who looks to be having some trouble on the family front. His own brother, Florida-based Shane Wiseman, has just registered a judgment against him for €173,000. Niall Wiseman is best known for his time at Redcoral Catering Ltd, the original company behind the Insomnia coffee brand, which… Read more »

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Frank Ennis

FRANK ENNIS’S FEES

Date: August 22, 2019 - Briefcases

THE NAME of multi-talented architect and former director and shareholder in the Porterhouse pub group, Frank Ennis, featured large in a High Court action taken by the liquidator of one of his many companies, Heatherridge Associates Ltd (HAL). This architecture business had been wound up voluntarily back in 2010, but just two months ago the… Read more »

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GERRY KELLY’S MOVIE MAGIC

Date: August 21, 2019 - High Society

THERE HAS been some interesting activity on the entertainment scene from a low-profile moneybags who has just invested a cool €1m in the Troy film studio in Limerick. It was reported last year that Dalkey-based Gerry Kelly’s HKC alarm manufacturing operation was acquired by Swedish giants Assa Abloy for what was believed to be a… Read more »

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Seán Canney

NOT SO CANNEY

Date: August 8, 2019 - Fowl Emissions

Bono and Mary Robinson are among the famous faces wheeled out as part of Ireland’s bid for a seat on the UN Security Council (see The Phoenix 29/7/2018). But Ireland lost a lot of face at the UN last month when the hypocrisy of Leo Varadkar’s Government on climate action was exposed to a packed… Read more »

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