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‘MAIL’S’ MALE TALE

Date: October 3, 2019 - Fit to Print?

The Irish Daily Mail boasts of its special attention to women readers, but it’s uncertain how an online feature headlined “Dublin strippers reveal what it’s really like to work in a dance club in the city” went down with this target audience. A lengthy article on its website, Extra.ie – the brainchild of the Mail… Read more »

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John Fitzgerald

GREAT GAS GUYS!

Date: October 3, 2019 - Fowl Emissions

“IT’S OIL OVER!” declared the Irish Daily Mirror’s front-page headline, heralding Leo Varadkar’s ‘historic’ announcement at the UN Climate Summit in New York that Ireland would end oil exploration. It isn’t all over, of course. Scores of licences that companies have been sitting on for years are still valid, some into the 2030s. The “offshore”… Read more »

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SAFE CITY

Date: October 3, 2019 - Fowl Emissions

Dublin City Council has closed College Green to traffic on several Sundays recently, as an “experiment” – presumably to test whether civilisation would collapse. There was confusion about why steel barriers were erected between the footpath and pedestrianised street, but this was clarified during the most recent experiment. The barriers were there “to ensure shoppers… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: October 3, 2019 - Bog Cuttings

A hairy situation A FAIRHILL man who called a Blarney garda a “bald fucker” told a court today he had no problem with baldness and said he was bald himself. William O’Brien of Hillcrest, The Commons, Upper Fairhill, Cork, pleaded guilty to the charges of being drunk and a danger and engaging in threatening, abusive… Read more »

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Consuelo O’Connor

GREHAN’S STUD

Date: October 3, 2019 - High Society

INTERESTING to see Glenkerrin Homes boss Ray Grehan registering a couple of business names with a distinctly horsey ring to them. After being declared bankrupt in the UK in 2012, it was reported that Grehan had dusted himself off and got back into the saddle with his involvement in the u2m purchase of the Kill… Read more »

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Ian Switzer and Elizabeth Balbirnie

LIZ BALBIRNIE’S INTERIOR DESIGN

Date: October 3, 2019 - High Society

PROPERTY PORN continues to prove popular at RTÉ, where such programmes proliferate the airwaves. At the top of the tree is surely Home of the Year (HOTY), which gives viewers a sneaky peak around the interiors of some very swanky Irish homes. One pile to feature in the show was the ultra-modern abode of Liz… Read more »

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THE ABBEY’S CASTING CHALLENGE

Date: October 3, 2019 - Behind the Scenesscenes

STILL NO sign of a new board member at the Abbey Theatre, where there is a vacancy for someone who knows how to write plays. The vacancy was advertised a long time ago, but the process is dragging on. Meanwhile, the departure of Sarah Lynch from Lower Abbey Street may complicate matters. The advert seeking… Read more »

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Susan Bergin Marlowe Mullingar Film Studio RTÉ Self-Employment

BROWN BAG FIGURES

Date: October 3, 2019 - Behind the Scenes

CONGRATULATIONS to Brown Bag studios founder Cathal Gaffney, who is in the middle of a purple patch. Figures just filed by a company called Niagara Films Ireland Ltd (NFI) reveal the kind of moolah being generated by the animation business here. NFI was set up as the vehicle for the acquisition of Brown Bags in… Read more »

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ONCE, TWICE, THREE TIMES AN AISLING

Date: October 3, 2019 - BooksReviews

When the publishing phenomenon that is Aisling landed with the first Oh My God, What A Complete Aisling novel in 2017, it followed a well-worn fish-out-of-water trope as Aisling navigated Dublin while trying to retain her culchie values and fend off fearful ‘notions’. With the third book, Once, Twice, Three Times an Aisling, authors Emer… Read more »

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Ken Condon

CONDON APPEAL FAILS

Date: October 3, 2019 - Sport of Kings

Curragh trainer Ken Condon has experienced the dizzying highs of racing with his stable star, Romanised, and the Classic-winning colt has certainly delivered some rollercoaster emotions to connections this season. Having won a Group 1 worth over €500,000 in France in August, Condon sent Romanised back to France for a similar race at Longchamp in… Read more »

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Brendan Duke Adrian Murray Mick Bailey

SUPREME OR NOT SUPREME

Date: October 3, 2019 - Sport of Kings

The highly successful syndicate racing club Supreme Racing has been the victim of a vengeful doppelganger, who has set up an imitation Twitter site. The club’s top brass – whose horses are trained by Willie Mullins and includes such stars as Kemboy, Aramon and Cadmium – have their suspicions as to who might be behind… Read more »

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James Gough

GOUGH’S QUEST CONTINUES

Date: October 3, 2019 - Sport of Kings

The ongoing saga involving Jimmy Gough and the Association of Irish Racehorse Owners (AIRO) is the gift that keeps on giving and it seems there are plenty more worms left in the can. Gough’s legal crusade has already wiped out AIRO’s financial reserves. He won his case against the body and was awarded costs after his… Read more »

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Charlie Gallagher

ABBEY’S IRISH PERFORMANCE LOOKS EMBARRASSING

Date: October 3, 2019 - Moneybags

CHARLIE GALLAGHER has managed to take his family shareholding in the ‘listed’ Abbey plc house-building group from 24% to 82%, while failing to take advantage of the Irish property crash even though the company had been perfectly positioned to pounce in 2009/2010, with €100m available in its coffers to buy up a huge chunk of… Read more »

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Tony O’Reilly Jnr

TONY O’REILLY JNR’S PROVIDENCE PANTOMIME

Date: October 3, 2019 - Moneybags

DEALING WITH the Chinese on the development of the Barryroe oilfield was never going to be easy, but it did hold out the brief prospect of significant reward for Providence Resources’s long-suffering shareholders. It is now clear that the farm-out agreement Tony O’Reilly Jnr signed up to with the Chinese company, APEC Energy Enterprise, resulted… Read more »

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CREDITORS’ BEEF WITH NYHAN BROTHERS

Date: October 3, 2019 - Briefcases

DISGRUNTLED creditors of Rostella Properties Ltd received an update on the company’s troubled liquidation last week, but a report, prepared and presented to the creditors’ meeting by liquidator PJ Lynch, bore only bad news. Rostella was the entity behind three branches of the Nyhan Brothers chain of butchers in south Dublin until April 2014, when… Read more »

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Giovanni Viscardi

BAGOTS HUTTON’S LATE FILING

Date: October 3, 2019 - Briefcases

GOLDHAWK spotted some recent activity at Urban Entertainment Ltd. This is the company behind the troubled Bagots Hutton restaurant and wine bar on Ormond Quay, D7, which has been embroiled in a planning row with Air Asia chief exec Tony Fernandes’s Monteco Holdings, owner of the neighbouring Ormond Hotel. Bagots Hutton owners Giovanni Viscardi and… Read more »

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GILMARTIN AGAIN

Date: October 3, 2019 - Briefcases

GOLDHAWK got a blast from the past when he saw a receiver had been appointed recently to a small property company called Dalmark Inns Ltd by vulture fund Cerberus. The entity itself is fairly unremarkable – the receiver was appointed on foot of a 2008 Ulster Bank mortgage secured against a commercial property in Ballinamore,… Read more »

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VULTURES SWOOP ON SEAMUS GILLEN

Date: October 3, 2019 - Briefcases

SEAN Lyons – the man behind controversial plans for a refugee reception centre in Oughterard, Co Galway – isn’t the only direct provision entrepreneur with headaches at the moment. Offaly businessman Seamus Gillen, who operates asylum centres like Globe House in Sligo, has had receivers appointed to his troubled Mid Town Property Development Unlimited Company…. Read more »

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JEFF LEO’S OTHER HEADACHE

Date: October 3, 2019 - Briefcases

THE appointment of an examiner to Dublin data compliance and software outfit Altada Technology Solutions Ltd isn’t the only issue on former Morgan Stanley banker Jeff Leo’s plate. A separate company, Advanced Metadata Technologies International Ltd (AMTI), where Leo is listed as a director and shareholder, has just had a judgment registered against by its… Read more »

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NOT EMUSED!

Date: October 3, 2019 - Briefcases

ANOTHER year, another scary set of accounts filed by Emuse Corporation Ltd. This is the D2 tech company that makes software for interactive TV programming used by the likes of ITV and Channel 5, and where chief executive Patrick Rainsford has had a lot on his plate for the past number of years. Once upon… Read more »

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Eileen and Jason Denham

JASON DENHAM’S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES

Date: October 3, 2019 - Briefcases

MORE bad luck for Jason Denham. It looks like the Castleknock businessman couldn’t stand the heat at his high-end kitchen-fitting company, where the liquidator is being called in after just a few years in operation. Much to the delight of gourmands, Denham and his wife, Eileen Denham, brought posh French kitchen brand Schmidt to Ireland… Read more »

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Fionnan Sheahan

THE NEW ORDER AT INM

Date: September 19, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

BELGIAN PUBLISHERS Mediahuis may find that bending the querulous natives to their will at Independent News & Media (INM) is a little more difficult than suppression of dissent in the Belgian Congo a century ago. Perhaps this is why Mediahuis has begun by beheading big kahuna, INM editor-in-chief Fionnan Sheahan. Sheahan had shown disturbing signs… Read more »

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MYSTERY AT THE BERNARD SHAW

Date: September 19, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

A WEEK of social media breast-beating about the decline of Dublin’s nightlife has obscured the reasons for the impending closure of the Bernard Shaw on South Richmond Street. Precise explanations for leaseholder Trevor O’Shea’s decision to shut up shop are in short supply and matters haven’t been helped by an oblique statement posted on the… Read more »

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Michael Creed

PROFILE: MICHAEL CREED

Date: September 19, 2019 - Pillars of Society

AGRICULTURE MINISTER Michael Creed has suddenly been thrust into the front line as the latest crisis in rural Ireland confronts the government – led by traditional farming champions, Fine Gael. The militant beef protest campaign is politically toxic for Leo Varadkar and his party, as hostility in their heartland of Munster farming spells electoral disaster… Read more »

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Lorna Fitzpatrick

YOUNG BLOOD: LORNA FITZPATRICK

Date: September 19, 2019 - The Young Bloods

THE Union of Students in Ireland (USI) president, Lorna Fitzpatrick, has taken charge of the national union at a trying time for the student movement as a whole. USI radicals have accused the union of taking its foot off the pedal on the thorny issue of higher-education funding, which is slowly returning to the foreground… Read more »

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Maria Bailey

MARIA BAILEY FIGHTS BACK

Date: September 19, 2019 - Last Refuge

IT LOOKS like controversial TD Maria Bailey is not going to go quietly, despite the leadership stratagem of leaving it to Blueshirts in her Dún Laoghaire constituency to do their dirty work for them. Readers will recall that Leo Varadkar and Fine Gael’s director of organisation and the general election, Paschal Donohoe, had determined that… Read more »

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Xavier McAuliffe

XAVIER MCAULIFFE’S SPEED VANS

Date: September 19, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

IT IS hard to believe that a consortium that works for An Garda Síochána providing the roadside speed detection service – GoSafe – is shacked up offshore and hides its accounts (legitimately) from public scrutiny. The same profitable outfit now finds itself under attack from Siptu over its failure to implement a Labour Court recommendation…. Read more »

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Patrick Prendergast

PRENDERGAST’S RANK PERFORMANCE

Date: September 19, 2019 - Student Life

It was a case of déjà vu again for Trinity College Dublin provost Patrick Prendergast last week when the 2020 Times Higher Education world university rankings were released. Trinners collapsed 44 places from last year to its worst-ever ranking of 164th in the world. For Prendergast, this has become a near-annual occurrence. Since coming to power,… Read more »

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Rena Maycock

RENA MAYCOCK’S BIG PLANS

Date: September 19, 2019 - High Society

THE MOST interesting name hired by Tom Lyons and Ian Kehoe as a contributor for their proposed online business news website, The Currency, is surely Rena Maycock, who will apparently be “writing a column from the coalface of Irish business”. Maycock is the co-owner of a Grafton Street-based matchmaking business called Intro Matchmaking and is… Read more »

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LEO VARADKAR’S NECK

Date: September 19, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

YOU’VE GOT to hand it to Leo Varadkar for pure neck. Earlier this month, Boris Johnson let fly with some colourful descriptions of opposition politicians – most notably Jeremy Corbyn was dismissed as a “big girl’s blouse”. Predictably, the PM came under fire for the unflattering and sexist term. Into the spat hopped Leo to… Read more »

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Stephen Rae

INM V ‘SUNDAY TIMES’

Date: September 19, 2019 - Fit to Print?

SUNDAY TIMES hack Mark Tighe is being pursued in the High Court by former Independent News & Media’s (INM) group editor-in-chief, Stephen Rae, for a story in the ST and an RTÉ interview on the same topic last year. Rae took exception to the story, based on claims by former INM chief executive Robert Pitt… Read more »

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Date: September 19, 2019 -

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Noel Grealish

NOEL GREALISH’S PAL

Date: September 19, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

THOSE REMARKS by Noel Grealish TD about “good Christian Syrians” as opposed to African “spongers” were from the heart. A devout Catholic, Noel once secured an audience with Pope Francis and he was a firm opponent of abortion. Confusingly, the Progressive Democrats, for whom Grealish was a TD for several years, once wanted to take… Read more »

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David McWilliams

DAVID MCWILLIAMS’S ‘RESEARCH’

Date: September 19, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

Readers of the Irish Times website last Saturday may have enjoyed David McWilliams musing on the future of global cities. The celebrity economist takes us on a whirlwind trip around Dhaka, Dublin and Dubai, concluding that in order to thrive, a city must not be “strangled by its own managerial incompetence”. Regrettably, however, much of… Read more »

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Simon Coveney

COVENEY’S SOLO RUN

Date: September 19, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

THE WILY Simon Coveney managed to come out of the Fine Gael think-in last week smelling of roses – at least as far as his constituents were concerned – by announcing early the green light for the troubled and increasingly expensive Cork Event Centre. The tánaiste was able to reveal that the moolah would be… Read more »

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PAT LENAGHAN’S CHAIRS

Date: September 19, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

More bad news for the family of colourful businessman and would-be casino boss Pat Lenaghan, owners of the Bridge House Hotel in Tullamore, Co Offaly. A judgment for u56,000 has just been registered against the entity behind the hotel by the owner of a Galway-based chair hire business. It’s just the latest setback for the… Read more »

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