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Rose Hynes

REAPPOINTING ROSE

Date: September 5, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

WHILE THE decision by Shane Ross to quietly extend the tenure of Shannon Airport chair Rose Hynes did not come as a shock, not everyone is happy with the decision. The high-flying Limerick legal eagle has drawn harsh criticism in her neck of the woods. Hynes is well used to landing government appointments and was… Read more »

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Michelle O'Neill

SF DEMOCRACY DEBATE

Date: September 5, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

THE CHALLENGE to Sinn Féin’s vice-president, Michelle O’Neill, from Assembly heavyweight John O’Dowd could become a test of the party’s willingness to embrace political debate and internal democracy. That, at least, is what some of O’Dowd’s supporters are arguing. O’Neill is VP because she is a woman, a northerner and for many years a part… Read more »

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Ross Lewis

ROSS LEWIS’S PLANNING RECIPE

Date: September 5, 2019 - High Society

WHILE TOP chef Ross Lewis is best known for his uber-popular and award-laden Chapter One restaurant on Dublin’s Parnell Square, he also controls a southside operation at The Malting Tower in the trendy Grand Canal Quay area populated by Google types. Unfortunately, some local residents – and Dublin City Council (DCC) – are less than… Read more »

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Tara Fay and Bruce Russell

TARA FAY’S BUSY SCHEDULE

Date: September 5, 2019 - High Society

VIEWERS of RTÉ are getting a taste of the recently launched autumn season, which features the usual mixed bag. One programme that kicks off a new season next week is My Big Day: Home or Away, which features two wedding planners offering their different takes on the big day out to young couples. The wedding… Read more »

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Claire Kilroy

JOSEPHA’S FAMOUS FIVE

Date: September 5, 2019 - Behind the Scenes

LAST WEEK, culture minister Josepha Madigan announced the first €20,000-a-head winners of the Markievicz Awards – the minister’s new bursary scheme to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the first female cabinet member, Constance de Markievicz. The scheme is aimed at supporting artists in producing “work that reflects the role of women in the period covered… Read more »

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VOL 37 No 18

Date: September 5, 2019 -

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JAMES GOUGH’S GRIPE

Date: September 5, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

JAMES GOUGH continues to be a thorn in the side of the Association of Irish Racehorse Owners (AIRO). Having taken a successful legal action against the body after he was precluded from seeking renomination for another term as the AIRO representative on the board of Horse Racing Ireland, the Racing Post notes that Gough is… Read more »

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Michael Doorly

ABC ANSWERS ELUSIVE

Date: September 5, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

ONE QUESTION that arises from Independent News & Media’s (INM’s) decision to withdraw from the Audited Bureau of Circulations (ABC) is whether it was INM or its new owners, Mediahuis, that took the decision. In the best traditions of openness, truth in the news and stuff like that, two public relations firms were deployed to… Read more »

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John Murray

JAW-JAW AND WAR-WAR

Date: September 5, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

US VICE-PRESIDENT Mike Pence set the scene for two upcoming conferences on war when he praised the “security partnership” between Ireland and the US and our “close co-ordination” with “US military operations around the world”. Aptly, he made the comments on landing at Shannon Airport. Pence was too honest for those busy trying to undermine… Read more »

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Ger O'Neill

EXPERTS GULLED BY FRAUDSTERS

Date: September 5, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

AN Irish Independent report last June of an accident claim dismissed as “not credible” by a High Court judge greatly understated Judge Michael Twomey’s dramatic and damning conclusions. “Not credible” does not cover what the judge several times referred to as a “fraudulent” claim on the part of one claimant and who dismissed the other… Read more »

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Owen Keegan

BEWARE CLAMPERS

Date: September 5, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

DUBLIN CITY Council (DCC) has finally signed a new contract with parking enforcement (clamping) company Dublin Street Parking Services Ltd (DSPS). This should ensure plenty more moolah for the two lucky principals here, Tom Dowd and Martin O’Gara. DSPS had been awarded the previous clamping contract in 2011, which ran until last year. At that… Read more »

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Lord Mountbatten

MOUNTBATTEN AND WARRENPOINT

Date: September 5, 2019 - Hush Hush

THERE IS nothing in the latest book about Lord Louis Mountbatten, The Mountbattens, that explains how the IRA was able to assassinate him in August 1979 as well as slaughter members of the Parachute Regiment in Warrenpoint on the same day. The IRA’s major upgrade of its radio-controlled ‘remote’ bomb technology in the late 1970s… Read more »

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Mark Cagney

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: September 5, 2019 - The Hot Air Brigade

Some people can read Finnegans Wake and come away thinking it’s an easy-peasy love story. Others can read the ingredients on a chocolate bar wrapper and unlock the secrets of the entire universe. Mark Cagney is a bit of the two. Barry Egan, Sunday Independent, submitted by reader Another fusillade of bullets flies in a… Read more »

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Dominic Cummings

DIRECT RULE FOR NORTHERN IRELAND

Date: September 5, 2019 - Bird's Eye View

The British Labour party’s shadow Brexit minister, Sir Keir Starmer, has said that Prime Minister Boris Johnson is not even trying to get a deal with the EU. All the evidence suggests he’s correct. As Starmer points out, nothing of substance is happening. No concrete or specific proposals have been set out by the British…. Read more »

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Simon Coveney

COVETOUS COVENEY LURKS STILL

Date: September 5, 2019 - Last Refuge

LAST WEEKEND Sunday Independent columnist Eoghan Harris tipped Simon ‘Covetous’ Coveney to take out Leo Varadkar as leader if Fine Gael loses the next election to Fianna Fáil. This forecast should make Simon more nervous than Vlad, but Harris is wrong to say that such an outcome is likely because Covetous has wrapped the green… Read more »

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Lisa Chambers

LEFT-RIGHT FIANNA FÁIL SPLIT

Date: September 5, 2019 - Last Refuge

EVERY YEAR since the 2016 general election, Willie O’Dea has led a charge to bolster Fianna Fáil’s working-class base, with the parliamentary party and frontbench dividing on the issue of raises for social welfare recipients, especially pensioners. O’Dea’s Limerick City constituency contains a huge number of low-paid and unemployed voters and O’Dea gets as many… Read more »

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Shane Ross

SHANE ROSS’S CONFIDENCE

Date: September 5, 2019 - Last Refuge

AN UNEASY calm has settled on the Seanad since Shane Ross’s Judicial Appointments Commission Bill was allowed to pass through committee stage last July after a filibuster not seen since Parnellite times. The over 100 hours of opposition-engineered debate came to an end on July 10 and both sides are limbering up for amendments at… Read more »

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John Deasy

POST DEASY CIVIL WAR

Date: September 5, 2019 - Last Refuge

FRESH FROM feeding off the political carcass of local TD John Deasy, Waterford Blueshirts are now divided into three new factions behind the candidates fighting to be added to the general election ticket along with former minister Paudie Coffey. Director of elections Paschal Donohoe will preside over a meeting of Fine Gael constituency party members… Read more »

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John Brassil

KERRY OWN GOAL

Date: September 5, 2019 - Fit to Print?

KERRY’S FOOTBALLERS dominated media coverage in the Kingdom this week but another battle – between a local sports titan and Fianna Fáil TD John Brassil – was played out in the local media in the days before the Croker cracker. The sports hero was the subject of a social media post from Kerry TD Brassil,… Read more »

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Ed Moloney

MOUNTBATTEN: CASE FOR THE DEFENCE

Date: September 5, 2019 - Fit to Print?

THERE HAS been little media comment about reports, backed up by interviews with abused victims, that Lord Louis Mountbatten – great-uncle and mentor to Prince Charles – abused boys from the notorious Kincora boys’ home in Belfast in the 1970s. The Mountbattens: Their Lives and Loves is authored by established (and establishment) writer Andrew Lownie,… Read more »

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‘SUNDAY TIMES’ AND WOMEN

Date: September 5, 2019 - Fit to Print?

SUNDAY TIMES associate editor John Burns has leaped to the defence of his male colleagues at the Irish Times and has regurgitated their denial that a male bias is shown by the overwhelming preponderance of men on the IT’s front page. “Arid bean counting” is how Burns describes the women’s statistical methodology, even though there… Read more »

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Wes Edens

GARDEN OF EDENS

Date: September 5, 2019 - Fowl Emissions

US billionaire Wes Edens has an “affinity for the underdog”, according to the Wall Street Journal. Edens is founder and CEO of New Fortress Energy, which last year bought Shannon LNG, the giant terminal proposed for north Kerry to import US fracked gas. His reputation as an underdog aficionado stems from his investment in beleaguered… Read more »

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NOW THAT’S GAS!

Date: September 5, 2019 - Fowl Emissions

A criticism often levelled at big fossil fuel infrastructure projects is that the “receiving community” (ie the locals) get little or no share in the financial spoils. Happily, this is not the case with Shannon LNG. It was recently revealed that two Kerrymen are due a $26.6m windfall as part of a deal with New… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: September 5, 2019 - Bog Cuttings

WORTH HER WEIGHT IN BEER JULIA GALVIN is one of the most sought-after contestants for the World Wife Carrying competitions. She was invited to take part in China’s National Wife Carrying Championships. She discovered the weird and wonderful sport of wife carrying in 2002 and that year featured on The Late Late Show looking for… Read more »

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Consuelo O’Connor

JOHN MAGNIER’S ADVERTS

Date: September 5, 2019 - High Society

FIGURES JUST filed for Primus Advertising and Marketing add another few bob to the wealth of John Magnier, although just what he’s worth is far from clear, which is just the way he likes it. Primus is one of a variety of companies controlled by Magnier that operate in and around the bloodstock sector. It… Read more »

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JP McManus

JP’S POOR PUNT

Date: September 5, 2019 - Sport of Kings

WHEN COOLMORE wonder sire Galileo began his 2014 covering season, his list of mares would have resembled a who’s who of the racing and bloodstock industry. One name on the list, however, was a mare called Castlecrossings and her inclusion as a mate for Galileo was a strange one. Castlecrossings was a national hunt mare… Read more »

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Denis Hogan

DENIS HOGAN’S TOUGH BREAK

Date: September 5, 2019 - Sport of Kings

THE UPWARDLY mobile Tipperary trainer Denis Hogan has become the first trainer for many years to have a horse disqualified due to anabolic steroids in its system. However, Hogan has been exonerated from any wrongdoing after an investigation concluded that the horse was administered a drug containing the steroid nandrolone in error while in the… Read more »

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AND THEY’RE OFF… ALREADY?

Date: September 5, 2019 - Sport of Kings

AFTER AN unexplained weighing scales incident in early August, which saw the winner of a race disqualified over a matter of ounces, Sligo racecourse found itself under scrutiny after a race was sent off four minutes early. Normally, in such an incidence the race is declared void but, on this occasion, no horse was favoured… Read more »

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Gordon Elliot

ELLIOTT’S TICKING CLOCK

Date: September 5, 2019 - Sport of Kings

IT IS that time of year when the Gordon Elliott versus Willie Mullins narrative starts to get an airing. Time could be running out for the former to grab the title, given Mick O’Leary’s dismounting from the sales ring. As was the plot two seasons ago, Elliott is making hay while the sun shines and… Read more »

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Colin Hunt

AIB IS UNDERVALUED BY MARKET

Date: September 5, 2019 - Moneybags

WITH BANK of Ireland (BoI) aiming to be the “national champion bank”, it is difficult to know where this puts AIB, which has recently installed Colin Hunt as CEO. What is clear is that, when it comes to the competition between the two pillar banks, AIB is streets ahead and its shares have been significantly… Read more »

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Donal Murphy

DCC’S HIGH SHARE RATING HARD TO JUSTIFY

Date: September 5, 2019 - Moneybags

SINCE HE took charge in July 2017, Donal Murphy has partly reduced the breadth of DCC’s operations as it retreats somewhat from its claimed status as a conglomerate. Nevertheless, the group is still hampered by distracting low-profit businesses in healthcare and technology. It is time for Murphy to focus on the big picture if he… Read more »

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Fergal Murtagh

FERGAL MURTAGH’S HOUSE HEADACHES

Date: September 5, 2019 - Briefcases

SPARE A thought for Fergal Murtagh – son of Kingspan co-founder Brendan Murtagh – who has just had a €220,000 judgment registered against him by AIB. The bank took Murtagh to the Four Goldmines in 2016 over borrowings secured against his plush home on the exclusive Headford Demesne in Kells, Co Meath. After he failed… Read more »

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Ian Keogh

IAN KEOGH’S SHRINKING EMPIRE

Date: September 5, 2019 - Briefcases

NEXT WEEK a creditors’ meeting will be held in the Plaza Hotel, Tallaght, to appoint a liquidator to Total Bars Entertainment Ltd. This is one of a number of pub companies incorporated by well-known publican Ian Keogh, who has been finding the going pretty tough over the last 12 months or so. Keogh has been… Read more »

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MYLES CROFTON’S LATEST SETBACKS

Date: September 5, 2019 - Briefcases

BOOM-ERA developer Myles Crofton might be in the process of kick-starting his comeback, but the legacy of the crash still looms large. Documents recently filed with the Companies Office reveal that a receiver was appointed last year to one of the Blackrock businessman’s entities on foot of loans secured against a number of development properties… Read more »

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Francesca De Cataldo

STRIKING OFF FRANCESCA DE CATALDO

Date: September 5, 2019 - Briefcases

GOLDHAWK’S favourite Italian import, Francesca De Cataldo, could end up saying ‘arrivederci’ to her interior design company, Sundogs Rock Productions Ltd. The firm is listed for striking off the Companies Register for failure to file accounts and an annual return. Readers will recall De Cataldo from her long-running scrap with Killiney-based solicitor Val Timon. Around… Read more »

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Niall McFadden

DECLAN CASSIDY’S HERITAGE WOES

Date: September 5, 2019 - Briefcases

GOLDHAWK recently came across a company called Heritage Luxury Holdings Ltd, which has just called in the liquidator. Incorporated just last year, Heritage never filed any accounts and details of its activities are thin on the ground, but the entity’s sole shareholder is busy Dublin accountant Declan Cassidy. During the boom, Cassidy was involved in… Read more »

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