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Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

Ó RÍORDÁIN’S DOUBLE STRIKE

Date: June 12, 2019 - Last Refuge

AODHÁN Ó RÍORDÁIN recently made a most paradoxical call for Labour leader Brendan Howlin to lead the party into the next general election and then oversee a generational change, but that he should not be the one to lead a conversation with the Greens and Social Democrats about that generational change. He also said he… Read more »

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Bertie Ahern

DRUMCONDRA MAFIA RIP

Date: June 12, 2019 - Last Refuge

FIANNA FÁIL’S local election success in north Dublin was not replicated by voters in the rare auld North Inner City (NIC) area, where its three candidates came 11th (Imran Khurshid), 14th (Denise McMorrow) and 16th (Brian Mohan, FF constituency chairman). But FF’s Dublin Central Dáil candidate, Mary Fitzpatrick, is unconcerned, partly because she topped the… Read more »

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Olivia Buckley

RATHDOWN: BRENNAN OR BUCKLEY FOR FF?

Date: June 12, 2019 - Last Refuge

THE FAILURE of former Fianna Fáil press officer Olivia Buckley to take a council seat in Dundrum has not deterred party HQ from its intention to ensure that she is a candidate for Dublin Rathdown at the general election – providing they can persuade Buckley to remain in situ. That Buckley not only failed to… Read more »

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Paul McAuliffe

DUBLIN — FIANNA FÁIL AT THE GATE

Date: June 12, 2019 - Last Refuge

SUDDENLY DUBLIN, for long a desert for the party, has become Fianna Fáil’s oyster. While the local election swing from FF to Fine Gael in Dublin as a whole was just 2.3%, the situation in key constituencies could see a gain of at least four seats for Micheál Martin’s party at the general election. Dublin… Read more »

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Stephen Donnelly

STEPHEN DONNELLY VS ‘WICKLOW TIMES’

Date: June 12, 2019 - Fit to Print?

FIANNA FÁIL’S health spokesperson, Wicklow TD Stephen Donnelly, did not have a good local election, with internal rows contributing to the party losing out on two seats in Bray – Donnelly’s political base. A spat with the Wicklow Times (WT), which reported on FF’s internal problems, did not help matters. Editor Shay Fitzmaurice alleges that… Read more »

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Frank Fitzgibbon

FOREIGN MEDIA

Date: June 12, 2019 - Fit to Print?

INDIGNATION from PR and lobbying maestro Karl Brophy and others at those who were not exactly sympathetic to the abandonment of the Times Ireland print edition and its redundant journalists indicates a well of compassion from certain quarters. But it sits uneasily alongside the gloating of Rupert Murdoch’s hacks at the Sunday Times when Russia… Read more »

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Danny McCoy

IBEC’S CHEAP CLIMATE CHANGE

Date: June 12, 2019 - Fowl Emissions

While agri interests tend to grab the headlines, the real lobbying muscle in Ireland resides in employers’ group Ibec. For years, it has had little to say publicly on climate change, but it broke cover with its recent Building a low-carbon economy document. Climate change, it intoned gravely, is the “single greatest challenge humankind faces… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: June 12, 2019 - Bog Cuttings

Doonbeg full of ‘arse-licking shoneens’ As the clock ticked down in anticipation of the visit of President Donald Trump, one man took the journey from Newmarket in County Cork to voice his opinion on the people of Doonbeg. Eighty-year-old John Lennon took to the main street of Doonbeg to protest the arrival of Trump. Mr… Read more »

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Roy Barrett

ROY BARRETT’S D4 PILE

Date: June 12, 2019 - High Society

A PROPERTY in the heart of Ballsbridge has just come on the market with a hefty €5.75m price tag. The impressive Ailesbury Road house was bought seven years ago in rather different times and the seller is hoping to make a killing. It turns out that the wily owner is one Roy Barrett, chief executive… Read more »

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Eva-Maria Bucher Haefner

MORE MILLIONS FROM HORSEY SET

Date: June 12, 2019 - High Society

THE REOPENING (at last) of the revamped Curragh racetrack, complete with a brand new four-tiered stand was marked by some unexpected whistling noises in the impressive stand courtesy of the wind. There have also been some intakes of breath at the final cost of the redevelopment, which has topped €80m. Documents filed in the Companies… Read more »

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Kenneth Alexander

ALEXANDER’S ASSETS

Date: June 12, 2019 - Sport of Kings

IT’S LITTLE wonder that Kenny Alexander, the chief executive of GVC Holdings, has been happy to splash the cash over the last 18 months to increase his racing interests. It turns out that Alexander – who enjoyed Grade 1 success over jumps in Ireland last season with the Henry De Bromhead-trained Honeysuckle – was paid… Read more »

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Michael O'Flynn

MICHAEL O’FLYNN’S COOLMORE CONNECTION

Date: June 12, 2019 - Sport of Kings

AN INTERESTING ownership alliance has emerged involving a little-known horse named Piece of Paradise. The two-year-old filly was bred by property developer Michael O’Flynn’s Rockfield Farm and, despite being listed as being sold as a yearling for £45,000 last year, the horse remains in O’Flynn’s colours. O’Flynn, however, has drafted in both Coolmore boss John… Read more »

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LYNN HILLYER’S CONCERNS

Date: June 12, 2019 - Sport of Kings

DESPITE INCREASED penalties, random stable inspections, educational seminars and more frequent out-of-competition testing, Irish racing still has a major issue on its hands when it comes to doping. Denis Egan’s Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB) is currently dealing with eight positive cases, five of which relate to positive tests from 2018. When last year’s remaining… Read more »

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Katie Holly

KATIE HOLLY’S IMPRESSIVE CUT

Date: June 12, 2019 - Behind the Scenes

IS THERE any state agency, aside Screen Ireland (chaired by Annie Doona), where some 8% of its ‘loan’ budget is mopped up by interests associated with one of the agency’s board members? In its quietly released annual report for 2017 (yes, 2017), Screen Ireland discloses that, of the €14.7m doled out in production and development… Read more »

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John Oxx

OXX EXPERIMENT FAILS TO DELIVER

Date: June 12, 2019 - Sport of Kings

BIG THINGS were expected this season when John Oxx and Patrick Prendergast combined their racing strings, which gave a much-needed shot in the arm to Oxx’s dwindling numbers. But the alliance, which sees Prendergast act as Oxx’s assistant, has got off to a poor start, with only one winner from 55 runners at the time… Read more »

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FALCON OIL HOPING FOR GOOD NEWS DOWN UNDER

Date: June 12, 2019 - Moneybags

FRACKING is a hugely controversial issue in this country and elsewhere. The Australian government introduced a moratorium on hydraulic fracturing in September 2016 – a move that badly affected Falcon Oil & Gas, which has been managed by Philip O’Quigley since he was appointed CEO in May 2012. With the moratorium lifted, Falcon is heading… Read more »

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Giovanni Viscardi

GIOVANNI VISCARDI’S BOOZE BILL

Date: June 12, 2019 - Briefcases

MORE woe for Giovanni Viscardi and Brian Deery, the owners of Bagots Hutton wine bar on Ormond Quay, D7, which closed temporarily last year. Urban Entertainment Ltd, the trading entity behind the trendy night spot, has been slapped with a judgment by another creditor, this time for just over €2,800. Ally Alpine’s Dawson Street drink… Read more »

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Eugene McDermott

EUGENE MCDERMOTT’S ‘ABUSE OF PROCESS’

Date: June 12, 2019 - Briefcases

FORMER stud farmer Eugene McDermott has been battling a vulture fund in the Four Goldmines, but the going was heavy for the Kildare man in the Court of Appeal recently. Goldman Sachs subsidiary Ennis Property Finance is looking to recover close to €7m from McDermott and his complex legal wrangles have garnered plenty of media… Read more »

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Arkady Etingen

AARON ETINGEN’S COLLEGE BLUES

Date: June 12, 2019 - Briefcases

GOLDHAWK recently spotted some activity at IBAT Ltd, the trading entity behind the Dublin-based private college of the same name, and it looks like the owners have some swotting to do. The Temple Bar-based company has just filed a troubling set of accounts for 2018, while its Netherlands-anchored parent company, Global University Systems (GUS) –… Read more »

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Catherine Wiley

GOD AND MAMMON AND ACCOUNTS

Date: June 12, 2019 - Briefcases

CONGRATULATIONS to the board of the Catholic Grandparents Association Ltd (CGA) who have moved to prevent it being struck off the Companies Register for failing to file accounts. The bad news is that, when it comes to the tricky subject of mammon, things could be a little better. The CGA was founded in 2003, by… Read more »

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Siian Smyth and David McWilliams

DAVID MCWILLIAMS’S BOOKS

Date: June 12, 2019 - Briefcases

FANS OF self-styled “economist, author and broadcaster” David McWilliams (see p5) will presumably be making their way to south County Dublin this weekend for his Dalkey Book Festival, now in its 10th year. While assorted writers will be on hand to discuss their musings to fans of fiction and non-fiction, it turns out that there… Read more »

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VLAD’S OPTIMISM

Date: June 12, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

LEO VARADKAR told his parliamentary party last week that he wants, nay expects, that Fine Gael will have a complement of at least 10, and hopefully 12, seats more than Fianna Fáil after the general election. Vlad explained that he requires this kind of leverage if he is to possess the political authority needed to… Read more »

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STAKEKNIFE INQUIRY BLUNTED

Date: June 12, 2019 - Hush Hush

This week’s news of a legal challenge to Operation Kenova (the ‘Stakeknife’ inquiry), by the family of murdered Belfast pensioner Francisco Notarantonio, leaves the inquiry exposed as the window dressing it essentially is. Kenova, set up in 2016 to investigate the activities of Fred Scappaticci – the British Army’s so-called ‘Stakeknife’ spy in the IRA… Read more »

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SOOTHING SHANE ROSS

Date: June 12, 2019 - Fit to Print?

THE Sunday Independent stood by its long-time journalist, now sports minister, Shane Ross, last weekend, allowing him much space to vindicate his effort to bask in Katie Taylor’s glory at Dublin Airport. Ross affected the manner of a star-struck teenager in Katie’s presence and described how meeting her was a “moment of poignancy”. He also… Read more »

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MIXED WEATHER AT MONTROSE

Date: June 12, 2019 - Fowl Emissions

RTÉ treated us to the very best – and worst – in environmental programming in recent weeks. On the plus side, RTÉ Investigates detailed decades of scandalous environmental negligence by ESB Networks. This included the brazen unreported leaking of around a million litres of oil from underground power cables, revealing a culture of corporate impunity…. Read more »

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Consuelo O’Connor

BERNARD KIRK’S BOARD

Date: June 12, 2019 - High Society

WITH THE recent departure of a couple of directors, the board of Philanthropy Ireland (PI) is looking a little light in numbers, with up to six vacancies now existing. It looks like it’s time for the Irish Medicis to step up. The current board of PI is chaired by Bernard Kirk – a former primary… Read more »

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PETER AIKEN’S CHARGE

Date: June 12, 2019 - Behind the Scenes

WITH THE musical festival season in full flow post-Slane, the focus now moves to other big shindigs such as Electric Picnic, Body and Soul, Longitude and the new kind on the block, All Together Now in Curraghmore House, Co Waterford. The latter was the brainchild of promoter John Reynolds (who died last year) and proved… Read more »

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HAVANA HEAT

Date: June 12, 2019 - Briefcases

SWORDS LASER treatment clinic Havana Therapy Ltd is having some trouble with the local authority. Fingal County Council slapped the company, controlled by father and son duo Keith and Gary Hogan, with a small judgment for just over €8,000. It’s the second time in 12 months that the company has fallen foul with the council… Read more »

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NICHOLAS O’CONNOR’S TAX BILL

Date: June 12, 2019 - Briefcases

FORMER Wexford accountant Nicholas O’Connor has had yet another tax judgment registered against him, this time for just over U6,000. The ex-number cruncher will be familiar to fans of Goldhawk for his various run-ins with the taxman and also the Chartered Accountants Regulatory Board (CARB), which excluded him from membership of Chartered Accountants Ireland last… Read more »

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VIRGINIA KEOGH’S PETITION

Date: June 12, 2019 - Briefcases

INTERESTING to see a High Court petition being lodged earlier this month by the main shareholder in profitable Limerick property company Willowhurst Developments Ltd. She is seeking to wind up the company and the petition will be heard on July 8 next. Willowhurst Devs was incorporated in 1993 to develop sites in Co Limerick. The… Read more »

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Lara Marlowe

IAN BAILEY: ‘L’HEURE DE VÉRITÉ’?

Date: May 29, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

THE WIDESPREAD, public atmosphere of blood lust in France against Ian Bailey, the alleged murderer of Sophie Toscan du Plantier, ratcheted up in the period before Bailey’s Paris trial in absentia with various articles proclaiming his guilt. Paris Match, Crimo Corpus (a legal/criminal journal) and national radio station RTL all proclaimed the apparently unanswerable case… Read more »

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Denis Desmond

PROFILE: DENIS DESMOND

Date: May 29, 2019 - Pillars of Society

WITH THE summer cycle of superstar rock gigs and music festivals set to kick off next month, MCD will be the biggest act by some way. Fronted by Denis Desmond – who controls the Irish concert promotion juggernaut along with his estranged wife Caroline Downey Desmond – MCD will dominate the sector as always. However,… Read more »

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Hugh O'Connell

YOUNG BLOOD: HUGH O’CONNELL

Date: May 29, 2019 - The Young Bloods

Like a promising football team that falls short of winning promotion to the top flight, the Sunday Business Post is having its starting line-up picked apart by its deep-pocketed rivals. The latest star player to be poached from Merrion Road is political correspondent Hugh O’Connell (31), who will join the Irish Independent next month under… Read more »

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Maria Bailey

MARIA BAILEY: NOT THE REAL TARGET

Date: May 29, 2019 - Last Refuge

THE FURORE created by Michael McDowell’s attack on Dún Laoghaire TD Maria Bailey and her compo case over that fall from a hotel swing may have masked just who McDowell’s real target is. McDowell’s carefully calibrated strike against Bailey relies on the disdain felt by Fine Gael voters at gurriers from the lower orders engaging… Read more »

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Frank and Theresa McNamara

FRANK AND THERESA McNAMARA’S ADVENTURES

Date: May 29, 2019 - High Society

THIS WEEK saw the return to court of the proceedings by a culture fund, Apollo Global, against one-time ‘celebrity’ couple Frank and Theresa McNamara, with the Yanks seeking to force the sale of the couple’s Co Meath home-cum-recording studio. This is the latest challenge for the musician (former Late Late Show pianist) and ex-PD general… Read more »

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Mary-Lou McDonald

SINN FÉIN MELTDOWN

Date: May 29, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

MARY LOU MCDONALD had no forewarning of Sinn Féin’s electoral catastrophe in the opinion polls. Red C had SF consistently around the 13%-14% mark, while other polls put them closer to 20%. In the event, the party scored less than 10% in the locals and not much over 10% in the Europeans. There are some… Read more »

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