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Sam Allardyce

CHECKING THE PULSE

Date: September 5, 2019 - Briefcases

A STRUGGLING company called Pulse Fusion F6 Ltd has been hit for a €12,000 rates judgment by Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council. This is not the first time this interesting company has been in a spot of bother and in 2017 it had a run-in with Revenue. Despite its low profile, F6 Tech (the trading name)… Read more »

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Désirée Finnegan

BREXIT’S NO-DEAL HORROR PLOT

Date: September 5, 2019 - Behind the Scenes

THE LIKELY ‘no-deal’ Brexit scenario is a horror plot for the Irish film and TV industry, since a high proportion of the players depend on production decisions green-lit in the UK and the US, with budgets denominated in dollars or sterling. It is surprising that there has not been a whisper from industry wheeler-dealers and… Read more »

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NOT IN THE PINK

Date: September 5, 2019 - Briefcases

THE EXOTIC-sounding Pink Sands Property Investments Ltd has just been listed for striking off the Companies Register. This could be of interest to the dreaded taxman, who registered a judgment for €17,000 against the company earlier this year. The Pink Sands name evokes images of sunny climes, which is apt given the links of the… Read more »

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ARTS COUNCIL VACANCIES

Date: September 5, 2019 - Behind the Scenes

MINISTER FOR Culture Josepha Madigan is finally to get around to filling those empty Arts Council seats, given that the closing date for applications for three posts was Tuesday. The vacancies arose back at the start of 2019 as a result of the ending of the terms of Miriam Dunne, Monica Spencer and Joan Sheehy,… Read more »

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Lara Marlowe

NÓRA QUOIRIN: THE FRENCH CONNECTION

Date: August 22, 2019 - Fit to Print?

IN AN effort to get ahead of the news, an Irish Times front-page splash on Nóra Quoirin last week said, “Suspicions grow that 15-year-old was kidnapped and murdered”. This came the day after its front-page headline said, ”Further investigation in Quoirin case hinges on postmortem result”. Next day’s ‘kidnap and murder’ story –published despite the… Read more »

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Kitty Holland

‘IRISH TIMES’ WOMEN: THERMIDOR!

Date: August 22, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

INCENDIARY OUTRAGE has been the reaction of some Irish Times male hacks to the document supported by most of their female colleagues conveying the impression that the newspaper office is more like a rugby locker room than a women’s refuge. The fall-out has seen Barry O’Halloran offer his resignation as NUJ father-of-chapel (union branch rep);… Read more »

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Helen Dixon

PROFILE: HELEN DIXON

Date: August 22, 2019 - Pillars of Society

THE DATA protection commissioner’s withering rebuke of the roll out of the public services card (PSC) is a major embarrassment for ministers, notably Regina Doherty, who have steadfastly dismissed concerns about the scheme. Helen Dixon’s ruling that the government acted flagrantly outside the law marks a major scalp for Dixon at a time when questions… Read more »

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ROSE OF TRALEE FESTIVAL’S RED INK

Date: August 22, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

WITH THE 60th Rose of Tralee hooley kicking off this weekend, the build-up has been marred somewhat by the decision of the Irish greyhound Board (IGB) to (reluctantly) pull the plug on its sponsorship deal with the festival. This is not the sort of hit the festival can afford. The IGB pulled out of sponsoring… Read more »

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Michael O'Leary

WHY IS MICK O’LEARY STILL IN THE COCKPIT?

Date: August 22, 2019 - Moneybags

IT IS a reflection of his overwhelming influence in Ryanair that the end of the runway is not yet in sight for Mick O’Leary. His original modus operandi was based solely around breaking up the duopoly Aer Lingus and British Airways held in the 1980s, but this is no longer relevant. Ryanair is now the… Read more »

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Boris Johnson

IT’S THE ‘SUN’ WOT WON IT

Date: August 22, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

RUPERT MURDOCH’S News Corp has probably done more for project Brexit than Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage and David Cameron put together. Now it looks as though the Dirty Digger has decided to whip his Irish satraps into line and the Irish Daily Sun has suddenly changed its line on Brexit and the backstop. Up until… Read more »

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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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