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John Finucane

DUP AND SF TO DEVOUR RIVALS

Date: April 18, 2019 - Bird's Eye View

Observers will be watching the north’s local elections for answers to a series of political questions. Will Sinn Féin suffer for their abstentionist policy at Westminster? Will the DUP suffer for their support of Brexit in the face of opposition from business and agricultural interests? How far will the SDLP slump after a bad two… Read more »

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Anne Rabbitte

RABBITTE FEELS UNLOVED

Date: April 18, 2019 - Last Refuge

FIANNA FÁIL’S two-candidate strategy in the Midlands-North-West (MNW) EU constituency – the, er, ‘dream ticket’ of Brendan Smith and Anne Rabbitte – is already strained, with the Galway East TD, Rabbitte, emoting all over twitter about being disregarded by her party colleagues. Rabbitte has rejected… Read more »

Michael McDowell

McDOWELL’S FREE MEDIA PLATFORMS

Date: April 18, 2019 - Last Refuge

DUBLIN BAY South TDs Jim O’Callaghan and Kate O’Connell must have been chewing their carpets at the flattering exposure granted to former minister and attorney general, Senator Michael McDowell, by the state broadcaster in recent weeks. In the space of just a fortnight, an interview on TG4 was followed by a guest appearance on The… Read more »

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GEMMA’S THEORIES

Date: April 18, 2019 - Last Refuge

ADDING PUNGENCY to the EU elections is the candidacy of ‘investigative journalist’ Gemma O’Doherty in Dublin. If there is one live debate that Goldhawk listens to it will be that involving the woman whose conspiratorial claims make David Icke sound as sensible and boring as Paschal Donohoe. One looks forward to rival candidates or even… Read more »

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Mary Murphy

HIGGINS’S LABOUR DEFECTORS

Date: April 18, 2019 - Last Refuge

PRESIDENT HIGGINS’S new appointments to the Council of State do not include any party political members – not even from Labour, the political booster that Michael Twee relied on for decades before casting it off and ascending to the Áras. But there is one former Labour member, Dr Mary Murphy, among the seven new council… Read more »

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Peter Murtagh

PRESS SANCTION FOR ‘IRISH TIMES’

Date: April 18, 2019 - Fit to Print?

VETERAN Irish Times journalist and former Sunday Tribune editor Peter Murtagh retired last week. The IT fired a shot at Denis O’Brien in its tribute to the hack, noting that Murtagh had won an investigative journalism award for articles on the billionaire. However, just 12 days beforehand, press ombudsman Peter Feeney delivered a verdict on… Read more »

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KEYSTONE COPS

Date: April 18, 2019 - Fit to Print?

A SCENE of Keystone Cops proportion was conjured up last week by Irish Times, Irish Independent and RTÉ coverage of Garda commissioner Drew Harris’s accident at Phoenix Park HQ. All three media ran stories claiming that confusion reigned as a garda deliberately triggered the bollard, fearing that the northern-registered PSNI vehicle was a security threat…. Read more »

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Joe Healy

IFA VS DR WHO

Date: April 18, 2019 - Fowl Emissions

When you find yourself picking a fight with schoolkids, chances are you’re going to end up on the losing side, as the Irish Farmers Association (IFA) has been finding out. It recently launched an ill-tempered and fact-free attack on a Green Schools environmental education programme for, allegedly, demanding that everyone become vegan. IFA president Joe… Read more »

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PAT SMYTH’S SOLAR PANELS

Date: April 18, 2019 - Fowl Emissions

“The collapse of civilization is… on the horizon as a result of climate change.” So goes the blurb promoting Solar Power Ltd. It explains how “installing Solar PV to generate electricity in your home, business or farm will help tackle climate change by reducing carbon emissions”. The eco-warrior behind this brave new green venture is… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: April 18, 2019 - Bog Cuttings

Fishy business A TYRONE man accused of assault became angered with the prosecutor’s line of questioning in East Tyrone Magistrates Court, demanding to know, “Are you making a cod of me?” John Thomas Cassidy from Killyfaddy Road, Moy, and his son, Ryan Cassidy, Drumarg Park, Armagh, were both accused of assaulting a man delivering water… Read more »

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Consuelo O’Connor

SINGAPORE MONEYBAGS

Date: April 18, 2019 - High Society

INTERESTING TO see that the man understood to have bought the Dublin City Hotel and Trinity Bar on Dame Street, D2, is one Stanley Quek. This is not the only trophy he recently picked up in the environs of Dame Street. Quek, a Singapore moneybags, has been expanding his interests here. He was reported to… Read more »

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Stephen Dorff

DON’T GO – DIRECTED BY DAVID GLEESON

Date: April 18, 2019 - MoviesReviews

WATCHING David Gleeson’s Don’t Go in a near empty cinema, as Goldhawk did, a viewer’s thoughts may drift to parodies in The Simpsons of Poe’s The Raven and Kubrick’s The Shining. But what is on screen is neither Simpsons parodies nor gothic yarns like Don’t Look Now. It is actually something more akin to Sliding… Read more »

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THE GHOST FACTORY – JENNY McCARTNEY (4th ESTATE)

Date: April 18, 2019 - BooksReviews

WITH NO apparent end in sight to fictional accounts of the Troubles, it’s not surprising that this debut novel revisits familiar ground. The author now works as a journalist in London, but grew up in Northern Ireland (her father, Robert McCartney, was a former leader of the UK Unionist Party). Set in Belfast during the… Read more »

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Dr Sinead Beirne

DOCTOR IN THE HOUSE – VIRGIN MEDIA

Date: April 18, 2019 - ReviewsTV

This health-based series offers the same nutritional hit as a visit to McDonald’s. Viewers are left hungry for something actually worth getting their teeth into. Among those thanked in the programme credits were the likes of DCU and the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, which gave producers Indiepics a few bob to make the show for… Read more »

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Frances Ruane

ABBEY BOARD’S SCRIPT

Date: April 18, 2019 - Behind the Scenes

GOLDHAWK was interested to know how the Abbey board reacted to last year’s decision by the Arts Council to withhold a chunk of funding until it sorted out its employment conditions for cast and crew brought in. It turns out that subject was effectively glossed over, at least as far as the minutes for the… Read more »

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ADDING UP IN CORK

Date: April 18, 2019 - Behind the Scenes

THE FALLOUT from the Michael Jackson documentary, Leaving Neverland, has affected a number of players here. One of those hit is the Cork Opera House (COH), which was to stage The Michael Jackson History Show next month. Given the very healthy ticket sales for the show, the cancellation will be a blow to COH’s box… Read more »

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John Gleeson

JOHN GLEESON’S NEW PLOT

Date: April 18, 2019 - Behind the Scenes

THE ACCOUNTANCY profession has expanded significantly since the financial services sector was freed of its old-fashioned, fusty reservations. And with riskier business came the ‘forensic’ accountant – a sort of money pathologist who could pick over a corporate corpse and divine how it came to a sorry end. With forensic work now firmly established as… Read more »

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Seamus Ross

SEAMUS ROSS’S RETURN

Date: April 18, 2019 - Sport of Kings

WITH A rejuvenated Sean Mulryan enjoying such high-profile success this year after his long hiatus, the developer’s re-engagement with the sport is being classed as a barometer for the health of the property development and construction sectors. It is interesting to note some of his contemporaries making similar comebacks, though on a smaller scale so… Read more »

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WHEN ALL IS LEAD AND DUNNE

Date: April 18, 2019 - Sport of Kings

BRITAIN-BASED Irish jockey Robbie Dunne has received a 15-day ban by the British Horseracing Authority over a 2017 incident in which Dunne guided the Ian Williams-trained Rocknrollrambo to victory at Chepstow. Dunne was found guilty of misconduct prejudicial to the good reputation of racing by accepting a piece of lead from Williams’s stable employee, Barry… Read more »

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Michael O’Leary

O’LEARY’S ANIMAL WELFARE FANS

Date: April 18, 2019 - Sport of Kings

MICHAEL O’LEARY’S surprising idea of offering Don Poli and Outlander for sale two days before the Aintree Grand National certainly bore fruit. The two OAPs netted £330,000 between them – probably about £250,000 more than if they had been offered at a conventional auction. When you add on to this Tiger Roll’s earnings in the… Read more »

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Declan McDonogh

DECLAN MCDONOGH’S DEMOTION

Date: April 18, 2019 - Sport of Kings

THIS TIME of year, as the flat season gets into full swing, a few jockeys sometimes get promoted – or vice versa – and one who is getting a rough ride is Declan McDonogh. The former champion jockey stepped into the breach left this time last year when the news broke of Pat Smullen’s illness…. Read more »

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Mick Carvill

KENMARE RESOURCES INCREASINGLY TEMPTING AS TAKEOVER TARGET

Date: April 18, 2019 - Moneybags

FANS OF Moneybags will recall last year’s prediction (see The Phoenix, 23/3/18) that Kenmare Resources “should manage to hit sales of nearly $250m in the current year. This increased revenue would drop straight to the bottom line and increase Kenmare’s ebitda to $100m.” The actual outturn for last year was revenue of $262m sales and… Read more »

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Kelly Cosgrave

BLACK CARD FOR BOOZER PLANS

Date: April 18, 2019 - The Hot Water Brigade

PLANS to redevelop a popular pub adjacent to Croke Park have hit the crossbar. Dublin City Council has requested that the Dublin Loft Company (DLC), where the largest shareholder is Oonagh Cosgrave – wife of developer Peter Cosgrave of the Cosgrave Property Group – provide more information about the proposed demolition and reconstruction of part… Read more »

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RUTH MORAM’S ‘ABUSE OF PROCESS’

Date: April 18, 2019 - The Hot Water Brigade

ANOTHER chapter in the remarkable legal saga involving Ruth Moram and the Jehovah’s Witnesses in Ireland was written in the Court of Appeal recently. The scrap goes back a number of years to when she was ‘disfellowshipped’ – ie shunned – from the church’s congregation in Killarney in 2004. Fans of Goldhawk will recall that… Read more »

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TAXING TIMES FOR MARTIN TUBRIDY

Date: April 18, 2019 - The Hot Water Brigade

THE TAXMAN has finally lost his patience with Clare businessman Martin Tubridy. A petition to wind up his construction and civil engineering company, GMD Developments Ltd, has just been filed in the High Court by the Revenue following numerous dust-ups with the Cooraclare businessman. Fans of Goldhawk will recall that Tubridy was a director of… Read more »

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Ciaran Desmond

DISCIPLINING CIARÁN DESMOND

Date: April 18, 2019 - The Hot Water Brigade

MORE on Ciarán Desmond, the legal eagle and financial adviser at the centre of a high-profile court case involving allegations of fraud and “secret profits”. The Rebel County solicitor has just been censured by the Law Society after being found guilty of misconduct at his firm, Ciarán Desmond Solicitors, on Penrose Wharf Quay in Cork… Read more »

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Peter Gaynor

PETER GAYNOR’S BIG BUCKS

Date: April 18, 2019 - The Hot Water Brigade

MORE GOOD news for restaurateur-turned-construction suit Peter Gaynor, who continues to make a mint in London, having seen his food business back in Dublin essentially collapse last year. Accounts have just been filed in the UK for Cilantro Engineering UK Ltd, which is in the mechanical and electrical engineering game. It provides “specialist design and… Read more »

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Nigel Wray

POOR FORM AT SARACENS

Date: April 18, 2019 - The Hot Water Brigade

WITH MUNSTER heading to England to play Saracens in the European Rugby Cup semi-finals this weekend, it is interesting to see the kind of financial firepower the English club possesses compared with the (financial) Irish minnows. Saracens has been haemorrhaging money in recent years and continues to do so, but there is plenty of moolah… Read more »

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Mairead McGuinness

SEE NO ARMY, SPEAK NO ARMY

Date: April 4, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

ANGELA MERKEL’S visit to Dublin underlines the EU’s determination to protect its borders, but this is only part of Germany and France’s strategy of post-Brexit EU integration, something that involves the creation of an EU Army. The loud silence following the revelation that Fine Gael… Read more »

Eleanor O'Mahony

TCD BUGGING BACKLASH

Date: April 4, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

A FORTNIGHT’S a long time in student politics. Just two weeks ago, The University Times (UT) —newspaper of Trinity College’s Student Union (SU) — was raising eyebrows over its role in a so-called ‘bugging’ row. Now, the tide seems to have turned with a number of high profile journalists rowing in behind the embattled newspaper… Read more »

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James Flynn

PROFILE: JAMES FLYNN

Date: April 4, 2019 - Pillars of Society

A GRIPPING legal drama returns to the schedules this month, when German lawyer-turned-movie maker Winfried ‘Winni’ Hammacher goes head to head with two of Ireland’s top TV and movie men, Morgan O’Sullivan and James Flynn. While the former is better known to the public thanks to his previous broadcasting role, Flynn is a force in… Read more »

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Ruairí Ó Murchú

YOUNG BLOOD: RUAIRÍ Ó MURCHÚ

Date: April 4, 2019 - The Young Bloods

The largely unknown Dundalk councillor, Ruairí Ó Murchú, will attempt to replace the rather well-known former Sinn Féin leader, Gerry Adams, as TD in Louth at the next general election after being co-opted onto the county council just a year and a half ago. SF has always been strong in Louth, but Adams helped it… Read more »

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Robert Pitt

INM ‘HACKERS’ FOR HIGH COURT

Date: April 4, 2019 - Fit to Print?

INDEPENDENT NEWS & MEDIA’S (INM) legal and corporate strategy is clear from the decision to take High Court action against former chief executive, Robert Pitt, following a similar action against ex-chairman, Leslie Buckley. INM must try to prove that the alleged data breaches were carried out by ‘rogue’ executives without authority and were not in… Read more »

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David Quinn

DAVID QUINN’S POLITICAL PROBLEM

Date: April 4, 2019 - Clerical Errors

DAVID QUINN, director of the high profile Catholic advocacy group, the Iona Institute, could find himself having to go to Confession if the Charities Regulator frowns on his call for people at a meeting in the Grand Hotel in Malahide last month to vote for named political parties. This is considered a cardinal sin for… Read more »

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AIRBNB’S POLITICAL TARGETS

Date: April 4, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

THE rejection by Dublin City Council last week of Friends First’s planning application for the change of use of its city centre property to short-term letting represents the latest setback for Airbnb. But, the US company can’t be accused of not trying its best judging by the amount its eager lobbying of politicians. Among the… Read more »

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Elizabeth Oakes

LIZ OAKES’S EYEBROWS

Date: April 4, 2019 - High Society

AS BUSINESS ideas go, eco friendly water-based cremation is one certain to provoke interest. The woman behind the plan to bring this technology to Ireland is 30-something Liz Oakes. She has already proven that she has the knack for making a few bob. The technology that Oakes is seeking to introduce here uses water rather… Read more »

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