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RED INK AT PINK SANDS

Date: May 29, 2019 - Briefcases

THE REVENUE has registered a judgment against a company called Pink Sands Property Investments Ltd, which has form when it comes to this sort of thing. The Pink Sands name evokes images of sunny climes, which is apt given the links of the principal, Maria Fearon, with the United Arab Emirates property market. Pink Sands… Read more »

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Denis Desmond

DENIS DESMOND’S INVESTMENTS

Date: May 29, 2019 - Briefcases

IN THIS issue, Goldhawk profiles promoter extraordinaire Denis Desmond, who has quite a varied array of investments. While some are connected to MCD’s area of expertise, DD has also found other places to stuff his moolah. The results have been mixed. One venture in a spot of bother is SSV.TV, which was previously known as… Read more »

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Clare Daly

LABOUR TARGETS CLARE DALY

Date: May 16, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

THAT Irish Times poll, which showed Labour EU Dublin candidate Alex White (8%) within spitting distance of Green candidate Ciarán Cuffe (9%) and left Independent Clare Daly (10%), sent a shiver of excitement through Labour HQ. So, too, did the poll showing the Labour Party at the dizzy heights of 7% nationally (and higher still… Read more »

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CASEY STILL BENT ON DÁIL

Date: May 16, 2019 - Last Refuge

RIVALS OF Sinn Féin MEP Matt Carthy have harped on his intention to run for a Cavan-Monaghan seat in the Dáil, regardless of whether he retains his European Parliament seat in Midlands North West (MNW). But what of Independent candidate Peter Casey, who looks as though he is using his EU campaign in MNW as… Read more »

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Ciarán Cuffe

PROFILE: CIARÁN CUFFE

Date: May 16, 2019 - Pillars of Society

WITH CLIMATE catastrophe nigh and finally impinging itself on the popular Irish consciousness, can the Green Party revive itself politically? In particular, can the serious and energetic, but charisma-free councillor, Ciarán Cuffe, take a Dublin seat in the European Parliament? The Greens may have largely shaken off the nightmarish memory of their government coalition with… Read more »

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Peter Horgan

YOUNG BLOODS: PETER HORGAN

Date: May 16, 2019 - The Young Bloods

When Brendan Howlin said recently that his moribund Labour Party needed “a new beginning” on Cork City Council (CCC), he wasn’t exaggerating. After a calamitous showing in 2014, in which all seven sitting Labour councillors lost their seats, the party has put forward a slate of fresh-faced debutantes like Peter Horgan (30) to attempt resuscitation…. Read more »

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Maura Derrane and Daithí Ó Sé

RTÉ’S COMPLIANCE CONCERNS

Date: May 16, 2019 - Behind the Scenes

FANS OF Irish daytime TV will be familiar with Today with Maura and Daithí, fronted by the dream team of Maura Derrane and Daithí Ó Sé. This is the daily, two-hour, RTÉ One show that “brings you the latest showbiz news, comment and opinion, Ireland’s biggest giveaways, inspirational fashion tips and recipes”. However, according to… Read more »

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Lisa Duffy

LISA DUFFY’S CREDITORS MEETINGS

Date: May 16, 2019 - Briefcases

GOLDHAWK NOTES that two companies in the Cari’s Closet retails fashion group are being wound up, with creditors’ meetings due to be held next week for Cari’s Closet Cork Ltd and Cari’s Closet Malahide Ltd. These are part of the high-profile group established by Lisa Duffy. Last year was an eventful one for Duffy, who… Read more »

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BERNIE MADOFF’S IRISH FEEDER FUND

Date: May 16, 2019 - Briefcases

OVER A decade after details emerged about the huge Ponzi scheme operated by US fraudster Bernie Madoff, a filing in the Companies Office here sheds some light on the current status of Thema International Fund (TIF), the company behind a so-called Irish ‘feeder fund’ established in Dublin to tap wealthy European investors eager to get… Read more »

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John Arkins

TARGETING JOHN ARKINS

Date: May 16, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

IT IS more than a year since Screen Ireland chief executive James Hickey told a Joint Oireachtas Committee that a forum on industrial relations issues in the film and TV business would be organised. The issues were brought to the fore at the committee by John Arkins of the Irish Film Workers Association (IFWA) and… Read more »

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Bella Huddart

BELLA HUDDART’S SOFT PILLOWS

Date: May 16, 2019 - High Society

READERS OF The Irish Times were given a crash course this month in how to short-let a property by making it “stand out from the crowd”. One of the experts featured was one Arabella Wauchope Huddart (aka Bella), who highlighted the attractions of Sandbrook House, an 18th-century pile on 25 acres on the Carlow/Wicklow border…. Read more »

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Baz Ashmawy

WINGMAN – RTÉ ONE

Date: May 16, 2019 - ReviewsTV

THE LATEST Baz Ashmawy vehicle got off to a typically improbable start when the manic-eyed presenter assured viewers that, “with the right help, anything is possible”. This new exercise is depressingly similar to his hit show 50 Ways To Kill Your Mammy – a huge commercial success thanks to Sky’s involvement. There’s no doubt that… Read more »

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Stephen Vernon

GREEN REIT SALE DOESN’T MAKE SENSE

Date: May 16, 2019 - Moneybags

THE ANNOUNCEMENT by Steve Vernon on April 15 that the Green Reit board “has taken a decision to initiate a process for the sale of the company or its portfolio of assets” came as a real surprise. What should happen now, rather than selling out, is that the board of Green Reit should remove Vernon… Read more »

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Volume 37 Issue 10

Date: May 16, 2019 -

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Chris Goodey

SEX’N’DRUGS’N’ROCK’N’ROLL

Date: May 16, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

ONE FEELS sure that Chris Goodey will be able to sort out that contretemps with the National Association of General Practitioners (NAGP) – of which he is chief executive – given that he usually manages to deal with financial travails and other misunderstandings. Goodey’s career as a publisher and business consultant has been rich and… Read more »

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Jonathan Graham

JONATHAN GRAHAM’S BOXING BOUTS

Date: May 16, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

WHILE HE has been busy on the campaign trail in the Palmerstown-Fonthill ward in South County Dublin, Fianna Fáil councillor Jonathan Graham may have been distracted by a recent knockout in a Circuit Court defamation case. This was not the first controversial bout featuring the former Sinn Féin councillor. Boxer Stephen Carroll claimed in court… Read more »

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Roisin Shortall

SOC DEM ASYLUM

Date: May 16, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

SOCIAL DEMOCRAT candidates have been campaigning energetically in the elections but, behind the scenes, the row over local election candidate Ellie Kisyombe still festers. The spat between the leadership and Kisyombe’s supporters is part of a larger struggle between Róisín Shortall and Dublin MEP candidate Gary Gannon (see The Phoenix, 8/3/19). Gannon went one-up when… Read more »

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Leo Varadkar

LOWER-RANKED JUDGES

Date: May 16, 2019 - Wigs on the Green

LEO VARADKAR delivered a speech at the Law Society’s annual bash last Friday, but a slight frisson went through the room following an awkward remark from An Taoiseach about the elevation of solicitors to the bench. Much attention was paid to his remarks about the burning issue of insurance awards and premiums (not to mention… Read more »

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PATRICK QUIRKE’S LAWYERS

Date: May 16, 2019 - Wigs on the Green

THE Patrick Quirke murder trial was noteworthy in that the wealthy farmer – who established a company called Breansha Farms Ltd that only paid out €25,000 in wages in 2017 – ended up with three barristers defending him under the free Criminal Legal Aid scheme. Indeed, Quirke had two senior counsel (Bernard Condon SC and… Read more »

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Annie Hoey

LABOUR’S STUDENT HACKS

Date: May 16, 2019 - Student Life

That two former Union of Students in Ireland (USI) presidents are making their electoral debuts for the Labour Party in this month’s local elections is hardly a surprise. The party has been grooming Kevin Donoghue and Annie Hoey for success since their arrival on the scene. Donoghue, who is running for Dublin City Council (DCC)… Read more »

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FEUDS IN SICILY AND DROGHEDA

Date: May 16, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

THE Drogheda Leader freesheet splashed a sensational scoop across its front page recently, telling the population, already terrified by a local gang feud, that Drogheda is the “second most dangerous place to live in Europe”. According to the Leader, Birmingham in Britain is the only European city more dangerous than Drogheda, and Catania (in Sicily!)… Read more »

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Lyra McKee

IRA ‘VETS’ WARNING SHOTS

Date: May 16, 2019 - Hush Hush

FOOTAGE last month of Saoradh dissident republicans jostling a BBC reporter outside Derry’s courthouse received widespread coverage. But more serious stuff involving IRA members past and present has been going on in northern republican areas recently. Eleven leading members of Saoradh – the political wing of the New IRA, responsible for killing journalist Lyra McKee… Read more »

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JEFFREY DONALDSON’S BAHRAINI PALS

Date: May 16, 2019 - Hush Hush

THE DUP’S Jeffrey Donaldson has come over as the essence of sweet reason in comments about the Irish language and also about the responsibility of “both sides” in dealing with past and present troubles. While Donaldson’s role in the north will soon be put under the spotlight, his support for the repressive Bahrain autocracy has… Read more »

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Gemma O'Doherty

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: May 16, 2019 - The Hot Air Brigade

The bullies who run @DublinAirport banned me from filming the ‘multi faith’ room today, which is effectively a mosque. Tweet by Dublin MEP candidate and ‘investigative journalist’ Gemma O’Doherty Health tourism is on the up. Looking after yourself is the new black. Suzanne Harrington reflecting on taking a vegan course, Irish Examiner, submitted by reader… Read more »

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Naomi Long

ALLIANCE LONG SHOT

Date: May 16, 2019 - Bird's Eye View

After the local government elections in the north on 2 May, the media north and south for once agreed in their analysis. This was ‘new territory’. The ‘middle ground’ had emerged between the twin orange and green swamps. This was a ‘new beginning’. ‘New politics’ seemed likely to develop. Why? At last, after 50 years,… Read more »

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Catherine Noone

FG’S TEENAGE PROHIBITION

Date: May 16, 2019 - Last Refuge

FINE GAEL senator Catherine Noone had to back-pedal rapidly last week following her demand that the legal age limit for alcohol be raised from 18 to 20 years as in Iceland. Her press statement said that the Icelanders had implemented two effective measures, namely raising the drinking age to 20 and banning alcohol and tobacco… Read more »

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Anne Rabbitte

POSTER GIRL ANNE RABBITTE

Date: May 16, 2019 - Last Refuge

FIANNA FÁIL’S Midlands North West (MNW) EU candidate, Anne Rabbitte TD, continues to blunder in her election campaign, with the most recent boo-boo coming when Roscommon Town was plastered with her election posters. This issue has become the latest anti-political phobia for respectable citizenry everywhere, even in places far away from south Dublin. Roscommon Tidy… Read more »

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Deirdre Clune

ELECTRIFYING DEIRDRE CLUNE MEP

Date: May 16, 2019 - Last Refuge

ANOTHER MANUFACTURED row – similar to the spat between amazons Mairead McGuinness and Maria ‘Rose’ Walsh – broke out last week in the South constituency between Fine Gael EU candidates Deirdre Clune MEP and junior minister Andrew Doyle. That’s how competing party handlers saw the last-minute injunction from FG’s director of elections for South, Charlie… Read more »

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Colm McCarthy

CREATING THE NEWS

Date: May 16, 2019 - Fit to Print?

YOU HAVE to hand it to whichever Sunday Independent newsroom hack came up with last weekend’s front page headline, “Varadkar’s €3bn tax cut in doubt – new broadband risk to taxpayers”. The Sindo was able to “reveal” that Vlad is “now being warned” he could not just print money to pay for both the €3bn… Read more »

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SUNDAY TIMES VS HUAWEI

Date: May 16, 2019 - Fit to Print?

The vigorous US campaign to persuade western countries to block Chinese telecoms giant Huawei (allegedly because of the risk of Chinese espionage or sabotage) has spread to the Irish media. The British media has devoted much time to the debate and Theresa May’s government has decided to allow Huawei to supply “non-core” components for the… Read more »

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DANA’S CROSS-BORDER LIBELS

Date: May 16, 2019 - Fit to Print?

EX-PRESIDENTIAL candidate and singer, Dana, took the Sunday World for a sum not far off €200,000 plus mammoth legal costs in the Belfast High Court last November (see The Phoenix, 30/11/18) with the newspaper apologising for material on its website and Facebook page. According to Dana, these statements alleged she had covered up her brother… Read more »

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CLIMATE DENIERS RETREAT

Date: May 16, 2019 - Fowl Emissions

Ireland this month became only the second country in the world to declare a climate emergency. In fact, we went even further than the UK in including biodiversity. The move by the Dáil was unexpected and caught almost everyone off-guard, as it came in the form of an amendment proposed by Fianna Fáil that was… Read more »

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John McGuirk

JOHN MCGUIRK’S U-TURN

Date: May 16, 2019 - Fowl Emissions

As the climate crisis has finally gone politically mainstream, the reaction within the Irish media has been instructive. On the one hand, figures like Eamon Dunphy, Matt Cooper and Mario Rosenstock have begun to engage seriously and, in doing so, are bringing the issue to largely new audiences. And seasoned commentators, such as Paul Gillespie… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: May 16, 2019 - Bog Cuttings

His trousers ‘simply fell off’ A JUDGE in Strabane has suggested that a Sion man buy a new pair of trousers after the defendant was convicted of indecent behaviour. Deputy District Judge Trevor Browne was dealing with the “highly unusual” case of Brendan McLaughlin (37) of Alexandra Place. The court heard that McLaughlin had been… Read more »

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Dan Morrissey

DAN MORRISSEY’S €5.5M PILE

Date: May 16, 2019 - High Society

IT’S NOT every day that a €5.5m house goes on the market in Co Dublin, but that is the case with the very private Redwood on Avoca Avenue in Blackrock. This has been the home to top legal eagle Dan Morrissey for 30 years. Morrissey, partner and head of asset management and investment funds at… Read more »

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Consuelo O’Connor

TONY GANNON’S CHARITY

Date: May 16, 2019 - High Society

ACCOUNTS recently filed for Tony Gannon’s investment management operation, Abbey Capital, show that profits continue to roll in. Happily, a chunk of the moolah has been directed towards impoverished farmers in Africa. Abbey has been making big bucks in recent years. In the year to June 2018, the company reported a profit of €12.8m and… Read more »

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