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THE SCALES OF INJUSTICE

Date: August 22, 2019 - Sport of Kings

YOUNG JOCKEY Liam Quinlan and Tipperary trainer John Ryan were the victims of a unfortunate and slightly bizarre episode at Sligo recently, when their Kilcarry View was disqualified after winning a maiden hurdle. Upon weighing in, Quinlan was 1.2 lbs short of his weighing out figure of 154.1 lbs and, with both jockey and trainer… Read more »

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Brian Conlon

FIRST DERIVATIVES AFTER BRIAN CONLON

Date: August 22, 2019 - Moneybags

THE DEATH last month of Brian Conlon is a blow not just for his family and his company, First Derivatives (FD), but also for the town of Newry where he established FD. Although FD has 15 offices throughout the world, spread from America to the Middle and Far East and Australia, the core has always… Read more »

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Andrew Sheehy

ANDREW SHEEHY’S ROMANIAN TRAVAILS

Date: August 22, 2019 - Briefcases

GOLDHAWK spotted an interesting High Court judgment recently relating to businessman Andrew Sheehy, who is being pursued for €4m by a vulture fund over an Eastern European land deal. Kerryman Sheehy made the headlines a few years ago when his brother, Coleman Sheehy (aka Frankie Sheehy), was appointed to the board of Irish Water in… Read more »

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Gabriel Dooley

GABRIEL DOOLEY’S TAX BILL

Date: August 22, 2019 - Briefcases

THERE IS more woe for Wicklow auctioneer Gabriel Dooley, who has just been whacked by the dreaded taxman for U91,000. The trouble started for Dooley in 2011, when Anglo appointed a receiver to his property vehicle, International Inns Ltd, which had debts of over €2m. Then he was named on the Revenue’s list of tax… Read more »

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BRENDAN MORRISSEY LAID BARE

Date: August 22, 2019 - Briefcases

THE operators of a small Midlands music festival have hit a bum note. Bare Festival Ltd, the entity behind the BARE in the Woods festival, has just had a paltry €12,000 judgment registered against it by Dublin event security firm Maps Security Ltd. Morrissey informed Goldhawk today (23/8/19) that he had that day satisfied the… Read more »

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GOFF LALOR’S BANKRUPTCY

Date: August 22, 2019 - Briefcases

BANKRUPT Goff Lalor, who previously described himself as “founder and CEO of a number of successful companies”, has found success rather hard to come by in recent times. The latest bad news is that the official assignee, Chris Lehane, is seeking a whopping 15-year-long bankruptcy for Lalor as a result of his alleged lack of… Read more »

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BROTHERLY LOVE

Date: August 22, 2019 - Briefcases

SPARE a thought for Louth businessman Niall Wiseman, who looks to be having some trouble on the family front. His own brother, Florida-based Shane Wiseman, has just registered a judgment against him for €173,000. Niall Wiseman is best known for his time at Redcoral Catering Ltd, the original company behind the Insomnia coffee brand, which… Read more »

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Frank Ennis

FRANK ENNIS’S FEES

Date: August 22, 2019 - Briefcases

THE NAME of multi-talented architect and former director and shareholder in the Porterhouse pub group, Frank Ennis, featured large in a High Court action taken by the liquidator of one of his many companies, Heatherridge Associates Ltd (HAL). This architecture business had been wound up voluntarily back in 2010, but just two months ago the… Read more »

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GERRY KELLY’S MOVIE MAGIC

Date: August 21, 2019 - High Society

THERE HAS been some interesting activity on the entertainment scene from a low-profile moneybags who has just invested a cool €1m in the Troy film studio in Limerick. It was reported last year that Dalkey-based Gerry Kelly’s HKC alarm manufacturing operation was acquired by Swedish giants Assa Abloy for what was believed to be a… Read more »

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Seán Canney

NOT SO CANNEY

Date: August 8, 2019 - Fowl Emissions

Bono and Mary Robinson are among the famous faces wheeled out as part of Ireland’s bid for a seat on the UN Security Council (see The Phoenix 29/7/2018). But Ireland lost a lot of face at the UN last month when the hypocrisy of Leo Varadkar’s Government on climate action was exposed to a packed… Read more »

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Vol. 37 No. 16

Date: August 8, 2019 -

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PAT HICKEY’S MEDAL RUN

Date: August 8, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

IT IS not surprising that the photo of former Olympic Federation of Ireland (OFI) boss Pat Hickey having a chinwag with his good friend, Sport Ireland chairman Kieran Mulvey, set alarm bells ringing in OFI HQ. The main players here – notably president Sarah Keaneand vice president Sarah O’Shea – are anxious that Hickey remains… Read more »

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Pat-Carey

MEDIAHUIS LEGAL DEBUT

Date: August 8, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

THE WEEK in which Mediahuis received High Court approval of its INM takeover also saw a slew of legal problems and potentially huge damages plus legal costs incurred by INM titles, which the Belgian company must now grapple with. The latest such case concerns former minister and Fianna Fáil director of elections, Pat Carey, whose… Read more »

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Micheál Martin

TIMMY DOOLEY’S DEMISE

Date: August 8, 2019 - Last Refuge

TIMMY DOOLEY’S public dressing down by his boss, Micheál Martin, for his unpatriotic remarks on the Taoiseach as he confronted the old foe, represent the final demise of the front bencher that once stood at Martin’s right hand. Dooley is a victim of the new wave that Martin promoted in his March reshuffle but the… Read more »

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BERNARD BROGAN’S GOALS

BERNARD BROGAN’S GOALS

Date: August 8, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

WITH MANY Dubs fans hoping that Bernard Brogan will be back in the squad for this weekend’s All Ireland semi-final clash with Mayo, he has also been stirring interest in Tipperary. In recent times, Brogan has not featured heavily in the blue jersey but an impressive display off the bench in Omagh earned effusive praise… Read more »

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MARY HARNEY’S TIMELY EXIT

MARY HARNEY’S TIMELY EXIT

Date: August 8, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

GOLDHAWK was surprised to spy the appointment of an administrator to the UK-registered parent of Mary O’Brien’s VideoDoc operation. The good news is that Mary Harney got out when the going was good. VideoDoc has been a media darling in recent years, with acres of coverage devoted to the ‘digital doctor service’ that allows patients… Read more »

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PROFILE: FEARGAL PURCELL

Date: August 8, 2019 - Pillars of Society

Feargal Purcell was back in the news last month following an explosive Dáil row over the Climate Emergency Bill. The Fine Gael handler turned lobbyist has been increasingly active on behalf of the fossil fuel industry and with a supporting role in several sensitive policy dramas, the former spin doctor is continuing a habit of… Read more »

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IRISH TIMES IMAGE

Date: August 8, 2019 - Fit to Print?

IN AN unusually unsubtle PR move, the Irish Times announced the editorial promotion of two women the weekend following The Phoenix story about alleged bullying and discrimination against the paper’s women journalists (see The Phoenix, 26/7/19). Olivia Kelly’s promotion from Dublin correspondent to Dublin editor and the appointment of Freya McClements as northern correspondent were… Read more »

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Emily-Logan

EMILY LOGAN’S APPOINTMENT

Date: August 8, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

IT EMERGED at the weekend that justice minister Charlie Flanagan has stripped away the red tape previously wrapped around the re-appointment of serving commissioners on the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (IHREC). The minister’s sleight of hand provoked a revolt among the 15 commissioners and even the re-appointment of Chief Commissioner Emily Logan may… Read more »

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Joan Burton

JOAN BURTON’S LAST STAND

Date: August 8, 2019 - Last Refuge

THE SUNDAY INDEPENDENT was kind to former Labour leader, Joan Burton, in its recent front page splash about tens of thousands of pensioners being deprived of thousands of Euro each due to a measure taken by the Fine Gael/Labour coalition government in 2012. The cut in pensioners’ income was made by the Labour minister for… Read more »

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JOSEPHA, SHANE, SHAY AND NEALE

Date: August 8, 2019 - Last Refuge

SHAY BRENNAN’S win at the Fianna Fáil Dublin Rathdown convention last week is but a small step in the party’s seemingly hopeless quest to take back the seat held by his late father, political titan Seamus Brennan, a TD and minister for decades. The real question in Rathdown is what will happen to the Fine… Read more »

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Freddie Scappaticci

THE SCAPPATICCI MYTH

Date: August 8, 2019 - Hush Hush

THE SUNDAY TIMES is cited in a ‘psyops’ complaint lodged at Belfast High Court recently by Belfast Solicitors, Brentnall Legal. The complaint takes the form of an application for a Judicial Review (JR) of Operation Kenova’s decision not to include psyops’ stories as part of its Stakeknife investigations. Operation Kenova, led by head of Bedfordshire… Read more »

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Michael Nugent

MICHAEL NUGENT’S LUNCH DATE

Date: August 8, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

INTERESTING TO see Atheist Ireland (AI) founder and High Priest Michael Nugent lending his impressive intellectual ballast to yet another unpopular cause. Last week, Nugent sent social media into a spin by tweeting a picture from a recent lunch he had with Father Ted co-creator Graham Linehan. Fans of Goldhawk will be well aware of… Read more »

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HERE COMES ANOTHER O’BRIEN

Date: August 8, 2019 - Sport of Kings

AS If Irish trainers hadn’t enough on their plates competing with the might of both Aidan and Joseph O’Brien on a weekly basis, it turns out that a third O’Brien will be graduating to the trainers’ ranks in the near future. the 21-year- old Donnacha O’Brien, like his older brother Joseph (a champion and classic-winning… Read more »

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KEEPING UP WITH JOHN McDONOUGH

Date: August 8, 2019 - Behind the Scenes

INFORMATION is fairly thin on the ground at the Department of Culture when it comes to discussing the filling of the €100,000 pa approx post of Director of the national archives of Ireland. In June this year, Goldhawk noted a press release from Dublin City University in which it announced the appointment of John McDonough… Read more »

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MAIREAD RONAN’S SCHEDULE

Date: August 8, 2019 - High Society

THERE HAS been plenty of showbiz coverage this month of Mairead Ronan’s landing of a prime time radio slot on Today FM. Radio presenting is, however, just one of the many talents of the increasingly ubiquitous Ronan. It has been pretty hard to avoid Mairead in recent times and apart from her very high profile… Read more »

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ALI BARKER’S BACKERS

ALI BARKER’S BACKERS

Date: August 8, 2019 - High Society

RESTAURATEUR Ali Barker has saved one of her companies from being struck off thanks to a last minute filing, which reveals some new investors. Last year, Barker and separated husband, Owen Owens, featured in a high profile case in the Four Goldmines that was happily settled before legal costs got too crazy. The couple appeared… Read more »

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BAHRAIN BLAST

Date: August 8, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

The recent executions in Bahrain of three Shi’ite activists were met with opprobrium from human rights groups and civil unrest in the Middle Eastern kingdom. One member of the country’s royal family, Sheikh Khalid Bin Hamad Al Khalifa, has some interesting Irish connections and for him the timing was not good. Sheikh Khalid is the… Read more »

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Queen Elizabeth

SEE THE QUEEN!

Date: August 8, 2019 - Affairs of the NationNorthwind

Boris Johnson arrived at Stormont on 31 July all bluff, bluster and bonhomie, urging the north’s parties to “seal the deal on power-sharing”. We’re told much has been agreed about the mechanics of a working assembly and executive, but the blockage remains over matters of rights, language, culture and identity. Shouldn’t be much trouble with… Read more »

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Paul Joyce’s Big Setback

Paul Joyce’s Big Setback

Date: August 8, 2019 - Briefcases

KILDARE developer Paul Joyce has just had his bell rung by Ulster Bank. The bank recently registered a judgment against the Turnerstown businessman for a hefty €4.2m but it’s far from his first run-in with a financial institution. Joyce had his fingers in several pies in the Midlands around the time of the crash, including… Read more »

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WRIGHT FAMILY AT WAR

Date: August 8, 2019 - High Society

INTERESTING TO see proceedings lodged in the Four Goldmines by assorted companies associated with the Wright fish dynasty in Howth. The matriarch here is former Aer Lingus air hostess Eileen Wright of Big Bamboo, Baily in Howth, who controls the bulk of the shares in the long-established north County Dublin empire of fish importers, bars… Read more »

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Arnaud Gaultier’s fine whines

Date: August 8, 2019 - Briefcases

THERE was more hard cheese for Kildare-based wine importer Arnaud Gaultier in the Four Goldmines recently, where the Frenchman is failing to make any friends among the judiciary. The colourful businessman had another setback in a long-running scrap involving his import company, Loire Valley Ltd, the Revenue and the Registrar of Companies. Gaultier’s headaches began… Read more »

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Jeremy Masding can’t stop the rot at Permanent TSB

Date: August 8, 2019 - Moneybags

IT IS now over 10 years since the bottom of the crash and over seven years since Jeremy Masding was appointed CEO (2012) of Permanent TSB (PTSB), yet the bank is still seriously struggling. Last year, the European Central Bank (ECB) advised that because PTSB “has not met any of the significant criteria for three… Read more »

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TARGETING THE NUMBER CRUNCHERS

Date: August 8, 2019 - Briefcases

THERE WAS bad news for some number crunchers recently, with the Chartered Accountants of Ireland (CAI) disciplinary and conduct committees registering some hits, one rather more high profile than the others. The big fish last month was David Drumm, who was expelled from the CAI for his conduct when chief executive of Anglo Irish Bank…. Read more »

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Boris Johnson

SEZ THE MAN FROM THE DAILY MAIL

Date: August 8, 2019 - Fit to Print?

HOW IRONIC that the Aarish edition of the Sunday Times should pick up on the fake news peddled by the Daily Mail which claimed that Leo Varadkar was put in his box by Boris Johnson’s Brexit secretary, Steve Barclay, recently. According to Mail columnist, Richard Littlejohn, Barclay “has been to Dublin and read the riot… Read more »

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MICHAEL WRIGHT’S NEW BUSINESS PLAN

MICHAEL WRIGHT’S NEW BUSINESS PLAN

Date: August 8, 2019 - Briefcases

WHILE ONE of the siblings of the Wright ‘fish family’, Mark Wright, finds himself on the receiving end of High Court proceedings from his mother and sister and various compa- nies in the Wight group, the eldest brother, Michael Wright, has just filed some hair-raising accounts. Michael is the most high profile member of the… Read more »

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