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Frances Ruane

MORE DRAMA AT THE ABBEY

Date: March 21, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

WHEN GOLDHAWK profiled the Abbey Theatre’s joint director, Graham McLaren, earlier this year (see The Phoenix, 25/1/19) the Abbey was under heavy fire. While the chair, Frances Ruane (ex-ESRI director), publicly backed her director, Goldhawk noted that “the final act is still to be written”…. Read more »

Dermot Desmond

DERMOT DESMOND’S BUMPY RIDE

Date: March 21, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

THERE WAS plenty of excitement last week surrounding shares in Datalex, the airline technology company (sorry, “leading provider of digital commerce solutions to global travel retailers”) that had shocked the stock market in January with a drastic profit warning. Among those upset at the time was the largest shareholder by far, Dermot Desmond, who is… Read more »

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Sean Fleming

PROFILE: SEÁN FLEMING

Date: March 21, 2019 - Pillars of Society

WHAT IS it about the chairmanship of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) that has provoked such a backlash from ministers, government TDs, Leinster House and the permanent government? The previous PAC chairman, Fianna Fáil TD John McGuinness, built a political career as a fearsome interrogator before giving way to former FF frontbencher Seán Fleming after… Read more »

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Hozier

YOUNG BLOOD: HOZIER

Date: March 21, 2019 - The Young Bloods

Expressing oneself while offending as few people as possible is a key trait of modern pop stars and Hozier is no exception. In an era of sanitised corporate rock and roll stars, the six-foot-five gangly frame of Bray local Andrew Hozier-Byrne has been cleaning up – with a little help from Caroline Downey and Denis… Read more »

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BAD SPORTS AT TRINNERS

Date: March 21, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

A spectacular row is on the boil in Trinity College Dublin where the University Times (UT), newspaper of the Trinners Student Union, is being accused of bugging a student’s apartment. Trinity News (TN), the independent on-campus paper, has called for UT editor Eleanor O’Mahony’s resignation… Read more »

Sophie Toscan du Plantier

IAN BAILEY: TRIAL BY ERROR

Date: March 21, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

A FRENCH FARCE will shortly (late May) follow the Irish farce that was the Garda campaign to charge Ian Bailey with the 1996 murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier. The trial of Bailey in absentia is due to proceed in late May in Paris and… Read more »

Dearbhail McDonald

FERTILITY SHOCK – RTÉ 1

Date: March 21, 2019 - ReviewsTV

DEARBHAIL MCDONALD is group business editor at Independent News and Media, but in recent times has been developing her brand beyond the confines of the business pages. A regular on the speaking circuit, McDonald’s most high-profile outing has concerned the freezing of her eggs. This decision was outlined in detail at an Institute of Directors… Read more »

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Bernie Butler

BERNIE BUTLER’S ENERGY BALLS

Date: March 21, 2019 - High Society

AT LAST week’s DMX Dublin marketing conference in the Aviva stadium, the great and good gave their tuppence worth, including the likes of former Ireland rugby captain Jamie Heaslip. Also speaking at the event were two of the principals in the high-profile Good4U health foods business – managing director Bernie Butler and her daughter, Laura… Read more »

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Nicky Woulfe

LIMERICK POSTER BOY

Date: March 21, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

LIMERICK’S St Paddy’s Day celebrations cost the city council €30,000, leaving just €60,000 in the municipal allocation for such ventures, but ambitious local DJ, Nicky Woulfe, is looking for half of this for his music memorabilia museum. Woulfe knows a bit about PR and media – his wife, Cathy O’Halloran, is RTÉ’s Mid-West correspondent –… Read more »

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Date: March 21, 2019 -

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CRYSTAL LI’S TENDER DOCUMENTS

Date: March 21, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

CONGRATULATIONS to Goldhawk’s favourite Russian lawyer, Olga Shajaku, who has sent a shot across the bows of Paschal Donohoe’s Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (DPER), where the mandarins are getting nervous. It will be recalled (see The Phoenix, 1/6/18) that, after numerous visits to court, Olga won out when the Court of Appeal ordered… Read more »

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Date: March 21, 2019 - Letters to the Editor

ISRAEL ACFI Further to your article “Israeli backlash at DCU”, we would like to make the following points: 1. ACFI is entirely Irish, with no affiliation or relationship of any sort with Israel. Your headline is misleading and not supported by anything in the article itself. 2. In describing tweets calling for Israel to “cease… Read more »

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Billy Kelleher

KELLEHER: PRO- LIFE VENGEANCE

Date: March 21, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

MYSTIFICATION AT Fianna Fáil TD Billy Kelleher’s defeat at the Euro convention for the South constituency was soon clarified as most delegates and members elsewhere realised that the frontbencher had fallen victim to a number of factors, with the strong pro-life lobby in the party being one of them. The pre-convention speculation had earlier focussed… Read more »

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Sinead O'Connor

SINÉAD O’CONNOR’S EX

Date: March 21, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

THE DREADED taxman has just registered a judgment against one Fachtna O’Ceallaigh, who happens to be the former long-term manager and former lover of the singer formerly known as Sinéad O’Connor. O’Ceallaigh is currently suing O’Connor (sorry, Shuhada’ Davitt as she now prefers to be known) through his talent agency, TAL Management, for more than… Read more »

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Jack Sen

SLEEPWALKING WITH THE FAR RIGHT

Date: March 21, 2019 - Hush Hush

The biggest shock for New Zealanders is that the Christchurch massacre at two mosques happened at all. The Kiwis pride themselves on being a ‘land of the welcomes’. But just like Ireland, it has become vulnerable to the global social media reach of the far right, whose constant anti-immigrant messages include repeated references to things… Read more »

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David McWilliams

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: March 21, 2019 - The Hot Air Brigade

The key difference between England and Ireland is class dynamics and education. A lovely expression of this is the cheese counter at the new artisan Dunnes. David McWilliams, Irish Times, submitted by reader I feel very sorry for Ireland – sometimes things just go all wrong in life and this is one of those days… Read more »

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Theresa May

DUP’S HARD BARGAIN

Date: March 21, 2019 - Bird's Eye View

WHAT WERE the DUP and what passes for a British government talking about as Theresa May headed towards a third attempt to get her withdrawal agreement over the line? All roads lead back to the joint report of December 2017, which created the basis for the British to enter negotiations on a Brexit withdrawal agreement…. Read more »

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Clare Daly

DALY AND WALLACE FOR EUROPE?

Date: March 21, 2019 - Last Refuge

THE FOURTH seat in the Dublin Euro constituency is seen as hard to call, with the first three going to Frances Fitzgerald (Fine Gael), Barry Andrews (Fianna Fáil) and Lynn Boylan (Sinn Féin). No strong personality has yet emerged to claim the Independent slot that… Read more »

Ruth Coppinger

RUTH COPPINGER’S BORDER LINE

Date: March 21, 2019 - Last Refuge

THE CURIOUS fascination of the ‘bourgeois media’ with the attacks on TD Paul Murphy’s Socialist Party (SP) from its comrades on the Committee for a Workers International (CWI) may have missed the point. The CWI – in particular, England and Wales SP leader Peter Taaffe – criticised the Irish SP and its TDs (Murphy, Ruth… Read more »

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Paschal Donohoe

PASCHAL, SIMON AND VLAD

Date: March 21, 2019 - Last Refuge

SOMEBODY IS stirring it for Simon Coveney, with the Sunday Times followed by the Irish Times both suggesting that Paschal Donohoe is now the anointed successor to Leo Varadkar. This line of patter on the leadership succession began earlier than the media speculation. The suggestion was floated by sources at senior level that Simon might… Read more »

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Mark Durkan

MARTIN LET DURKAN SLIP TO FG – TWICE

Date: March 21, 2019 - Last Refuge

FINE GAEL’S acquisition of former SDLP leader Mark Durkan to its Euro election ticket in Dublin has been characterised as a brilliant coup by Leo Varadkar. It seriously embarrassed Fianna Fáil following its recent, abortive bid for a merger with the SDLP and it is… Read more »

Ruth Dudley Edwards

RUTH DUD DEPARTS ‘SINDO’

Date: March 21, 2019 - Fit to Print?

LONG-TIME Sunday Independent scourge of Republicanism Ruth Dudley Edwards bid the newspaper au revoir recently. However, she reassured anxious readers that, while she was exiting the paper, she would occasionally treat them to further offerings (ie, diatribes against such as the Satanic Gerry Adams and his coven, Mary Lou and Michelle O’Neill). Many have assumed… Read more »

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FIONA MITCHELL’S DESK

Date: March 21, 2019 - Fit to Print?

RTÉ’S departing south-eastern correspondent, Damien Tiernan, gave the station a lash as he walked out the door in January. Tiernan pointed out that news stories broadcast from the Waterford studio had declined by about 300% since the 2000s and were now at a low of 50 or 60 a year. This compares to the London… Read more »

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Gemma O'Doherty

GEMMA EXPOSES CHRISTCHURCH!

Date: March 21, 2019 - Fit to Print?

“INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALIST” Gemma O’Doherty has either produced the international scoop of the 21st century or shot herself in various limbs with the assertion that the Christchurch horror “has all the hallmarks of a classic false flag operation… à la 9/11. A professional job. The public… Read more »

Richard Bruton

KIDDING YOU NOT

Date: March 21, 2019 - Fowl Emissions

The kids are all right. Last Friday, an estimated 1.4 million schoolchildren worldwide walked out of school and took to the streets to demand climate action. The scale and intensity of the protest was without precedent. Up to 15,000 students convened on Stephen’s Green in Dublin and marched noisily, colourfully and peacefully to a mass… Read more »

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LEO VARADKAR’S FARM FAN

Date: March 21, 2019 - Fowl Emissions

Just days before the schools climate strike, another street-based show of strength took place in Dublin, this time in the leafy environs of Lansdowne Road. Donning their green scarves, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and foreign minister Simon Coveney were photographed strolling to the rugby match with… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: March 21, 2019 - Bog Cuttings

Garda called a ‘dickhead’ A CARRICK-ON-SUIR man called a garda a “dickhead” and made a rude gesture at him when the officer seized a car he was sitting in. Dean Foley of 19 Glenview, Carrick-on-Suir, pleaded guilty in the District Court to engaging in disorderly… Read more »

Rosheen McGuckian

ROSHEEN McGUCKIAN’S EXIT

Date: March 21, 2019 - High Society

THERE HAVE been changes at NTR’s charitable foundation, with NTR chief executive Rosheen McGuckian, who chaired the charity, stepping down last year. McGuckian is a woman in demand and a high-profile gig as a non-executive director of Green Reit will surely be taking up a chunk of her time. She also sits on the board… Read more »

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Consuelo O’Connor

KAREN’S WEDDING DATES

Date: March 21, 2019 - High Society

THE IRISH arm of a business that organises glamorous weddings in the port of Lindos on the sunny Greek island of Rhodes has come a cropper at the hands of the dreaded taxman. The good news is that another venture is up and running. An operation called Lindos Weddings was established in 2004 by Karen… Read more »

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Seána Kerslake

THE HOLE IN THE GROUND – DIRECTED BY LEE CRONIN

Date: March 21, 2019 - MoviesReviews

THERE’S NOT much wrong with Lee Cronin’s technically adept debut, The Hole in the Ground. Its problem is that, although it is streets ahead of recent Irish-made schlockers, like Brian O’Malley’s The Lodgers, Cronin’s film is not remarkable enough to rise above humdrum genre fare. It falls down in its storytelling, confusing plot with story,… Read more »

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WHEN ALL IS SAID - ANNE GRIFFIN (SCEPTRE)

WHEN ALL IS SAID – ANNE GRIFFIN (SCEPTRE)

Date: March 21, 2019 - BooksReviews

THIS DEBUT novel from the prize-winning short-story writer takes the form of a series of expansive inner monologues by a recently widowed 84-year-old farmer, Maurice Hannigan. Over the course of a fateful night, he sits at the bar of his local hotel, where he drinks several elegiac toasts to the most influential people he has… Read more »

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Sheila Pratschke

NO QUEUE TO SUCCEED PRATSCHKE

Date: March 21, 2019 - Behind the Scenes

CULTURE MINISTER Josepha Madigan’s search for the next chair of the Arts Council has begun (albeit a little late in the day), but suitable candidates are in rather short supply. When outgoing chair Sheila Pratschke’s five-year term was coming to its end date (February 25), Goldhawk asked about the advertising of the post, as well… Read more »

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SLOWLY DOES AT IVEAGH HOUSE

Date: March 21, 2019 - Behind the Scenes

DOCUMENTS released to Goldhawk reveal that the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade created the new post of cultural director as it was deemed one of a number of “urgent positions”. Mandarins had agreed they should “seek to immediately reinforce a number of areas… identified as critical in helping the department mitigate against significant risks… Read more »

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Katie Holly

MORE HAPPY ENDINGS FOR FILM PRODUCERS

Date: March 21, 2019 - Behind the Scenes

BY HAPPY coincidence, figures have emerged from three separate film and television funding schemes that dispense public lolly to hard-pressed producers. The Sound and Vision fund at Michael O’Keefe’s Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) has come up trumps, with just over €5m for 29 TV projects, while Annie Doona’s Screen Ireland (SI) threw a handy… Read more »

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Sean Mulryan

BOOM GETTING BOOMIER

Date: March 21, 2019 - Sport of Kings

FANS OF Goldhawk may not have been too surprised to see Sean Mulryan in the winners’ enclosure at Cheltenham last week (see The Phoenix, 22/2/19). Mulryan celebrated his first runner at the Cheltenham Festival in 10 years in the best way – by winning his own race, the Ballymore Novices Hurdle, with City Island (bought… Read more »

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Rachael Blackmore

BLACKMORE’S BRACE

Date: March 21, 2019 - Sport of Kings

DESPITE HER ascension into the top tier of jump jockeys, Rachael Blackmore still had a point to prove as, before the Cheltenham festival, she hadn’t ridden a Grade 1 winner nor had she ridden a winner there. She put those two omissions to bed in style, breaking her festival duck in the prestigious colours of… Read more »

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