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THE DIG – DIRECTED BY ANDY AND RYAN TOHILL

Date: May 16, 2019 - MoviesReviews

ANY FILM coming out of Northern Ireland and titled The Dig is, even if not overtly, a ‘Troubles’ film, likely to be viewed as an allegory of post-conflict unease. That may be true of brothers Andy and Ryan Tohill’s directorial debut, written by Stuart Drennan, but it presents as an economically told story of the… Read more »

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Sarah Durcan

SARAH DURCAN’S NOMINATION

Date: May 16, 2019 - Behind the Scenes

GOLDHAWK was recently perusing the Memorandum and Articles of Association of the Abbey Theatre and spied a regulation that could be interpreted to cause a headache for one of the board members, Sarah Durcan. Durcan is global operations manager of the Science Gallery Network, although much of her energy has been directed to the theatre… Read more »

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SARAH DILLON’S €2M FUND

Date: May 16, 2019 - Behind the Scenes

FANS OF Goldhawk will be aware of the Western Region Audiovisual Producers (WRAP) Fund thanks to the nascent body’s first funding decision – €200,000 for the Element Pictures project Calm With Horses (see The Phoenix, 4/5/18). That award to an adaptation of a Mike McCormack story was done and dusted before the WRAP had even… Read more »

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Richard O'Brien

NAAS’S LUCK OF THE DRAW

Date: May 16, 2019 - Sport of Kings

WITH CURRENT Naas Racecourse manager Tom Ryan about to head off to the Middle East to take up an advisory role within Saudi Arabia’s racing industry, the next Naas manager will be faced with an increasingly thorny issue when he or she takes up the baton. Since the flat season kicked off at Naas in… Read more »

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Barry Connell

BARRY CONNELL’S NEW NAGS

Date: May 16, 2019 - Sport of Kings

ONE JUMPS owner whose enthusiasm has been tested in the latest season is Barry Connell. After a disastrous performance that yielded only seven winners – his worst in 10 years – Connell seems undeterred, having just invested heavily in new blood at the Goffs Punchestown Sale. Fans of Goldhawk will be familiar with the trials… Read more »

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Chris Hayes

HAYES OUT FOR THE COUNT

Date: May 16, 2019 - Sport of Kings

The Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB) introduced more stringent whip rules recently and jockeys, especially those riding on the flat have been finding it tough to adapt to the new regime. Since the first week of April, the maximum number of strikes permitted has been reduced to eight. If a rider exceeds that number, a… Read more »

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Michael O'Leary

O’LEARY’S QUIET LANDING

Date: May 16, 2019 - Sport of Kings

DESPITE BEING crowned leading jumps owners for the fifth year in a row, Mick O’Leary’s Gigginstown House Stud had a rather poor Punchestown Festival, welcoming back just two winners from 42 runners over the five days. One of the Gigginstown wins did come in a Grade 1, courtesy of future Cheltenham Gold Cup hope Delta… Read more »

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Eamonn Rothwell

CHOPPY WATERS IN STORE FOR ROTHWELL’S ICG

Date: May 16, 2019 - Moneybags

LAST YEAR was a bad one for Eamonn “Rottweiler” Rothwell’s Irish Continental Group (ICG). He is now looking to bounce back, but the shares will remain on a demanding price-earnings multiple at a time when competition is heating up on the Irish Sea. By deciding to add significant extra capacity in these circumstances, the ICG… Read more »

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JAMES KEARNEY’S ‘UNDUE INFLUENCE’

Date: May 16, 2019 - Briefcases

A JUDGMENT for €98,000 has just been registered by AIB against a small property vehicle, Rostaff Developments Ltd. This is the Galway construction outfit, controlled by Ballinasloe builder James Kearney, that was at the centre of a headline-grabbing High Court spat with the bank a couple of years ago. In 2015, AIB sued Rostaff as… Read more »

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Simon Kennedy

SIMON KENNEDY’S ‘BATTLEGROUND’

Date: May 16, 2019 - Briefcases

THERE WAS more woe for colourful Wexford solicitor Simon Kennedy in the High Court recently concerning his scrap with a bank over an €800,000 debt. It has been a case of all hands on deck for the former legal eagle since being declared bankrupt in the High Court in 2012 and his suspension from practice… Read more »

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MYLES CROFTON’S BOOM-ERA BUDDY

Date: May 16, 2019 - Briefcases

DUBLIN developer Myles Crofton’s comeback is well and truly under way. The Irish Times reported this month that he has applied for permission to demolish his 11,300sq ft Blackrock mansion, Renesca, and replace it with a five-storey apartment block. Elsewhere, he has been making moves with fellow boom-time property player Bernard Doyle. Crofton first appeared… Read more »

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TOP MARKS FOR RM

Date: May 16, 2019 - Briefcases

SPARE A thought for Michael and Brendan Kelly’s KPW Print operation in Ballinasloe, which has missed out on a contract with the State Examinations Commission (SEC). It will be recalled (see The Phoenix, 8/3/19) that the Kellys brought judicial review proceedings, challenging a decision by the SEC to award the contract for scanning and online… Read more »

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Maria Walshe

WALSH-MCGUINNESS SHOOT OUT

Date: May 2, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

THE BLUEBLOUSE EU candidate in the Midlands-North-West (MNW), Maria Walsh, proved she is no wilting Tralee Rose with a retaliatory broadside against her running mate, Máiréad McGuinness, following the MEP’s recent incursion into her territory. But while Maria showed adept skills in the dark arts… Read more »

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DER KAISER’S INDO DEAL

Date: May 2, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

ALTHOUGH IT was Goldhawk who first revealed that Denis O’Brien wanted to sell up at Independent News & Media (see The Phoenix 8/2/19), the nature of the agreed exit deal is far more gobsmacking than imagined. The shareholders are rightly pissed off, but at least Dermot Desmond is avoiding the worst of the pain. Many… Read more »

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Calre Daly

PROFILE: CLARE DALY TD

Date: May 2, 2019 - Pillars of Society

CLARE DALY’S EU election bid in Dublin – as well as her political and personal partner Mick Wallace TD’s outing in the South constituency – has added excitement to a relatively mundane campaign. Senator Alice Mary Higgins’s candidacy grabbed the enthusiastic attention of the Irish… Read more »

Cathal Haughey

YOUNG BLOOD: CATHAL HAUGHEY

Date: May 2, 2019 - The Young Bloods

There is an old saying that it only takes three generations to ruin a family business. Cathal Haughey (22) will be hoping it’s just a tired cliché when he makes his electoral debut later this month as a Fianna Fáil candidate for Dublin City Council in the Clontarf electoral area. Although technically among the fourth… Read more »

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Hermann Kelly

PETER CASEY AND HERMANN KELLY

Date: May 2, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

HAVE THOSE soul brothers on the right of Irish politics, EU candidates Peter Casey (Midlands North-West – MNW) and Hermann Kelly (Dublin) had a split already? Or is it that Peter has a little more nous than Hermann, who is the founder and driving force of The Irish Freedom Party? There was a time when… Read more »

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Danielle Ryan

DANIELLE RYAN AT CANNES

Date: May 2, 2019 - High Society

CONGRATULATIONS are due to Fantastic Films, which saw its Vivarium selected to compete at the snooty Critics’ Week at the Cannes Film Festival. While the media focus has been on the big-name Hollywood star here, Jesse Eisenberg, it turns out that the role of ‘Mom’ is played by one Danielle Ryan, the Ryanair heiress who… Read more »

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SAORADH CHIEF’S DÁIL AMBITIONS

Date: May 2, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

BRIAN KENNA, chairman of Saoradh, which reflects the New IRA’s political outlook, was once a model of the Sinn Féin parliamentary road and had aspirations to be a TD. Kenna gave some rather militant interviews to the media following the killing of Lyra McKee in Derry, saying that the PSNI had “engineered” the situation that… Read more »

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Nicolas Maduro

MADURO’S IRISH CRITICS

Date: May 2, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

Exactly who were the Venezuelans so “enraged” by Clare Daly’s comments on the troubled country, according to a recent Sunday Times article? One is Luis Alvarez, a Dublin-based supporter of the self-declared, US-backed president of Venezuela, Juan Guaido. Alvarez is also described in the piece by ST journalist Rosanna Cooney as a member of the… Read more »

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MacDara Kelleher

KELLEHER’S STRONG FOUNDATION

Date: May 2, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

THE GIANT Apple TV streaming service launching later this year has commissioned the first 10-episode adaptation of sci-fi writer Isaac Asimov’s ‘Foundation’ series of books, which is to be filmed at Troy Studios in Limerick. Once again, it turns out that the filmmaker MacDara Kelleher is a winner here in what is actually something of… Read more »

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Consuelo O’Connor

NIAMH PATTEN’S JEWELLERY

Date: May 2, 2019 - High Society

A JEWELLERY venture established by Niamh Patten shut its doors recently after a short-lived existence in the city centre. Despite the backing of a multi-millionaire, New Romantic Jewellery is no more. One of Niamh’s claims to fame has been her relationship with the low-profile, uber-rich philanthropist and aviation entrepreneur Declan Ryan (son of Ryanair founder… Read more »

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VOL 37 No 09

Date: May 2, 2019 -

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Brendan Howlin

BRENDAN HOWLIN’S ATTACK

Date: May 2, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

DOES Labour leader Brendan Howlin believe he is still minister in charge of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (DPER)? Howlin’s attack on the government for its green light to the €3bn broadband project heard him accuse Fine Gael of “abandoning spending controls” and threatening the “long-term financial stability of our country”. And he… Read more »

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PHELIM & MAGDALENA O’NEILL

Date: May 2, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

In an article headlined ‘Phelim O’Neill’s many hats’, it was stated that the company called My Valuation Ltd, incorporated in 2012, ceased to trade in 2016 after its plans “came to nought”. We have been informed that My Valuation was set up for a specific purpose and the company fulfilled this purpose in 2016. It… Read more »

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Mick Wallace

BY-ELECTION BLITZ?

Date: May 2, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

IT NOW looks as though there could be four and possibly five Dáil by-elections within six months of the EU elections. TDs Clare Daly (Dublin Fingal), Billy Kelleher (Cork North-Central), Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan) and Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid-West) are all expected to win EU Parliament seats, with the possibility of Mick Wallace (Wexford) also taking… Read more »

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Lynn Scarff

FIGHT AT THE MUSEUM

Date: May 2, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

STILL NO word on the National Museum of Ireland’s internal review of its ‘Spanish Flu’ debacle last year. No doubt Catherine Heaney and her board are hoping that any allegations of dubious behaviour are kept in the isolation ward. Last September, the NMI kicked off its flagship centenary programme, The Enemy Within – The Spanish… Read more »

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JIM BAILEY

Date: May 2, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

IN The Phoenix edition of April 19, 2019, it was stated that documentation ordering Jim Bailey to be detained in St Finan’s Mental Hospital in 1988 was signed by his then GP on advice from psychiatrist Dr Brendan Lynch that Mr Bailey “might be psychotic”. In fact, the documentation had been signed not by Mr… Read more »

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Freddie Scappaticci

BRITISH SOLDIERS TAKE THE FLAK

Date: May 2, 2019 - Hush Hush

Reports of the formal interview by police of top Force Research Unit (FRU) spook Brigadier Gordon Kerr got British media headlines last week. The FRU was a British army agent handling unit, which ran both loyalist and republican agents, including the likes of Fred Scappaticci, supposedly the notorious ‘Stakeknife’ in the IRA. The Scappaticci connection… Read more »

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Maria Walsh

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: May 2, 2019 - The Hot Air Brigade

I think the most important thing here is the fact that it was an interesting line in the sense that people look at perhaps me or any other female candidate as just having a label. We’re many different things. Maria Walsh, Fine Gael European election candidate and former Rose of Tralee, defends boasting about her… Read more »

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MUCH TALK ABOUT NO TALKS

Date: May 2, 2019 - Northwind

Last Thursday Seamus Mallon, former deputy first minister in the north and 20 years an SDLP MP, told RTÉ that Karen Bradley is not the right person to be northern secretary. “She has shown that she hasn’t a clue what she’s doing here. She has no idea of the problems or the nuances. God love… Read more »

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Shane Ross

VARADKAR’S LEGAL PRECEDENT

Date: May 2, 2019 - Last Refuge

WHAT AN interesting sequence of events has taken place since the New Year surrounding Shane Ross’s judicial appointments bill. Fine Gael and, in particular, Leo Varadkar appear to realise the down side if it fails to get the legislation passed before a general election. In January justice minister Charlie Flanagan told FG’s parliamentary party that… Read more »

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Anne Rabbitte

RABBITTE’S TUAM BABIES BLUNDER

Date: May 2, 2019 - Last Refuge

FIANNA FÁIL has landed itself in la merde over the Tuam babies with a most disingenuous statement from TD Anne Rabbitte, expressing concern about 21st century children (as opposed to early 20th century kids in Tuam, that is) causing consternation inside and outside the party. Galway East TD and a European candidate in Midlands North-West,… Read more »

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AK47 LIMBERS UP

Date: May 2, 2019 - Last Refuge

ELECTORAL CATASTROPHE could be facing the Labour Party in the local elections if two recent polls are anything to go by. Labour had an abysmal local election in 2014, with its vote declining from 14.5% in 2009 (130 seats) to just 7.3% (51 seats). But recent polls showed the party at 5% and 4% in… Read more »

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Linda Farren-O'Shea

FG PEMBROKE BLUE BLOODS

Date: May 2, 2019 - Last Refuge

WHAT A stellar trio of candidates Fine Gael has assembled in the local election barony of Pembroke – formerly Pembroke-South Dock – which has been stripped of the jarring, proletarian surrounds of Ringsend and has gained parts of Ranelagh and Rathmines. Pembroke has also come down from eight seats to five, but such is the… Read more »

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Colm O'Reilly

‘BUSINESS POST’ BUSINESS

Date: May 2, 2019 - Fit to Print?

SUNDAY BUSINESS POST chief executive Siobhán Lennon’s goodbye bash in Doheny & Nesbitt’s Baggot Street hostelry last week saw her replacement, Colm O’Reilly, mingle with the newspaper’s hacks and other staff. O’Reilly has a rather different professional pedigree to Lennon’s, but he is a close colleague and partner of Post proprietor Enda O’Coineen. The two… Read more »

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