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HAVANA HEAT

Date: June 12, 2019 - Briefcases

SWORDS LASER treatment clinic Havana Therapy Ltd is having some trouble with the local authority. Fingal County Council slapped the company, controlled by father and son duo Keith and Gary Hogan, with a small judgment for just over €8,000. It’s the second time in 12 months that the company has fallen foul with the council… Read more »

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NICHOLAS O’CONNOR’S TAX BILL

Date: June 12, 2019 - Briefcases

FORMER Wexford accountant Nicholas O’Connor has had yet another tax judgment registered against him, this time for just over U6,000. The ex-number cruncher will be familiar to fans of Goldhawk for his various run-ins with the taxman and also the Chartered Accountants Regulatory Board (CARB), which excluded him from membership of Chartered Accountants Ireland last… Read more »

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VIRGINIA KEOGH’S PETITION

Date: June 12, 2019 - Briefcases

INTERESTING to see a High Court petition being lodged earlier this month by the main shareholder in profitable Limerick property company Willowhurst Developments Ltd. She is seeking to wind up the company and the petition will be heard on July 8 next. Willowhurst Devs was incorporated in 1993 to develop sites in Co Limerick. The… Read more »

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Lara Marlowe

IAN BAILEY: ‘L’HEURE DE VÉRITÉ’?

Date: May 29, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

THE WIDESPREAD, public atmosphere of blood lust in France against Ian Bailey, the alleged murderer of Sophie Toscan du Plantier, ratcheted up in the period before Bailey’s Paris trial in absentia with various articles proclaiming his guilt. Paris Match, Crimo Corpus (a legal/criminal journal) and national radio station RTL all proclaimed the apparently unanswerable case… Read more »

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Denis Desmond

PROFILE: DENIS DESMOND

Date: May 29, 2019 - Pillars of Society

WITH THE summer cycle of superstar rock gigs and music festivals set to kick off next month, MCD will be the biggest act by some way. Fronted by Denis Desmond – who controls the Irish concert promotion juggernaut along with his estranged wife Caroline Downey Desmond – MCD will dominate the sector as always. However,… Read more »

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Hugh O'Connell

YOUNG BLOOD: HUGH O’CONNELL

Date: May 29, 2019 - The Young Bloods

Like a promising football team that falls short of winning promotion to the top flight, the Sunday Business Post is having its starting line-up picked apart by its deep-pocketed rivals. The latest star player to be poached from Merrion Road is political correspondent Hugh O’Connell (31), who will join the Irish Independent next month under… Read more »

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Maria Bailey

MARIA BAILEY: NOT THE REAL TARGET

Date: May 29, 2019 - Last Refuge

THE FURORE created by Michael McDowell’s attack on Dún Laoghaire TD Maria Bailey and her compo case over that fall from a hotel swing may have masked just who McDowell’s real target is. McDowell’s carefully calibrated strike against Bailey relies on the disdain felt by Fine Gael voters at gurriers from the lower orders engaging… Read more »

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FRANK AND THERESA McNAMARA’S ADVENTURES

Date: May 29, 2019 - High Society

THIS WEEK saw the return to court of the proceedings by a culture fund, Apollo Global, against one-time ‘celebrity’ couple Frank and Theresa McNamara, with the Yanks seeking to force the sale of the couple’s Co Meath home-cum-recording studio. This is the latest challenge for the musician (former Late Late Show pianist) and ex-PD general… Read more »

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Mary-Lou McDonald

SINN FÉIN MELTDOWN

Date: May 29, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

MARY LOU MCDONALD had no forewarning of Sinn Féin’s electoral catastrophe in the opinion polls. Red C had SF consistently around the 13%-14% mark, while other polls put them closer to 20%. In the event, the party scored less than 10% in the locals and not much over 10% in the Europeans. There are some… Read more »

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Kyran McLaughlin

JANE’S STRAY HORSES

Date: May 29, 2019 - High Society

A COMPANY called Animal Security Ltd has been quietly dissolved. The name may not be too familiar to readers, but it previously operated under the name Cantor Equine and held lucrative contracts with the Dublin local authorities for the control of stray and abandoned horses. The woman in the saddle here is Jane McLaughlin, daughter… Read more »

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Sharon Horgan

SHARON HORGAN’S LATEST PAYDAY

Date: May 29, 2019 - Behind the Scenes

AS THE annual Cannes film junket (which featured a rare Irish success) came to a close on Sunday, it coincided with the arrival of Screen Ireland’s first-quarter gravy train. James Hickey, about to exit as SI’s chief executive, got a going away present from Cannes in the form of a gong awarded in the Critics’… Read more »

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Olga Shajaku

OLGA SHAJAKU’S LATEST VICTORY

Date: May 29, 2019 - Briefcases

MORE GOOD news for Goldhawk’s favourite Russian lawyer, Olga Shajaku, who got a good result from the Supreme Court last week, which means her long-running efforts to reverse the awarding of a contract to a competitor have paid off. Earlier this year, Shajaku sent a shot across the bows of Paschal Donohoe’s Department of Public… Read more »

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Vol 37 No 11

Date: May 29, 2019 -

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Seán Kelly

GAS MAN KELLY

Date: May 29, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

As Blueshirt MEP Seán Kelly returns to Brussels for a third term, he might want to reconsider his zealous support for Shannon LNG, the enormous gas import terminal in north Kerry that would turn Ireland into a pipeline for US fracked gas into Europe (see The Phoenix, 21/09/18). This fossil fuel behemoth is looking evermore… Read more »

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Saoirse McHugh

GREEN WAVE OR RIPPLE?

Date: May 29, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

WILL THE green wave translate into more Green TDs? And if Eamon Ryan leads the party into another coalition with a right-wing party, can that bring about the ‘system change’ demanded by the radical movement that set this wave in motion? A cautionary little detail is that, despite the initial hype, the Greens actually polled… Read more »

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Maria Bailey

MARIA BAILEY’S DILEMMA

Date: May 29, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

DÚN LAOGHAIRE TD Maria Bailey and Fine Gael have pretty much talked themselves into inevitable suspension of the Dáil deputy, which will lead to a dilemma if the general election is held in the next few months. The next meeting of the Fine Gael executive council will most likely set up a sub-committee to inquire… Read more »

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Josephine Feehily

FEEHILY FIGHTS ON

Date: May 29, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

YOU CAN see why An Garda Síochána and the justice department want rid of the Policing Authority – chaired by the formidable Josephine Feehily – which is to be subsumed (handcuffed) into a new Policing and Community Safety Oversight Commission (PCSOC). Justice minister Charlie Flanagan gave an unqualified endorsement to the Commission on the Future… Read more »

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ÁINE MORIARTY’S DELAYED RELEASE

Date: May 29, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

EARLIER THIS year (see The Phoenix, 8/2/19), Goldhawk raised the ghastly spectre of a hiatus in Áine Moriarty and Deirdre Hopkins’s annual red carpet luvviethon, the Irish Film and Television Awards (IFTAs). Co-star Hopkins had taken a job with BAFTA in London late last year and, instead of the 2019 IFTA nominations process cranking into… Read more »

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Freddie Scappaticci

STAKEKNIFE INQUIRY COLLAPSE

Date: May 29, 2019 - Hush Hush

The underwhelming response to the selection of Simon Byrne as the PSNI’s new chief constable shows that the media missed two bigger stories in relation to the appointment. Firstly, as an Englishman and former head of Cheshire Police, Byrne is one of the few outsiders to become PSNI supremo. So, despite the caterwauling about her… Read more »

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Robert Nairac

CAPTAIN NAIRAC’S REPUTATION

Date: May 29, 2019 - Hush Hush

THE CAMPAIGN to sanitise the reputation of British Army undercover operative Captain Robert Nairac, shot dead and disappeared by the IRA in 1975, continues. The Irish Times recently reported assurances from the head of the commission for recovery of ‘disappeared’ Troubles victims, Geoff Knupfer, that Nairac had not been involved in a catalogue of collusion… Read more »

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Simon Coveney

COVENEY’S MIDDLE EAST CHARADE

Date: May 29, 2019 - Foreign Frolics

WHAT A deafening silence there has been from foreign minister Simon Coveney on the Middle East “deal of the century”, produced by Donald Trump’s son-in-law and advisor, Jared Kushner. The tánaiste, normally so voluble on the subject, has remained mute on the plan, despite referring in the Dáil last November to his “good relationship” with… Read more »

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Maria Bailey

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: May 29, 2019 - The Hot Air Brigade

I grew up on the sideline of a GAA pitch. I play fair, I don’t play offside. Fine Gael TD Maria Bailey on Today with Sean O’Rourke Friday’s elections for the European Parliament are all about survival. Not the Darwinian struggle for the survival of the fittest politician, but the survival of our species. Fintan… Read more »

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Naomi Long

REMAINERS 2 — BREXIT 1

Date: May 29, 2019 - Bird's Eye View

AS PREDICTED (see The Phoenix, 17/5/19), if Alliance leader Naomi Long got ahead of SDLP leader Colum Eastwood and/or the UUP’s Danny Kennedy, she would be elected MEP. Secondly, the election in the north would be about Brexit. So it turned out, but in much more spectacular fashion than anyone imagined. Long polled 105,928 first-preference… Read more »

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Seamus Mallon

SEAMUS MALLON VS JOHN HUME

Date: May 29, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

SEAMUS MALLON’S “parallel consent” proposal for a United Ireland – aka a new, super-unionist veto – is the political love child of his fraught relationship with St John Hume. As Squire Hockey, Sir Garret Fitzgerald and all the Anglo-Irish players since the 1980s knew, Mallon’s malevolence towards Hume was what always informed his political choices…. Read more »

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Olivia Buckley

OLIVIA BUCKLEY VS SHANE ROSS

Date: May 29, 2019 - Last Refuge

FIANNA FÁIL’S local election results in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown will have given Micheál Martin much to consider as it has put a question mark over two strong female candidates at the general election for Dún Laoghaire and Dublin Rathdown. Cllr Shay Brennan may have put down a marker, perhaps temporarily, against the intended parachuting of ex-Fianna… Read more »

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Maria Walsh

MARIA WALSH’S MILITARISM

Date: May 29, 2019 - Last Refuge

IT WAS a close-run thing in the end for Fine Gael EU candidate Maria Walsh in Midlands North West and her gung-ho military-style soundbytes certainly boosted her campaign. But despite her “Steyr rifle in one hand and Rose of Tralee sash in the other” quote and her demand for further EU integration of the Defence… Read more »

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Leo Varadkar

THE NEXT GOVERNMENT

Date: May 29, 2019 - Last Refuge

NOW FOR the real election. Both Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil (along with desperate pleas from Labour leader Brendan Howlin) posit the prospects of either big party cobbling together a government majority along with Labour, Greens, Social Democrats and Independents. But a glance at the likely arithmetic of the next Dáil shows that such a… Read more »

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Tom Lyons

PRESS COUNCIL — SECRET INFO

Date: May 29, 2019 - Fit to Print?

WHAT AN intriguing postscript at the end of last weekend’s Sunday Business Post’s publication of the Press Council’s rejection of its appeal against an adverse ruling. The council had ruled in favour of RTÉ’s Ken O’Shea, who as current affairs editor was held responsible by RTÉ in the matter of that infamous tweet supposedly from… Read more »

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MEDIAHUIS SPANNER IN IT WORKS

Date: May 29, 2019 - Fit to Print?

THE IRISH TIMES gave the Mediahuis takeover of INM a guarded endorsement, saying the new owners offered a fresh start for the group and that, on paper, it looked like a “smart deal” for the Belgians. The “paper” reference was unlikely to have been a deliberate pun, but the IT had been gratified at what… Read more »

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Claire Byrne

RTÉ’S POLITICAL PRIORITIES

Date: May 29, 2019 - Fit to Print?

WHILE RTÉ’S coverage of the election counts was up to its usual high standard, the scheduling of EU election debates – easily the most watchable TV political coverage – was regarded by Montrose programmers as baffling. The first debate, hosted by Murrium O’Callaghan, was broadcast at 10.30pm on Sunday night, just as many middle-aged and… Read more »

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Marian Finucane

CLIMATE SPEAK

Date: May 29, 2019 - Fowl Emissions

  If rhetoric could reduce emissions, Ireland would by now be a world leader rather than laggard. The ‘green wave’ hype of recent days meant that politicians used to tagging on platitudes about ‘the environment’ at the end of interviews have found themselves under sustained attack from a media, which has, suddenly and in unison,… Read more »

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CONOR SKEHAN’S ‘SCIENCE’

Date: May 29, 2019 - Fowl Emissions

While climate denial has become a mug’s game, a new variant has emerged, which is to deny that biodiversity loss and ecological collapse is actually occurring. Architect, former housing agency chief and all-purpose curmudgeon Conor Skehan is the latest to weigh in on this topic. Despite zero science qualifications, Skehan (another RTÉ favourite) was invited… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: May 29, 2019 - Bog Cuttings

Priest chased by camper van man A PRIEST in Newtownards, Co Down, was forced to flee from an intoxicated man following a “bizarre” attempted attack. CCTV footage shows Fr Roland Colhoun walking past a camper van belonging to the man on the Strabane Road before being chased by the individual, shouting defamatory insults. Local Sinn… Read more »

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Consuelo O’Connor

BRIAN RANALOW’S INVESTMENT

Date: May 29, 2019 - High Society

INTERESTING to see Dublin moneybags and artist Brian Ranalow investing a wedge of cash in Genos Investments Ltd this month. Genos is a big shareholder in Hanpak Ltd, the innovative packaging company set up by self-described serial entrepreneur Tom McLoughlin. One of its products is the Butterfly Cup, a revolutionary lidless disposable paper cup for… Read more »

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Henry Beeby

GOOD NEWS FOR HENRY BEEBY

Date: May 29, 2019 - Sport of Kings

NOEL HAYES must be one of the luckiest owners in the game and has struck gold again through his Sunday Racing Club with the sale of the two-year-old Sunday Sovereign. The Paddy Twomey-trained colt holds the distinction of winning the first race staged at the newly opened Curragh and, such was the impression that he… Read more »

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CURRAGH GOLD CUP LOSING ITS GLITTER

Date: May 29, 2019 - Sport of Kings

WITH THREE Group 1 races on the card, the Irish Guineas Festival is of the highest class, but the newly refurbished Curragh is in danger of one of those Group 1 races – the Tattersalls Gold Cup – losing its top-level status and being demoted to a Group 2 contest. The European Pattern Committee sets… Read more »

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