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John Delaney

DERVAN’S FIERY FAI DEBUT

Date: May 2, 2019 - Fit to Print?

THE THEN FAI boss John Delaney announced the appointment of veteran sports hack Cathal Dervan as the FAI’s director of public relations and communications, with the following remarks: “These are exciting times for the game in Ireland… there is a lot to look forward to… we are also about to introduce new governance procedures at… Read more »

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Ian O'Doherty

REBELS AND REACTIONARIES

Date: May 2, 2019 - Fowl Emissions

THE Extinction Rebellion movement brought civil disobedience on to streets across the world last month in a furious, but carefully planned, response to the twin existential threats of climate breakdown and species extinction. Our national broadcaster’s coverage included posing the following question to a panel of celebrities: “Climate change protesters – saving the planet or… Read more »

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TREE TOPPLING TIME

Date: May 2, 2019 - Fowl Emissions

In case you needed another reason to believe insurers are sucking the life out of us, the industry has been identified as the dark force behind the slaughtering of thousands of healthy trees across Ireland. The unannounced removal of huge numbers of trees along roads and in towns in recent months has caused an outcry… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: May 2, 2019 - Bog Cuttings

Judge jibes over thrown traffic cones A LEMYBRIEN man, who was observed throwing traffic cones around the street late at night, was asked by the judge if he had aspirations to work in traffic management. Michael Callaghan (35), formerly of 10 St Bridget’s Crescent, Lemybrien but now with an address at 4 Parkwilliam, Enniscorthy, Wexford,… Read more »

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Lauriston

OFFLOADING LAURISTON

Date: May 2, 2019 - High Society

AN EDWARDIAN house on Ranelagh’s Park Drive (backing onto the playing fields of Gonzaga College) caught the eye of the Sindo last weekend, with the “elegant” and “gorgeous” D6 property receiving a suitably gushing write up. Hopefully, that will do the job for the owners, who have had to knock a chunk off the asking… Read more »

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Kevin Rafter

KEVIN RAFTER’S CV

Date: May 2, 2019 - Behind the Scenes

NOT TOO late in the day, Blueshirt Minister for Culture Josepha Madigan has appointed Kevin Rafter as Sheila Pratschke’s replacement in the chair of the Arts Council. The journalist and academic is certainly familiar with Fine Gael. Pratschke’s five-year term came to its end two months ago, with the advert seeking expressions of interest in… Read more »

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Bill Shipsey

BILL SHIPSEY’S AMNESTY

Date: May 2, 2019 - Behind the Scenes

GOOD NEWS for top barrister Bill Shipsey, whose Art for Amnesty (AfA) vehicle has been restored to the Companies Register, seven months after it was struck off for failing to file accounts. Meanwhile, the legal eagle has plenty of artistic projects to keep him busy. Shipsey has been the driving force behind AfA for the… Read more »

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NEIL JORDAN’S ‘LUDICROUS THRILLER’

Date: May 2, 2019 - Behind the Scenes

NEIL JORDAN’S latest opus, Greta, opened to predictably ‘mixed’ reviews over the Easter weekend. The Financial Times’s opening salvo referred to the “ludicrous thriller” and went downhill from there. Irish reviewers predictably went a little soft focus on the local maestro’s home-produced fare, with the Irish Times awarding the “compellingly weird” feature four stars. The… Read more »

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Michael O'Leary

JAMIE MORRIS VS MICK O’LEARY

Date: May 2, 2019 - Sport of Kings

THE TRAINER Mouse Morris has had one of the longest serving relationships with Gigginstown and Mick O’Leary, but that relationship looks like it’s being put to the test following a twitter outburst by Morris’s son, Jamie. Mouse’s Beyond The Law won a chase at Cork on Easter Sunday, relegating the Gigginstown-owned Rathure Rebel to second…. Read more »

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DUNDALK’S BIG TRACK SURFACE BILL

Date: May 2, 2019 - Sport of Kings

PERHAPS IT should not come as a surprise that the manager of Dundalk’s racing track is set to lash out circa €3m to provide a replacement running surface. The question is, will it be in place for the autumn/winter season when alternatives are very thin on the ground. The Polytrack racing surface at Dundalk continues… Read more »

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Niall Cronin

NIALL CRONIN’S STRATEGY

Date: May 2, 2019 - Sport of Kings

THE IRISH Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB) has decided to up its communications strategy, announcing the Herald’s former racing corr, Niall Cronin, as its new communications manager. Cronin has been acting as interim press officer for the IHRB for the last 12 months, since the retirement of the previous incumbent, Cliff Noone. There has been no… Read more »

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Kenneth Alexander

ALEXANDER THE GREAT

Date: May 2, 2019 - Sport of Kings

THIS SEASON has seen Scottish bookmaking supremo Kenny Alexander emerge as a growing force among the Irish jumps ownership ranks. While Alexander, the chief executive of GVC Holdings, has had horses trained in Britain for many years, his presence and success there is negligible compared with the scale of the Scot’s achievements with his nascent… Read more »

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Margaret Sweeney

WHY I-RES SHOULD END THE CANADIANS’ SWEET DEALS

Date: May 2, 2019 - Moneybags

IRELAND’S HOUSING crisis has provided opportunities for certain players, notably Irish Residential Properties Reit (I-Res), where the Canadian founders have been doing very well for themselves, not least courtesy of lucrative management service contracts. These come up for renewal next year and investors would surely benefit if the contracts were cancelled by Irish CEO Margaret… Read more »

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Kathryn Purves

THE INCREDIBLE €240M CASH TAKEOUT OF IFG

Date: May 2, 2019 - Moneybags

THE £200m Elysian Fuels controversy is still unresolved and a further £5m provision has had to be made to cover potential further sanction charges and mediation costs on foot of the group’s dual trustee book, of which only 20% has been reviewed, although these costs are extrapolated from this review. Against this background, it is… Read more »

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SEAN LYONS’S DOOMSDAY SCENARIO

Date: May 2, 2019 - Briefcases

IS THE apocalypse approaching for Sean Lyons’s troubled company, Doomsday Challenge Ltd? Yet again, the firm is listed to be struck off the Companies Register for failure to file accounts, but it has come back from the brink before. Lyons will be well known to readers for his lucrative exploits in the direct provision industry…. Read more »

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Pete Queally

PETER QUEALLY’S FOUL EMISSIONS

Date: May 2, 2019 - Briefcases

GOLDHAWK wasn’t too surprised to see Kildare-based food-processing giant Arrow group on the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) latest ‘name and shame’ list. The group – run by beef baron brothers John, Pete and Michael Queally – has a long list of foibles and run-ins with various state watchdogs. Pete, the best known of the three… Read more »

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PAT MCCAUGHEY’S SPICY MEATBALL

Date: May 2, 2019 - Briefcases

UNFORTUNATELY for businessman Pat McCaughey, former boss of Dublin-based spice burger maker Walsh Family Foods Ltd (WFF), the crash is still leaving a bad taste. The Castleknock businessman has just had a judgment registered against him for €½m by an Irish subsidiary of US vulture fund Cerberus. In 2000, former Boyne Valley group managing director… Read more »

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MARTIN TUBRIDY’S TAX TROUBLES

Date: May 2, 2019 - Briefcases

THE REVENUE moved this week to wind up a company owned by one Martin Tubridy in Co Clare. The publican-cum-engineer has had a tough few years and now his GMD Developments is in liquidation. Given how much he was owed by the company, this represents a severe setback. The Clare publican has had previous run-ins… Read more »

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FAREWELL FIMAK

Date: May 2, 2019 - Briefcases

A COMPANY that found itself the subject of some media coverage last year over the operation of the student Leap Card system has wound itself up, although people might not recognise the name. Fimak Group featured in the Irish Times last summer when it emerged that an alleged flaw in the Leap Card travel system… Read more »

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DAVID SMYTH’S BLACKHALL BLUES

Date: May 2, 2019 - Briefcases

INTERESTING to see that the Law Society has just registered a judgment against Waterford tech outfit Agenda Computers Ltd, where the principal is one David Smyth. The judgment relates to costs secured by the society in a High Court action against Smyth’s company, through which he ran a ‘claims harvesting’ website, personalinjurysolicitorsdublin.info. Soliciting or encouraging… Read more »

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NEW MEDIA CURRENCY

Date: May 2, 2019 - Fit to Print?

THE TWO Sunday Business Post journalists — ex-editor Ian Kehoe and executive editor Tom Lyons — who wanted to buy out their newspaper from their then publisher, Key Capital’s Conor Killeen, went to Grant Thornton looking for, em, capital to do so last year. It appears that Killeen did not take seriously their aspiration or… Read more »

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Paul Reid

HSE PAUL REID’S RADICAL PAST

Date: April 18, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

WHAT AN interesting journey the new €300,000-salaried HSE director general, Paul Reid, has travelled since the days of his firebrand activism in politics and the trade union movement. Comrades in the trade union movement remember Reid as the chief shop steward in the Communications Workers’ Union in Telecom Éireann, where his energy and attention to… Read more »

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Barry Andrews

MARTIN SUPPORTS EU ARMY

Date: April 18, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

A STRAINED silence emanated from Fianna Fáil following the revelation that Fine Gael successfully blocked its EU grouping, the European Peoples Party (EPP), from inclusion of support for an EU army in its EU-wide election manifesto (see The Phoenix, 5/4/19). Is this because FF’s EU partners, the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE),… Read more »

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Barry Connell

PROFILE: BARRY CONNELL

Date: April 18, 2019 - Pillars of Society

TEN YEARS ago, Dublin-based hedge fund manager and former stockbroker Barry Connell looked odds-on to become one of the leading players in the ranks of Ireland’s national hunt owners. He had indulged his passion for race riding by riding his own horses in bumpers for a number of years but, when a shoulder injury put… Read more »

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Maria Walshe

YOUNG BLOOD: MARIA WALSH

Date: April 18, 2019 - The Young Bloods

IF FINE GAEL’S cosmopolitan leadership could manufacture a candidate under laboratory conditions, the result would probably look a lot like former Rose of Tralee Maria Walsh (31). The US-born Mayo native will make her political debut in May as one of two Blueshirt candidates for… Read more »

Denis O'Brien

O’BRIEN COULD GET €100M IN INM TAKE-OUT

Date: April 18, 2019 - Moneybags

IT IS hard to believe the news emerging of a pending takeover bid for Independent News & Media (INM). With Denis O’Brien sitting on a 30% shareholding and his pal, Dermot Desmond (invited in at a hefty discounted 7c a share five years ago), sitting on a further 15%, these two will have a very… Read more »

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Richard Boyd-Barrett

TARGETING BOYD BARRETT

Date: April 18, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

A CAMPAIGN of sorts has been kicked off by film industry insiders, who appear to have had their fill of Richard Boyd Barrett of the People Before Profit (PBP) party. He happens to be a regular critic of a sector that swallows over €90m a year in public lolly, mostly courtesy of the Section 481… Read more »

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Anthony McGrath

ANTHONY MCGRATH’S ANTIQUES

Date: April 18, 2019 - High Society

LAST WEEK’S popular Channel 4 series, 24 hours in Police Custody, featured one Anthony McGrath, an Irish-born orthopaedic surgeon with a “very privileged background”. Given the subject matter of the programme, it is not surprising that the medic, whose childhood home is the splendid Somerville House in Co Meath, didn’t come out smelling of roses…. Read more »

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Catherine Fulvio

CATHERINE’S RICH RECIPES

Date: April 18, 2019 - High Society

NEXT MONTH ‘celebrity chef’ Catherine Fulvio dons her glad rags (Irish designers were frothing at the bit) and flies off to southern California for the 46th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium. It represents the most high-profile coup for the media-savvy businesswoman. Fulvio garnered her nomination courtesy of a 12-episode series, A… Read more »

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AIDAN EAMES’S CLIENTS

Date: April 18, 2019 - Last Refuge

THE MOST influential man in the room at the recent Oireachtas Committee on Sport hearing was not Football Association of Ireland (FAI) demoted executive John Delaney, committee chair Fergus O’Dowd TD nor even FAI president Donal Conway. Legal Svengali, solicitor Aidan Eames sat silently throughout the hearing, but his experience and advice on the Oireachtas… Read more »

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Philip Comyn

PHILIP COMYN ‘ADMONISHED’

Date: April 18, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

GOLDHAWK WAS surprised to see the name of Cork City coroner Philip Comyn featuring among the assorted legal eagles who had come a cropper at the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDF). Comyn is from a well-known Mallow legal family and followed his solicitor father, Andrew, into the profession, where he has proved most successful. (Philip and… Read more »

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Paul Williams

CRIME DOES PAY

Date: April 18, 2019 - Fit to Print?

The International Fraud Prevention Conference, organised by ex-INM group editor Stephen Rae and his best buddy and colleague, Paul Williams, formerly of Newstalk, has a dramatic ring to it. Rae and Williams – principal moderators at the conference sessions – have formed IFPC Ltd with Stubbs Gazette’s James Treacy. The organisers have roped in retired… Read more »

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VOL 37 NO 08

Date: April 18, 2019 -

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Mark Durkan

SDLP/FIANNA FÁIL: THE FIRST ITEM

Date: April 18, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

HOW IS the ‘historic’ Fianna Fáil/SDLP alliance playing out in the European elections, especially in Dublin where FF candidate Barry Andrews would surely value SDLP support given the Blueshirts’ recruitment of ex-SDLP leader Mark ‘Muirsheen’ Durkan in the same election? Already, Labour candidate Alex White has suborned SDLP ‘dissident’ grande Dame Bríd Rogers to his… Read more »

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PHELIM O’NEILL’S MANY HATS

Date: April 18, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

ONE OF the side-effects of that high profile eviction in Strokestown, Co Roscommon last December was the gardaí’s decision to seize the mobile phone owned by editor of the Democrat, Emmett Corcoran, earlier this month. A subsequent injunction was sought by the hack and the company behind the newspaper, Oncor Ventures Ltd, where the other… Read more »

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Jim Bailey

KERRY (IN)SANITY PLEA

Date: April 18, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

ANOTHER HSE controversy is trundling down the tracks, courtesy of Kerry’s Eye, following the HSE’s grudging agreement to correct a false record stating that Castlemaine man Jim Bailey had been admitted to St Finan’s Mental Hospital. This came after Bailey spent decades trying to prove that he was never regarded as suffering from psychiatric illness… Read more »

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