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Jed Dowling

DUBLIN PRIDE’S PRICE

Date: June 27, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

THIS WEEKEND sees the annual Dublin Pride march organised by Jed Dowling’s Dublin LGBTQ Pride company and it promises to be the most corporate to date. Not everyone is dancing with joy. A visit to the Dublin Pride website leaves the visitor in little doubt as to the increased corporate input into the annual shindig,… Read more »

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John Farrell

JOHN FARRELL’S BUSINESS PARTNER

Date: June 27, 2019 - Briefcases

TROUBLE is brewing over the liquidation of one of Dublin restaurateur John Farrell’s operations. Peeved creditors of Super Miss Sue Ltd are unhappy with the company’s choice of liquidator and are on the way to the Four Goldmines to get their own nominee subbed in. Farrell is a well-known operator in the capital behind a… Read more »

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Tarka Rusell

TARKA RUSSELL’S CREDENTIALS

Date: June 27, 2019 - High Society

CONGRATULATIONS to young Tarka Russell, a glamorous addition to the board of the Glucksman art gallery in UCC. Having studied art history and now working in the art gallery world, she presumably knows her onions, but of significant interest to the gallery will no doubt be her connections to the young monied set. Based mostly… Read more »

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David Davies

AT HOME WITH DAVID DAVIES

Date: June 27, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

THE SQUIRE of Abbey Leix House, David Davies, must have been delighted with the fawning coverage of his decision to put his Co Laois pile and its 1,000 acres on the market for a cool €20m. He has been there a long time, although not everyone would have fond memories. Readers of the Sunday Business… Read more »

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Averil Power

FOXY AVERIL POWER

Date: June 27, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

THE MEDIA row between Solidarity’s Ruth Coppinger TD (her bill to ban mink farming goes before the Dáil next week) and fur farmer Redmond O’Hanlon was lively. Ruthie described the practice as “barbaric” and Redmond dismissed animal rights as a “Mickey Mouse… Walt Disney” creation. But another, behind-closed-doors row between the Irish Cancer Society (ICS)… Read more »

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Vol 37 No 13

Date: June 27, 2019 -

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DONAL KINSELLA’S COSTS

Date: June 27, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

DONAL KINSELLA, former Kenmare Resources deputy chairman, hasn’t been having too much luck in the courts recently. He is best known to the public for that unfortunate naked sleepwalking incident in Mozambique back in 2007 that was referred to in a press release by the company when Kinsella was asked to resign. He was eventually… Read more »

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LUPTON’S LOBBYING

Date: June 27, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

ONE OF the first issues seized upon by the media after the Ana Kriégel case was restricting access by children to online material. One commentator doing the rounds last week was “barrister and media law expert” Ronan Lupton and it turns out he has many skills. Last week the legal eagle wrote a column for… Read more »

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Hermann Kelly

HERMANN KELLY VS SINN FÉIN

Date: June 27, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

His poor performance in May’s European elections is in the rearview mirror but, for bombastic Irexiteer Hermann Kelly, a hangover could be on the way. Kelly is facing the prospect of a libel action by Sinn Féin advisor Mark Moloney, who says the Irish Freedom Party and its leader defamed him in a series of… Read more »

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Lyra McKee

LYRA McKEE EXPOSÉ

Date: June 27, 2019 - Hush Hush

LYRA McKEE’S posthumous book, Angels with Blue Faces, focuses on the November 1981 IRA killing of firebrand Ulster Unionist MP Reverend Robert Bradford, which she implies was linked to the Kincora boys home scandal and also led to Bradford being set up by British intelligence. McKee’s book accurately states that Bradford had taken an interest… Read more »

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Sinéad O’Connor

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: June 27, 2019 - The Hot Air Brigade

But when I started finally reading it… I realised I’d been a Muslim all my life and I didn’t know it. Sinéad O’Connor (aka Shuhada’ Davitt) on studying Islam, Irish Examiner, submitted by reader Our conversation takes place in the Gold Room with its exquisite pink and green décor. A table overlooking the gardens is… Read more »

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Simon Byrne

PSNI ‘NEW BROOM’

Date: June 27, 2019 - Northwind

It seems that, despite all the criticism directed at Mary Lou McDonald for her remarks about selecting a new PSNI chief constable, in the end the north’s Policing Board took her advice and passed over the internal PSNI candidates. The new chief constable, Simon Byrne, takes up his post on Monday. Byrne was chief constable… Read more »

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Leo Varadkar

VARADKAR TO BAIL OUT BAILEY?

Date: June 27, 2019 - Last Refuge

LEO VARADKAR is again exhibiting a recently observed trait of indecision and prevarication, this time in the Maria Bailey ‘compo’ controversy. This characteristic is at odds with the firm, leadership image so carefully cultivated in his leadership campaign. There is hardly a member of the Fine Gael party (and certainly not in cabinet) that doesn’t… Read more »

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BRENDAN AND RÓISÍN

Date: June 27, 2019 - Last Refuge

STRATEGIC ARGUMENTS inside both the Labour Party and the Labour Party Mark II (aka the Social Democrats) concern not only whether to enter coalition government again – a near-death experience for Labour in 2016 – but also whether to merge with each other in due course. The two main players in Labour – party leader… Read more »

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Gary Gannon

SOC DEMS TARGET EIGHT DÁIL SEATS

Date: June 27, 2019 - Last Refuge

THE MEDIA’s new political love objects are the Greens, but the Soc Dems are also feeling some love, as illustrated by a recent Irish Times article on their general election prospects headlined, “Soc Dems… next leap forward”. Party handlers told the IT they are targeting six new seats to add to those of dual leaders… Read more »

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Jeremy Corbyn

HACKS ‘BLOOD’ FEUD

Date: June 27, 2019 - Fit to Print?

TWO PROMINENT Irish post holders in the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) have become embroiled in the offensive against British Labour Party Palestinian supporters and have targeted an elderly Muslim woman on the NUJ (UK & Ireland) national executive. The thrust of the British Labour and media campaign against Palestinian supporters is that any criticism… Read more »

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Fionnan Sheahan

‘INDO’ POLITICAL STAMPEDE

Date: June 27, 2019 - Fit to Print?

INM group editor Fionnan Sheahan is wrestling with personnel issues at Talbot Towers, where his rambunctious persona clashed with the Indo’s equally assertive personal finance editor Charlie Weston. Simultaneously, INM deputy political editor Philip Ryan may be lured away to join the phalanx of Indo hacks that have taken the Blueshirt shilling. The straight and… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: June 27, 2019 - Bog Cuttings

‘NOTHING BETTER THAN SHYSTERS’ THE RECENT election of the new council Cathaoirleach in Leitrim and the appointments to various committees didn’t appear to go down well with one councillor, Des Guckian (Independent), who dismissed the alliance between Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil in the county after the local elections as “an unholy coalition”. He called… Read more »

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Henry Beeby

GIGGINSTOWN WHO?

Date: June 27, 2019 - Sport of Kings

THE FIRST barometer of how the national hunt sales market is to cope with life after Gigginstown House Stud was measured at Henry Beeby’s Goffs Land Rover Sale. And, while the top few lots may well have generated bigger prices if there had been another heavy hitter in the ring to trade bids, the overall… Read more »

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KEEPING TABS ON BYRNES

Date: June 27, 2019 - Sport of Kings

CHARLES BYRNES showed recently that he hadn’t lost the Midas touch when it comes to pulling off a gamble, with his Mr Smith doing the business in a modest flat handicap at Carlisle. The eight year old was having his first run in two years and some punters may remember Mr Smith as being the… Read more »

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Ronan Whelan

RONAN WHELAN’S WHIP

Date: June 27, 2019 - Sport of Kings

THE LATEST high-profile jockey to fall foul of the new whip rules is Ronan Whelan after three consecutive breaches led to a referral to the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board HQ. Whelan had been in action at the Curragh earlier in the month and picked up a two-day ban for his over-zealous use on board the… Read more »

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Kevin Rafter

KEVIN RAFTER’S BAPTISM

Date: June 27, 2019 - Behind the Scenes

LAST WEEK, the new chair of the Arts Council, Kevin Rafter, oversaw his first meeting of the board – a bruising two-day annual session reviewing policy and working through all the laborious recommendations for “arts grant funding” to organisations for 2020. (This precedes the more serious business of dishing out the “strategic funding” for the… Read more »

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Désirée Finnegan

SCREEN IRELAND’S DISTRIBUTORS

Date: June 27, 2019 - Behind the Scenes

FINANCIAL hand-outs in Screen Ireland’s 2017 annual report will no doubt be of interest to incoming boss Désirée Finnegan, who replaces James Hickey. Distribution support should catch her eye given Finnegan’s background as a senior exec in the distribution trade with Warner Brothers in London. The Irish film agency spent €464,000 supporting the distribution of… Read more »

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Richard Hannon

HANNON’S VACCINE PROBLEM

Date: June 27, 2019 - Sport of Kings

LEADING UK trainer Richard Hannon felt the full wrath of the stringent Irish passport and vaccination regulations recently. Hannon sent two runners over to a Curragh meeting in June and, unfortunately for him and his owners, both were unable to take part as their vaccinations did not conform with Rule 91 provisions. Hannon was also… Read more »

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Yvette Monahan

YVETTE MONAHAN’S MOOLAH

Date: June 27, 2019 - High Society

THERE WAS a creditors’ meeting held in the offices of Outlook Accounts in Tallaght last week, which featured the winding up of a little-known company called Tabellero Ltd. It had been locked in litigation with members of the mega-wealthy Monahan family, including well-known photographer Yvette Monahan, who was shortlisted for last year’s Zurich Portrait Prize… Read more »

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Brendan McDonagh

NAMA’S 10 TERRIBLE YEARS

Date: June 27, 2019 - Moneybags

NAMA is a complex organisation, but one of its most significant aspects has been its role in the housing crisis that currently exists in the country. Last month’s annual report announcement was accompanied by much back slapping, but there is no cause whatsoever for celebration when it comes to analysing the decade-long Nama debacle. Nama… Read more »

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Richard Conroy

TROUBLE BREWING AT KARELIAN DIAMONDS

Date: June 27, 2019 - Moneybags

AT THE age of 86, Dick Conroy is running two mineral exploration companies – Karelian Diamonds and Conroy Gold and Natural Resources. Both of these have been the subject of dissident shareholder activity, with Karelian currently in the sights. It seems likely that, as with the Conroy Gold standoff in 2017, this battle will prove… Read more »

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Lorraine Keane and Peter Devlin

PETER DEVLIN’S ROOMS

Date: June 27, 2019 - Briefcases

INTERESTING to see that No 44 Belgrave Square in Monkstown, south County Dublin, is on the market with a hefty €2.65m price tag. This is the abode of TV presenter and Sindo favourite Lorraine Keane and musician-cum-radio presenter Peter Devlin. The property was purchased back in 2003 when prices were shooting up, so it is… Read more »

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Martin Shortt

MARTIN SHORTT’S ‘CREDIBILITY PROBLEM’

Date: June 27, 2019 - Briefcases

SPARE a thought for Meath auctioneer Martin Shortt, who was recently given short shrift by Judge Seamus Noonan in the High Court. As a result, Danske Bank secured judgment against Shortt and his wife, Pauline Shortt, for €1.5m on foot of personal guarantees given in relation to the borrowings of their Kildare pub company Blackwood… Read more »

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Deirdre Foley

DEIRDRE FOLEY’S SUMMER SCHEDULE

Date: June 27, 2019 - Briefcases

AS A result of an adjournment last week, property speculator extraordinaire Deirdre Foley will have to wait another couple of weeks to hear the outcome of a potentially significant judicial review. Meanwhile, the high flyer has just wound up her D2 Property Management company, but a disastrous sister company remains on life support – for… Read more »

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PADDY STACK WHACKED

Date: June 27, 2019 - Briefcases

MORE woe for Royal County builder Paddy Stack and his wife Mary Stack, who have just been slapped with matching judgments for €46,000 by the Revenue. The Kildalkey, Co Meath couple have been on the taxman’s naughty list since 2012, when the Revenue wound up their construction company, Carriganour Ltd. That outfit had enjoyed some… Read more »

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Simon Coveney

SIMON COVENEY’S OPTICS

Date: June 27, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

THE TÁNAISTE and foreign minister, Simon Coveney, hinted in the Dáil last November that he had an indirect input into the master plan for the Middle East being presented in Bahrain by Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, this week. Covetous referred to his “good relationship” with Jason Greenblatt, Kushner’s point man on the initiative, when… Read more »

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DAVID WALSH NAILED

Date: June 27, 2019 - Hush Hush

THE JUDICIARY has finally nailed barrack room lawyer David Walsh, a former haulage contractor who is now serving a fortnight’s jail sentence for contempt originally imposed over three years ago. In the Waterford Circuit Court, Walsh had the temerity to insist that he should act for his sister, Feana Walsh, whose home the Bank of… Read more »

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Richard Bruton

FOOL’S GOLD

Date: June 27, 2019 - Fowl Emissions

Surprisingly, there still seems to be parts of Ireland’s natural environment that have yet to be exploited for monetary gain. But fear not – the government is determined to put a stop to this shameful waste of resources. That much is clear from the wording of scores of new prospecting licences being handed out like cupcakes… Read more »

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NUDGE, NUDGE

Date: June 27, 2019 - Fowl Emissions

Richard Bruton’s much-hyped climate action plan will “nudge” us to change our behaviour, according to Leo Varadkar. It’s a word that doesn’t quite convey a sense of emergency. Countries at war do not nudge their factories to switch production to munitions. If this is really an emergency, the Blueshirts might have to get over their… Read more »

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Kate O'Connell

KATE O’CONNELL AND MARIA BAILEY

Date: June 27, 2019 - Last Refuge

THE SPECIAL relationship between VBFs Fine Gael TDs Maria Bailey and Kate O’Connell appears to have been challenged due to the unfortunate misunderstanding and media sensationalism generated by Bailey’s compo claim. In the week leading up to that motorway pile-up interview that Bailey gave to RTÉ’s Sean O’Rourke, researchers for Newstalk’s The Pat Kenny Show… Read more »

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