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BANNING THE ‘DAILY MAIL’

Date: June 27, 2019 - Fit to Print?

HIGH ANXIETY has surrounded coverage by mainstream and social media of the Ana Kriégel murder trial, mostly for good reasons. But reaction to trial judge Justice Paul McDermott’s initial blanket ban on media coverage – followed by his retreat to a limited ban on just one media title – was a little paranoid. Interestingly, while… Read more »

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Consuelo O’Connor

SEAMUS FITZPATRICK’S BUSY SCHEDULE

Date: June 27, 2019 - High Society

THESE ARE busy time for moneybags Seamus Fitzpatrick, who is fighting on two fronts. It was reported earlier this month that Fitzpatrick had lobbed in a planning objection to the big Glenveagh Homes development on the site of the former Chester Beatty Library on leafy Shrewsbury Road, D4. The company is building seven luxury (ie… Read more »

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JASPER COYLE’S TAX BILL

Date: June 27, 2019 - Briefcases

DUBLIN tax accountant Jasper Coyle could do with taking some of his own advice. Goldhawk spotted that the Revenue had recently whacked the Sandymount number cruncher with a hefty €488,000 judgment. Coyle has an impressive CV, having spent the best part of 50 years in the industry. He is a member of the Irish Taxation… Read more »

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PEGASUS PEOPLE

Date: June 27, 2019 - Briefcases

AN INTERESTING aspect of the winding up of a company called Taballero Ltd – following on from the securing of a €2.35m judgment by Yvette and John Monahan – is the role played by Pegasus Corporate Services. Taballero borrowed €2.35m from the Monahan siblings to fund a loan to a linked company called Griffin Point… Read more »

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Mary McAleese

MARY McALEESE’S GULF GIG

Date: June 12, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

WHILE MARY Robinson took significant flak earlier this year for her intervention in a feudal Emirate royal family row, another former Irish president, Mary McAleese, has developed ties to the region courtesy of her involvement in the Bussola Institute. This Brussels-based think tank and lobbying operation was set up to promote ties between the EU… Read more »

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Deirdre Conroy

CONROY’S CLAIM

Date: June 12, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

NOT SURPRISINGLY, there has been increased media focus on all politicians’ compensation claims since the Maria Bailey affair. This should ensure there is a healthy public appetite for a High Court case being taken by newly elected Fianna Fáil councillor and barrister Deirdre Conroy. The FFer had a fall on a press junket to a… Read more »

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Mary Lou McDonald

PROFILE: MARY LOU MCDONALD

Date: June 12, 2019 - Pillars of Society

MEDIA COMMENT on the dangers facing Mary Lou McDonald’s leadership of Sinn Féin after the recent elections was predictable. However, and unusually, the political correspondents – normally so utterly uninformed about SF politics – have actually underestimated just how embattled McDonald’s leadership is. There is war inside the party and, while Mary Lou is not… Read more »

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Saoirse McHugh

YOUNG BLOOD: SAOIRSE McHUGH

Date: June 12, 2019 - The Young Bloods

Saoirse McHugh, the 28-year-old genetic scientist from Achill Island, stormed into public consciousness with an impressive display in the Midlands North West constituency European election debate. And the possibility of a Dáil seat for the Greens in inhospitable Mayo is now being seriously canvassed. In the television debate, McHugh took on the perceived racism of… Read more »

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David McWilliams

DAVID MCWILLIAMS’S ADVICE

Date: June 12, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

THE ANNUAL Dalkey Book Festival gets under way this weekend with its founder, the one and only David McWilliams, sharing the spotlight with the likes of Stephen Fry and David Puttnam. Hopefully, the floppy-haired economist will not be distracted by the growing shadow of floundering rock star fund manager and one-time idol of McWilliams, Neil… Read more »

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Ian Bailey

LEGAL AMBUSH FOR IAN BAILEY?

Date: June 12, 2019 - Wigs on the Green

IAN BAILEY’S predictable conviction, in absentia, by a vengeful French judicial system will proceed to the more difficult process of a third attempt to extradite him to France to serve his 25-year sentence. The Supreme Court has so far been vigilant in defence of Bailey’s rights, mindful perhaps of the manner in which sections of… Read more »

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Jennifer Zamparelli

JENNIFER ZAMPARELLI’S REVIEW

Date: June 12, 2019 - Behind the Scenes

THE NEW look 2FM has been attracting mixed reviews following its makeover, but one of the players, former Breakfast Republic co-presenter Jennifer Zamparelli, might want to tune out the comments. Back in March, when Zamparelli was named as 2FM’s key star to attract young listeners to the station, the Indo claimed that handing the 37… Read more »

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TCD GRADUATE’S HOLOCAUST STORY

Date: June 12, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

A bizarre story is emerging from Germany about an Irish-based historian and blogger who has found herself in a spot of bother over her research. German national Marie Sophie Hingst, who obtained her doctorate from Trinity College Dublin, has been accused by German publication Der Spiegel of fabricating the stories of Jewish relatives who, she… Read more »

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Drew Harris

DREW HARRIS’S GONG

Date: June 12, 2019 - Hush Hush

The AWARD of a Queen’s Police Medal (QPM) to Garda commissioner Drew Harris brought zero adverse comment in the Irish media, but it raises questions nonetheless. Firstly, there is the extraordinary ‘Glenanne gang’ ruling against Harris at Belfast High Court in July 2017. Mr Justice Treacy ruled that Harris was guilty of an “extreme… abuse… Read more »

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Michael O'Leary

O’LEARY UNSCATHED BY RYANAIR’S PROFIT TAILSPIN

Date: June 12, 2019 - Moneybags

ANNOUNCING RYANAIR’S results for the year to March 2019, Mick O’Leary tried to minimise the negatives while advising that earnings had fallen a very hefty 29% from €1.45bn to just on €1bn. These are not the full figures as they exclude the impact of Laudamotion (Lauda), the Austrian airline set up by Nicki Lauda, which… Read more »

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Date: June 12, 2019 -

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Emmanuel Macron

MALI: VARADKAR HUMOURS MACRON

Date: June 12, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

CYNICAL DEFENDERS of Irish neutrality will likely argue that the announcement last weekend of the Army Ranger Wing’s deployment to Mali – described by the UN as its most dangerous mission – was carefully timed. And it was, but there is another agenda at play here – the vanity project of securing a seat on… Read more »

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Frank Clarke

GO TO JAIL – AGAIN!

Date: June 12, 2019 - Wigs on the Green

THAT MOST tenacious barrack room lawyer and former haulage contractor, David Walsh, is still at large after fighting an order to jail him for criminal contempt through the Circuit Court, High Court, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court (three times) since 2016. In Waterford Circuit Court in May 2016, Walsh had attempted to act for… Read more »

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Emily Hourican

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: June 12, 2019 - The Hot Air Brigade

I don’t think it’s a bad thing – being an outsider is not the same as being an outcast. It isn’t, for me, a feeling of isolation or loneliness. Emily Hourican plugging her new book The Outsiders – a category in which she places herself alongside, er, Albert Camus, Sunday Independent I find it very… Read more »

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Gerry Adams

ADAMS LAYS DOWN THE NEW LINE

Date: June 12, 2019 - Bird's Eye View

In his blog, Léargas, on 6 June Gerry Adams posted what now will be in effect the definitive Sinn Féin policy on a border poll. It was detailed and closely argued, referring to various official statistics, polls, lectures and statements by unionist politicians like Peter Robinson, the former DUP leader. Adams placed the onus firmly… Read more »

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Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

Ó RÍORDÁIN’S DOUBLE STRIKE

Date: June 12, 2019 - Last Refuge

AODHÁN Ó RÍORDÁIN recently made a most paradoxical call for Labour leader Brendan Howlin to lead the party into the next general election and then oversee a generational change, but that he should not be the one to lead a conversation with the Greens and Social Democrats about that generational change. He also said he… Read more »

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Bertie Ahern

DRUMCONDRA MAFIA RIP

Date: June 12, 2019 - Last Refuge

FIANNA FÁIL’S local election success in north Dublin was not replicated by voters in the rare auld North Inner City (NIC) area, where its three candidates came 11th (Imran Khurshid), 14th (Denise McMorrow) and 16th (Brian Mohan, FF constituency chairman). But FF’s Dublin Central Dáil candidate, Mary Fitzpatrick, is unconcerned, partly because she topped the… Read more »

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Olivia Buckley

RATHDOWN: BRENNAN OR BUCKLEY FOR FF?

Date: June 12, 2019 - Last Refuge

THE FAILURE of former Fianna Fáil press officer Olivia Buckley to take a council seat in Dundrum has not deterred party HQ from its intention to ensure that she is a candidate for Dublin Rathdown at the general election – providing they can persuade Buckley to remain in situ. That Buckley not only failed to… Read more »

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Paul McAuliffe

DUBLIN — FIANNA FÁIL AT THE GATE

Date: June 12, 2019 - Last Refuge

SUDDENLY DUBLIN, for long a desert for the party, has become Fianna Fáil’s oyster. While the local election swing from FF to Fine Gael in Dublin as a whole was just 2.3%, the situation in key constituencies could see a gain of at least four seats for Micheál Martin’s party at the general election. Dublin… Read more »

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Stephen Donnelly

STEPHEN DONNELLY VS ‘WICKLOW TIMES’

Date: June 12, 2019 - Fit to Print?

FIANNA FÁIL’S health spokesperson, Wicklow TD Stephen Donnelly, did not have a good local election, with internal rows contributing to the party losing out on two seats in Bray – Donnelly’s political base. A spat with the Wicklow Times (WT), which reported on FF’s internal problems, did not help matters. Editor Shay Fitzmaurice alleges that… Read more »

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Frank Fitzgibbon

FOREIGN MEDIA

Date: June 12, 2019 - Fit to Print?

INDIGNATION from PR and lobbying maestro Karl Brophy and others at those who were not exactly sympathetic to the abandonment of the Times Ireland print edition and its redundant journalists indicates a well of compassion from certain quarters. But it sits uneasily alongside the gloating of Rupert Murdoch’s hacks at the Sunday Times when Russia… Read more »

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Danny McCoy

IBEC’S CHEAP CLIMATE CHANGE

Date: June 12, 2019 - Fowl Emissions

While agri interests tend to grab the headlines, the real lobbying muscle in Ireland resides in employers’ group Ibec. For years, it has had little to say publicly on climate change, but it broke cover with its recent Building a low-carbon economy document. Climate change, it intoned gravely, is the “single greatest challenge humankind faces… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: June 12, 2019 - Bog Cuttings

Doonbeg full of ‘arse-licking shoneens’ As the clock ticked down in anticipation of the visit of President Donald Trump, one man took the journey from Newmarket in County Cork to voice his opinion on the people of Doonbeg. Eighty-year-old John Lennon took to the main street of Doonbeg to protest the arrival of Trump. Mr… Read more »

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Roy Barrett

ROY BARRETT’S D4 PILE

Date: June 12, 2019 - High Society

A PROPERTY in the heart of Ballsbridge has just come on the market with a hefty €5.75m price tag. The impressive Ailesbury Road house was bought seven years ago in rather different times and the seller is hoping to make a killing. It turns out that the wily owner is one Roy Barrett, chief executive… Read more »

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Eva-Maria Bucher Haefner

MORE MILLIONS FROM HORSEY SET

Date: June 12, 2019 - High Society

THE REOPENING (at last) of the revamped Curragh racetrack, complete with a brand new four-tiered stand was marked by some unexpected whistling noises in the impressive stand courtesy of the wind. There have also been some intakes of breath at the final cost of the redevelopment, which has topped €80m. Documents filed in the Companies… Read more »

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Kenneth Alexander

ALEXANDER’S ASSETS

Date: June 12, 2019 - Sport of Kings

IT’S LITTLE wonder that Kenny Alexander, the chief executive of GVC Holdings, has been happy to splash the cash over the last 18 months to increase his racing interests. It turns out that Alexander – who enjoyed Grade 1 success over jumps in Ireland last season with the Henry De Bromhead-trained Honeysuckle – was paid… Read more »

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Michael O'Flynn

MICHAEL O’FLYNN’S COOLMORE CONNECTION

Date: June 12, 2019 - Sport of Kings

AN INTERESTING ownership alliance has emerged involving a little-known horse named Piece of Paradise. The two-year-old filly was bred by property developer Michael O’Flynn’s Rockfield Farm and, despite being listed as being sold as a yearling for £45,000 last year, the horse remains in O’Flynn’s colours. O’Flynn, however, has drafted in both Coolmore boss John… Read more »

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LYNN HILLYER’S CONCERNS

Date: June 12, 2019 - Sport of Kings

DESPITE INCREASED penalties, random stable inspections, educational seminars and more frequent out-of-competition testing, Irish racing still has a major issue on its hands when it comes to doping. Denis Egan’s Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB) is currently dealing with eight positive cases, five of which relate to positive tests from 2018. When last year’s remaining… Read more »

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Katie Holly

KATIE HOLLY’S IMPRESSIVE CUT

Date: June 12, 2019 - Behind the Scenes

IS THERE any state agency, aside Screen Ireland (chaired by Annie Doona), where some 8% of its ‘loan’ budget is mopped up by interests associated with one of the agency’s board members? In its quietly released annual report for 2017 (yes, 2017), Screen Ireland discloses that, of the €14.7m doled out in production and development… Read more »

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John Oxx

OXX EXPERIMENT FAILS TO DELIVER

Date: June 12, 2019 - Sport of Kings

BIG THINGS were expected this season when John Oxx and Patrick Prendergast combined their racing strings, which gave a much-needed shot in the arm to Oxx’s dwindling numbers. But the alliance, which sees Prendergast act as Oxx’s assistant, has got off to a poor start, with only one winner from 55 runners at the time… Read more »

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FALCON OIL HOPING FOR GOOD NEWS DOWN UNDER

Date: June 12, 2019 - Moneybags

FRACKING is a hugely controversial issue in this country and elsewhere. The Australian government introduced a moratorium on hydraulic fracturing in September 2016 – a move that badly affected Falcon Oil & Gas, which has been managed by Philip O’Quigley since he was appointed CEO in May 2012. With the moratorium lifted, Falcon is heading… Read more »

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Giovanni Viscardi

GIOVANNI VISCARDI’S BOOZE BILL

Date: June 12, 2019 - Briefcases

MORE woe for Giovanni Viscardi and Brian Deery, the owners of Bagots Hutton wine bar on Ormond Quay, D7, which closed temporarily last year. Urban Entertainment Ltd, the trading entity behind the trendy night spot, has been slapped with a judgment by another creditor, this time for just over €2,800. Ally Alpine’s Dawson Street drink… Read more »

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