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Jim Bolger

BOLGER’S BLAST OFF

Date: April 4, 2019 - Sport of Kings

NAAS RACECOURSE welcomed the Irish flat season back recently and while there was the usual domination by the ‘establishment’, there were also examples of how the ordinary punter can mix it with the big boys. After a disappointing 2018, when both winners and prize money were his lowest since 2012, Jim Bolger began the season… Read more »

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James Gough

HEAVY GOING AT AIRO AGM

Date: April 4, 2019 - Sport of Kings

THE ASSOCIATION of Irish Racehorse Owners (AIRO) held their AGM last week, and the going was far from good. There could be changes afoot here. The beleaguered association, run by the low profile Aidan Burns, has been the brunt of some bad press recently, primarily as a a result of Jimmy Gough’s decision to initiate… Read more »

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RICH RICCI’S PR COUP

Date: April 4, 2019 - Sport of Kings

RICH RICCI has pulled off something of a PR coup after personally teaming up with BetVictor to honour antepost bets that had been voided as a result of the £15m sale of Betbright to 888. Ricci had come under intense pressure when the sale of Betbright was announced and although 888 stepped in to honour… Read more »

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Mick O'Leary

MICK O’LEARY’S CAST OFFS

Date: April 4, 2019 - Sport of Kings

MICK O’LEARY has never been one to miss a marketing opportunity in his professional life and it looks like his racing arm will exploit an interesting angle in the build up to the Aintree Grand National. Gigginstown House Stud will look to shift both Outlander… Read more »

Peter Jackson

PADDY POWER’S US BET MAY NOT PAY OFF

Date: April 4, 2019 - Moneybags

AFTER PEAKING at a crazy €136 back in February 2016, it has been a pretty bumpy ride at Paddy Power Betfair (PPB), especially for Gary McGann, who was appointed chairman in August 2016. Moneybags previously warned (see The Phoenix 20/5/2016) that Paddy Power shares were “trading on a pro-forma p/e multiple of 50, a rating… Read more »

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Gavin Slark

WILL GRAFTON TAKE OUT CRH’S EUROPEAN BUSINESS?

Date: April 4, 2019 - Moneybags

SINCE TAKING over as CEO at Grafton Group in 2011, Gavin Slark has too partially fulfilled former boss Mike Chadwick’s ambition to lessen the company’s dependence on the British Isles by expanding into mainland Europe, building up significant footprints in Belgium and The Netherlands. Now though he needs to pull off a deal of serious… Read more »

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Roger O’Sullivan

O’SULLIVAN’S DAMAGED FLEET

Date: April 4, 2019 - Briefcases

SPARE A thought for Roger O’Sullivan and his scuppered hospitality, catering and tourism vehicle, Ignition, which is being wound up. The group was based in the Galway seaside village of Salthill. Included in O’Sullivan’s group was the well-established ‘landmark’ Salthill restaurant, The Galleon, and two newer sister eateries, Salt Restaurant and Salt Café. All three… Read more »

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Ciaran Desmond

DESMOND’S MANY TALENTS

Date: April 4, 2019 - Briefcases

THE LEGAL eagle at the centre of a high profile court case – featuring allegations that Nolan Transport was defrauded of €7m – has had trouble before. Goldhawk can reveal that Ciaran Desmond had his practising certificate withdrawn by the Chartered Accountants Regulatory Board (CARB)… Read more »

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PEEL AVIATION’S CRASH LANDING

Date: April 4, 2019 - Briefcases

INTERESTING TO spot a High Court winding up petition last week in relation to a company called Peel Aviation Ltd. It has taken the petitioners almost two years to get to this point and it is difficult to know if there can be any assets available. In May 2017, Chicago-registered Corporate Aircraft Funding LLC had… Read more »

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Peter Charleton

PHILIP DORAN’S LOAN

Date: April 4, 2019 - Briefcases

THE SUPREME Court has sent a near ten year legal dust-up back to the High Court. The dispute between plaintiff, Damien Stapleton, and defendant, Phillip Doran, revolves around €300,000 loaned to Doran by Stapleton back in 2008. Doran claims the money was for his now defunct packaging company Easiwrap Limited, while Stapleton argues the money… Read more »

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Jay Bourke

JAY’S FIRE REGULATIONS

Date: April 4, 2019 - Briefcases

Goldhawk’s old friend Jay Bourke has been in the news again. His new bar, Penny Lane, didn’t open as planned last week after failing to comply with fire regulations. Regular readers will recall Bourke’s disqualification from the directorship of any company due to various tax issues with his bar Shebeen Chic (see The Phoenix 28/7/17)…. Read more »

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TAX BILL FOR CIVIL SERVANTS

Date: April 4, 2019 - Briefcases

SPARE a thought for Deirdre Costello and Catriona Kelly who were hit with judgments of €110,000 each by the dreaded taxman. The pair have the same address at Lea Road, Portarlington, Co. Laois and are described as “civil servants”. Kelly and Costello were directors and owners of a sewage and refuse disposal company called, Aralee… Read more »

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SAILING FOR LABARDIE FISHER

Date: April 4, 2019 - Briefcases

Goldhawk can reveal that the fishermen at the centre of a high profile defamation case have decided to pull in their nets and cash in. The two Cork natives, Leonard Hynes and Pat O’Mahony, remain engaged in a High Court stand-off with the The Guardian newspaper. Last month, liquidator John Russell was installed at Labardie… Read more »

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Frances Ruane

MORE DRAMA AT THE ABBEY

Date: March 21, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

WHEN GOLDHAWK profiled the Abbey Theatre’s joint director, Graham McLaren, earlier this year (see The Phoenix, 25/1/19) the Abbey was under heavy fire. While the chair, Frances Ruane (ex-ESRI director), publicly backed her director, Goldhawk noted that “the final act is still to be written”…. Read more »

Dermot Desmond

DERMOT DESMOND’S BUMPY RIDE

Date: March 21, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

THERE WAS plenty of excitement last week surrounding shares in Datalex, the airline technology company (sorry, “leading provider of digital commerce solutions to global travel retailers”) that had shocked the stock market in January with a drastic profit warning. Among those upset at the time was the largest shareholder by far, Dermot Desmond, who is… Read more »

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Sean Fleming

PROFILE: SEÁN FLEMING

Date: March 21, 2019 - Pillars of Society

WHAT IS it about the chairmanship of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) that has provoked such a backlash from ministers, government TDs, Leinster House and the permanent government? The previous PAC chairman, Fianna Fáil TD John McGuinness, built a political career as a fearsome interrogator before giving way to former FF frontbencher Seán Fleming after… Read more »

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Hozier

YOUNG BLOOD: HOZIER

Date: March 21, 2019 - The Young Bloods

Expressing oneself while offending as few people as possible is a key trait of modern pop stars and Hozier is no exception. In an era of sanitised corporate rock and roll stars, the six-foot-five gangly frame of Bray local Andrew Hozier-Byrne has been cleaning up – with a little help from Caroline Downey and Denis… Read more »

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BAD SPORTS AT TRINNERS

Date: March 21, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

A spectacular row is on the boil in Trinity College Dublin where the University Times (UT), newspaper of the Trinners Student Union, is being accused of bugging a student’s apartment. Trinity News (TN), the independent on-campus paper, has called for UT editor Eleanor O’Mahony’s resignation… Read more »

Sophie Toscan du Plantier

IAN BAILEY: TRIAL BY ERROR

Date: March 21, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

A FRENCH FARCE will shortly (late May) follow the Irish farce that was the Garda campaign to charge Ian Bailey with the 1996 murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier. The trial of Bailey in absentia is due to proceed in late May in Paris and… Read more »

Dearbhail McDonald

FERTILITY SHOCK – RTÉ 1

Date: March 21, 2019 - ReviewsTV

DEARBHAIL MCDONALD is group business editor at Independent News and Media, but in recent times has been developing her brand beyond the confines of the business pages. A regular on the speaking circuit, McDonald’s most high-profile outing has concerned the freezing of her eggs. This decision was outlined in detail at an Institute of Directors… Read more »

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Bernie Butler

BERNIE BUTLER’S ENERGY BALLS

Date: March 21, 2019 - High Society

AT LAST week’s DMX Dublin marketing conference in the Aviva stadium, the great and good gave their tuppence worth, including the likes of former Ireland rugby captain Jamie Heaslip. Also speaking at the event were two of the principals in the high-profile Good4U health foods business – managing director Bernie Butler and her daughter, Laura… Read more »

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Nicky Woulfe

LIMERICK POSTER BOY

Date: March 21, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

LIMERICK’S St Paddy’s Day celebrations cost the city council €30,000, leaving just €60,000 in the municipal allocation for such ventures, but ambitious local DJ, Nicky Woulfe, is looking for half of this for his music memorabilia museum. Woulfe knows a bit about PR and media – his wife, Cathy O’Halloran, is RTÉ’s Mid-West correspondent –… Read more »

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VOL 37 NO 06

Date: March 21, 2019 -

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CRYSTAL LI’S TENDER DOCUMENTS

Date: March 21, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

CONGRATULATIONS to Goldhawk’s favourite Russian lawyer, Olga Shajaku, who has sent a shot across the bows of Paschal Donohoe’s Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (DPER), where the mandarins are getting nervous. It will be recalled (see The Phoenix, 1/6/18) that, after numerous visits to court, Olga won out when the Court of Appeal ordered… Read more »

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Date: March 21, 2019 - Letters to the Editor

ISRAEL ACFI Further to your article “Israeli backlash at DCU”, we would like to make the following points: 1. ACFI is entirely Irish, with no affiliation or relationship of any sort with Israel. Your headline is misleading and not supported by anything in the article itself. 2. In describing tweets calling for Israel to “cease… Read more »

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Billy Kelleher

KELLEHER: PRO- LIFE VENGEANCE

Date: March 21, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

MYSTIFICATION AT Fianna Fáil TD Billy Kelleher’s defeat at the Euro convention for the South constituency was soon clarified as most delegates and members elsewhere realised that the frontbencher had fallen victim to a number of factors, with the strong pro-life lobby in the party being one of them. The pre-convention speculation had earlier focussed… Read more »

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Sinead O'Connor

SINÉAD O’CONNOR’S EX

Date: March 21, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

THE DREADED taxman has just registered a judgment against one Fachtna O’Ceallaigh, who happens to be the former long-term manager and former lover of the singer formerly known as Sinéad O’Connor. O’Ceallaigh is currently suing O’Connor (sorry, Shuhada’ Davitt as she now prefers to be known) through his talent agency, TAL Management, for more than… Read more »

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Jack Sen

SLEEPWALKING WITH THE FAR RIGHT

Date: March 21, 2019 - Hush Hush

The biggest shock for New Zealanders is that the Christchurch massacre at two mosques happened at all. The Kiwis pride themselves on being a ‘land of the welcomes’. But just like Ireland, it has become vulnerable to the global social media reach of the far right, whose constant anti-immigrant messages include repeated references to things… Read more »

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David McWilliams

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: March 21, 2019 - The Hot Air Brigade

The key difference between England and Ireland is class dynamics and education. A lovely expression of this is the cheese counter at the new artisan Dunnes. David McWilliams, Irish Times, submitted by reader I feel very sorry for Ireland – sometimes things just go all wrong in life and this is one of those days… Read more »

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Theresa May

DUP’S HARD BARGAIN

Date: March 21, 2019 - Bird's Eye View

WHAT WERE the DUP and what passes for a British government talking about as Theresa May headed towards a third attempt to get her withdrawal agreement over the line? All roads lead back to the joint report of December 2017, which created the basis for the British to enter negotiations on a Brexit withdrawal agreement…. Read more »

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Clare Daly

DALY AND WALLACE FOR EUROPE?

Date: March 21, 2019 - Last Refuge

THE FOURTH seat in the Dublin Euro constituency is seen as hard to call, with the first three going to Frances Fitzgerald (Fine Gael), Barry Andrews (Fianna Fáil) and Lynn Boylan (Sinn Féin). No strong personality has yet emerged to claim the Independent slot that… Read more »

Ruth Coppinger

RUTH COPPINGER’S BORDER LINE

Date: March 21, 2019 - Last Refuge

THE CURIOUS fascination of the ‘bourgeois media’ with the attacks on TD Paul Murphy’s Socialist Party (SP) from its comrades on the Committee for a Workers International (CWI) may have missed the point. The CWI – in particular, England and Wales SP leader Peter Taaffe – criticised the Irish SP and its TDs (Murphy, Ruth… Read more »

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Paschal Donohoe

PASCHAL, SIMON AND VLAD

Date: March 21, 2019 - Last Refuge

SOMEBODY IS stirring it for Simon Coveney, with the Sunday Times followed by the Irish Times both suggesting that Paschal Donohoe is now the anointed successor to Leo Varadkar. This line of patter on the leadership succession began earlier than the media speculation. The suggestion was floated by sources at senior level that Simon might… Read more »

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Mark Durkan

MARTIN LET DURKAN SLIP TO FG – TWICE

Date: March 21, 2019 - Last Refuge

FINE GAEL’S acquisition of former SDLP leader Mark Durkan to its Euro election ticket in Dublin has been characterised as a brilliant coup by Leo Varadkar. It seriously embarrassed Fianna Fáil following its recent, abortive bid for a merger with the SDLP and it is… Read more »

Ruth Dudley Edwards

RUTH DUD DEPARTS ‘SINDO’

Date: March 21, 2019 - Fit to Print?

LONG-TIME Sunday Independent scourge of Republicanism Ruth Dudley Edwards bid the newspaper au revoir recently. However, she reassured anxious readers that, while she was exiting the paper, she would occasionally treat them to further offerings (ie, diatribes against such as the Satanic Gerry Adams and his coven, Mary Lou and Michelle O’Neill). Many have assumed… Read more »

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FIONA MITCHELL’S DESK

Date: March 21, 2019 - Fit to Print?

RTÉ’S departing south-eastern correspondent, Damien Tiernan, gave the station a lash as he walked out the door in January. Tiernan pointed out that news stories broadcast from the Waterford studio had declined by about 300% since the 2000s and were now at a low of 50 or 60 a year. This compares to the London… Read more »

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