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Selina Cartmell

SELINA CARTMELL VS GRAHAM McLAREN

Date: November 29, 2018 - Behind the Scenes

IT’S THE time of year when our two biggest institutions announce winter and spring programmes – ones that will leave audiences and, more importantly, the Arts Council scratching their heads. Christmas productions rarely push artistic boundaries and this year is no exception. The Gate’s artistic director, Selina Cartmell, knows a cash cow when she sees… Read more »

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John Magnier has been thrust into the spotlight thanks to a legal dispute over the 750-acre Barne Estate in Tipperary, while Moya Doherty had a problem with her neighbour.

GOING GETS TOUGH AT GOFFS

Date: November 29, 2018 - Sport of Kings

THESE ARE testing times for a lot of people in the bloodstock industry and breeders were recently reminded that there is no demand at the moment for much of the bloodstock being offered. The clearance rate for flat bred foals on the opening day of the Goffs November Sale was a worrying 59%, which means… Read more »

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Henry Beeby

HENRY BEEBY’S HEADACHE

Date: November 29, 2018 - Sport of Kings

IT IS not only breeders who took a hiding at the sales as the reduction in demand clearly hit the auction houses. Turnover at the six-day Goffs November Foal and Breeding Stock Sale plummeted by over U12m on the corresponding returns from 2017. With all sales subject to a 6% buyers’ premium, that fall equates… Read more »

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Bryan Cooper

BRYAN COOPER’S LATEST CHANCE

Date: November 29, 2018 - Sport of Kings

BRYAN COOPER’S career as a jockey is sometimes compared to a rollercoaster ride and the Kerryman could find himself on the way back up again thanks to a new arrangement with powerful owner Chris Jones. Up until recently, Jones had an agreement with Davy Russell that saw him take the mount on the Jones runners… Read more »

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Cristina Patino

CRISTINA PATINO’S NINE NAGS

Date: November 29, 2018 - Sport of Kings

WHEN A flat yearling is sold at public auction, it qualifies for a programme of two-year-old maiden races the following year, restricted to horses sold at public auction up to a maximum value of, for example, €50,000. The system doesn’t always work smoothly, however. In the current set-up, each runner is allotted a weight –… Read more »

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Jason Hannon

MAINSTAY SHARE COLLAPSE COULD TEMPT INVESTORS

Date: November 29, 2018 - Moneybags

THE COLLAPSE in the share price of Mainstay Medical earlier this month has seen million wiped off the company’s market capitalisation. However, the market overreaction could present opportunities for intrepid investors who are happy to take a long-term punt on the potentially lucrative medical device being developed by this Irish company. While the outcome of… Read more »

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Gary McGann

GARY MCGANN FAILS TO DELIVER FOR ARYZTA

Date: November 29, 2018 - Moneybags

SINCE THE appointment of Gary McGann as chairman of Aryzta in December 2016, the share price has fallen from €40 to its current €1.20, a drop of 97%. This is one of the single worst episodes of equity destruction of any Irish company. It is hard to see how the chairman can remain in situ… Read more »

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David Lynch and Donal Cronins

DAVID LYNCH’S WINDFALL

Date: November 29, 2018 - The Hot Water Brigade

THE DAVID Lynch-owned Capital Cover Group (CCG), which includes Brennan Insurances – one of the country’s oldest insurance operators – was bought by Donal Cronin’s Arachas Corporate Brokers late last year. Documents filed in the Companies Office this month reveal just how well Lynch did out of the sale. Arachas completed the acquisition of CCG… Read more »

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John Byrne

JOHN BYRNE JNR’S VAST PROFITS

Date: November 29, 2018 - The Hot Water Brigade

ACCOUNTS JUST filed for a company called Santenay Ltd shine a clear light on the vast wealth of the principals in the property empire, which was built up over decades by Kerryman John Byrne (well-known pal of Charlie Haughey). The two directors here – Ballsbridge-based Ciara Byrne, wife of John Byrne, and her son, John… Read more »

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Brendan Halligan

BRENDAN HALLIGAN’S D2 DESTINATION

Date: November 29, 2018 - The Hot Water Brigade

GOLDHAWK has reported on the rise and rise of Brendan Halligan’s Ireland China Institute, but not all Sino-Gaelic endeavours are thriving. Earlier this month, the dreaded Revenue registered a judgment against something called The Chinese & Irish Cultural Foundation Ltd (CICF). Meanwhile, Halligan’s institute is stuck on the northside for now. The CICF was set… Read more »

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WILL DOWLING’S LANGUAGE PROBLEM

Date: November 29, 2018 - The Hot Water Brigade

WITH LOTS of businesses seeking a slice of the growing English-language tuition sector, there have been a few casualties. One entity that has now sought the protection of the courts is Oscars International School, which has been operating on Dublin’s Dame Street opposite the old Central Bank HQ. Owned by chief executive Will Dowling and… Read more »

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PADDY MCKILLEN’S PROFITS

Date: November 29, 2018 - The Hot Water Brigade

WHILE THE media has increasingly focused on the ubiquitous Paddy McKillen jnr’s exhausting expansion of the Press Up group, behind the scenes his dad, moneybags Paddy McKillen snr, continues to have a major say in affairs. Indeed, the latter is the ultimate controlling party in the McKillen group of companies and the money continues to… Read more »

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Sonya Lennon

SONYA LENNON’S MANY HATS

Date: November 29, 2018 - The Hot Water Brigade

WITH MOVES being made to introduce gender-based professorships in universities and the news agenda increasingly featuring discussions about the level of female participation in assorted sectors, it is clear that this issue is gaining momentum. One woman who has been an active in the campaign is Sonya Lennon, who also has a tech company to… Read more »

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Eoghan Murphy

POSH BOY MURPHY’S NOBLESS OBLIGE

Date: November 27, 2018 - Pillars of Society

FOR ALL his Leo-style skinny neck ties and multifarious photo ops of him emerging à la the Man from Atlantis from muscle-rippling sea swims, there is something innately Dickensian about Eoghan Robert Murphy. Maybe it’s his lush beard. Maybe it’s his mannered elocution or his cut-glass law library lineage. One thing it certainly cannot be… Read more »

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Leo Varadkar

DR VARADKAR’S DILEMMA

Date: November 15, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

TAOISEACH Leo Varadkar has been defended by his party colleagues as a doctor with experience of management practice in the health service after yet another PR howler attacking medics for taking holidays at Christmas and New Year. But given the angry response from health workers and public alike, Vlad still found it necessary to pen… Read more »

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IVY’S PR BLITZ

Date: November 15, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

SOME rather ingratiating advertisements appeared in the national dailies recently, thanking Irish customers of The Ivy restaurant, the ritzy eatery that opened in Dublin’s Molesworth Street in the summer. It thanked Irish customers “for the great welcome” it had received, saying that it was “extremely important to us that we became part of the local… Read more »

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Paul Williams

PAUL WILLIAMS’S EXIT

Date: November 15, 2018 - Fit to Print?

NEWSTALK BREAKFAST’S joint host, Paul Williams, met with managing editor Patricia Monahan last Thursday and, following a fraught discussion, it was agreed that the next morning’s programme would be his last. The manner of his exit reflected the mutual dissatisfaction between Williams and station bosses over the last year as listenership declined and stalled. When… Read more »

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Jamie Heaslip

LOVIN MEDIA’S SAUDI LOVE IN

Date: November 15, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

Irish businessman Emmet O’Neill must be shocked at some of the articles being published by Lovin Saudi, a franchise of his Lovin Media Group. Lovin’s expansion into Saudi Arabia was announced by group managing director Trevor Daly last year. The Saudi franchise is operated by a separate company, Augustus Holdings, a Dubai-headquartered entity fronted by… Read more »

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Brian Hayes

LOST LEADER BRIAN HAYES

Date: November 15, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

RICHARD BRUTON is the man that effectively blocked MEP Brian Hayes’s planned route back to the top in national politics. But judging by his recent remarks on Irish banks, the MEP charted another route – to the Irish banking sector – in jig time. No Irish MEP has ever sustained such a strong a domestic… Read more »

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SHARON BANNERTON’S NEUTRALITY

Date: November 15, 2018 - Hush Hush

THERE HAS not been much love shown by the media to presidential runner-up Peter Casey. Even the normally cuddly Ryan Tubridy got his claws out for the interview on The Late Late Show. While the host’s performance raised eyebrows and drew a significant number of complaints from viewers, the interview was particularly bruising for the… Read more »

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ARAMARK RATTLED

Date: November 15, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

Is food services giant Aramark starting to panic about the boycott of its cafes and restaurants by students at the University of Limerick (UL)? It certainly looks that way. The US company admitted to student newspaper An Focal that its employees distributed leaflets on the Castletroy campus recently, in response to growing student discontent with… Read more »

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Karan O'Loughlin

JOHN ARKINS’S HEADACHE

Date: November 15, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

THE TIMING of Prime Time’s recent breathless exposé of the Irish film industry was less than perfect for the Irish Film Workers Association (IFWA), the ‘union’ that has been getting a lot of traction since its appearance before Peadar Tóibín’s Oireachtas culture committee earlier this… Read more »

Dermot Desmond

MARKING DERMO’S CARD

Date: November 15, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

WHAT AN extravagant splash the Sunday Business Post published on the “Billionaire investor. Media mogul. IFSC visionary… patriot and a fearsome litigant”, Dermot Desmond, last weekend. The massive, trillion-word feature by Barry Whyte was studious in its check list of ‘the good, the bad and the ugly’ side of Desmond, but it is unlikely that… Read more »

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FORENSIC PURSUIT OF DOWNEY

Date: November 15, 2018 - Hush Hush

THE PSNI’s pursuit of John Downey contrasts with its failure to hunt down those who committed a raft of serious crimes in the same historic period. Especially when it is claimed that forensic evidence has been secured to prosecute Downey. The RUC have said they discovered a piece of tape linking Downey to a car… Read more »

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Vogue Williams

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: November 15, 2018 - The Hot Air Brigade

Good luck getting me out of this skirt! I can only imagine how cringe it looks when I make Spencer take these pictures of my outfit. Hopefully nobody ever catches us. Tweet by Vogue Williams to her 84,000 followers Writer’s Block is a punchy concoction of Writer’s Tears whiskey, homemade beer syrup and orange bitter…. Read more »

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Theresa May

DUP VS THERESA MAY

Date: November 15, 2018 - Bird's Eye View

“COME YE out from among them and be ye separate and touch not the unclean thing.” St Paul’s injunction from Corinthians was Paisley’s guiding text that led him to establish his Free Presbyterian church. Those who were not ‘saved’ could not be full members. And anyone who does not understand the role of the Free… Read more »

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Eamon Ó Cuív

MARTIN FLEES THE NORTH

Date: November 15, 2018 - Last Refuge

ÉAMON Ó CUÍV and senator Mark Daly have been depicted as mavericks for endorsing Sorcha McAnespy, Independent councillor, as a Fianna Fáil candidate in the north’s local elections. But the two ‘mavericks’ have actually underlined Micheál Martin’s shambolic northern policy. This has seen him pledge – on various occasions since becoming leader seven years ago… Read more »

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Tiernan Brady

FF DUBLIN EURO DOG FIGHT

Date: November 15, 2018 - Last Refuge

TWO Fianna Fáil ‘names’ – Conor Lenihan and Barry Andrews – are jockeying for the party’s Dublin nomination for the European elections. However, they could both be eclipsed by the lesser-known gay activist, Tiernan Brady. With the constituency increasing from three seats to four, the FF nominee will be in with a good chance of… Read more »

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Leslie Buckley

EXITING THE INDO

Date: November 15, 2018 - Fit to Print?

TWO more INM executives shuffled off last week, both of whom held senior positions during recent convulsions at the group. Chief peoples officer Celine Doyle – who previously worked for INM main man Denis O’Brien as regional head of human resources in Digicel’s operation in Asia – is leaving to “pursue interests outside” INM. While… Read more »

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Miriam O'Callaghan

MIRIAM’S MANY MEDIA FANS

Date: November 15, 2018 - Fit to Print?

RSVP magazine was back promoting Miriam O’Callaghan for all its worth this month, with the presenter splashed across the front page under the headline “Miriam – straight from the heart on what really matters”. The latest edition of the mag noted “the 58 year old thrives on her busy lifestyle” and congratulated her on her… Read more »

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Luke Comer Ban

LUKE COMER’S COLTS

Date: November 15, 2018 - Sport of Kings

LUKE COMER’S long-running quest to train a winner continues, but the developer has upped his game recently, spending freely on fresh blood. At the Tattersalls Horses In Training sale recently, Comer invested in two well-bred colts from Aidan O’Brien’s draft in Zabriskie and Freetown. They cost Comer 58,000gns and 14,000gns respectively and, while both are… Read more »

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Christophe Soumillon

WHIPPING UP A STORM

Date: November 15, 2018 - Sport of Kings

AS ANIMAL rights escalate further up the agenda, it looks like racing’s culture is going to have to get its house in order. The use of the whip has always been an emotive topic and, despite the fact that it is no more than a thin piece of foam and doesn’t inflict any pain on… Read more »

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ELLIOTT BACKS SAMCRO

Date: November 15, 2018 - Sport of Kings

SO, WHAT to do with Samcro? Hailed by Davy Russell last year as the second coming, trainer Gordon Elliott fanned the flames of the horse’s reputation any time he spoke of him, while the only connection who didn’t seem to get carried away by the hype was owner Mick O’Leary. The Ryanair moneybags may have… Read more »

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Jim Martin

JIM MARTIN’S HEADACHE

Date: November 15, 2018 - Sport of Kings

ANOTHER all-weather track is on the cards for Ireland, with plans at an advanced stage for an artificial racing surface to be installed at the Horse Racing Ireland-owned Tipperary racecourse. There has been talk for a number of years about developing a second all-weather track, such has been the success of Dundalk since its opening… Read more »

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Patrick Doran

PATRICK DORAN’S HIGH RAILINGS

Date: November 15, 2018 - High Society

SOON-TO-BE resident of Shrewsbury Road in the heart of D4, packaging moneybags Patrick Doran, has just suffered a setback for his plans to install “overly high” railings and gates to the front of his new pile, which is currently being completely renovated. The house, Fintragh, was reported to have been purchased by the low-profile Doran,… Read more »

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Judy Woodworth

JUDY WOODWORTH’S GOOD AND BAD NEWS

Date: November 15, 2018 - High Society

THERE WAS bad news last week when Wicklow County Council shot down a proposal from the Judy Woodworth-chaired Alfred Beit Foundation (ABF) to convert two outbuildings at Russborough House in Co Wicklow into rental accommodation. While this will hit long-term income plans, things are looking up in Blessington. Woodworth chairs the ABF, which includes mediator… Read more »

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