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Jimmy Long

ANDREW HUGHES’S HICCUP

Date: February 21, 2019 - Sport of Kings

THE BRITISH Horseracing Authority (BHA) offered little room for manoeuvre to a nonplussed Andrew Hughes when he made the trip to Scotland recently. He needs some good news and fast. When the Irish-trained The Tartan Spartan arrived at Musselburgh racecourse in Scotland for the first day back racing after the enforced six-day break, he was… Read more »

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Kathryn Purves

EXCEPTIONAL COSTS MEAN IFG SHARES ARE OVERVALUED

Date: February 21, 2019 - Moneybags

IT IS difficult to know exactly how IFG got involved in the £200m Elysian bioethanol plant scandal that kicked off a few years ago, but it is still casting a pall over the group. It is also hard to understand why John Gallagher got involved… Read more »

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LIAM HAZEL’S ‘NIGHTMARE’

Date: February 21, 2019 - Briefcases

GOLDHAWK got a blast from the past recently when he saw old pal Alex Gibbons pop up in the Court of Appeal. The rogue Clonakilty solicitor will be familiar to readers for his numerous scraps with the Law Society, which struck him off the Roll of Solicitors in 2016 for a third time for, among… Read more »

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JACKIE GREENE’S PROFIT SPLIT

Date: February 21, 2019 - Briefcases

A DUBLIN-based building company, Jackie Greene Construction (JGC) Ltd, had a bad time of it in the Supreme Court last month in a long-running scrap with the IBRC. The judgment by chief justice Frank Clarke contains some interesting insight into the modus operandi of Irish Nationwide Building Society (INBS) under Michael Fingelton. Founded by Jackie… Read more »

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THOMAS FLANAGAN’S ITALIAN PALS

Date: February 21, 2019 - Briefcases

CONNEMARA aeuronautics business Éirecomposites Teoranta (ET) has finally gotten around to filing its 2017 accounts. And there was some good news at last for its largest shareholder, Tuam businessman Thomas Flanagan. The company exited examinership last August and, according to the recent filings, has managed to secure €1.5m in investment since then. It’s a rare… Read more »

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JOHN SWAN’S ROTTEN FRUIT

Date: February 21, 2019 - Briefcases

INTERESTING to see that accountant John Healy has just been appointed provisional liquidator to Carlow wholesaler Bestwell Ltd. The largest shareholder here is Palatine businessman John Swan (80%), who has managed to seriously piss off the taxman with his alleged conduct at another company, Swan Fruit Ltd. His Kernanstown-based cash-and-carry company, Swan Fruit, where his… Read more »

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Barry and Bernard Broderick

NOT SO TASTY FOR BRODERICKS

Date: February 21, 2019 - Briefcases

NEWLY filed accounts suggest the brothers behind Broderick’s cakes and bars could do with sweetening their mix. Although sales were up slightly at Ina’s Kitchen Desserts (IKD) Ltd, the company behind the brand made a loss of €1.8m in 2017, with accumulated losses at the Tallaght-based outfit topping €2m by the end of the year…. Read more »

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Consuelo O’Connor

DÉJÀ VU FOR NICHOLAS CUSHNAHAN

Date: February 21, 2019 - Briefcases

For a second time in as many years, Dublin bean counter Nicholas Cushnahan, a partner at Houlihan Cushnahan chartered accountants in Glasthule, has found himself on the wrong side of the Chartered Accountants Regulatory Board (CARB). At the end of last month, Cushnahan was yet again slapped on the wrist for failing to cooperate with… Read more »

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Des Coffey

DES COFFEY’S NEW JUDGMENTS

Date: February 21, 2019 - Briefcases

MORE hard cheese for restaurateur Des Coffey, who has just had two small tax judgments registered against him, less than a month after the Revenue wound up one of his companies. Fans of Goldhawk will recall that the taxman successfully petitioned the High Court to wind up Farm Food Emporium Ltd – the company behind… Read more »

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Nicholas Krivenko

WINDING UP NICHOLAS KRIVENKO

Date: February 21, 2019 - Briefcases

STRANGE to see that a winding-up petition has been filed against a dissolved Co Limerick property vehicle, Riverhall Ltd, by a New York-based creditor. The company was struck off the companies register back in 2003 and details of creditor Donal Moloney’s action are thin on the ground. However, a glance at Riverhall’s CRO filings reveals… Read more »

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Frances Black

COVENEY HIDES BEHIND AG

Date: February 7, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

THE MANNER of Simon Coveney’s dismissal of several legal opinions in support of Senator Frances Black’s Occupied Territories Bill (banning produce imported from Palestinian land occupied illegally by Israel) was unfortunate, if not downright offensive. The government’s excuse for opposing Black’s bill – it is supported by Fianna Fáil and Sinn Féin – is based… Read more »

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Eamon Martin

PROFILE: ARCHBISHOP EAMON MARTIN

Date: February 7, 2019 - Pillars of Society

EAMON Martin, the relatively unknown archbishop of Armagh and primate of all Ireland, is the coming man in a once-omnipotent Irish hierarchy struggling to regain credibility with an apathetic, disillusioned public. But he faces an early and most challenging test at this month’s Vatican conference on clerical sexual abuse. It is Primate of All Ireland… Read more »

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Anna Cosgrave

YOUNG BLOOD: ANNA COSGRAVE

Date: February 7, 2019 - The Young Bloods

SELF-DESCRIBED ‘social entrepreneur’ Anna Cosgrave has been a fixture in the Irish media since the launch of her ‘Repeal’ jumpers in 2016. One of the clear winners from the campaign leading up to last year’s abortion referendum, the 29-year-old Wicklow native is set to launch her latest project, Motsbox – an online media outlet aimed… Read more »

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Edmund Honohan

ED HONOHAN PURGED

Date: February 7, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

THAT meddlesome Master of the High Court, Ed Honohan, has been effectively purged after years of ‘interfering’ in matters that the judiciary, the banks, the government and even the main opposition party, Fianna Fáil, regard as outside his remit. Honohan’s spot of DIY on his courtroom windows was portrayed as the act of some delinquent… Read more »

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Josepha Madigan

JOSEPHA MADIGAN’S BOTCHED BURSARIES

Date: February 7, 2019 - Behind the Scenes

FANS OF The Phoenix will not have been surprised to hear about the sudden brake applied to the €20,000-a-pop “Markievicz bursaries” announced last November by Minister for Culture Josepha Madigan and aimed exclusively at women artists. As Goldhawk noted, “it is hard to see how such a scheme got the green light” (see The Phoenix,… Read more »

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Denis O'Brien

DENIS O’BRIEN TO EXIT MEDIA?

Date: February 7, 2019 - Fit to Print?

IS DENIS O’BRIEN trying to offload not only his Newstalk radio station but also his stake in Independent News & Media, the now-crumbling media empire he seized from the O’Reilly family seven years ago? The latest cuts at INM – 23 editorial and eight commercial… Read more »

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SARAH LIPSETT’S ELECTION CAMPAIGN

Date: February 7, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

WANNABE politician Sarah Lipsett got her local election campaign off to a flying start last month with a soft piece in the Sindo in which she put all that unfortunate nursing home controversy behind her. In 2011, the Rostrevor nursing home in upmarket Orwell Road, Rathgar, was the subject of a huge amount of highly… Read more »

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Angeliza Zerpa

MADURO’S IRISH CRITICS

Date: February 7, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

ONE GROUP that will be delighted by Ireland’s support for the Venezuelan opposition and Juan Guaidó in recent weeks is the Venezuelan Community in Ireland (VCI). Founded in April 2017, VCI is a non-profit group that aims to “work towards the integration of the Venezuelans… Read more »

Dery Desmond

RED INK FOR THE DESMOND BOYS

Date: February 7, 2019 - High Society

WHILE DER Kaiser has developed quite a reputation for making a killing from his investments, Dermot Desmond’s scions are struggling to match him, at least when it comes to generating a profit from shifting expensive burgers, expensive chips and expensive booze to hipsters with plenty of disposable income. It doesn’t sound like it should be… Read more »

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Date: February 7, 2019 -

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Denis O'Brien

DINNY’S HAITIAN HEADACHE

Date: February 7, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

DENIS O’BRIEN’S Caribbean woes continue, with fuel shortages in Haiti causing his mobile phone operation there severe problems and even landing his outspoken chief executive with a summons. Dinny’s Digicel has been having a bumpy ride as a result of high-profile efforts to get bondholders to rollover almost $3bn worth of bonds to 2022 and… Read more »

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Patrick Collison

COLLISON BROTHERS’ BLUES

Date: February 7, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

THE HIGH fives at John and Patrick Collison’s Stripe tech outfit following last week’s $22.5bn valuation were put on hold this week when the company found itself included on a subpoena from federal investigators. While there is no suggestion they have broken any laws, it represents yet another PR blip for the Limerick brothers. The… Read more »

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Norman Finkelstein

STORMIN NORMAN VS THE PHIL

Date: February 7, 2019 - Student Life

WHAT IS going on at the Trinity College Philosophical Society (The Phil)? The debating society has had to endure the wrath of American academic and critic of Israel Norman Finkelstein in recent weeks after it pulled an invitation for him to speak in Trinners, blaming a shortage of funds and an administrative balls-up. In two… Read more »

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Jacob Rees-Mogg

GUESS WHO’S COMING TO DINNER

Date: February 7, 2019 - Hush Hush

MEDIA scrutiny of Jacob Rees-Mogg’s attendance at a DUP fundraiser in Ballymena last week largely focused on the comfort he gave to Ian Paisley, recently suspended from the House of Commons over his undeclared junkets to Sri Lanka. But the attendance of another controversial personality, Jamie Bryson, should have caused even the unflappable Rees-Mogg to… Read more »

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Deirdre Hopkins

PLOT TWIST AT THE IFTAS

Date: February 7, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

THERE’S A bit of a lull among the film and TV luvvies given the disappearance from the spring calendar of the annual Irish Film and Television Academy (IFTA) gong show, usually broadcast on RTÉ. Áine Moriarty is the driver of the backslapping beano, but she has just lost her co-star. The costly IFTA submission process… Read more »

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Patrick Dorgan

PATRICK DORGAN’S HIGHS AND LOWS

Date: February 7, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

THE Law Society’s announcement of the elevation of solicitor Patrick Dorgan to its presidency contained the usual rhetoric about his credentials and his priorities for his term of office. And the statement did not fail to mention that he had been executive chair of the titanic (as in iceberg) Solicitors Mutual Defence Fund Ltd (SMDF),… Read more »

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AODHÁN Ó RÍORDÁIN’S CONSTITUENTS

Date: February 7, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

‘PROPERTY OWNERS of Howth, unite! You have nothing to lose but your cliff views’ is Labour Party senator Aodhán Ó Ríordáin’s latest rallying cry in Dublin Bay North, where he is desperate to win back his seat. He is calling to his side an army of well-heeled suburbanites to fund a potentially pricey judicial review… Read more »

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Grainne Gallanagh

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: February 7, 2019 - The Hot Air Brigade

I think a lot of people who have the opinion that pageants are outdated, they haven’t really been involved in one or watched one. Miss Universe Ireland Grainne Gallanagh, Sunday Independent A vital ingredient was missing. Schmidt sensed it in the warm-up. He feared the silent moments. The general vibe. “You are talking about human… Read more »

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Maurice Quinlivan

BORDER POLL INEVITABLE

Date: February 7, 2019 - Bird's Eye View

THE LATEST Labour Force Survey Report for the north was published on 22 January by the Northern Ireland Statistical Research Agency (NISRA), a government body. It’s Protestant/Catholic ratio results are eye popping. An enormously detailed official publication, it examines all aspects of employment (and unemployment) in every part of the north. Its figures report the… Read more »

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Micheál Martin

GRAND COALITION LOOMING

Date: February 7, 2019 - Last Refuge

ENDA KENNY was not so bad after all, is the growing sentiment among certain frontbench Fianna Fáil members who are wistfully recalling his 2016 offer of a grand coalition and a rotating taoiseach. Micheál Martin’s projection of leading a rainbow coalition involving Labour, Greens, Social Democrats and Independents is a pipe dream that not even… Read more »

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Ian Paisley Jnr.

IAN PAISLEY’S FIRST CLASS TICKETS

Date: February 7, 2019 - Last Refuge

THE DUP’S Ian Paisley does not appear to be grateful for the first-class travel and accommodation enabling him to speak at Co-operation Ireland’s New York bash on the 20th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement (GFA) last February. He claimed that he obliged organisers by… Read more »

Regina Doherty

BITCHIN’ BARRY BLAMELESS

Date: February 7, 2019 - Last Refuge

LIBERAL BIGOTS and left-wing zealots have been routed by the Fine Gael national executive and former head of Young Fine Gael, Barry Walsh, with the latter being successful in his appeal last month against suspension from the party in November 2017. Some of the narrow-minded,… Read more »

Phil Hogan

VLAD PLOTS COVENEY’S EXILE

Date: February 7, 2019 - Last Refuge

INTENSE SPECULATION about Phil Hogan being a shoe-in for reappointment to the EU Commission has been largely stimulated by Big Phil himself. But unbeknownst even to himself, there is another candidate that Leo Varadkar is considering – Tánaiste and foreign minister Simon Coveney. Hogan’s cred as commissioner rests on his performance in the agriculture portfolio… Read more »

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Paddy Agnew

PADDY AGNEW’S SCOOP

Date: February 7, 2019 - Fit to Print?

THE IRISH TIMES’S parting with its 28-year Rome correspondent Paddy Agnew (or sacking, as Agnew and many colleagues argue) has led to protracted hearings at the Tribunale di Roma, Sezione Lavoro – the Italian Labour Court – (see The Phoenix, 11/1/19)). It has also led to the Sunday Independent taking full advantage of Agnew’s ‘parting’…. Read more »

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‘INDO’ EVICTION FOLKLORE

Date: February 7, 2019 - Fit to Print?

THE print media sometimes rails against the unregulated irresponsibility of social media, but what restraints are there against the nonsense sometimes purveyed by the mainstream media? The political ‘story’ of the year so far – and hopefully for the rest of 2019 – has to be the Irish Independent’s yarn splashed across its front page… Read more »

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Tony O'Reilly Jnr.

BURN, BABY BURN

Date: February 7, 2019 - Fowl Emissions

AS IRELAND’S disastrous record on forestry comes under the spotlight again, the relevant junior minister, Andrew Doyle, seems a bit lost in the woods. The latest fuss follows campaign group Save Leitrim’s cry for help over the gradual smothering of Ireland’s least-populated county under industrial plantations of alien conifers, which are doused in toxic pesticides,… Read more »

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