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Consuelo O’Connor

SINGAPORE MONEYBAGS

Date: April 18, 2019 - High Society

INTERESTING TO see that the man understood to have bought the Dublin City Hotel and Trinity Bar on Dame Street, D2, is one Stanley Quek. This is not the only trophy he recently picked up in the environs of Dame Street. Quek, a Singapore moneybags, has been expanding his interests here. He was reported to… Read more »

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Stephen Dorff

DON’T GO – DIRECTED BY DAVID GLEESON

Date: April 18, 2019 - MoviesReviews

WATCHING David Gleeson’s Don’t Go in a near empty cinema, as Goldhawk did, a viewer’s thoughts may drift to parodies in The Simpsons of Poe’s The Raven and Kubrick’s The Shining. But what is on screen is neither Simpsons parodies nor gothic yarns like Don’t Look Now. It is actually something more akin to Sliding… Read more »

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THE GHOST FACTORY – JENNY McCARTNEY (4th ESTATE)

Date: April 18, 2019 - BooksReviews

WITH NO apparent end in sight to fictional accounts of the Troubles, it’s not surprising that this debut novel revisits familiar ground. The author now works as a journalist in London, but grew up in Northern Ireland (her father, Robert McCartney, was a former leader of the UK Unionist Party). Set in Belfast during the… Read more »

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Dr Sinead Beirne

DOCTOR IN THE HOUSE – VIRGIN MEDIA

Date: April 18, 2019 - ReviewsTV

This health-based series offers the same nutritional hit as a visit to McDonald’s. Viewers are left hungry for something actually worth getting their teeth into. Among those thanked in the programme credits were the likes of DCU and the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, which gave producers Indiepics a few bob to make the show for… Read more »

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Frances Ruane

ABBEY BOARD’S SCRIPT

Date: April 18, 2019 - Behind the Scenes

GOLDHAWK was interested to know how the Abbey board reacted to last year’s decision by the Arts Council to withhold a chunk of funding until it sorted out its employment conditions for cast and crew brought in. It turns out that subject was effectively glossed over, at least as far as the minutes for the… Read more »

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ADDING UP IN CORK

Date: April 18, 2019 - Behind the Scenes

THE FALLOUT from the Michael Jackson documentary, Leaving Neverland, has affected a number of players here. One of those hit is the Cork Opera House (COH), which was to stage The Michael Jackson History Show next month. Given the very healthy ticket sales for the show, the cancellation will be a blow to COH’s box… Read more »

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John Gleeson

JOHN GLEESON’S NEW PLOT

Date: April 18, 2019 - Behind the Scenes

THE ACCOUNTANCY profession has expanded significantly since the financial services sector was freed of its old-fashioned, fusty reservations. And with riskier business came the ‘forensic’ accountant – a sort of money pathologist who could pick over a corporate corpse and divine how it came to a sorry end. With forensic work now firmly established as… Read more »

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Seamus Ross

SEAMUS ROSS’S RETURN

Date: April 18, 2019 - Sport of Kings

WITH A rejuvenated Sean Mulryan enjoying such high-profile success this year after his long hiatus, the developer’s re-engagement with the sport is being classed as a barometer for the health of the property development and construction sectors. It is interesting to note some of his contemporaries making similar comebacks, though on a smaller scale so… Read more »

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WHEN ALL IS LEAD AND DUNNE

Date: April 18, 2019 - Sport of Kings

BRITAIN-BASED Irish jockey Robbie Dunne has received a 15-day ban by the British Horseracing Authority over a 2017 incident in which Dunne guided the Ian Williams-trained Rocknrollrambo to victory at Chepstow. Dunne was found guilty of misconduct prejudicial to the good reputation of racing by accepting a piece of lead from Williams’s stable employee, Barry… Read more »

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Michael O’Leary

O’LEARY’S ANIMAL WELFARE FANS

Date: April 18, 2019 - Sport of Kings

MICHAEL O’LEARY’S surprising idea of offering Don Poli and Outlander for sale two days before the Aintree Grand National certainly bore fruit. The two OAPs netted £330,000 between them – probably about £250,000 more than if they had been offered at a conventional auction. When you add on to this Tiger Roll’s earnings in the… Read more »

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Declan McDonogh

DECLAN MCDONOGH’S DEMOTION

Date: April 18, 2019 - Sport of Kings

THIS TIME of year, as the flat season gets into full swing, a few jockeys sometimes get promoted – or vice versa – and one who is getting a rough ride is Declan McDonogh. The former champion jockey stepped into the breach left this time last year when the news broke of Pat Smullen’s illness…. Read more »

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Mick Carvill

KENMARE RESOURCES INCREASINGLY TEMPTING AS TAKEOVER TARGET

Date: April 18, 2019 - Moneybags

FANS OF Moneybags will recall last year’s prediction (see The Phoenix, 23/3/18) that Kenmare Resources “should manage to hit sales of nearly $250m in the current year. This increased revenue would drop straight to the bottom line and increase Kenmare’s ebitda to $100m.” The actual outturn for last year was revenue of $262m sales and… Read more »

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Kelly Cosgrave

BLACK CARD FOR BOOZER PLANS

Date: April 18, 2019 - Briefcases

PLANS to redevelop a popular pub adjacent to Croke Park have hit the crossbar. Dublin City Council has requested that the Dublin Loft Company (DLC), where the largest shareholder is Oonagh Cosgrave – wife of developer Peter Cosgrave of the Cosgrave Property Group – provide more information about the proposed demolition and reconstruction of part… Read more »

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RUTH MORAM’S ‘ABUSE OF PROCESS’

Date: April 18, 2019 - Briefcases

ANOTHER chapter in the remarkable legal saga involving Ruth Moram and the Jehovah’s Witnesses in Ireland was written in the Court of Appeal recently. The scrap goes back a number of years to when she was ‘disfellowshipped’ – ie shunned – from the church’s congregation in Killarney in 2004. Fans of Goldhawk will recall that… Read more »

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TAXING TIMES FOR MARTIN TUBRIDY

Date: April 18, 2019 - Briefcases

THE TAXMAN has finally lost his patience with Clare businessman Martin Tubridy. A petition to wind up his construction and civil engineering company, GMD Developments Ltd, has just been filed in the High Court by the Revenue following numerous dust-ups with the Cooraclare businessman. Fans of Goldhawk will recall that Tubridy was a director of… Read more »

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Ciaran Desmond

DISCIPLINING CIARÁN DESMOND

Date: April 18, 2019 - Briefcases

MORE on Ciarán Desmond, the legal eagle and financial adviser at the centre of a high-profile court case involving allegations of fraud and “secret profits”. The Rebel County solicitor has just been censured by the Law Society after being found guilty of misconduct at his firm, Ciarán Desmond Solicitors, on Penrose Wharf Quay in Cork… Read more »

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Peter Gaynor

PETER GAYNOR’S BIG BUCKS

Date: April 18, 2019 - Briefcases

MORE GOOD news for restaurateur-turned-construction suit Peter Gaynor, who continues to make a mint in London, having seen his food business back in Dublin essentially collapse last year. Accounts have just been filed in the UK for Cilantro Engineering UK Ltd, which is in the mechanical and electrical engineering game. It provides “specialist design and… Read more »

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Nigel Wray

POOR FORM AT SARACENS

Date: April 18, 2019 - Briefcases

WITH MUNSTER heading to England to play Saracens in the European Rugby Cup semi-finals this weekend, it is interesting to see the kind of financial firepower the English club possesses compared with the (financial) Irish minnows. Saracens has been haemorrhaging money in recent years and continues to do so, but there is plenty of moolah… Read more »

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Mairead McGuinness

SEE NO ARMY, SPEAK NO ARMY

Date: April 4, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

ANGELA MERKEL’S visit to Dublin underlines the EU’s determination to protect its borders, but this is only part of Germany and France’s strategy of post-Brexit EU integration, something that involves the creation of an EU Army. The loud silence following the revelation that Fine Gael… Read more »

Eleanor O'Mahony

TCD BUGGING BACKLASH

Date: April 4, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

A FORTNIGHT’S a long time in student politics. Just two weeks ago, The University Times (UT) —newspaper of Trinity College’s Student Union (SU) — was raising eyebrows over its role in a so-called ‘bugging’ row. Now, the tide seems to have turned with a number of high profile journalists rowing in behind the embattled newspaper… Read more »

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James Flynn

PROFILE: JAMES FLYNN

Date: April 4, 2019 - Pillars of Society

A GRIPPING legal drama returns to the schedules this month, when German lawyer-turned-movie maker Winfried ‘Winni’ Hammacher goes head to head with two of Ireland’s top TV and movie men, Morgan O’Sullivan and James Flynn. While the former is better known to the public thanks to his previous broadcasting role, Flynn is a force in… Read more »

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Ruairí Ó Murchú

YOUNG BLOOD: RUAIRÍ Ó MURCHÚ

Date: April 4, 2019 - The Young Bloods

The largely unknown Dundalk councillor, Ruairí Ó Murchú, will attempt to replace the rather well-known former Sinn Féin leader, Gerry Adams, as TD in Louth at the next general election after being co-opted onto the county council just a year and a half ago. SF has always been strong in Louth, but Adams helped it… Read more »

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Robert Pitt

INM ‘HACKERS’ FOR HIGH COURT

Date: April 4, 2019 - Fit to Print?

INDEPENDENT NEWS & MEDIA’S (INM) legal and corporate strategy is clear from the decision to take High Court action against former chief executive, Robert Pitt, following a similar action against ex-chairman, Leslie Buckley. INM must try to prove that the alleged data breaches were carried out by ‘rogue’ executives without authority and were not in… Read more »

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David Quinn

DAVID QUINN’S POLITICAL PROBLEM

Date: April 4, 2019 - Clerical Errors

DAVID QUINN, director of the high profile Catholic advocacy group, the Iona Institute, could find himself having to go to Confession if the Charities Regulator frowns on his call for people at a meeting in the Grand Hotel in Malahide last month to vote for named political parties. This is considered a cardinal sin for… Read more »

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AIRBNB’S POLITICAL TARGETS

Date: April 4, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

THE rejection by Dublin City Council last week of Friends First’s planning application for the change of use of its city centre property to short-term letting represents the latest setback for Airbnb. But, the US company can’t be accused of not trying its best judging by the amount its eager lobbying of politicians. Among the… Read more »

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Elizabeth Oakes

LIZ OAKES’S EYEBROWS

Date: April 4, 2019 - High Society

AS BUSINESS ideas go, eco friendly water-based cremation is one certain to provoke interest. The woman behind the plan to bring this technology to Ireland is 30-something Liz Oakes. She has already proven that she has the knack for making a few bob. The technology that Oakes is seeking to introduce here uses water rather… Read more »

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Barbara Dawson

BARBARA DAWSON’S PLAN

Date: April 4, 2019 - Behind the Scenes

IT’S SLOW ahead at the Hugh Lane Gallery, where director Barbara Dawson and her board are looking to implement a rather ambitious strategy. Big bucks will be needed, but as of yet the dirty work of raising moolah is on the backburner. The latest accounts (2017) show that there was an extra €150,000 income under… Read more »

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Peter Casey

PETER CASEY’S RETREAT

Date: April 4, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

PETER CASEY’S proposed reversion to the European elections rather than the Dáil has more to do with headlong retreat from Donegal than any gap left by Marian Harkin in the Midlands-North-West Euro constituency. “I will definitely be standing in Donegal at the next general election”,… Read more »

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Vol. 37 No. 07

Date: April 4, 2019 -

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Eamon Casey

BISHOP CASEY TO BE REINTERRED?

Date: April 4, 2019 - Clerical Errors

ANGER OVER fresh allegations of child sexual abuse and other improprieties going back to the 1960s against disgraced former Bishop Eamonn Casey have been ramped up by his ex-lover, Annie Murphy, who expressed how “shocked and saddened” she is this week. As of now, four cases involving Casey have been confirmed by the Dioceses of… Read more »

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IONA INSTITUTE’S NEW FACES

Date: April 4, 2019 - Clerical Errors

WHILE DAVID Quinn has been busy preaching to the converted, his Iona Institute has been on something of a recruitment drive and has just added four new directors to its board in the form of two teachers – Clare Clifford and Brendan Conroy – housewife Evana Boyle, and retiree Eanna Johnson, a director of the… Read more »

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Tony O'Reilly

INM-IRISH TIMES LINK-UP

Date: April 4, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

IRISH TIMES media commentator, Laura Slattery, went through Independent News & Media’s (INM) business and editorial plan with a chainsaw this week, even suggesting that “INM may no longer be INM” in three years time. This catastrophic analysis belies tentative negotiations going on between Slattery’s company and INM for a surprising print deal. Discussions are… Read more »

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Boris Johnson

COOPERATION IRELAND AND DUP

Date: April 4, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

COOPERATION IRELAND receives by far the greatest stipend yearly from the Reconciliation Fund, which in turn is bankrolled by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT). But the political antics of Coop Ireland’s chairman, Dr Christopher Moran, must surely have puzzled Iveagh House mandarins in recent times. Of the millions doled out to deserving… Read more »

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Martin McGuinness

BRIT SPOOKS IN THE REPUBLIC

Date: April 4, 2019 - Hush Hush

THE MEDIA’S gullible lionising of ex-British Army under cover operative, ‘Sean Hartnett’ (not his real name) and his second book, Client Confidential, shows a remarkable willingness to sanction much dubious activity, south as well as north of the border. The Irish Times, Irish Independent, Sunday Business Post, and others have all reported breathlessly on the… Read more »

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Kate O’Connell

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: April 4, 2019 - The Hot Air Brigade

It’s not nimbyism, it’s simply appealing for a more considered, sensible solution within our existing built heritage. Fine Gael TD and Rathgar resident Kate O’Connell on objections to a proposed local bus corridor, Sunday Times, submitted by reader Frankly it has been like watching a form of political necrotising fasciitis. Mary McAleese reflects on Brexit,… Read more »

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Jeffrey Donaldson

GREEN ALLIGATORS AND UNICORNS

Date: April 4, 2019 - Bird's Eye View

‘Unicorn’ has become a popular word recently to describe Brexiteers in England who, in desperation, spot mythical creatures like German car manufacturers opposing the EU’s Withdrawal Agreement so as to help the UK. However, Brexiteers are not the only people who spot unicorns. Political parties and many commentators in the Republic discern plenty of unicorns…. Read more »

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