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Imre Arakas

KINAHANS CRY FOUL

Date: January 10, 2019 - Hush Hush

The Kinahan crime cartel is accusing the gardaí of favouritism towards the rival Hutch gang after a series of reverses in the last year, most recently when a man alleged to be associated with the Kinahans was shot dead just before Christmas. Dubliner Eric Fowler (34) was gunned down as he arrived at his home… Read more »

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Judge Peter Kelly

HELEN LUCEY’S SEMI-KINGDOM

Date: January 10, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

THE LAW Society Gazette’s report last month on sanctions imposed on Listowel solicitor Helen Lucey raises an interesting question about Lucey’s role of coroner in County Kerry. In July, the Law Society failed in its effort to have Lucey struck off the roll of solicitors, but the president of the High Court, Peter Kelly, acceded… Read more »

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ODRAN REID’S POLITICS

Date: January 10, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

The changes continue apace at Brendan Halligan’s Ireland China Institute, the “independent think tank dedicated to the study of Irish Chinese affairs”. The board features assorted political types, including former taoisigh Enda Kenny and Brian Cowen, former education minister ‘Red’ Ruairí Quinn and former European Parliament Pat Cox. The latest arrivals are OPW mandarin Eoin… Read more »

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Maura Derrane

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: January 10, 2019 - The Hot Air Brigade

We are two people who both have high-profile, high-pressure, high-everything jobs. Maura Derrane on her marriage to John Deasy, VIP But here’s the thing about an ‘o’, regardless of the size of it. It’s round and it’s strong and there’s no way out of it. There’s no start, there’s no end. When you’re in, you’re… Read more »

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Éamon Ó Cuív

WEDDING OR FUNERAL?

Date: January 10, 2019 - Bird's Eye View

THE NEVER-ENDING saga of Fianna Fáil’s takeover of the moribund SDLP staggers on. The two parties have been dancing the hokey-cokey for a decade with FF, the reluctant suitor, joining in and pulling out at unpredictable intervals. In 2007 Brian Cowen, accompanied by Rory O’Hanlon and the ubiquitous Éamon Ó Cuív, set up a Fianna… Read more »

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Frances Fitzgerald

VLAD’S VARIOUS ELECTION STRATEGEMS

Date: January 10, 2019 - Last Refuge

RECEIVED WISDOM has it that Leo Varadkar will not allow any sitting party TD to go for the European elections because the Dáil arithmetic is so tight. However, this has not prevented at least two Fine Gael TDs, Frances Fitzgerald and Mary Mitchell O’Connor, from touting shamelessly for the candidacy. But Vlad is fixated on… Read more »

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Brendan Howlin

HOWLIN AND CORBYN TO UNITE?

Date: January 10, 2019 - Last Refuge

EAGER NOT to get left behind, Labour leader Brendan Howlin told the party conference last November that, if Fianna Fáil and the SDLP merged, the Irish and British Labour parties would have to jointly contest election in the north. There are a few problems with this proposition, not least Howlin’s publicly expressed contempt for his… Read more »

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John Lyons

JOHN LYONS’S RESIGNATION

Date: January 10, 2019 - Last Refuge

THE Trot alliance of People Before Profit (PBP) – aka Richard Boyd Barrett’s Socialist Workers Party – and Solidarity – aka Ruth Coppinger’s Socialist Party – has come under strain and Dublin City councillor John Lyons resigned from PBP this week. A 2016 general election pact saw a tenuous agreement to divide constituencies between the… Read more »

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Ed Honohan

HONOHAN MASTERS MARTIN AND O’CALLAGHAN

Date: January 10, 2019 - Last Refuge

TWO STINGING letters winged their way to Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin over the Christmas and new year period. One was from FF’s enfant terrible, John McGuinness TD, eviscerating Martin’s continuation of the confidence and supply agreement (C&S) with Leo Varadkar. The other came from Master of the High Court, Ed Honohan SC, with an… Read more »

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Maurice McCabe

McCABE, HACKS AND LEGAL EAGLES

Date: January 10, 2019 - Fit to Print?

IRISH TIMES crime correspondent Conor Lally did a demolition job on Mick Clifford and the Irish Examiner recently for their incorrect story on how two gardaí plotted to “bury” Maurice McCabe with false allegations of the whistleblower’s “malice” towards gardaí. Lally’s two articles last week – in which he name checked the Examiner seven times… Read more »

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THE INDO’S EVICTION COVERAGE

Date: January 10, 2019 - Fit to Print?

IRISH INDEPENDENT coverage of the attack on security men who evicted the McGann family from their Strokestown home was a masterpiece of investigative journalism. Less than 24 hours after the attack, the Indo concluded that it was the work of dissident Republicans. Next day, the newspaper went into overdrive and headlined as fact that “INLA… Read more »

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Niall Meehan

‘GUARDIAN’ BURIES PAEDOPHILE STORY

Date: January 10, 2019 - Fit to Print?

GRIFFITH COLLEGE journalism academic Niall Meehan asked online on New Year’s Day why the Guardian in 2017 had removed, without explanation, an online obituary to Brian Taylor, a former Queen’s University, Belfast, and Sussex University sociology lecturer. This followed a long correspondence between Meehan and the Guardian over the latter’s failure to record Taylor’s long-time… Read more »

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Tony O’Reily Jnr

DECARBONISING CARBON

Date: January 10, 2019 - Fowl Emissions

AS TIME is called on fossil fuels, increasingly desperate tactics are being used by those who sell them. This ranges from the ridiculous – Providence Resources chief executive Tony O’Reilly Jnr said recently his Barryroe oil field would “reduce Ireland’s carbon emissions, through reduced importation of hydrocarbons” – to the more refined – Progress Naturally,… Read more »

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COLD FRONT AT THE IRISH TIMES

Date: January 10, 2019 - Fowl Emissions

When will the Irish Times stop providing a platform for climate denial? Its climate coverage has improved lately, but its Letters page continues to be a haven for deniers. Then last month something more shocking happened. The paper bizarrely chose to report, at some length, claims by Goldhawk’s old friend, climate contrarian Ray Bates, that… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: January 10, 2019 - Bog Cuttings

ASKED JUDGE OUT ON DATE A FORMER member of the Foreign Legion was outmanoeuvred by a District Court judge who declined to go on a date with him. John Manning (55), 113 Newcastle Road, Galway, sought to woo Judge Mary Fahy, telling her she was doing a “sterling job” when he appeared before Galway District… Read more »

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Ruth Negga

PASS THE FERRERO ROCHER

Date: January 10, 2019 - Behind the Scenes

THE APPOINTMENT this week of an Irish five-a-side squad of “cultural ambassadors” marks the latest wheeze in the much-hyped objective of “doubling Ireland’s footprint globally by 2025”. Meanwhile, increasing sums of actual moolah are being spent on overseas expeditions. It will be interesting to see how the impact of our new cultural diplomats is measured…. Read more »

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JOSEPHA MADIGAN’S PRESSIE

Date: January 10, 2019 - Behind the Scenes

’TWAS BUT a week before Christmas and all were asleep when Josepha Madigan bestowed gifts to the tune of U200m to Annie Doona’s Screen Ireland (SI). Addressing the Seanad on December 18, Madigan highlighted the “short, technical bill” that had one objective – upping the limit on lolly that can be advanced to Screen Ireland… Read more »

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Eugene Downes

EUGENE DOWNES’S NEXT JOB?

Date: January 10, 2019 - Behind the Scenes

GOLDHAWK was interested to see an advert for the new role of cultural director at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) in the midst of the Christmas chaos. Given the importance of the role, which includes “contributing to the formulation of foreign policy options where there is a cultural dimension” and “managing the… Read more »

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Philip Fenton

PHILIP FENTON’S RETURN

Date: January 10, 2019 - Sport of Kings

NEW YEAR’S Day at Tramore was a significant occasion for trainer Philip Fenton. It saw him register his first success since resuming his training career, having served a three-year ban for being found in possession of a large quantity of steroids. Fenton has made a low-key return to the training ranks. He had run just… Read more »

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Ted Walsh

TED TALKS AT TRAMORE

Date: January 10, 2019 - Sport of Kings

TED WALSH had to be at his diplomatic best recently when he was interviewed by the race-day stewards at Tramore over the running and riding of Batcio. The horse is owned by ‘Lucky’ Luke McMahon and was ridden by his amateur rider son, Aubrey. The enquiry was over the rider’s seemingly tender handling of the… Read more »

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Patrick Mullins

ACCIDENTAL BY NAME…

Date: January 10, 2019 - Sport of Kings

THERE WAS no fairytale ending to the amusing story of Accidental, the Patrick Mullins-owned gelding that made his racecourse debut at Limerick over Christmas. The well-named six year old, who showed little ability when pulled up in a maiden hurdle, was conceived in unusual circumstances when his dam, the subsequent Willie Mullins-trained Grade 1 winner… Read more »

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Barry Connell

LEOPARDSTOWN’S TOUGH GOING

Date: January 10, 2019 - Sport of Kings

LEOPARDSTOWN’S Christmas Festival was by and large a very successful four days with unseasonally kind weather helping to draw good crowds to witness top-class jumping action. There were well-publicised grumblings however, mostly over hiked-up entrance prices and especially delays for racegoers entering the track, particularly on the opening day. The question is why. The track… Read more »

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Patrick Coveney

THE SMALL PRINT IN GREENCORE’S €1BN US DISPOSAL

Date: January 10, 2019 - Moneybags

PADDY COVENEY has been disappointing his shareholders in Greencore for much of his tenure since he became CEO a decade ago. Given the abysmal performance of the company and its shares, it is not surprising that, three years ago, shareholders revolted, with 40% voting against the size of his €3m remuneration, which was halved the… Read more »

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Mohammad Al Zubair

AMINEX SHAREHOLDERS SHORTCHANGED BY NEW REGIME

Date: January 10, 2019 - Moneybags

BRIAN HALL spent the last 27 years building Aminex from the embers of the Eglinton Oil & Gas oil exploration business in Columbia to a position where it has significant gas exploration assets in Tanzania. His resignation last August represented a blow to shareholders, who would not have been expecting that CEO Jay Bhattacherjee would… Read more »

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Zabrina Shortt

ZABRINA SHORTT’S DAY JOB

Date: January 10, 2019 - Briefcases

THE activities of Irish scientologists made headlines just before Christmas after a Prime Time special revealed the church had just 87 Irish members, according to the last census. One of the lucky 87 is Goldhawk’s old pal Zabrina Shortt – aka Zabrina Collins – who is having a rough start to 2019. An insolvent Dublin… Read more »

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Michael Tierney

MICHAEL TIERNEY’S LEGACY DEBT

Date: January 10, 2019 - Briefcases

GOLDHAWK spotted that Real Bars Ltd, the company behind the Riverbank House Hotel in Ferrybank, Co Wexford, has had to call in the examiner. Once at the centre of a row involving Goldhawk’s old pal Alan Hynes, local hotelier Michael Tierney owns the business with his wife, Adrienne Tierney. Fans of Goldhawk will recall that… Read more »

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Peter Conlon

PETER CONLON’S RETURN

Date: January 10, 2019 - Briefcases

HAPPY New Year to Peter Conlon, who has just returned home from his sojourn in a Swiss slammer after pleading guilty to embezzling money intended for charities like the Red Cross. However, he won’t have much time to enjoy his new-found freedom with liquidator Myles Kirby breathing down his neck. As liquidator of Pembroke Dynamic… Read more »

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TAXMAN WOKS RESTAURANT OWNERS

Date: January 10, 2019 - Briefcases

GOLDHAWK spotted two Dublin restaurant owners who have a lot on their plate at the moment. It seems the taxman has worked up an appetite for Belfleur Ltd, the company behind Jazz, a Chinese buffet in Coolock in D5. Belfleur, co-owned and operated by Sai Ming Leung and Yu Po Leung, was slapped with a… Read more »

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PHILIP SMYTH’S LATEST LOSSES

Date: January 10, 2019 - Briefcases

GENPORT Ltd, the company behind Hampton Court Hotel in Donnybrook, D4, has just filed yet another troubling set of accounts. The venture has become a money pit for its owner, businessman Philip Smyth, and it could get worse. A legal action taken against Genport by the landlord is still on the boil in the High… Read more »

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Lisa Murphy

LISA MURPHY’S LATE FILING

Date: January 10, 2019 - Briefcases

GOLDHAWK got a blast from the past recently when he spotted that New Lisa Life Ltd was listed for striking off the register of companies for failure to file accounts. This is the company behind the Sandycove beauty salon belonging to Lisa Murphy – star of cult TV3 programme Dublin Wives – which shut up… Read more »

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Consuelo O’Connor

AL NAEMI’S EXPENSIVE HORSES

Date: January 10, 2019 - High Society

FIVE YEARS after setting up shop in Ireland, Qatari moneybags Mubarak Al Naemi continues to haemorrhage dosh from his County Limerick stud farm. Super wealthy racing fan Al Naemi (chairman of the Qatar Owners and Breeders Association) lashed out €4m for the famous Kilfrush Stud on 300 acres outside Knocklong in 2013 and began spending… Read more »

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Sheikh Mohammed al Maktoum

SOFTLY DOES IT WITH THE MAKTOUMS

Date: January 9, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

GIVEN THE influence of the Dubai ruling Al Maktoum family here, the silence to date of the Irish government on the Sheikha Latifa scandal should come as no surprise. The Maktoums are classified as good friends of Ireland. In 2017, there was no condemnation, mild or otherwise, of the economic blockade of Qatar led by… Read more »

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A DIARY FOR YOUR DATE

Date: December 14, 2018 - Briefcases

FANS OF Goldhawk will be aware of the value he places on the significant source of information that is the annual diary/director published by the Institute of Public Administration (IPA). Everything you need to know about the public service, in particular, in included in the publication. The 2019 edition of the ‘Ireland – A Directory’… Read more »

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Jared Kushner

COVENEY’S CAREFUL CHOREOGRAPHY

Date: December 13, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

ALAN SHATTER’S predictable outburst against Simon Coveney on the Israel-Palestine issue will actually be welcomed by the foreign minister. Far from behaving like a “blundering rhino”, as Shatter put it, ‘Covetous’ is engaged in the most intricate dance routine in the Middle East. Shatter’s jibe makes it look as though he is actually a danger… Read more »

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Gretchen Mol

TROUBLE BREWING AT TROY STUDIOS?

Date: December 13, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

IN FEBRUARY this year, culture minister Josepha Madigan was invited to a ‘do’ in the Merrion Hotel, Dublin, by Kim Harris, general counsel at US studio NBC Universal, to launch the production in Troy Studios, Limerick, of the new series Nightflyers, starring Gretchen Mol. On top of this schmoozing, Harris’s colleague at Universal in New… Read more »

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Eamon Ryan

PROFILE: EAMON RYAN

Date: December 13, 2018 - Pillars of Society

The world is waking up to climate change. The issue finally began coming up on doorsteps in 2018, according to TDs. Fears for our planet’s future and our very survival are now part of the Zeitgeist. The Green Party should be riding a wave of environmentalism to electoral gains, yet their poll ratings trundle along… Read more »

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