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Consuelo O’Connor

DAVID RAETHORNE’S WHISKEY STOCKS

Date: November 1, 2018 - High Society

THE OPERATION behind the ambitious Hazelwood House revamp being undertaken in Sligo by low-profile serial investor David Raethorne filed some figures last month showing the losses at Hazelwood Demesne have tipped over €1m. Given it is still early days and the fact that Raethorne has very deep pockets, this will not set any alarm bells… Read more »

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Abigail O'Brien

ABIGAIL O’BRIEN’S ELECTION

Date: November 1, 2018 - High Society

THE ELECTION of Denis O’Brien’s sister, Abigail O’Brien, as president of the Royal Hibernian Academy (RHA) represents quite a coup for the artist, who has become the first female president of the organisation. Meanwhile there have been some other comings and goings and lots of moolah being spent. O’Brien replaces Mick O’Dea – whose portrait… Read more »

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MILKMAN – ANNA BURNS (FABER & FABER)

Date: November 1, 2018 - BooksReviews

THIS YEAR’S Man Booker winner (the first from Northern Ireland), Anna Burns, has published two previous novels and is well regarded in literary circles but is hardly a household name. It will be interesting to see if she becomes one given her challenging prose. The new book’s dramatic opening sentence sets the unnerving tone for… Read more »

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RICHARD III – ABBEY THEATRE

Date: November 1, 2018 - ReviewsTheatre

GARRY HYNES must have realised that producing another Shakespearean history play demanded another angle. While Richard may be one of Western literature’s greatest villains, his story is much less complex, and much longer, than the Henry plays produced by Druid a few years ago. So audiences need a hook. Rather than a dramatic arc, the… Read more »

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Amy Huberman

FINDING JOY – RTÉ 1

Date: November 1, 2018 - ReviewsTV

AMY HUBERMAN turns her hand to ‘comedy’ in this six-part series set in an air-brushed version of modern-day Dublin. Inevitably, with Mrs Dricco being co-creator, writer, associate producer and star of the show, the avalanche of hype was even greater than usual. RTÉ’s current poster girl plays Joy, who has just broken up with her… Read more »

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BOOK AWARDS BEANO

Date: November 1, 2018 - Behind the Scenes

THERE WAS an exuberant gushing plug for the annual Irish Book Awards in the Sindo last weekend when the shortlist for the 2018 gongs was announced. The paper has long been a ‘partner’ for the Derek Hughes-founded awards and its acolytes are known to feature strongly in the pompously titled Irish Literary Academy. The eventual… Read more »

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Siún Ní Raghallaigh

SIÚN NÍ RAGHALLAIGH’S GOOD NEWS

Date: November 1, 2018 - Behind the Scenes

FANS OF Goldhawk will not have been surprised by the inclusion in Pascal Donohoe’s Finance Bill of 10 pages of refinements to the operations of the Section 481 tax giveaway (see The Phoenix, 19/10/18). The big winner looks like the privately owned Troy Studios, where the cast includes the likes of moneybags Ossie Kilkenny, Joe… Read more »

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Ger Lyons

GER LYONS HITS OUT

Date: November 1, 2018 - Sport of Kings

THE DRY autumn is taking its toll on jumps tracks at the moment as they cannot risk watering the ground at this time of year because when the rain does come it just may not stop. Thurles Racecourse doesn’t have that conundrum anyway as it doesn’t even have a watering system. While they had to… Read more »

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Joseph O’Brien

O’BRIEN’S REDUNDANT REFERRAL

Date: November 1, 2018 - Sport of Kings

JOSEPH O’BRIEN found himself at the centre of one of the most pointless enquiries in the recent history of the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB) when he was summoned to HQ to answer questions over the apparent improvement in the form of a horse called Colfer Me. The horse won a lowly handicap at Down… Read more »

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DOWN A ROYAL MESS

Date: November 1, 2018 - Sport of Kings

WHAT TO make of the Down Royal fiasco? The clash of business and sport looks set to leave some casualties, but confusion reigns. What is unclear is why a clean sweep of management is seen as a valid option by the property speculators. At the moment the issue has the hallmarks of a relatively petty… Read more »

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Gordon Elliott

ELLIOTT IS WELL OFF THE PACE

Date: November 1, 2018 - Sport of Kings

IT SEEMS Gordon Elliott may already have accepted defeat in this season’s leading trainer title race. A slow start to the current season sees him around 40 winners and over €600,000 adrift of his chief opponent, Willie Mullins, who unusually has begun the season with all guns blazing. Over the last few years it has… Read more »

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Stephen Vernon

BIG REWARDS BUT SMALL RESULTS AT GREEN REIT

Date: November 1, 2018 - Moneybags

ALTHOUGH IT would be some achievement, it looks like Stephen Vernon and Pat Gunne could well end up getting a bigger take out from Green Reit than the boys over in Cairn Homes and Glenveagh. Unlike the latter two, where the huge returns depend totally… Read more »

Anne Heraty

UNEXPLAINED TRENDS AT CPL RESOURCES

Date: November 1, 2018 - Moneybags

WHILE CPL Resources has turned in impressive figures, it is nevertheless a pity that husband and wife team Paul Carroll and Anne Heraty have not used their skills to grow the recruitment firm into a properly global business. The annual report for the year to June 2018 does feature impressive profits, but there are also… Read more »

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GRAHAM CANNING’S PUB HANGOVER

Date: November 1, 2018 - The Hot Water Brigade

THERE’S been another blow for former publican Graham Canning, who has just had a second judgment registered against him by the taxman in three years, this time for close to €80,000. The Meath man has been scrapping with the Revenue since the collapse of his pub business during the crash. Once upon a time, Canning… Read more »

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Oscars International

POOR GRADES AT DUBLIN LANGUAGE SCHOOL

Date: November 1, 2018 - The Hot Water Brigade

SPARE a thought for creditors of Dublin English language school Oscars International, which is petitioning the High Court to have an examiner appointed. The petition by an entity called Malvern House Ireland Ltd (MHI), the trading company behind the Dublin branch of the Oscars group, is due to be heard this week. The head honcho… Read more »

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Mailo Power

CHECKING OUT AT THE ATHENAEUM

Date: November 1, 2018 - The Hot Water Brigade

THE original company behind the swanky Athenaeum House Hotel on the Waterford-Kilkenny border has called in the liquidator, just a few weeks after the new owners of the property secured planning permission to turn the hotel into a nursing home. The hotel had been owned and operated by Mailo Power, a former president of Renua,… Read more »

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WINDING UP CARRIGALINE CARPENTRY

Date: November 1, 2018 - The Hot Water Brigade

HARD luck to Cork businessmen John and Brian O’Neill, whose company, Carrigaline Carpentry Services Ltd, has just been wound up by the taxman. The writing was on the wall for the troubled entity, having had a hefty €½m tax judgment registered against it last March (see The Phoenix, 23/3/18). It will be recalled that a… Read more »

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ALBIE PURCELL’S GOOD LUCK

Date: November 1, 2018 - The Hot Water Brigade

CONGRATULATIONS (of sorts) are in order to Albie Purcell Jnr, who managed to confound AIB in the High Court recently. Judge Max Barrett refused AIB’s application to enter summary judgment against the Tipperary businessman for €3.7m because the bank had not provided complete documentation to the court. Albie is the son of Puckane landowner Albie… Read more »

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CATHAL MALLON’S BUSINESS PARTNERS

Date: November 1, 2018 - The Hot Water Brigade

A VULTURE fund has just swooped on D4 developer Cathal Mallon. The fund recently secured judgment against Mallon in the High Court for €2.1m in relation to an EBS loan granted to him and his business partner, Michael Shanahan, at the height of the boom. Mallon is a low-key builder and developer based in Sandymount… Read more »

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Edmond O'Reilly

JUDGMENT DAY FOR EDMOND O’REILLY

Date: November 1, 2018 - The Hot Water Brigade

IT’S ALL gone wrong for Tipperary high-flier Edmond O’Reilly, who has just been whacked by the Revenue for over €1m. The Clonmel man made his millions when he sold his recycling company Clearwater in 2007, but his luck has shifted in recent years. O’Reilly is a brother of Valerie O’Reilly, Michael Lowry’s former PR woman,… Read more »

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TOM CONSIDINE’S WIND-UP

Date: November 1, 2018 - The Hot Water Brigade

A PROPERTY vehicle called Western Alliance Property (WAP) Ltd is calling in the liquidator. The directors are listed as Gerry Prendergast, Tom Considine and Paddy Sweeney, who each owned a third of the company. They are better known for their involvement in the Millenium Park saga, which they bought for €220m in 2006. It was… Read more »

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BASSAM NASER’S HARD MEDICINE

Date: November 1, 2018 - The Hot Water Brigade

THERE are more maladies for jailbird Sutton doctor Bassem Naser, who has just been declared bankrupt in the High Court. The Irish-Palestinian received a 16-month sentence earlier this year for failing to pony up close to €100,000 in income tax. A popular figure in his area, Naser’s jail sentence provoked outrage from residents of the… Read more »

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Vol 36 No 22

Date: November 1, 2018 -

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Simon Coveney

SAUDIS SILENCE IRISH GOVERNMENT

Date: October 18, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

THERE HAS been a deafening silence from foreign minister Simon Coveney and the government at the apparent murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi by agents of Saudi Arabia in its Istanbul consul. This is in marked contrast to Coveney’s loud condemnation of the alleged poison attack… Read more »

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SINN FÉIN POPPYCOCK-UP

Date: October 18, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

THERE is war at all levels of Sinn Féin over presidential candidate Liadh Ní Riada’s statement that she would wear the poppy if elected president. The message has gone out to members that she did it off her own bat, but the strong suspicion among mid-ranking members is that she was schooled beforehand. However, the… Read more »

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Nóirín O’Sullivan

NÓIRÍN VS MEDIA

Date: October 18, 2018 - Fit to Print?

EX-GARDA COMMISSIONER Nóirín O’Sullivan appears to have been rehabilitated by Justice Charleton’s findings, but if no journalist offered a scintilla of evidence against her at the tribunal, she still bears grievances against some media. Fort a start, O’Sullivan is demanding an extension of the one-year time limit within which a litigant can sue for defamation,… Read more »

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Charlie Flanagan

PROFILE: CHARLIE FLANAGAN

Date: October 18, 2018 - Pillars of Society

JUSTICE MINISTER Charlie Flanagan will not have been discommoded by the latest Charleton Tribunal report. The report damns ex-Commissioner Martin Callinan and his sidekick, David Taylor, but it puts distance between the old Garda regime and the present. Despite the recent history of Garda tumult,… Read more »

John McGahon

YOUNG BLOOD: JOHN MCGAHON

Date: October 18, 2018 - The Young Bloods

Fielding a general election candidate who is currently involved in a garda investigation is not an ideal scenario in politics. In fact, it is sub-optimal, particularly in a competitive constituency. But this is precisely the hand that Fine Gael has been dealt in Louth, where John McGahon (27) has just been selected to fill the… Read more »

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Mel Gibson

MEL GIBSON’S TAXING ISSUE

Date: October 18, 2018 - Behind the Scenes

THE MOVIE suits don’t generally wash their dirty linen in public, which is why Mel Gibson’s spat with Voltage Pictures – producers of the Dublin-shot The Professor and the Madman – has begun to generate serious interest. The gaze has finally rested on the state’s generous Section 481 tax scheme, but there are more pertinent… Read more »

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Pat Carey

PAT CAREY’S MEDIA TRIAL

Date: October 18, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

THE smearing of garda whistleblower Sgt McCabe has been well and truly demolished with Justice Charleton’s tribunal report being just the latest exoneration against the charge of child abuse. But what of the strange case of former minister Pat Carey, who felt compelled to take cases for invasion of privacy against the Indo and the… Read more »

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Síona Cahill

SÍONA CAHILL’S BUDGET BLUES

Date: October 18, 2018 - Student Life

YOU would have needed to get up early to catch the Union of Students of Ireland’s (USI’s) response to the Budget earlier this month. The national union organised an 8am protest outside Leinster House, with members of the USI officer board and constituent student unions holding up umbrellas for a photo opportunity. The brollies were… Read more »

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SHANE ROSS’S CHEQUE BOOK

Date: October 18, 2018 - Student Life

WHILE THE sports focus in the media this week has been on Martin O’Neill’s Republic of Ireland team, things have been moving apace at Hockey Ireland. It looks like the Brian Caruth-chaired governing body will need to display all its shooting skills to ensure the sport gets the €½m windfall Shane Ross has delivered. After… Read more »

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Bertrand Gautier

ACCOUNTING GOBBLEDYGOOK AT GREENCOAT RENEWABLES

Date: October 18, 2018 - Moneybags

FROM THE off, it has been very difficult to understand exactly what is going on inside Greencoat Renewables. The company’s revenue base – the starting point in the analysis of any business – has been obscured by the chosen method of reporting and, frankly, it is unacceptable that shareholders should be unable to get the… Read more »

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VOL 36 NO 21

Date: October 18, 2018 -

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Graham Holland

GRAHAM HOLLAND’S DOGGED STRATEGY

Date: October 18, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

A HIGH Court judgment by Judge Tara Burns, dismissing a challenge by greyhound trainer Graham Holland, refers to an audacious claim of bias made against an industry player who happens to be a state solicitor. Indeed, two state solicitors now feature in this high-profile dogfight and the legal eagles are far from finished with the… Read more »

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HUGHES BOYS’ GAMBLE

Date: October 18, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

WHILE THE Hughes family has been having some problems with its €50m Westport House project, the good news is that Cathal and the rest of the clan have got the green light for a controversial headquarters on what planners deemed to be a flood plain. Happily, local councillors voted it through, despite the absence of… Read more »

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