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Joan Lynch

JOAN LYNCH’S TAXING TIMES

Date: March 21, 2019 - Brief Cases

ONE of the companies in the Born Clothing franchise, Born Clothing Ltd, has featured on the tax defaulters’ list, having paid the taxman €260,000, including €110,000 in interest and penalties for underdeclaration of PAYE, PRSI and USC. The parent company behind the clothing franchise, Elland Clothing Parent Ltd, is owned by fashion guru Joan Lynch…. Read more »

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Denis O'Brien

DENIS O’BRIEN MISCALCULATES

Date: March 7, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

NOBODY HAS ever accused Denis O’Brien of not being able to count or play poker, but he certainly got it wrong in negotiations to settle with the Sunday Business Post in an agreement that would have averted his crushing defeat in the High Court libel case last week. Michael McDowell received plaudits for his bravura… Read more »

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Jim O'Callaghan

JIM O’CALLAGHAN UNDER THREAT

Date: March 7, 2019 - Last Refuge

THERE WAS a time when Fianna Fáil’s justice spokesperson, Jim O’Callaghan, was Micheál Martin’s right-hand man in the parliamentary party and a member of the inner circle along with advisors Deirdre Gillane and Pat McParland. However, Jim received a rap across the knuckles recently in a public admonition from the leadership delivered via the Irish… Read more »

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Michael McDowell

PROFILE: MICHAEL MCDOWELL

Date: March 7, 2019 - Pillars of Society

PRESENTING AS St George fighting Denis ‘The Dragon’ O’Brien during the billionaire’s recent libel case against the Sunday Business Post, Michael McDowell stole the show. Senior counsel, senator, former tánaiste and minister as well as leader of the Progressive Democrats, McDowell has prowled around the… Read more »

Ellie Kisyombe

YOUNG BLOOD: ELLIE KISYOMBE

Date: March 7, 2019 - The Young Bloods

Egotism and factionalism are the rocks that threaten to scupper the Social Democrats’ ship before the party even leaves the harbour. The recent furore over its local candidate for Dublin’s North Inner electoral area, Malawian national Ellie Kisyombe (41), and the cack-handed management of the… Read more »

Stephanie O'Toole

ISRAELI BACKLASH AT DCU

Date: March 7, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

Students at another Irish university will vote on whether their union should sign up to the Boycott, Divestments and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israeli occupation, with a referendum being held this week by DCU’s student union (SU). If passed, it will mean that the SU… Read more »

Marian Keyes

MARIAN KEYES’S MAKE-UP

Date: March 7, 2019 - Behind the Scenes

THIS MONTH the long list for the first Comedy Women In Print (CWIP) prize is announced, with our own Marian Keyes in situ on the judging panel. The new prize arises out of a perceived “sexist imbalance” (according to Keyes) in choosing the annual winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse comic fiction prize, which is… Read more »

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Ross Maguire

ROSS MAGUIRE’S GERMAN EFFICIENCY

Date: March 7, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

AN ANONYMOUS-looking company called Generode Ltd has been listed for striking off by the Companies Office for failing to file accounts. This could prove tricky for one of its founders, outspoken debt-restructuring barrister Ross Maguire SC of New Beginning. It turns out that Ross has been involved in a number of linked property ventures, but… Read more »

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Gemma O’Doherty

GEMMA O’DOHERTY’S ROOSKEY ROWS

Date: March 7, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

Until recently, Broadsheet.ie had been a staunch defender of former Indo journalist Gemma O’Doherty and even campaigned for her ahead of the 2018 presidential elections. Last September, when she made the bonkers claim that Veronica Guerin was murdered by the state – torpedoing her own Áras run in the process – she was given an… Read more »

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Nicholas Crossan

MCDOWELL’S GAMBLE

Date: March 7, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

WHILE THE bolshy Michael McDowell was jousting with Denis O’Brien in the High Court, he was also keeping one eye on another issue close to his heart – the regulation of one-armed bandits. This thorny issue is set to be the subject of some interesting activity in Donegal next week. Last week in the Seanad,… Read more »

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Vol 37 No 05

Date: March 7, 2019 -

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Róisín Shorthall

THOSE ANTI-SOCIAL DEMOCRATS

Date: March 7, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

In this issue, Goldhawk profiles the Social Democrat’s local election candidate for Dublin’s North Inner City, Ellie Kisyombe, who is at the centre of an unholy row that threatens to split her party. With its insistence on a review of Kisyombe’s backstory following recent Sunday… Read more »

Marianne Finucane

WHOSE AFRAID OF DENIS O’BRIEN?

Date: March 7, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

THE MEDIA chill – or unbridled paranoia – that grips RTÉ management at the very suggestion of broadcasting critical coverage of Denis O’Brien was referred to in the recent Sunday Business Post libel case. But if RTÉ management is nervous about any of its investigative… Read more »

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CRAIG ZEIRING’S BUTTOCK-TONING

Date: March 7, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

SO FAREWELL then Dr Craig Ziering, hair transplant surgeon and ‘body sculptor’ to the celebrity set, whose Irish venture has quietly folded. Craig operates mainly out of his Beverley Hills clinic and has recently moved into the lucrative business of offering clients the body they feel they deserve, but without any bothersome exercise routine. Visitors… Read more »

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Dearbhail McDonald

MATERNAL DEARBHAIL

Date: March 7, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

IT IS difficult to say how Irish Independent editor Fionnán Sheahan, felt when he opened his Sunday Independent last weekend to read the most effusive and sympathetic interview, even by Sindo standards, with INM group business editor Dearbhail McDonald. Readers will recall that McDonald has deposited a 100-page document with INM management detailing her alleged… Read more »

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Pat Finucane

FINUCANE: WHY NO PUBLIC INQUIRY

Date: March 7, 2019 - Hush Hush

The most basic question arising from Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane’s murder is whether RUC Special Branch members aided and abetted loyalist paramilitaries in the elimination of people it saw as problems. The answer is undoubtedly yes. A case book example of this campaign of collusion… Read more »

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DONAL CAULFIELD’S TAX BILL

Date: March 7, 2019 - Hush Hush

GOLDHAWK spotted an old pal on the Revenue’s latest list of defaulters. Boom-era builder Donal Caulfield made a settlement with the taxman for U35,000 in relation to underdeclared VAT. Caulfield was the brains behind LM Developments Ltd. LM raised eyebrows with its erotically themed adverts for the Belmayne development, proclaiming “gorgeous living has arrived” in… Read more »

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Roz Purcell

HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: March 7, 2019 - The Hot Air Brigade

Roz Purcell has become what is known as a ‘multi-hyphen’ force to be reckoned with. Rachel Farrell, Sunday Independent Shorts are comfortable, they keep you cool and they are less cumbersome than trousers, so why not, with the incredible weather we’ve been having? Liam Collins, Irish Independent David McWilliams: ‘Contented classes’ could be biggest threat… Read more »

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Boris Johnson

DREW HARRIS’S ‘LEGACY’

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

On 27 February, the permanent secretary at the north’s Department of Justice allocated £55m for expediting so-called “legacy inquests”. He was able to do this in the absence of devolution. The decision came four years after a request for the money by the north’s Lord Chief Justice Declan Morgan was blocked by Arlene Foster, an… Read more »

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Seán Kelly

EXPELLING VICTOR ORBÁN

Date: March 7, 2019 - Last Refuge

FINE GAEL’S four MEPs are keeping their heads down as a serious split breaks out over the proposed expulsion from the European People’s Party (EPP) of Hungary’s Fidesz party, headed by premier Victor Orbán. Orbán’s anti-immigration policies, as well as Fidesz internal democratic deficit, has seen EPP parties in various countries come out against Orbán… Read more »

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Ruth Coppinger

TROT SEATS AT RISK

Date: March 7, 2019 - Last Refuge

THE Sunday Business Post’s story last weekend about the Socialist Party’s international and internecine factionalism is surprising, but nevertheless indicates a malaise in the Irish revolutionary left, with seat gains most unlikely and potential losses on the cards. Ruth Coppinger’s Socialist Party (SP) and the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) hide behind the titles Solidarity and… Read more »

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Micheál Martin

WHO FEARS TO SPEAK OF UNITED IRELAND?

Date: March 7, 2019 - Last Refuge

FIANNA FÁIL senator Mark Daly stuck it to the government in a Sunday Independent interview last weekend over its lamentable failure to prepare for a united Ireland which, he says, is much closer than people realise. But while Daly has proved his Republican credentials in recent years, he was surely being mischievous as his real… Read more »

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Fionnán Sheahan

DAMN LIES AND STATISTICS

Date: March 7, 2019 - Fit to Print?

TRIUMPHANT BOASTS and victory cries over the competition always accompany the Irish Independent’s reporting of the circulation figures and the latest ABC results are no different. But the most recent stats reveal a remarkable turn around between the Indo and the Irish Times. Indo editor Fionnán Sheahan told readers last month that his title remained… Read more »

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FINTAN’S FOE

Date: March 7, 2019 - Fit to Print?

IRISH TIMES opinion enforcer Fintan O’Toole, expressed his distaste last year that New York Times columnist Ross Douthat should welcome the notion of prosecuting women who have abortions “the way we prosecute other forms of homicide”. IT readers would perhaps not have been surprised then to learn that Douthat last month described abortion laws passed… Read more »

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Conor O'Donnell

‘MAIL’ MANAGEMENT MASSACRE HACKS

Date: March 7, 2019 - Fit to Print?

THE PRE-CHRISTMAS hack-cleansing at the Irish Daily Mail (see The Phoenix, 30/11/18) has been followed by another onslaught against staff at the newspaper exceeding even the scale of the INM purge, as the crisis of print media approaches ground zero. Managing director Paul Henderson’s bland, public statement about the newspaper group being “future proofed” was… Read more »

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Bríd Smith

MANNERLY VARADKAR

Date: March 7, 2019 - Fowl Emissions

We may be in for another torrid year – meteorologically and politically. The UK’s all-time record for the warmest winter’s day was broken several times last week. On this side of the Irish Sea, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar seems to be feeling the heat over his… Read more »

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GARRETT SIMONS’S RULING

Date: March 7, 2019 - Fowl Emissions

Where the government is pally with big oil, the courts continue to be friends of the planet. The beleaguered Shannon LNG project was given yet another kicking last month, this time by High Court judge Garrett Simons. He referred to the European Court of Justice an appeal by Friends of the Irish Environment against An… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: March 7, 2019 - Bog Cuttings

Complaint to POLICE ABOUT ‘DRUG’ DEALER A DISGRUNTLED would-be drug user has left police incredulous after calling to complain that she paid £200 for “brown sugar” instead of cocaine. Officers in Craigavon, Co Armagh, described the exchange on their Facebook page and called for people who have been “scammed by your dealer and would like… Read more »

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Chitra Stern

LOSSES AT LISS ARD

Date: March 7, 2019 - High Society

HAVING FIRST gone on the market over two-and-a-half years ago, it is probably not surprising that the asking price for the sprawling Liss Ard estate near Skibereen has finally had the asking price cut. However, the scale of the 33% reduction has raised eyebrows and suggests that the owner, Swiss moneybags Roman Stern, is finally… Read more »

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Jamie Myerscough

MYERSCOUGH’S WORKOUT

Date: March 7, 2019 - High Society

WITH THE campaign against the imposition of the top rate of VAT on health food supplements, it is not surprising that Jamie Myerscough has been busy tweeting against the government’s proposal. His Educogym fitness operation is linked to Tony Quinn’s Educohealth business, which shifts truckloads of supplements every year via its own platform and through… Read more »

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Paddy McKillen

McKILLEN’S ART WORK

Date: March 7, 2019 - High Society

MULTI-MILLIONAIRE Paddy McKillen knows a bit about art and likes to spend some of his loose change acquiring works. He also has a stake in Dublin’s Kerlin Gallery, which managed to record a significant loss last year. The ownership of the Kerlin Gallery is split between McKillen, John Kennedy, David Fitzgerald and Darragh Hogan. McKillen… Read more »

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BISI BLOCKED

Date: March 7, 2019 - Behind the Scenes

SPARE A thought for playwright Bisi Adigun. The Supreme Court has found that the long-running litigation against his former legal eagles failed to reach the standard of general public importance. The original case goes back to 2009, when Adigun and his company, Arambe Productions Ltd, lodged proceeding against his solicitor, Linda McEvoy, after having sued… Read more »

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Seána Kerslake

CONOR BARRY’S ‘HOLE IN THE GROUND’

Date: March 7, 2019 - Behind the Scenes

IRISH HORROR films and psychological thrillers have not fared well at the box office. Recent excursions The Lodgers and The Cellar Door hardly registered with Irish punters, so a lot is riding on Lee Cronin’s The Hole in the Ground. Starring Seána Kerslake and produced by Conor Barry at Savage Productions, the film is being… Read more »

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Rachael Blackmore

BLACKMORE’S CHELTENHAM CHALLENGE

Date: March 7, 2019 - Sport of Kings

OVER THE past couple of national hunt seasons, the big sporting story has been provided by the rivalry between Willie Mullins and Gordon Elliott, characterised by Elliot’s exasperation as his great rival eroded the lead at the top of the table at the end of each season. With Mullins in the saddle since the start… Read more »

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Jessica Harrington

JESSICA HARRINGTON’S FIRST CHOICE

Date: March 7, 2019 - Sport of Kings

AFTER SUCH a successful beginning to their association, it was a surprise when Jessica Harrington announced recently that she had appointed Shane Foley as her stable jockey for this season at the expense of Colm O’Donoghue. O’Donoghue and Harrington enjoyed Classic success last year with Alpha Centauri, who proved one of the best milers in… Read more »

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HUMBLE PIE FOR HAYES

Date: March 7, 2019 - Sport of Kings

FORMER BETTING industry executive Noel Hayes had to endure an awkward moment recently when offering his punditry insight as a guest in the Racing TV studio. It was a tough night for the entrepreneur. The panel, which was chaired by Rishi Persad, was previewing the live Friday night action from Dundalk and members were focusing… Read more »

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