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BOBBY KERRISK’S TAX BILL

Date: October 4, 2018 - The Hot Water Brigade

THE TAXMAN has just slapped Dublin builder and developer Robert ‘Bobby’ Kerrisk with a judgment for €80,000. Once a small-time but busy developer in north Dublin, Kerrisk – who traded as Touchstone Developments – specialised in small residential projects like the Newtown Cottages in Coolock, where he built a pair of bungalows in 2006. But… Read more »

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SEAN FOY’S FOIBLES

Date: October 4, 2018 - The Hot Water Brigade

SPARE a thought for Mayo solicitor Sean Foy, who recently received a dressing down from the Law Society. It’s not the first time the legal eagle – who practises as Foy Ryan solicitors in Westport and Foy Murphy solicitors in Ballinrobe – has fallen foul of the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal. In 2013, Foy was found… Read more »

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Sean Lyne

SEAN LYNE’S LATEST LIQUIDATION

Date: October 4, 2018 - The Hot Water Brigade

AN ENTITY called CLS Crystal Partners Holding Company Ltd is calling in the liquidator. Once upon a time, this was the central company in Clare developers’ Sean Lyne and Noel Connellan’s Crystal Partners venture, a property investment group that snapped up large tracts of zoned land around the Banner County and in the south of… Read more »

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Nobby O’Reilly

MICHAEL O’REILLY’S VULTURE PROBLEM

Date: October 4, 2018 - The Hot Water Brigade

MORE headaches for former Pierse Contracting director Michael O’Reilly, who has just been hit with a judgment for over €1m by a vulture fund subsidiary of Goldman Sachs. Builder Mick and his brother, Nobby O’Reilly, have had plenty on their plate since the crash. Pierse Contracting Ltd was one of the more spectacular building sector… Read more »

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STRONG HEADWINDS AT WATERFORD AIRPORT

Date: October 4, 2018 - The Hot Water Brigade

THERE has been more turbulence at Waterford Airport. Last year, Aer Southeast – fronted by Icelandic businessman Einar Adalsteinsson – announced that it was going to establish routes from Waterford to the UK in 2018. Much to the chagrin of the beleaguered board of Waterford Airport, which hasn’t had a commercial flight since 2016, and… Read more »

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VULTURE PECKS GEORGE STAFFORD

Date: October 4, 2018 - The Hot Water Brigade

SPARE a thought for George and Patricia Stafford of the mighty Wexford Stafford dynasty. Launceston Property Finance, a vulture fund subsidiary of CarVal, has just registered matching judgments against the couple for a hefty €3.7m. George Stafford invested in property during the boom and the trouble started when Danske Bank obtained a judgment mortgage against… Read more »

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Pat O'Sullivan

WINDING UP LIMERICK FC

Date: October 4, 2018 - The Hot Water Brigade

JP MCMANUS must have been delighted with the generous media coverage of his largesse recently. One entity that could use a dig out from the so-called Sundance Kid is Limerick FC, which the Revenue is petitioning the High Court to have wound up on foot of an unpaid tax bill. The Super Blues hit the… Read more »

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Robert Simmons

ROBERT SIMMONS CUTS BACK

Date: October 4, 2018 - The Hot Water Brigade

SPARE a thought for veteran Dublin hairdresser and stylist Robert Simmons, who has had to call in the liquidator at his Powerscourt Townhouse Centre-based hair salon. Pzazz Hair Design Ltd has been a fixture on South William Street since Simmons opened the salon in 1981. The owner himself, a former president of the Irish Hairdressing… Read more »

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DAVID HERLIHY’S HIGH COURT SCRAP

Date: October 4, 2018 - The Hot Water Brigade

FORMER Limerick solicitor David Herlihy is back in the High Court next week in his scrap with the Law Society. It’s the latest episode in the former legal eagle’s row with Blackhall after he was struck off the roll of solicitors in the High Court last year. Herlihy’s appeal against High Court president Peter Kelly’s… Read more »

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John Mulcahy

SPECIAL TRIBUTE – JOHN MULCAHY

Date: September 20, 2018 - Pillars of Society

A JOURNALIST FOR ALL SEASONS JOHN MULCAHY will be remembered as not alone the publisher and inspiration behind The Phoenix – as well as the Irish Arts Review, the Sunday Tribune and Hibernia magazine – but as the gatekeeper of Irish investigative journalism. He trained,… Read more »

Leo Varadkar

LEO VARADKAR’S NON-DISCLOSURES

Date: September 20, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

THE CONTROVERSY over the leak of Dr Gabriel Scally’s report into the cervical cancer affair temporarily obscured Taoiseach Leo Varadkar’s responsibility in the matter. Vlad has since tied himself in knots over his denial that he had deleted the mandatory disclosure measure contained in the Civil Liability (Amendment) Bill. Vlad told the Irish Times last… Read more »

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Carly Bailey

YOUNG BLOOD: CARLY BAILEY

Date: September 20, 2018 - The Young Bloods

With the Labour Party imploding at the last general election and opinion polls showing further decline, former Labour members Róisín Shortall and Catherine Murphy, now joint leaders of the Social Democrats, see an opportunity for a breakthrough for their fledgling party. But candidate selection is a real problem for the new party and much will… Read more »

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Enda O'Coineen

ENDA O’COINEEN’S ‘POST’ DEAL

Date: September 20, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

SELF-DESCRIBED ‘unsinkable entrepreneur’ Enda O’Coineen has finally signed the deal to buy the Sunday Business Post from Conor Killeen. It turns out that a stipulation that any new owner sign up to a five-year print contract with Killeen’s Webprint operation had proved a stumbling block for interested parties. O’Coineen was the last man standing. The… Read more »

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TAKING BACK THE CITY

Date: September 20, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

Anyone looking for more information on the recent housing occupations in the media last weekend was treated to a Homeric catalogue of the various organisations that make up Take Back the City (TBTC). Although political parties are barred from joining the campaign, the occupiers are a disparate crew of activists, many drawn from the smaller… Read more »

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Richard Caring

‘POISON’ IVY

Date: September 20, 2018 - High Society

ALMOST TWO months after opening its doors, the 150-seat Ivy restaurant on Dublin’s Dawson St has been packing in the punters. It has also attracted some reviews, including one in the latest issue of the magazine Totally Dublin, where the reviews are sponsored by Krombacher beer. Happily for the German brewer, its beer is not… Read more »

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Paddy Cosgrave

PADDY COSGRAVE: IPHONE ANARCHIST

Date: September 20, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

If the hysterical media reaction to the Take Back the City protestors wasn’t evidence of their impact, then Web Summit barker Paddy Cosgrave’s pitiful attempt to piggyback on their publicity should have been. The Take Back the City hashtag has been one of the most active on Irish Twitter since the occupations began. Never one… Read more »

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Clare Hughes

CLARE HUGHES’S CAREER

Date: September 20, 2018 - High Society

EARLIER THIS month, agriculture minister Michael Creed – “in consultation with” sports minister Shane Ross – appointed three new members to the board of Horse Sport Ireland. The most high-profile of these is surely Lucinda Creighton, whose political rehabilitation is clearly in full swing. Another of the new directors is academic Mary Lambkin, chair of… Read more »

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Kieran Corrigan

KIERAN CORRIGAN’S STUDIO

Date: September 20, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

EARLIER THIS month, Meath County Council waved through planning permission for a film studio development at Ashbourne business park. Hopefully, the involvement of Kieran Corrigan doesn’t prove as entertaining as a previous venture. There was a time not so long ago when there was just the one film studio in Ireland (Ardmore), but today they… Read more »

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Jay Bourke

JAY BOURKE’S TAXING YEAR

Date: September 20, 2018 - The Hot Water Brigade

THE hits keep coming for Goldhawk’s old pal, one-time restaurant impresario Jay Bourke. Not even a year since the taxman slapped him with a judgment for €325,000, the Revenue has whacked him again, this time for €33,000. Fans of Goldhawk will be well aware that… Read more »

Brendan Howlin

HOWLIN’S MASTER PLAN

Date: September 20, 2018 - Last Refuge

BRENDAN HOWLIN appears to have survived the leadership heave orchestrated by Alan Kelly and his chief aide, Declan Walsh. The scenario now unfolding sees Howlin stepping down after the next election, with Kelly and putative leaders senators Ged Nash and Aodhán Ó Ríordáin returning to the Dáil and battling it out for the leadership. But… Read more »

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VOL 36 NO 19

Date: September 20, 2018 -

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NEIL JORDAN’S “SILLY” FILM

Date: September 20, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

THERE HAVE been mixed reactions to new films from Irish heavyweight directors Lenny Abrahamson and Neil Jordan, both of whom have been visiting our national cultural institutions in recent times. Last week, Abrahamson officially joined the establishment courtesy of the National Gallery of Ireland, which commissioned his portrait (by artist Donald Teskey). The director’s latest… Read more »

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Christy Kinahan

KINAHANS’ LAUNDRY

Date: September 20, 2018 - Hush Hush

AMID TABLOID allegations of the Kinahan cartel sourcing personnel and supplies from Eastern Europe, particularly Estonia, the question has to be asked why would an Irish gang look so far East? The answer is twofold. Firstly, after the breakup of the Soviet Union and Estonian independence in 1991, a sizeable portion of the armaments formerly… Read more »

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SHANE ROSS’S APPOINTMENTS

Date: September 20, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

SHANE ROSS recently made some appointments to the board of Fáilte Ireland, with some interesting names popping up. Among the new board members are the likes of Google exec Alice Mansergh and journo-turned-entrepreneur Margaret E Ward of Broadly Speaking – a “leadership and management consultancy”. Mags’s other state appointment is membership of the board of… Read more »

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Ned O'Sullivan

FOR THE BIRDS

Date: September 20, 2018 - Fowl Emissions

Being a Kerry politician can’t be easy, competing for attention in an airspace dominated by the din of the Healy-Raes. But Fianna Fáil Senator Ned O’Sullivan does his best. In 2014 he compared Enda Kenny to Adolf Hitler. A year later he made headlines with his crusade for a brutal cull of Ireland’s (endangered) seagull… Read more »

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GREENWASHING GAS

Date: September 20, 2018 - Fowl Emissions

In the post-truth age, it’s getting harder to tell satire from straight news. Take this recent story that began, “For the first time, natural gas has been sold with a certificate attesting to the conditions under which it is produced, giving the fuel an ‘ethical’ brand, like fair-trade coffee or dolphin-safe tuna.” Byline: Ed Crooks…. Read more »

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Bog Cuttings

BOG CUTTINGS

Date: September 20, 2018 - Bog Cuttings

Spare the rod A man charged with public order offences at Letterkenny District Court in Co Donegal appeared in court complete with fishing bag and fishing rod. Gardaí claimed they were called to a disturbance between two men in Letterkenny. They found Emlyn O’Donnell and his friend sitting on a step and O’Donnell was highly… Read more »

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Karen Bradley

DUP/TORY ARM LOCK

Date: September 20, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

On Monday, September 5, British northern secretary Karen Bradley had arranged to meet the Stormont parties to discuss ways to resurrect the executive and, in the absence of an executive, how to govern the north in the meantime. All the parties turned up except the DUP. Unknown to the others, the DUP had informed the… Read more »

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FUN AT THE PHIL

Date: September 20, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

TRINITY College’s student union received 20 complaints from students in relation to a debate to be held on campus this week by the University Philosophical Society. As reported in Trinity News, the motion, “That This House Believes That Middle Eastern Women Need Western Feminism,” irked some students, including one Ghalya Farhat, who said that by… Read more »

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Vougue Williams

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: September 20, 2018 - The Hot Air Brigade

I just got some new bed sheets today and I didn’t have to pay for them. Vogue Williams on living a ‘sponsored’ life, Sunday Independent, Submitted by reader O’Leary has blazed through his career with an aura of invincibility, mounted on a steed of arrogance, while lancing his enemies with gems from his oratorical arsenal…. Read more »

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Gemma O'Doherty

GEMMA O’DOHERTY’S SCOOPS

Date: September 20, 2018 - Fit to Print?

It’s ironic that Ireland’s most famous investigative journalist, Veronica Guerin, should be the torpedo that sank Gemma O’Doherty’s presidential campaign. In a bizarre comment – triggered at a meeting where a member of the audience compared her to Guerin – Gemma’s claim that the late journalist was killed by the state damaged her beyond repair…. Read more »

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WAITING ON DENIS NAUGHTEN

Date: September 20, 2018 - Fit to Print?

ACCOUNTS JUST filed by the joint venture between INM and Northern & Shell that publishes the Irish Daily Star confirm the downward trend in profits despite significant cost-cutting. The staff will be waiting to see what impact the sale of Richard Desmond’s 50% stake in the company to the publishers of the Mirror has on… Read more »

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Dana

DANA’S LEGAL CAMPAIGN

Date: September 20, 2018 - Fit to Print?

THE unrelenting campaign for vindication being pursued by Dana and her brother, John Brown, against INM titles and others came a step closer to climax on two different fronts recently. Following his acquittal in the UK on all charges of indecent assault against two girls in 2014, Brown and Dana initiated over 20 libel actions… Read more »

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Colm Keaveney

KEAVENEY COMEBACK?

Date: September 20, 2018 - Last Refuge

FORMER Fianna Fáil TD and ex-Labour Party chairman Colm Keaveney received quite a splash in the Sunday Times last weekend, indicating that FF handlers are keen to have him on the Galway East general election ticket again. Keaveney lost his seat in 2016, but a lot has changed in recent times. For a start, ex-junior… Read more »

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John McGuinness

THE ‘REAL’ OPPOSITION

Date: September 20, 2018 - Last Refuge

THE SCHIZOPHRENIA inside Fianna Fáil – is the party in government or opposition? – is being hammered home by Kilkenny TD John McGuinness, and there is a distinct unease in Micheál Martin’s leadership circle at the bolshie TD’s campaign to turn the party into a fighting opposition. Sinn Féin’s motion of no confidence in housing… Read more »

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Simon Coveney

COVENEY BACKSLIDES ON ISRAEL AGAIN

Date: September 20, 2018 - Last Refuge

SUDDENLY the government and the EU has become scrupulously attached to the spirit and the letter of EU commercial policy and is using it as an excuse to oppose a bill banning imports from illegal Israeli settlements. Would that the government were always so exercised about EU treaties and legislation, especially when it might have… Read more »

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