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ELLIOTT BACKS SAMCRO

Date: November 15, 2018 - Sport of Kings

SO, WHAT to do with Samcro? Hailed by Davy Russell last year as the second coming, trainer Gordon Elliott fanned the flames of the horse’s reputation any time he spoke of him, while the only connection who didn’t seem to get carried away by the hype was owner Mick O’Leary. The Ryanair moneybags may have… Read more »

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Jim Martin

JIM MARTIN’S HEADACHE

Date: November 15, 2018 - Sport of Kings

ANOTHER all-weather track is on the cards for Ireland, with plans at an advanced stage for an artificial racing surface to be installed at the Horse Racing Ireland-owned Tipperary racecourse. There has been talk for a number of years about developing a second all-weather track, such has been the success of Dundalk since its opening… Read more »

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Patrick Doran

PATRICK DORAN’S HIGH RAILINGS

Date: November 15, 2018 - High Society

SOON-TO-BE resident of Shrewsbury Road in the heart of D4, packaging moneybags Patrick Doran, has just suffered a setback for his plans to install “overly high” railings and gates to the front of his new pile, which is currently being completely renovated. The house, Fintragh, was reported to have been purchased by the low-profile Doran,… Read more »

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Judy Woodworth

JUDY WOODWORTH’S GOOD AND BAD NEWS

Date: November 15, 2018 - High Society

THERE WAS bad news last week when Wicklow County Council shot down a proposal from the Judy Woodworth-chaired Alfred Beit Foundation (ABF) to convert two outbuildings at Russborough House in Co Wicklow into rental accommodation. While this will hit long-term income plans, things are looking up in Blessington. Woodworth chairs the ABF, which includes mediator… Read more »

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Rebecca Moynihan

AFTER FILMBASE IN TEMPLE BAR

Date: November 15, 2018 - Behind the Scenes

THE APPLICATIONS are in from arts organisations seeking to move their headquarters to the cultural hub that is Dublin’s Temple Bar. The prize is the old Filmbase offices on Curved Street. In March this year, the wheels came off Filmbase when Tom Murray was appointed liquidator (although that story is far from over, with the… Read more »

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REPLACING JOHN MCAULIFFE

Date: November 15, 2018 - Behind the Scenes

AFTER FIVE years, John McAuliffe has finished his term as a member (and deputy chair) of the Arts Council. This is the start of a period of regime change on Merrion Square. McAuliffe has been in situ since 2013 and the Manchester-based writer and academic was appointed as deputy chair in 2016 by the then… Read more »

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Emma Donoghue

SOAKING UP THOSE FILM FUNDS

Date: November 15, 2018 - Behind the Scenes

ANNIE DOONA’S Screen Ireland posted its third-quarter funding allocations last week. As with every round, there is the usual, dominant set of recipients, the established companies that soak up much of the resources. Andrew Lowe and Ed Guiney’s Element operation received four development project loans (a total of €97,000) for projects being written by Emma… Read more »

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Ronan Lynch

SEAN LYNCH TACKLES THE ‘IRISH TIMES’

Date: November 15, 2018 - Briefcases

INTERESTING to see that the Irish Times is being sued by a popular Dublin 2 pub. The Swan Bar on Aungier Street and its owners – Sean and his son, Ronan Lynch – are suing the paper of record over a 2016 article that incorrectly stated that the boozer had closed down. The row is… Read more »

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Dermot Foster

TAXMAN LOCKS ON TO BASTA

Date: November 15, 2018 - Briefcases

MORE headaches for the team behind Sligo lock and door manufacturing plant Basta Parsons Ltd, with the taxman filing a winding-up petition. This follows the company’s appointment of an examiner. The Revenue’s petition was presented to the court at the beginning of November and is due to be heard next week. It comes just three… Read more »

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Gene Murtagh

MONEYBAGS PROFILE: GENE MURTAGH

Date: November 15, 2018 - Moneybags

GENE MURTAGH is chief executive of one of Ireland’s most dynamic companies of recent time – Kingspan. Although he is only 47, he has been in situ as CEO for 13 years, but that probably has something to do with the fact that he took over from the company’s founder (now chairman) – his father,… Read more »

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Judge Peter Kelly

TRIBUNAL GROUNDS LEGAL EAGLES

Date: November 15, 2018 - Briefcases

A COUPLE of troubled legal eagles have found themselves on the wrong side of the Law Society again. The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal has censured and fined Limerick City solicitor Christoper Lynch for two findings of professional misconduct. Lynch has some history with the disciplinary tribunal, having previously been suspended from practice in 2014. The Law… Read more »

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Eugene Murtagh

MONEYBAGS PROFILE: EUGENE MURTAGH

Date: November 15, 2018 - Moneybags

EUGENE MURTAGH’S story features an incredible rise to the big time, taking place mostly off the radar (no honorary doctorates for the media-shy Cavan man). Those who have backed him over the past decades will have made serious profits, none more so than himself. Murtagh’s wealth is dominated by his stake in the company, but… Read more »

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THE PHOENIX ANNUAL 2018 – ON SALE NOW!

Date: November 15, 2018 -

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ADRIAN BLANC’S BILL

Date: November 14, 2018 - Briefcases

SPARE a thought for Foxrock businessman Adrian Blanc, who has just been whacked by vulture fund Launceston to the tune of €2.3m. Blanc (also known as Adrian Le Blanc) and his wife Lucille Blanc have had a rough ride in recent times after gambling heavily… Read more »

Mary Lou McDonald

MARY LOU’S ELECTION BLUES

Date: November 1, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

POST-ELECTION depression among Sinn Féin members will quickly turn to anger if the leadership does not show contrition and self-criticism over the presidential election fiasco. And some internal critics are claiming that, if the same electoral method is applied at the general election, the results could also be damaging. It is not as if warnings… Read more »

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Simon Coveney

CORK DAUPHIN BOWS TO SAUDI PRINCE

Date: November 1, 2018 - Last Refuge

THE most remarkable aspect of Tánaiste and foreign minister Simon Coveney’s feeble reaction to the Saudi murder of Jamal Khashoggi was not that it took him over a fortnight to utter a cheep about the journalist’s torture and slaying. Nor was it the refusal to even threaten expulsion of any Saudi diplomat, as was the… Read more »

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Paddy Cosgrave

PROFILE: PADDY COSGRAVE

Date: November 1, 2018 - Pillars of Society

Is Web Summit founder Paddy Cosgrave a tech-sector profiteer or a civic-minded altruist with his finger on the pulse of current political debate? The event organiser, who has just inked a multi-million euro deal to keep his conference in Lisbon until 2028, has blurred the… Read more »

Enda O'Coineen

‘POST’ BOSS LOSES DRESSING ROOM

Date: November 1, 2018 - Fit to Print?

NEW Sunday Business Post owner Enda O’Coineen addressed his business-savvy – but worried – journalists recently in an effort to soothe concerns following his Stockholm digital TV interview. However, O’Coineen’s pep talk provoked more questions than answers. In the Stockholm interview, O’Coineen said he intended to totally reinvent the newspaper as a digital platform and,… Read more »

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Patrick Collison

COLLISON BROTHERS’ BAD PRESS

Date: November 1, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

JOHN AND Patrick Collison, the Limerick-born wunderkinds behind online payments company Stripe, are not used to negative press – particularly in Ireland. So it was very interesting to see the company centre stage in two separate PR storms in the last month. In the wake of the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre last weekend, Stripe announced that… Read more »

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Frank Fitzgibbon

CASEY’S CHORUS

Date: November 1, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

PETER CASEY brought out the Tory beast in the Sunday Times and its Dublin-based champion, Frank Fitzgibbon, editor of the Aarish edition. Like some editorial Dr Strangelove, Frank’s right hand shot up to pen clichés last weekend in an editorial praising Casey’s remarks about the welfare state and those who “pay for everything and get… Read more »

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Mary Harney

MARY HARNEY’S INVESTMENT

Date: November 1, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

GOOD TO see the busy former health minister Mary Harney putting her money where her mouth is. No doubt she has plenty of the folding stuff these days, given her array of corporate interests. Harney’s own website highlights her as a woman of “reform, innovation, enterprise”, noting that, having retired from politics in 2011, the… Read more »

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Crystal Li

CRYSTAL LI’S LIFELINE

Date: November 1, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

HAVING APPEARED to have succeeded in getting a big public translation contract cancelled and restarted, Ruski lawyer Olga Shajaku got some frustrating news last week when the state got the green light to head to the Supreme Court for yet another hearing. For Olga’s competitor Crystal Li, however, the ruling opens up the possibility of… Read more »

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Lucinda Creighton

LUCINDA’S NEO-CON FRIENDS

Date: November 1, 2018 - Hush Hush

LUCINDA CREIGHTON, former minister for Europe and Fine Gael enfant terrible, has returned to the continent and the EU lobbying gravy train with Vulcan Consulting, “Ireland’s fastest-growing government relations firm”, as Vulcan (the Roman God of Fire) puts it. But in her spare time and away from those fuddy-duddy EU liberals, Lucinda has been fraternising… Read more »

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Brendan Halligan

BRENDAN HALLIGAN’S ONE CHINA POLICY

Date: November 1, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

THERE WAS much scratching of heads in Leinster House last month when ceann comhairle Seán Ó Fearghail circulated a letter to members warning them to back off from any links to Taiwan. One person who will have kept a close eye on developments is Brendan Halligan, founder of the Institute for International and European Affairs… Read more »

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Graham McLaren

NATIONAL THEATRE’S US IMPORT

Date: November 1, 2018 - Behind the Scenes

FANS OF Irish theatre got a treat this week when RTÉ broadcast a show devoted to life inside the Abbey Theatre, where the director ‘team’ of Graham McLaren and Neil Murray have been in situ for two years. Not surprisingly, missing from the documentary were some of the gripes that have been growing in more… Read more »

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LIBEL STAND-OFF

Date: November 1, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

BARRISTER-turned-seminarian-turned-layman and now litigant, Conor Gannon, has taken out High Court writs against three newspapers following reports published in connection with his time at the Irish College in Rome. A report in the Irish Times last May was quickly regurgitated by two tabloids, as well as other media but, initially and within days, Gannon sued… Read more »

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NOSTROVIA!

Date: November 1, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

VODKA FANS be warned. Last month, one Francisco Xavier Fermin De Eizaguirre of La Maguna, Plum Bay Les Terre Basses, in the French territory of Saint Martin, petitioned the High Court to wind up a “premium vodka” company based in Ballymoate, Sligo. Also supporting the petition was France-based Roman Gazine. A provisional liquidator is now… Read more »

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LIMERICK STUDENTS TARGET ARAMARK

Date: November 1, 2018 - Student Life

BOXING superstar Katie Taylor is currently making her Irish box-office debut in a new documentary, but a company for whom she did some work is being dragged into a scrap of its own. Fans of Goldhawk will be well aware that food services multinational Aramark – for which Taylor has acted as a “health and… Read more »

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Gavin Duffy

DUBLIN 7 TO MOROCCO

Date: November 1, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

HOLDER of the presidential wooden spoon Gavin Duffy lost his deposit and he also got hit for a €20 spot when canvassing in Henry Street by a volunteer for the Just ASK charity trip to Morocco. Just ASK volunteers were fundraising to bring 20 or so Dublin kids to work with an orphanage high in… Read more »

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Sinead O'Connor

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: November 1, 2018 - The Hot Air Brigade

This is the natural conclusion of any intelligent theologian’s journey. Shuhada’ Davitt (formerly Sinéad O’Connor) on becoming a Muslim, as reported in the Irish Mirror, submitted by reader They move inwards instead of out, the head itself is turned inside out, the magic box of tricks opens to reveal a dark, intense realm, a world… Read more »

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Eamon O'Cuiv

FIANNA FÁIL’S NORTHERN STAR

Date: November 1, 2018 - Bird's Eye View

LAST Thursday night’s chaotic on-off ‘selection’ of Sorcha McAnespy as a Fianna Fáil candidate for next May’s council elections in the north did nevertheless produce some clarity in the interminable on-off Fianna Fáil-SDLP courtship. It’s now clear, despite Micheál Martin announcing in 2013 that the party would fight the 2019 local government elections in the… Read more »

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Peter Casey

CASEY EYES UP DONEGAL DÁIL SEAT

Date: November 1, 2018 - Last Refuge

DONEGAL’S triumphant and Trumpian Peter Casey told Donegal Daily four years ago that he wanted to stand for the Dáil in either Donegal or Dublin, with a preference for the former. He restated this ambition last weekend, but he will have a battle against Fianna… Read more »

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TARGETING NATO

Date: November 1, 2018 - Last Refuge

PRESIDENT Michael D Higgins and Seán Gallagher were the only two presidential candidates that responded to a letter from the Peace and Neutrality Alliance (PANA) about their position on neutrality during the election campaign. Amazingly, Sinn Féin’s Liadh Ní Riada failed to respond, as did Gavin Duffy. While Joan Freeman acknowledged the letter and said… Read more »

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John O'Donoghue

‘TIGER’ O’DONOGHUE’S POLITICAL COMEBACK

Date: November 1, 2018 - Last Refuge

WHAT on earth is former justice minister, arts minister and Ceann Comhairle John O’Donoghue doing in his bid to become a humble county councillor in Kerry? Most voters will recall, not fondly, the reports of O’Donoghue’s extravagant expenses and foreign jaunts when he was a minister which culminated in his resignation as Ceann Comhairle in… Read more »

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Kieran McDaid

HACKS AWARDS BEAR GARDEN

Date: November 1, 2018 - Fit to Print?

THE mega-egos of mainstream journalism will gather in the Mansion house this month for an event of far greater significance than the first Dáil, namely the NewsBrands Journalism Awards. Hopefully, there will be no repetition of the unseemly reaction to decisions in recent years that saw various piqued editorial executives respond with anger, threatened boycotts… Read more »

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Mark Ferguson

LEO’S CLIMATE ADVISOR

Date: November 1, 2018 - Fowl Emissions

Recent statements by Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and many of his Cabinet colleagues regarding climate change have been so completely out of touch with reality that you might wonder if anyone is actually advising them? The answer, unfortunately, is yes. Prof Mark Ferguson is government chief scientific advisor. He’s also director general of Science Foundation Ireland… Read more »

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