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Danny Healy-Rae

FINE GAEL FLEES FROM HEALY-RAES

Date: February 21, 2019 - Last Refuge

DANNY HEALY-RAE’S clownish antics on climate change and sundry issues are beginning to wear thin, even amongst the family’s large fan base in the Kingdom, but Fine Gael is still running scared of the TD and his brother, Michael, also a TD. Dublin HQ had been looking for a candidate in the northern part of… Read more »

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Vincent Browne

VINCENT BROWNE’S LIBEL FEUDS

Date: February 21, 2019 - Fit to Print?

FORMER justice minister Paddy Cooney (88 next month) has received comforting financial compensation and a measure of vindication arising from his serial litigation involving stories penned by provocative journalist Vincent Browne. A short notice in the Irish Times recently stated that Cooney had settled his libel action against the newspaper and Browne following an article… Read more »

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BOYCOTTING BETHANY

Date: February 21, 2019 - Fit to Print?

THE VIRTUAL boycott of the Bethany Homes scandal (over 200 babies died there in the first 27 years of the state) by the media, the Irish Times in particular, is baffling. Despite saturation coverage of Catholic institutions and their role in the abuse of children down the years, the IT’s failure to scrutinise the same… Read more »

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Paddy Agnew

‘IRISH TIMES’ HUBRIS

Date: February 21, 2019 - Fit to Print?

THE TRIUMPHAL tone of Irish Times managing director Liam Kavanagh’s recent message to staff declaring victory over its Rome correspondent Paddy Agnew’s unfair dismissal case may be a bit previous. The judge’s ruling in Italy’s version of the Labour Court was based on Agnew’s failure to continue membership of the Italian register of professional journalists… Read more »

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Greta Thunberg

KIDS 4 CLIMATE

Date: February 21, 2019 - Fowl Emissions

MINISTERS HAVE been talking a good fight on tackling climate change recently. On the other hand, actual policies to make this happen are as transparently threadbare as the emperor’s new robes in the Hans Christian Anderson tale. As leaders in Ireland and around the world… Read more »

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OIL PAINTINGS

Date: February 21, 2019 - Fowl Emissions

An interesting sidebar to the ongoing debacle over the National Children’s Hospital has been the state’s decision to turn down giving naming rights to the Ronald McDonald charity to help fund the building of family accommodation adjacent to the hospital. It’s unsurprising that having a junk food corporation sponsor any aspect of a children’s hospital… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: February 21, 2019 - Bog Cuttings

RANTED AT OFFICERS A SON of a garda called gardaí “cunts”, “bastards” and “faggots” in the seaside resort of Lahinch last November. At Ennis District Court, Judge Patrick Durcan described Finbarr O’Leary’s behaviour in the early hours of November 17 as “absolutely reprehensible”. Outlining the facts, Sgt Aidan Lonergan told Judge Durcan that O’Leary –… Read more »

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Ali Barker

ALI BARKER’S DAY IN COURT

Date: February 21, 2019 - High Society

THERE WERE sighs of relief last week when a long-running, high-stakes legal action between a separated couple was settled after the opening day in court. With the meter ticking since 2011, this was presumably the best outcome for all concerned. Goldhawk was interested to see that one half of the couple turns out to be… Read more »

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Consuelo O’Connor

MARTIN JOYCE’S PILE

Date: February 21, 2019 - High Society

AN IMPRESSIVE pile in Sandymount D4, previously owned by TP McKenna, has gone on the market with a hefty €3m price tag. The vendors are Martin and Joyce Henihan. The former is a well known name in architectural circles and has also been involved in a rather less lucrative property venture. Sandymount, however, is a… Read more »

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Fionnuala Flanagan

TAXMAN STARS IN ARTHOUSE DRAMA

Date: February 21, 2019 - Behind the Scenes

JUST WHEN the dust seemed to have settled on Galway’s dalliance with ‘cultural cinema’ – the bijou Pálás art house having been folded at considerable public cost into Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe’s Element empire – it turns out that a sequel, involving the Lelia Doolan-chaired Solas-Galway Picture Palace Company, may be in the offing…. Read more »

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Bryan Cooper

COOPER CUT LOOSE

Date: February 21, 2019 - Sport of Kings

BRYAN COOPER’S stint as first jockey to Chris Jones was certainly short-lived, with the association coming to an end just before the Dublin Racing Festival. Cooper had only joined forces with Jones in November and, while the partnership got off to a reasonable start with a win on board the promising Coeur Sublime at Down… Read more »

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Sean Mulryan

MULRYAN TARGETS BALLYMORE

Date: February 21, 2019 - Sport of Kings

COMEBACK KID Sean Mulryan – once again a major player in the national hunt owners’ league – took another step forward recently when he enjoyed a weekend double at his local tracks of Naas and Punchestown. More significantly for Mulryan, one of his winners, City Island, now looks good enough to tackle his owner’s own… Read more »

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JIM BOLGER’S TWO YEAR OLDS

Date: February 21, 2019 - Sport of Kings

SOME EYEBROWS were raised a few years ago when Jim Bolger sent around 20 of his mares to be covered by little-known stallion Fracas, who stands at Joe Joyce’s Cahermorris Stables in Galway. The sceptics will have their predictions put to the test in the… Read more »

Jimmy Long

ANDREW HUGHES’S HICCUP

Date: February 21, 2019 - Sport of Kings

THE BRITISH Horseracing Authority (BHA) offered little room for manoeuvre to a nonplussed Andrew Hughes when he made the trip to Scotland recently. He needs some good news and fast. When the Irish-trained The Tartan Spartan arrived at Musselburgh racecourse in Scotland for the first day back racing after the enforced six-day break, he was… Read more »

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Kathryn Purves

EXCEPTIONAL COSTS MEAN IFG SHARES ARE OVERVALUED

Date: February 21, 2019 - Moneybags

IT IS difficult to know exactly how IFG got involved in the £200m Elysian bioethanol plant scandal that kicked off a few years ago, but it is still casting a pall over the group. It is also hard to understand why John Gallagher got involved… Read more »

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LIAM HAZEL’S ‘NIGHTMARE’

Date: February 21, 2019 - Brief Cases

GOLDHAWK got a blast from the past recently when he saw old pal Alex Gibbons pop up in the Court of Appeal. The rogue Clonakilty solicitor will be familiar to readers for his numerous scraps with the Law Society, which struck him off the Roll of Solicitors in 2016 for a third time for, among… Read more »

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JACKIE GREENE’S PROFIT SPLIT

Date: February 21, 2019 - Brief Cases

A DUBLIN-based building company, Jackie Greene Construction (JGC) Ltd, had a bad time of it in the Supreme Court last month in a long-running scrap with the IBRC. The judgment by chief justice Frank Clarke contains some interesting insight into the modus operandi of Irish Nationwide Building Society (INBS) under Michael Fingelton. Founded by Jackie… Read more »

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THOMAS FLANAGAN’S ITALIAN PALS

Date: February 21, 2019 - Brief Cases

CONNEMARA aeuronautics business Éirecomposites Teoranta (ET) has finally gotten around to filing its 2017 accounts. And there was some good news at last for its largest shareholder, Tuam businessman Thomas Flanagan. The company exited examinership last August and, according to the recent filings, has managed to secure €1.5m in investment since then. It’s a rare… Read more »

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JOHN SWAN’S ROTTEN FRUIT

Date: February 21, 2019 - Brief Cases

INTERESTING to see that accountant John Healy has just been appointed provisional liquidator to Carlow wholesaler Bestwell Ltd. The largest shareholder here is Palatine businessman John Swan (80%), who has managed to seriously piss off the taxman with his alleged conduct at another company, Swan Fruit Ltd. His Kernanstown-based cash-and-carry company, Swan Fruit, where his… Read more »

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Barry and Bernard Broderick

NOT SO TASTY FOR BRODERICKS

Date: February 21, 2019 - Brief Cases

NEWLY filed accounts suggest the brothers behind Broderick’s cakes and bars could do with sweetening their mix. Although sales were up slightly at Ina’s Kitchen Desserts (IKD) Ltd, the company behind the brand made a loss of €1.8m in 2017, with accumulated losses at the Tallaght-based outfit topping €2m by the end of the year…. Read more »

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Consuelo O’Connor

DÉJÀ VU FOR NICHOLAS CUSHNAHAN

Date: February 21, 2019 - Brief Cases

For a second time in as many years, Dublin bean counter Nicholas Cushnahan, a partner at Houlihan Cushnahan chartered accountants in Glasthule, has found himself on the wrong side of the Chartered Accountants Regulatory Board (CARB). At the end of last month, Cushnahan was yet again slapped on the wrist for failing to cooperate with… Read more »

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Des Coffey

DES COFFEY’S NEW JUDGMENTS

Date: February 21, 2019 - Brief Cases

MORE hard cheese for restaurateur Des Coffey, who has just had two small tax judgments registered against him, less than a month after the Revenue wound up one of his companies. Fans of Goldhawk will recall that the taxman successfully petitioned the High Court to wind up Farm Food Emporium Ltd – the company behind… Read more »

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Nicholas Krivenko

WINDING UP NICHOLAS KRIVENKO

Date: February 21, 2019 - Brief Cases

STRANGE to see that a winding-up petition has been filed against a dissolved Co Limerick property vehicle, Riverhall Ltd, by a New York-based creditor. The company was struck off the companies register back in 2003 and details of creditor Donal Moloney’s action are thin on the ground. However, a glance at Riverhall’s CRO filings reveals… Read more »

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Frances Black

COVENEY HIDES BEHIND AG

Date: February 7, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

THE MANNER of Simon Coveney’s dismissal of several legal opinions in support of Senator Frances Black’s Occupied Territories Bill (banning produce imported from Palestinian land occupied illegally by Israel) was unfortunate, if not downright offensive. The government’s excuse for opposing Black’s bill – it is supported by Fianna Fáil and Sinn Féin – is based… Read more »

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Eamon Martin

PROFILE: ARCHBISHOP EAMON MARTIN

Date: February 7, 2019 - Pillars of Society

EAMON Martin, the relatively unknown archbishop of Armagh and primate of all Ireland, is the coming man in a once-omnipotent Irish hierarchy struggling to regain credibility with an apathetic, disillusioned public. But he faces an early and most challenging test at this month’s Vatican conference on clerical sexual abuse. It is Primate of All Ireland… Read more »

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Anna Cosgrave

YOUNG BLOOD: ANNA COSGRAVE

Date: February 7, 2019 - The Young Bloods

SELF-DESCRIBED ‘social entrepreneur’ Anna Cosgrave has been a fixture in the Irish media since the launch of her ‘Repeal’ jumpers in 2016. One of the clear winners from the campaign leading up to last year’s abortion referendum, the 29-year-old Wicklow native is set to launch her latest project, Motsbox – an online media outlet aimed… Read more »

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Edmund Honohan

ED HONOHAN PURGED

Date: February 7, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

THAT meddlesome Master of the High Court, Ed Honohan, has been effectively purged after years of ‘interfering’ in matters that the judiciary, the banks, the government and even the main opposition party, Fianna Fáil, regard as outside his remit. Honohan’s spot of DIY on his courtroom windows was portrayed as the act of some delinquent… Read more »

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Josepha Madigan

JOSEPHA MADIGAN’S BOTCHED BURSARIES

Date: February 7, 2019 - Behind the Scenes

FANS OF The Phoenix will not have been surprised to hear about the sudden brake applied to the €20,000-a-pop “Markievicz bursaries” announced last November by Minister for Culture Josepha Madigan and aimed exclusively at women artists. As Goldhawk noted, “it is hard to see how such a scheme got the green light” (see The Phoenix,… Read more »

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Denis O'Brien

DENIS O’BRIEN TO EXIT MEDIA?

Date: February 7, 2019 - Fit to Print?

IS DENIS O’BRIEN trying to offload not only his Newstalk radio station but also his stake in Independent News & Media, the now-crumbling media empire he seized from the O’Reilly family seven years ago? The latest cuts at INM – 23 editorial and eight commercial… Read more »

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SARAH LIPSETT’S ELECTION CAMPAIGN

Date: February 7, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

WANNABE politician Sarah Lipsett got her local election campaign off to a flying start last month with a soft piece in the Sindo in which she put all that unfortunate nursing home controversy behind her. In 2011, the Rostrevor nursing home in upmarket Orwell Road, Rathgar, was the subject of a huge amount of highly… Read more »

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Angeliza Zerpa

MADURO’S IRISH CRITICS

Date: February 7, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

ONE GROUP that will be delighted by Ireland’s support for the Venezuelan opposition and Juan Guaidó in recent weeks is the Venezuelan Community in Ireland (VCI). Founded in April 2017, VCI is a non-profit group that aims to “work towards the integration of the Venezuelans… Read more »

Dery Desmond

RED INK FOR THE DESMOND BOYS

Date: February 7, 2019 - High Society

WHILE DER Kaiser has developed quite a reputation for making a killing from his investments, Dermot Desmond’s scions are struggling to match him, at least when it comes to generating a profit from shifting expensive burgers, expensive chips and expensive booze to hipsters with plenty of disposable income. It doesn’t sound like it should be… Read more »

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Date: February 7, 2019 -

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Denis O'Brien

DINNY’S HAITIAN HEADACHE

Date: February 7, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

DENIS O’BRIEN’S Caribbean woes continue, with fuel shortages in Haiti causing his mobile phone operation there severe problems and even landing his outspoken chief executive with a summons. Dinny’s Digicel has been having a bumpy ride as a result of high-profile efforts to get bondholders to rollover almost $3bn worth of bonds to 2022 and… Read more »

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Patrick Collison

COLLISON BROTHERS’ BLUES

Date: February 7, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

THE HIGH fives at John and Patrick Collison’s Stripe tech outfit following last week’s $22.5bn valuation were put on hold this week when the company found itself included on a subpoena from federal investigators. While there is no suggestion they have broken any laws, it represents yet another PR blip for the Limerick brothers. The… Read more »

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Norman Finkelstein

STORMIN NORMAN VS THE PHIL

Date: February 7, 2019 - Student Life

WHAT IS going on at the Trinity College Philosophical Society (The Phil)? The debating society has had to endure the wrath of American academic and critic of Israel Norman Finkelstein in recent weeks after it pulled an invitation for him to speak in Trinners, blaming a shortage of funds and an administrative balls-up. In two… Read more »

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