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MICHEÁL GANLEY’S GIG

Date: October 18, 2018 - Student Life

KILL ALL Normies author Angela Nagle was in Trinity College recently to speak at an event with right-wing YouTuber Carl Benjamin. More interesting than their snore-fest debate on identity politics was some of the people involved in the event. Promotional materials had been floating around online naming something called the Trinity Classical Liberal Society (Lib… Read more »

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PAUL POGBA’S BRAND

Date: October 18, 2018 - Hush Hush

WHILE MANCHESTER United fans have been despairing at the underwhelming performance of superstar Paul Pogba, the Irish end of the story continues to play out. Last year, it emerged that the ‘Paul Pogba’ brand was transferred to an Irish company registered in Clonakilty called Blue Brands Ltd, where one of the directors turns out to… Read more »

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BEHIND THE ÁRAS

Date: October 4, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

A HIDDEN hand or hands have been at play in what is shaping up to be the dirtiest presidential campaign ever. Labour Party campaigners and other supporters of Michael D Higgins have been anticipating an ambush for months and recent weeks have seen a concerted effort to ‘get’ Higgins. And one of their targets is… Read more »

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Simon Coveney

UN SEAT: COVENEY CHECKMATES CANADA

Date: October 4, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

TÁNAISTE and foreign minister Simon Coveney’s stirring speech to the United Nations General Assembly last weekend championed the Palestinians in a manner that belies the government record of refusing to break with EU foreign policy on the Middle East. This change of tack has little to do with rediscovering traditional Irish foreign policy on the… Read more »

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Liadh Ní Riada MEP

PROFILE: LIADH NÍ RIADA MEP

Date: October 4, 2018 - Pillars of Society

THERE ARE those in Sinn Féin who believe that the party’s presidential bid via Liadh Ní Riada, daughter of iconic Irish composer Seán Ó Riada, is an inspired move that could see her outflank the two main parties that have cried off hurt. But there… Read more »

Louise O'Neill

YOUNG BLOOD: LOUISE O’NEILL

Date: October 4, 2018 - The Young Bloods

It’s been a bumper year for young adult fiction writer Louise O’Neill (33). The Cork native has published two books since the spring and the stage version of her well-received novel, Asking For It, is slated for a two-week run in The Abbey Theatre in November. Just how has the novelist managed to wrap the… Read more »

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Paschal Donoghue

PASCHAL VS MARY LOU VS PARTY RIVALS

Date: October 4, 2018 - Last Refuge

FINANCE MINISTER Paschal Donohoe has made a bold move in his Dublin Central constituency. He has taken on a running mate, even though he narrowly staved off a threat to his seat at the last general election. Donohoe’s move is aggressive, politically correct, courageous etc, but while it slaps it up to the other parties,… Read more »

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Gerry Byrne

‘INDO’S’ K CLUB COCK-UP

Date: October 4, 2018 - Wigs on the Green

THE LITIGATION between former K Club catering manager Peter Curran and the K Club, its head of security and one Mick Smurfit is due back in court this week when we should learn if Mick will be making an appearance. Meanwhile, the Indo has been landed with a defamation action as a result of a… Read more »

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Avril Stanley

AVRIL STANLEY’S SWEET SOUNDS

Date: October 4, 2018 - High Society

IT LOOKS like combining music with new age hippy mysticism and mindfulness is a rather profitable business. Earlier this summer (before those post-Electric Picnic images), festival promoter Avril Stanley had a pop at festival-goers who treat the campsites like rubbish tips, advising, “You don’t have to abandon all rules of common decency when it comes… Read more »

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Crohan O'Shea

CROHAN O’SHEA’S €10M PILE

Date: October 4, 2018 - High Society

WHILE THE property market has shown faint signs of slowing down, there was no hint of this last week when property developer Crohan O’Shea – Kerry Person of the Year 2011 and associate of one Seán Fitzpatrick – put his impressive home overlooking Killiney Bay on the market for, wait for it, €10m. A report… Read more »

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Ben Gilroy

BEN GILROY’S ‘ABHORRENT’ BEHAVIOUR

Date: October 4, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

IT WAS reported this week that Goldhawk’s old pal, Direct Democracy founder Ben Gilroy, is the subject of a High Court order from Judge Robert Haughton preventing him from taking certain legal actions and from providing advice to others who find themselves before the courts…. Read more »

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Volume 36 Issue 20

Date: October 4, 2018 -

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Tim Brennan

TIM BRENNAN VS RTÉ

Date: October 4, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

THE FALL-OUT from a finding by the British Horseracing Authority (BHA) that Co Kilkenny vet Tim Brennan is not guilty of passing on inside information continues. RTÉ has just received a writ from the vet, alleging that he has been defamed. Brennan was the subject of intense media scrutiny after the BHA issued a press… Read more »

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WEE DANIEL’S BIG BUCKS

Date: October 4, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

WEE DANIEL O’Donnell has been keeping busy, serenading the Pope and popping up in TV adverts. It is not surprising that the Donegal crooner is worth a few bob, as the latest figures for DOD confirm, although there have been a lot of comings and goings. The O’Donnell set-up has changed in recent times, with… Read more »

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Colm Murphy

‘DISCIPLINARY MATTERS’

Date: October 4, 2018 - Wigs on the Green

HOLLOW LAUGHTER from solicitor Colm Murphy in Kenmare could surely be heard all the way to the Law Society’s HQ in Blackhall Place in Dublin when the latest edition of the Law Society Gazette was published. A statement from the Law Society’s Complaints and Client Relations Committee (CCRC) said the Court of Appeal had expressed… Read more »

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Vogue Williams

THE HUMBLING OF PAUL STENSON

Date: October 4, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

VOGUE Williams is back on Irish screens with a new season of her documentary series and one episode in particular caught Goldhawk’s eye. In My Sponsored Life, the model-turned-documentarian investigated the strange lifestyles and lucrative business models of social media influencers. By far the most interesting segment centred on Goldhawk’s old pal Paul Stenson, the… Read more »

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Jack Sen

WILD ATLANTIC FASCISTS

Date: October 4, 2018 - Hush Hush

A GARDA ASU (armed support unit) assisting detectives from Milford and involving four garda jeeps recently raided a home near Annagry, close to Donegal Airport, arresting a prominent UK far-right extremist after searching for arms and discovering ammunition there. The suspect was eventually released from Letterkenny Garda station without charge, but a file is being… Read more »

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LESLIE BUCKLEY’S GOOD TIMES

Date: October 4, 2018 - Hush Hush

Leslie Buckley has had a lot on his plate courtesy of that investigation into Independent News and Media by the ODCE. However, the good news is that he continues to make money from assorted other activities. Buckley popped up at the Liam Miller tribute match last week and at the corporate shindig afterwards, where he… Read more »

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Boris Johnson

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: October 4, 2018 - The Hot Air Brigade

What we need to do is build a bridge between our islands. Why don’t we? Why don’t we? Boris Johnson pushes for a ‘Brexit bridge’ between Scotland and the north, Sunday Times Michael’s mind is symbolic of that more sensitive aspect of ourselves. His presidency is such a gift to us. He reminds us about… Read more »

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Theresa May

BRITISH ARMY’S LEGACY

Date: October 4, 2018 - Bird's Eye View

Last week Michael Quinn was awarded £193,000 for what the judge described as the “pain and suffering” he endured as a result of being shot on Bloody Sunday in 1972. A paratrooper aimed a lethal headshot at Quinn as he ran to aid a man fatally wounded. The bullet shattered Quinn’s cheekbone and went through… Read more »

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Michael D Higgins

HIGGINS NO-SHOWS

Date: October 4, 2018 - Last Refuge

MICHAEL D HIGGINS has shown yet again that he is anything but a naïve aesthete, as his deft political footwork and PR manipulation illustrated last week. RTÉ’s news and current affairs MD, Jon Williams, took charge of negotiations with the Áras in an effort to persuade Higgins to debate with the pygmies that would presume… Read more »

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Janice Boylan Irish Military Mali Coolock Says No IFP Hermann Kelly Timmy Dooley Aontú Mal O’Hara Fintan O’Toole Josepha Madigan Eoghan Harris Ukraine War Micheál Martin Middle East Philip Ryan Seán Clancy Simon Coveney Hugo MacNeill Mountbatten Neasa Hourigan Green Party Martin NPT Ivana Bacik Independents Limerick Hospital Overcrowding Barry Cowen

VERSATILE VINCENT

Date: October 4, 2018 - Last Refuge

GREEN but multi-coloured Vincent P Martin is surely the most versatile political personality in Ireland. The senior counsel, former legal/property activist with New Beginnings and a member of the Private Residential Tenancies Board (PRTB), Martin was also a Fianna Fáil member. He then went independent and is now a Green Party political activist and is… Read more »

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Sean Sherlock

SHERLOCK GETS BACK ON THE WAGON

Date: October 4, 2018 - Last Refuge

LABOUR TD Seán Sherlock, caused some concern among party TDs and senators recently as he appeared to have succumbed to the demon drink again – politically, not personally – as he had supported one or more amendments to the Public Health (Alcohol) Bill wending its long and torturous journey through the Oireachtas. Sherlock joined with… Read more »

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Diageo Dana An Garda Síochána IT Trust No Stone Unturned Irish Times Black Friday Vicky Conway

EXAMINER’S LEGACY DEBT

Date: October 4, 2018 - Fit to Print?

A LEGACY debt the Irish Times had to pick up following its recent takeover of the Irish Examiner arose from a rather serious mistake the paper made in naming Ciaran Damery as being wanted in connection with the IRA killing of Sgt Jerry McCabe in 1996. The error in confusing Ciaran Damery with his brother… Read more »

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Radio Kerry

RADIO SILENCE

Date: October 4, 2018 - Fit to Print?

KERRY’S EYE sleuth Aidan O’Connor recently provided his newspaper with a local media scoop concerning a €1m High Court judgment against a pillar of the community in Kerry. For one reason or another, Radio Kerry declined to follow up or even lift O’Connor’s exclusive. AIB recently secured its €1 million judgment against former Lee Strand… Read more »

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Paul O'Neill

JOURNALISM MATTERS (SOMETIMES)

Date: October 4, 2018 - Fit to Print?

THE MOST laudable campaign, Journalism Matters Week, launched by NewsBrands Ireland recently, was enthusiastically promoted by the Irish Times in particular. The Old Lady of Tara Street draped the banner of press freedom and democracy around itself like some bare-breasted French revolutionary hussy ‘leading the people’. However the old lady’s slip was showing a different… Read more »

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Ed Walsh

COVENEY BINS CLIMATE DENIAL

Date: October 4, 2018 - Fowl Emissions

Ireland’s chronic inaction on tackling climate change is inflicting acute reputational damage internationally. And while Taoiseach Leo Varadkar still thinks ‘climate action’ has something to do with paper cups, foreign minister Simon Coveney seems focused on the bigger picture. Last week he spoke at the UN General Assembly in New York and said it was… Read more »

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JOHN FITZGERALD’S HOT AIR

Date: October 4, 2018 - Fowl Emissions

There are worrying signs that government Climate Change Advisory Council chair Prof John FitzGerald has fallen hook, line and sinker for agri-industrial spinning about methane magically disappearing from the atmosphere. “We certainly haven’t suggested a carbon tax, a methane tax on the herd,” he told the Irish Farmers Journal recently. “That would not be where… Read more »

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Bog Cuttings

BOG CUTTINGS

Date: October 4, 2018 - Bog Cuttings

A night on the gargoyle A DRUNK Donegal man was caught smashing up a garden gargoyle and taking washing from a clothesline of another man who he had been in a car crash with. Darragh Sweeney of Killygordon appeared at Letterkenny District Court on public order charges. The court was told that a couple had… Read more »

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Consuelo O’Connor

BERNIE GALLAGHER’S RENOVATION

Date: October 4, 2018 - High Society

SOME LONG overdue renovation works are being carried out on a prestige property on leafy Herbert Park in the heart of Ballsbridge. No 34 has lain vacant for many years, having been sold near the height of the boom before an attempt was made to flip it for a whopping €13.5m. In fact, the large… Read more »

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Selina Cartmell

AUDITIONING FOR THE GATE

Date: October 4, 2018 - Behind the Scenes

THERE HAS been lots of good news for the Gate Theatre lately, putting quite a nice gloss on Selina Cartmell’s tenure on Parnell Square to date. Not only has the moolah been flowing in, but on stage things are going rather well. Now, off stage, some changes are being made. The staging of Hamlet has… Read more »

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Susan Bergin Marlowe Mullingar Film Studio RTÉ Self-Employment

NEW FACES AT THE CHESTER BEATTY

Date: October 4, 2018 - Behind the Scenes

THERE HAS been some recent (and overdue) activity on the board of the Chester Beatty Library, where some new faces are joining Dermot Desmond and his fellow trustees. The current chair (elected by the existing trustees) is former European Commission secretary general Catherine Day, who was appointed at the end of last year and replaced… Read more »

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Helen Boyle

HELEN BOYLE’S FUNDING BOOST

Date: October 4, 2018 - Behind the Scenes

AS MICK Hannigan and Una Feely prepare to fire up their IndieCork film and music festival, it seems that relations between their erstwhile employer – Cork Film Festival (CFF) – and Sheila Pratschke’s Arts Council are finally impressing the critics. Fans of Goldhawk will recall Hannigan and Feely’s redundancy and subsequent Employment Appeals Tribunal compensation… Read more »

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Joseph O'Brien

BABY JOSEPH IS IN THE PINK

Date: October 4, 2018 - Sport of Kings

THE SUCCESS of the Joseph O’Brien-trained Baby Pink in a valuable listed race in Galway recently was an interesting one when one delves into the filly’s ownership history. Originally purchased as a yearling for 450,000 guineas two years ago by MV Magnier, in partnership with the busted South African tycoon Markus Jooste, she was then… Read more »

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Sheikh Mohammed al Maktoum

GODOLPHIN SPLASHES OUT

Date: October 4, 2018 - Sport of Kings

THE REBUILDING of relations between the behemoths of global racing Coolmore and Godolphin continues apace with mutual support of each entity’s top stallions now commonplace as well as the purchasing of yearlings by each other’s stallions. In the meantime, however, both camps continue to compete aggressively in the sales ring. Sheikh Mohammed al Maktoum’s Godolphin… Read more »

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PAT KELLY’S COBALT CASE

Date: October 4, 2018 - Sport of Kings

IT HAS been a tough couple of weeks at the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB), with a number of referral cases heard covering assorted misdemeanours from cobalt abuse to seaweed poisoning to naturally occurring testosterone in fillies. While John ‘Shark’ Hanlon was deemed the main offender when Camlann – a horse he trains for the… Read more »

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