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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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MICHAEL D STANDS ALONE

Date: November 1, 2018 - Fowl Emissions

The recent presidential campaign was remarkable for many reasons, not least of which was the extraordinary extent to which five of the six candidates had absolutely nothing to say on the crunch ecological issues the world faces. Equally bizarre was the active media collusion in this climate silence. Despite hours of debates, in which issues… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: November 1, 2018 - Bog Cuttings

“Yes, I love Cork.” “Under Duress” was the signature provided by a 70-year-old man who previously insisted that he had no name, Cork District court was told. The man was remanded in custody only because of his refusal to sign a bail bond that would have enabled him to walk free. “Do you reside in… Read more »

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Matt Carthy

MATT CARTHY

Date: November 1, 2018 - The Young Bloods

LIADH NÍ RIADA’S presidential implosion has placed a big question mark over Sinn Féin’s general election and coalition project. When Mary Lou Mcdonald took the party leadership there was a strengthening of the party’s poll ratings, but this seems to be evening out. Can energetic young election candidates like MEP Matt Carthy get the party… Read more »

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Rachel Allen

RACHEL’S ‘LESS FORMAL’ EXPERIENCE

Date: November 1, 2018 - High Society

FANS OF Goldhawk will not be surprised to hear that there have been big changes at Rachel’s, the Cork-based restaurant fronted by the one and only Rachel Allen. The whole project has taken a sharp turn and, rather than the name of ‘Ireland’s cooking queen’ being above the door, the premises has been renamed boring… Read more »

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Consuelo O’Connor

DAVID RAETHORNE’S WHISKEY STOCKS

Date: November 1, 2018 - High Society

THE OPERATION behind the ambitious Hazelwood House revamp being undertaken in Sligo by low-profile serial investor David Raethorne filed some figures last month showing the losses at Hazelwood Demesne have tipped over €1m. Given it is still early days and the fact that Raethorne has very deep pockets, this will not set any alarm bells… Read more »

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Abigail O'Brien

ABIGAIL O’BRIEN’S ELECTION

Date: November 1, 2018 - High Society

THE ELECTION of Denis O’Brien’s sister, Abigail O’Brien, as president of the Royal Hibernian Academy (RHA) represents quite a coup for the artist, who has become the first female president of the organisation. Meanwhile there have been some other comings and goings and lots of moolah being spent. O’Brien replaces Mick O’Dea – whose portrait… Read more »

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MILKMAN – ANNA BURNS (FABER & FABER)

Date: November 1, 2018 - BooksReviews

THIS YEAR’S Man Booker winner (the first from Northern Ireland), Anna Burns, has published two previous novels and is well regarded in literary circles but is hardly a household name. It will be interesting to see if she becomes one given her challenging prose. The new book’s dramatic opening sentence sets the unnerving tone for… Read more »

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RICHARD III – ABBEY THEATRE

Date: November 1, 2018 - ReviewsTheatre

GARRY HYNES must have realised that producing another Shakespearean history play demanded another angle. While Richard may be one of Western literature’s greatest villains, his story is much less complex, and much longer, than the Henry plays produced by Druid a few years ago. So audiences need a hook. Rather than a dramatic arc, the… Read more »

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Amy Huberman

FINDING JOY – RTÉ 1

Date: November 1, 2018 - ReviewsTV

AMY HUBERMAN turns her hand to ‘comedy’ in this six-part series set in an air-brushed version of modern-day Dublin. Inevitably, with Mrs Dricco being co-creator, writer, associate producer and star of the show, the avalanche of hype was even greater than usual. RTÉ’s current poster girl plays Joy, who has just broken up with her… Read more »

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BOOK AWARDS BEANO

Date: November 1, 2018 - Behind the Scenes

THERE WAS an exuberant gushing plug for the annual Irish Book Awards in the Sindo last weekend when the shortlist for the 2018 gongs was announced. The paper has long been a ‘partner’ for the Derek Hughes-founded awards and its acolytes are known to feature strongly in the pompously titled Irish Literary Academy. The eventual… Read more »

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Siún Ní Raghallaigh

SIÚN NÍ RAGHALLAIGH’S GOOD NEWS

Date: November 1, 2018 - Behind the Scenes

FANS OF Goldhawk will not have been surprised by the inclusion in Pascal Donohoe’s Finance Bill of 10 pages of refinements to the operations of the Section 481 tax giveaway (see The Phoenix, 19/10/18). The big winner looks like the privately owned Troy Studios, where the cast includes the likes of moneybags Ossie Kilkenny, Joe… Read more »

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Ger Lyons

GER LYONS HITS OUT

Date: November 1, 2018 - Sport of Kings

THE DRY autumn is taking its toll on jumps tracks at the moment as they cannot risk watering the ground at this time of year because when the rain does come it just may not stop. Thurles Racecourse doesn’t have that conundrum anyway as it doesn’t even have a watering system. While they had to… Read more »

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Joseph O’Brien

O’BRIEN’S REDUNDANT REFERRAL

Date: November 1, 2018 - Sport of Kings

JOSEPH O’BRIEN found himself at the centre of one of the most pointless enquiries in the recent history of the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB) when he was summoned to HQ to answer questions over the apparent improvement in the form of a horse called Colfer Me. The horse won a lowly handicap at Down… Read more »

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DOWN A ROYAL MESS

Date: November 1, 2018 - Sport of Kings

WHAT TO make of the Down Royal fiasco? The clash of business and sport looks set to leave some casualties, but confusion reigns. What is unclear is why a clean sweep of management is seen as a valid option by the property speculators. At the moment the issue has the hallmarks of a relatively petty… Read more »

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Gordon Elliott

ELLIOTT IS WELL OFF THE PACE

Date: November 1, 2018 - Sport of Kings

IT SEEMS Gordon Elliott may already have accepted defeat in this season’s leading trainer title race. A slow start to the current season sees him around 40 winners and over €600,000 adrift of his chief opponent, Willie Mullins, who unusually has begun the season with all guns blazing. Over the last few years it has… Read more »

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Stephen Vernon

BIG REWARDS BUT SMALL RESULTS AT GREEN REIT

Date: November 1, 2018 - Moneybags

ALTHOUGH IT would be some achievement, it looks like Stephen Vernon and Pat Gunne could well end up getting a bigger take out from Green Reit than the boys over in Cairn Homes and Glenveagh. Unlike the latter two, where the huge returns depend totally… Read more »

Anne Heraty

UNEXPLAINED TRENDS AT CPL RESOURCES

Date: November 1, 2018 - Moneybags

WHILE CPL Resources has turned in impressive figures, it is nevertheless a pity that husband and wife team Paul Carroll and Anne Heraty have not used their skills to grow the recruitment firm into a properly global business. The annual report for the year to June 2018 does feature impressive profits, but there are also… Read more »

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GRAHAM CANNING’S PUB HANGOVER

Date: November 1, 2018 - Briefcases

THERE’S been another blow for former publican Graham Canning, who has just had a second judgment registered against him by the taxman in three years, this time for close to €80,000. The Meath man has been scrapping with the Revenue since the collapse of his pub business during the crash. Once upon a time, Canning… Read more »

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POOR GRADES AT DUBLIN LANGUAGE SCHOOL

Date: November 1, 2018 - Briefcases

SPARE a thought for creditors of Dublin English language school Oscars International, which is petitioning the High Court to have an examiner appointed. The petition by an entity called Malvern House Ireland Ltd (MHI), the trading company behind the Dublin branch of the Oscars group, is due to be heard this week. The head honcho… Read more »

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Mailo Power

CHECKING OUT AT THE ATHENAEUM

Date: November 1, 2018 - Briefcases

THE original company behind the swanky Athenaeum House Hotel on the Waterford-Kilkenny border has called in the liquidator, just a few weeks after the new owners of the property secured planning permission to turn the hotel into a nursing home. The hotel had been owned and operated by Mailo Power, a former president of Renua,… Read more »

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WINDING UP CARRIGALINE CARPENTRY

Date: November 1, 2018 - Briefcases

HARD luck to Cork businessmen John and Brian O’Neill, whose company, Carrigaline Carpentry Services Ltd, has just been wound up by the taxman. The writing was on the wall for the troubled entity, having had a hefty €½m tax judgment registered against it last March (see The Phoenix, 23/3/18). It will be recalled that a… Read more »

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ALBIE PURCELL’S GOOD LUCK

Date: November 1, 2018 - Briefcases

CONGRATULATIONS (of sorts) are in order to Albie Purcell Jnr, who managed to confound AIB in the High Court recently. Judge Max Barrett refused AIB’s application to enter summary judgment against the Tipperary businessman for €3.7m because the bank had not provided complete documentation to the court. Albie is the son of Puckane landowner Albie… Read more »

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CATHAL MALLON’S BUSINESS PARTNERS

Date: November 1, 2018 - Briefcases

A VULTURE fund has just swooped on D4 developer Cathal Mallon. The fund recently secured judgment against Mallon in the High Court for €2.1m in relation to an EBS loan granted to him and his business partner, Michael Shanahan, at the height of the boom. Mallon is a low-key builder and developer based in Sandymount… Read more »

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Edmond O'Reilly

JUDGMENT DAY FOR EDMOND O’REILLY

Date: November 1, 2018 - Briefcases

IT’S ALL gone wrong for Tipperary high-flier Edmond O’Reilly, who has just been whacked by the Revenue for over €1m. The Clonmel man made his millions when he sold his recycling company Clearwater in 2007, but his luck has shifted in recent years. O’Reilly is a brother of Valerie O’Reilly, Michael Lowry’s former PR woman,… Read more »

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TOM CONSIDINE’S WIND-UP

Date: November 1, 2018 - Briefcases

A PROPERTY vehicle called Western Alliance Property (WAP) Ltd is calling in the liquidator. The directors are listed as Gerry Prendergast, Tom Considine and Paddy Sweeney, who each owned a third of the company. They are better known for their involvement in the Millenium Park saga, which they bought for €220m in 2006. It was… Read more »

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BASSAM NASER’S HARD MEDICINE

Date: November 1, 2018 - Briefcases

THERE are more maladies for jailbird Sutton doctor Bassem Naser, who has just been declared bankrupt in the High Court. The Irish-Palestinian received a 16-month sentence earlier this year for failing to pony up close to €100,000 in income tax. A popular figure in his area, Naser’s jail sentence provoked outrage from residents of the… Read more »

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Vol 36 No 22

Date: November 1, 2018 -

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