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Seán Doyle

SEÁN DOYLE IS NOT ENTERTAINED

Date: January 24, 2019 - Brief Cases

MORE woe for Wexford businessman Seán Doyle, whose hospitality company has just filed a troubling set of accounts. The serial entrepreneur and former shareholder in the Thomas Read pub group will be familiar to fans of Goldhawk for his various scraps with the taxman as well as developer Greg Kavanagh (see The Phoenix, 15/12/17). Through… Read more »

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NYHAN BROTHERS FOR THE CHOP?

Date: January 24, 2019 - Brief Cases

CREDITORS of a South Dublin butcher business, which was voluntarily wound up in 2014, are starting to get antsy about the lengthy liquidation process. The good news for them is that a settlement agreement has been filed in the High Court in relation to the company – Rostella Properties Ltd, which traded as Nyhan Brothers… Read more »

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NAUGHTY NUMBERCRUNCHERS

Date: January 24, 2019 - Brief Cases

A COUPLE of accountants have got 2019 off on the wrong foot after falling foul of the Chartered Accountants Ireland’s (CAI’s) Disciplinary Tribunal. Just before Christmas, James A Kiernan, who practised as Kiernan & Co chartered accountants in Carrighrohane, Co Cork, was reprimanded and fined by the tribunal. He was found in breach of regulation… Read more »

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Des Coffey

DES COFFEY’S TAXING TIMES

Date: January 24, 2019 - Brief Cases

GOLDHAWK had a case of déjà vu recently when he saw that his old pal, restaurateur Desmond Coffey, had fallen foul of the taxman once again. The Revenue has filed a petition in the High Court, due to be heard early next week, to have a company called Farm Food Emporium Ltd wound up. This… Read more »

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David Ronan

DAVID RONAN’S ‘AGREED FACTS’

Date: January 24, 2019 - Brief Cases

IT’S SQUEAKY-BUM time for former CTO Greenclean Ltd operators David Ronan and Stephen Griffin, whose High Court showdown with liquidator Myles Kirby will kick off later this year. That case has been moving at a glacial pace since 2011 but, happily, Judge Tony O’Connor has paved the way for a 2019 trial. Liquidator Kirby is… Read more »

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Eamon Waters

EAMON WATERS’ RUBBISH PROBLEM

Date: January 24, 2019 - Brief Cases

IRELAND’S largest waste management firm, Panda Waste, has been coining it recently, so it was very surprising to see a judgment registered against it by a factory operative who took the company to the High Court and won his personal injuries claim late last year. Tomasz Zdejszy sued his employer, Stewart Foil Ltd, and Panda… Read more »

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MOSHAN BARI’S TAX BILL

Date: January 24, 2019 - Brief Cases

SPARE a thought for Sandyford businessman Moshan Bari, who has just had a judgment for €36,000 registered against him by the dreaded taxman, who he has had run-ins with in the past. Bari and his family once ran a chain of Häagen-Dazs ice-cream cafés in Dublin as well as the Japan and Angel fashion outlets,… Read more »

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Ann Mulrooney

ANN MULROONEY’S SUCCESSOR

Date: January 24, 2019 - Behind the Scenes

THE HUNT is under way for a new chief executive/artistic director for the VISUAL contemporary arts centre in Carlow, which continues to struggle financially. The incumbent for the previous five years, Ann Mulrooney, has now succeeded Lynn Scarff as director of Science Gallery Dublin. The latest arrival on the Kathleen Holohan-chaired board at VISUAL is… Read more »

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Aidan Brogan

DATALEX’S TURBULENCE SHOULD NOT SHOCK

Date: January 24, 2019 - Moneybags

AIDAN BROGAN, the CEO of Datalex, is in real trouble, but fans of The Phoenix may not be too shocked. Moneybags has previously questioned the firm’s accounting procedures and identified that the market was already seriously overvaluing Datalex (see The Phoenix, 26/1/18). The worry for… Read more »

Eileen Battersby

EILEEN BATTERSBY’S LITERARY LUVVIES

Date: January 10, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

THE OUTPOURINGS from literati in the Irish Times and elsewhere following the death of literary correspondent Eileen Battersby disguised the tensions that existed at the newspaper between Battersby and literary editor Fintan O’Toole, as well as others. Such was her sense of grievance that, at one point, Battersby drew in the National Union of Journalists… Read more »

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Mary Robinson

MARY ROBINSON’S CREDENTIALS

Date: January 10, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

MOST OBSERVERS have been baffled by Mary Robinson’s blunder in giving cover to the feudal Emirates ruling family and noticed the irony of ‘feminist’ Robinson’s blasé reference to her old friend, Princess Haya, as “one of the wives of the UAE prime minister”. But despite her carefully nurtured persona as one who cares for the… Read more »

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Micheál Martin

PROFILE: MICHEÁL MARTIN

Date: January 10, 2019 - Pillars of Society

AMID ALL the heady talk of a “phased integration” of the North’s SDLP with Fianna Fáil, the question being asked is will this act of desperation breathe life back into the moribund corpse of the North’s constitutional nationalist party? More importantly, will it give a boost to a flagging Fianna Fáil south of the border… Read more »

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Sarah Durcan

YOUNG BLOOD: SARAH DURCAN

Date: January 10, 2019 - The Young Bloods

THE SOCIAL Democrats are all at sea. These days the party tends to float around the 2% mark in the national polls, but went down to 0% as recently as last October. It is banking on high-flying candidates such as Sarah Durcan in Dublin Bay South (DBS) to bring it to shore at the next… Read more »

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Ciaran O'Carroll

DIARMUID MARTIN’S SUCCESSOR

Date: January 10, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

The race to succeed Diarmuid Martin as Archbishop of Dublin has begun in earnest, even though the most successful head in recent times of the country’s largest diocese has 15 months to serve in office. The former Rome-based diplomat for three decades will not reach the age of 75 until April 8, 2020, at which… Read more »

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Joe Macken

JOE MACKEN’S LANDLORD BLUES

Date: January 10, 2019 - Brief Cases

HIPSTER restaurateur Joe Macken is used to getting a soft ride from the press. So it was no surprise that he was treated with kid gloves by the likes of the Irish Times when it was announced before Christmas that his company, Jo’Burger Ltd, is heading for liquidation. As always with Joe, it’s more complicated…. Read more »

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Niall McGarry Maximum Media

NIALL MCGARRY’S BIG YEAR

Date: January 10, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

GOLHAWK’S favourite self-promoting online publisher, Niall McGarry, has hit the ground running in 2019, promising a very big year for his Maximum Media group and his backers, who include clients of Davys. The only trouble is, Nialler keeps losing money. McGarry certainly talks a good game and, late last year, he attracted truckloads of online… Read more »

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Paddy Agnew

‘IRISH TIMES’ ROMAN FEUD

Date: January 10, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

THE IRISH TIMES’S refusal to adequately recompense Paddy Agnew, its Rome correspondent of 28 years, has now involved six hearings at the Tribunale di Roma, Sezione Lavoro (the Labour division of the Italian legal system), with another due next month. The IT secured a partial victory last month when Judge Baroncini ruled on a technicality… Read more »

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Pia Bang

RESTRICTING PIA BANG

Date: January 10, 2019 - Brief Cases

MORE setbacks for boom-era power couple Pia Bang-Stokes and Jeff Stokes. Before Christmas, the pair consented to a restriction order in the High Court, banning them from acting as company directors for a period of five years, arising out of their conduct at Vino Classico Ltd, once the company behind Unicorn restaurant on Merrion Row…. Read more »

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Emilie Guilbaud and Evan Kilbourne

PATRICK GUILBAUD’S WEDDING PLANS

Date: January 10, 2019 - High Society

IT IS INTERESTING to see a share allotment taking place at Patrick Guilbaud’s Michelin-star restaurant, with the existing investors all taking a proportionate number of shares, thus keeping the ownership structure intact. The good news for Guilbaud himself is that the money is rolling in and a family wedding this year should be quite the… Read more »

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Eva and Wyatt Orsmond

DR EVA’S GREAT ESCAPE

Date: January 10, 2019 - High Society

FANS OF health guru Dr Eva Orsmond are in for a treat in 2019, with the celebrity medic publishing a book on reversing diabetes and also set to feature in a three-part RTÉ documentary about her plan to open a “boutique health hotel focused on health and wellness” in sunny Portugal. The other good news… Read more »

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Date: January 10, 2019 -

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THOSE IRISH YELLOW VESTS

Date: January 10, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

Who exactly are the Irish Yellow Vests? The movement in France is a leaderless broad church but, although subject to some right-wing infiltration, it has mostly been left wing in character. In Ireland, where a much smaller cohort of protestors has come together under the banner of the Gilets Jaunes, the tone has been somewhat… Read more »

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Imre Arakas

KINAHANS CRY FOUL

Date: January 10, 2019 - Hush Hush

The Kinahan crime cartel is accusing the gardaí of favouritism towards the rival Hutch gang after a series of reverses in the last year, most recently when a man alleged to be associated with the Kinahans was shot dead just before Christmas. Dubliner Eric Fowler (34) was gunned down as he arrived at his home… Read more »

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Judge Peter Kelly

HELEN LUCEY’S SEMI-KINGDOM

Date: January 10, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

THE LAW Society Gazette’s report last month on sanctions imposed on Listowel solicitor Helen Lucey raises an interesting question about Lucey’s role of coroner in County Kerry. In July, the Law Society failed in its effort to have Lucey struck off the roll of solicitors, but the president of the High Court, Peter Kelly, acceded… Read more »

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ODRAN REID’S POLITICS

Date: January 10, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

The changes continue apace at Brendan Halligan’s Ireland China Institute, the “independent think tank dedicated to the study of Irish Chinese affairs”. The board features assorted political types, including former taoisigh Enda Kenny and Brian Cowen, former education minister ‘Red’ Ruairí Quinn and former European Parliament Pat Cox. The latest arrivals are OPW mandarin Eoin… Read more »

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Maura Derrane

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: January 10, 2019 - The Hot Air Brigade

We are two people who both have high-profile, high-pressure, high-everything jobs. Maura Derrane on her marriage to John Deasy, VIP But here’s the thing about an ‘o’, regardless of the size of it. It’s round and it’s strong and there’s no way out of it. There’s no start, there’s no end. When you’re in, you’re… Read more »

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Éamon Ó Cuív

WEDDING OR FUNERAL?

Date: January 10, 2019 - Bird's Eye View

THE NEVER-ENDING saga of Fianna Fáil’s takeover of the moribund SDLP staggers on. The two parties have been dancing the hokey-cokey for a decade with FF, the reluctant suitor, joining in and pulling out at unpredictable intervals. In 2007 Brian Cowen, accompanied by Rory O’Hanlon and the ubiquitous Éamon Ó Cuív, set up a Fianna… Read more »

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Frances Fitzgerald

VLAD’S VARIOUS ELECTION STRATEGEMS

Date: January 10, 2019 - Last Refuge

RECEIVED WISDOM has it that Leo Varadkar will not allow any sitting party TD to go for the European elections because the Dáil arithmetic is so tight. However, this has not prevented at least two Fine Gael TDs, Frances Fitzgerald and Mary Mitchell O’Connor, from touting shamelessly for the candidacy. But Vlad is fixated on… Read more »

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Brendan Howlin

HOWLIN AND CORBYN TO UNITE?

Date: January 10, 2019 - Last Refuge

EAGER NOT to get left behind, Labour leader Brendan Howlin told the party conference last November that, if Fianna Fáil and the SDLP merged, the Irish and British Labour parties would have to jointly contest election in the north. There are a few problems with this proposition, not least Howlin’s publicly expressed contempt for his… Read more »

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John Lyons

JOHN LYONS’S RESIGNATION

Date: January 10, 2019 - Last Refuge

THE Trot alliance of People Before Profit (PBP) – aka Richard Boyd Barrett’s Socialist Workers Party – and Solidarity – aka Ruth Coppinger’s Socialist Party – has come under strain and Dublin City councillor John Lyons resigned from PBP this week. A 2016 general election pact saw a tenuous agreement to divide constituencies between the… Read more »

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Ed Honohan

HONOHAN MASTERS MARTIN AND O’CALLAGHAN

Date: January 10, 2019 - Last Refuge

TWO STINGING letters winged their way to Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin over the Christmas and new year period. One was from FF’s enfant terrible, John McGuinness TD, eviscerating Martin’s continuation of the confidence and supply agreement (C&S) with Leo Varadkar. The other came from Master of the High Court, Ed Honohan SC, with an… Read more »

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Maurice McCabe

McCABE, HACKS AND LEGAL EAGLES

Date: January 10, 2019 - Fit to Print?

IRISH TIMES crime correspondent Conor Lally did a demolition job on Mick Clifford and the Irish Examiner recently for their incorrect story on how two gardaí plotted to “bury” Maurice McCabe with false allegations of the whistleblower’s “malice” towards gardaí. Lally’s two articles last week – in which he name checked the Examiner seven times… Read more »

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THE INDO’S EVICTION COVERAGE

Date: January 10, 2019 - Fit to Print?

IRISH INDEPENDENT coverage of the attack on security men who evicted the McGann family from their Strokestown home was a masterpiece of investigative journalism. Less than 24 hours after the attack, the Indo concluded that it was the work of dissident Republicans. Next day, the newspaper went into overdrive and headlined as fact that “INLA… Read more »

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Niall Meehan

‘GUARDIAN’ BURIES PAEDOPHILE STORY

Date: January 10, 2019 - Fit to Print?

GRIFFITH COLLEGE journalism academic Niall Meehan asked online on New Year’s Day why the Guardian in 2017 had removed, without explanation, an online obituary to Brian Taylor, a former Queen’s University, Belfast, and Sussex University sociology lecturer. This followed a long correspondence between Meehan and the Guardian over the latter’s failure to record Taylor’s long-time… Read more »

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Tony O’Reily Jnr

DECARBONISING CARBON

Date: January 10, 2019 - Fowl Emissions

AS TIME is called on fossil fuels, increasingly desperate tactics are being used by those who sell them. This ranges from the ridiculous – Providence Resources chief executive Tony O’Reilly Jnr said recently his Barryroe oil field would “reduce Ireland’s carbon emissions, through reduced importation of hydrocarbons” – to the more refined – Progress Naturally,… Read more »

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COLD FRONT AT THE IRISH TIMES

Date: January 10, 2019 - Fowl Emissions

When will the Irish Times stop providing a platform for climate denial? Its climate coverage has improved lately, but its Letters page continues to be a haven for deniers. Then last month something more shocking happened. The paper bizarrely chose to report, at some length, claims by Goldhawk’s old friend, climate contrarian Ray Bates, that… Read more »

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