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Simon Coveney

SAUDIS SILENCE IRISH GOVERNMENT

Date: October 18, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

THERE HAS been a deafening silence from foreign minister Simon Coveney and the government at the apparent murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi by agents of Saudi Arabia in its Istanbul consul. This is in marked contrast to Coveney’s loud condemnation of the alleged poison attack… Read more »

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SINN FÉIN POPPYCOCK-UP

Date: October 18, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

THERE is war at all levels of Sinn Féin over presidential candidate Liadh Ní Riada’s statement that she would wear the poppy if elected president. The message has gone out to members that she did it off her own bat, but the strong suspicion among mid-ranking members is that she was schooled beforehand. However, the… Read more »

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Nóirín O’Sullivan

NÓIRÍN VS MEDIA

Date: October 18, 2018 - Fit to Print?

EX-GARDA COMMISSIONER Nóirín O’Sullivan appears to have been rehabilitated by Justice Charleton’s findings, but if no journalist offered a scintilla of evidence against her at the tribunal, she still bears grievances against some media. Fort a start, O’Sullivan is demanding an extension of the one-year time limit within which a litigant can sue for defamation,… Read more »

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Charlie Flanagan

PROFILE: CHARLIE FLANAGAN

Date: October 18, 2018 - Pillars of Society

JUSTICE MINISTER Charlie Flanagan will not have been discommoded by the latest Charleton Tribunal report. The report damns ex-Commissioner Martin Callinan and his sidekick, David Taylor, but it puts distance between the old Garda regime and the present. Despite the recent history of Garda tumult,… Read more »

John McGahon

YOUNG BLOOD: JOHN MCGAHON

Date: October 18, 2018 - The Young Bloods

Fielding a general election candidate who is currently involved in a garda investigation is not an ideal scenario in politics. In fact, it is sub-optimal, particularly in a competitive constituency. But this is precisely the hand that Fine Gael has been dealt in Louth, where John McGahon (27) has just been selected to fill the… Read more »

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Mel Gibson

MEL GIBSON’S TAXING ISSUE

Date: October 18, 2018 - Behind the Scenes

THE MOVIE suits don’t generally wash their dirty linen in public, which is why Mel Gibson’s spat with Voltage Pictures – producers of the Dublin-shot The Professor and the Madman – has begun to generate serious interest. The gaze has finally rested on the state’s generous Section 481 tax scheme, but there are more pertinent… Read more »

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Pat Carey

PAT CAREY’S MEDIA TRIAL

Date: October 18, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

THE smearing of garda whistleblower Sgt McCabe has been well and truly demolished with Justice Charleton’s tribunal report being just the latest exoneration against the charge of child abuse. But what of the strange case of former minister Pat Carey, who felt compelled to take cases for invasion of privacy against the Indo and the… Read more »

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Síona Cahill

SÍONA CAHILL’S BUDGET BLUES

Date: October 18, 2018 - Student Life

YOU would have needed to get up early to catch the Union of Students of Ireland’s (USI’s) response to the Budget earlier this month. The national union organised an 8am protest outside Leinster House, with members of the USI officer board and constituent student unions holding up umbrellas for a photo opportunity. The brollies were… Read more »

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SHANE ROSS’S CHEQUE BOOK

Date: October 18, 2018 - Student Life

WHILE THE sports focus in the media this week has been on Martin O’Neill’s Republic of Ireland team, things have been moving apace at Hockey Ireland. It looks like the Brian Caruth-chaired governing body will need to display all its shooting skills to ensure the sport gets the €½m windfall Shane Ross has delivered. After… Read more »

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Bertrand Gautier

ACCOUNTING GOBBLEDYGOOK AT GREENCOAT RENEWABLES

Date: October 18, 2018 - Moneybags

FROM THE off, it has been very difficult to understand exactly what is going on inside Greencoat Renewables. The company’s revenue base – the starting point in the analysis of any business – has been obscured by the chosen method of reporting and, frankly, it is unacceptable that shareholders should be unable to get the… Read more »

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Date: October 18, 2018 -

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Graham Holland

GRAHAM HOLLAND’S DOGGED STRATEGY

Date: October 18, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

A HIGH Court judgment by Judge Tara Burns, dismissing a challenge by greyhound trainer Graham Holland, refers to an audacious claim of bias made against an industry player who happens to be a state solicitor. Indeed, two state solicitors now feature in this high-profile dogfight and the legal eagles are far from finished with the… Read more »

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HUGHES BOYS’ GAMBLE

Date: October 18, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

WHILE THE Hughes family has been having some problems with its €50m Westport House project, the good news is that Cathal and the rest of the clan have got the green light for a controversial headquarters on what planners deemed to be a flood plain. Happily, local councillors voted it through, despite the absence of… Read more »

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Billy Wright

LICENCE TO KILL: MARTIN O’HAGAN

Date: October 18, 2018 - Hush Hush

The murder and state detention of journalists is currently worldwide news, but the anniversary last month of the slaying of Sunday World journalist Martin O’Hagan went by mostly unremarked. However, recent revelations surrounding the British government’s ‘licence to murder’ directive – the Third Direction – has serious implications for MI5 and its role in O’Hagan’s… Read more »

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Amy Huberman

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: October 18, 2018 - The Hot Air Brigade

Huberman brings a trace of Sarah Silverman, Kristen Wiig and Anna Faris – and a heavier dollop of Sharon Horgan – to an otherwise conventional set-up. Peter Crawley reviews the latest Amy Huberman vehicle, Finding Joy, The Irish Times We’ve put ’em under pressure, Riverdanced across the world, soared above giants in Croke Park… Seán… Read more »

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Arlene Foster

DUP: NEVER ON SUNDAY

Date: October 18, 2018 - Bird's Eye View

“NO ONE likes us, we don’t care. We are Millwall, super Millwall. We are Millwall from the Den.” Sung to the tune of Rod Stewart’s Sailing, Millwall football fans’ fearsome ‘F troop’ strike terror into opponents’ fans that hear this chant. The DUP is the political equivalent of Millwall – aggressive, a closed shop, self-obsessed,… Read more »

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Seán Canney

CANNEY’S NEW ALLIANCE

Date: October 18, 2018 - Last Refuge

NEW JUNIOR minister Seán Canney may or may not be grateful to his former colleagues in the Independent Alliance, but they are responsible (along with Denis Naughten, of course) for the restoration of his ministerial status. Readers will recall the schism caused in the Alliance by the job-share arrangement that saw the junior OPW ministerial… Read more »

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Catherine Noone

BEWARE PERFIDIOUS ALBION!

Date: October 18, 2018 - Last Refuge

HISTORIC FEAR of treacherous England has provoked the government into warning ministers to “resist unwarranted advances” from their British counterparts. The fear is that such “unsolicited contacts” are part of an effort to influence ministers’ views on Brexit. The references to “unwarranted” and “unsolicited” advances etc conjures up all manner of crafty stratagems and dark… Read more »

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Leo Varadkar

VARADKAR TO PULL PLUG?

Date: October 18, 2018 - Last Refuge

LEO VARADKAR and some of his Fine Gael cabinet members now regret that they did not act on their political instincts last summer and go for an election when things looked a little rosier than now. Then, housing minister Eoghan Murphy, health minister Simon Harris and social protection minister Regina Doherty had led the charge… Read more »

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Catherine Byrne

HAS BYRNE BURNED HER BRIDGES?

Date: October 18, 2018 - Last Refuge

FOLLOWING her threat not to vote confidence in housing minister Eoghan Murphy, junior minister Catherine Byrne emerged from her meeting with Murphy and Leo Varadkar to state that she had enjoyed “positive and constructive discussions” and would vote for her colleague. So “positive” that she was seen in a state of some distress following the… Read more »

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DENIS NAUGHTEN’S MOBILE

Date: October 18, 2018 - Fit to Print?

DENIS NAUGHTEN scuttled back to base the day after his resignation last week and straight into an interview with Shannonside FM in what was clearly the beginning of a campaign to shore up his Roscommon-Galway constituency support. Interviewer Joe Finnegan eventually broke through Naughten’s defensive rhetoric to suggest that the officials present at his final… Read more »

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Frank McDonald

FRANK MCDONALD’S HIT LIST

Date: October 18, 2018 - Fit to Print?

TRULY FRANK is the title of long-time Irish Times environment correspondent Frank McDonald’s newly published memoir, in which he pays off a few scores and then some. Not even the lion of D’Olier Street, iconic editor Douglas Gageby, escapes Frank’s machete as he describes how his scoop on Charlie Haughey’s €1m AIB debt was relegated… Read more »

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Richard Bruton

BRUTON THE SAVIOUR?

Date: October 18, 2018 - Fowl Emissions

“I’ve never seen such quiet panic about climate change. It finally hit the political class last week that this isn’t our grandchildren’s problem; we’re all gonna die pretty soon.” This is how US political commentator Matt Stoller memorably summed up the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). That the report was… Read more »

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HOT AIR BROADCASTERS

Date: October 18, 2018 - Fowl Emissions

While reaction to the IPCC’s dire latest report has been notably strong in some of the newspapers, what of the broadcast media? Virgin’s Tonight show mostly continued its smart-alecky mockery of science, while airing the populist views of blow-hards like the Healy-Raes. RTÉ did slightly better, with George Lee seeming to actually grasp the true… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: October 18, 2018 - Bog Cuttings

Bus station black out A MAN got so drunk that gardaí found him with his pants down around his ankles. Inspector Gary McPolin said Darren McGrath (46), who lives in an apartment at John Barry House, Main Street, Midleton, Co Cork, came to the attention of gardaí at the bus station in Parnell Place with… Read more »

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Catherine Day

DERMOT DESMOND’S NEW TRUSTEE

Date: October 18, 2018 - High Society

DERMOT DESMOND’S favourite cultural institution, the Chester Beatty Library (CBL), has been beefing up its board of trustees recently (see The Phoenix, 5/10/18). Alongside some ministerial appointments, a new suit has been appointed by the trustees themselves in the form of legal eagle Tony O’Grady. He brings plenty of experience, but also opens the possibility… Read more »

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Consuelo O’Connor

DOMINIC WEST’S PARTY BARN

Date: October 18, 2018 - High Society

THE LATEST plug for Glin Castle comes courtesy of the Irish Examiner, where readers are told that the posh wedding and party venue is up and running. It will be recalled (see The Phoenix, 10/8/18) that Catherine FitzGerald (daughter of Desmond, the last Knight of Glin) and hubby – actor Dominic West – had been… Read more »

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Vincent Carton

VINCENT CARTON’S BIG GARDEN

Date: October 18, 2018 - High Society

IT’S NOT everyday that a prime Dublin 4 property is put up for sale just a few months after its purchase, but that is what has happened to the big Eglinton House pile on Eglinton Road in Donnybrook. The seller here turns out to be low-profile moneybags Vincent Carton, who happens to live next door…. Read more »

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Emma Goltz

SLOWLY DOES IT AT IMMA

Date: October 18, 2018 - Behind the Scenes

THERE IS still no sign of white smoke at Kilmainham, where they are waiting for a new director to replace the long-departed Sarah Glennie. The number of applicants for the prestigious top job at Imma was no doubt tempered by the fact that the salary scale is to be kept the same as that which… Read more »

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JOSEPHA MADIGAN’S CREATIVE SPENDING

Date: October 18, 2018 - Behind the Scenes

THE TENSIONS between the Arts Council and the Department of Culture over the emergence of Creative Ireland (CI) are well known. The new body poses a problem for Merrion Square – as was expressed most explicitly by deputy chair John McAuliffe in an opinion piece in the Irish Times, where he referred to “a secretive… Read more »

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Patrick Mullins

BHA CRACKS THE WHIP

Date: October 18, 2018 - Sport of Kings

PATRICK MULLINS found himself the subject of some unwanted attention recently, when his winning ride aboard his father’s Rathvinden in the National Hunt Chase at Cheltenham last March was voted “ride of the season” at the McCoy Awards in England. The awards ceremony, in its second year, is backed by Jockey Club Racecourses and named… Read more »

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Melissa Margolis

MELISSA MARGOLIS MAKES WAVES

Date: October 18, 2018 - Sport of Kings

WHEN THE Gordon Elliott-trained Kuiper Belt landed the valuable Lartigue Hurdle at Listowel last month, it gave fledgling owner Melissa Margolis her biggest success. That success was short-lived, however, as the race day stewards deemed the winner – ridden by Denis O’Regan – had impeded the chances of the JP McManus’s runner up, Gold Seal,… Read more »

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CONROY’S FLASHY PROFIT

Date: October 18, 2018 - Sport of Kings

WHILE THE moolah being splashed out at Goffs showed that the going is very good these days, the market for bloodstock remains selective and unpredictable. A yearling needs to tick every box with regards to pedigree and conformation to command a premium price and prices can fluctuate wildly in the space of a year. Take… Read more »

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Amer Abdulaziz

ABDULAZIZ UPS THE ANTE

Date: October 18, 2018 - Sport of Kings

IT WILL be recalled (see The Phoenix, 29/6/18) that Phoenix Thoroughbreds supremo Amer Abdulaziz pledged this year at Royal Ascot to develop his bloodstock investment fund into a global player that would be a viable rival for the other superpowers like Coolmore and Godolphin. Well, Abdulaziz is not wasting any time in accumulating some of… Read more »

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Eimear Mulhern

GOING IS GOOD FOR GOFFS

Date: October 18, 2018 - Moneybags

THE LENGTHY spat between John Magnier and Sheikh Mohammed Al-Maktoum was not good for Robert J Goff & Co, with Maktoum’s Godolphin breeding and racing operation eschewing Coolmore’s expensive nags for around a decade. This spat cooled somewhat last year when Godolphin bid for a Coolmore filly sired by Galileo at the key Orby Yearling… Read more »

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Paul Doherty

PAUL DOHERTY’S LATEST VENTURE

Date: October 18, 2018 - Briefcases

GOLDHAWK spotted a small Dublin tech company called Software Design Ltd (SDL) that went into voluntary liquidation at the end of August. Happily, one of the directors is already back in business with a new company, trading from the same premises in Rainsford Street, D8. SDL was founded by computer hot-shot brothers Gavin and Paul… Read more »

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