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GEORGINA APPELBE’S JUDGMENT

Date: August 9, 2018 - The Hot Water Brigade

MORE woe for the Appelbe family of West Cork. A subsidiary of Howard Stanley Marks’s Oaktree Capital has just registered a judgment for a stomach-churning €3.5m against Georgina Appelbe, wife of legal eagle and troubled developer Fergus Appelbe. Appelbe will be familiar to fans of Goldhawk for his various scraps with the likes of AIB,… Read more »

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STRIKING OFF IMELDA LEAHY

Date: August 9, 2018 - The Hot Water Brigade

INTERESTING to see that hapless Carlow legal eagle Imelda Leahy has been struck off the Roll of Solicitors for taking €174,000 from a dead client’s account. Fans of Goldhawk will be familiar with the troubled solicitor’s various scraps over the years. In 2012, the Solicitors Disciplinary Committee found Leahy guilty of misconduct for telling Ulster… Read more »

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Roly Saul

SOUR TASTE AT ROLY SAUL’S

Date: August 9, 2018 - The Hot Water Brigade

SPARE a thought for Roly Saul who has just closed the doors of his Dundrum bistro and called in the liquidator after a decade in business. Saul is best known for his association in the 1990s with his eponymous Dublin 4 restaurant but he cashed out of that in 2000, eventually settling in beside the… Read more »

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DENIS BEGLEY’S BANKING BLUES

Date: August 9, 2018 - The Hot Water Brigade

SPARE a thought for Westmeath auctioneer Denis Begley, who was slapped with a judgment for €181,000 by ACC Bank recently. Begley, the principal at DNG Begley estate agents in Athlone, has had a few scrapes with the banks over the years, mostly related to his development company, Nimello Ltd. Begley and builder Damien Shine set… Read more »

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Philip Martin

PHILIP MARTIN’S PROBLEM KID

Date: August 9, 2018 - The Hot Water Brigade

RECENT results haven’t exactly been muy bueno for “born-again Mexican” Philip Martin’s Blanco Nino Ltd. Readers will recall that Martin’s company manufactures “authentic” South American food in, er, Clonmel, Co Tipperary and, in particular, claims to make “Europe’s most awesome corn tortillas” (see The Phoenix 24/2/17). Blanco Nino, which means ‘white kid’, hit the headlines… Read more »

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DUNDALK BUSINESSMEN BOWL A SPARE

Date: August 9, 2018 - The Hot Water Brigade

CONGRATULATIONS (of sorts) are in order to the consortium of Louth businessmen who own the 2-acre Dundalk Sportsbowl complex on Racecourse Road. Accounts filed recently by the vehicle behind the former bowling alley and arcade reveal that it finally returned a profit in 2017, albeit a meagre one of €20,000. The venue closed down a… Read more »

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NIALL MELLON LATEST TAX BILL

Date: August 9, 2018 - The Hot Water Brigade

IT’S BEEN a long summer for Niall Mellon, who has just had a second tax judgment registered against him in the space of two weeks. Mellon – best known for his charitable house-building efforts in South Africa – has been slapped with a €23,000 judgment, shortly after the Revenue registered one against him for e195,000…. Read more »

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Gavin Duffy

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: August 9, 2018 - The Hot Air Brigade

There are approximately 700,000 people around the country who are involved in rural pursuits – hunting, shooting, fishing – who are involved in farming etc and they know me. They know my track record and I think they will be supporting me. Presidential hopeful Gavin Duffy on RTÉ’s Morning Ireland, submitted by reader Wild, feral… Read more »

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CARB’S PUBLISHING POLICY

Date: August 9, 2018 - The Hot Water Brigade

DUBLIN accountant Sean Whelan hasn’t done his sums. The dreaded taxman has just registered a judgment for €32,000 against him, which could see Whelan fall foul of the Chartered Accountants Regulatory Board (CARB), the disciplinary arm of Chartered Accountants Ireland. Whelan Dowling Associates, his Santry-based firm, has already been slapped on the wrist by CARB… Read more »

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SALLYANN LUYKX’S COURT DATE

Date: August 8, 2018 - The Hot Water Brigade

GOLDHAWK’s old pals Huibrecht and Sallyann Luykx have managed to get on the wrong side of the Revenue yet again. Readers will recall that the Belgian-born businessman and his wife were restricted from acting as company directors for five years in the High Court last summer on foot of their conduct at Windsor Corporate Catering… Read more »

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BONO: IRELAND’S SECRET WEAPON

Date: July 26, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

THE embarrassing gimmick of a Bono concert in New York to support Ireland’s bid for a United Nations Security Council seat must have had diplomats from Canada and Norway, Ireland’s rivals for the two available seats, rocking in the aisles even if they were not at the concert. There are other signs of desperation at… Read more »

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Gemma O’Doherty

ICONIC HACK GEMMA O’DOHERTY

Date: July 26, 2018 - Fit to Print?

GEMMA O’DOHERTY has become a media icon for some and she is regularly referred to as one of Ireland’s foremost investigative journalists. Or, as she explains on her website: “Gemma O’Doherty is a multi-award winning journalist whose work has shone a light on some of the darkest corners of Irish life.” Unfortunately, so zealous is… Read more »

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Shane Ross

PROFILE: SHANE ROSS

Date: July 26, 2018 - Pillars of Society

WILL Fianna Fáil be provoked into a general election by Leo Varadkar? If not, will Fine Gael go to the country without a contrived FF pretext? Such intense electoral speculation has ignored another possible scenario whereby Shane Ross’s Independent Alliance could either be forced into pulling the plug or used as an excuse to call… Read more »

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Laura Kennedy

YOUNG BLOOD: LAURA KENNEDY

Date: July 26, 2018 - The Young Bloods

SOCIAL MEDIA buzzed last week with the news that Irish Times philosopher princess Laura Kennedy had interviewed Canadian psychologist and transatlantic self-promoter extraordinaire Jordan Peterson for the weekend edition of the IT. In the past few years, Kennedy’s outpourings on philosophy, grief and fish finger sandwiches have made her arguably the paper of record’s most… Read more »

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David Hall

DAVID HALL’S PRESIDENTIAL AMBITIONS

Date: July 26, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

INTERESTING to see the name of David Hall thrown into the presidential election ring. The high profile mortgage activist appears to have already kick-started his campaign, with the rhetoric turned up to 11. He must be wondering, however, if he can afford to move to the Phoenix Park given how much moolah the people’s champion… Read more »

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Sean Gallagher

SEAN GALLAGHER’S COMEBACK

Date: July 26, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

HAVING gone through the seven stages of grief at the presidency being snatched from him via RTÉ’S Tweetgate in 2011 – anger at RTÉ, suing RTÉ, damages and apology from RTÉ and so on – Sean Gallagher has arrived at the seventh stage, finding a way forward, and is poised for a second crack at… Read more »

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JOHN ARKINS’S ADVERSARIES

Date: July 26, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

A NEWS report of a contretemps involving John Arkins of the Irish Film Workers Association (IFWA) at Ardmore Studios last week no doubt reflects the fallout from the union’s appearance (along with the British-based GMB union) before the Oireachtas culture committee in February. Things got… Read more »

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NIALL MELLON’S TAX BILL

Date: July 26, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

SPARE A thought for philanthropist and one time Celtic Tiger poster boy Niall Mellon, who has just managed to fall foul of the Revenue. These days, Mellon is pretty much off the radar and Goldhawk was surprised to spy his name among the list of those targeted by the taxman. In the past, Nialler was… Read more »

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Dr Michael Smurfit

MICHAEL SMURFIT’S BEDSIDE MEDIA

Date: July 26, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

THE LAST fortnight has seen Michael Smurfit’s name bandied about in the High Court where he faced demands for him to be sub-poenaed in the case that has heard a former K Club manager allege he was threatened at Punchestown Races. Justice Anthony Barr last week accepted a medical certificate from Smurfit’s doctor in Monaco… Read more »

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Angela Farrell

ANGELA FARRELL’S ‘VICTORIAN TIME WARP’

Date: July 26, 2018 - The Hot Water Brigade

SIGHS of relief were practically audible from Blackhall Place last April when bankrupt former solicitor Angela Farrell’s application to be reinstated to the Roll of Solicitors was struck out. High Court president Judge Peter Kelly’s recently published judgment is full of colourful detail on the proceedings. Fans of Goldhawk will recall hapless legal eagle Farrell… Read more »

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Vol 36 No 15

Date: July 26, 2018 -

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MILITANT BLUESHIRTS

Date: July 26, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

MICHEÁL MARTIN knows well that if he does refuse Leo Varadkar’s latest offer – a two-year free pass for Fine Gael – then Vlad may decide to call an election seeking a mandate for “a stable government as we face into Brexit turmoil”. And he knows that not every FG minister has the appetite for… Read more »

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Ciara 'Jo' Hanlon

LIMERICK STUDENTS DITCH ‘UNION’

Date: July 26, 2018 - Student Life

THOSE most sensible student politicians at the University of Limerick have decided to rebrand their union (ULSU) in a bid to increase engagement. A spectacular row has ensued with scholars, current and former, taking to social media to lambast the decision. After a group of business students took the union’s temperature with surveys in 2016,… Read more »

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Gerry Adams

GERRY ADAMS AND STOREY ATTACKS

Date: July 26, 2018 - Hush Hush

REVELATIONS in the recent British House of Lords report on police use of underage CHIS (covert human intelligence sources) is directly relevant to recent events in the north, including attacks on Gerry Adams and senior IRA leader Bobby Storey. The belief in the north is that these ‘child spies’ can not only be used to… Read more »

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Ian Paisley

IAN PAISLEY’S AGENDA

Date: July 26, 2018 - Hush Hush

WHEN Ian Paisley told an unnamed Sri Lankan government official over a lavish dinner in 2013 that he had useful contacts in the global oil industry, the cost of the hospitality is not the key point where Westminster rules or even Irish politics is concerned. Rather it is the international realpolitik involved and the DUP’s… Read more »

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MARK BURKE’S HOLIDAY MAKERS

Date: July 26, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

THOSE HAPLESS holiday makers stranded on the Black Sea coast last weekend after the collapse of a travel agency represent the latest setback for Santry-based businessman Mark Burke Burke is the principal in a company called Sindaco that traded as Buzz Travel, Irish Film Tours and Fanfare – the latter well known to travelling Man… Read more »

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SLASHING AT THE IRISH TIMES

Date: July 26, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

LAST WEEK The Irish Times reported on its own 2016 accounts, claiming a “€2m profit in a challenging market”. The actual story was rather different and there was yet more bad news from the paper’s investment in the entertainment.ie website. The mid-market website – owned by Entertainment Media Networks – is regularly plugged in the… Read more »

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Una Mullally

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: July 26, 2018 - The Hot Air Brigade

Great to chat with Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex, about Repeal and the importance of her feminist activism. So important to have people in her position championing women’s rights. Total sounder! Tweet by Irish Times columnist Una Mullally Sad about the World Cup, but at least now all the Irish football fans I know can… Read more »

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NORTHERN POLICE FORCE BIAS

Date: July 26, 2018 - Bird's Eye View

OVER the July 12 period, six consecutive nights of attacks terrorised the tiny unionist ghetto on the Foyle’s Cityside called the Fountain. Youths and children, some as young as eight, rained bricks, bottles and petrol bombs on the district. It’s generally agreed the so-called New IRA orchestrated the strikes to lure police to the scene… Read more »

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John McGuinness

FIANNA FAIL FLEES VULTURE FUNDS

Date: July 26, 2018 - Last Refuge

EXTRAORDINARY scenes occurred in the Dáil chamber recently when outspoken Fianna Fáil TD John McGuinness rose to introduce his private members’ bill, the Affordable Housing and Fair Mortgage Bill 2018, dealing with evictions, mortgage solutions and vulture funds. With the clock ticking down on McGuinness’s allotted time to introduce his bill he sat in the… Read more »

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Nial Ring

THE REBEL MAYOR NIAL RING

Date: July 26, 2018 - Last Refuge

NEWLY elected Lord Mayor of Dublin Nial Ring was a perfect gent when hosting royal couple Harry and Meghan in Dublin’s Docklands recently. Minutes earlier the pair had been subjected to raucous cries of “tiocfaidh ár la” from Dockland ruffians, most likely from the native quarter of nearby Irishtown, when they were inspecting the Famine… Read more »

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Ged Nash

HOWLIN’S HOPEFULS

Date: July 26, 2018 - Last Refuge

LABOUR leader Brendan Howlin laid out his candidate stall recently, naming nine contestants that would sweep into the Dáil at the next election. There are those – in Labour and without – who believe it possible that not one of them will take a seat. Longtime Longford-Westmeath TD Willie Penrose is retiring after scraping into… Read more »

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Catherine Noone

DUBLIN FINE GAEL POLL SURGE

Date: July 26, 2018 - Last Refuge

ONE reason why some Fine Gael ministers want to force a general election is that their own polls say the party is riding higher than those commissioned by the media. The latter show FG hovering around the 30% to 32% but the poll organised by HQ organisers in late March showed the party on a… Read more »

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BLACK MARK FOR IRISH TIMES

Date: July 26, 2018 - Fit to Print?

MEDIA EFFORTS to portray July 12 celebrations in the north as happy clappy family affairs are perennial, especially in The Irish Times which depicted this year’s re-enactment of the Battle of the Boyne as “a family-oriented, cross-community event”. The “Sham fight at Scarva”, Co Down, is the annual highlight of the Royal Black Institution’s activities… Read more »

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Liam Kavanagh

SMOOTH TALK AT THE IRISH TIMES

Date: July 26, 2018 - Fit to Print?

THE nervous souls at the Irish Examiner and Evening Echo were treated to a soothing session from managing director Liam Kavanagh and IT editor Paul O’Neill recently on foot of final sanction for the merger. A long Q&A produced little to alarm the hacks and the only mention of cuts was the message that their… Read more »

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SEAN KYNE AND PUTIN

Date: July 26, 2018 - Fowl Emissions

WHEN Donegal Independent TD Thomas Pringle’s Fossil Fuel Divestment Bill passed its final stage in the Dáil earlier this month, headlines around the world feted little old Ireland for again – as with last year’s fracking ban – leading humanity on the path away from fossil fuels. Divestment campaign groups in several countries tweeted photos… Read more »

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