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CLOCK TICKING FOR HOWLIN

Date: September 6, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

AS THE dust settles in the Labour Party tussle between leader Brendan Howlin and his challenger, Alan ‘AK47’ Kelly, the misleading conclusion is that the leadership question has been postponed until after the next general question. If Howlin and members of the slimmed-down party apparatus believe this, they could be in for a shock next… Read more »

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Paul Kehoe

DEFENCE MINISTER’S PARADE BASHING

Date: September 6, 2018 - Top Brass

THE MINISTER with special responsibility for defence, Paul Kehoe, is fast becoming a bête noir for Irish squaddies, whose pay and conditions were slashed during the recession. But the minister’s OTT suppression of the slightest gesture of discontent has sparked an angry mood and serving soldiers believe the chief of staff (COS), vice-admiral Mark Mellett… Read more »

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Liadh Ní Riada

MARY LOU’S RELUCTANT CANDIDATES

Date: September 6, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

SINN FÉIN’S prolonged delay in the selection of its presidential candidate is down to the anticipation, until recently, of a fundamental debate about 32 counties policy and priorities on either side of the border. Liadh Ní Riada MEP will most likely be selected by SF’s ard comhairle, but there was a strong push by the… Read more »

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Pat Finucane

COVERING UP THE STONES

Date: September 6, 2018 -

SURVIVORS of the 1994 Loughinisland massacre have not been slow to point out that the main gunman at the attack is freely walking around Clough village in Co Down to this very day, whilst the journalists who exposed him were arrested in Belfast last week. Durham police, on behalf of the PSNI, is investigating the… Read more »

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THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: September 6, 2018 - The Hot Air Brigade

One example is an iridescent PVC headpiece by Ennis milliner James Margaret O’Connor and blacksmith James O’Toole. The design reflects mental health issues where cracks and broken pieces are combined as a whole with the support of bonded metal. Description of, er, a hat from the Council of Irish Fashion Designers show, Irish Independent It… Read more »

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Theresa May

PASSPORTS TO NOWHERE

Date: September 6, 2018 - Bird's Eye View

FINE WORDS butter no parsnips, but fine words are all there have been from the government about the rights of Irish citizens in the north – and even words are scarce. Hardly a week goes by without a statement from Tánaiste Simon Coveney about the famous backstop for cross-border trade and commerce. He’s recently back… Read more »

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Shane Ross

GRANNY GRANT GYRATIONS

Date: September 6, 2018 - Last Refuge

SHANE ROSS’S granny grant budgetary demand to finance minister Paschal Donohoe provoked the obligatory denunciation from Fine Gael-inspired media commentary. But this issue is not over by a long shot. When it was first raised, Donohoe said he would consider the Independent Alliance’s proposal, but that it raised big questions, before cleverly diverting the issue… Read more »

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Katherine Zappone

ZAPPER VARADKAR’S FAVOURITE

Date: September 6, 2018 - Last Refuge

CHILDREN’S MINISTER Katherine Zappone is a model Independent minister and never gives Leo Varadkar or Fine Gael any trouble over policy issues or much else – not like the impertinent Shane Ross. But Zapper has begun to get up the noses of FG ministers who believe Vlad indulges her in the matter of photo opportunities… Read more »

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Frank O'Rourke

O’ROURKE SELLS BRIDGE TO VOTERS

Date: September 6, 2018 - Last Refuge

Kildare North is one of the few Fianna Fáil success stories, with James Lawless and Frank O’Rourke taking two seats out of four at the last general election. But O’Rourke has fallen foul of all political parties locally, including his own, following accusations that he claims credit for everything that moves in the constituency. Frank… Read more »

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Brendan Howlin

LABOUR LEADERS LOST

Date: September 6, 2018 - Last Refuge

THERE is something tragi-comic about the bitter in-fighting over the Labour Party leadership when it is distinctly possible that none of the putative leaders waiting to claim Brendan Howlin’s crown of thorns are likely to be members of the next Dáil. Even more ironic is that the only one of the current seven TDs that… Read more »

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IRA FILM NOIR

Date: September 6, 2018 - Fit to Print?

I, Dolours, a documentary film based on Ed Moloney’s interview with IRA dissident, the late Dolours Price, gets mixed reviews. Screen Daily’s Fionnuala Halligan writes that the film is “flawed… short on context, long on unconvincing re-enactments” and that “there’s a lack of editorial rigour”. Alternatively, RTÉ’s review says, “This is, by some distance, the… Read more »

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ABANDONING BIRNEY AND MCCAFFREY

Date: September 6, 2018 - Fit to Print?

THERE is consternation in NUJ circles at the main media’s limp response to the arrests of two award-winning journalists in Belfast. Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey were released last Friday after their houses were searched in connection with alleged ‘theft’ (ie leak) of confidential documents about the 1994 Loughinisland UVF massacre. The Irish Times published… Read more »

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Josepha Madigan

BLUESHIRTS GO ALL GREEN

Date: September 6, 2018 - Fowl Emissions

They say it’s better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak up and remove all doubt. Fine Gael’s silence on environmental and climate issues has long been a national embarrassment, but nothing could have prepared us for the toe-curlingly awful cack the party cooked up for Green Week this year. The… Read more »

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DENIS NAUGHTEN’S QUICK DASH

Date: September 6, 2018 - Fowl Emissions

‘Climate action’ minister Denis Naughten recently fessed up in an Irish Times interview that the government’s abject failure to make even a dent in emissions was “very disappointing”. Equally disappointing was Naughten’s fleeting appearance at a major event in Dublin to mark the 30th anniversary of the foundation of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: September 6, 2018 - Bog Cuttings

DO IT YOURSELF AN OMAGH man granted leave to appeal against a jail sentence found himself back in custody after he rang the police to report that he had breached his bail conditions. Dermot Duggan (32), of Johnston Park, has an extensive history of committing offences while under the influence of alcohol and last month… Read more »

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Brian O'Halloran

BRIAN O’HALLORAN’S HOUSE

Date: September 6, 2018 - High Society

THE SPRAWLING Springmount pile on nine acres in Rathmichael, Co Dublin, has just come on the market with a price tag of a cool €3.85m. This turns out to be the abode of one-time high-flying architect to the movers and shakers Brian O’Halloran. O’Halloran is now 80 and has not been prominent on the scene… Read more »

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Frances Ruane

JOSEPHA MADIGAN’S NEXT APPOINTMENT

Date: September 6, 2018 - Behind the Scenes

THIS WEEK is the closing date for potential candidates to apply for a seat on the board of the Abbey Theatre. However, actors and theatre types need not apply. The new director will be all about money. The previous appointee was PwC number cruncher James McNally, who completed a six-year stint (two terms) in July…. Read more »

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IMMA’S NEW FACES

Date: September 6, 2018 - Behind the Scenes

IT IS not just the Abbey that has been busy with its board; IMMA has appointed two new directors. However, of more interest will be the next announcement of a new face in Kilmainham. The new and overdue director is set to be appointed at the end of this month. The two overdue board vacancies… Read more »

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GREEN SCREEN

Date: September 6, 2018 - Behind the Scenes

IRISH FILMS are hard to avoid at the moment, with seven titles out or being released over the next few weeks. Fingers will be crossed at Annie Doona’s Screen Ireland (SI) that the flix sell a few more tickets than the titles released earlier this year. There were poor opening weekend ticket sales, despite additional… Read more »

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Michael O’Leary

MICK O’LEARY OFFLOADS TO YANKS

Date: September 6, 2018 - Sport of Kings

MICK O’LEARY certainly isn’t getting soft about his horses as he gets older; two old Gigginstown stalwarts who won’t be retiring to a life of horse luxury in Gigginstown House Stud are recent Galway plate hero Clarcam and The Game Changer. The pair have been sold to America to continue their racing careers for partnerships… Read more »

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Barry Connell

BARRY CONNELL’S NEW STRATEGY

Date: September 6, 2018 - Sport of Kings

BARRY CONNELL has shuffled his pack again and has dispensed with the services of his former retained jockey, Denis O’Regan. The pair enjoyed some good success in the two seasons O’Regan spent as retained jockey, with a Cheltenham Festival win courtesy of Tully East the highlight of the association. The link-up with Connell was a… Read more »

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DEREK MCGRATH’S BIG PICTURE

Date: September 6, 2018 - Sport of Kings

THE FACT that the Curragh Racecourse has stayed open for business while being developed may not have been a bad idea in hindsight. It has given the powers that be an opportunity to test the facilities built so far and it is clear that Derek McGrath will have quite a snag list to work on… Read more »

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Peter Fahey

PETER FAHEY’S GOOD GAMBLE

Date: September 6, 2018 - Sport of Kings

A TIP of the hat to Monasterevin trainer Peter Fahey, who recently executed a significant gamble with military precision. Fahey’s newcomer, Gypsy Island, made a successful debut in a Ballinrobe Bumper, having been backed from 20/1 into 3/1 second favourite. The trainer’s preparation of the filly for the race was very cunning,as it involved having… Read more »

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Margaret Sweeney

RENTS AND SHARE PRICE UP AT I-RES REIT

Date: September 6, 2018 - Moneybags

WITH 2,600 apartments in this fund, Irish Residential Properties Real Estate Investment Trust (I-Res Reit) is by far the biggest residential landowner in the country. It has benefited from the Nama-induced freeze on new properties that has left the country short of 200,000 houses. The… Read more »

Joe Purcell

JOE PURCELL PUSHES MINCON SHARES SKY HIGH

Date: September 6, 2018 - Moneybags

THE MINCON group – set up in Shannon in 1977 by Paddy Purcell – floated on the Irish Stock Exchange in 2013 and specialises in the production of hammers and drills. It has come through the mining industry recession in rude health and almost doubled its turnover in five years, albeit boosted by a number… Read more »

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Michael Stanley

MICK STANLEY’S LATEST PUNT

Date: September 6, 2018 - Briefcases

HAVING ONLY just established his online property company Realli, 29-year-old Hugo Mahony has shown a flair for tapping rich backers. He had already attracted funding from Richard Barrett and now the latest name to bung a few bob at the fledgling operation is Mick Stanley of Cairn Homes, a company that has been using Realli… Read more »

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TOM HIGGINS’S ART CLASS

Date: September 6, 2018 - Briefcases

WOULD-BE space cadet and former Irish Psychics Live phoneline operator Tom Higgins reinvented himself in recent years as an art specialist of sorts, although it appears the move has yet to pay off, while the race to space remains on terra firma. Higgins and his wife, Therese Dunne, have long since quit operating premium-rate phonelines,… Read more »

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Consuelo O’Connor

PAT DOHERTY’S COLLECTION

Date: September 6, 2018 - High Society

PROPERTY DEVELOPER Pat Doherty is probably best known for having been one of Nama’s biggest clients, but the Donegal native is also something of an art aficionado. A collection is held by one of the subsidiaries of the Harcourt Developments group and it appears that he is buying the most interesting work for himself. A… Read more »

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Drew Harris

DREW HARRIS LEGAL CHALLENGE

Date: August 23, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

CIARÁN MacAirt, the Belfast-based litigant seeking a judicial review to block the appointment of PSNI deputy chief constable Drew Harris as garda commissioner, is well qualified for this legal case. But matters may have proved more embarrassing and damaging for the government, as well as justice minister Charlie Flanagan, had another willing litigant taken the… Read more »

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Gemma O'Doherty

GEMMA O’DOHERTY VS ‘IRISH TIMES’

Date: August 23, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

GEMMA O’DOHERTY is easily the most entertaining of the declared presidential aspirants, although Irish Times hack Kitty Holland may not agree. Gemma is pursuing poor Kitty with legal intent and has made some extraordinary allegations, as well as threats of civil and criminal legal action, against Holland and her newspaper. At a recent summer school,… Read more »

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Diarmuid Martin

PROFILE: DIARMUID MARTIN

Date: August 23, 2018 - Pillars of Society

After 14 years as skipper of the battered barque of St Patrick in Dublin’s Catholic archdiocese, a no-longer-young Diarmuid Martin, 73, is grappling stoically with the supreme navigational test of his pastoral rule and diplomatic acumen. As host to Pope Francis at the lightening-struck ninth World Meeting of Families (WMOF) from August 21-26, Archbishop Martin… Read more »

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Rosemary MacCabe

YOUNG BLOOD: ROSEMARY MAC CABE

Date: August 23, 2018 - The Young Bloods

Social media personality Rosemary Mac Cabe (33) is one of the few ‘influencers’ left unscathed in the wake of the Bloggers Unveiled (BU) furore. Speaking to an audience of 45,000 Instagram and 30,000 Twitter followers, the forthright Kildare native has carved out a lucrative niche in the saturated Irish beauty, fashion and fitness blogging market…. Read more »

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Sean Gallagher

SEÁN GALLAGHER’S VENGEANCE

Date: August 23, 2018 - Last Refuge

IT WAS never a question of if but rather when Seán Gallagher would enter the presidential contest. Even before any declaration, he has managed to draw as much media attention as the other, declared candidates combined in a masterful media operation. Stage one of the master plan began last December when RTÉ finally settled Gallagher’s… Read more »

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David Kitt

DAVID KITT’S FIANNA FÁIL FAMILY

Date: August 23, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

Spare a thought for musician David Kitt, son of former government chief whip Tom Kitt, who recently had a good moan about coverage of his Fianna Fáil family links. He said it was “bloody typical” of “some elements” of the media to bring up his family instead of dealing with his arguments and that he… Read more »

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Neven and Amelda Maguire

NEVEN’S RECIPE FOR SUCCESS

Date: August 23, 2018 - High Society

EARLIER THIS month, the Sindo’s salivating hack, Barry Egan, was the latest to give a plug to celebrity chef Neven Maguire, with readers of the Sindo informed that Neven and his missus, Amelda, were off on hols to Italy. More importantly, Ego (who apparently had “the best steak ever in Neven’s restaurant in Blacklion”) added… Read more »

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Jane Chapple-Hyam

COOLMORE’S ONE THAT GOT AWAY

Date: August 23, 2018 - Sport of Kings

It’s not often the Coolmore team get it spectacularly wrong about a horse, but even the best of us are prone to the odd blunder – as is clear with a horse called Naval Intelligence. Bred by a Coolmore partnership, the three year old is by US-based stallion War Front, who stands for a covering… Read more »

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