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JOHN FITZGERALD’S HOT AIR

Date: October 4, 2018 - Fowl Emissions

There are worrying signs that government Climate Change Advisory Council chair Prof John FitzGerald has fallen hook, line and sinker for agri-industrial spinning about methane magically disappearing from the atmosphere. “We certainly haven’t suggested a carbon tax, a methane tax on the herd,” he told the Irish Farmers Journal recently. “That would not be where… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: October 4, 2018 - Bog Cuttings

A night on the gargoyle A DRUNK Donegal man was caught smashing up a garden gargoyle and taking washing from a clothesline of another man who he had been in a car crash with. Darragh Sweeney of Killygordon appeared at Letterkenny District Court on public order charges. The court was told that a couple had… Read more »

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Consuelo O’Connor

BERNIE GALLAGHER’S RENOVATION

Date: October 4, 2018 - High Society

SOME LONG overdue renovation works are being carried out on a prestige property on leafy Herbert Park in the heart of Ballsbridge. No 34 has lain vacant for many years, having been sold near the height of the boom before an attempt was made to flip it for a whopping €13.5m. In fact, the large… Read more »

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Selina Cartmell

AUDITIONING FOR THE GATE

Date: October 4, 2018 - Behind the Scenes

THERE HAS been lots of good news for the Gate Theatre lately, putting quite a nice gloss on Selina Cartmell’s tenure on Parnell Square to date. Not only has the moolah been flowing in, but on stage things are going rather well. Now, off stage, some changes are being made. The staging of Hamlet has… Read more »

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NEW FACES AT THE CHESTER BEATTY

Date: October 4, 2018 - Behind the Scenes

THERE HAS been some recent (and overdue) activity on the board of the Chester Beatty Library, where some new faces are joining Dermot Desmond and his fellow trustees. The current chair (elected by the existing trustees) is former European Commission secretary general Catherine Day, who was appointed at the end of last year and replaced… Read more »

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Helen Boyle

HELEN BOYLE’S FUNDING BOOST

Date: October 4, 2018 - Behind the Scenes

AS MICK Hannigan and Una Feely prepare to fire up their IndieCork film and music festival, it seems that relations between their erstwhile employer – Cork Film Festival (CFF) – and Sheila Pratschke’s Arts Council are finally impressing the critics. Fans of Goldhawk will recall Hannigan and Feely’s redundancy and subsequent Employment Appeals Tribunal compensation… Read more »

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Joseph O'Brien

BABY JOSEPH IS IN THE PINK

Date: October 4, 2018 - Sport of Kings

THE SUCCESS of the Joseph O’Brien-trained Baby Pink in a valuable listed race in Galway recently was an interesting one when one delves into the filly’s ownership history. Originally purchased as a yearling for 450,000 guineas two years ago by MV Magnier, in partnership with the busted South African tycoon Markus Jooste, she was then… Read more »

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Sheikh Mohammed al Maktoum

GODOLPHIN SPLASHES OUT

Date: October 4, 2018 - Sport of Kings

THE REBUILDING of relations between the behemoths of global racing Coolmore and Godolphin continues apace with mutual support of each entity’s top stallions now commonplace as well as the purchasing of yearlings by each other’s stallions. In the meantime, however, both camps continue to compete aggressively in the sales ring. Sheikh Mohammed al Maktoum’s Godolphin… Read more »

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PAT KELLY’S COBALT CASE

Date: October 4, 2018 - Sport of Kings

IT HAS been a tough couple of weeks at the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB), with a number of referral cases heard covering assorted misdemeanours from cobalt abuse to seaweed poisoning to naturally occurring testosterone in fillies. While John ‘Shark’ Hanlon was deemed the main offender when Camlann – a horse he trains for the… Read more »

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Ger Lyons

GER LYONS’S GRIPE

Date: October 4, 2018 - Sport of Kings

IRISH CHAMPIONS weekend was again deemed a success, with some thrilling finishes, good weather and a few breakthrough Group 1 wins for some of the lesser celebrated figures in racing. However, trainer Ger Lyons was not entirely happy with the opening day at Leopardstown. He withdrew three of his horses due to ground he described… Read more »

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Adrian Howd

BAD MEDICINE AT MALIN CORPORATION

Date: October 4, 2018 - Moneybags

THE SAME week that Malin Corporation had its explosive AGM (September 13), Don Panoz – the founder of its predecessor company, Elan Pharmaceuticals – died at the age of 83. He set up Elan Pharmaceuticals, where New York banker Kelly Martin eventually took charge before selling the company to Perrigo for $7bn in June 2013…. Read more »

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Mike Donoghue

ORMONDE MINING’S PATIENT SHAREHOLDERS SET FOR PAYDAY

Date: October 4, 2018 - Moneybags

AFTER 25 years of mineral exploration in Spain, Ormonde Mining is on the cusp of delivering a mine producing 13% of the western world’s tungsten – a mineral that is essential for the production of, for example, the super alloys used in turbine blades for jet engines. This has been a long journey, but productions… Read more »

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Greg Kavanagh

GREG KAVANAGH’S LATEST HEADACHES

Date: October 4, 2018 - Briefcases

ARKLOW property developer Greg Kavanagh’s scrap with his former New Generation Homes partner Pat Crean is back in the Four Goldmines next week. Meanwhile, the taxman has just registered a small judgment against one of the more high-profile companies linked to Kavanagh. Isotonic Taverns Ltd – where Kavanagh and his brother, builder Hugh Kavanagh, are… Read more »

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BOBBY KERRISK’S TAX BILL

Date: October 4, 2018 - Briefcases

THE TAXMAN has just slapped Dublin builder and developer Robert ‘Bobby’ Kerrisk with a judgment for €80,000. Once a small-time but busy developer in north Dublin, Kerrisk – who traded as Touchstone Developments – specialised in small residential projects like the Newtown Cottages in Coolock, where he built a pair of bungalows in 2006. But… Read more »

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SEAN FOY’S FOIBLES

Date: October 4, 2018 - Briefcases

SPARE a thought for Mayo solicitor Sean Foy, who recently received a dressing down from the Law Society. It’s not the first time the legal eagle – who practises as Foy Ryan solicitors in Westport and Foy Murphy solicitors in Ballinrobe – has fallen foul of the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal. In 2013, Foy was found… Read more »

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Sean Lyne

SEAN LYNE’S LATEST LIQUIDATION

Date: October 4, 2018 - Briefcases

AN ENTITY called CLS Crystal Partners Holding Company Ltd is calling in the liquidator. Once upon a time, this was the central company in Clare developers’ Sean Lyne and Noel Connellan’s Crystal Partners venture, a property investment group that snapped up large tracts of zoned land around the Banner County and in the south of… Read more »

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Nobby O’Reilly

MICHAEL O’REILLY’S VULTURE PROBLEM

Date: October 4, 2018 - Briefcases

MORE headaches for former Pierse Contracting director Michael O’Reilly, who has just been hit with a judgment for over €1m by a vulture fund subsidiary of Goldman Sachs. Builder Mick and his brother, Nobby O’Reilly, have had plenty on their plate since the crash. Pierse Contracting Ltd was one of the more spectacular building sector… Read more »

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STRONG HEADWINDS AT WATERFORD AIRPORT

Date: October 4, 2018 - Briefcases

THERE has been more turbulence at Waterford Airport. Last year, Aer Southeast – fronted by Icelandic businessman Einar Adalsteinsson – announced that it was going to establish routes from Waterford to the UK in 2018. Much to the chagrin of the beleaguered board of Waterford Airport, which hasn’t had a commercial flight since 2016, and… Read more »

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VULTURE PECKS GEORGE STAFFORD

Date: October 4, 2018 - Briefcases

SPARE a thought for George and Patricia Stafford of the mighty Wexford Stafford dynasty. Launceston Property Finance, a vulture fund subsidiary of CarVal, has just registered matching judgments against the couple for a hefty €3.7m. George Stafford invested in property during the boom and the trouble started when Danske Bank obtained a judgment mortgage against… Read more »

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Pat O'Sullivan

WINDING UP LIMERICK FC

Date: October 4, 2018 - Briefcases

JP MCMANUS must have been delighted with the generous media coverage of his largesse recently. One entity that could use a dig out from the so-called Sundance Kid is Limerick FC, which the Revenue is petitioning the High Court to have wound up on foot of an unpaid tax bill. The Super Blues hit the… Read more »

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Robert Simmons

ROBERT SIMMONS CUTS BACK

Date: October 4, 2018 - Briefcases

SPARE a thought for veteran Dublin hairdresser and stylist Robert Simmons, who has had to call in the liquidator at his Powerscourt Townhouse Centre-based hair salon. Pzazz Hair Design Ltd has been a fixture on South William Street since Simmons opened the salon in 1981. The owner himself, a former president of the Irish Hairdressing… Read more »

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DAVID HERLIHY’S HIGH COURT SCRAP

Date: October 4, 2018 - Briefcases

FORMER Limerick solicitor David Herlihy is back in the High Court next week in his scrap with the Law Society. It’s the latest episode in the former legal eagle’s row with Blackhall after he was struck off the roll of solicitors in the High Court last year. Herlihy’s appeal against High Court president Peter Kelly’s… Read more »

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John Mulcahy

SPECIAL TRIBUTE – JOHN MULCAHY

Date: September 20, 2018 - Pillars of Society

A JOURNALIST FOR ALL SEASONS JOHN MULCAHY will be remembered as not alone the publisher and inspiration behind The Phoenix – as well as the Irish Arts Review, the Sunday Tribune and Hibernia magazine – but as the gatekeeper of Irish investigative journalism. He trained,… Read more »

Leo Varadkar

LEO VARADKAR’S NON-DISCLOSURES

Date: September 20, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

THE CONTROVERSY over the leak of Dr Gabriel Scally’s report into the cervical cancer affair temporarily obscured Taoiseach Leo Varadkar’s responsibility in the matter. Vlad has since tied himself in knots over his denial that he had deleted the mandatory disclosure measure contained in the Civil Liability (Amendment) Bill. Vlad told the Irish Times last… Read more »

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Carly Bailey

YOUNG BLOOD: CARLY BAILEY

Date: September 20, 2018 - The Young Bloods

With the Labour Party imploding at the last general election and opinion polls showing further decline, former Labour members Róisín Shortall and Catherine Murphy, now joint leaders of the Social Democrats, see an opportunity for a breakthrough for their fledgling party. But candidate selection is a real problem for the new party and much will… Read more »

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Enda O'Coineen

ENDA O’COINEEN’S ‘POST’ DEAL

Date: September 20, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

SELF-DESCRIBED ‘unsinkable entrepreneur’ Enda O’Coineen has finally signed the deal to buy the Sunday Business Post from Conor Killeen. It turns out that a stipulation that any new owner sign up to a five-year print contract with Killeen’s Webprint operation had proved a stumbling block for interested parties. O’Coineen was the last man standing. The… Read more »

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TAKING BACK THE CITY

Date: September 20, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

Anyone looking for more information on the recent housing occupations in the media last weekend was treated to a Homeric catalogue of the various organisations that make up Take Back the City (TBTC). Although political parties are barred from joining the campaign, the occupiers are a disparate crew of activists, many drawn from the smaller… Read more »

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Richard Caring

‘POISON’ IVY

Date: September 20, 2018 - High Society

ALMOST TWO months after opening its doors, the 150-seat Ivy restaurant on Dublin’s Dawson St has been packing in the punters. It has also attracted some reviews, including one in the latest issue of the magazine Totally Dublin, where the reviews are sponsored by Krombacher beer. Happily for the German brewer, its beer is not… Read more »

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Paddy Cosgrave

PADDY COSGRAVE: IPHONE ANARCHIST

Date: September 20, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

If the hysterical media reaction to the Take Back the City protestors wasn’t evidence of their impact, then Web Summit barker Paddy Cosgrave’s pitiful attempt to piggyback on their publicity should have been. The Take Back the City hashtag has been one of the most active on Irish Twitter since the occupations began. Never one… Read more »

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Clare Hughes

CLARE HUGHES’S CAREER

Date: September 20, 2018 - High Society

EARLIER THIS month, agriculture minister Michael Creed – “in consultation with” sports minister Shane Ross – appointed three new members to the board of Horse Sport Ireland. The most high-profile of these is surely Lucinda Creighton, whose political rehabilitation is clearly in full swing. Another of the new directors is academic Mary Lambkin, chair of… Read more »

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Kieran Corrigan

KIERAN CORRIGAN’S STUDIO

Date: September 20, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

EARLIER THIS month, Meath County Council waved through planning permission for a film studio development at Ashbourne business park. Hopefully, the involvement of Kieran Corrigan doesn’t prove as entertaining as a previous venture. There was a time not so long ago when there was just the one film studio in Ireland (Ardmore), but today they… Read more »

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Jay Bourke

JAY BOURKE’S TAXING YEAR

Date: September 20, 2018 - Briefcases

THE hits keep coming for Goldhawk’s old pal, one-time restaurant impresario Jay Bourke. Not even a year since the taxman slapped him with a judgment for €325,000, the Revenue has whacked him again, this time for €33,000. Fans of Goldhawk will be well aware that… Read more »

Brendan Howlin

HOWLIN’S MASTER PLAN

Date: September 20, 2018 - Last Refuge

BRENDAN HOWLIN appears to have survived the leadership heave orchestrated by Alan Kelly and his chief aide, Declan Walsh. The scenario now unfolding sees Howlin stepping down after the next election, with Kelly and putative leaders senators Ged Nash and Aodhán Ó Ríordáin returning to the Dáil and battling it out for the leadership. But… Read more »

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VOL 36 NO 19

Date: September 20, 2018 -

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NEIL JORDAN’S “SILLY” FILM

Date: September 20, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

THERE HAVE been mixed reactions to new films from Irish heavyweight directors Lenny Abrahamson and Neil Jordan, both of whom have been visiting our national cultural institutions in recent times. Last week, Abrahamson officially joined the establishment courtesy of the National Gallery of Ireland, which commissioned his portrait (by artist Donald Teskey). The director’s latest… Read more »

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Christy Kinahan

KINAHANS’ LAUNDRY

Date: September 20, 2018 - Hush Hush

AMID TABLOID allegations of the Kinahan cartel sourcing personnel and supplies from Eastern Europe, particularly Estonia, the question has to be asked why would an Irish gang look so far East? The answer is twofold. Firstly, after the breakup of the Soviet Union and Estonian independence in 1991, a sizeable portion of the armaments formerly… Read more »

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