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Charles Gallagher

ABBEY GROUP VS CAIRN HOMES

Date: August 23, 2018 - Moneybags

IT WOULD be interesting to know what Charlie Gallagher thinks when he sees Mick Stanley and the boys in Cairn Homes taking out huge rewards from the company, the latest of which was the issuing of a further 27 million shares worth just on €50m. This brings the total pay-off to them to €140m in… Read more »

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Vol 36 No 17

Date: August 23, 2018 -

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Mary Robinson

ME AND KOFI ANNAN

Date: August 23, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

IT was only right and fitting that former Irish president Mary Robinson penned an Irish Times tribute to long-time UN secretary-general Kofi Annan, recently deceased. Otherwise the public might not have known just how much reliance the UN colossus placed on Mary’s collaboration with him. Robbo introduced her tribute by explaining that she got to… Read more »

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Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

LABOUR’S NEXT LEADER?

Date: August 23, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

THE HEAVE currently underway against Labour leader Brendan Howlin and which has nothing at all, at all to do with Alan ‘AK47’ Kelly has seen ex-TD Senator Aodhán Ó Ríordáin enter the battle field lest he be forgotten. But Ó Ríordáin appears to be armed with a backfiring blunderbuss as against AK47’s high velocity fire… Read more »

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Jackie Goodall

ISRAELI DIPLOMACY

Date: August 23, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

A CHANGING of the guard has taken place at the Israeli Embassy-sponsored propaganda arm in Ireland and the new group, Ireland Israel Alliance (IIA), is headed by Christian fundamentalist Jackie Goodall, who hails from north Kerry. The IIA is the third group in the last five years to front for Israel in Ireland, reflecting more… Read more »

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OMAGH BOMB AND MARTHA POPE

Date: August 23, 2018 - Hush Hush

DESPITE Dame Nuala O’Loans extraordinary ‘intelligence’ intervention last week and the media spotlight on the 20th anniversary of the Omagh bomb, there’s been no mention of Martha Pope. Yet the words ‘Martha Pope’ possibly hold the key to everything. This was the codeword used by republican dissidents to warn of the notorious 1998 bomb. Martha… Read more »

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Eoin Ó Broin

ECONOMICS WORKSHOP’S GENDER PROBLEM

Date: August 23, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

GOLDHAWK was most impressed with a press release from Dublin Chamber of Commerce outlining the speaker line-up for the 41st Dublin Economics Workshop in Whites of Wexford on September 14/15. Four men (with finance minister Paschal Donohoe the star turn) and four women were listed in an apparently gender-correct panel of speakers, including Central Bank… Read more »

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OLAF AT WAR

Date: August 23, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

MUSIC journalist Olaf Tyaransen’s legal eagles are busy bees these days. Fans of Goldhawk will recall that Hot Press announced in February that the rock hack was standing down by “mutual agreement” while he deals with certain allegations made against him online by feminist writer Brooke Magnanti, author of the Belle Du Jour: Diary of… Read more »

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John McGuirk

JOHN MCGUIRK ON THE RADIO

Date: August 23, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

It didn’t take long for the media to find an excuse to get Declan Ganley’s squire John McGuirk up and running again. Fresh from defeat in May’s abortion referendum, the former communications director for Youth Defence’s Save the 8th campaign appeared on Newstalk recently to discuss the Marine Le Pen Web Summit controversy. Listeners to… Read more »

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GREEN PARTY’S ELECTRIC POWER COUPLE

Date: August 23, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

GREEN PARTY councillor for Rathgar-Rathmines Patrick Costello and his partner, Hazel Chu, lead an exemplary green lifestyle as indicated by their use of an electric car. But Dublin City Council (DCC) recently formed the belief – erroneously – that Costello had, ironically, breached planning laws by installing an electric car charger outside his Ranelagh home…. Read more »

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Arlene Foster

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: August 23, 2018 - The Hot Air Brigade

Mrs Foster appreciates the invitation, but regretfully will be away with her family at that time. DUP statement on Arlene Foster’s decision to decline an invite to the papal visit 182-D-9093 is the primary vehicle, which, when the digits 9093 are inverted, spells out the word Pope. Skoda Ireland’s head of marketing and product, Raymond… Read more »

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Lisa Chambers

FINE GAEL/FIANNA FÁIL GO NORTH

Date: August 23, 2018 - Bird's Eye View

Confusing times for people used to traditional alignments in Irish politics. Lisa Chambers TD, Fianna Fáil’s Brexit spokesperson, was up in Belfast on 6 August speaking at the West Belfast Féile session, West Belfast Talks Back, then last week she was in Rathdrum, Wicklow, at the Parnell Summer School. On both occasions she followed the… Read more »

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Eugene Murphy

TO HELL OR SLIGO

Date: August 23, 2018 - Last Refuge

FIANNA FÁIL’S Roscommon-Galway AGM was expected to be dominated by the controversy surrounding Mary Devine O’Callaghan, the party’s constituency director of organisation and FF’s joint national treasurer. Devine was office manager and cheque signer for her husband, solicitor Declan O’Callaghan, who hit the headlines after he got into serious trouble with the Law Society, which… Read more »

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JOHN MCGUINNESS’S ATTACK

Date: August 23, 2018 - Last Refuge

NEXT MONTH’S Fianna Fáil think-in at the Grand Hotel Malahide is intended to be a civilised, policy-driven discussion about housing, child care, the budget etc, but it could turn out to be a less-genteel affair if rebel TD John McGuinness has his way. McGuinness has written a letter to parliamentary party members and councillors in… Read more »

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Micheál Martin

TWO LEADERSHIP CHALLENGES LOOMING?

Date: August 23, 2018 - Last Refuge

THE Fianna Fáil offer – or capitulation to Leo Varadkar’s offer of a 2020 summer election – to extend the confidence and supply agreement (CSA) for another budget (in October 2019) has implications for two party leaders. One is Labour’s Brendan Howlin and the other is FF’s Micheál Martin. The central stratagem behind selecting Howlin… Read more »

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Leo Varadkar

LEO VARADKAR EXPOSÉ!

Date: August 23, 2018 - Fit to Print?

THE Sunday Independent recently splashed a story across its front page and inside page about relations between Leo Varadkar and health minister Simon Harris headlined, “Leo Varadkar: I had a ‘strange relationship’ with Simon Harris”. The story was based on the hardly blinding revelation that some Fine Gael ministers wanted Vlad to sack Harris from… Read more »

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MICKEY HARTE VS RTÉ

Date: August 23, 2018 - Fit to Print?

IF RTÉ was unaware of just how some in the GAA, especially in nordie counties, viewed the station over the last 20 years or so, then Mickey Harte, All-Ireland football finalist Tyrone manager, brought it home to them very recently. New head of RTÉ sports, Declan McBennett, is a South Armagh GAA man whose culture… Read more »

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Simon Harris

SIMON AND SARAH

Date: August 23, 2018 - Fit to Print?

THE LATEST recruit from media to the government spin machine is Irish Times political reporter Sarah Bardon, who will work for health minister Simon Harris. This is an astute career choice by Bardon as Harris must surely be a good mid- to long-term bet for the Fine Gael leadership and the taoiseach’s job. Bardon can… Read more »

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Sean Kelly

TRUMP SAVES GAS TERMINAL

Date: August 23, 2018 - Fowl Emissions

DONALD TRUMP is the latest addition to the list of entities conspiring to help bring to life Tralee businessman Paddy Power’s dream of turning the unspoiled shores of the Shannon Estuary in Kerry into a giant liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal. Munster MEP Seán Kelly – a long-standing champion of the project – excitedly… Read more »

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WEED KILLER BEES

Date: August 23, 2018 - Fowl Emissions

IN THE wake of a California court’s ruling that Monsanto should pay school janitor Dewayne Johnson $289m dollars, on the basis its Roundup weedkiller had caused his terminal cancer, Irish Times readers were reassured by Bobby Miller, chairman of farming body Irish Grain Growers. Miller explained that Irish farmers’ use of glyphosate (Roundup) was limited… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: August 23, 2018 - Bog Cuttings

A costly hotel stay A FERMANAGH man, who pleaded guilty to obtaining services dishonestly after he failed to pay bills in two local hotels totalling £5,700, has received a suspended sentence. In one incident, David Daly, Drumcask, Swalinbar, had been challenged by staff to pay an outstanding bill at the Enniskillen Hotel. He said he… Read more »

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Caitriona Fottrell

FAMOUS FIVE FOR IRELAND FUNDS

Date: August 23, 2018 - High Society

WHILE FORMER prez Mary McAleese has been taking pot-shots at the Catholic hierarchy ahead of the Papal visit, she has also become one of the new movers and shakers on The Ireland Funds, which has connections to the fundraising campaign for the Pope Francis shindig. The outspoken politician-turned-theologian has maintained a high profile over the… Read more »

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Consuelo O’Connor

GERRY HOULIHAN’S CASTLE PROFITS

Date: August 23, 2018 - High Society

WITH MUCH of the media focused on the proposed sale of the Tifco hotel group, it turns out that last year was another bumper one for the Houlihan family, who control the Clontarf Castle Hotel in north Dublin. The founder of the DID Electrical chain and his family shared over €1m in dividends, while the… Read more »

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Sinead Moriaty

NEW FACES ON MERRION SQUARE

Date: August 23, 2018 - Behind the Scenes

MINISTER FOR Culture Josepha Madigan has got around to making some overdue appointments to the Arts Council. It won’t be long before she is called into action again and a new regime will soon be in place on Merrion Square. The news names on the board are scribbler Sinead Moriarty, artist Mark O’Kelly and choreographer… Read more »

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Mary O'Kennedy

MARY O’KENNEDY’S NEW GIG

Date: August 23, 2018 - Behind the Scenes

THE LATEST addition to the Arts Council’s payroll is fundraising consultant Mary O’Kennedy. She has landed a contract to try and whip assorted cash-strapped arts organisations into shape by tapping moneybags for much-needed funds. The ‘Raise’ programme was introduced five years ago by the Merrion Square Mafia to make arts organisations more self-sufficient (ie cope… Read more »

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The Trick to Time

THE TRICK TO TIME – KIT DE WAAL (VIKING)

Date: August 23, 2018 - BooksReviews

THIS SECOND novel by Kit de Waal follows her bestselling 2016 debut, My Name is Leon, the story of a vulnerable young boy in the British foster care system. The new book alternates between Wexford in the 1960s, Birmingham in the 1970s and a present-day English coastal town where the central character Mona has a… Read more »

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Tony Martin

MARTIN’S BASE ON THE MARKET

Date: August 23, 2018 - Sport of Kings

Tony Martin’s trying season could take a turn for the worse next month if Arodstown Stables, his current training base, sells at auction. The 80-acre state-of-the-art training complex is set to go under the hammer with Coonan’s in the Glenroyal Hotel in Maynooth on September 5. Martin has been training there for the last decade… Read more »

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TESTING TIMES AT THE TOTE

Date: August 23, 2018 - Sport of Kings

When Horse Racing Ireland announced its half-year statistics last month, it did so before the Galway festival – a week that serves as a bellwether for the health of some sectors of the industry. While the agricultural or production side of racing is in reasonable shape (and by that we mean the breeding and selling… Read more »

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Rich Ricci

ANYONE FOR KOREA?

Date: August 23, 2018 - Sport of Kings

Willie Mullins has never been afraid to push the boundaries. He famously sent Blackstairmountain to Japan to plunder over €½m by winning the Nakayama Grand Jump in 2013 and he has also hit the crossbar on a few occasions in the Melbourne Cup. It now appears the perennial champion jumps trainer has his sights set… Read more »

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Bernard Byrne

BERNARD BYRNE NEEDS TO STOP THE ROT AT AIB

Date: August 23, 2018 - Moneybags

THERE HAS been a lot of change at AIB in recent years, but the bank is currently in a sticky situation despite the apparently booming economy. Earnings are falling and competition is intensifying. Unless the loan book can be grown significantly over the next few years, there is little in prospect for the shareholders other… Read more »

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Walton Court

PAUL RAFFERTY’S MARINA MIGRAINES

Date: August 23, 2018 - Briefcases

GOLDHAWK spotted a €78,000 judgment registered recently against Walton Court Ltd by the Department of Communications, Marine and Natural Resources. This turns out to be the company behind the 18th century Walton Court estate, a swish holiday cottage complex overlooking Oysterhaven Bay in West Cork. Owned by Paul and Janis Rafferty, the couple have been… Read more »

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DOM CARNEY’S BANKRUPTCY SUMMONS

Date: August 23, 2018 - Briefcases

MORE hard cheese for Rebel County entrepreneur Dom Carney, whose scrap with a vulture fund was back in the High Court recently. Ennis Property Finance, a subsidiary of Goldman Sachs, is petitioning the High Court to have Carney declared bankrupt on foot of an unpaid judgment. Brother and sister duo Dom and Niamh Carney are… Read more »

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Ken McMoreland

KEN MCMORELAND’S DEBT PILE

Date: August 23, 2018 - Briefcases

IT’S the end of the line for hapless accountant and property speculator Ken McMoreland, who has just been declared bankrupt in the High Court. McMoreland had his eye wiped during the crash and, according to his statement of affairs, he owed a stomach-churning €38m to unsecured creditors. The former high-flier had just €5,000 in the… Read more »

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DECLAN DOYLE’S TAXING MATTERS

Date: August 23, 2018 - Briefcases

SPARE a thought for North County Dublin businessman Declan Doyle, who has just been whacked by the taxman for €72,000. This probably relates to the €70,000 that his company, Comlee Ltd, owed in tax – according to its 2014 accounts – when the Revenue successfully petitioned the High Court to have the entity wound up… Read more »

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WATERFORD: NO-FLY ZONE

Date: August 23, 2018 - Briefcases

TURBULENCE abounds in the latest accounts filed by Waterford Regional Airport plc. The future of the troubled airport is still in jeopardy, despite receiving €375,000 in emergency funding courtesy of transport minister Shane Ross, whose Independent Alliance colleague, local TD John Halligan, has been particularly exercised about the saga. Waterford has been without commercial flights… Read more »

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DROGHEDA LEISURE’S HEAVY LOSSES

Date: August 23, 2018 - Briefcases

GOLDHAWK spotted a set of accounts filed by Drogheda Leisure Facilities (DLF) Ltd recently. This is the troubled property vehicle that owned the Drogheda Leisure Centre and Broadcasting House, where radio station LMFM is headquartered and where AIB appointed receivers last year. Shareholders here include high-fliers like former Fyffes director Eugene Caulfield, ex Bord na… Read more »

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