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SHANE ROSS’S APPOINTMENTS

Date: September 20, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

SHANE ROSS recently made some appointments to the board of Fáilte Ireland, with some interesting names popping up. Among the new board members are the likes of Google exec Alice Mansergh and journo-turned-entrepreneur Margaret E Ward of Broadly Speaking – a “leadership and management consultancy”. Mags’s other state appointment is membership of the board of… Read more »

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Ned O'Sullivan

FOR THE BIRDS

Date: September 20, 2018 - Fowl Emissions

Being a Kerry politician can’t be easy, competing for attention in an airspace dominated by the din of the Healy-Raes. But Fianna Fáil Senator Ned O’Sullivan does his best. In 2014 he compared Enda Kenny to Adolf Hitler. A year later he made headlines with his crusade for a brutal cull of Ireland’s (endangered) seagull… Read more »

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GREENWASHING GAS

Date: September 20, 2018 - Fowl Emissions

In the post-truth age, it’s getting harder to tell satire from straight news. Take this recent story that began, “For the first time, natural gas has been sold with a certificate attesting to the conditions under which it is produced, giving the fuel an ‘ethical’ brand, like fair-trade coffee or dolphin-safe tuna.” Byline: Ed Crooks…. Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: September 20, 2018 - Bog Cuttings

Spare the rod A man charged with public order offences at Letterkenny District Court in Co Donegal appeared in court complete with fishing bag and fishing rod. Gardaí claimed they were called to a disturbance between two men in Letterkenny. They found Emlyn O’Donnell and his friend sitting on a step and O’Donnell was highly… Read more »

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Karen Bradley

DUP/TORY ARM LOCK

Date: September 20, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

On Monday, September 5, British northern secretary Karen Bradley had arranged to meet the Stormont parties to discuss ways to resurrect the executive and, in the absence of an executive, how to govern the north in the meantime. All the parties turned up except the DUP. Unknown to the others, the DUP had informed the… Read more »

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FUN AT THE PHIL

Date: September 20, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

TRINITY College’s student union received 20 complaints from students in relation to a debate to be held on campus this week by the University Philosophical Society. As reported in Trinity News, the motion, “That This House Believes That Middle Eastern Women Need Western Feminism,” irked some students, including one Ghalya Farhat, who said that by… Read more »

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Vougue Williams

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: September 20, 2018 - The Hot Air Brigade

I just got some new bed sheets today and I didn’t have to pay for them. Vogue Williams on living a ‘sponsored’ life, Sunday Independent, Submitted by reader O’Leary has blazed through his career with an aura of invincibility, mounted on a steed of arrogance, while lancing his enemies with gems from his oratorical arsenal…. Read more »

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Gemma O'Doherty

GEMMA O’DOHERTY’S SCOOPS

Date: September 20, 2018 - Fit to Print?

It’s ironic that Ireland’s most famous investigative journalist, Veronica Guerin, should be the torpedo that sank Gemma O’Doherty’s presidential campaign. In a bizarre comment – triggered at a meeting where a member of the audience compared her to Guerin – Gemma’s claim that the late journalist was killed by the state damaged her beyond repair…. Read more »

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WAITING ON DENIS NAUGHTEN

Date: September 20, 2018 - Fit to Print?

ACCOUNTS JUST filed by the joint venture between INM and Northern & Shell that publishes the Irish Daily Star confirm the downward trend in profits despite significant cost-cutting. The staff will be waiting to see what impact the sale of Richard Desmond’s 50% stake in the company to the publishers of the Mirror has on… Read more »

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Dana

DANA’S LEGAL CAMPAIGN

Date: September 20, 2018 - Fit to Print?

THE unrelenting campaign for vindication being pursued by Dana and her brother, John Brown, against INM titles and others came a step closer to climax on two different fronts recently. Following his acquittal in the UK on all charges of indecent assault against two girls in 2014, Brown and Dana initiated over 20 libel actions… Read more »

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Colm Keaveney

KEAVENEY COMEBACK?

Date: September 20, 2018 - Last Refuge

FORMER Fianna Fáil TD and ex-Labour Party chairman Colm Keaveney received quite a splash in the Sunday Times last weekend, indicating that FF handlers are keen to have him on the Galway East general election ticket again. Keaveney lost his seat in 2016, but a lot has changed in recent times. For a start, ex-junior… Read more »

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John McGuinness

THE ‘REAL’ OPPOSITION

Date: September 20, 2018 - Last Refuge

THE SCHIZOPHRENIA inside Fianna Fáil – is the party in government or opposition? – is being hammered home by Kilkenny TD John McGuinness, and there is a distinct unease in Micheál Martin’s leadership circle at the bolshie TD’s campaign to turn the party into a fighting opposition. Sinn Féin’s motion of no confidence in housing… Read more »

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Simon Coveney

COVENEY BACKSLIDES ON ISRAEL AGAIN

Date: September 20, 2018 - Last Refuge

SUDDENLY the government and the EU has become scrupulously attached to the spirit and the letter of EU commercial policy and is using it as an excuse to oppose a bill banning imports from illegal Israeli settlements. Would that the government were always so exercised about EU treaties and legislation, especially when it might have… Read more »

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Consuelo O’Connor

YASMIN HYDE’S SAUCE

Date: September 20, 2018 - High Society

RECENT MEDIA interest in Rachel Allen and her family has focused attention on the money-making clan. One of those is Yasmin Hyde, who has been making her millions out of the limelight. Those interested in the business end of the Allen family (and assorted in-laws) story tend to look at the moolah being generated in… Read more »

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Patrick Sutton

PATRICK SUTTON’S CORE PROBLEM

Date: September 20, 2018 - Behind the Scenes

THERE WAS some good news for Smock Alley theatre in Temple Bar this year when the Arts Council upped its grant, but the overall amount is still a pittance and the theatre’s board remains concerned that the venue will go under. The man who calls the shots at Smock Alley is Patrick Sutton, whose Gaiety… Read more »

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CATHERINE CONNOLLY’S QUESTIONS

Date: September 20, 2018 - Behind the Scenes

The worrying news emerging from Galway 2020, where they have lost their creative director (Chris Baldwin – described in the Irish Times as “a citizen of Europe”) and chief executive Hannah Kiely, has set alarm bells ringing in the Department of Culture and Dáil Éireann. Just before the summer recess, Catherine Connolly raised the issue… Read more »

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Áine Moriarty

SCRIPT REWRITE AT THE ITFAs

Date: September 20, 2018 - Behind the Scenes

THE LUVVIES of the film and TV business are girding their loins for the hardest part of their job – aggressive self-promotion for the 2019 ‘awards season’. In Ireland, this revolves around the IFTAs, the vehicle of Áine Moriarty and Deirdre Hopkins, which has honoured excellence in a somewhat less-than-excellent fashion, with a succession of… Read more »

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Tamso Cox

NO LUCK FOR THE WAGGS

Date: September 20, 2018 - Sport of Kings

WHEN THE lowly rated Eight And Bob was declared to run at Navan recently, he was bound to attract interest as the five year old was having his first start for Willie Mullins, having been bought by the Act D Wagg syndicate on the retirement of the horse’s previous trainer, Paul Deegan. It will be… Read more »

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Jamie Osborne

JAMIE OSBORNE’S DEADLINE

Date: September 20, 2018 - Sport of Kings

ENGLISH TRAINER Jamie Osborne’s annual pilgrimage to Laytown Races with his enthusiastic owners, The Melbourne 10, bore fruit again when the team bagged three of the six races during the afternoon. Their quest to go through the card and try to win every race remained an elusive objective on this occasion. Osborne managed to pull… Read more »

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FIXTURE LIST OFF COURSE?

Date: September 20, 2018 - Sport of Kings

AFTER MUCH pondering, Brian Kavanagh’s Horse Racing Ireland (HRI) has released the fixture list for 2019 and it is one that has stimulated plenty of debate in racing circles. Much of this debate stems from the fact that Irish racing will no longer be the mainstay of the ‘At The Races’ channel, but will now… Read more »

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Tom Queally

TOM QUEALLY UNSADDLED

Date: September 20, 2018 - Sport of Kings

SPARE A thought for jockey Tom Queally, who lost the ride on The Tin Man a few days before the James Fanshawe-trained gelding won the Group 1 Haydock Sprint Cup. Queally had been the regular pilot for The Tin Man, partnering him in 18 of the horse’s 19 previous starts, and the horse had helped… Read more »

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John Mulcahy

WAKE-UP CALL FOR GLENVEAGH PROPERTIES

Date: September 20, 2018 - Moneybags

IT WAS remarkable that Cairn Homes was able to pull off an audacious fundraising IPO in 2015, together with a whopping €200m founders’ bonus scheme without any disclosed and proven track record – but over in Glenveagh Properties, John Mulcahy takes the biscuit. He pulled off the same manoeuvre more than two years later in… Read more »

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Patrick Anderson

DALRADIAN DELIVERS CROCK OF GOLD

Date: September 20, 2018 - Moneybags

UP TO the middle of the last century, Irish schoolchildren would have understood that Ireland had no natural resources outside of farming, other than tiny and low-grade coal outcrops in Castlecomer and Arigna and a bit of copper in Avoca. The picture has since changed significantly thanks to Pat Hughes’s huge zinc discovery at Tara… Read more »

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Second Captains

SECOND CAPTAINS’ PAY PACKET

Date: September 20, 2018 - Briefcases

IT’S BEEN nearly 18 months since the Second Captains podcast crew decided to down tools at The Irish Times and light out for the trail. Accounts filed by their company, Second Captains Ltd, show that going it alone has been just about worthwhile for the sports guys. Readers will recall that the captains — Eoin… Read more »

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Kevin Ginty

KEVIN GINTY’S SUGAR CRASH

Date: September 20, 2018 - Briefcases

ONE name that caught Goldhawk’s eye on the latest list of tax defaulters was Kevin Ginty. The Wicklow-based businessman has had his share of troubles in the past and is best known for his association with the Tubs Sweets brand. The list published last week by the Revenue reveals that the Tallaght native settled for… Read more »

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PSA’S EVICTION CONFUSION

Date: September 20, 2018 - Briefcases

A CURIOUS Goldhawk received an odd response from the Private Security Authority (PSA) recently. The PSA – where the chairman is former Dialogic Corporation vice president Noel Lappin (and Dublin legal eagle Geraldine Kelly sits on the board) – is the statutory body that regulates private security companies. It was widely reported last week that… Read more »

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CHRISTOPHER WALSH’S TAX TROUBLE

Date: September 20, 2018 - Briefcases

DUBLIN solicitor Christopher Brendan Walsh was slapped with a pair of paltry judgments by the Revenue for just over €6,000 earlier this month. This could put the Castleknock legal eagle on a collision course with the Law Society, which can impose restrictions on a solicitor’s licence if they have multiple tax judgments registered against them…. Read more »

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Empire Bar

SUN SETS ON EMPIRE

Date: September 20, 2018 - Briefcases

INTERESTING to see the scrap over the sudden closure of the Empire Bar in Swords after the operating company, Lencoolcrew Ltd, collapsed into liquidation. Even more interesting is that Goldhawk’s old pal Patrick Lenaghan should pop up in the media in relation to the debacle. The hotelier doesn’t appear to have any direct business links… Read more »

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MORE HOULIHAN CUSHNAHAN WOE

Date: September 20, 2018 - Briefcases

INTERESTING to see the names of two medical consultants pop up on the Revenue’s latest list of tax defaulters. Fans of Goldhawk will not be surprised to learn that the good doctors are also embroiled in separate scraps with embattled Co Dublin accountancy firm Houlihan Cushnahan in the Four Goldmines. Readers will recall that the… Read more »

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Rebecca Carter

REBECCA CARTER’S FAMILY TIES

Date: September 20, 2018 - Briefcases

IT’S not every Leaving Cert student that can drag the State Examination Commission to the High Court, but Wexford native Rebecca Carter, who has done just that, has some high-profile family ties. Carter is related to fake tan magnate Marissa Carter, whose burgeoning Cocoa Brown empire has proved exceptionally popular in the lucrative Irish cosmetics… Read more »

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TBD GROUP GOES TO THE WALL

Date: September 20, 2018 - Briefcases

THREE companies in Galway-based Nama developer Bernard Duffy’s property group are set to call in the liquidator. TBD Group Holdings, Pershore Investments Ltd and TBD Building Contractors Ltd have been declared insolvent ahead of a creditors’ meeting this week. TBD was once one of Ireland’s bigger construction and development groups and was behind the Harbour… Read more »

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Drew Harris

NEW COMMISSIONER: BACKLASH GROWS

Date: September 6, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

THE LIST of former senior security and intelligence experts that have criticised the appointment of the former PSNI deputy chief constable, Drew Harris, as garda commissioner has reached embarrassing levels. Now there is talk of a security co-ordinator being appointed in a fudge that stops short of separating the new garda chief from intelligence and… Read more »

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Michael McDowell

MICHAEL MCDOWELL VS JIM O’CALLAGHAN

Date: September 6, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

YET ANOTHER glossy brochure in Dublin Bay South (DBS) from former justice minister, Senator Michael McDowell, this time on the Metro, “a scandalous example of everything that is worst about policy making and governance in Ireland” (and most unpopular in parts of DBS). McDowell is maintaining a relentless focus on constituency issues – via local… Read more »

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Ralph Christians

PROFILE – RALPH ‘MAGMA’ CHRISTIANS

Date: September 6, 2018 - Pillars of Society

FILM AND TV producer Ralph Werner Gustav Christians has been keeping a pretty low profile at his base in Bremen since his Galway production company, Magma European Scripting House Ltd (MESH t/a Magma Films), crashed into liquidation in July 2012 with recorded debts of €5m. Now Christians – best known for the ‘Jack Taylor’ crime… Read more »

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Paul McAuliffe

YOUNG BLOOD – FF’S PAUL MCAULIFFE

Date: September 6, 2018 - The Young Bloods

While opinion polls make dismal reading for Fianna Fáil, especially in Dublin, the party is nevertheless intensifying its efforts to win a seat in Dublin North-West with 41-year-old marketing consultant Paul McAuliffe. This is a cock pit constituency and the two main protagonists are McAuliffe and sitting Fine Gael TD Noel Rock. Fingal born and… Read more »

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Brigid Doherty

PATIENT FOCUS FLOPS

Date: September 6, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

INTERESTING to see that a liquidator has been appointed to the patient advocacy body Patient Focus (PF), which had been a high-profile lobby group for almost 20 years. However, in recent times the well-funded patient has been showing signs of deterioration. PF was established in 1999 on foot of the Michael Neary hysterectomy scandal in… Read more »

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