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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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Vladimir Putin

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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PUTIN’S ECO AGENDA

Date: July 26, 2018 - Fowl Emissions

DONALD TRUMP said last week he didn’t see “any reason why” Russia would have interfered in the 2016 US presidential election – before clarifying that he meant to say the opposite. Vladimir Putin’s reasons for wanting Mr Trump in the White House are myriad, but in case we needed any more, there is one that… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: July 26, 2018 - Bog Cuttings

Garda got a pizza her mind A WOMAN who threw a full pizza at a garda has been fined in court. Amanda Murphy (26) of Oak Grove, Millfield, in Buncrana admitted the offence. Buncrana District Court was told that at 3.10am gardaí were in the process of arresting a male and Murphy was present and… Read more »

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Jenifer Matuschka

JENIFER VON MATUSCHKA’S SURVIVAL KIT

Date: July 26, 2018 - High Society

THE LATEST addition to the board of worthies who make up the Irish Historic Houses Association (IHHA) is Jenifer Grafin von Matuschka of Moone Abbey, Co Kildare. She is part of an interesting wider family. On the IHHA board Jenifer joins the likes of Julian Gaisford St-Lawrence (the 30th generation of the Lawrence family to… Read more »

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Consuelo O’Connor

ADRIAN FITZGIBBONS’S ISLAND

Date: July 26, 2018 - High Society

FORMER FINANCIER Adrian Fitzgibbon, who lives with his wife Deborah in Rathgar, D6, has also spent a lot of time on his island off the west Cork coast, one he is now attempting to offload for an optimistic €7m approx. Certainly, the offshore experience to date has proved expensive. The Fitzgibbons bought the 157-acre Horse… Read more »

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Mark and Karl Slattery

KARL SLATTERY’S GAMBLE

Date: July 26, 2018 - High Society

WITH INVESTMENT in horseracing on the up again following a huge retreat by the moneybags during the downturn, one family taking a punt is the Slattery family, which is behind a profitable wine, beer and spirits sales and distribution operation. Headed by Michael Slattery the other players are his sons Mark and Karl, the latter… Read more »

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Monica Spencer

MONICA SPENCER’S LATEST ADDITIONS

Date: July 26, 2018 - Behind the Scenes

AFTER a short break in spending, the Arts Council has been adding to its sprawling collection with the purchase of 11 new artworks from eight artists. Presumably in an effort to help the collection’s gender balance, seven of the chosen artists are women, with Michael John Whelan the sole male among the group, although in… Read more »

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RUTH McGOWAN’S FLEXIBILITY

Date: July 26, 2018 - Behind the Scenes

WHILE THE Dublin Theatre Festival has had difficulties offstage with the Arts Council, which cut this year’s funding by €25,000 to €825,000, Ruth McGowan et al at the Dublin Fringe Festival have had the opposite experience. But casting for flexible interns has been suspended. With tensions arising between Merrion Square and Willie White’s DTF, matters… Read more »

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Colin Teevan

MORE MOOLAH FOR ‘REBELLION’ MARK II

Date: July 26, 2018 - Behind the Scenes

THE TAXPAYERS’ latest handouts to Irish TV and film producers, for the April-June period, is the usual exercise in opacity because the Revenue is barred from revealing how much each project got. One winner turns out to be the sequel to RTÉ’s hugely hyped 2016 drama series, Rebellion. John Gleeson’s team at Grant Thornton is… Read more »

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Seamie Heffernan

TARGETING SEAMIE HEFFERNAN

Date: July 26, 2018 - Sport of Kings

A RIDER who felt the venom of keyboard warriors recently was Seamie Heffernan when Coral Beach, trained by his boss Aidan O’Brien, was beaten by a nose at Fairyhouse earlier this month by the Joseph O’Brien-trained Vallambrosa, ridden by his brother Donnacha O’Brien. Heffernan delivered his mount with a well-timed run to hit the front… Read more »

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Dermot Weld

CAN WELD BOUNCE BACK AT GALWAY?

Date: July 26, 2018 - Sport of Kings

WITH GALWAY on the horizon and the economy on the up, the skies around Ballybrit are likely to resemble Vietnam with the constant hum of choppers. On the racing front it will be an important week for many but especially for the likes of Dermot Weld and Tony Martin. Weld had been the undisputed King… Read more »

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Brendan Duke Adrian Murray Mick Bailey

JOOSTE’S ONGOING OFFLOADS

Date: July 26, 2018 - Sport of Kings

MARKUS JOOSTE, the South African busted tycoon who was welcomed into the Coolmore fold some years ago, continues to dissolve his bloodstock interests, following the accounting scandal that forced him to step down from Steinhoff Inc late last year. Jooste had a few fillies at Tattersalls July sale in Newmarket that would certainly have left… Read more »

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Matt Mitchell

MATT MiTCHELL’S LONG RACE

Date: July 26, 2018 - Sport of Kings

INCOMING Tattersalls Ireland chief executive Matt Mitchell knows all about the ups and downs of mergers and acquisitions. Having been the casualty of one in the past, he has come full circle and landed a top job as a result of another. Mitchell was chief executive of Goffs before that company merged with Doncaster Bloodstock… Read more »

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Alan Walsh

ALAN WALSH NOW HAS THE DOSH TO GROW IPL

Date: July 26, 2018 - Moneybags

THE FLOTATION of IPL Plastics (IPLP) on the Toronto Stock Exchange along with the issuing of new shares to raise fresh capital of $178m is a culmination of a series of bizarre events. From a pot pourri of interests, IPLP has developed as a focused international plastic packaging business over the past seven years under… Read more »

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Dennis Francis

TIME TO PULL THE PLUG ON PETRONEFT’S RUSSIAN DISASTER

Date: July 26, 2018 - Moneybags

PETRONEFT has been one of the biggest disasters on the Irish Stock Exchange, with its shares going from a high of U0.90 in January 2011 when it was capitalised at E500m to the current E0.015, and now capitalised at €10m – a 98% write off. It doesn’t get much worse than this and the time… Read more »

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Globe House

ASYLUM MILLIONAIRE’S VULTURE WOES

Date: July 26, 2018 - Briefcases

A VULTURE fund has swooped on a company linked to moneybags asylum centre operator Seamus Gillen. Goldman Sachs subsidiary Beltany has just appointed Deloitte’s Peter Allen as receiver to Mid Town Property Development Unlimited Company, a firm that should be familiar to fans of Goldhawk. During the boom years, the Tullamore businessman quietly became the… Read more »

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Daniel Kickham

DAN KICKHAM’S UPS AND DOWNS

Date: July 26, 2018 - Briefcases

IT’S BEEN a bit of a mixed bag of late for Datapac founder and chief executive Dan Kickham. The serial entrepreneur’s successful IT services company secured new contracts worth €5.5m this year, in part because of an increase in demand for its services arising from the new GDPR regime. Separately, a vulture fund has just… Read more »

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MAXWELLS’ TIMELY SNAP

Date: July 26, 2018 - Briefcases

THE government’s go-to photographers had a narrow escape last week. Drumcondra outfit Maxwell Photography Ltd, co-owned by brothers Tony and Mark Maxwell, was listed for striking off the company’s register but the lads managed to get around to filing their 2016 accounts just in the nick of time. The Maxwells are well known as the… Read more »

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Abbeyfield Hotel

PAUL COLLINS’S LOST CONTRACT

Date: July 26, 2018 - Briefcases

INTERESTING to see the Department of Justice has decided not to renew its contract with the Abbeyfield Hotel in Ballaghaderreen to house Syrian refugees. The loss of the contract is sure to be felt by Remcoll Ltd, the Swords-based consortium that bought the hotel in 2015. Remcoll is a joint venture between the Collins family… Read more »

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Patrick Enright

PATRICK ENRIGHT BACK IN BUSINESS

Date: July 26, 2018 - Briefcases

CONGRATULATIONS to Kerry solicitor Patrick Enright, who had a stellar result in the High Court recently. Fans of Goldhawk will recall that the Castleisland legal eagle was struck off the Roll of Solicitors in 2016 after he forged documents related to health insurance claims for which he was handed down a 12-month prison sentence (see… Read more »

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The Century Bar

PAT KERLEY’S SOUR DISH

Date: July 26, 2018 - Briefcases

SPARE a thought for veteran Dundalk restaurateur Pat Kerley whose company Quaglino’s Ltd has just collapsed into liquidation. This is the entity behind the restaurant of the same name, as well as the famous Century Bar boozer in Dundalk, which chef Pat ran with his wife, Eileen Kerley, for 16 years. Kerley set up Quaglinos… Read more »

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LAST ORDERS AT THE GOLDEN GRILL

Date: July 26, 2018 - Briefcases

BAD news for the northwest as legendary Donegal nightclub and music venue The Grill had a receiver appointed to it recently. Seaconview DAC has just installed Declan McDonald of PwC on foot of a 2011 Bank of Ireland mortgage secured against the premises on Port Road, Letterkenny. The Grill had a troubled history. Formerly known… Read more »

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MICHAEL HEALY-RAE’S PITTANCE

Date: July 26, 2018 - Briefcases

GOLDHAWK had a glance at the scheme of arrangement that was put in place earlier this year at Kerry engineering outfit Denis Moriarty The Kerries Ltd (DMTK). The company — controlled by John and Denis Moriarty — was briefly placed in examinership in January but managed to emerge unscathed in March after securing new investment… Read more »

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Regina Doherty

FINE GAEL GUNNING FOR ELECTION

Date: July 12, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

A TRIO of young but influential Fine Gael ministers has persuaded most of their party members in cabinet that an early general election – by end of year – is the way to go, regardless of incurring any blame for calling it. Eoghan Murphy, Simon Harris and Regina Doherty have won the argument, although some… Read more »

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Marie Heaney

SEAMUS HEANEY’S EXPENSIVE ARCHIVE

Date: July 12, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

THERE HAS been plenty of gushing coverage of the Seamus Heaney: Listen Now Again exhibition that marks the overdue opening of the Bank of Ireland’s Cultural and Heritage Centre at Parliament Buildings on College Green. Although there has been much talk of the material on show (for the next five years) having been donated to… Read more »

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Commissioner Drew Harris

PROFILE: COMMISSIONER DREW HARRIS

Date: July 12, 2018 - Pillars of Society

THE appointment of PSNI deputy chief constable Drew Harris, as the new garda commissioner drew mildly critical comment from Sinn Féin but it is key sections of the gardaí that could prove to be Harris’s real problem. Polite noises from garda representative bodies barely disguise… Read more »

Emer Currie

YOUNG BLOOD: EMER CURRIE

Date: July 12, 2018 - The Young Bloods

UNEASY LIES the head that serves the king seems to be the motto for Fine Gael in Dublin West where 39-year-old marketing analyst Emer Currie is the latest young, female and token candidate to be given the nod by Leo Varadkar to be his running mate in the next election. Currie is daughter of Austin,… Read more »

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Michael D Higgins

MICHAEL D’S CHORUS

Date: July 12, 2018 - Fit to Print?

THE IRISH TIMES has shown surprisingly little appetite for the high-minded ethical argument that there should be a presidential contest and has not disguised its undiluted support for Michael D Higgins’s return to the Áras. As the debate about coronation v. election intensified, an IT editorial last week trumpeted Michael D as “widely popular and… Read more »

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Victoria Beckham

POSH SPICE AND ALI HEWSON

Date: July 12, 2018 - High Society

ACROSS THE Irish Sea, Victoria Beckham’s fashion retail outfit has been running up big bills, resulting in slashed prices. Back in Ireland, there are some investors well aware of the gallons of red ink that can get spilled all over designer clobber when people who should know better get notions about fashion. In the case… Read more »

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Eoghan Murphy

EOGHAN MURPHY STRIKES BACK

Date: July 12, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

TD Kate O’Connell’s public assault on her Fine Gael constituency ‘colleague’ Eoghan Murphy – for his alleged impotence over the planned Metrolink’s desecration of Ranelagh – saw rapid retaliatory action from the Housing Minister recently. O’Connell ambushed Murphy last month at an angry residents’ meeting on the Metro, singling out him as the politician who… Read more »

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RONAN KEATING’S PAL

Date: July 12, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

WITH BOYZONE having kicked off their farewell (at last!) tour in the UK, lead singer Ronan Keating still found time to tweet his support for Andrew Tinkler, who had been fired as chief executive of the UK listed transport/energy company Stobart (which operates the Aer Lingus regional service). While Keating is not known for popping… Read more »

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Conor Lenihan

CONOR LENIHAN COMEBACK?

Date: July 12, 2018 - Last Refuge

FORMER MINISTER Conor Lenihan made a surprise visit to his old stomping ground of Dublin South-West recently where, at his own request, he addressed local Fianna Fáil councillors on the onerous task of rebuilding the party. More specifically, he proposed that the councillors support his quest for the party nomination to run for the European… Read more »

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Eleanor McEvoy

ELEANOR McEVOY’S SAD SONG

Date: July 12, 2018 - Behind the Scenes

LAST WEEK singer-songwriter Eleanor McEvoy put on her hat as chair of the Irish Music Rights Organisation (IMRO) – which represents songwriters, composers and music publishers – to bemoan a vote by the European Parliament. The MEPs shot down a long overdue proposal to begin updating copyright laws to make the likes of YouTube pay… Read more »

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