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Gordon Elliott

ELLIOTT IS WELL OFF THE PACE

Date: November 1, 2018 - Sport of Kings

IT SEEMS Gordon Elliott may already have accepted defeat in this season’s leading trainer title race. A slow start to the current season sees him around 40 winners and over €600,000 adrift of his chief opponent, Willie Mullins, who unusually has begun the season with all guns blazing. Over the last few years it has… Read more »

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Stephen Vernon

BIG REWARDS BUT SMALL RESULTS AT GREEN REIT

Date: November 1, 2018 - Moneybags

ALTHOUGH IT would be some achievement, it looks like Stephen Vernon and Pat Gunne could well end up getting a bigger take out from Green Reit than the boys over in Cairn Homes and Glenveagh. Unlike the latter two, where the huge returns depend totally… Read more »

Anne Heraty

UNEXPLAINED TRENDS AT CPL RESOURCES

Date: November 1, 2018 - Moneybags

WHILE CPL Resources has turned in impressive figures, it is nevertheless a pity that husband and wife team Paul Carroll and Anne Heraty have not used their skills to grow the recruitment firm into a properly global business. The annual report for the year to June 2018 does feature impressive profits, but there are also… Read more »

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GRAHAM CANNING’S PUB HANGOVER

Date: November 1, 2018 - Brief Cases

THERE’S been another blow for former publican Graham Canning, who has just had a second judgment registered against him by the taxman in three years, this time for close to €80,000. The Meath man has been scrapping with the Revenue since the collapse of his pub business during the crash. Once upon a time, Canning… Read more »

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Oscars International

POOR GRADES AT DUBLIN LANGUAGE SCHOOL

Date: November 1, 2018 - Brief Cases

SPARE a thought for creditors of Dublin English language school Oscars International, which is petitioning the High Court to have an examiner appointed. The petition by an entity called Malvern House Ireland Ltd (MHI), the trading company behind the Dublin branch of the Oscars group, is due to be heard this week. The head honcho… Read more »

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Mailo Power

CHECKING OUT AT THE ATHENAEUM

Date: November 1, 2018 - Brief Cases

THE original company behind the swanky Athenaeum House Hotel on the Waterford-Kilkenny border has called in the liquidator, just a few weeks after the new owners of the property secured planning permission to turn the hotel into a nursing home. The hotel had been owned and operated by Mailo Power, a former president of Renua,… Read more »

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WINDING UP CARRIGALINE CARPENTRY

Date: November 1, 2018 - Brief Cases

HARD luck to Cork businessmen John and Brian O’Neill, whose company, Carrigaline Carpentry Services Ltd, has just been wound up by the taxman. The writing was on the wall for the troubled entity, having had a hefty €½m tax judgment registered against it last March (see The Phoenix, 23/3/18). It will be recalled that a… Read more »

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ALBIE PURCELL’S GOOD LUCK

Date: November 1, 2018 - Brief Cases

CONGRATULATIONS (of sorts) are in order to Albie Purcell Jnr, who managed to confound AIB in the High Court recently. Judge Max Barrett refused AIB’s application to enter summary judgment against the Tipperary businessman for €3.7m because the bank had not provided complete documentation to the court. Albie is the son of Puckane landowner Albie… Read more »

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CATHAL MALLON’S BUSINESS PARTNERS

Date: November 1, 2018 - Brief Cases

A VULTURE fund has just swooped on D4 developer Cathal Mallon. The fund recently secured judgment against Mallon in the High Court for €2.1m in relation to an EBS loan granted to him and his business partner, Michael Shanahan, at the height of the boom. Mallon is a low-key builder and developer based in Sandymount… Read more »

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Edmond O'Reilly

JUDGMENT DAY FOR EDMOND O’REILLY

Date: November 1, 2018 - Brief Cases

IT’S ALL gone wrong for Tipperary high-flier Edmond O’Reilly, who has just been whacked by the Revenue for over €1m. The Clonmel man made his millions when he sold his recycling company Clearwater in 2007, but his luck has shifted in recent years. O’Reilly is a brother of Valerie O’Reilly, Michael Lowry’s former PR woman,… Read more »

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TOM CONSIDINE’S WIND-UP

Date: November 1, 2018 - Brief Cases

A PROPERTY vehicle called Western Alliance Property (WAP) Ltd is calling in the liquidator. The directors are listed as Gerry Prendergast, Tom Considine and Paddy Sweeney, who each owned a third of the company. They are better known for their involvement in the Millenium Park saga, which they bought for €220m in 2006. It was… Read more »

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BASSAM NASER’S HARD MEDICINE

Date: November 1, 2018 - Brief Cases

THERE are more maladies for jailbird Sutton doctor Bassem Naser, who has just been declared bankrupt in the High Court. The Irish-Palestinian received a 16-month sentence earlier this year for failing to pony up close to €100,000 in income tax. A popular figure in his area, Naser’s jail sentence provoked outrage from residents of the… Read more »

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Vol 36 No 22

Date: November 1, 2018 -

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Simon Coveney

SAUDIS SILENCE IRISH GOVERNMENT

Date: October 18, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

THERE HAS been a deafening silence from foreign minister Simon Coveney and the government at the apparent murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi by agents of Saudi Arabia in its Istanbul consul. This is in marked contrast to Coveney’s loud condemnation of the alleged poison attack… Read more »

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SINN FÉIN POPPYCOCK-UP

Date: October 18, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

THERE is war at all levels of Sinn Féin over presidential candidate Liadh Ní Riada’s statement that she would wear the poppy if elected president. The message has gone out to members that she did it off her own bat, but the strong suspicion among mid-ranking members is that she was schooled beforehand. However, the… Read more »

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Nóirín O’Sullivan

NÓIRÍN VS MEDIA

Date: October 18, 2018 - Fit to Print?

EX-GARDA COMMISSIONER Nóirín O’Sullivan appears to have been rehabilitated by Justice Charleton’s findings, but if no journalist offered a scintilla of evidence against her at the tribunal, she still bears grievances against some media. Fort a start, O’Sullivan is demanding an extension of the one-year time limit within which a litigant can sue for defamation,… Read more »

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Charlie Flanagan

PROFILE: CHARLIE FLANAGAN

Date: October 18, 2018 - Pillars of Society

JUSTICE MINISTER Charlie Flanagan will not have been discommoded by the latest Charleton Tribunal report. The report damns ex-Commissioner Martin Callinan and his sidekick, David Taylor, but it puts distance between the old Garda regime and the present. Despite the recent history of Garda tumult,… Read more »

John McGahon

YOUNG BLOOD: JOHN MCGAHON

Date: October 18, 2018 - The Young Bloods

Fielding a general election candidate who is currently involved in a garda investigation is not an ideal scenario in politics. In fact, it is sub-optimal, particularly in a competitive constituency. But this is precisely the hand that Fine Gael has been dealt in Louth, where John McGahon (27) has just been selected to fill the… Read more »

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Mel Gibson

MEL GIBSON’S TAXING ISSUE

Date: October 18, 2018 - Behind the Scenes

THE MOVIE suits don’t generally wash their dirty linen in public, which is why Mel Gibson’s spat with Voltage Pictures – producers of the Dublin-shot The Professor and the Madman – has begun to generate serious interest. The gaze has finally rested on the state’s generous Section 481 tax scheme, but there are more pertinent… Read more »

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Pat Carey

PAT CAREY’S MEDIA TRIAL

Date: October 18, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

THE smearing of garda whistleblower Sgt McCabe has been well and truly demolished with Justice Charleton’s tribunal report being just the latest exoneration against the charge of child abuse. But what of the strange case of former minister Pat Carey, who felt compelled to take cases for invasion of privacy against the Indo and the… Read more »

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Síona Cahill

SÍONA CAHILL’S BUDGET BLUES

Date: October 18, 2018 - Student Life

YOU would have needed to get up early to catch the Union of Students of Ireland’s (USI’s) response to the Budget earlier this month. The national union organised an 8am protest outside Leinster House, with members of the USI officer board and constituent student unions holding up umbrellas for a photo opportunity. The brollies were… Read more »

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SHANE ROSS’S CHEQUE BOOK

Date: October 18, 2018 - Student Life

WHILE THE sports focus in the media this week has been on Martin O’Neill’s Republic of Ireland team, things have been moving apace at Hockey Ireland. It looks like the Brian Caruth-chaired governing body will need to display all its shooting skills to ensure the sport gets the €½m windfall Shane Ross has delivered. After… Read more »

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Bertrand Gautier

ACCOUNTING GOBBLEDYGOOK AT GREENCOAT RENEWABLES

Date: October 18, 2018 - Moneybags

FROM THE off, it has been very difficult to understand exactly what is going on inside Greencoat Renewables. The company’s revenue base – the starting point in the analysis of any business – has been obscured by the chosen method of reporting and, frankly, it is unacceptable that shareholders should be unable to get the… Read more »

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VOL 36 NO 21

Date: October 18, 2018 -

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Graham Holland

GRAHAM HOLLAND’S DOGGED STRATEGY

Date: October 18, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

A HIGH Court judgment by Judge Tara Burns, dismissing a challenge by greyhound trainer Graham Holland, refers to an audacious claim of bias made against an industry player who happens to be a state solicitor. Indeed, two state solicitors now feature in this high-profile dogfight and the legal eagles are far from finished with the… Read more »

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HUGHES BOYS’ GAMBLE

Date: October 18, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

WHILE THE Hughes family has been having some problems with its €50m Westport House project, the good news is that Cathal and the rest of the clan have got the green light for a controversial headquarters on what planners deemed to be a flood plain. Happily, local councillors voted it through, despite the absence of… Read more »

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Billy Wright

LICENCE TO KILL: MARTIN O’HAGAN

Date: October 18, 2018 - Hush Hush

The murder and state detention of journalists is currently worldwide news, but the anniversary last month of the slaying of Sunday World journalist Martin O’Hagan went by mostly unremarked. However, recent revelations surrounding the British government’s ‘licence to murder’ directive – the Third Direction – has serious implications for MI5 and its role in O’Hagan’s… Read more »

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Amy Huberman

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: October 18, 2018 - The Hot Air Brigade

Huberman brings a trace of Sarah Silverman, Kristen Wiig and Anna Faris – and a heavier dollop of Sharon Horgan – to an otherwise conventional set-up. Peter Crawley reviews the latest Amy Huberman vehicle, Finding Joy, The Irish Times We’ve put ’em under pressure, Riverdanced across the world, soared above giants in Croke Park… Seán… Read more »

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Arlene Foster

DUP: NEVER ON SUNDAY

Date: October 18, 2018 - Bird's Eye View

“NO ONE likes us, we don’t care. We are Millwall, super Millwall. We are Millwall from the Den.” Sung to the tune of Rod Stewart’s Sailing, Millwall football fans’ fearsome ‘F troop’ strike terror into opponents’ fans that hear this chant. The DUP is the political equivalent of Millwall – aggressive, a closed shop, self-obsessed,… Read more »

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Seán Canney

CANNEY’S NEW ALLIANCE

Date: October 18, 2018 - Last Refuge

NEW JUNIOR minister Seán Canney may or may not be grateful to his former colleagues in the Independent Alliance, but they are responsible (along with Denis Naughten, of course) for the restoration of his ministerial status. Readers will recall the schism caused in the Alliance by the job-share arrangement that saw the junior OPW ministerial… Read more »

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Catherine Noone

BEWARE PERFIDIOUS ALBION!

Date: October 18, 2018 - Last Refuge

HISTORIC FEAR of treacherous England has provoked the government into warning ministers to “resist unwarranted advances” from their British counterparts. The fear is that such “unsolicited contacts” are part of an effort to influence ministers’ views on Brexit. The references to “unwarranted” and “unsolicited” advances etc conjures up all manner of crafty stratagems and dark… Read more »

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Leo Varadkar

VARADKAR TO PULL PLUG?

Date: October 18, 2018 - Last Refuge

LEO VARADKAR and some of his Fine Gael cabinet members now regret that they did not act on their political instincts last summer and go for an election when things looked a little rosier than now. Then, housing minister Eoghan Murphy, health minister Simon Harris and social protection minister Regina Doherty had led the charge… Read more »

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Catherine Byrne

HAS BYRNE BURNED HER BRIDGES?

Date: October 18, 2018 - Last Refuge

FOLLOWING her threat not to vote confidence in housing minister Eoghan Murphy, junior minister Catherine Byrne emerged from her meeting with Murphy and Leo Varadkar to state that she had enjoyed “positive and constructive discussions” and would vote for her colleague. So “positive” that she was seen in a state of some distress following the… Read more »

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DENIS NAUGHTEN’S MOBILE

Date: October 18, 2018 - Fit to Print?

DENIS NAUGHTEN scuttled back to base the day after his resignation last week and straight into an interview with Shannonside FM in what was clearly the beginning of a campaign to shore up his Roscommon-Galway constituency support. Interviewer Joe Finnegan eventually broke through Naughten’s defensive rhetoric to suggest that the officials present at his final… Read more »

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Frank McDonald

FRANK MCDONALD’S HIT LIST

Date: October 18, 2018 - Fit to Print?

TRULY FRANK is the title of long-time Irish Times environment correspondent Frank McDonald’s newly published memoir, in which he pays off a few scores and then some. Not even the lion of D’Olier Street, iconic editor Douglas Gageby, escapes Frank’s machete as he describes how his scoop on Charlie Haughey’s €1m AIB debt was relegated… Read more »

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Richard Bruton

BRUTON THE SAVIOUR?

Date: October 18, 2018 - Fowl Emissions

“I’ve never seen such quiet panic about climate change. It finally hit the political class last week that this isn’t our grandchildren’s problem; we’re all gonna die pretty soon.” This is how US political commentator Matt Stoller memorably summed up the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). That the report was… Read more »

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