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HOT AIR BROADCASTERS

Date: October 18, 2018 - Fowl Emissions

While reaction to the IPCC’s dire latest report has been notably strong in some of the newspapers, what of the broadcast media? Virgin’s Tonight show mostly continued its smart-alecky mockery of science, while airing the populist views of blow-hards like the Healy-Raes. RTÉ did slightly better, with George Lee seeming to actually grasp the true… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: October 18, 2018 - Bog Cuttings

Bus station black out A MAN got so drunk that gardaí found him with his pants down around his ankles. Inspector Gary McPolin said Darren McGrath (46), who lives in an apartment at John Barry House, Main Street, Midleton, Co Cork, came to the attention of gardaí at the bus station in Parnell Place with… Read more »

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Catherine Day

DERMOT DESMOND’S NEW TRUSTEE

Date: October 18, 2018 - High Society

DERMOT DESMOND’S favourite cultural institution, the Chester Beatty Library (CBL), has been beefing up its board of trustees recently (see The Phoenix, 5/10/18). Alongside some ministerial appointments, a new suit has been appointed by the trustees themselves in the form of legal eagle Tony O’Grady. He brings plenty of experience, but also opens the possibility… Read more »

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Consuelo O’Connor

DOMINIC WEST’S PARTY BARN

Date: October 18, 2018 - High Society

THE LATEST plug for Glin Castle comes courtesy of the Irish Examiner, where readers are told that the posh wedding and party venue is up and running. It will be recalled (see The Phoenix, 10/8/18) that Catherine FitzGerald (daughter of Desmond, the last Knight of Glin) and hubby – actor Dominic West – had been… Read more »

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Vincent Carton

VINCENT CARTON’S BIG GARDEN

Date: October 18, 2018 - High Society

IT’S NOT everyday that a prime Dublin 4 property is put up for sale just a few months after its purchase, but that is what has happened to the big Eglinton House pile on Eglinton Road in Donnybrook. The seller here turns out to be low-profile moneybags Vincent Carton, who happens to live next door…. Read more »

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Emma Goltz

SLOWLY DOES IT AT IMMA

Date: October 18, 2018 - Behind the Scenes

THERE IS still no sign of white smoke at Kilmainham, where they are waiting for a new director to replace the long-departed Sarah Glennie. The number of applicants for the prestigious top job at Imma was no doubt tempered by the fact that the salary scale is to be kept the same as that which… Read more »

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JOSEPHA MADIGAN’S CREATIVE SPENDING

Date: October 18, 2018 - Behind the Scenes

THE TENSIONS between the Arts Council and the Department of Culture over the emergence of Creative Ireland (CI) are well known. The new body poses a problem for Merrion Square – as was expressed most explicitly by deputy chair John McAuliffe in an opinion piece in the Irish Times, where he referred to “a secretive… Read more »

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Patrick Mullins

BHA CRACKS THE WHIP

Date: October 18, 2018 - Sport of Kings

PATRICK MULLINS found himself the subject of some unwanted attention recently, when his winning ride aboard his father’s Rathvinden in the National Hunt Chase at Cheltenham last March was voted “ride of the season” at the McCoy Awards in England. The awards ceremony, in its second year, is backed by Jockey Club Racecourses and named… Read more »

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Melissa Margolis

MELISSA MARGOLIS MAKES WAVES

Date: October 18, 2018 - Sport of Kings

WHEN THE Gordon Elliott-trained Kuiper Belt landed the valuable Lartigue Hurdle at Listowel last month, it gave fledgling owner Melissa Margolis her biggest success. That success was short-lived, however, as the race day stewards deemed the winner – ridden by Denis O’Regan – had impeded the chances of the JP McManus’s runner up, Gold Seal,… Read more »

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CONROY’S FLASHY PROFIT

Date: October 18, 2018 - Sport of Kings

WHILE THE moolah being splashed out at Goffs showed that the going is very good these days, the market for bloodstock remains selective and unpredictable. A yearling needs to tick every box with regards to pedigree and conformation to command a premium price and prices can fluctuate wildly in the space of a year. Take… Read more »

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Amer Abdulaziz

ABDULAZIZ UPS THE ANTE

Date: October 18, 2018 - Sport of Kings

IT WILL be recalled (see The Phoenix, 29/6/18) that Phoenix Thoroughbreds supremo Amer Abdulaziz pledged this year at Royal Ascot to develop his bloodstock investment fund into a global player that would be a viable rival for the other superpowers like Coolmore and Godolphin. Well, Abdulaziz is not wasting any time in accumulating some of… Read more »

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Eimear Mulhern

GOING IS GOOD FOR GOFFS

Date: October 18, 2018 - Moneybags

THE LENGTHY spat between John Magnier and Sheikh Mohammed Al-Maktoum was not good for Robert J Goff & Co, with Maktoum’s Godolphin breeding and racing operation eschewing Coolmore’s expensive nags for around a decade. This spat cooled somewhat last year when Godolphin bid for a Coolmore filly sired by Galileo at the key Orby Yearling… Read more »

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Paul Doherty

PAUL DOHERTY’S LATEST VENTURE

Date: October 18, 2018 - Brief Cases

GOLDHAWK spotted a small Dublin tech company called Software Design Ltd (SDL) that went into voluntary liquidation at the end of August. Happily, one of the directors is already back in business with a new company, trading from the same premises in Rainsford Street, D8. SDL was founded by computer hot-shot brothers Gavin and Paul… Read more »

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DONALL DOOLEY GOES BUST

Date: October 18, 2018 - Brief Cases

HARD luck to former high-flying developer Donall Dooley, who has just been adjudicated bankrupt in the High Court. Fans of Goldhawk will not be too surprised with this result – the Galway businessman has been up to his neck in trouble since the crash. Alongside William and Sheila Moran, of Moran’s on the Weir fame,… Read more »

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LEGAL EAGLES GROUNDED

Date: October 18, 2018 - Brief Cases

THERE might be some tension at the next Southern Law Association shindig after two Cork City solicitors had judgments registered against them by rival legal eagles. Gail and Michael Enright were hit for €25,000 each by Thomas Coughlan, the principal at Thomas Coughlan & Co Solicitors on Anglesea Street in the city. It’s another setback… Read more »

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TAXMAN SKINS TOM HOGAN

Date: October 18, 2018 - Brief Cases

THE dreaded taxman has lasered in on Galway businessman Tom Hogan. The Carrowbrowne man, who is listed as a director at a company called BB Medical Skincare Ltd (BBMS), has just had a judgment for over €480,000 registered against him by the Revenue. BBMS, where Hogan’s wife Jeanette Haynes is also listed as a director,… Read more »

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James Foody

WINDING UP THALMAN HEALTH

Date: October 18, 2018 - Brief Cases

THE MUCH-VAUNTED Cork healthcare start-up Thalman Health Ltd is calling in the liquidator. The company, which straddled the Atlantic, operating in Cork and San Francisco, has declared itself insolvent ahead of a creditors’ meeting next week. The Glanmire outfit was founded by Sligo entrepreneur James Foody, “data-driven content strategist” Ian Kerins and product developer Josef… Read more »

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JEFFREY AIRD’S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES

Date: October 18, 2018 - Brief Cases

POSH interior design company Clive Christian Ireland (CCI) Ltd is heading for liquidation. A creditors meeting is scheduled for next week for the business, which is run by Dublin designer Jeffrey Aird from his shop in D4. This is the official Irish seller of products by British designer Clive Christian, famous for his furniture and… Read more »

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NO LOVE FOR LABOUR

Date: October 18, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

The Irish Congress of Trade Union’s Raise the Roof rally attracted a crowd of around 12,000, by and large uniting various campaigns and groups around the cross-party motion on homelessness. But the presence of the Labour Party was a sticking point for many. UNITE senior officer Brendan ‘the Ogre’ Ogle even released a video, slamming… Read more »

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Wilbur Ross

ED HEAPHY’S SUPREME COURT APPEAL

Date: October 18, 2018 - Brief Cases

HARD luck to Cork banking consultant and former businessman Ed Heaphy, who had his appeal against a Bank of Ireland judgment slapped down in the Supreme Court recently. These days, Heaphy is a researcher in the European Parliament for the European United Left-Nordic Green Left group. This is the political formation of which Roscommon MEP… Read more »

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DAVID HERLIHY’S SECOND STRIKE-OFF

Date: October 18, 2018 - Brief Cases

MORE on struck-off solicitor David Herlihy’s Law Society scrap. The former Limerick legal eagle was back in the Four Goldmines last week, where he was described by High Court president Peter Kelly as “not a fit and proper person to be on the roll of solicitors”. Fans of Goldhawk will recall that Herlihy was struck… Read more »

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IRISH TIMES STYLE

Date: October 18, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

THE Irish Times marked the centenary of its most esteemed editor ever, Douglas Gageby, with a tribute from Joe Breen – “a man above the rest” – but decided not to publish a letter arguing that standards had fallen since his retirement in 1986. A plaque to Gageby at his Ranelagh birthplace was unveiled last… Read more »

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MICHEÁL GANLEY’S GIG

Date: October 18, 2018 - Student Life

KILL ALL Normies author Angela Nagle was in Trinity College recently to speak at an event with right-wing YouTuber Carl Benjamin. More interesting than their snore-fest debate on identity politics was some of the people involved in the event. Promotional materials had been floating around online naming something called the Trinity Classical Liberal Society (Lib… Read more »

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PAUL POGBA’S BRAND

Date: October 18, 2018 - Hush Hush

WHILE MANCHESTER United fans have been despairing at the underwhelming performance of superstar Paul Pogba, the Irish end of the story continues to play out. Last year, it emerged that the ‘Paul Pogba’ brand was transferred to an Irish company registered in Clonakilty called Blue Brands Ltd, where one of the directors turns out to… Read more »

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BEHIND THE ÁRAS

Date: October 4, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

A HIDDEN hand or hands have been at play in what is shaping up to be the dirtiest presidential campaign ever. Labour Party campaigners and other supporters of Michael D Higgins have been anticipating an ambush for months and recent weeks have seen a concerted effort to ‘get’ Higgins. And one of their targets is… Read more »

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Simon Coveney

UN SEAT: COVENEY CHECKMATES CANADA

Date: October 4, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

TÁNAISTE and foreign minister Simon Coveney’s stirring speech to the United Nations General Assembly last weekend championed the Palestinians in a manner that belies the government record of refusing to break with EU foreign policy on the Middle East. This change of tack has little to do with rediscovering traditional Irish foreign policy on the… Read more »

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Liadh Ní Riada MEP

PROFILE: LIADH NÍ RIADA MEP

Date: October 4, 2018 - Pillars of Society

THERE ARE those in Sinn Féin who believe that the party’s presidential bid via Liadh Ní Riada, daughter of iconic Irish composer Seán Ó Riada, is an inspired move that could see her outflank the two main parties that have cried off hurt. But there… Read more »

Louise O'Neill

YOUNG BLOOD: LOUISE O’NEILL

Date: October 4, 2018 - The Young Bloods

It’s been a bumper year for young adult fiction writer Louise O’Neill (33). The Cork native has published two books since the spring and the stage version of her well-received novel, Asking For It, is slated for a two-week run in The Abbey Theatre in November. Just how has the novelist managed to wrap the… Read more »

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Paschal Donoghue

PASCHAL VS MARY LOU VS PARTY RIVALS

Date: October 4, 2018 - Last Refuge

FINANCE MINISTER Paschal Donohoe has made a bold move in his Dublin Central constituency. He has taken on a running mate, even though he narrowly staved off a threat to his seat at the last general election. Donohoe’s move is aggressive, politically correct, courageous etc, but while it slaps it up to the other parties,… Read more »

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Gerry Byrne

‘INDO’S’ K CLUB COCK-UP

Date: October 4, 2018 - Wigs on the Green

THE LITIGATION between former K Club catering manager Peter Curran and the K Club, its head of security and one Mick Smurfit is due back in court this week when we should learn if Mick will be making an appearance. Meanwhile, the Indo has been landed with a defamation action as a result of a… Read more »

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Avril Stanley

AVRIL STANLEY’S SWEET SOUNDS

Date: October 4, 2018 - High Society

IT LOOKS like combining music with new age hippy mysticism and mindfulness is a rather profitable business. Earlier this summer (before those post-Electric Picnic images), festival promoter Avril Stanley had a pop at festival-goers who treat the campsites like rubbish tips, advising, “You don’t have to abandon all rules of common decency when it comes… Read more »

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CROHAN O’SHEA’S €10M PILE

Date: October 4, 2018 - High Society

WHILE THE property market has shown faint signs of slowing down, there was no hint of this last week when property developer Crohan O’Shea – Kerry Person of the Year 2011 and associate of one Seán Fitzpatrick – put his impressive home overlooking Killiney Bay on the market for, wait for it, €10m. A report… Read more »

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Ben Gilroy

BEN GILROY’S ‘ABHORRENT’ BEHAVIOUR

Date: October 4, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

IT WAS reported this week that Goldhawk’s old pal, Direct Democracy founder Ben Gilroy, is the subject of a High Court order from Judge Robert Haughton preventing him from taking certain legal actions and from providing advice to others who find themselves before the courts…. Read more »

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Volume 36 Issue 20

Date: October 4, 2018 -

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Tim Brennan

TIM BRENNAN VS RTÉ

Date: October 4, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

THE FALL-OUT from a finding by the British Horseracing Authority (BHA) that Co Kilkenny vet Tim Brennan is not guilty of passing on inside information continues. RTÉ has just received a writ from the vet, alleging that he has been defamed. Brennan was the subject of intense media scrutiny after the BHA issued a press… Read more »

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WEE DANIEL’S BIG BUCKS

Date: October 4, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

WEE DANIEL O’Donnell has been keeping busy, serenading the Pope and popping up in TV adverts. It is not surprising that the Donegal crooner is worth a few bob, as the latest figures for DOD confirm, although there have been a lot of comings and goings. The O’Donnell set-up has changed in recent times, with… Read more »

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