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Dery Desmond

FIVE GUYS, ONE CRITIC

Date: June 28, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

GOLDHAWK certainly enjoyed Catherine Cleary’s demolition of the new Five Guys burger joint in her Irish Times review earlier this month. It turns out that she has form when it comes to the culinary ventures of Dermot Desmond’s scions. Five Guys is the posh (ie expensive) fast food burger chain that opened its first Dublin… Read more »

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Eamonn Rothwell

EAMONN ROTHWELL

Date: June 28, 2018 - Pillars of Society

THE BOTCHED arrival of the giant WB Yeats car ferry represented a bloody nose for Eamonn “Rottweiler” Rothwell, the loaded chief executive of Irish Continental Group (owner of Irish Ferries). The public relations disaster set to cost the company millions of euro has not fatally… Read more »

Angela Nagle

ANGELA NAGLE

Date: June 28, 2018 - The Young Bloods

IRISH WRITER and self-promoter extraordinaire Angela Nagle (34) has been fighting for her reputation recently. After a remarkable 12 months that saw her career take off in a flash, the author of the well-timed Kill All Normies (KAN) – a short but controversial study of online right-wing subcultures – has been accused of peddling other… Read more »

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Shane Ross

FG AND JUDGES STILL FIGHT SHANE ROSS

Date: June 28, 2018 - Last Refuge

THE rearguard action by judges and their Fine Gael supporters against Shane Ross’s Judicial Appointments Bill has reached the stage of political and legal hand-to-hand fighting with several strikes against the Minister this month alone. Recently, the government acceded to ex-FG minister and current president of the Court of Appeal “Boy George: Birmingham’s virtually unprecedented… Read more »

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Miriam O’Callaghan

MIRIAM O’CALLAGHAN’S TV SLOT

Date: June 28, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

RSVP magazine’s current edition gives a two-page spread to Miriam O’Callaghan NOT hosting her Saturday Night with Miriam show for the first time since 2005. Murrium explained that she dropped out of the show because she was making a documentary on 50 years of the Troubles. Will it really take RTÉ’s Superwoman a year or… Read more »

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Arlene Foster

NEW FACE FOR ARLENE FOSTER

Date: June 28, 2018 - Bird's Eye View

ARLENE FOSTER has thrown herself into an outreach campaign in the last month. In rapid succession she visited Muslims in Belfast for the festival of Eid complete with respectful shawl for head covering if necessary, attended an LGBT reception at Stormont on June 28 run by PinkNews and, of course with maximum publicity, attended the… Read more »

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Mel Gibson

MEL GIBSON V MACDARA KELLEHER

Date: June 28, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

CONGRATULATIONS to filmmaker Macdara Kelleher who received good news from the Superior Court of California last week in relation to an expensive row concerning a new $25m Mel Gibson film. Co-produced by Kelleher with Nicolas Chartier of Voltage Pictures, The Professor and the Madman – which tells the story of the creation of the Oxford… Read more »

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OLAF TYARANSEN’S LIBEL LETTERS

Date: June 28, 2018 - Wigs on the Green

IT WAS interesting to see music journalist Olaf Tyaransen post on his Facebook page recently about being “cast out of several realms that [he’s] used to operating in”. One realm he’s not currently operating in is his old publication Hot Press, which announced in February that he was standing down by “mutual agreement,” while he… Read more »

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PETER O’BRIEN’S ‘HAPPENINGS’

Date: June 28, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

ONE PERSON benefiting from the sweltering summer weather is ‘socially conscious’ entrepreneur Peter O’Brien, who is behind the Happenings event business that has recently been packing in punters. One of the more lucrative ‘happenings’ is the outdoor Yoga in the Park gig that he runs with Dublin City Council. O’Brien is the registered owner of… Read more »

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Lisa Duffy

LISA DUFFY’S MALTESE FASHION

Date: June 28, 2018 - High Society

INTERESTING TO see the name of Lisa Duffy pop up in relation to an online row with the mysterious Instagram account Bloggers Unveiled. This has resulted in all manner of legal threats. Meanwhile, it turns out that Lisa’s fashion business has a significant offshore element…. Read more »

Willie White

WILLIE WHITE’S WOES

Date: June 28, 2018 - Behind the Scenes

THE OFF-STAGE drama for the Dublin Theatre Festival has seen an Arts Council cut in funding for 2018. It looks like the writing was on the wall for the board, where there have been changes in recent times. Druid supremo Garry Hynes stepped down last year after nearly 14 years as a director. Exiting stage… Read more »

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Vol 36 No 13

Date: June 28, 2018 -

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Louise O'Neill

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: June 28, 2018 - The Hot Air Brigade

I could hear someone quietly sobbing, and jolted when I realised it was me. Louise O’Neill attends a stage adaptation of her own book, Asking For It, Irish Examiner, Submitted by reader I landed in the early hours of the morning, hit by a searing wall of heat as I stepped from the plane. Despite… Read more »

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THE FAMINE HACK

Date: June 28, 2018 - Fit to Print?

FRETTING recently over the possible erosion of Irish devotion to Britain and its royal family engendered by Brexit, Irish Times columnist Stephen Collins engaged in a spectacular display of revisionism in an article on the Famine and Queen Victoria. The IT’s former political editor told how the “appalling Maud Gonne” had propagated the myth that… Read more »

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Sean Sherlock

SHERLOCK’S BOOZY CONSTITUENCY

Date: June 28, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

SOME of Labour deputy Sean Sherlock’s parliamentary colleagues wondered if the Cork East TD had drink taken when he moved his unusual amendments to the Public Health (Alcohol) Bill undermining health warnings on labels and advertising of alcohol. Sherlock’s amendments not only put him at odds with Fine Gael Health Minister Simon Harris, but also… Read more »

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Eoin Ó Broin

SINN FÉIN COALITION SPLITS

Date: June 28, 2018 - Last Refuge

A SINN FÉIN ard fheis campaign by front bench housing spokesperson Eoin “Brainiac” Ó Broin TD to unseat longtime apparatchik Dawn Doyle as general secretary was perhaps more significant than declarations of intent on abortion. It indicates that the debate on coalition government will be as seminal and dramatic as any provided by the Peace… Read more »

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Deirdre Veldon

ROMAN FEUD AT THE IRISH TIMES

Date: June 28, 2018 - Fit to Print?

IRISH TIMES efforts to dispense with longtime Rome correspondent Paddy Agnew without decent recompense are developing into a legal saga in Rome with Judge Baroncini apparently unimpressed by management at the liberal paper of record. The fourth hearing at the Tribunale di Roma, Sezione Lavoro (the Labour division of the Italian legal system) came on… Read more »

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Kate O’Connell

O’CONNELL RED FLAG

Date: June 28, 2018 - Last Refuge

KATE O’CONNELL’S spin machine scored a hit with a recent Mail on Sunday splash – Minister Faces Revolt Led By Kate O’Connell, screamed the ‘special report’ on the front page. This concerned threats to the Ranelagh ghetto from the proposed overland Metro route in Dublin Bay South (DBS). The story claimed Fine Gael could lose… Read more »

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Denis Naughten

NAUGHTEN’S REVERSE PSYCHOLOGY

Date: June 28, 2018 - Fowl Emissions

“PLEASE IGNORE the email you received earlier!” It’s a subject line that’s guaranteed to make you go back and actually read the email you ignored earlier. Denis Naughten came up with his own ingenious version of this reverse psychology recently when he sent every TD and senator an email that began: “You may have received… Read more »

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Consuelo O’Connor

MICHAEL DUFFY’S RDS REWARDS

Date: June 28, 2018 - High Society

THERE IS the usual backslapping in the latest annual report of the Royal Dublin Society (RDS) where things are looking good – especially for some senior management suits. Certainly, there was plenty for RDS president Bernie Brennan and her fellow members to boast about in the report, with membership up and Brennan referring to 2017… Read more »

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Date: June 28, 2018 - Letters to the Editor

DISCLOSURES TRIBUNAL Dear Phoenix, Further to your article in issue 16 June 2018 I told the Tribunal: ‘My duties as a journalist and my responsibility to the principle of source protection – which I believe to be a cornerstone of press freedom – places me in the unfortunate situation of not being at liberty to… Read more »

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Ken Bolger

KEN BOLGER’S TAX BILL

Date: June 28, 2018 - Sport of Kings

KEN BOLGER, a nephew of trainer Jim Bolger, found himself on the receiving end of some unwanted attention from the dreaded taxman. As a result of a non-declaration of income, Bolger got hit with a bill of just under €170,000 by the Revenue, with €90,000 accounted for by interest and penalties, following a Revenue investigation…. Read more »

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Leo Varadkar

JIM GIBNEY’S JUBILATION

Date: June 28, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

ANY DOUBTS about Sinn Féin’s lustful intentions towards Fine Gael and a possible coalition partnership will have been allayed by longtime SF strategist Jim Gibney writing in The Irish News last week. Gibney described the Taoiseach Leo Varadkar’s recent journey North as akin to the Crusaders’ conquest of Jerusalem in a visit that “touched base… Read more »

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Helen McEntee

HELEN McENTEE FOR EUROPE

Date: June 28, 2018 - Last Refuge

LOOKS as though Fine Gael’s junior Europe Minister Helen McEntee has seen the writing on the wall in Meath East as well as the ministerial stakes given that her constituency ‘colleague’, Regina Doherty, is a senior cabinet member and a growing force in government. Helen plans to exit Meath for the lush pastures of Euroland… Read more »

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Sean Lemass

JODY CORCORAN PROTESTS (TOO MUCH)

Date: June 28, 2018 - Fit to Print?

BARRISTER and ex-politician Noel Whelan’s weekly Irish Times columns do not normally provoke much angst but a recent reference to a Sunday Independent story being “political spin” appears to have unhinged Sindo joint deputy editor Jody Corcoran last weekend. Corcoran had devoted thousands of words a week earlier to “FG’s top secret poll on election… Read more »

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JACK BRABAZON GETS IN THE GROOVE

Date: June 28, 2018 - High Society

PRESUMABLY Anthony Brabazon and his wife, Fionnuala (aka Lord and Lady Ardee) were delighted with the glowing coverage of Killruddery House in the Sunday Business Post magazine last weekend. With the Groove music festival set to kick off on July 7, all publicity is welcome given the state of the finances at the sprawling Bray,… Read more »

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HELEN LUCEY’S LUCRE

Date: June 28, 2018 - Wigs on the Green

LISTOWEL solicitor and coroner for Kerry North and West Helen Lucey awaits her sanction from High Court President Peter Kelly, who may decree next week that she must pay restitution to a client and be struck off the roll of solicitors. Lucey may rue the day she met Finbarr Ross, an “investment advisor” extradited to… Read more »

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GUNBOAT DIPLOMACY

Date: June 28, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

THAT cordial encounter between Sinn Féin TD Martin Ferris and British royal Prince Charles in Kerry allowed the former IRA commander an opportunity to exhibit his particular brand of gunboat diplomacy. Ferris issued the obligatory comments about all victims and their families being beneficiaries of the peace process – “be they IRA volunteers, be they… Read more »

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Henry Beeby

GOOD AND BAD AT GOFFS

Date: June 28, 2018 - Sport of Kings

HUGE SUMS of money were again being splashed around for national hunt ‘playthings’ at the Goffs Land Rover Sale earlier this month and a similar scenario is quite likely at Tattersalls Ireland when it hosts its Derby Sale, featuring the cream of the Irish bred future jumping stars. The record for the sale’s highest price… Read more »

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HARRY’S NEW GAME

Date: June 28, 2018 - Behind the Scenes

HARRY CROSBIE (OBE) has been keeping busy with plans for his own gaff and the Vicar Street venue. He has also been fighting yet another legal action. Last weekend, the Crosbie fanzine that is the Sindo highlighted his plans to convert his sprawling home at 9 Hanover Quay into a 20-bedroom hotel by adding two… Read more »

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FRANKIE DETTORI’S CONTRACT

Date: June 28, 2018 - Sport of Kings

THERE IS little love lost between Frankie Dettori and his previous employers at Al Shaqab Racing. Dettori was retained by Sheikh Joaan Al Thani’s Qatari outfit for the last five years and they enjoyed Classic and Group 1 success together with the likes of Galileo Gold and Shalaa. However, it wasn’t always a comfortable ride,… Read more »

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Drew Harris

COMMISSIONER DREW HARRIS AND MI5

Date: June 28, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

THE APPOINTMENT of PSNI Deputy Chief Constable Drew Harris as the new Garda Commissioner – flagged by Goldhawk (see The Phoenix 15/6/18) – may be politically correct in that he is a northern policeman serving under the reformed service in the North. But there is a lot of head scratching among gardaí who are aware… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: June 28, 2018 - Bog Cuttings

Bog Road resident’s dangerous driving AT HIS four-day trial at Galway Criminal Court, John Conroy (23), of 2 Bog Road, Ballinrobe denied 13 counts of dangerous driving including breaking red lights at speed, driving on the incorrect side of the road, forcing oncoming traffic to take avoidance action and of seizing the car by force… Read more »

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Amer Abdulaziz

AMER ABDULAZIZ CHALLENGES JOHN MAGNIER

Date: June 28, 2018 - Sport of Kings

THE LUXEMBOURG registered thoroughbred investment fund Phoenix Thoroughbreds and its associated personnel have been generous in providing newsworthy snippets this year – and the long-running saga with their horses and former trainer Jeremy Noseda took another twist recently. Meanwhile, maybe John Magnier should start looking over his shoulder. The Phoenix-owned Walk In The Sun was… Read more »

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Lionel Shriver

ANNIE DOONA’S BALANCING ACT

Date: June 28, 2018 - Behind the Scenes

LIONEL SHRIVER’S outburst in The Spectator rubbishing publisher Penguin’s diversity policies (ie taking into account the gender, sexuality, etc of those to be published) led Goldhawk to take a look at Annie Doona’s work in progress at Screen Ireland (aka the Irish Film Board). Meanwhile, the lobbying continues for yet more public moolah to be… Read more »

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Giovanni Viscardi

BAGOTS HUTTON WHINE BAR

Date: June 28, 2018 - Briefcases

THE owners of Bagots Hutton ‘wine emporium’ on Ormond Quay in D1 have gone to the High Court to challenge the redevelopment of the neighbouring Ormond Hotel. They were much less keen to take a short stroll down to the Four Goldmines when their company, Urban Entertainment Ltd, was sued by a creditor, who has… Read more »

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