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Colm Murphy

‘DISCIPLINARY MATTERS’

Date: October 4, 2018 - Wigs on the Green

HOLLOW LAUGHTER from solicitor Colm Murphy in Kenmare could surely be heard all the way to the Law Society’s HQ in Blackhall Place in Dublin when the latest edition of the Law Society Gazette was published. A statement from the Law Society’s Complaints and Client Relations Committee (CCRC) said the Court of Appeal had expressed… Read more »

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Vogue Williams

THE HUMBLING OF PAUL STENSON

Date: October 4, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

VOGUE Williams is back on Irish screens with a new season of her documentary series and one episode in particular caught Goldhawk’s eye. In My Sponsored Life, the model-turned-documentarian investigated the strange lifestyles and lucrative business models of social media influencers. By far the most interesting segment centred on Goldhawk’s old pal Paul Stenson, the… Read more »

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Jack Sen

WILD ATLANTIC FASCISTS

Date: October 4, 2018 - Hush Hush

A GARDA ASU (armed support unit) assisting detectives from Milford and involving four garda jeeps recently raided a home near Annagry, close to Donegal Airport, arresting a prominent UK far-right extremist after searching for arms and discovering ammunition there. The suspect was eventually released from Letterkenny Garda station without charge, but a file is being… Read more »

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LESLIE BUCKLEY’S GOOD TIMES

Date: October 4, 2018 - Hush Hush

Leslie Buckley has had a lot on his plate courtesy of that investigation into Independent News and Media by the ODCE. However, the good news is that he continues to make money from assorted other activities. Buckley popped up at the Liam Miller tribute match last week and at the corporate shindig afterwards, where he… Read more »

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Boris Johnson

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: October 4, 2018 - The Hot Air Brigade

What we need to do is build a bridge between our islands. Why don’t we? Why don’t we? Boris Johnson pushes for a ‘Brexit bridge’ between Scotland and the north, Sunday Times Michael’s mind is symbolic of that more sensitive aspect of ourselves. His presidency is such a gift to us. He reminds us about… Read more »

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Theresa May

BRITISH ARMY’S LEGACY

Date: October 4, 2018 - Bird's Eye View

Last week Michael Quinn was awarded £193,000 for what the judge described as the “pain and suffering” he endured as a result of being shot on Bloody Sunday in 1972. A paratrooper aimed a lethal headshot at Quinn as he ran to aid a man fatally wounded. The bullet shattered Quinn’s cheekbone and went through… Read more »

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Michael D Higgins

HIGGINS NO-SHOWS

Date: October 4, 2018 - Last Refuge

MICHAEL D HIGGINS has shown yet again that he is anything but a naïve aesthete, as his deft political footwork and PR manipulation illustrated last week. RTÉ’s news and current affairs MD, Jon Williams, took charge of negotiations with the Áras in an effort to persuade Higgins to debate with the pygmies that would presume… Read more »

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VERSATILE VINCENT

Date: October 4, 2018 - Last Refuge

GREEN but multi-coloured Vincent P Martin is surely the most versatile political personality in Ireland. The senior counsel, former legal/property activist with New Beginnings and a member of the Private Residential Tenancies Board (PRTB), Martin was also a Fianna Fáil member. He then went independent and is now a Green Party political activist and is… Read more »

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Sean Sherlock

SHERLOCK GETS BACK ON THE WAGON

Date: October 4, 2018 - Last Refuge

LABOUR TD Seán Sherlock, caused some concern among party TDs and senators recently as he appeared to have succumbed to the demon drink again – politically, not personally – as he had supported one or more amendments to the Public Health (Alcohol) Bill wending its long and torturous journey through the Oireachtas. Sherlock joined with… Read more »

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EXAMINER’S LEGACY DEBT

Date: October 4, 2018 - Fit to Print?

A LEGACY debt the Irish Times had to pick up following its recent takeover of the Irish Examiner arose from a rather serious mistake the paper made in naming Ciaran Damery as being wanted in connection with the IRA killing of Sgt Jerry McCabe in 1996. The error in confusing Ciaran Damery with his brother… Read more »

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Radio Kerry

RADIO SILENCE

Date: October 4, 2018 - Fit to Print?

KERRY’S EYE sleuth Aidan O’Connor recently provided his newspaper with a local media scoop concerning a €1m High Court judgment against a pillar of the community in Kerry. For one reason or another, Radio Kerry declined to follow up or even lift O’Connor’s exclusive. AIB recently secured its €1 million judgment against former Lee Strand… Read more »

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Paul O'Neill

JOURNALISM MATTERS (SOMETIMES)

Date: October 4, 2018 - Fit to Print?

THE MOST laudable campaign, Journalism Matters Week, launched by NewsBrands Ireland recently, was enthusiastically promoted by the Irish Times in particular. The Old Lady of Tara Street draped the banner of press freedom and democracy around itself like some bare-breasted French revolutionary hussy ‘leading the people’. However the old lady’s slip was showing a different… Read more »

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Ed Walsh

COVENEY BINS CLIMATE DENIAL

Date: October 4, 2018 - Fowl Emissions

Ireland’s chronic inaction on tackling climate change is inflicting acute reputational damage internationally. And while Taoiseach Leo Varadkar still thinks ‘climate action’ has something to do with paper cups, foreign minister Simon Coveney seems focused on the bigger picture. Last week he spoke at the UN General Assembly in New York and said it was… Read more »

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JOHN FITZGERALD’S HOT AIR

Date: October 4, 2018 - Fowl Emissions

There are worrying signs that government Climate Change Advisory Council chair Prof John FitzGerald has fallen hook, line and sinker for agri-industrial spinning about methane magically disappearing from the atmosphere. “We certainly haven’t suggested a carbon tax, a methane tax on the herd,” he told the Irish Farmers Journal recently. “That would not be where… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: October 4, 2018 - Bog Cuttings

A night on the gargoyle A DRUNK Donegal man was caught smashing up a garden gargoyle and taking washing from a clothesline of another man who he had been in a car crash with. Darragh Sweeney of Killygordon appeared at Letterkenny District Court on public order charges. The court was told that a couple had… Read more »

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Consuelo O’Connor

BERNIE GALLAGHER’S RENOVATION

Date: October 4, 2018 - High Society

SOME LONG overdue renovation works are being carried out on a prestige property on leafy Herbert Park in the heart of Ballsbridge. No 34 has lain vacant for many years, having been sold near the height of the boom before an attempt was made to flip it for a whopping €13.5m. In fact, the large… Read more »

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Selina Cartmell

AUDITIONING FOR THE GATE

Date: October 4, 2018 - Behind the Scenes

THERE HAS been lots of good news for the Gate Theatre lately, putting quite a nice gloss on Selina Cartmell’s tenure on Parnell Square to date. Not only has the moolah been flowing in, but on stage things are going rather well. Now, off stage, some changes are being made. The staging of Hamlet has… Read more »

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NEW FACES AT THE CHESTER BEATTY

Date: October 4, 2018 - Behind the Scenes

THERE HAS been some recent (and overdue) activity on the board of the Chester Beatty Library, where some new faces are joining Dermot Desmond and his fellow trustees. The current chair (elected by the existing trustees) is former European Commission secretary general Catherine Day, who was appointed at the end of last year and replaced… Read more »

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Helen Boyle

HELEN BOYLE’S FUNDING BOOST

Date: October 4, 2018 - Behind the Scenes

AS MICK Hannigan and Una Feely prepare to fire up their IndieCork film and music festival, it seems that relations between their erstwhile employer – Cork Film Festival (CFF) – and Sheila Pratschke’s Arts Council are finally impressing the critics. Fans of Goldhawk will recall Hannigan and Feely’s redundancy and subsequent Employment Appeals Tribunal compensation… Read more »

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Joseph O'Brien

BABY JOSEPH IS IN THE PINK

Date: October 4, 2018 - Sport of Kings

THE SUCCESS of the Joseph O’Brien-trained Baby Pink in a valuable listed race in Galway recently was an interesting one when one delves into the filly’s ownership history. Originally purchased as a yearling for 450,000 guineas two years ago by MV Magnier, in partnership with the busted South African tycoon Markus Jooste, she was then… Read more »

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Sheikh Mohammed al Maktoum

GODOLPHIN SPLASHES OUT

Date: October 4, 2018 - Sport of Kings

THE REBUILDING of relations between the behemoths of global racing Coolmore and Godolphin continues apace with mutual support of each entity’s top stallions now commonplace as well as the purchasing of yearlings by each other’s stallions. In the meantime, however, both camps continue to compete aggressively in the sales ring. Sheikh Mohammed al Maktoum’s Godolphin… Read more »

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PAT KELLY’S COBALT CASE

Date: October 4, 2018 - Sport of Kings

IT HAS been a tough couple of weeks at the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB), with a number of referral cases heard covering assorted misdemeanours from cobalt abuse to seaweed poisoning to naturally occurring testosterone in fillies. While John ‘Shark’ Hanlon was deemed the main offender when Camlann – a horse he trains for the… Read more »

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Ger Lyons

GER LYONS’S GRIPE

Date: October 4, 2018 - Sport of Kings

IRISH CHAMPIONS weekend was again deemed a success, with some thrilling finishes, good weather and a few breakthrough Group 1 wins for some of the lesser celebrated figures in racing. However, trainer Ger Lyons was not entirely happy with the opening day at Leopardstown. He withdrew three of his horses due to ground he described… Read more »

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Adrian Howd

BAD MEDICINE AT MALIN CORPORATION

Date: October 4, 2018 - Moneybags

THE SAME week that Malin Corporation had its explosive AGM (September 13), Don Panoz – the founder of its predecessor company, Elan Pharmaceuticals – died at the age of 83. He set up Elan Pharmaceuticals, where New York banker Kelly Martin eventually took charge before selling the company to Perrigo for $7bn in June 2013…. Read more »

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Mike Donoghue

ORMONDE MINING’S PATIENT SHAREHOLDERS SET FOR PAYDAY

Date: October 4, 2018 - Moneybags

AFTER 25 years of mineral exploration in Spain, Ormonde Mining is on the cusp of delivering a mine producing 13% of the western world’s tungsten – a mineral that is essential for the production of, for example, the super alloys used in turbine blades for jet engines. This has been a long journey, but productions… Read more »

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Greg Kavanagh

GREG KAVANAGH’S LATEST HEADACHES

Date: October 4, 2018 - Brief Cases

ARKLOW property developer Greg Kavanagh’s scrap with his former New Generation Homes partner Pat Crean is back in the Four Goldmines next week. Meanwhile, the taxman has just registered a small judgment against one of the more high-profile companies linked to Kavanagh. Isotonic Taverns Ltd – where Kavanagh and his brother, builder Hugh Kavanagh, are… Read more »

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BOBBY KERRISK’S TAX BILL

Date: October 4, 2018 - Brief Cases

THE TAXMAN has just slapped Dublin builder and developer Robert ‘Bobby’ Kerrisk with a judgment for €80,000. Once a small-time but busy developer in north Dublin, Kerrisk – who traded as Touchstone Developments – specialised in small residential projects like the Newtown Cottages in Coolock, where he built a pair of bungalows in 2006. But… Read more »

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SEAN FOY’S FOIBLES

Date: October 4, 2018 - Brief Cases

SPARE a thought for Mayo solicitor Sean Foy, who recently received a dressing down from the Law Society. It’s not the first time the legal eagle – who practises as Foy Ryan solicitors in Westport and Foy Murphy solicitors in Ballinrobe – has fallen foul of the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal. In 2013, Foy was found… Read more »

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Sean Lyne

SEAN LYNE’S LATEST LIQUIDATION

Date: October 4, 2018 - Brief Cases

AN ENTITY called CLS Crystal Partners Holding Company Ltd is calling in the liquidator. Once upon a time, this was the central company in Clare developers’ Sean Lyne and Noel Connellan’s Crystal Partners venture, a property investment group that snapped up large tracts of zoned land around the Banner County and in the south of… Read more »

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Nobby O’Reilly

MICHAEL O’REILLY’S VULTURE PROBLEM

Date: October 4, 2018 - Brief Cases

MORE headaches for former Pierse Contracting director Michael O’Reilly, who has just been hit with a judgment for over €1m by a vulture fund subsidiary of Goldman Sachs. Builder Mick and his brother, Nobby O’Reilly, have had plenty on their plate since the crash. Pierse Contracting Ltd was one of the more spectacular building sector… Read more »

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STRONG HEADWINDS AT WATERFORD AIRPORT

Date: October 4, 2018 - Brief Cases

THERE has been more turbulence at Waterford Airport. Last year, Aer Southeast – fronted by Icelandic businessman Einar Adalsteinsson – announced that it was going to establish routes from Waterford to the UK in 2018. Much to the chagrin of the beleaguered board of Waterford Airport, which hasn’t had a commercial flight since 2016, and… Read more »

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VULTURE PECKS GEORGE STAFFORD

Date: October 4, 2018 - Brief Cases

SPARE a thought for George and Patricia Stafford of the mighty Wexford Stafford dynasty. Launceston Property Finance, a vulture fund subsidiary of CarVal, has just registered matching judgments against the couple for a hefty €3.7m. George Stafford invested in property during the boom and the trouble started when Danske Bank obtained a judgment mortgage against… Read more »

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Pat O'Sullivan

WINDING UP LIMERICK FC

Date: October 4, 2018 - Brief Cases

JP MCMANUS must have been delighted with the generous media coverage of his largesse recently. One entity that could use a dig out from the so-called Sundance Kid is Limerick FC, which the Revenue is petitioning the High Court to have wound up on foot of an unpaid tax bill. The Super Blues hit the… Read more »

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Robert Simmons

ROBERT SIMMONS CUTS BACK

Date: October 4, 2018 - Brief Cases

SPARE a thought for veteran Dublin hairdresser and stylist Robert Simmons, who has had to call in the liquidator at his Powerscourt Townhouse Centre-based hair salon. Pzazz Hair Design Ltd has been a fixture on South William Street since Simmons opened the salon in 1981. The owner himself, a former president of the Irish Hairdressing… Read more »

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DAVID HERLIHY’S HIGH COURT SCRAP

Date: October 4, 2018 - Brief Cases

FORMER Limerick solicitor David Herlihy is back in the High Court next week in his scrap with the Law Society. It’s the latest episode in the former legal eagle’s row with Blackhall after he was struck off the roll of solicitors in the High Court last year. Herlihy’s appeal against High Court president Peter Kelly’s… Read more »

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John Mulcahy

SPECIAL TRIBUTE – JOHN MULCAHY

Date: September 20, 2018 - Pillars of Society

A JOURNALIST FOR ALL SEASONS JOHN MULCAHY will be remembered as not alone the publisher and inspiration behind The Phoenix – as well as the Irish Arts Review, the Sunday Tribune and Hibernia magazine – but as the gatekeeper of Irish investigative journalism. He trained,… Read more »