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Rupert Murdoch

RUPERT MURDOCH’S CASH INJECTION

Date: June 28, 2018 - Briefcases

THE Dirty Digger has given Dublin-anchored Storyful Ltd another dig-out. Documents just filed with the Companies Office show Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation pumped €12m into Storyful at the end of May – just six months after injecting €7.2m into the ailing entity. It’s been a tough summer so far for Storyful, the news verification outfit… Read more »

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Eileen and Jason Denham

LAST ORDERS AT HANGAR

Date: June 28, 2018 - Briefcases

A COMPANY called Mahned Ltd has just had a tax judgment for €64,000 registered against it. This turns out to be the entity behind the popular Hangar music venue and nightclub at Andrew’s Lane Theatre, set up by couple Eileen and Jason Denham, which called last orders for the final time in May. Previously, Jason… Read more »

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Jonny Davis, Paddy Davis, Sharon Davidge

DAVIS BROTHERS SNOWED UNDER

Date: June 28, 2018 - Briefcases

AN INTERESTING little company called Après Entertainment Ltd has just gone to the wall after running out of dosh. At a recent creditors’ meeting, accountant Christopher Harmer was appointed liquidator to the Dublin events company, where marketing impresario brothers Jonny and Paddy Davis are listed as directors. Après was behind a Christmas village installation in… Read more »

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FRANCIS DOOLEY’S ‘UNSATISFACTORY DOCUMENT’

Date: June 28, 2018 - Briefcases

CONGRATULATIONS to Wexford businessman Francis Dooley who got some rare good news from the High Court earlier this month. Dooley has had his share of court dates since 2010 and is currently seeking a declaration that he is not indebted to Rabobank to the tune of no less than €20m. In 2004, Wexford County Council… Read more »

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AIB WHACKS TOM FURLEY

Date: June 28, 2018 - Briefcases

MORE hard cheese for troubled Dublin businessman Tom Furley, who has just been slapped with a hefty €3.5m judgment courtesy of AIB. Castleknock-based Furley has been embroiled in a scrap with the bank since 2015 when AIB took him, his wife Joan Furley, and his business partner Andy Sweeney to the High Court, seeking judgment… Read more »

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MICK BEIRNE’S ROCKY ROAD

MICK BEIRNE’S ROCKY ROAD

Date: June 28, 2018 - Briefcases

BAD news for Royal County businessman Mick Beirne of engineering company Embassy Contractors Ltd, who was named on the Revenue’s latest list of tax defaulters recently. The Leitrim native, based in Hillview, Dunboyne, settled with the taxman for €77,000 after an audit uncovered under-declared income tax. Embassy, founded by Beirne in 1987 and co-owned by… Read more »

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David Miller

DAVID MILLER FEELS THE BURN

Date: June 28, 2018 - Briefcases

IT LOOKS like the company behind the Énergie Fitness gym in Parkwest has run its last race. Fitness guru David Miller and his wife Linda Miller are the largest shareholders at LDM Ventures Ltd, which called in the liquidator earlier this month. Management emailed members a fortnight ago to explain the D12 gym and swimming… Read more »

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Brian Hall

DUDS AND DITHERING AT AMINEX PLC

Date: June 28, 2018 - Moneybags

GIVEN THAT Aminex went into production in Tanzania for the first time in April 2016, the first full year figures from the gas field surfaced in the 2017 accounts. Shareholders must be significantly disappointed that the company still lost over $2m last year, not much less than the previous year, although the expectation had been… Read more »

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Jonathan Laredo

LOTS OF ROOM FOR GROWTH AT YEW GROVE

Date: June 28, 2018 - Moneybags

ON THE one hand it is not surprising that another Irish property REIT has been launched on the Irish-UK stock markets given the huge volume of funds attracted into the existing three Irish REITs – Green, Hibernia and Ires – which together have raised the best part of €3bn. What is surprising is how small… Read more »

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John McGuinness

TD DEFIES VULTURE FUND JAIL THREAT

Date: June 13, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

FIANNA FÁIL TD John McGuinness has rutted up against some heavy hitters – ex garda commissioner Martin Callinan, his party leader Micheál Martin and the government – but none has attempted to jail him. Unlike Grant Thornton partner Paul McCann, whose solicitors recently wrote to McGuinness threatening him with an order for contempt of court… Read more »

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Micheál Martin

CIVIL WAR IN FIANNA FÁIL

Date: June 13, 2018 - Last Refuge

MICHEÁL MARTIN’S threat to impose a whip on Fianna Fáil TDs over pending abortion legislation could lead to a real crisis for his two most implacable enemies in the parliamentary party: Michael McGrath and Éamon Ó Cuív. Martin let Barry Cowen issue the threat at a parliamentary party meeting but nobody believes the bullish Barry… Read more »

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Lisa Chambers

LISA CHAMBERS

Date: June 13, 2018 - Pillars of Society

BEING tipped by The Irish Times as next leader of Fianna Fáil could be the kiss of death for any such aspirant but Lisa Chambers is certainly a rising star in the dull orb that currently constitutes the Republican Party. Recently elevated from front bench spokesperson on defence to the much more prestigious Brexit posting,… Read more »

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Julie O'Leary

JULIE O’LEARY

Date: June 13, 2018 - Affairs of the NationThe Young Bloods

CORK NORTH Central’s Julie O’Leary is knocking loudly on the Dáil door as Fine Gael holds its long overdue convention to select candidates for the next general election. But it won’t be easy for the 27-year-old barrister as there is strong support locally for Senator Colm Burke who has been squeezed out of the reckoning… Read more »

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Niall Harbison

NIALL HARBISON’S LONG GOODBYE

Date: June 13, 2018 - Briefcases

IT’S the end of an era at LD Lovin Dublin Ltd, where Niall “Harbo” Harbison has cashed in his 33% stake and resigned from the board. Fans of Goldhawk probably weren’t too surprised when Harbo headed for the exit last week in a deal reportedly worth €1m – the mouthy businessman had been on his… Read more »

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JACKIE LAVIN’S WARRIOR ACTIONS

Date: June 13, 2018 - Hush Hush

SPARE A thought for Jackie Lavin and Bill Cullen whose long-running battle with the dreaded bankers has been taking its toll. The latest development is the calling of a creditors’ meeting next week for something called Warrior Actions Ltd, a company 100% owned by Lavin. Warrior Actions turns out to own the business name Bill… Read more »

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Wissam Al Mana and Janet Jackson

MR JANET JACKSON’S IRISH INTERESTS

Date: June 13, 2018 - High Society

IT WAS reported earlier this month that marketing company iZest, set up by Jennifer Taaffe, had scooped a €1m investment from a Qatari moneybags named Wissam Al Mana. This is not the first time Al Mana has popped up as an investor here but of more interest to some will surely be his eventful marriage… Read more »

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Ruairí Quinn

RUAIRÍ QUINN’S BUSY TIMETABLE

Date: June 13, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

THE COUNTDOWN is in full swing for the imminent opening of Barry O’Callaghan’s hugely expensive Nord Anglia International School in Leopardstown in September. Accounts just filed for the UK holding company show that, as part of a restructuring, the conglomerate that will operate the upmarket establishment incorporated a vehicle in the the Cayman Islands offshore… Read more »

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Crystal Li

OLGA SHAJAKU V CRYSTAL LI

Date: June 13, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

AFTER REPEATED visits to the courts, determined Russian lawyer Olga Shajaku has finally won out, with the Court of Appeal ruling that a lucrative translation contract awarded to Shajaku’s competitor, Crystal Li, should be binned. Crystal Li has been one of the more high profile entrepreneurs in the Irish Chinese community and in 2016 won… Read more »

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ANNE MARIE WATERS’S NEW PARTY

Date: June 13, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

FAR RIGHT political activist Anne Marie Waters – she hails from Stoneybatter, Dublin – has formed a new ultra-right party entitled For Britain and is standing in the Lewisham East by-election this week. Waters has been in several parties, mostly right wing, but her virulent Islamophobia saw her deselected as a UKIP election candidate in… Read more »

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Luke Comer

LUKE COMER GETTING CLOSER

Date: June 13, 2018 - Sport of Kings

THE QUEST by Luke Comer to train a winner continues, though it seems he is getting closer to his Holy Grail and it wouldn’t be a major surprise to see one of his nags pass the post in front sometime soon. This time last year, Comer was embroiled in negotiations with the Irish Horseracing Regulatory… Read more »

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Vol 36 No 12

Date: June 13, 2018 -

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Shane Ross

ROSS AMBUSHED BY JUDGE’S CALL

Date: June 13, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

SHANE ROSS told RTÉ through gritted teeth last week that he had no problems with the sudden appointment of four new judges, as his Judicial Appointments Bill would soon be passed into law. But the irony of how the appointments were made will not have escaped Ross or the judiciary’s cheerleaders in Fine Gael. Given… Read more »

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JENNI TIMONY’S MENTORING

Date: June 13, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

CONGRATULATIONS to Jenni Timony who is busy putting her experience to work for the benefit of Ireland’s next generation of entrepreneurs. She certainly knows what not to do. Jenni is described as the interim programme manager of the New Frontiers programme in Sligo IT. New Frontiers is an initiative of Enterprise Ireland (EI), delivered through… Read more »

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AIB V TONY O’REILLY

Date: June 13, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

FANS OF Goldhawk will not have been too surprised by AIB’s move this week to get its hands on Tony O’Reilly’s stake in Dromoland Castle. It will be recalled (see The Phoenix 18/5/18) that Gavin O’Reilly, son of the Tony O’Beanz, quietly stepped down from the board of Dromoland Castle Holdings Ltd, the company behind… Read more »

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Paddy Prendergast

PRENDERGAST’S RANKING WOES

Date: June 13, 2018 - Student Life

ON THE SURFACE at least, Trinity College provost Paddy Prendergast has suffered a PR defeat. The release of the 2019 QS World University Rankings has seen Trinity drop to 104th place globally from 88th, leaving Ireland bereft of top 100 third-level institution. Towards the beginning of Prendergast’s tenure in 2012, the college was ranked 67th… Read more »

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Drew Harris

MI5 LINK MAN FOR GARDA TOP JOB?

Date: June 13, 2018 - Hush Hush

WHAT A curious appointment as new garda commissioner PSNI Deputy Chief Constable Drew Harris (OBE) would make. This is especially so given the concerns voiced by security sources about entrusting intelligence secrets to a policeman from a non-Irish state. Northern newspapers have reported that Harris is “favourite” (Irish News) to take the garda top job…. Read more »

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Date: June 13, 2018 - Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, Just revisiting your cover of May 18th re those ‘Gaza Holiday Snaps’; and checking the blowback in your Letters slot for June 1st from serial digital hasbara-hairtrigger Tony Allwright, and his buddy David Hall. To paraphrase that great Jewish poet and songwriter, Paul Simon, ..still a man sees what he wants to see,… Read more »

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Colum Kenny

PROF KENNY’S EVIDENCE REFUTED

Date: June 13, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

ACADEMIC and writer Professor Colum Kenny has got himself into a spot of bother at the Charleton Tribunal inquiring into an alleged smear campaign against Sgt Maurice McCabe by senior gardaí. Kenny has polemicised publicly against journalists who will not divulge confidential sources in circumstances such as the McCabe affair where alleged smears were passed… Read more »

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Bláthnaid Ní Chofaigh

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: June 13, 2018 - The Hot Air Brigade

I went into the world as I am and the world decided that this outspoken vivacious woman did not fit it. Bláthnaid Ní Chofaigh, RTÉ.ie, Submitted by reader I wasn’t familiar with the work of Anthony Bourdain, but many of you are sad and that makes me sad too. I’m sorry for your loss. Tweet… Read more »

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Peter Robinson

PETER ROBINSON’S BORDER POLL HERESY

Date: June 13, 2018 - Bird's Eye View

QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY Belfast has made former DUP leader and First Minister Peter Robinson an honorary professor of peace studies despite an open letter of protest to the vice-chancellor from 37 academics. They complained about Robinson’s remarks in support of his estranged wife’s homophobia and his public defence of a pastor charged with preaching a sermon… Read more »

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Bertie Ahern

BERTIE AHERN – THE LOST LEADER

Date: June 13, 2018 - Last Refuge

BERTIE AHERN has become a totemic figure in dissident Fianna Fáil circles discontented with Micheál Martin’s leadership and Meath West TD Shane Cassells appears to be one of the former Taoiseach’s biggest fans. Bertie was guest speaker at a FF celebration of the 20th anniversary of the peace process in Athboy recently with the 350… Read more »

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MARY LOU MCDONALD’S STRATEGY

Date: June 13, 2018 - Last Refuge

SINN FÉIN leader Mary Lou McDonald is causing the Fianna Fáil leadership – and that of Fine Gael – some anxiety with one FF frontbencher describing her long-term coalition negotiating strategy as masterful. By posturing as the essence of sweet reason and as willing to talk to either of the two main (reactionary and beastly)… Read more »

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Alan Kelly

SAVING LABOUR FROM ALAN KELLY

Date: June 13, 2018 - Last Refuge

IS former Labour leader Pat Rabbitte trying to stimulate a debate on impending regime change in the party with his provocative column in the Sunday Business Post recently? Rabbitte’s ostensible message was that Labour should move from Sandymount liberalism to working class issues, a message Labour’s last four leaders – Rabbitte, Ruairí Quinn, Eamon Gilmore… Read more »

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Alison O’Reilly

MAIL IN THE BOX

Date: June 13, 2018 - Fit to Print?

THE tongue lashing delivered to group editor of the Irish Daily and Irish Sunday Mail titles, Sebastian Hamilton, by Supreme Court judge Peter Charleton, has not been done justice in media reports from the Disclosures Tribunal. But Mail owners, Associated Newspapers, will certainly have clocked the lecture its editor received as will its journalist Alison… Read more »

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EVE HEWSON’S EXCUSES

Date: June 13, 2018 - Fit to Print?

IT SEEMS Bono’s daughter Eve Hewson has inherited her dad’s preternatural talent for annoying people. The Brooklyn-based Dubliner had a bit of an Instagram incident recently, managing to stoke the ire of feminists and another up-and-coming starlet, Jameela Jamil, all in one go. In an Insta post last week, Jamil took issue with the casting… Read more »

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Michael Creed

BUSINESS IS BUSINESS

Date: June 13, 2018 - Fit to Print?

BUSINESS people’s bible the Sunday Business Post stuck it to the drinks industry recently in a devastating critique of the “well-funded lobbyists” that have delayed for many years the Public Health (Alcohol) Bill. Political editor Michael Brennan excoriated the drinks lobby for interfering with the nation’s “political system and, indeed with the nation’s health”, advising… Read more »

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