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YFG TREND SETTERS

Date: May 31, 2018 - Hush Hush

IF Fianna Fáil TDs and members come across as Good Ol’ Boys following their referendum antics then what does the next generation of Blueshirts look like? Goldhawk fans will recall that Killian Foley-Walsh, an ardent pro-life conservative, was elected president of Young Fine Gael two months ago (see The Phoenix, 6/4/18). He beat the pro-choice… Read more »

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Declan Ganley

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: May 31, 2018 - The Hot Air Brigade

Not one euro of mine is going towards killing babies. Give the bill to Yessers. I am a conscientious objector. Tweet by Declan Ganley, gracious in defeat I am now looking forward to taking on new digital projects, which will focus on my core interests of developing new revenue models for journalism, along with the… Read more »

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Janice Boylan Irish Military Mali Coolock Says No IFP Hermann Kelly Timmy Dooley Aontú Mal O’Hara Fintan O’Toole Josepha Madigan Eoghan Harris Ukraine War Micheál Martin Middle East Philip Ryan Seán Clancy Simon Coveney Hugo MacNeill Mountbatten Neasa Hourigan Green Party Martin NPT Ivana Bacik Independents Limerick Hospital Overcrowding Barry Cowen

MARTIN’S ABORTIVE REFERENDUM

Date: May 31, 2018 - Last Refuge

WAS the Fianna Fáil abortion referendum campaign really as disastrous for the party as most pundits have characterised it? Or was it another example of that most populist of parties having it both ways yet again? Galway East was the first constituency to produce a result last weekend and the 60% Yes vote contrasted sharply… Read more »

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Carol Nolan

RAINING ON MARY LOU’S PARADE

Date: May 31, 2018 - Last Refuge

SINN FÉIN’S Mary Lou McDonald had a very good referendum campaign but she has a real problem with her two dissenting anti-abortion TDs, Peadar Tóibín and Carol Nolan. If SF is not careful and if the cards fall the wrong way the party could lose at least one and possibly both Dáil seats – in… Read more »

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Janice Boylan Irish Military Mali Coolock Says No IFP Hermann Kelly Timmy Dooley Aontú Mal O’Hara Fintan O’Toole Josepha Madigan Eoghan Harris Ukraine War Micheál Martin Middle East Philip Ryan Seán Clancy Simon Coveney Hugo MacNeill Mountbatten Neasa Hourigan Green Party Martin NPT Ivana Bacik Independents Limerick Hospital Overcrowding Barry Cowen

RÓISÍN SHORTALL

Date: May 31, 2018 - Last Refuge

IN the last edition of The Phoenix we referred to Róisín Shortall possibly having disagreements with her brother, pro-life activist Brendan Shortall, over the repeal the 8th referendum. We have since been informed that Brendan Shortall died in 1995. We apologise to Ms Shortall and others close to Brendan Shortall for this error.

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Seamus Mallon

SDLP’S ABORTION DILEMMA

Date: May 31, 2018 - Bird's Eye View

THE SDLP is in a fix after last week’s overwhelming result in the abortion referendum. The party has been split on abortion in recent years so in an effort to manage the problem the party leader called a conference on May 19 in Maghera, Co Derry. Some naive observers thought the conference was to decide… Read more »

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Phil Hogan

PHIL THE FARMER

Date: May 31, 2018 - Fowl Emissions

HAS PHIL “The Fixer” Hogan discarded the green jersey of the Irish farming sector for the tie-dyed T-shirt of environmentalism? As Enda Kenny’s environment minister (2011-14) Big Phil treated the environment as something to be exploited for agricultural output. In 2014, for example, with 50% of Irish farms showing levels of nitrates in water above… Read more »

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Stephen Rae

STEPHEN RAE’S UNTIMELY INM EXIT

Date: May 31, 2018 - Fit to Print?

INM group editor-in-chief Stephen Rae is aghast at the unfavourable impression created, not by the manner of his exit from the newspaper group, but the timing. Given that Rae was installed as head of Denis O’Brien’s new editorial regime after he took control in 2006 it appeared to some that Rae’s departure might be linked… Read more »

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Paddy Agnew

WHEN IN ROME …

Date: May 31, 2018 - Fit to Print?

IRISH TIMES management recently told its staff that efforts to throw Paddy Agnew, its Rome correspondent of over 30 years, overboard were carried out “equitably” but “were rejected”. Details of his treatment, however, would make Ryanair management blush. Agnew has successfully deployed a European Court of Justice ruling (forcing Ryanair to deal with its pilots… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: May 31, 2018 - Bog Cuttings

Judge won’t fence him in A KILLNICK man who repeatedly called to a hardware shop to steal fence posts and fence making equipment will avoid jail if he can pay for the goods. Michael Doyle from Ballysheen in Killnick was caught at Bolger’s Hardware in Ballycogley after the security alarm summoned gardaí to the premises… Read more »

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Tom Vaughn-Lawlor

CITIZEN LANE – DIRECTED BY THADDEUS O’SULLIVAN

Date: May 31, 2018 - MoviesReviews

WATCHING VETERAN director Thaddeus O’Sullivan’s Citizen Lane, some Irish cinema buffs may be assailed by nostalgia for the rougher, readier and financially straitened early years of Irish filmmaking. Based in the UK but working often in Ireland, O’Sullivan started at the art school end of the spectrum with experimental documentaries like A Pint of Plain… Read more »

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WEST CORK – SAM BUNGEY AND JENNIFER FORDE

Date: May 31, 2018 - PodcastsReviews

SCHULL AND its environs seem an unlikely setting for the latest true crime sensation, but they were an unlikely setting for a murder that grabbed international headlines. West Cork – a 13-episode podcast on the Audible site, exploring the killing of Sophie Toscan du Plantier – is the brainchild of husband-and-wife team Sam Bungey and… Read more »

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CONNECT – JULIAN GOUGH (PICADOR)

Date: May 31, 2018 - BooksReviews

TIPPERARY AUTHOR Julian Gough (now Berlin-based) has already produced three comic novels and a series of children’s stories. He also wrote the ‘ending’ to the hugely popular video game, Minecraft. His latest book, combining tech noir thriller and teen romance, is set in America, a decade or so into the future. Naomi Chiang and her… Read more »

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Annie Doona

ANNIE DOONA’S ANNUAL REPORT

Date: May 31, 2018 - Behind the Scenes

THE LATEST annual report of the Irish Film Board (IFB) appeared without fanfare on its website last month. Since Annie Doona was confirmed in her role as chair, there has been much talk of balancing gender representation in the agency’s funding schemes and in the content of the films it funds (but not among the… Read more »

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Nick Hartery

HARTERY IN AND HARMAN OUT

Date: May 31, 2018 - Sport of Kings

THE IRISH and British racing industries are closely linked and as the latter says goodbye to a chairman, we welome a new one this side of the Irish Sea. Steve Harman has signalled his intention to stand down from his role as chairman of the British Horseracing Authority (BHA) later this year. This follows on… Read more »

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ELLIOTT’S SLOW START

Date: May 31, 2018 - Sport of Kings

GORDON ELLIOTT will surely be glad to see the back of May. The trainer has experienced something that must feel rather alien to him since he started training – a total drought of winners. Elliott pretty much pulled down the shutters on the yard after Punchestown but what most assumed would be a ‘handy week’… Read more »

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Michael Cawley

CAN INVESTORS BE TEMPTED TO BOOK INTO HOSTELWORLD?

Date: May 31, 2018 - Moneybags

WHEN RAY NOLAN and Tom Kennedy sold off their online youth hostel booking business to US group Hellman & Friedman in 2009, it was always going to be interesting to see what happened next. The latter floated Hostelworld on the stock market in October 2015 at €2.70 a share to raise €184m, having bought in… Read more »

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Daragh Heagney

TROUBLE BREWING FOR DARAGH HEAGNEY

Date: May 31, 2018 - Briefcases

IT LOOKS like Daragh Heagney’s comeback has hit a snag. After burning his fingers badly in the crash, Goldhawk reported last year that Heagney was looking forward to a fresh start in Howth with two new businesses, a coffee shop and a boozer (see The Phoenix 21/4/18). Once upon a time, Heagney and Dara O’Grady… Read more »

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Zabrina Collins

WINDING UP THE SCIENTOLOGISTS

Date: May 31, 2018 - Briefcases

INTERESTING to see that Church of Scientology Mission of Dublin (CSMD) has moved to wind itself up. This is the company behind the controversial religion’s first Irish mission on Abbey Street in D1, and where the directors are long-standing Scientologists Gerard and Siobhan Ryan. The decision to dissolve the original operation may be linked to… Read more »

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PADDY STACK’S HARD LOCH

Date: May 31, 2018 - Briefcases

SPARE a thought for Royal County builder Paddy Stack who had an expensive day out in the Court of Appeal recently. The trouble began for Kildalkey, Co Meath-based Paddy and his wife Mary Stack when the taxman wound up their construction company, Carrignagour Ltd in 2012. Carrignagour enjoyed some publicity in the late 2000s arising… Read more »

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Ian Hyland

IAN HYLAND’S ZOMBIE COMPANY

Date: May 31, 2018 - Briefcases

IT’S MORE of the same at Ian Hyland’s troubled Moranna Ltd, the company that once published Business & Finance magazine. Moranna – where former INM board member and long-time Denis O’Brien collaborator Paul Connolly is listed as a director – filed its 2017 accounts recently, which include a note explaining the company had decided to… Read more »

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MARY HELEN HENSLEY’S JUDGMENT

Date: May 31, 2018 - Briefcases

SPARE a thought for Westmeath-based chiropractor and “metaphysical healer” Mary Helen Hensley, who has just been slapped with a tax judgment for close to €90,000. Hensley, originally from the US, works as a chiropractor at Athlone Chiropractic Care but she’s had a tough time in business since the crash. Hensley’s website explains that following a… Read more »

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Ferdinand von Prondzynski

FERDINAND VON PRONDZYNSKI’S INQUIRY

Date: May 31, 2018 - Briefcases

GOLDHAWK’s favourite German-Irish academic Ferdinand von Prondzynski has found himself at the centre of a conflict of interest investigation in Scotland. The former president of DCU – who left Ireland to take up a role as principal of Aberdeen’s Robert Gordon University (RGU) in 2011 – told Scottish newspaper The Press and Journal he is… Read more »

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Michael Sandys

TAXING MATTERS WITH REVENUE

Date: May 31, 2018 - Briefcases

A COMPANY controlled by Dublin accountant Michael Sandys has fallen foul of the Revenue. The number cruncher owns and operates a Taxassist Accountants franchise in Walkinstown, D12 through his company Future Generations Ltd, which has just had a judgment registered against it by the dreaded taxman. Former Ernst & Young accountant Sandys has been in… Read more »

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EVERYTHING’S GRAND

Date: May 31, 2018 - Briefcases

SOME good news for grannies… the Catholic Grandparents Association of Ireland has just been removed from the list of companies to be struck off the companies register. The charity – where Iona Institute head honcho David Quinn is listed as a director – was strike-off listed after failing to file its accounts. Happily, the figures… Read more »

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CATHAL RYAN’S NEW DEED OF COVENANT

Date: May 31, 2018 - High Society

WITH EXTRAVAGANT new plans being drawn up for Westport House by Cathal Hughes et al, Goldhawk wondered whatever happened to the €2m grant. Previously the council told Goldhawk that “Westport House and 52 acres of surrounding demesne land is the subject of deeds of covenant with the Heritage Council. … Grants amounting to U2.038m were… Read more »

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CLADDAGH RECORDS’ NEW TUNE

Date: May 31, 2018 - Behind the Scenes

FOLLOWING THE passing of Garech de Brún in March, it will be interesting to see what happens to Claddagh Records. Set up by de Brún in the 1960s, Claddagh Records has a sister company, Woodtown Music Publishing. Around 92% of Claddagh Records is held by a Guinness family trust vehicle, Claddagh Records International (CRI), registered… Read more »

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JOHN DOOLEY’S NAMA HANGOVER

Date: May 31, 2018 - Briefcases

SPARE a thought for John Dooley who has just had a judgment for close to €2.4m registered against him, courtesy of Nama. John is the son of Donall Dooley, the Galway businessman best known for his association with William and Sheila Moran of the famous seafood restaurant, Moran’s on the Weir. Once upon a time,… Read more »

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DAILY MAIL FORGETS TO CAMPAIGN

Date: May 31, 2018 - Fit to Print?

GIVEN THAT the Irish Daily Mail proclaims itself “Ireland’s campaigning newspaper”, readers may have been surprised at the lack of coverage of the abortion referendum in the run-up to polling day. The Mail managed to dance around the referendum to an extent that was impressive. It is perhaps not surprising that the paper should be… Read more »

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Tim Brennan

WILL WILLIE NEED A NEW VET?

Date: May 31, 2018 - Sport of Kings

THE FUTURE of Tim Brennan as a racehorse vet now lies in the hands of the British Horseracing Authority (BHA). This follows news that he must face a disciplinary panel in July over the alleged dissemination of information from Willie Mullins’s yard to Brennan’s brother, Michael, for betting purposes before that information was made available… Read more »

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Jamie Heaslip

HEASLIP AND VAN DER FLIER

Date: May 31, 2018 - Fowl Play

INTERESTING to see a firm called Abbey International Finance (AIF) pumping over €2m into the operation behind the flavoured water brand Coco Fuzion100. This represents a teaming up of the rugby names of Heaslip and van der Flier Coco Fuzion100 is owned by C7 Brands, which was until last week controlled by the listed Prime… Read more »

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SOFTLY SOFTLY WITH LEO

Date: May 31, 2018 - Last Refuge

HAS the media and opposition shrunk from nailing Leo Varadkar over the cervical cancer scandal for fear of destroying unity in the repeal the 8th referendum? Or is Sinn Féin afraid to alienate Fine Gael because it is a potential coalition option? Varadkar was the health minister poised to move a bill demanding mandatory –… Read more »

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DENIS NAUGHTEN’S PLASTIC PROBLEM

Date: May 31, 2018 - Fowl Emissions

PUBLIC ANGER over excessive plastic is matched only by Denis Naughten’s determination to hobble any measures that industry interests find distasteful. The Green Party’s Waste Reduction Bill has been before the Oireachtas Environment Committee, having had cross-party support in the Dáil. A compulsory deposit-and-return scheme (DRS) on drinks containers is an essential part of the… Read more »

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Danny Healy Rae

HEALY-RAE DYNASTY IN TROUBLE

Date: May 31, 2018 - Last Refuge

DANNY HEALY-RAE may have hammed up his professional Kerryman act too much and his seat is in danger from Fianna Fáil. Danny’s Dáil outburst against his constituency rival, Junior Transport, Tourism and Sport Minister Brendan Griffin, over drink-link buses was uncomfortable for the minister locally but Healy-Rae was, not for the first time, a little… Read more »

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MARTIN NAUGHTON’S CHEQUEBOOK

Date: May 31, 2018 - High Society

TRINITY COLLEGE Dublin is once again the beneficiary of a handout from philanthropist Martin Naughton, who has been pumping money into assorted causes for decades, mostly below the radar. This latest reported donation (€25m) is the largest single such donation in the history of the state. Along with his wife Carmel, the Naughtons have been… Read more »

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JOHN HOURICAN’S CONTROVERSIAL OLIGARCH

Date: May 31, 2018 - High Society

THE LATEST revelations in the US about Robert Mueller’s investigation into links between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin focus on Russia’s fourth wealthiest man, Viktor Vekselberg. He has links with some Irish chaps who will be following developments across the Atlantic closely The normally low-profile Vekselberg – who made his fortune from oil and metals… Read more »

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