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Mary McIntyre

A SMALL WORLD AT IMMA

Date: May 31, 2018 - Behind the Scenes

THE THIRD year of purchases by the Hennessy Art Fund for IMMA Collection has added four more pieces by mid-level artists to the artworks at Kilmainham. One lucky contender whose submission was chosen will be most familiar to the visiting curator on board for the selection process. On May 10 last, Hennessy and IMMA announced… Read more »

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Sheikh Fahad Al Thani

SHEIKH FAHAD FLEXES HIS MUSCLES

Date: May 31, 2018 - Sport of Kings

GER LYONS has never been shy about airing his opinions but a failure to bite his tongue may have cost him dearly after Qatar Racing – one of his main owners – took its horses from his care. Lyons lost 10 horses as a result of the split with Sheikh Fahad Al Thani, including recent… Read more »

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DEFAMATION NATION

Date: May 17, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

FANS OF Goldhawk will recall that the Dublin Solicitors’ Bar Association will head off to sample the delights of Venice for their annual conference in September (see The Phoenix 4/5/18). Now, the barristers have chosen Malaga, Spain, as the ideal spot for their Defamation Nation conference later this month Paul McGarry SC is the current… Read more »

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Vol 36 No 10

Date: May 17, 2018 -

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JD Buckley

JD BUCKLEY’S SUPPORTING ROLE

Date: May 17, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

THIS WEEK’S AGM of Independent News and Media (INM) should prove lots of fun and the name of the company’s erstwhile chairman, Leslie Buckley, is sure to feature large. One name that presumably won’t appear is that of Leslie’s eldest son and boss of Sky Ireland, JD Buckley. But the Buckley scion is alleged to… Read more »

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Shane Ross

ROSS NO-SHOW AGAINST McDOWELL

Date: May 17, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

SHANE ROSS’S campaign to block Senator Michael McDowell as chair of the Oireachtas committee to implement Maurice Manning’s Seanad reform proposals – ostensibly supported by Taoiseach Leo Varadkar – came unstuck last week. And the main reason was that Ross himself failed to show up to lead the charge against his long time rival as… Read more »

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Mohamed Salah

KOP ON

Date: May 17, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

IN an embarrassing attempt to get onside with Irish-based Liverpool fans ahead of the upcoming UEFA champions League final, the Sindo’s Eoghan Harris lyricised about the club’s fans – “mystic and majestic … the golden mine at Anfield” – and their star player, the Egyptian Mohammed (misspelled) Salah. What Harris really wanted to get at… Read more »

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TURN AGAIN, MARTYN

Date: May 17, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

IRISH TIMES cartoonist Martyn Turner usually manages to hit the sweet spot for south Dublin readers but his illustration this week of Israel and Hamas as co-equal perpetrators in the current carnage in Gaza – latest score: Palestinian dead 100 circa; Israelis 0 – was crass. The cartoonist depicted Israeli and Hamas characters with crocodile… Read more »

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Rupert Murdoch

MORE DUBLIN / UK HACKING EVIDENCE

Date: May 17, 2018 - Hush Hush

THE gruesome murder in 1987 of a London private investigator, Daniel Morgan, recently the subject of a case taken for malicious prosecution against the London Metropolitan Police, has produced an intriguing Irish twist. Daniel Morgan was co-owner of a prominent private eye company – Southern Investigations – that had a close relationship with large numbers… Read more »

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BONFIRE OF THE UNIONISTS

Date: May 17, 2018 - Bird's Eye View

BONFIRES have always been a manifestation of unionist triumphalism but also trepidation. Their size is in direct proportion to unionist paranoia. All major political occasions have featured bonfires across the north: the defeats of Home Rule, the completion of Stormont in 1932, protest at the 1985 Anglo-Irish Agreement. James Kelly, doyen of northern journalism until… Read more »

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Alan Kelly

LABOUR’S LETHARGY ON REPEAL THE 8th

Date: May 17, 2018 - Last Refuge

JUDGING by the limp effort of various Labour TDs in the repeal the 8th referendum, some have learned the lesson of the gay marriage campaign, namely that championing liberal causes cuts no ice when it comes to general elections. Or have some of the party’s cute country hoors recognised that campaigning for a pro-choice position… Read more »

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Gerry Adams

GERRY ADAMS HAS GONE AWAY, YOU KNOW

Date: May 17, 2018 - Last Refuge

WHAT a witty and even perceptive response Leo Varadkar gave to Mary Lou McDonald’s tribute to the late Monica Barnes in which the Sinn Féin leader said – as a compliment – that Ms Barnes did not “come across as a Fine Gaeler”. Vlad returned the compliment saying Mary Lou did not always come across… Read more »

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Anne Harris

HACKS PRIVILEGED?

Date: May 17, 2018 - Fit to Print?

THE imminent appearance of ex-garda commissioners Martin Callinan and Nóirín O’Sullivan at the Charleton Tribunal has the media salivating, but the same hacks will immediately follow suit at Dublin Castle in what is likely to be a fratricidal affair. The initial argument facing hacks at the tribunal was that they need not protect the identity… Read more »

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Maurice McCabe

MAURICE McCABE’S LEGAL LABYRINTH

Date: May 17, 2018 - Fit to Print?

THAT apology broadcast by RTÉ’s Prime Time last week to Supt Noel Cunningham over his dealings with whistleblower Sgt Maurice McCabe, was humble to the point of degradation. But the apology reflected the eye watering damages of €150,000 paid to the super who also happens to hold the prestigious position of president of the Association… Read more »

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VARADKAR’S PR

Date: May 17, 2018 - Fit to Print?

“SHAMBOLIC: blame shifts to Varadkar”, was the arresting, not to say provocative, headline on the front page of last Saturday’s Irish Independent over an article on the cervical cancer scandal So provocative that somebody at Independent House decided it was unfit for public consumption on the Indo’s website. The article had also said that after… Read more »

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Derek Mooney

BOG STANDARD RTÉ PROGRAMME

Date: May 17, 2018 - Fowl Emissions

“THIS IS the story of Ireland’s best kept secret.” So RTÉ’s Derek Mooney began Turf Life – A Day on the Bog. This statement was true in more ways than the presenter might have imagined. The programme, broadcast on May 4, was sponsored by Bord na Móna, Ireland’s chief bog destroying enterprise. Due to what… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: May 17, 2018 - Bog Cuttings

‘ONLY MEDICATING THE PEOPLE OF DERRY’ A MAN already serving a “substantial” prison sentence has been fined for having the Class B drug cannabis. Jamie Mullan (21) of Braehead Road, Derry, admitted having the drug on March 1 last year. A search warrant was issued as police believed the defendant was involved in the “supply… Read more »

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WEDDING DATE

Date: May 17, 2018 - High Society

WITH MEDIA interest in the Meghan Markle and Prince Harry wedding nearing fever pitch, plenty of filler articles on the “wedding season” have popped up, including one in The Irish Times last week entitled “So, what’s on the wedding list?” One who gave her tuppenceworth was wedding organiser (everyone needs one apparently) Tara Fay, who… Read more »

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Chryss O’Reilly

EXITING DROMOLAND CASTLE

Date: May 17, 2018 -

INTERESTING to see that California-based Gavin O’Reilly, former boss at Independent News and Media, has just resigned from the board of Dromoland Castle Holdings Ltd, the company behind the eponymous Co Clare hotel. Having been in situ since 1995 as a representative of his dad, Tony O’Reilly – who was a significant investor in Dromoland… Read more »

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Maeve Fitzgerald and Lorcan Cranitch

ON RAFTERY’S HILL – ABBEY THEATRE

Date: May 17, 2018 - ReviewsTheatre

AT LAST, here’s Marina Carr. As Irish theatres obsess over gender imbalance in the industry following Waking the Feminists, it’s surprising the moody midlands playwright hasn’t cropped up sooner. Her last major production was at the Abbey three years ago, before the Waking the Feminists furore. With an ever rising volume of output focusing on… Read more »

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HEARTLAND – PATRICK McCABE (NEW ISLAND)

Date: May 17, 2018 - BooksReviews

SINCE THE success of The Butcher Boy in 1992, Patrick McCabe has pioneered a distinctive literary genre. His claustrophobic narratives – usually about the demise of small-town Ireland – have inhabited their own eccentrically imagined world. The latest novel is another dark tale of murder and mayhem set in a remote part of the Irish… Read more »

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Hugh Wallace

THE GREAT HOUSE REVIVAL – RTÉ 1

Date: May 17, 2018 - ReviewsTV

IRELAND’S enduring love affair with home ownership is unlikely to end anytime soon – particularly as so many property porn programmes continue to hog the national broadcaster’s schedules. With Home of the Year ending last month (followed by a celeb version) and Dermot Bannon momentarily off the screens, RTÉ has come up with yet another… Read more »

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CREDIT WHERE (TAX) CREDIT IS DUE

Date: May 17, 2018 - Behind the Scenes

WHILE THE Joint Oireachtas culture committee prepares its report on the film industry following recent hearings, Goldhawk asked the Revenue for some facts. The Section 481 tax gravy train for the film and TV industry allows non-Irish and non-EU resident actors’ fees to be considered eligible spend, provided that film withholding tax (FWT) of 20%… Read more »

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Selina Cartmell

SELINA CARTMELL’S CONDITIONS

Date: May 17, 2018 - Behind the Scenes

WITH THE Gate Theatre landing an extra €100,000 in funding from the Arts Council it looks like 2018 is shaping up to be a good year for director Selina Cartmell. However, one condition attached represents a new departure for the Merrion Square Mafia. The extra €100,000 for Cartmell et al follows on from the Arts… Read more »

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Richard FitzGerald

DID HRI JUMP TOO EARLY?

Date: May 17, 2018 - Sport of Kings

THE CONTROVERSIAL media rights deal that saw Horse Racing Ireland (HRI) hand over the keys to Irish racing to Satellite Information Services (SIS) took another twist recently when the At The Races (ATR) channel announced it would be changing its name to Sky Sports Racing. The media rights deal gives the broadcasting contract to Racing… Read more »

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HERE COME THE GIRLS

Date: May 17, 2018 - Sport of Kings

THE PAST 10 years have been a golden era for female jockeys. Having proved their worth against the boys and earned the right to be known as jockeys as opposed to lady jockeys, the focus now is on the scrapping of the award for Leading Lady Rider. While the recent retirement of the household names… Read more »

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Alan Fleming

ALAN FLEMING’S LOADED NEW OWNERS

Date: May 17, 2018 - Sport of Kings

CURRAGH TRAINER Alan Fleming is generally more associated with his national hunt string, being more or less a private trainer for Barry Connell. The handler may have landed himself an unlikely new client, however, in the shape of Phoenix Thoroughbreds. The free-spending outfit that claims to be the first regulated fund for investing in bloodstock… Read more »

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Mick Stanley

CLEANING UP INSIDE CAIRN HOMES

Date: May 17, 2018 - Moneybags

CLEARLY Mick Stanley and his Scottish finance mentor and supporter, Alan McIntosh, have done an impressive job in building a sizeable Irish house-building operation from nothing in 2015. They did this on the back of raising a whopping €720m from British and US financial institutions eager to tap into the property recovery. But these backers… Read more »

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Philip O’Quigley

FALCON’S FRACKING GAMBLE DOWN UNDER

Date: May 17, 2018 - Moneybags

SUPPORTERS of the highly controversial oil and gas extraction technique of hydraulic fracking got a boost recently courtesy of an Australian government-commissioned report. It concluded: “Not only could the risk associated with an on-shore shale gas fracturing be minimised to an acceptable level, in some instances, they can be avoided altogether.” In particular, the report… Read more »

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CHECKING OUT AT THE PLAZA

Date: May 17, 2018 - Briefcases

TOUGH times at Phelan Hotels Ltd (PHL) where the liquidator is set to check in. The company behind the Plaza Hotel in Tallaght has declared itself insolvent ahead of a creditors’ meeting scheduled for next week. Readers will recall that the entity – co-owned by Blackrock businessman John Raymond Phelan and Martin Phelan, head of… Read more »

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ANTHONY FITZPATRICK’S ‘NEEDLESS’ INTERVENTION

Date: May 17, 2018 - Briefcases

IT LOOKS like one of Anthony Fitzpatrick’s liquidation sagas has come to an end. In April, Goldhawk’s old pal Fitzpatrick had a bad result in the Court of Appeal, which dealt with his removal – at the Revenue’s behest – as liquidator to a company called Star Elm Frames Ltd. Readers will recall that in… Read more »

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Ross Maguire

ROSS MAGUIRE’S NEW BEGINNING

Date: May 17, 2018 - Briefcases

THE ORIGINAL company behind barrister Ross Maguire’s debt campaign advice service is listed for striking off the Companies Register. Maguire became chief executive of New Beginning Advisors in 2015, bringing his partner, fellow barrister Sarah O’Connell, on board as a director. While New Beginning Advisors is a company limited by guarantee – ie without any… Read more »

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John Declan Flanagan

TAXMAN WHACKS CLARE BUSINESSMEN

Date: May 17, 2018 - Briefcases

A COUPLE of Co Clare businessmen have landed on the wrong side of the taxman. Doolin developer and hotelier John Declan Flanagan was slapped with a small €26,000 tax judgment just a year after he was hit for close to €65,000 by the Revenue. Goldhawk’s old pal Flanagan has had a rough ride in recent… Read more »

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Paddy McKillen Jnr

PADDY MCKILLEN’S MOUNT MERRION BATTLES

Date: May 17, 2018 - Briefcases

THE UBIQUITOUS Paddy McKillen Jr just can’t catch a break in Mount Merrion. No sooner had Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown Council granted permission for his company, Tomose Ltd, to demolish Kiely’s Pub and replace it with apartments and a boozer, than an appeal was lodged with An Bord Pleanála that will further delay the scheme. Fans of… Read more »

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Jim Wallace

JIM WALLACE’S FASHION JUDGMENT

Date: May 17, 2018 - Briefcases

SPARE a thought for Wexford master tailor Jim Wallace, who has just been slapped with a €470,000 judgment courtesy of KBC Bank. Wallace, cousin of Independent TD Mick Wallace, is the managing director of Acorn Fashions in the Whitemill Industrial Estate near Wexford Town. The tailoring operation specialises in corporate workwear, uniforms and military garb… Read more »

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‘NO’ VICTIMS

Date: May 17, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

GOLDHAWK spotted a familiar face at a recent press conference for the No campaign. Last week, after Facebook announced it would be banning all foreign ads related to the referendum debate, the two main No campaigns – the Life Institute’s Save the 8th and the Pro Life Campaign’s LoveBoth – held a joint presser to… Read more »

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