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Chay Bowes

Chay Bowes misses the target

Date: March 22, 2018 - The Hot Water Brigade

HARD to luck to Dublin businessman Chay Bowes whose outdoor gear outlet and gun shop suddenly closed its doors earlier this year. Creditors of Range River Mountain Ltd (RRML), the company behind the Outdoor Depot at the South City Business Park in Tallaght, called in liquidator Diarmuid Lynam in late February after the outfit ran… Read more »

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Patrick Elliott’s mixed results

Date: March 22, 2018 - The Hot Water Brigade

CAVAN builders James Elliott Construction Ltd (JEC), one of the companies at the centre of a long-running scrap over pyrite-contaminated concrete, has just got around to filing its 2016 accounts. The books show the financial situation the building company was in before it registered a judgment against Irish Asphalt Ltd for u2.7m late last year…. Read more »

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Vol. 36 No. 06

Date: March 22, 2018 -

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Michael D Higgins

Irish Times defies Michael Twee

Date: March 22, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

IS President Michael D Higgins losing his touch? Higgins failed recently to bring to heel his normally adoring courtiers at The Irish Times despite some heavy lobbying from the Áras. An indication of the high regard in which the IT holds the president came in a laudatory piece recently from the IT’s religious correspondent, Patsy… Read more »

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John Concannon

Profile: John ‘SCU’ Concannon

Date: March 22, 2018 - Pillars of Society

BECOMING the story rather than creating it is regarded as the kiss of death for any spin doctor, but John Concannon, head of the Orwellian sounding Strategic Communications Unit (SCU), is certainly the story right now. Concannon’s media profile has always been that of the man who masterminded several campaigns, including the 1916 Centenary programme…. Read more »

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Liz Carolan

Young Blood: Liz Carolan

Date: March 22, 2018 - The Young Bloods

DATA MANDARIN Liz Carolan (33) is mounting a most worthy campaign against dodgy money and its influence on Irish politics. With her new transparency project, the Dubliner hopes to keep tabs on the various groups paying for social media adverts in the run-up to the abortion referendum, but clever Carolan has a big problem on… Read more »

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Ger Gilroy

Grand Slam media battle kicks off

Date: March 22, 2018 - Fowl Play

THE RECENT spat between the IRFU and the rugby writers’ group (see The Phoenix 23/2/18) has focused attention on the battle for dominance of the rugby media scrum. The run-up to the Grand Slam provided ideal conditions for the various parties to put their tactics into play but it turns out the game has already… Read more »

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Fred Holroyd

Vindicating Fred Holroyd

Date: March 22, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

A SENIOR British Army surgeon has backed Fred Holroyd’s claim that he was falsely sectioned as mentally ill once he began to complain about secret state activities. This is one more stepping stone to vindicating Holroyd as an important witness to collusion between British security forces and loyalist death squads. Holroyd was a British Army… Read more »

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Tania Banotti’s pay rise

Date: March 22, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

CONGRATULATIONS to Tania Banotti who has just landed the job of director of the Government’s Creative Ireland programme once helmed by John Concannon. She has got off to a very good start. Banotti is an experienced operator, having headed the film lobby group Screen Producers Ireland before hopping from the celluloid world to the boards… Read more »

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Josepha Madigan

JOSEPHA MADIGAN’S HANDLER

Date: March 22, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

WITH Josepha Madigan settling in as Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, an experienced PR handler has popped up as one of her special advisers. Madigan was one of the big winners under Leo’s new regime and was parachuted into cabinet despite not even having had a stint at junior minister level. Indeed, her… Read more »

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Pearse Doherty

PEARSE DOHERTY’S TIMING

Date: March 22, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

SINN FÉIN TD Pearse Doherty’s statement last week that he had moved in favour of abortion on request up to 12 weeks should have alerted the body politic that the party had made a decision on the issue and also on the timing of its ard fheis. Doherty is a member of not only the… Read more »

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Eva Orsmond

EVA ORSMOND’S SWEET PROFITS

Date: March 22, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

WITH THE Sugar Tax set to kick in on April 6, various experts have been making themselves heard on the issue. Few have proven better at generating headlines than celebrity health guru Dr Eva Orsmond, who has also been advertising her weight loss clinics. Orsmond has made a name for herself as an authority on… Read more »

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Darryl Kavanagh

Darryl Kavanagh’s creditors

Date: March 22, 2018 - The Hot Water Brigade

SPARE a thought for creditors of the Seafood Shack in Cardiff. A statement of affairs for the company behind the restaurant – where Waterford businessman Darryl Kavanagh showed up earlier this year – has been filed with Companies House in the UK and it shows the precarious situation the operation was in when it closed… Read more »

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Brian Hayes

FINE GAEL: OPEN WAR ON NEUTRALITY

Date: March 8, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

FINE GAEL’S four MEPs have been chosen to open up a new front against Irish neutrality with their document to be released this week urging the abandonment of Irish neutrality and a stronger military alliance with EU states; in other words, an EU army. It… Read more »

President Michael D Higgins

Profile: President Michael D Higgins

Date: March 8, 2018 - Pillars of Society

IS Michael D Higgins a shoo-in for a second term as president? The dotty professor aura built up around him over the years has given way to that of a statesman with gravitas and an acute awareness of what Irish people want to hear from their president. But few commentators have chronicled the other side… Read more »

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Ben Conroy

Young Blood: Ben Conroy

Date: March 8, 2018 - The Young Bloods

CURRENTLY one of their top academy players, 2018 should see Oxford young fogey Ben Conroy (24) called up to the Pro Life Campaign’s (PLC) starting 11. Much like deposed UCD student union president Katie Ascough, Conroy was born into the ultra-conservative Catholic set and consequently is well versed in the talking points of the abortion… Read more »

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Rachel Moran

RACHEL MORAN V ROISIN INGLE

Date: March 8, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

AN INTERESTING Twitter spat surfaced last weekend when high profile anti sex trade campaigner Rachel Moran attacked the producers of The Irish Times Women’s Podcast – Róisín Ingle and Jennifer Ryan – for what she considered censorship of her interview with Kathy Sheridan. It turns out that Moran had taken a swipe at Amnesty International… Read more »

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Judge Con O’Leary

JUDGE CON O’LEARY’S ‘OBJECTIVE BIAS’

Date: March 8, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

EYEBROWS WERE raised in legal circles recently at the colourful tone of a High Court ruling that pulled no punches when criticising a well-known and experienced judge. Indeed, the kicking dished out to District Court Judge Con O’Leary in the ruling by Judge Richard Humphreys should probably carry a health warning. No blushes were spared.The… Read more »

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Vol. 36 No. 05

Vol. 36 No. 05

Date: March 8, 2018 -

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Catherine Noone

Catherine Noone’s complaint

Date: March 8, 2018 - Last Refuge

SENATOR Catherine Noone’s complaint about a Fine Gael colleague and senator’s dismissive, misogynist and patronising treatment of her appears to have died a death to the relief of both parties – but especially the leadership. The unseemly Sinn Féin type allegations were sparked at a meeting of the FG senators’ weekly meeting where the general… Read more »

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Tony O’Reilly

‘PAYBACK TIME’

Date: March 8, 2018 - Last Refuge

IN an amusing article in the Sunday Independent last weekend Liam Collins accused Rupert Murdoch’s Irish titles of regularly “taking a side” in politics. In a lengthy diatribe Collins argued that in Britain, Murdoch’s newspapers had influenced serious issues, including which party got elected to government. Coming over all patriotic, Collins then remarked: “Not over… Read more »

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Jim Daly

CORK PROBLEMS FOR BLUESHIRTS

Date: March 8, 2018 - Last Refuge

THE shrieks of betrayal from former Cork North-West Deputy Áine Collins at the recruitment of Independent Cllr John Paul O’Shea indicates Fine Gael’s desperation in trying to claw back seats lost in 2016 in more than one Cork constituency. Collins knows that party HQ’s game plan is to instruct convention delegates to select one candidate… Read more »

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Miriam Lord

IRISH TIMES BUYS SCU SPIN

Date: March 8, 2018 - Fit to Print?

THE IRISH TIMES heaped ridicule on the €1.5m outlay on the national plan orchestrated by the government’s Strategic Communications Unit (SCU). But there is disquiet in the IT over its own lavish (and lucrative) coverage of the plan as contained in two broadsheet pages the previous weekend, coverage more subservient to Project Propaganda than any… Read more »

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Kathryn Thomas

POOR CLAIRE SISTERS

Date: March 8, 2018 - Fit to Print?

POOR Claire Byrne must be feeling left out as Arnotts launches its Spring Summer 18 Catwalk Show, “an evening of style and elegance” with Miriam O’Callaghan, Kathryn Thomas, Lottie Ryan and Yvonne Connolly. These downtrodden, victimised and poverty stricken women will be discussing “female empowerment” and the event is fixed, appropriately, for International Women’s Day,… Read more »

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Sean Kelly

WHEN IS A DECISION NOT A DECISION?

Date: March 8, 2018 - Fowl Emissions

WHEN IT comes to getting big dirty fossil fuel infrastructure past the various political and regulatory obstacles, the choral harmony of performers at local, state and EU levels is truly something to behold. Take the proposed Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) terminal in north Kerry to import fracked gas from the US to the EU (see… Read more »

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Bog Cuttings

Bog Cuttings

Date: March 8, 2018 - Bog Cuttings

Bog fire Inflames passions A CASTLEREA motorist was put off the road for six months and fined €650 for telling a garda to “fuck off.” Derrick Boyden, John Morley Road, Castlerea appeared before Castlerea District Court charged with failing to comply with the directions of a garda and engaging in insulting or abusive behaviour arising… Read more »

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Josepha Madigan

WILL STATE ACQUIRE LUGGALA?

Date: March 8, 2018 - High Society

WITH Garech de Brún’s Wicklow pile, Luggala, still for sale for a whopping E28m (not including the €550,000 stamp duty) over a year after first hitting the market, it is perhaps not surprising to hear that the possibility of the state getting involved remains very much an option. The sticking point is the price tag…. Read more »

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Alison Doody

ALISON DOODY’S NEW ROLE

Date: March 8, 2018 - High Society

INTERESTING to see the name Alison Doody O’Reilly appear among the cast of the callover list for Cork’s Circuit Court hearings, which features cases due to be pencilled in for hearing from May to July this year. The case is being taken by Cork legal eagles Ronan Daly Jermyn and appears to relate to a… Read more »

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Ian Toner

LOOK BACK IN ANGER – GATE THEATRE

Date: March 8, 2018 - ReviewsTheatre

THEATRE-GOERS like to reaffirm their own highbrow taste. Regardless of what’s happening on stage, interval banter typically features thoughtless questions like, “Don’t you love it?” Not so on Parnell Square these days. The Gate’s revival of a 1956 drama by British playwright John Osborne is a three-hour masterclass in misogyny. His work may now be… Read more »

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Restless Souls

RESTLESS SOULS – DAN SHEEHAN (WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON)

Date: March 8, 2018 - BooksReviews

SET IN the 1990s, this ambitious debut novel focuses on the close friendship between three Dubliners in their mid-20s. When Tom Dempsey returns after three years in war-torn Bosnia, Karl and Baz are shocked by his transformation. Having been a war correspondent and relief worker, Tom has been severely affected by post traumatic stress and… Read more »

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Karen Hassan

SOFT BORDER PATROL – BBC One

Date: March 8, 2018 - ReviewsTV

THE SECRET of comedy, they say, is timing and if that were the only benchmark, then Soft Border Patrol, which kicked off on BBC One Northern Ireland last week, would be a surefire smash. Unfortunately, the comedy is softer than the border. Certainly, there is plenty of scope to have a good laugh at some… Read more »

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John Harris

MUSIC FESTIVAL’S SOUR NOTE

Date: March 8, 2018 - Behind the Scenes

SPARE A thought for the team behind New Music Dublin (NMD) festival. Thanks to the weather ‘event’, the musical event was cancelled… for the second time in three years. NMD is an unusual beast described by Merrion Square as a “partnership initiative” between the Arts Council, RTÉ and the National Concert Hall. This separates it… Read more »

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Mary McGuckian

McGUCKIAN’S DIRECTOR’S CUT

Date: March 8, 2018 - Behind the Scenes

Although The total cost of the Section 481 tax credit for filmmakers in 2017 has not yet been calculated, the Revenue told Goldhawk the cost of the measure in 2016 “is in the region of €43.2m”. There were 18 beneficiaries of Section 481 in the fourth quarter of 2017, with Telegael (receiving its sixth credit… Read more »

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Gerry Gannon

GERRY GANNON’S GET-OUT CLAUSE

Date: March 8, 2018 - Behind the Scenes

AS INCOMING director of the National Museum of Ireland (NMI) Lynn Scarff prepares for her new role, the museum is facing yet more bullying claims and, more significantly, could have a big problem on its hands courtesy of that expensive lease for storage space signed with wily developer Gerry Gannon (see The Phoenix 29/1/10). The… Read more »

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Michael Grassick

PASSPORT PROBLEMS

Date: March 8, 2018 - Sport of Kings

THE IRISH Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB) released its 2017 integrity statistics recently, some of which made for interesting if concerning reading. Goldhawk has previously highlighted the increase in fines being handed out to trainers who do not have their horses’ vaccinations up to scratch when their passports are inspected pre-race. Historically, passport checks were carried… Read more »

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DORAN SWITCHES STABLES

Date: March 8, 2018 - Sport of Kings

IT’S NOT often that Gordon Elliott has horses removed from his yard to be sent to another trainer but London-based builder Tom Doran obviously feels his string could do with a change of scenery. Doran has switched his string from Elliott to the less salubrious care of Steven Mahon. Galway-based Mahon has recently joined forces… Read more »

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