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Micheal Mac Donnacha

SINN FÉIN BLOCKS DUBLIN MAYOR FROM DÁIL

Date: April 19, 2018 - Last Refuge

DUBLIN’S Sinn Féin mayor Mícheál Mac Donncha raised his already high profile stint as mayor with pimpernel activities in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories last week. But if Mac Donncha has provoked the wrath of the Israeli government he appears not to be flavour of the month with his own party leadership either, judging… Read more »

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Anne Harris

ANNE HARRIS’S ‘WAR’ CASUALTIES

Date: April 19, 2018 - Fit to Print?

WRITING in the Sunday Business Post recently, former Sunday Independent editor Anne Harris described her “personal testimony of my experience at INM” as “the equivalent of war” and how “democracy itself seemed threatened”. Pouring scorn on those who now claim to be on the side of journalistic standards against ex-INM chairman Leslie Buckley, Harris vented… Read more »

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Gavin O’Reilly

GAVIN’S DISGUST

Date: April 19, 2018 - Fit to Print?

“It is time for answers at INM, GAVIN O’REILLY EXCLUSIVE”, was emblazoned across the front page of the Sunday Business Post following the ODCE allegations against ex-INM chairman Leslie Buckley and the accessing of journalists’ details. O’Reilly, former INM chief executive and chairman of Red Flag Consulting, expressed his “shock and absolute revulsion” at the… Read more »

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Michael Creed

POOR CHILLY SODDEN FARMERS

Date: April 19, 2018 - Fowl Emissions

CRISIS, what crisis? It seems like only yesterday when our media was awash with heart-rending stories of starving cattle and desperate farmers as the fodder crisis swept the land. Agriculture Minister Michael Creed was being berated for “not doing enough” to ease the plight of livestock owners. One or two brave souls even ventured to… Read more »

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Bog Cuttings

Bog Cuttings

Date: April 19, 2018 - Bog Cuttings

‘Fuck off, you’re a sausage’ GARDAÍ received phone calls from residents about youths causing disturbances in the Glanmire area over several months last year. In one incident a youth told a garda: “Fuck off, you’re a sausage.” One youth has now pleaded guilty to the part he played in three of these incidents. Donal Bullman,… Read more »

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Michael Noble Jnr

WHERE THERE’S MUCK THERE’S BRASS

Date: April 19, 2018 - High Society

A HUGE spread in Delgany, Co Wicklow, featured in the Sunday Times earlier this month, with the price tag for Castlefield House coming in at a cool €4.5m. This is €1m down from 12 months ago, however, when it was put on the market by waste disposal moneybags Michael Noble and his wife, Astra. The… Read more »

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George and Wendy Magan

GEORGE MAGAN’S MILLIONS

Date: April 19, 2018 - High Society

THIS YEAR has been rather less controversial than last for George Magan – aka Baron Magan of Castletown – with the news that the splendid Castletown Cox estate, outside Carrick-on-Suir in Co Kilkenny, has been offloaded for north of E20m, around 15% above the asking… Read more »

Dafhyd Flynn

MICHAEL INSIDE – DIRECTED BY FRANK BERRY

Date: April 19, 2018 - MoviesReviews

PUT MARK Hamill on a familiar rock in the Atlantic, add a few CGI bells and whistles and we’ll readily believe he’s an ascetic Jedi knight marooned on a far-flung planetary outpost. In certain respects science fiction film scenarios are easily rendered because they’re set in unfamiliar worlds. Whereas the story that’s local, contemporary and… Read more »

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FROM A LOW AND QUIET SEA - DONAL RYAN

FROM A LOW AND QUIET SEA – DONAL RYAN (DOUBLEDAY)

Date: April 19, 2018 - BooksReviews

DONAL RYAN’S novels have focused to date on damaged and distracted characters experiencing lives of quiet misery. Ryan’s latest book echoes both The Spinning Heart and The Thing About December in exploring sorrow and loss in two starkly different settings. The book is divided into three main sections and the first goes beyond Irish provincial… Read more »

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Sharon Horgan

DRAMATIC HAND-OUTS FROM THE BAI

Date: April 19, 2018 - Behind the Scenes

THE LATEST round of the Sound & Vision fund run by Michael O’Keefe’s Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) had €6m of TV licence fee dosh to hand out to the nation’s radio and television producers, the lion’s share going to the telly crowd as usual. The largest beneficiary was Pierce Boyce, Bríd Seoighe and Eileen… Read more »

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Mark Flood

MARK FLOOD’S FITZWILLIAM FANS

Date: April 19, 2018 - Sport of Kings

FITZWILLIAM RACING was a name that cropped up a few times in the winner’s enclosure last year and the investment syndicate, set up by venture capitalist Mark Flood, has made a good start to its second season on the track. Johnny Murtagh is the syndicate’s trainer and he delivered Urban Beat to a win at… Read more »

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Philip Fenton

PHILIP FENTON’S RETURN?

Date: April 19, 2018 - Sport of Kings

COULD Philip Fenton be planning a return to the training ranks? The former champion amateur jockey and multiple Grade 1 winning trainer was handed a three-year ban from training by the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB) in 2014, after Department of Agriculture officials discovered animal steroids at his Tipperary training facility. Fenton’s ban came to… Read more »

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Bryan Cooper

BREEZE UPS AND DOWNS

Date: April 19, 2018 - Sport of Kings

BRYAN COOPER’S new venture as a seller of breeze up horses has gotten off to a stuttering start. Cooper – in partnership with his friend Cormac O’Flynn – bought six yearlings last autumn to break and prepare for sale as two-year-old racing prospects at breeze up sales this spring. Their first offering, a colt by… Read more »

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David Ehrlich

Fat fees at slow growing I-Res Reit

Date: April 19, 2018 - Moneybags

THE ARRIVAL in Ireland of the 50,000-apartment Canadian landlord, Capreit, has fundamentally changed the rental investment market. Its Irish offshoot, Irish Residential Property Reit (I-Res), is now heading for owning 3,000 Dublin apartments. While the rate of share price growth has been slow, the good news for the main players is a most rewarding fee… Read more »

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Tony O'Reilly Jnr

Providence shareholders holding out for a bonanza

Date: April 19, 2018 - Moneybags

AFTER 37 years of failures at Atlantic/Providence Resources, the company has signed a farm-out and financing deal with the Chinese group, Apex – a consortium made up of the drilling subsidiary of the Chinese oil major, CNOOC, and JIC Capital, an offshoot of the state-owned China Investment Corp. There is a long way to go… Read more »

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Liam and Siobhan Sugrue

Liam Sugrue’s bad timing

Date: April 19, 2018 - Briefcases

SPARE a thought for Kerry builder Liam Sugrue whose construction outfit has gone to the wall. Three of Sugrue’s companies collapsed earlier this month and a quick glance at the accounts reveals his main business was swimming in red ink. Conor Payne and Barry Donohue were appointed joint liquidators to Farnes Construction Ltd and the… Read more »

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Niall Wiseman

Niall Wiseman’s faulty Towers

Date: April 19, 2018 - Briefcases

A LOUTH development company called Towerpoint Properties Ltd faces a winding up petition in the High Court next week courtesy of the dreaded taxman. The outfit turns out to be owned by Dundalk businessman Niall Wiseman, one of the three founders of the Insomnia coffee chain. Wiseman is best known for his time with Redcoral… Read more »

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Cantec’s troubled history

Date: April 19, 2018 - Briefcases

MORE on Click.ie, the Dublin tech retailer that collapsed in early April leaving customers empty handed. The company behind Click.ie is Cantec Office Solutions Ltd (COS), one of two related companies set up by Goldhawk’s old pal, hapless Co Meath businessman Maurice Muldoon. In 1996, Muldoon set up computer and IT retailer Cantec North-East Ltd… Read more »

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Derek Madden’s late filing

Date: April 19, 2018 - Briefcases

GOLDHAWK spotted an interesting little bioenergy company called Prime Energy Power Ltd, where the liquidator has just been called in after it ran out of moolah. The directors here are listed as Galway native Derek Madden and Finnish businessman Rainer Haggblom, an associate of moneybags paper mogul Dermot Smurfit, who at one stage had a… Read more »

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Heavey Exit

Heavey Exit

Date: April 19, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

FANS OF Goldhawk will not have been too surprised by news this week that one Dorothy Thompson CBE has been appointed chair of the quoted exploration company Tullow Oil – at one stage worth a whopping €15bn on the stock market but today down to just €3.5bn. Last year, Goldhawk asked what on earth was… Read more »

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Pat Crean and Greg Kavanagh

Greg Kavanagh and Pat Crean’s agreement

Date: April 19, 2018 - Briefcases

THE honeymoon is well and truly over for Greg Kavanagh and Pat Crean, the duo behind New Generation Homes. After cashing out of New Generation at the end of 2016 in a deal reportedly worth €150m, Kavanagh is now suing firms linked to his former business partner Crean for over E10m in the High Court… Read more »

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Lisa Lynch

Taxing matters

Date: April 19, 2018 - Briefcases

A COUPLE of familiar names popped up recently with tax judgments registered against them. Earlier this month, the Revenue slapped Wicklow businessman Stan O’Reilly Jr – best known as the operator of C&D Recycling – with a hefty €470,000 judgment. O’Reilly made the headlines a few years ago when Wicklow Council brought planning enforcement proceedings… Read more »

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Dom Carney’s court dates

Date: April 19, 2018 - Briefcases

SPARE a thought for brother and sister duo Dom and Niamh Carney who had a tough day in the Supreme Court recently. The Cork entrepreneurs were denied leave to appeal a Circuit Court injunction that restrained Dom Carney from entering properties at the Westview apartments on Washington Street in Cork city centre. The Carneys are… Read more »

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Olga’s cases

Olga’s cases

Date: April 19, 2018 - Hush Hush

GOLDHAWK’S favourite Russian lawyer, Olga Shajaku, popped up in the news last weekend when her client found himself accused of owing a fellow Russkie €1m. Olga knows a thing or two herself about seven-figure bills. Shajaku’s MS Solicitors represented Sergey Tarutin – editor of Ireland’s Russian-language newspaper Nasha Gazeta – when he was sued in… Read more »

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Vincent Browne

Haughey’s money

Date: April 19, 2018 - Last Refuge

THE progress of Vincent Browne’s long awaited biog of Charles Haughey has seen the veteran hack appeal recently for information from the public on the former Taoiseach. Goldhawk’s contribution to this quest is a reminder of Browne’s own interaction with Squire Hockey. Back in 1977 when Browne was earning his reputation as a fearless journalist… Read more »

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Brendan and Denis

Date: April 19, 2018 - Fit to Print?

AN INM editorial executive who has thrived despite offering Denis O’Brien perhaps the greatest single provocation is Sindo journalist Brendan O’Connor. In the heat of battle before the fall of the House of Castlemartin O’Connor, fighting alongside Harris against the O’Brien takeover, actually implied that Denis was “corrupt” (see The Phoenix, 6/4/18 and passim). O’Connor… Read more »

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Agri-bucks

Agri-bucks

Date: April 19, 2018 - Fowl Emissions

WITH the average family farm income in 2016 at a dismal €24,000, and with two in three beef farmers only solvent thanks to CAP transfers from the EU taxpayer, you might think there wasn’t a bob to be made in the sector. Happily, nothing could be further from the truth. As a recent Irish Farmers… Read more »

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Opera Company’s new cast member

Opera Company’s new cast member

Date: April 19, 2018 - High Society

ANOTHER NEW name has been added to the cast of the recently incorporated Irish National Opera company (INO), formed by the merger of Opera Theatre Company and Wide Open Opera. After a lengthy hiatus, during which the Arts Council sought to cobble together a new opera company to take on a national role (with Wexford… Read more »

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Ian Bailey

IAN BAILEY: CHAPTER 84

Date: April 19, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

IAN BAILEY’S hearing in the Court of Appeal this week was the first of several staging posts along the way as he continues to fight off those who would see him charged – at home in the past or in France in the future – with the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier over 21… Read more »

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John Magnier

JOHN MAGNIER’S KENTUCKY CHANCES

Date: April 19, 2018 - Sport of Kings

DESPITE HIS glut of accolades and achievements on the turf, Saturday, May 5 in Churchill Downs could see Aidan O’Brien and John Magnier raise the bar further when they saddle Mendelssohn in the Kentucky Derby. The $3m yearling – a leading candidate for the Run For The Roses following an 18-length thrashing of his rivals… Read more »

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Alison Spittle

ALISON SPITTLE’S CULCHIE CLUB – RTÉ2

Date: April 19, 2018 - ReviewsTV

ALISON SPITTLE’S one-off documentary tried to discover the meaning of being a modern-day culchie. Over a very long hour, we learned little enough. London-born Spittle grew up in Co Westmeath and seems to have become RTÉ’s flavour of the month. Known mainly for her sitcom Nowhere Fast, Spittle’s search for identity started with a lunchtime… Read more »

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Leslie Buckley

FEAR AND LOATHING AT INM

Date: April 5, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

THE Irish Independent innocently wondered this week about how it was “unclear” why deputy editor of the Sunday Independent, Brendan O’Connor, should be one of the four journalists named among the “persons of interest” allegedly targeted by Leslie Buckley’s IT experts. As Denis O’Brien circled the O’Reilly family before he eventually took them out and… Read more »

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Barry Andrews

Profile: Barry Andrews

Date: April 5, 2018 - Pillars of Society

IF Fianna Fáil has a royal family it is the extended Andrews clan and former minister Barry Andrews was once seen as its crown prince. However, Barry, the leading member of the dynasty’s third generation, crashed out of politics at the 2011 general election and transferred to the nether world of foreign aid and foreign… Read more »

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Killian Foley-Walsh

Young Blood: Killian Foley-Walsh

Date: April 5, 2018 - The Young Bloods

FINE GAEL’s cosmopolitan leaders must have spat out their morning lattes when they heard the news that pro-life conservative Killian Foley-Walsh (23) had been elected president of Young Fine Gael (YFG). The baby-faced Blueshirt, who loves to court controversy, considers himself a right-wing rebel in a party that internal critics think is going soft on… Read more »

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Jamie Heaslip

The Chronicles of Jamie Heaslip

Date: April 5, 2018 - Fowl Play

Former Irish Rugby captain Jamie Heaslip must have been delighted with the send-off he got at the Aviva last weekend at Leinster’s Champions Cup quarter-final. The retired rugger bugger can also be happy with his first contribution to a new website called The Sports Chronicle (TSC), which was a hit with fans and even earned… Read more »

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Simon Coveney

Reds under the bed

Date: April 5, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

FOREIGN minister Simon Coveney’s statement justifying the expulsion of a Russian diplomat does not bear scrutiny and indicates a subservience to British foreign policy matched only by the EU’s tactic of humouring the same quarters. Coveney actually concedes, “It is true that we are not in a position to independently verify the United Kingdom’s assessment… Read more »

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