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LARA HICKEY’S CLOSE-UP

Date: April 18, 2024 - Behind the Scenes

THE FILM and TV business has long been one where ‘who you know’ features high on the lists of credits, even more so since the coinage of the ‘nepo baby’ phrase that gained traction online and has been chucked around with abandon. A recent name firmly establishing a second-generational presence in the film and TV… Read more »

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Tony Martin

TONY’S FAILED APPEAL

Date: April 18, 2024 - Sport of Kings

THE RECENT overturning by the IHRB appeals panel of the referral committee’s findings on trainer Tony Martin is not the first significant setback for the trainer. It will be recalled (see The Phoenix 5/4/24) that, following an appeal by the IHRB on the grounds of “undue leniency”, the panel chaired by retired judge Peter Kelly… Read more »

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Brendan Duke Adrian Murray Mick Bailey

O’BRIEN’S OBSTACLES

Date: April 18, 2024 - Sport of Kings

While trainer Aidan O’Brien supplied three of the five runners in Leopardstown’s Group 3 PW McGrath Ballysax Stakes, it was Adrian Murray who provided the shock 50/1 winner, Dallas Star. It presumably proved very satisfying for newly freelance rider Seamie Heffernan to deliver on Amo Racing’s charge, in what is customary seen as a Derby… Read more »

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Dalton Philips

PHILIPS DELIVERING BLAND TASTE AT GREENCORE

Date: April 18, 2024 - Moneybags

NO DOUBT there were high hopes in Greencore that the new CEO, Dalton Philips, would be able to revolutionise the company. It certainly hasn’t worked out that way and the latest figures are far from reassuring. Moreover, it is hard to see where Philips even… Read more »

Laura Anderson

DENIS O’BRIEN’S ‘LOVE ISLAND’ PRESENTER

Date: April 18, 2024 - Briefcases

IN GLASGOW last week, Capital Scotland radio listeners had their first taste of a brand new breakfast show presenter after the station was forced into a change a little quicker than anticipated. For owner Denis O’Brien, the Scottish station represents a high-profile effort to grow his share of the UK radio market, which he entered… Read more »

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VMTV Gráinne Seoige

GRÁ FOR GRÁ AR AN TRÁ

Date: April 18, 2024 - Briefcases

AT A time when RTÉ is facing severe budgetary constraints, it is interesting that the latest round of programme funding from the media commission contains only a single project for its main channels among the dozen biggest winners. Virgin Media TV (VMTV) has four shows, including the top three by value, while TG4 also has… Read more »

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Suzanne Gilhooly

SUZANNE GILHOOLY’S JEWELS

Date: April 18, 2024 - Briefcases

GOLDHAWK NOTES that the taxman has registered a judgment for a less than blingy €2,400 against a company called C&S Jewellery Ltd, where the principals are husband and wife team Charlie Cullen and Suzanne Gilhooly. While the amount is almost insignificant, this judgment follows a larger €30,000 hit last summer on another entity, the Swiss… Read more »

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Megard Ltd Michael Bane

PURCELL CONSTRUCTION’S €150,000 OFFER

Date: April 18, 2024 - Briefcases

ALMOST THREE years on from the liquidation of Megard Ltd, the company involved in the construction of the Hyde Square apartment block in Dublin 8, the residents are still engaged in legal negotiations over compensation. An offer has been put on the table by a subcontractor but it is well short of the potential final… Read more »

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Cathal Berry

GOING NUCLEAR IN IRISH SEA

Date: April 18, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

In recent years much has been made by various academics, media and politicians about Ireland’s dependence on the Royal Air Force (RAF) for air defence. Independent TD and former Army Ranger Wing member, Cathal ‘Gung Ho’ Berry even went as far as describing the situation as a “national humiliation and embarrassment”. Strange then that the… Read more »

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Justice Minister Helen McEntee

HELEN McENTEE’S FUTURE

Date: April 4, 2024 - Last Refuge

JUSTICE MINISTER (as we speak) Helen McEntee has been pleading via the media and in person with her former rival and now leader, Simon Harris, not to sack her from justice. But while Simon may wish to come across as a magnanimous victor and retain… Read more »

Simon Harris

PROFILE: SIMON HARRIS

Date: April 4, 2024 - Pillars of Society

HOW DID 37-year-old Simon Harris beat off heavyweight contenders Paschal Donohoe and Simon Coveney, as well as Helen McEntee and other ambitious souls, to take the Fine Gael leadership and the job of Taoiseach within 24 hours or so? Harris not only blew away these… Read more »

Mark Mehigan

YOUNG BLOOD: MARK MEHIGAN

Date: April 4, 2024 - The Young Bloods

WHILE HE remains unknown to a large swathe of the country, the multi-talented Mark Mehigan has his fingers in all sorts of pies. He’s an ‘agony uncle’ on Image.ie, where his biography describes a “comedian and podcaster, author, Instagram matchmaker, aspiring Cilla Black, dating series host and dating columnist”. Recently, however, he has been attracting attention… Read more »

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Phil Hogan

DON’T MESS WITH BIG PHIL

Date: April 4, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

SIMON COVENEY’S flight from Cabinet – before he could be pushed – had as much to do with former EU commissioner Phil Hogan as incoming Taoiseach Simon Harris. Not that Harris needed much persuasion by his unofficial advisor because while Harris was the only Cabinet member to back Coveney against Leo Varadkar in the 2017… Read more »

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Jeffrey Donaldson

DONALDSON UNDONE

Date: April 4, 2024 - Northwind

When the news broke at 1.00 pm on Good Friday that DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson had been charged with historical sex offences including rape, there had already been a fair amount of crisis management at play behind the scenes. Charges had been preferred on… Read more »

Derek Richardson

DEREK RICHARDSON’S SCRUM

Date: April 4, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

THE FORMER owner of bust English rugby union club Wasps – Derek Richardson – is keeping his lawyers busy. As has been reported, he is suing his legal advisers, Kennedys Law, over the demise of his Wasps club in 2022 with debts of £95m. Another front in his legal campaign features Mark Robertson and the… Read more »

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Ravil Maganov

RONAN COLLINS’S RUSSIAN CONNECTIONS

Date: April 4, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

LAST MONTH a US-backed nursing home operator, which surfaced in 2016 with big plans to take a chunk of the market here, was placed in examinership, having previously emerged from another rescue package. The Irish director and investor (10%) in Passage Healthcare International (Ireland) Ltd (PHII) is the busy Blackrock Co Dublin-based finance expert and… Read more »

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Tailored Films Screen Ireland Perspectives DCCI Crescine Tarka Russell Lara Hickey Reality Check Sarah McInerney Irish Movies Paul Murray Arts Council Dublin Theatre Festival TWU Macdara Kelleher Richard Boyd Barrett DADC Cillian Murphy Terry McMahon Media Commission Ireland Kerlin Gallery Creative Ireland Section 481 Christine O’Donovan RTÉ Storyland NMI Board Vacancies IASCA Ossie Kilkenny RTÉ Original Programmes

EN POINTE!

Date: April 4, 2024 - Behind the Scenes

THE DECISION by Anne Maher’s Ballet Ireland (BI) to withdraw a piece choreographed by Israeli Ohad Naharin from its Bold Moves programme raised eyebrows, given the predominantly conservative character of artistic companies dependent on the state for funding. The move was a provocative one from BI, which is chaired by the former MD of Irish… Read more »

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Johnnie Cooke

CATCHING UP WITH JOHNNIE COOKE

Date: April 4, 2024 - Briefcases

ELSEWHERE IN this issue (see p19), Goldhawk takes a look at an operation called Green Bird, which was established by one Killian Bewley Poynton to provide concierge services to super wealthy clients who don’t have time to organise things themselves. It also turns out he had a loose connection to troubled celebrity restaurateur and caterer,… Read more »

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VOL 42 NO 07

Date: April 4, 2024 -

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JUDGING LUKE COMER JNR

Date: April 4, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

THE MINTED Comer family, who made hundreds of millions of euro from the building sector, has had its fair share of stumbles in the racing world, most notably the suspension of tax exile Luke Comer’s training licence for three years by the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB). Last month, it was Luke Comer Jnr who… Read more »

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Elisa O'Donovan

LEDDIN V O’DONOVAN

Date: April 4, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

THE ANTICIPATION that Limerick’s first directly elected mayoral contest would be a bottomless borefest may turn out to be quite mistaken and Goldhawk will be keeping a watchful eye for some interesting debates between two of the candidates in particular. Social Democrats councillor Elisa O’Donovan swore in 2021 that she would make it her business… Read more »

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Vanishing Triangle

VIRGIN’S ‘VANISHING TRIANGLE’

Date: April 4, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

THE OMENS weren’t good when The Vanishing Triangle, backed with moolah from the taxpayer, failed to appear in the autumn schedule for Virgin Media Television (VMTV) last year without explanation. Now that the production from Annemarie Naughton and Ivan Kavanagh (along with assorted other producers) has belatedly appeared on Irish screens, the critics have, predictably… Read more »

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Robin Jackson Drew Harris

BRITISH AGENTS AND DUBLIN BOMBS

Date: April 4, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

May 17 next will mark the 50th anniversary of the Dublin and Monaghan bomb massacres. One of the key figures in the Dublin leg of that operation was Robin ‘The Jackal’ Jackson of the UVF. He collected three devices from James Mitchell’s farm at Glenanne,… Read more »

Colin Duffy

INTERNMENT WITH TRIAL

Date: April 4, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

The wall of silence by southern media on the recent acquittal of dissident republicans Colin Duffy and Harry Fitzsimons is in marked contrast to the sensational headlines that many carried at the start of this case back in December 2013. Following a gun attack on a convoy of PSNI Land Rovers Duffy, Fitzsimons and Alex… Read more »

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Alex Kaplan Derek Blighe

MONEY TO BURN

Date: April 4, 2024 - Hush Hush

With European and local elections fast approaching, many candidates to the right of Fine Gael are declaring their intention to stand with the Irish Freedom Party (IFP), Ireland First (IF), Independent Ireland, the National Party (NP), Irish People Party and a variety of right-wing independents. And there is no shortage of money swirling about in… Read more »

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Bambie Thug

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: April 4, 2024 - The Hot Air Brigade

We firmly believe in the unifying power of music, enabling people to transcend differences and foster meaningful conversations. We feel it is our duty to create and uphold this space, with a strong hope that it will inspire greater compassion. Statement from nine Eurovision contestants, including Bambie Thug, explaining their reason for not boycotting the… Read more »

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Luke Holland Climate Denial John Fagan Wolf Europe David Quinn Duncan Stewart Data Centre Carbon Emissions Conor Skehan Chris Hazzard

COLOMBIA 3 MINING PROFITEERS

Date: April 4, 2024 - Fowl Emissions

“ACTIVIST LUKE Holland has authored this report for Prime Time…” This was the rather odd introduction, read by Sarah McInerney, to an excellent and harrowing report last week from the notorious Cerrejón mine in Colombia. Describing Holland as an activist was apparently RTÉ’s way of distancing itself from this damning exposé of its fellow semi-state,… Read more »

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Sperrin Mountains Kevin McAleer

UNCLE COLM’S CONCERNS

Date: April 4, 2024 - Fowl Emissions

There’ve been some high-profile interventions in the long-running battle to prevent Canadian firm Dalradian digging up the Sperrin Mountains in Tyrone to mine billions worth of gold. Last year campaigners were outraged to discover, via a freedom of information request, that King Charles’s representative in the county, Robert Scott – aka Lord Lieutenant of Tyrone… Read more »

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Ivana Bacik Carol Reynolds

IVANA BACIK’S NEW GENERATION

Date: April 4, 2024 - Last Refuge

LABOUR LEADER Ivana Bacik recently deployed her considerable legal and verbal skills to exonerate the party’s local election Ringsend candidate, Carol Reynolds, who had said that Ireland had “too many immigrants” who regarded Ireland as “Treasure Island”. Reynolds had been interviewed for a video by far-right, anti-immigrant campaigner Gavin Pepper, in which they both discussed… Read more »

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KATE O’CONNELL THE DISRUPTER

Date: April 4, 2024 - Last Refuge

THE CLEAR desire of Simon Harris to add Kate O’Connell as a ‘partner’ to councillor James Geoghegan on the Dublin Bay South (DBS) general election ticket is going to upset a number of Fine Gael members and their political calculations. The primary person to be… Read more »

Micheál Martin

MARTIN TO PROVOKE MORE REFERENDUMS?

Date: April 4, 2024 - Last Refuge

MICHEÁL MARTIN’S move to legislate for the abolition of the triple lock could run into political, constitutional and even EU legislative trouble, judging by statements uttered by Martin himself and intergovernmental declarations made to facilitate a ‘yes’ vote in two EU referendums. The Dáil heard… Read more »

Hugh O'Connell

HUGH O’CONNELL’S LONG GOODBYE

Date: April 4, 2024 - Fit to Print?

THE EXIT of Hugh O’Connell from Mediahuis, where he was deputy group political editor working for the Sindo and Indo, came at a good time for the Aawrish edition of the Sunday Times, which has poached him (five years after Mediahuis poached him from the then Sunday Business Post). However, relying on the strict terms… Read more »

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TARGETING MARTIN MCGUINNESS

Date: April 4, 2024 - Fit to Print?

RECENT SUGGESTIONS from the Sunday Independent and interpretations by others that the BBC Two’s programme, The Secret Army, shows Martin McGuinness was an informer have their origins in the late Sean O’Callaghan’s book, The Informer. There, MI5 informer O’Callaghan, or his handlers, put such words about McGuinness in the mouth of fabled IRA commander Brian… Read more »

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Alison O'Connor Justine McCarthy

LIBERAL MEDIA DEBATES FAR RIGHT

Date: April 4, 2024 - Fit to Print?

APPEASEMENT IS a notion that some media columnists are using and debating right now in the face of a right-wing backlash against so-called ‘woke’ politics and legislation to criminalise hate behaviour. Two pundits that appear to have taken a different stance on how to confront this rush-to-the-right are Irish Times columnist Justine McCarthy and her… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: April 4, 2024 - Bog Cuttings

A GIANT TOOL A 24-year-old man who ran down North Main Street, Cork, waving a pitchfork in the early afternoon of July 3, 2023, was sentenced to three months in prison following a recent sitting of Cork District Court. Sergeant Gearóid Davis told the court that, on the date in question, gardaí were alerted to… Read more »

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Brendan Lynott

SMOCK ALLEY’S BAD REVIEW

Date: April 4, 2024 - Behind the Scenes

WITH DUBLIN City Council (DCC) preparing to take over Smock Alley Theatre (SAT) in Temple Bar, the board of the linked Gaiety School of Acting next door will be hoping that the planned changes don’t impact on their coffers. Fans of Goldhawk will not be… Read more »