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Nora Twomey

IRISH MOVIES MISS THEIR TARGET

Date: June 13, 2018 - Behind the Scenes

ON MAY 25 Oscar-nominated The Breadwinner (see Reviews) was released in Ireland and the UK. Produced by Cartoon Saloon in Kilkenny and directed by Nora Twomey, the film took €90,400 from 75 cinemas on its opening weekend, averaging €1,200 a cinema. Of the total, €15,000 came from the 36 cinemas in the Republic – or… Read more »

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Merchant Navy

MAGNIER’S MERCHANT BANKER

Date: June 13, 2018 - Sport of Kings

JOHN MAGNIER and his investors have never been shy to take a major punt on a horse and it will be interesting to see how their gamble on Australian sprinter Merchant Navy fares. Magnier and his cronies are believed to have spent A$30m to buy the horse after he won the appropriately sponsored Coolmore Stud… Read more »

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TWITTER CALM AT IHRB

Date: June 13, 2018 - Sport of Kings

FOLLOWING the Paul Townend incident at Punchestown, when the jockey threw away an almost certain victory aboard Al Boum Photo, the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB) is under fire, but the wheels are turning slowly. The main complaint relates to the absence of transparency and the wait until the following day to release a more… Read more »

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Saeed Bin Suroor

BIN SUROOR’S BAD BATCH

Date: June 13, 2018 - Sport of Kings

THIS YEAR’S Epsom Derby was a much needed triumph for Sheikh Mohammed al Maktoum’s global racing entity Godolphin. While morale within the camp will have been boosted by Masar’s victory, it probably didn’t extend to Saeed Bin Suroor, who for so long has been the main Godolphin trainer. Bin Suroor has been usurped in no… Read more »

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MICHAEL MCMANUS’S JUDGEMENT

Date: June 13, 2018 - Brief Cases

GOLDHAWK spotted a familiar name that popped up recently in Stubb’s Gazette. Roscommon businessman Michael McManus had a small judgment for €10,000 registered against him by a supplier, Fermanagh-based Quinn Building Products Ltd. Self-employed businessman McManus, who runs a plant hire operation in Croghan, Co Roscommon, came to national attention in 2007 thanks to a… Read more »

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Daragh Heagney

DARAGH HEAGHNEY’S LATE FILING

Date: June 13, 2018 -

SOME good news for Goldhawk’s old pal Daragh Heagney. Peninsula Brewery Ltd – the operation behind the Harbour Bar in Howth where Heagney is the sole shareholder – has just avoided being struck off the companies register after finally getting around to filing its 2016 accounts. But a quick glance at the books reveals that… Read more »

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Diarmuid Hegarty

DIARMUID HEGARTY’S BOOK SMARTS

Date: June 13, 2018 - Brief Cases

CONGRATULATIONS are due to Griffith College president Diarmuid Hegarty, elected to the council of Dublin Chamber of Commerce earlier this year. Judging by the latest accounts filed by Bellerophon Ltd – the main company behind the Griffith College group and where Hegarty is largest shareholder – he has a lot to celebrate these days. Hegarty… Read more »

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Charles Dowd

PLYNK, PLYNK, FAIL…

Date: June 13, 2018 - Brief Cases

GOLDHAWK wasn’t too surprised to learn that Irish money-messaging ‘unicorn’ Plynk has run out of dosh and is calling in the liquidator. The outfit’s troubles have been well publicised and after it failed to hit certain targets, a second tranche of funding was withheld from the company, plunging it into financial chaos earlier this year…. Read more »

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Danny Fitzpatrick

DANNY FITZPATRICK’S FACEBOOK POSTS

Date: June 13, 2018 - Brief Cases

SPARE a thought for outspoken Louth businessman Danny Fitzpatrick, whose scrap with Bank of Ireland has led to the closure of his restaurant. Danny and his wife Dymphna Fitzpatrick run Fitzpatrick’s Bar and Restaurant in Rockmarshall, near Dundalk, through a company called Sherwood Investments Ltd. The bank has just appointed a receiver to it on… Read more »

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Brian and Kevin Herlihy

BRIAN HERLIHY’S ‘PAIN AND SUFFERING’

Date: June 13, 2018 - Brief Cases

A CORK City company at the centre of a high profile personal injuries claim has just filed its 2017 accounts and it’s a bit of a mixed bag. Herlihy Supermarket Group Ltd (HSG), owned by Rebel County businessman Brian Herlihy, hit the national headlines in March when the High Court ordered it to pay E¾m… Read more »

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Ruairi O’Ceallaigh

TAXMAN WHACKS RUAIRI O’CEALLAIGH

Date: June 13, 2018 - Brief Cases

MORE hard cheese for embattled legal eagle Ruairi O’Ceallaigh, who has just had a €123,000 judgment registered against him by the taxman. Meath-based O’Ceallaigh was jailed for half a decade in 2014 (with the final two years suspended) for relieving his clients of no less than €2.8m and using the loot to fund his stock… Read more »

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Brian Larkin

A LONG WAY TO GO FOR UNITED OIL AND GAS

Date: June 13, 2018 - Moneybags

A SIGNIFICANT number of executives have exited Tullow Oil in recent times. One company that has emerged as a result is United Oil and Gas which has some small but interesting prospects, including one that comes gift-wrapped from Tullow. What is interesting about UOG for investors is its potential given its current small size. Clearly… Read more »

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Kirill Golovanov

UNDERVALUED OVOCA NEEDS TO IMPRESS SHAREHOLDERS

Date: June 13, 2018 - Moneybags

IRISH mining company Ovoca has had an unusual history since it was set up in 1985, moving from seeking zinc in Co Limerick to gold exploration in Russia. This primarily resulted from the reverse takeover of the Russian OAO Ajax gold and silver exploration firm, focused on the Magadan district in the Siberian far east…. Read more »

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Orla O'Connor

THE POWER OF (SOME) WOMEN

Date: May 31, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

THE hugely successful repeal campaign has been lauded in politically correct and slightly patronising terms as a spontaneous outpouring of local communities, ordinary women, young idealists and so on. There is some truth to this but the movement was tightly controlled by three women who headed Together for Yes in a top down, PR driven… Read more »

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Simon Harris

PREGNANT WITH POSSIBILITY

Date: May 31, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

WHILE THE focus in the aftermath of the referendum has naturally been on the planned introduction of abortion services, less attention has been paid to Simon Harris’s parallel proposal to introduce free contraception. The Minister for Health recently brought his proposals before the Dáil and said he had also established a working group to examine… Read more »

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Leo Varadkar

LEO VARADKAR: WHAT NEXT?

Date: May 31, 2018 - Pillars of Society

IS Leo Varadkar poised to emulate his Fine Gael leadership triumph by leading the party back into government and retaining his status as Taoiseach? Or is the shine wearing off the coolest dude ever to lead the nation? Varadkar needs to emulate ex-Taoiseach Enda Kenny at the impending general election and lead FG back to… Read more »

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Peter Tanham

PETER TANHAM

Date: May 31, 2018 - The Young Bloods

DOUBLE-JOBBING Together for Yes technocrat Peter Tanham (33) is basking in the afterglow of last weekend’s decisive referendum victory. By taking on two high-profile but potentially conflicting roles – as founder of the Transparent Referendum Initiative and head of digital for the Yes campaign – the canny Dún Laoghaire Social Democrat’s stock has risen since… Read more »

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Peter Jackson

PADDY POWER CHASES THE YANKEE DOLLAR

Date: May 31, 2018 - Moneybags

LAST MONTH’S US Supreme Court decision looks set to open up the market across the Atlantic to online gambling. This could prove a necessary shot in the arm for Paddy Power Betfair (PPB) which had been struggling over the last year, with its share price… Read more »

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Vol 36 No 11

Date: May 31, 2018 -

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Judge Peter Kelly

LEGAL FEUD

Date: May 31, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

THE legal feud between High Court president Judge Peter Kelly and the barrack room lawyer from hell, Jerry Beades, continues with the latter seeking leave to appeal a ruling to the Supreme Court. The Court of Appeal ruled in March against Beades’s challenge to Kelly’s appointment as High Court president, arguing it had no function… Read more »

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ED GUINEY’S SOLAS SEQUEL

Date: May 31, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

THE REPORT of the Charities Regulator into Lelia Doolan’s Solas Galway Picture Palace brings down the curtain, for now, on the costly saga. Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe play starring roles, although they have rejected many of regulator John Farrelly’s findings. Fans of Goldhawk are familiar with the money-pit aspects of the story, and read… Read more »

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Dan Mcfarland

SHANE LOGAN’S POOR TACTICS

Date: May 31, 2018 - Fowl Play

FOR BIG rugby clubs facing into a World Cup season, this is an important time but Ulster Rugby, where chief executive Shane Logan remains in situ after a rough period, is looking into 2018-19 with yet more questions than answers. The only way an Ulster revival can take place next season is by signing an… Read more »

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OLGA’S BAD NEWS

Date: May 31, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

BAD NEWS for Ruski lawyer Olga Shajaku, who has been making some serious moolah here from her translation service. She has just had a major setback courtesy of Judge Max Barrett in the Four Goldmines. It will be recalled (see The Phoenix 6/4/18) that Word Perfect Translation Services (WPT) – co-owned by Shajaku and her… Read more »

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Simon Coveney

IRISH HYPOCRISY ON GAZA

Date: May 31, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

THE rhetorical statements from An Taoiseach and the Foreign Minister – Leo Varadkar and Simon Coveney respectively – on the murderous Israeli behaviour in Gaza were more than a little disingenuous as a study of EU differences on Israel indicates. Coveney’s ‘dressing down’ of the… Read more »

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Date: May 31, 2018 - Affairs of the NationLetters to the Editor

Dear Editor, I protest the vile anti-Semitic slur of the cover picture of your latest edition, evidently designed to stir up Jew-hatred. Thousands of Palestinians intent on murder tried to storm the Gaza/Israeli barrier, often with women and children as human shields. Rubber bullets, water cannon and teargas could not stop them; only lethal force…. Read more »

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Willie McCrea

DUP’S DIVINE RIGHT

Date: May 31, 2018 - Hush Hush

ONE has to admire British Prime Minister Theresa May’s chutzpah in elevating former DUP MP, the Rev William McCrea, to the House of Lords to bolster Brexit in that chamber. Supporters of the peace process and other squeamish liberals may cavil but the Tories would claim to have impeccable credentials when it comes to terrorism…. Read more »

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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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