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Paul McDade

Tullow board needs to bite the bullet on Heavey

Date: April 5, 2018 - Moneybags

AIDAN HEAVEY retired as Tullow Oil CEO last year on April 26 2017, after 31 years in situ. But, instead of leaving the field as recommended by the Stock Exchange code of governance, he replaced the then chairman, Simon Thompson, and was installed as chair for the next two years, based partly on his “broad… Read more »

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Ryco Book seeks protection

Ryco Book seeks protection

Date: April 5, 2018 - Briefcases

BRAY-based Ryco Book Protection Services Ltd has had to go to the Circuit Court to seek protection from its creditors. Ryco, where Dublin accountant Alan Torpey is listed as a director, had Dessie Morrow of Baker Tilly appointed as interim examiner and there could be headaches for the creditors. Established in 1993, Ryco produces protective… Read more »

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Alan Hynes

Alan Hynes’s lucky break

Date: April 5, 2018 - Briefcases

CONGRATULATIONS to Goldhawk’s old pal, long-suffering former accountant Alan Hynes, who recorded a rare win in the Four Goldmines last month. The Wexford-based number cruncher – best known for his association with the disastrous property vehicle, Tuskar Asset Management – got an order quashing a decision of the Chartered Accountants Regulatory Board (CARB). Tuskar collapsed… Read more »

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Nicholas O’Connor

End of the line for Nicholas O’Connor

Date: April 5, 2018 - Briefcases

CHARTERED Accountants Ireland (CAI) has finally run out of patience with Goldhawk’s old pal Nicholas O’Connor. The troubled Wexford number cruncher has been excluded from membership of CAI after numerous infractions over the last couple of years. CAI is remaining tight-lipped about the specifics of O’Connor’s latest infraction but Goldhawk understands that it relates to… Read more »

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Ben Gilroy

Ben Gilroy’s ‘interference’

Date: April 5, 2018 - Briefcases

GOLDHAWK spotted a High Court judgment recently relating to an interesting case involving Monaghan businessman Seamus McQuaid and Direct Democracy founder Ben Gilroy. McQuaid has been involved in a scrap with AIB since 2016 and anti-eviction activist Gilroy was named a co-defendant in the case for interfering with the bank’s attempts to recover the dosh… Read more »

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Carly Bailey

Carla Bailey’s Bankruptcy

Date: April 5, 2018 - Briefcases

SPARE a thought for vice chairperson of the Social Democrats Carly Bailey who has just been declared bankrupt in the High Court. Bailey, former mature students officer of Trinity College’s Student Union, has had a tough time of it since being forced to sell her home in 2013 and has been vocal about her experiences… Read more »

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Shane Corry

Shane Corry’s bad publicity

Date: April 5, 2018 - Briefcases

INTERESTING to see that Creative Nation MCN Ltd, the digital talent agency and multi-channel network (MCN) behind the popular YouTube channel Facts is in the process of being sold. Happily absent from recent reports is the fact that people claiming to be creditors of the company – founded by then 17-year-old Irish wunderkind Shane Corry… Read more »

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Ray Foley

Red ink at RedFM

Date: April 5, 2018 - Briefcases

CONGRATULATIONS are in order to Cork radio station RedFM, which was celebrating a few major wins after the JNLR figures were released recently. Things are also looking up for Siteridge Ltd, the company behind the broadcaster, which reported profits for the second year in a row in its most recent accounts – but there’s still… Read more »

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Olga Shajaku’s business rival

Date: April 5, 2018 - Briefcases

Goldhawk reports that an action involving the state and legal eagle Olga Shajaku’s Word Perfect Translation Services company is about to kick off in the High Court. One of Shajaku’s competitors is Chinese businesswoman Len Wan ‘Crystal’ Li’s Translation.ie, which was awarded public contracts to provide translation services to the Legal Aid Board and the… Read more »

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Selina Cartmell

SELINA CARTMELL’S NEW TEAM

Date: April 5, 2018 - Behind the Scenes

ATHOUGH there has been lots of talk of transparency at the Gate Theatre (“I will not waver in our search for trust and transparency” director Selina Cartmell told the theatre awards audience in February), there is less of a commitment to explaining what is going on at executive level in the theatre, where there have… Read more »

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Olga Shajaku

Olga Shajaku v Crystal Li

Date: April 5, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

WHILE THE expulsion of a Russian diplomat here created waves, another Russki known to fans of Goldhawk – legal eagle Olga Shajaku – has been stirring things up in the High Court, where a long-running legal action contesting the state’s awarding of contracts is set to kick off later this month. One person with an… Read more »

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Stormy Daniel’s ride

Date: April 5, 2018 - High Society

FOR A man who likes to keep a low profile, Wicklow event horse dealer Richard Sheahan sure knows how to pick the owners. In an interview in the Indo a couple of years ago it was reported that Sheane “readily admits he has never been one for the spotlight; he let’s his horses do the… Read more »

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Dargle Lodge

FIONA FITZPATRICK’S “COLONIAL LIFE”

Date: April 5, 2018 - High Society

THERE was plenty of gushing prose to be found in last week’s Irish Times’s property write-up for the Dargle Lodge estate in Enniskerry, Co Wicklow, which offers would-be purchasers the chance to “live the colonial life”. Nowhere in the puff piece was there any mention of the name of the owner, however, who turns out… Read more »

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Kate O'Connell

Kate O’Connell’S Choir Girls

Date: April 5, 2018 - Last Refuge

KATE O’CONNELL, Simon ‘Covetous’ Coveney’s altar girl in the Fine Gael leadership contest, famously described Leo Varadkar’s supporters as “choir boys singing for their supper”. But the sororal Kate is intensely ambitious for her own political sisters, Mary and Theresa Newman, whom she has been promoting and canvassing for in an effort to create her… Read more »

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Edward Burke’s CV

Date: April 4, 2018 - Hush Hush

A good example of crisis bringing opportunity was The Irish Times publication of Dr Edward Burke’s polemic in favour of Ireland expelling a Russian diplomat and also deriding Irish neutrality as “virtuous”. The academic was described as “an assistant professor in international relations at the University of Nottingham and previously was a lecturer in strategic… Read more »

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AIB’s Irish Times fans

Date: March 22, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

DISREGARDING the vulgar populism so prevalent these days, The Irish Times has registered its appreciation of the sterling achievements of AIB chiefs. The paper’s business pages have AIB’s top two bosses shortlisted for gongs, top cat Bernard Byrne for its Business Person of the Year and money supremo Mark Bourke nominated as the year’s top… Read more »

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Kevin Keane

Trinity students pile on the pressure

Date: March 22, 2018 - Student Life

GOLDHAWK predicted that Trinners provost Paddy Prendergast and the College Board would have a scrap on their hands over supplemental exam fee increases – and that’s exactly what they got. The dust is beginning to settle on an exhausting week for bolshie students who managed to bring the college to the negotiating table by occupying… Read more »

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Mary Devins

ANIMUS IN COURT

Date: March 22, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

THE legal actions being taken against giant multinational Volkswagen by Ballyhaunis solicitor Evan O’Dwyer on behalf of a dozen or so clients in the District Court in the west took a left turn recently and ended up in the High Court for judicial review. There, O’Dwyer was the subject of some criticism by Ms Justice… Read more »

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Bono

The Hot Air Brigade

Date: March 22, 2018 - The Hot Air Brigade

Makes me unutterably proud… our country entrusted to three wise men and their 21st century leader. Letter from Bono to Taoiseach Leo Varadkar. The three wise men referred to are Simon Coveney, Paschal Donohoe and Martin Fraser, EXTRA.ie I may be from the east but I am not a beast. European Council president Donald Tusk… Read more »

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Karen Bradley

LONDON SAYS NO!

Date: March 22, 2018 - Bird's Eye View

WE LEARNT at least three things in the last fortnight. First, contrary to what most observers believed Sinn Féin really did want to get an executive in the north up and running. Second, contrary to what most observers believed the DUP leadership does not want to get an executive in the north up and running…. Read more »

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Catherine Noone

CATHERINE NOONE’S DÁIL AMBITION

Date: March 22, 2018 - Last Refuge

FINE GAEL Senator Catherine Noone is preparing to parachute into Dublin South-West (DSW) as a candidate at the next general election and her prospects are not as remote as might appear at first sight. Noone stood as the classic token female candidate with Taoiseach Leo Varadkar in Dublin West at the last election, facilitating FG’s… Read more »

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Brendan Howlin

Brendan Howlin’s bland buddies

Date: March 22, 2018 - Last Refuge

LIMPING Labour leader Brendan Howlin appeared this week at a public meeting organised by his party on the topic of Brexit. He was joined on the panel by two political figures with whom the former public expenditure minister has a lot in common – current shadow Northern Ireland secretary Labour MP Owen Smith and ex-SDLP… Read more »

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Joe McHugh

MINISTER McHUGH’S ADVISER SUED

Date: March 22, 2018 - Fit to Print?

GREG HARKIN, special adviser to government chief whip and Junior Minister Joe McHugh, has been hunted around Government Buildings, Dublin bars and restaurants and his home base in Donegal by a law agent attempting, unsuccessfully, to serve a summons on him from John Brown. Brown is the brother of singer and former presidential candidate Dana,… Read more »

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Barry Egan’s salad days

Date: March 22, 2018 - Fit to Print?

WOW! What a wild boy Barry Egan was back in the 1980s when, as he explained recently to breathless Sindo readers, he cavorted with New Musical Express “hip, intelligent” and “brilliant writers” in those “mad, bad and crazy days at NME”. Barry’s career took an even zanier turn shortly after when he became editor of… Read more »

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Fionnan Sheahan

ABORTED INDO STORY

Date: March 22, 2018 - Fit to Print?

THE Irish and Sunday Independent have been running a campaign against their bitter rivals in The Sunday Times and its new title, The Times Ireland, for taking editorial positions on various issues from Brexit to abortion. But apart from the paradox of INM titles claiming ethical purity on such issues (see The Phoenix, 9/3/18), there… Read more »

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Donald Trump

LEO’S WINDY ‘JOKE’

Date: March 22, 2018 - Fowl Emissions

There was much to cringe over in Taoiseach Leo Varadkar’s lame attempt to curry favour with US president Donald Trump during his Paddy’s Day visit to Washington by bragging about having personally lobbied to have planning permission for a windfarm near Doonbeg in Co Clare blocked. That Varadkar had to finally admit he was in… Read more »

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Bog Cuttings

Bog Cuttings

Date: March 22, 2018 - Bog Cuttings

chip shop row lands GAA star in the soup A GAA star attacked an elderly man with his own walking stick after a row at a chip shop. Letterkenny District Court heard how Tyrone player Dean McNally of 23 Cabhan Alvinn, Pomeroy, Dungannon, Co Tyrone, along with two of his friends had been in a… Read more »

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Clare McGrath

NEW LOOK HERITAGE TRUST

Date: March 22, 2018 - High Society

THE POSITION of chief executive of the Irish Heritage Trust (IHT) is about to be filled following an advertising process. It will be interesting to see what sort of response the post attracted, given the difficulties experienced by Kevin Baird during his 12 years in situ. Having started off with a lot of fanfare, the… Read more »

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Judy Woolworth’s “public confidence”

Date: March 22, 2018 - High Society

NO DOUBT Judy Woodworth and the board of the Alfred Beit Foundation were delighted with the big spread on Russborough House in The Irish Times last weekend. The article was lavish in its praise of the Blessington property highlighting the impact of a “much needed” E1m refurbishment spend carried out during the winter closure. The… Read more »

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Belinda Strudwick

BELINDA STRUDWICK’S BIG BILLS

Date: March 22, 2018 - High Society

THE RACING of thoroughbred horses is a notoriously expensive game that only the wealthy can afford to play. One such moneybags is English property developer Roy Strudwick, who made a mint here in the good old days (and, more importantly, avoided the crash). He has been backing his wife Belinda Strudwick’s Ballygallon Stud business for… Read more »

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Unmanageable Sisters

THE UNMANAGEABLE SISTERS – ABBEY THEATRE

Date: March 22, 2018 - ReviewsTheatre

WITH INTENSE public pressure to ensure that women are sufficiently represented on stage, what easier way for theatre managers (like the Abbey’s co-director Graham McLaren) to tick the box than to employ an all-female cast of thousands, and pad the numbers tallied up by gender-equality campaigners? In this case, the women on stage number no… Read more »

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The Lodgers

THE LODGERS – DIRECTED BY BRIAN O’MALLEY

Date: March 22, 2018 - MoviesReviews

CLEARLY, going to the cinema to see an Irish film is often a risk. Much as you hope for the best there is always the sneaking suspicion that a few too many stars may have been lavished on the film by reviewers who, let it be said, don’t pay for their tickets. And so it… Read more »

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The Hoarder

THE HOARDER – JESS KIDD (CANONGATE)

Date: March 22, 2018 - BooksReviews

THE LONDON-based Irish author Jess Kidd published her well-received first novel, Himself, in 2016. Her follow-up is narrated by Mayo-born Maud Drennan, who has the unenviable job of looking after octogenarian Cathal Flood, described in his case notes as a “retired artist, mechanical engineer and dealer in curiosities”. Since his wife’s death, he has led… Read more »

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Brian Maguire

ARTS COUNCIL RESIGNATIONS

Date: March 22, 2018 - Behind the Scenes

IT IS starting to look like being a member of the Arts Council is a hazardous affair. Artist Brian Maguire has just stepped down from the board although he has the best part of a year to run on his contract, having been appointed for a five-year stint back at the end of January 2014… Read more »

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Annie Doona

FILM BOARD’S FEMALES

Date: March 22, 2018 - Behind the Scenes

NOW THAT Annie Doona’s Irish Film Board (IFB) has a recruitment campaign under way for a production and development coordinator, maybe the agency will use the opportunity to bring some gender balance to the ranks of its employees. The IFB told Goldhawk it now employs “four males and 17 females” but had no comment to… Read more »

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Jill Cousins

HUNT MUSEUM’S HUNT is OVER

Date: March 22, 2018 - Behind the Scenes

THE LONG vacant position of director and chief executive of the Hunt Museum has gone to a woman – Jill Cousin – who joins the increasingly lengthy list of female heads of state-backed cultural institutions, including the National Museum of Ireland, National Library of Ireland, Chester Beatty Library, Crawford Art Gallery, Arts Council. (What are… Read more »

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