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Kerrie Radcliffe

KERRI RADCLIFFE’S SUDDEN EXIT

Date: March 22, 2018 - Sport of Kings

READERS WILL recall (see The Phoenix 9/3/18) that Goldhawk was impressed by the size of the wedge chucked about by bloodstock agent Kerri Radcliffe on behalf of the free spending bloodstock investment fund, Phoenix Thoroughbreds, but also noted “the results have been slow and small to date”. Just that week, Radcliffe found herself unsaddled by… Read more »

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Ger Lyons

GER LYONS LETS LOOSE

Date: March 22, 2018 - Sport of Kings

DUNDALK RACECOURSE hosted the most valuable race held at the track recently but the €75,000 Patton Stakes – part of a new European road to the Kentucky Derby series – didn’t meet approval from some quarters, most notably trainer Ger Lyons. The race, a listed contest for three-year-olds, had historically taken place a month later… Read more »

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Michael O'Leary

CHELTENHAM’S MELON FLAVOUR

Date: March 22, 2018 - Sport of Kings

WHILE TRAINER Gordon Elliott will always be the golden boy as far as Mick O’Leary is concerned, Davy Russell and Henry De Bromhead surely sealed their employment for the foreseeable future by finally providing the airline boss with a victory in his own race, the Ryanair Chase. O’Leary has been trying to win the race… Read more »

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Peter Brant

PETER BRANT JOINS THE COOLMORE BOYS

Date: March 22, 2018 - Sport of Kings

THE FALL from grace of South African tycoon Marcus Jooste left a gap in the market for an investor to join the Coolmore triumvirate of John Magnier, Michael Tabor and Derrick Smith and it turns out the boys have been joined by Peter Brant. Brant’s White Birch Farm shot to prominence at various breeding stock… Read more »

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Francesca McDonagh

McDonagh needs to close gap on AIB

Date: March 22, 2018 - Moneybags

IT IS still surprising that the most prudent of Irish banks – Bank of Ireland – went into overdrive during the frenzied lending boom at the top of the property market. It needed €7bn to prevent it going under whereas fellow pillar bank AIB needed €21bn. Yet today AIB is 20% more profitable with a… Read more »

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Michael Carvill

Kenmare now set for takeover approach

Date: March 22, 2018 - Moneybags

TWO YEARS ago, Mick Carvill was facing oblivion in Kenmare Resources having lost $200m over the preceding 24 months and leaving the company in breach of all the group’s banking covenants. Only a miracle could save Kenmare, it appeared, and something close to this arrived… Read more »

Ivor Callely

Tony Gannon’s Cerberus setback

Date: March 22, 2018 - Briefcases

INTERESTING to see Goldhawk’s old pal low-key Lucan businessman Tony Gannon popping up again recently in the Four Goldmines. The developer – who will be familiar to fans of Goldhawk for his connections to Fianna Fáil in the pre-crash days – had a day to forget in the High Court when he consented to a… Read more »

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Frank Walsh

More turbulence for windfarm investors

Date: March 22, 2018 - Briefcases

THERE’S trouble brewing for the directors of windfarm operators Sunflower Design, now that one group of disgruntled backers has lost patience with the Mayo operation and opted to head to the Four Goldmines. Fans of Goldhawk will recall that between 2008 and 2009, Sunflower – where members of music mogul Louis Walsh’s family are heavily… Read more »

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The holiday home in Kiltoom

Athlone solicitor Cormac Lohan’s secret recording

Date: March 22, 2018 - Briefcases

MORE woe for solicitor Cormac Lohan who has had a stressful first quarter of 2018. Not only has the Athlone legal eagle been named on the Revenue’s latest list of tax defaulters, the taxman has also moved to wind up his legal consultancy. Fans of Goldhawk will recall that Lohan – who practises as Lohan… Read more »

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Cork carpenters’ bad luck

Date: March 22, 2018 - Briefcases

AN UNLUCKY Cork carpentry outfit was slapped with a hefty judgment by the dreaded taxman recently. Carrigaline Carpentry Services Ltd, controlled by brothers John and Brian O’Neill, had the judgment for over €1/2m registered against it last month but the two boys have had their share of bad luck in the past. Their carpentry operation… Read more »

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Liam Mulvaney’s latest setback

Date: March 22, 2018 - Briefcases

DUBLIN developer Liam Mulvaney’s annus horribilis continues. After being sent to the slammer for 10 days last month for contempt of court, Ulster Bank has now secured summary judgment in the High Court against Mulvaney for a stomach-churning u7.5m relating to property loans granted to him between 2004 and 2010. It was reported last month… Read more »

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Matt Carthy

MATT CARTHY: SF’S NEW CROWN PRINCE

Date: March 22, 2018 - Last Refuge

THE retirement at the next election of long serving Sinn Féin TD, Caoímhghin Ó Caoláin – as weighty and formidable as Mary Lou McDonald and Pearse Doherty but less promoted by the party – is part of the transitional leadership agenda. This will, SF hopes, see a younger generation in leading positions, but it also… Read more »

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Mairead McGuinness

Fine Gael MEPs DEMAND HUGE DEFENCE SPEND

Date: March 22, 2018 - Last Refuge

THE four Fine Gael MEPs demanding an end to Irish neutrality and massive defence spending have repeatedly protested – like the lady that doth too much – that their policy document on the issue is not an official party view. Thus proposals from the four MEPs are not from FG and they are about a… Read more »

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Chay Bowes

Chay Bowes misses the target

Date: March 22, 2018 - Briefcases

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 - Briefcases

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

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 - Briefcases

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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