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Leo Varadkar

LEO VARADKAR’S ELECTION TIMELINE

Date: February 22, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

MEDIA hints of Fine Gael’s plan to cut and run to the country this year are spot on and while lacking detail they reflect a specific strategy being discussed not just at cabinet level but in the middle ranks of the party organisation. Some evidence is obvious: continuing high poll ratings for FG and the… Read more »

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Mary McAleese

Profile: Mary McAleese

Date: February 22, 2018 - Pillars of Society

THE VATICAN’S boycott of former President of Ireland and devout Catholic feminist Mary McAleese – The Outsider as her unofficial biographer Justine McCarthy christened her – was predictably controversial. But Mary’s victimisation has elevated her from a previous role as bridge builder between Catholic nationalism and Ulster unionism into a more universal role as de… Read more »

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Carol Nolan

Young Blood: Carol Nolan TD

Date: February 22, 2018 - The Young Bloods

CAROL NOLAN’S 2016 election win for Sinn Féin in the three-seat Offaly constituency was a surprise. There will be another one if she hangs on to her seat as Offaly is now reunited with Laois in a five-seat constituency. But Nolan gave the party a rather different surprise with her recent declaration of a No… Read more »

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Aine Moriaty

The taxman and the film awards

Date: February 22, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

THE MOSTLY low wattage audience at last week’s IFTAs awards bash at the Mansion House may have been surprised by host Deirdre O’Kane’s “trailer” joke when referring to Traveller actor John Connors. But there would also have been raised eyebrows had it been known that the taxman had just targeted a firm controlled by Áine… Read more »

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Martin Kelly

Kelly Martin cashes in at Malin

Date: February 22, 2018 - Moneybags

MALIN CORP, the life sciences group floated in 2015, is one of the strangest corporate entities ever to feature on the Irish Stock Exchange, with a remuneration strategy the board/executives might believe to be fair game but which is almost impossible to decipher. What is clear is that the company’s principals are doing very well… Read more »

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Paul Dean

Joe Schmidt’s tactics

Date: February 22, 2018 - Fowl Play

THE long-standing love-in between the IRFU and rugby journalists reportedly came to an abrupt end a fortnight ago when Irish coach Joe Schmidt cancelled the traditional post-match press huddle after Ireland’s Six Nations encounter with Italy. In reality, the scrap is just one scrum in an ongoing and intriguing match-up between the press and the… Read more »

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David McWilliams

David McWilliams’s double dip

Date: February 22, 2018 - Fit to Print?

IT’S a hard job getting new material – but rehashing your own is a bit cheeky. Financial superstar hack David McWilliams – “ranked 10th most influential economist in the world”, according to his website – wrote a penetrating article on Dublin Port last August when scribbling for the Irish Independent. McWilliams introduced his article with:… Read more »

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Clare McCarthy

Clare McCarthy’s comeback

Date: February 22, 2018 - Student Life

CONGRATULATIONS to Trinners student Clare McCarthy who has just been reinstated as chair of Trinity Publications on a technicality. Fans of Goldhawk will recall that McCarthy was removed from her position as head of the Pubs committee in November last after a stereotypically toxic row over the suspension of funding to a student publication (see… Read more »

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Niall McGarry Maximum Media

Niall McGarry’s turnover

Date: February 22, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

FLASHY entrepreneur Niall McGarry was in his usual confident mood recently when he announced that the Irish end of Maximum Media operation was expected to record turnover of €8m for the most recent 12 months, up from the €6m figure he had projected just a few months earlier. Not everyone is happy though. As Goldhawk… Read more »

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Rebecca and Alistair Tidey

Alistair Tidey’s sale

Date: February 22, 2018 - High Society

AN IMPRESSIVE house on Merrion Square has gone on the market with a hefty €3.5m price tag, although it looks like the owners here will drop a few bob, having bought at the top of the market. The D2 pile is not the only top-notch property Alistair and Jane Tidey have put on the market… Read more »

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Vol. 36 No. 04

Date: February 22, 2018 -

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Colm Murphy

MURPHY’S LAW V LAW SOCIETY

Date: February 22, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

THE mother of all legal battles between the Law Society and former solicitor Colm Murphy is due in the High Court in April following two decades of litigation. Between 1999 and 2008, the Kenmare lawyer appeared before the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal eight times and had 20 counts of misconduct made against him before being struck… Read more »

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REDMOND’S RECORDING

Date: February 22, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

INTERESTING to see controversial Independent councillor Keith Redmond playing a central role in an investigation of waste operators by the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC). The waste industry has been of significant interest to local politicians given allegations of price gouging and cartel behaviour. Redmond got directly involved in the issue when he secretly… Read more »

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John Halligan

PYONGYANG REVISITED

Date: February 22, 2018 - Foreign Frolics

SOME interesting coincidences around the proposed visit to North Korea by ministers John Halligan, Shane Ross and Finian McGrath have been clocked by members of Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann (CCÉ). Last October Comhaltas magazine Treoir republished a 26-year-old article from the mag entitled Koreans Delight Fleadh Audiences – Memorable Historic Cultural Exchange in 1991. The two-page… Read more »

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Pippa O'Connor

The Hot Air Brigade

Date: February 22, 2018 - The Hot Air Brigade

I must own a hundred pair of denim jeans, each serving their different purpose. Fashionista and designer Pippa O’Connor quoted on her website, Submitted by reader We’re the new Iniesta and Xavi of teatime TV. TV3’s Martin King on his new programme with Muireann O’Connell, Irish Mail on Sunday After the news of Jennifer Aniston’s… Read more »

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Leo Varadkar and Theresa May

DUP-TORY DEADLOCK

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

FOR THE second time in two months, Theresa May turned up to seal a deal only for the DUP to whip it off the table. The first occasion, on December 4, saw May’s deal with the EU on the border and moving to the next phase of Brexit talks torpedoed by the DUP. That was… Read more »

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Michael Ring

RINGER THREATENS TO GO INDEPENDENT

Date: February 22, 2018 - Last Refuge

ONLY when Enda Kenny became Fine Gael leader and then Taoiseach did he manage to best his Mayo running mate, Michael Ring, at general elections in Mayo. Now Ringer, Rural and Community Affairs Minister, is privately threatening to resign from the Blueshirts and run as an Independent should Cllr Patsy O’Brien be selected as a… Read more »

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Noeleen Reilly

SINN FEIN DISSIDENT IS IN DEMAND

Date: February 22, 2018 - Last Refuge

SINN FÉIN’S latest political casualty, Cllr Noeleen Reilly, will be a loss to the party and will doubtless take a chunk of first preference votes from sitting TD Dessie Ellis at the next general election in Dublin North-West (DNW) if she stands as an Independent. But will Noeleen be tempted to join Social Democrats joint… Read more »

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Micheál Martin

WHO FEARS TO SPEAK OF UNITED IRELAND?

Date: February 22, 2018 -

WHEN the northern talks collapsed recently, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar admonished DUP leader Arlene Foster for failing to accept “power sharing and equality”. Yet Micheál Martin, leader of Fianna Fáil – ‘The Republican Party’ – laid the blame on both the DUP and Sinn Féin. Has Martin been so unhinged by SF and Mary Lou McDonald’s… Read more »

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Rónán Mullen

ALIVE! AND KICKING

Date: February 22, 2018 - Fit to Print?

BOTH sides in the abortion referendum have exhorted their foot soldiers to be respectful and moderate in tone when arguing the case for Yes or No. However, Catholic special forces at Alive! newspaper have launched a shock and awe campaign that makes Youth Defence look like secular wimps. The current edition of the freesheet, Alive!,… Read more »

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Denis Naughten

MERLIN NAUGHTEN

Date: February 22, 2018 - Fowl Emissions

IT’S NO secret that wishful thinking remains the main policy weapon the government deploys when it comes to hitting tough international commitments on climate change. What’s less well understood is the staggering extent to which even the experts are engaging in magical thinking to maintain the illusion that avoiding a global climate catastrophe is still… Read more »

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Sacred Cows

Date: February 22, 2018 - Fowl Emissions

The government’s new national development plan had that “one for everyone in the audience” feel, including a lavish commitment to spending €22bn, or a fifth of total budget, on tackling climate change. The commitment to invest €4bn to retrofit 45,000 houses and schools is a start, but with at least a million houses in Ireland… Read more »

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Paul Kehoe

Warmongers

Date: February 22, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

“PESCO also has absolutely nothing to do with the creation of an EU army. Nothing in the treaties provides for the creation of an EU army.” So said Junior Minister for Defence Paul Kehoe with a straight face as he addressed the Dáil in December in a debate on Ireland joining up to the EU’s… Read more »

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Mary Lou McDonald

SF Absententionism

Date: February 22, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

DÁIL members are tensed for the first policy change of Sinn Féin under Mary Lou McDonald with the really big question being whether she will abolish abstentionism – in the Visitors’ Bar. Brexit spokesman Dave Cullinane was for some time the only party TD spotted in the bar – consuming non-alcoholic refreshments – and Fianna… Read more »

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Bog Cuttings

Bog Cuttings

Date: February 22, 2018 - Bog Cuttings

‘Be careful what you grow in the garden’ A CLOUGHLEIGH man has told Ennis District Court that it was “pot luck” that a cannabis plant happened to be growing at his home. His solicitor John Casey said his client, Matthew Reddan (27) of Shallee Drive, had a cannabis seed and decided to plant it in… Read more »

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Alan Kelly

AK47 Ultimatum

Date: February 22, 2018 - Last Refuge

IT IS just under five months since Deputy Alan Kelly gave Labour leader Brendan Howlin “less than” six months to either shape up or ship out. That deadline means Howlin has a week or so to save his leadership before AK47 tries to take him out. Last weekend’s two polls showing Labour at an abysmal… Read more »

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Eoghan Harris

Leo’s Loyal Fan

Date: February 22, 2018 - Fit to Print?

“DURING the Fine Gael leadership campaign I supported Leo Varadkar and strongly opposed Simon Coveney.” So claimed Eoghan Harris recently in his Sindo column in a revisionist exercise that would make Roy Foster blush. What Harris actually did was to “strongly” support Coveney in 2015 and 2016, writing for example, that Coveney “was the only… Read more »

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Amanda Brunker

TICKLED PINK IN AVOCA

Date: February 22, 2018 - High Society

ACCORDING TO a puff piece by Sean Gallagher in the Sindo last weekend, social media and selfies have led to a boom for cosmetic surgery procedures as “the pressure on women to look their best has never been greater”. Apparently, this has led to a big boost for Ailish Kelly and Niamh Murdock’s Avoca Clinic… Read more »

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Serious Profits

Date: February 22, 2018 - High Society

WITH THE death of Alan Potts last year and Rich Ricci becoming more cautious with his spending, there was a worry that the boutique sales for Irish horseflesh would suffer a bit at the top end without the help of the big wallets and egos. There was no cause for concern, however, at Tattersalls Ireland’s… Read more »

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Cathy Belton

THE APPROACH – PROJECT ARTS CENTRE

Date: February 22, 2018 - ReviewsTheatre

AT THE turn of the millennium, Mark O’Rowe’s ultra-violent plays exploded like a fat line of speed up the nostrils of the Irish theatre establishment. The likes of Howie the Rookie and Crestfall shocked and thrilled punters, with Tarantino-esque levels of gore and compelling anti-heroes from the ’hood. How times have changed. The amphetamine days… Read more »

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Chris Walley and Alex Murphy

THE YOUNG OFFENDERS – RTE 2

Date: February 22, 2018 - ReviewsTV

BASED ON writer-director Peter Foott’s underwhelming but uber-popular 2016 movie of the same name, The Young Offenders is a co-production between RTÉ and the Beeb’s online yoof channel, BBC Three. A sitcom on two teen tearaways in Cork might seem an unusual project for the latter to take on, though it’s worth bearing in mind… Read more »

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In White Ink

IN WHITE INK – ELSKE RAHILL (APOLLO LILLIPUT)

Date: February 22, 2018 - BooksReviews

THIS COLLECTION of 11 short stories follows Elske Rahill’s 2013 debut novel Between Dog and Wold. The French-based Irish writer specialises in exploring many of those disquieting moments that people prefer to keep private. Rahill’s central characters are mostly women who find themselves in uncomfortable situations. The opening story, Toby, reflects the emptiness in a… Read more »

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Anne Clarke

LITTLE DRAMA AT THEATRE AWARDS

Date: February 22, 2018 - Behind the Scenes

THIS WEEKEND in the National Concert Hall, the theatre industry’s glitterati will dutifully assemble for the Irish Times Theatre Awards. The 20-year-old ritual gives the luvvies an excuse to glam up, and gives the newspaper’s marketing department some tickets and sponsorships to sell. The judges on the small panel are typically pulled from academia, theatre… Read more »

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US Arts Dosh

Date: February 22, 2018 - Behind the Scenes

WITH THE long delayed $62m Irish Arts Centre project in New York again under the spotlight, it was interesting to see the response from Culture Minister Josepha Madigan to SF’s Peadar Tóibín’s question earlier this month on further state support. The question from the chair of the Oireachtas Committee on Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht… Read more »

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Gabriel Byrne

GABRIEL BYRNE’S PLOT TWIST

Date: February 22, 2018 - Behind the Scenes

ACTOR AND all-round busybody Gabriel Byrne will have upset the luvvies with his pronouncement last week that there is not “an industry” when talking about the so-called Irish film industry. He told TheJournal.ie: “When people say, ‘Oh, yes, it’s really flourishing’ sometimes what they mean is that people come in and make films in Ireland,… Read more »

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Gary O'Brien

AFTER AT THE RACES

Date: February 22, 2018 - Sport of Kings

THE FALLOUT following the recent shock news that At The Races will cease to broadcast Irish racing on its channel is continuing to have an impact and there are set to be multiple casualties. For starters it is a serious blow for the current team of At The Races pundits and presenters who were blindsided… Read more »

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