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Bryan Cooper

BRYAN COOPER’S RARE RIDES

Date: February 22, 2018 - Sport of Kings

BRYAN COOPER’S latest retainer looks to have come to an end after a very brief association. In November last year, Cooper got drafted in to ride all the UK-trained horses owned by Allan Potts. Most of these were handled by Colin Tizzard and despite the trainer admitting Cooper wouldn’t have been his first choice, the… Read more »

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Min at Dublin Racing Festival

DENIS EGAN’S LATE LATE SHOW

Date: February 22, 2018 - Sport of Kings

THE ACTING stewards at the Dublin Racing Festival came in for quite a bit of flak over their failure to investigate the poor performance of some high profile Willie Mullins horses that had drifted alarmingly on the exchanges shortly before the off of their respective races. Yorkhill began the day as the odds-on favourite for… Read more »

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Tony Smurfit

Shareholders boxed in at Smurfit Kappa

Date: February 22, 2018 - Moneybags

SMURFIT KAPPA is the biggest cardboard box company outside of North America – and the biggest in Europe and South America. It is obvious that the group needs to make a major acquisition across the Atlantic. Unfortunately, chief executive Tony Smurfit has instead continued to plod along and seems more than happy just to manage… Read more »

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Pearse Phelan

Dr Pearse Phelan’s Midas touch

Date: February 22, 2018 - Briefcases

A COMPANY called Midas Health and Sports Ltd has just called in the liquidator after the operation went downhill. The principal here is colourful entrepreneur Dr Pearse Phelan but creditors will be hoping for better outcomes than at the last Phelan-linked company to collapse into liquidation, Fitzwilliam Private Clinic Ltd. Fans of Goldhawk will recall… Read more »

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Chris Shiel

Chris Shiel’s Star Wars gig

Date: February 22, 2018 - Briefcases

CONGRATULATIONS to Galway high-flier Chris Shiel whose aviation company, 21st Century Aviation Ltd, had a bumper 2017. Shiel is best known for an ill-fated 2015 tender for a state contract to operate the Aran Islands air service but luckily customers from a galaxy far, far away have been boosting his profits in recent times. Shiel’s… Read more »

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Greg Kavanagh

Greg Kavanagh’s Ballycrag bother

Date: February 22, 2018 - Briefcases

INTERESTING to see the taxman getting tough with Arklow developer Greg Kavanagh’s property empire. In a second Kavanagh-related scrap in as many months, the taxman has moved to wind up two property companies linked to the former New Generation Homes impresario – Ballycrag Developments Ltd and Branwen Developments Ltd. Kavanagh is listed as a director… Read more »

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The holiday home in Kiltoom

Cormac Lohan’s holiday home

Date: February 22, 2018 - Briefcases

ROSCOMMON solicitor Cormac Lohan had a tax judgment for over €124,000 registered against him at the end of January. Lohan, who practises as Lohan & Co Solicitors in Athlone, Co Westmeath, has had run-ins with the Revenue before and last August, the taxman hit him for over €200,000. Lohan has had a tough time of… Read more »

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Nick Munier and Alanna Feeney

Nick Munier’s taxing year

Date: February 22, 2018 - Briefcases

FORMER celebrity restaurant impresario Nick Munier had a judgment for close to €80,000 registered against him at the beginning of February. It’s been a tough start to the year for former MasterChef maître d’ Munier who, fans of Goldhawk will recall, had to suddenly close his chic Temple Bar restaurant Avenue by Nick Munier last… Read more »

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Drinks on House

Date: February 22, 2018 - Briefcases

A COMPANY called Sykes Hotel Group (SHG) Ltd has just been hit with a judgment for €30,000 over unpaid rates – a familiar story for the outfit. SHG – owned by brothers Trevor and David Sykes – is the company behind the Courtown Hotel in Gorey, Co Wexford, which is currently being wound up the… Read more »

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Peter Reaney’s ‘religious beliefs’

Date: February 22, 2018 - Briefcases

ANOTHER setback for colourful Mayo businessman and blogger Peter Reaney. Originally a plasterer by trade, Reaney dipped into property development in 2006 when he purchased a site in Ballaghaderreen, Co Roscommon. He received planning permission to build three blocks of two- and three-bedroom houses but ran into difficulty during the project and ended up borrowing… Read more »

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Simon Coveney

SIMON COVENEY’S FAMILY VALUES

Date: February 8, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

EVEN Simon Coveney’s angry critics in Fine Gael – and they are very angry – accept that his very public opposition to the proposed legislation for 12 weeks’ unrestricted access to abortion comes from a man that has always been sincerely conservative on abortion. But Simon’s conservatism coincides conveniently with a faultline inside FG that… Read more »

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Michael McGrath

Profile: Michael McGrath FF

Date: February 8, 2018 - Pillars of Society

UNEASY LIES the head that wears the crown and, as opinion polls continue to show Fianna Fáil lagging behind Fine Gael in the great election race, an increasingly concerned party leader, Micheál Martin, is looking over his shoulder at potential rivals. Most prominent of these is his constituency running mate and party finance spokesperson, Michael… Read more »

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Paul Stenson

Young Blood: Paul Stenson

Date: February 8, 2018 - The Young Bloods

IS Paul Stenson (37) for real or does he just play the villain on the internet? His critics would accept the former designation but the proprietor of the Charleville Lodge Hotel and adjoining White Moose Café on Dublin’s North Circular Road has plenty of fans and followers who back the social media marketer par excellence… Read more »

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Joanne Hayes

KERRY BABIES ‘APOLOGIES’

Date: February 8, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

THE garda apology to Joanne Hayes as well as that of Taoiseach Leo Varadkar deserves more quizzical scrutiny than it has received. Apart from the murder charge against Joanne, the garda laid charges of dumping the body of the Cahersiveen baby in the sea against four other members of the Hayes family – Joanne’s siblings,… Read more »

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Nigel Farage

Nigel Farage’s Trinity pals

Date: February 8, 2018 - Affairs of the NationStudent Life

IT WAS interesting to see Declan Ganley praising Trinity College on Twitter last week for letting fellow anti-EU agitator Nigel Farage speak at an event. As Deco well knows, the event had little to do with the college itself and everything to do with those most estimable chaps at the College Historical Society (The Hist)… Read more »

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David McWilliams

David McWilliams’s advice

Date: February 8, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

CLEVER CLOGS David McWilliams might be feeling a little bewildered given the pounding taken by one of his heroes, fund manager Neil Woodford. Although he has been quiet on the subject this week, McWilliams has regularly used his extensive social media presence to plug Woodford’s views on all matters financial: “Excellent piece here from Neil… Read more »

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Gretchen Mol

MacDara Kelleher’s €850,000

Date: February 8, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

CONGRATULATIONS to Goldhawk’s favourite film producer, MacDara Kelleher. He has just been greenlighted for a whopping U850,000 in funding from the Irish Film Board (IFB) for Nightflyers – the big budget American sci-fi TV series starring Gretchen Mol that he is fronting here for Syfy Channel and Netflix. The IFB ‘loan’ is clearly linked to… Read more »

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Joseph O'Brien

JOSEPH O’BRIEN’S MOOLAH

Date: February 8, 2018 - Sport of Kings

SPARE A thought for the hard-up Joseph O’Brien who got fined “half a week’s wages” for speeding offences recently. The Melbourne Cup winning trainer was pulled in doing 161km an hour on the M9 in Kilkenny. O’Brien claimed his post is still being delivered to Ballydoyle where daddy Aidan continues to call the shots while… Read more »

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Claire Byrne

RTÉ’S RADIO DIVAS

Date: February 8, 2018 - Fit to Print?

RTÉ proclaimed “Fresh Moves at RTÉ Radio 1” with a photo montage of six presenters – five of them women – in a press statement announcing this week’s new line-up. But this obligatory genuflection towards gender balance, whatever about equal pay, as illustrated by the photo presentation is a little misleading. Some of Claire Byrne’s… Read more »

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Vol. 36 No. 03

Vol. 36 No. 03

Date: February 8, 2018 -

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Simon Zebo

INJURY TIME FOR THE IRFU

Date: February 8, 2018 - Affairs of the NationFowl Play

EUPHORIA after Stade de France but the storm clouds are gathering for Irish rugby as its ability to hold onto the best players is now under real threat. Leinster’s upcoming European Champions Cup quarter final opponents Saracens have filed their accounts and there is a stark warning for the IRFU. For Ireland, the loss of… Read more »

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Losing out at Lisselan

Date: February 8, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

THE WOMAN behind Clonakilty Black Pudding, Colette Twomey, looks to have got herself a bargain with the “close to €3m” she has paid for the splendid Lisselan House and estate outside Clonakilty, Co Cork. It is not the kind of figure that will make much… Read more »

Brian McDonagh

BRIAN McDONAGH’S DATA PROBLEM

Date: February 8, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

SURPRISING to see a company called Granja Ltd listed for striking off by the Companies Office after failing to file its accounts. The firm is currently involved in a high stakes legal action over a large Co Wicklow site that featured prominently in that row over Apple’s huge Athenry project. Although having no interest in… Read more »

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Betty Purcell

HUMAN RIGHTS: NEW CRITERIA

Date: February 8, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

THE refusal of Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (IHREC) member Betty Purcell to go quietly after her failure to be reappointed recently produced some standard responses from the justice department and the commission. Purcell claims she has been shafted because of her disagreements with chief commissioner Emily Logan over various issues, including Logan’s reluctance… Read more »

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Benjamin Netanyahu

MOSSAD’S LITTLE HELPERS

Date: February 8, 2018 - Hush Hush

THE Israeli embassy’s exit from Dublin will not diminish that country’s intelligence apparatus from accessing Irish passport details and other useful data. On January 14 last a Mossad hit squad tried to assassinate a senior Hamas official in Sidon, Lebanon, just as Simon Coveney was completing his four-day tour of the Middle East – including… Read more »

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Alison Canavan

The Hot Air Brigade

Date: February 8, 2018 - The Hot Air Brigade

The earth is like a gigantic battery that contains a natural, subtle electric charge – a special kind of energy present in the ground. When we connect with this energy, it carries information and helps align us with the greater network of intelligence of our planet. Alison Canavan on the importance of “grounding,” one of… Read more »

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Martin Luther King

AFRICA AND THE REAL DR KING

Date: February 8, 2018 - Foreign Frolics

MILLIONS of Americans commemorated Martin Luther King’s Day recently. His famous speech, I Have a Dream, was repeated numerous times in media outlets as a reminder of the evil of racism – which is being resurrected in a most pronounced way in US society. But that is only one version of Dr King allowed to… Read more »

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Peter Robinson

THE NATIONAL MINORITY

Date: February 8, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

LAST MONTH the Northern Ireland Statistical Research Agency (NISRA) shone a light on the north’s changing demographic patterns revealing the remarkable developments that have taken place in the last generation. NISRA’s Labour Force Survey Religion Report 2016 looks at changes since 1990-92 in the working age population 16-64, its qualifications, employment and unemployment. The statistical… Read more »

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Heather Humphries

FINE GAEL’S CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS

Date: February 8, 2018 - Last Refuge

THE portrayal of ethical and personal agonising by Fine Gael ministers and TDs over the abortion referendum and the planned 12 weeks abortion on request legislation is fascinating. Especially when you match those politicians racked with such conscientious dilemmas with the constituencies they represent – or hope to represent – after the next election. The… Read more »

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Louise O'Reilly

SF’s right to choose

Date: February 8, 2018 - Last Refuge

LOUISE O’REILLY’S compliment to Leo Varadkar’s statement on the referendum to repeal the Eighth Amendment was apt but surprisingly amicable coming from a Sinn Féin TD. However, the Fingal deputy is simultaneously engaged in revising SF policy to match Varadkar’s support for unrestricted abortion up to 12 weeks of pregnancy. At SF’s November ard fheis… Read more »

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Lorraine Clifford Lee

OPINION POLLS – THE REAL STORY?

Date: February 8, 2018 - Last Refuge

NATIONAL opinion polls show Leo Varadkar and Fine Gael streaking ahead of Micheál Martin’s Fianna Fail but there is something strangely unreal about the figures when compared to reality on the ground. FF analysis of the 39 constituencies, in some cases backed by the party’s own polling – however skewed it may be in FF’s… Read more »

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Nigel Farage

IREXIT PARTY BORN

Date: February 8, 2018 - Last Refuge

IT LOOKS as if an anti-EU party with candidates running in the EU elections next year will definitely emerge from last weekend’s Irexit meeting with Nigel Farage. This will certainly be the case if Farage’s spin doctor, Hermann Kelly, has his way. Leaflets handed out at the Dublin RDS meeting were Hermann’s creation and they… Read more »

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Michael McDowell

McDowell v Ross

Date: February 8, 2018 - Last Refuge

LEGAL EAGLES can be as bitchy as politicians when they fall out and former justice minister Alan Shatter – a mere solicitor – was regularly accused of being motivated by jealousy when taking on the barristers’ closed shop some years back. Now, Michael McDowell SC – ex attorney general, ex justice minister and current senator… Read more »

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Katie Hannon

MEDIA CIVIL WAR

Date: February 8, 2018 - Fit to Print?

THOSE High Court libel actions taken out by two gardaí against various media over reports on Maurice McCabe are mirrored by the sharp divide in the press over the whistleblower. This division is between most security correspondents and journalists that cover wider issues. A good example is the difference between Newstalk/Irish Independent crime reporter Paul… Read more »

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Independent House

The Sindo’s diverse readership

Date: February 8, 2018 - Fit to Print?

WHAT a surprisingly cosmopolitan readership the Sunday Independent has. In a recent letter to the Sindo retired Defence Forces commander and peace activist Edward Horgan said Israelis should be respectful of Palestinian human rights as the experience of the Holocaust was “the most serious and most unjustified crime against humanity so far”. His letter provoked… Read more »

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Bog Cuttings

Bog Cuttings

Date: February 8, 2018 - Bog Cuttings

COURTROOM Selfies ‘for the mammy’ A NAVAN man, in court for allegedly using a vehicle without NCT, was reprimanded by a judge for taking selfies in court. Garry O’Brien (36), Millbrook, Johnstown, had his phone confiscated by the garda in charge of security at Trim District Court, who accused O’Brien of “taking pictures of himself… Read more »

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