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Leo Varadkar

LEO THE PROVO

Date: January 25, 2018 - Last Refuge

SURPRISINGLY little comment followed the sharply contrasting responses in the Dáil from Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin to blundering Sinn Féin MP Barry McElduff. Following McElduff’s belated resignation, Martin lambasted SF for everything from the Kingsmill slaughter to the Enniskillen bombing and singled out Arlene Foster for praise in her efforts… Read more »

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Israeli Embassy

Date: January 25, 2018 - Last Refuge

THE withdrawal of the Israeli Embassy from Dublin indicates just how ineffective the government’s softly-softly diplomacy on recognition of the Palestinian state has been. Meanwhile, the belligerence of Israel and its chief ally, US president Donald Trump, continues unabated with various peaceful Palestinian lobby groups, including Palestinians in exile in Ireland, banned from returning to… Read more »

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Paschal Donohoe

SAVING PASCHAL DONOHOE

Date: January 25, 2018 - Last Refuge

THE recent nomination of Mary Fitzpatrick as sole Fianna Fáil candidate in Dublin Central at the next general election marked the final rout of the BEGOBs (Bertie Ahern’s Good Ol’ Boys), most of whom stayed away from the convention. This means Fitzpatrick will likely take a much needed Dublin seat for FF at the election… Read more »

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John Ryan

Ryan Airbrushed

Date: January 25, 2018 - Fit to Print?

MEANDERING back to the rare and rarefied auld times is a favourite device of Sindo columnist Zozimus aka Liam Collins, who recently devoted much space to the sad demise of Sister Íde Ní Riain, her distinguished family tree and its literary connections. But the normally pedantic Collins omitted to mention one prolific writer in the… Read more »

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The Sheriff

Date: January 25, 2018 - Fit to Print?

Independent News & Media (INM) titles fulminated last week about the treatment of Joanne Hayes and how she so richly deserved apologies from the gardaí and the state. But apologies would perhaps also be due from INM for publishing the unreconstructed and unapologetic views on Ms Hayes of Detective Gerry “The Sheriff” O’Carroll. The Sheriff… Read more »

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George Lee

CLIMATE: IT’S GOOD NEWS WEEK!

Date: January 25, 2018 - Fowl Emissions

WHEN IT comes to addressing climate change, the twin buzzwords are mitigation and adaptation. Mitigation means doing what the science demands to slow down or halt climate change, while adaptation involves making plans to cope with the impacts, like rising sea levels, that we can’t avoid. This month the government published its National Adaptation Framework… Read more »

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Horsey Hubbies

Date: January 25, 2018 - High Society

INTERESTING TO see that the directors of a company called Hollymount Bloodstock Ltd have decided to wind up their operation, which has a few bob in the coffers. While the players here may not exactly be household names among fans of the sport of kings, the same cannot be said of their hubbies. Hollymount was… Read more »

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DAVID RAETHORNE’S WHISKEY DRINKERS

Date: January 25, 2018 - High Society

THE AMBITIOUS project being undertaken in Sligo by low-profile serial investor David Raethorne got a big boost the week before Christmas when just over €5.5m was raised for the proposed revamp of Hazelwood House and development of a whiskey distillery. Almost €4m of this came from investors taking advantage of the tax-efficient Employment and Incentive… Read more »

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Denise Van Outen

SPRING SEASON SCHEDULE – TV3

Date: January 25, 2018 - ReviewsTV

DAMP SQUIB would be a polite description for the launch earlier this month of TV3’s spring schedule. Coming so soon after the Ballymount broadcaster went overboard with the razzmatazz for its autumn line-up – much of which has yet to appear onscreen – a similar splurge of hoopla for its springtime offerings was unwise. At… Read more »

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BLOOD TIDE – CLAIRE McGOWAN (HEADLINE)

Date: January 25, 2018 - BooksReviews

THIS IS the fifth book in Claire McGowan’s “Ulster noir” series which sees Northern Irish forensic psychologist Paula Maguire investigating the disappearance of a young English couple who have recently moved to the ominously named Bone Island, off the Kerry coast. Matt is a biologist overseeing local marine welfare and Fiona, his fiancée, is a… Read more »

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Woody Harrelson and Frances McDormand

THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI – DIRECTED BY MARTIN McDONAGH

Date: January 25, 2018 - MoviesReviews

MARTIN McDONAGH’S Three Billboards… arrives in Ireland garlanded with four Golden Globes (best drama, screenplay, actress, supporting actor) and, at time of writing, a US box office take of $30m and counting. Here in Ireland, where McDonagh’s better known for his plays, the film took a hefty €418,000 on its opening weekend. For a film… Read more »

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Arts Chiefs

Date: January 25, 2018 - Behind the Scenes

THE APPOINTMENT of Lynn Scarff as director of the National Museum of Ireland continues the trend in recent years of women holding the bulk of the top arts positions in the country. Scarff will answer to a board chaired by Catherine Heaney and the announcement was welcomed by current Minister for Culture Josepha Madigan, who… Read more »

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Aine Moriarty

IFTA’S CASTING GROUCH

Date: January 25, 2018 - Behind the Scenes

THE LIST of nominations for this year’s Irish Film and Television Academy (IFTA) awards (part 1 – film and TV drama) resulted in a bout of recrimination following the revelation that only three candidates could be found who merited nomination for the gong for best leading actress in a film. The criticisms were all focused… Read more »

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Donnacha O'Brien

DONNACHA O’BRIEN’S HEAVY GOING

Date: January 25, 2018 - Sport of Kings

IT WOULD appear jockey Donnacha O’Brien is beginning to lose his battle with the scales if a steward’s inquiry at Dundalk recently is anything to go by. O’Brien weighed in 1.2lbs overweight after riding Irish Minister for his brother Joseph earlier this month and when stewards asked the former to explain the anomaly, he informed… Read more »

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Willie Mullins

MULLINS RUNNING OUT OF TRACK

Date: January 25, 2018 - Sport of Kings

WILLIE MULLINS finds himself in a tricky situation at the moment regarding the defence of his Irish trainer’s title. With the upcoming Dublin Racing Festival at Leopardstown providing huge prize money it is likely the outcome of those 14 races will have a major bearing on whether Mullins or Gordon Elliott is crowned King after… Read more »

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Bog Cuttings

Date: January 25, 2018 - Bog Cuttings

The Man from Monte Carlow A GLOBETROTTING thriller with Carlow at its heart is the latest work by Carlow author Ray Keane. The Man from Monte Carlow was launched by his friend, Carlow/Kilkenny junior minister John Paul Phelan, at Eason’s in Carlow last month. It tells the story of a former Reddy’s barman who emigrates… Read more »

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John Ryan

FOGGY STYLE

Date: January 25, 2018 - Sport of Kings

IT APPEARED fairly straightforward that when Devine Star got lost in the fog at Clonmel a few weeks back, resulting in her rivals setting off for the race before she got to the start, she would be declared a non-runner to allow anyone who backed her to redeem their stake. This did not happen on… Read more »

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Hughie Morrison

HUGHIE MORRISON’S SOFT HANDLING

Date: January 25, 2018 - Sport of Kings

HORSERACING’S ongoing efforts to portray the sport’s clean image and to maintain a zero tolerance policy on the use of steroids has hit a few speed bumps in the past few months. And in the UK, the British Horseracing Authority (BHA) has done itself no favours in handing trainer Hughie Morrison a paltry £1,000 fine… Read more »

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Aidan Brogan

Datalex investors experience serious turbulence

Date: January 25, 2018 - Moneybags

WHEN THE airline booking engine Datalex was last featured in Moneybags (see The Phoenix 21/4/17) – with the shares standing at €3.75 – this was noted as “a frothy rating … Major question marks hang over its accounting tactics which have significantly added to what… Read more »

Rupert Murdoch

Rupert Murdoch’s radio signal

Date: January 25, 2018 - Briefcases

FANS OF Goldhawk will not have been surprised to read last week that Rebekah Brooks had confirmed the interest of her boss, Rupert Murdoch, in Denis O’Brien’s radio stations. And for Dinny, the news that the bidder hasn’t gone away you know will be most welcome. It was a rather strange gathering of characters that… Read more »

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Marie Baker

Thomas Ryan’s ‘acrimonious’ scrap

Date: January 25, 2018 - Moneybags

MORE details are emerging from Quesada Developments Ltd where an examiner was appointed last autumn after a toxic bust-up between the directors. After much wrangling between the sides, a scheme of arrangement was finally put in place at the insolvent company recently but a High Court judgment published last week reveals the extent of the… Read more »

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Darryl Kavanagh

Darryl Kavanagh’s tumbledown Shack

Date: January 25, 2018 - Briefcases

MORE on the sudden closure of the Seafood Shack restaurant in Cardiff, Wales last month where Waterford businessman Darryl Kavanagh has popped up. Former developer and publican Kavanagh is the majority shareholder at the restaurant that shut up shop on December 29 after he claimed a cyber attack on its booking system had crippled the… Read more »

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Peter Conlon

More Pembroke problems for Peter Conlon

Date: January 25, 2018 - Briefcases

IT’S BEEN a tough start to 2018 for Geneva-based charity tech guru Peter Conlon after the High Court ordered the liquidation of one of his Irish companies on foot of a Revenue petition. Conlon, a former fixture on the rich list, will be familiar to fans of Goldhawk for his other high profile ventures like… Read more »

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Emmett O'Neill

Emmet O’Neill’s boardroom moves

Date: January 25, 2018 - Briefcases

MORE manoeuvres at Niall Harbison’s media company, LD Lovin Dublin Ltd, where Denis O’Brien’s nephew Emmet O’Neill has just joined the board. Meanwhile, Lovin has filed its accounts for 2016 and they reveal the state it was in when O’Neill upped his stake in the operation to around 40% a few years ago. Documents filed… Read more »

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Dr Patrick Treacy

Taxman’s tough medicine

Date: January 25, 2018 - Briefcases

GOLDHAWK spotted some familiar names that have popped up in Stubbs Gazette since the start of the year. Dr Naveed Khawaja, a consultant obstetrician at Portiuncula Hospital in Galway was slapped with a tax judgment for €325,000 at the start of January, just €30,000 of which has been paid off. Fans of Goldhawk will recall… Read more »

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Bernard McNamara

McNamara’s Donabate development

Date: January 25, 2018 - Briefcases

CONGRATULATIONS to Bernard McNamara who was given the green light late last year to build his first residential development since the crash. McNamara got permission for a residential development in Donabate in north Co Dublin but now a former property company of McNamara’s involved in a project in that neck of the woods called Lochranza… Read more »

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Peter Gaynor and Clodagh McKenna

Peter Gaynor changes Residence

Date: January 25, 2018 - High Society

ALTHOUGH IT is hard to be surprised at any acquisition by Paddy McKillen jnr’s rapidly expanding Press Up group of restaurants and clubs, the addition of Residence on St Stephen’s Green came out of the blue. Only last year the ownership of the troubled operation was transferred by Olivia Gaynor-Long to her brother Peter Gaynor… Read more »

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Paschal Taggart’s shares

Date: January 25, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

STOCK MARKET observers will be aware of the rather dramatic fall in the share price of the airline booking software engine, Datalex, over the last six months, where the price is down over 25%. This has been the subject of much speculation, with The Irish Times reporting that a “sloppy seller” (someone drip-feeding shares into… Read more »

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Lynn Scarff

LYNN SCARFF’S INSIDE TRACK

Date: January 25, 2018 - Behind the Scenes

CONGRATULATIONS to Lynn Scarff who has landed the €120,000 per annum job of director of the National Museum of Ireland. Currently in situ as director of Trinity College’s Science Gallery, she takes over at the troubled national cultural institution from Raghnall Ó Floinn in May. It is clear, however, that Scarff knows that she is… Read more »

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Dirk van der Flier

DIRK VAN DER FLIER’S PRAYERS

Date: January 25, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

WHILE LEINSTER rugby star Josh van der Flier has been drafted in to Joe Schmidt’s Irish squad for the upcoming Six Nations tournament, his dad – the exotically named Dirk van der Flier – has pulled out of the team at the very well-funded Christian evangelical charity, World Charitable Foundation of Ireland (WCFI), where he… Read more »

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Michael O'Leary

Mick O’Leary’s negotiators

Date: January 25, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

MICHAEL O’LEARY’S brave new world in which ‘combinations’ are now recognised has led to Ryanair seeking to recruit industrial relations managers. Its recent advert posted on the US recruitment agency website, Indeed.com, said that as “Ryanair announced that it will recognise Trade Unions”, the company wants to hire expert negotiators. The advert emphasised that such… Read more »

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Brendan McAtamney

UDG’s bewildering accounts

Date: January 25, 2018 - Moneybags

IT IS difficult to understand the most recent results from UDG Healthcare plc (originally known as United Drug) where chief executive Brendan McAtamney has been in situ since 2016. Restatement of profits from preceding years has made the figures almost impenetrable but the bottom line is that UDG is not doing nearly as well as… Read more »

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Anne Harris

BUGGERS AT INM

Date: January 11, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

WHAT is it about the repetitive hacking and surveillance in and around Independent News & Media (INM)? INM chairman Leslie Buckley has told the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement (ODCE) that Trusted Data Solutions (TDS) were tasked with accessing INM’s internal systems as part of a “cost-reduction exercise”. The ODCE has made further… Read more »

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Miriam O’Callaghan

Taking on Michael Twee

Date: January 11, 2018 - Last Refuge

THERE will be a presidential contest, regardless of current incumbent Michael D Higgins’ agenda, and Fianna Fáil will face unbearable pressure from its members to run a candidate. Independent senator Gerard Craughwell knows well that local councillors enjoy wielding what little power and influence allowed to them and the attainment of nominations from four county… Read more »

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Catherine Noone

Profile: FG’s Catherine Noone

Date: January 11, 2018 - Pillars of Society

CURRENTLY feted as a modern day Countess Markievicz for her performance chairing the Oireachtas Committee on the eighth amendment, Senator Catherine Noone has come a long way since the days when she was a social butterfly on the fringes of Fine Gael. She is also… Read more »

Ali Ryan

Young Blood: Ali ‘Goss.ie’ Ryan

Date: January 11, 2018 - The Young Bloods

With the news that Irish-American investor Liam Lynch is looking to acquire her entertainment and lifestyle website, Alexandra ‘Ali’ Ryan (28) and The Goss.ie are the talk of the Irish media sewing circle. In just six years, Ryan has set herself up as a leading voice in showbiz journalism, making some powerful friends along the… Read more »

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