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LET THE RIGHT ONE IN - ABBEY THEATRE

LET THE RIGHT ONE IN – ABBEY THEATRE

Date: November 30, 2017 - ReviewsTheatre

VAMPIRES SMELL funny. Or at least they do according to Swedish writer John Ajvide Lindqvist, whose bestselling 2004 novel is currently in an adaptation on the Abbey main stage. It’s a teenage love story where boy meets girl, and girl happens to be an immortal who feeds on human blood. At their first encounter, nerdy… Read more »

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he: A NOVEL - JOHN CONNOLLY (HODDER & STOUGHTON)

he: A NOVEL – JOHN CONNOLLY (HODDER & STOUGHTON)

Date: November 30, 2017 - BooksReviews

THE “he” of John Connolly’s title is Arthur Stanley Jefferson, born in Lancashire and who went on to become the thin part of the famous comedy duo, Laurel and Hardy. With a keen eye for detail, the author depicts Laurel’s early life as a performer in British music halls and later on the US vaudeville… Read more »

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Micháel Martin

MICHEÁL MARTIN GETS OUT OF JAIL

Date: November 30, 2017 - Last Refuge

THE discovery of documents buried within the justice department and which destroyed Frances Fitzgerald saw Micheál Martin leap from bungling Fianna Fáil leader to conqueror of the Taoiseach and his government. But it was a close-run thing and the great majority of his own party, from front bench down to cumainn members, were on the… Read more »

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Sheena Wilkinson

IT’S A SMALL WORLD

Date: November 30, 2017 - Behind the Scenes

WHILE THE most talked about article in last week’s Irish Times Christmas supplement was, of course, the profile of one Al Porter – concluding with the “flamboyant” comic’s prediction that if he ever got fired he could always become a primary school teacher – there was plenty elsewhere in the glossy publication to entertain. For… Read more »

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Katherine Licken

ARTS HEADS PLAYING CATCH-UP

Date: November 30, 2017 - Behind the Scenes

LAST WEEK’S sitting of the joint Committee on Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht focused on the topical issue of sexual harassment and bullying in the arts world and featured contributions from the likes of Katherine Licken, senior mandarin in the Department of Culture, Heritage ad the Gaeltacht, Orlaith McBride, Arts Council director, and Irish Equity’s… Read more »

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Arts Council director Orlaith McBride with the international selection panel

FICTION LAUREATES LINE UP

Date: November 30, 2017 - Behind the Scenes

IT’S THAT time of year again, when the great and good of the Irish literary establishment line up for Merrion Square’s beauty contest to seek selection as the Laureate for Irish Fiction. Given there is €150,000 over three years on offer, along with substantial expenses and other associated fees, interest in developments has been significant…. Read more »

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Declan McDonagh

DECLAN McDONAGH DOWNSIZED

Date: November 30, 2017 - Sport of Kings

JOHN OXX’S decision not to retain a jockey for next season has left Declan McDonagh without a first jockey position at any yard but will hardly give him too many sleepless nights. The Oxx yard only supplied 10 of the rider’s 39 winners during last season and only 18% of his rides. As first jockey… Read more »

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Philip Hobbs

PUNTERS GET BURNED

Date: November 30, 2017 - Sport of Kings

ANTE-POST punters with an eye on the November Cheltenham meeting are unlikely to be toasting JP McManus and his racing manager, Frank Berry, after a swift change of heart over running plans for the McManus-owned Defi Du Seuil left some backers out of pocket. Six days before the race, Berry nominated the Philip Hobbs-trained horse… Read more »

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Robbie McNamara

McNAMARA’S PAPER PROBLEM

Date: November 30, 2017 - Sport of Kings

FANS OF Goldhawk will know of the Turf Club’s handy earner of fining trainers U350 for administrative infringements on recording of vaccinations in horse’s passports. Generally this is an expensive lesson in paperwork for the trainer but handler Robbie McNamara seems to have mislaid the memo on keeping his records up to date. McNamara suffered… Read more »

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Ger Fox

DRUG TALK

Date: November 30, 2017 - Sport of Kings

IRISH Grand National winning jockey Ger Fox recently took up the position of assistant trainer to Gavin Cromwell and Goldhawk wonders if the Meath rider knew what was coming down the tracks after the result of a random drugs test became known recently. Fox, along with two other jockeys, tested positive for metabolites of cocaine… Read more »

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Tony O'Reilly Jnr

Market fails to value Providence assets

Date: November 30, 2017 - Moneybags

THE UNFORTUNATE shareholders in Providence Resources have been through tough times and the latest setback was the double dud in the South Porcupine – the so-called Druid and Drombeg wildcat well delivered by Tony O’Reilly Jnr and Sean O’Sullivan. This was the 25th dud Providence and its predecessor, Atlantic, have brought in since the latter… Read more »

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Mick Hoyne

Mick Hoynes cashes in at Merlyn

Date: November 30, 2017 - Moneybags

IT IS most impressive that going from a tiny start in 2000, Mick Hoyne built up his showers operation Merlyn Industries to the point where he has just been able to sell the Kilkenny-based firm for no less than €78m cash. Shareholders have made big money here and new owners, the UK-listed Norcros group, will… Read more »

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The Elphin

Leo Fitzgerald beats back the vultures

Date: November 30, 2017 - Briefcases

CONGRATULATIONS to Dublin publican Leo Fitzgerald, brother of moneybags pub mogul Louis Fitzgerald, who had a pretty decent result in the Four Goldmines recently. Fitzgerald’s company Wingview Ltd – the entity behind a boozer called The Elphin in Sutton, north Co Dublin – managed to secure an injunction preventing a vulture fund from appointing receivers…. Read more »

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Gabriel and Damien Manley

Manley Construction’s medical trouble

Date: November 30, 2017 - Briefcases

INTERESTING to see Meath construction outfit Manley Construction Ltd (MCL) has been served a notice of termination by the HSE on the site of the new €5m unit at Nenagh Hospital in Tipperary. The company had to go to the High Court to seek protection from its creditors and Judge Marie Baker agreed last week… Read more »

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Taxman catches up with Maurice Muldoon

Taxman catches up with Maurice Muldoon

Date: November 30, 2017 - Briefcases

GOLDHAWK spotted a tax judgment for a meagre €25,000 registered against hapless Co Meath businessman Maurice Muldoon. Once upon a time, Muldoon was behind Cantec North East (CNE) Ltd, a well-known computer and IT retailer based in Meath until the taxman wound up the operation in 2011. Muldoon has had a tough time of it… Read more »

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Aftermath of 2015 fire

Paddy Byrne’s planning problems

Date: November 30, 2017 - Briefcases

THERE’S NO questioning the ambition of builders Paddy Byrne and Danny Whelan of Victoria Homes. But, as a quick scan through planning documents shows, they haven’t had the luck to match it. The two men have enjoyed plenty of publicity recently. Both the Sindo and the Sunday Business Post have referenced their plans to build… Read more »

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Patrick Rainsford is not Emused

Patrick Rainsford is not Emused

Date: November 30, 2017 - Briefcases

EMUSE Corporation Ltd has finally gotten around to filing its scary accounts for 2015. The Mount Street D2 software outfit, where chief executive Patrick Rainsford clearly has a lot on his plate, lost over €4m in 2015 bringing accumulated losses there to a staggering €55m with a further €5.4m owed to creditors. Emuse, which makes… Read more »

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David McWilliams

Gobbledygook

Date: November 30, 2017 - Briefcases

A new economic plan for Ireland – David McWaffle, Irish Times Unlike hosting the Rugby World Cup, the global economy is no longer an “all-or-nothing” game of nations pitted against each other where for one side to win the other must lose. It’s more nuanced. Nor is the national economy like the national soccer team;… Read more »

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Taxman Cometh

Date: November 30, 2017 - Briefcases

A FEW interesting names popped up recently after having judgments registered against them by the taxman, among them Clontarf events promoter Donal Bolger. The Revenue hit Bolger for close to €170,000 last month. It’s not the first time he has fallen foul of the taxman. Bolger and family members Warren Bolger and Ross Bolger –… Read more »

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Alan Kelly

Alan Kelly’s leadership race

Date: November 30, 2017 - Last Refuge

THE Frances Fitzgerald/Maurice McCabe crisis threatened the leadership of both Leo Varadkar and Micheál Martin in the event of poor results for either in a premature election. How amusing, then, that the political crisis should have been stimulated in the first place by a cunning leadership strategy in the smallest party in the Dáil, Labour…. Read more »

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Ciara Kelly

Profile: Dr Ciara Kelly

Date: November 30, 2017 - Pillars of Society

THAT Dr Ciara Kelly, one of Ireland’s most articulate feminist journalists, should replace George Hook in his prime time Newstalk slot is beyond irony. Kelly showed neat footwork as she negotiated a tricky path between her status as a women’s champion and the competing requirements of a radio station in denial over its Mad Men… Read more »

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David Chambers

Young Blood: Dave “Blindboy Boatclub” Chambers

Date: November 30, 2017 - The Young Bloods

BLINDBOY BOATCLUB – real name Dave Chambers (33) – has gone from off-the-wall comic as one half of The Rubberbandits to omnipresent cultural figure in the space of seven years. But is Chambers the radical artistic voice he’s presented as or is he, like the Blindboy character he plays, not quite as clever as he… Read more »

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Paul Kehoe

Fine Gael’s military ambitions

Date: November 30, 2017 - Last Refuge

TUCKED away on page 7 of The Irish Times recently readers of the paper of record were informed in a short article of the trifling detail that Ireland is to join the new EU military structure, the Permanent Structured Co-operation (Pesco). Next day, the Irish Independent followed suit with an article on page 26 containing… Read more »

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Sam Allardyce

Big Sam’s Irish team

Date: November 30, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

A STRUGGLING company called Pulse Fusion F6 was tackled by the taxman last month, almost leaving some footballing suits with egg on their faces. The low profile firm is the brainchild of number cruncher and former chairman of Bray Wanderers football club Denis O’Connor and, surprisingly, one F6 shareholder turns out to be the man… Read more »

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Suzanne Jackson

Suzanne Jackson’s €1m blog

Date: November 30, 2017 - Hush Hush

‘BEAUTY AND lifestyle’ blogger Suzanne ‘So Sue Me’ Jackson is really starting to clean up with her online activities but not everything is proving fashionable. Jackson continues to generate headlines and, most recently, it was widely reported she had set her sights on a slot on Dancing With The Stars. Given that she has over… Read more »

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Anne Anderson

Anne Anderson’s new role

Date: November 30, 2017 - High Society

THERE have been some comings and goings at Druid Theatre in Galway. The good news is that the new star act could generate a fair few dollars for Gary Hynes’s outfit. Author and self promoter extraordinaire Colm Tóibín has stepped down from the Druid board after two and half years, during which time he wrote… Read more »

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FUNNY BUSINESS - ALAN SHATTER (POOLBEG)

FUNNY BUSINESS – ALAN SHATTER (POOLBEG)

Date: November 30, 2017 - BooksReviews

IT’S EASY to mock Alan Shatter and it’s very hard to like him. This book could well be regarded as his effort to change these two things. On the first he fails. The Alan Partridge cover, the tepid title, the godawful world’s worst cocktail party anecdotes – they all contribute to making it easier to… Read more »

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Bridge House hotel

PATRICK LENAGHAN’S RIVER CASINO

Date: November 30, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

SOME BAD news for Goldhawk’s old pal, hotelier Patrick Lenaghan, who’s been through the wars in the past decade. His name will be familiar to readers over his assorted business spats with the likes of Philip Smyth (see The Phoenix 26/2/10) and there was also a high profile run-in with CAB. Last month Lenaghan, originally… Read more »

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Annual 2017

Annual 2017

Date: November 16, 2017 -

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Michael Colgan and Orlaith McBride

ORLAITH MCBRIDE’S FRIEND

Date: November 16, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

SPARE a thought for Orlaith McBride who, as director of the Arts Council, has been asked to comment frequently on Michael Colgan and the Gate Theatre. The problem for McBride is that she is a good pal of Colgan’s but has nevertheless found herself recruited into the growing army of critics in recent weeks. McBride… Read more »

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Christy Dignam

Aslan Audio

Date: November 16, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

An audio recording of showbiz hack Ken Sweeney’s interview with Aslan’s Christy Dignam will form the centrepiece of a High Court libel action taken by Sweeney against Today FM. Sweeney, showbiz editor of the Irish Sun, interviewed the singer for a story he wrote during which the band’s frontman was reported to have had a… Read more »

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Nord Anglia Education

School Fees

Date: November 16, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

A COMPANY called Nord Anglia Education (Ireland) Ltd has just been incorporated in Dublin ahead of the planned opening of Barry “Riverdeep” O’Callaghan’s super expensive international private school in Leopardstown next year. The 800-pupil school will charge a hefty €24,000 per year for second-level students and the operation is to be run by Nord Anglia… Read more »

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Noeline Blackwell

NOELINE BLACKWELL’S WINDFALL

Date: November 16, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

GOOD NEWS for chief executive Noeline Blackwell and her team at the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre (DRCC). With funding for charitable bodies generally tight on the ground these days, the centre has just got a major boost courtesy of a supporter’s cool €1m donation. To put this windfall in context, the last DRCC annual report… Read more »

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Catherine Yore

Come back Catherine

Date: November 16, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

MEATH WEST’S Catherine Yore has not been welcomed by everyone in the local party. Yore was voted hottest candidate in the 2011 general election in a disgracefully sexist poll undertaken by Ladbrokes and is a former RTÉ’s You’re A Star talent show contestant. But while the school teacher topped the poll in the 2009 local… Read more »

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Bob Geldof

The Hot Air Brigade

Date: November 16, 2017 - The Hot Air Brigade

Her association with our city shames us all and we should have no truck with it, even by default. We honoured her, now she appals and shames us. Sir Bob Geldof, Knight of the British Empire, gives back his Freedom of Dublin City in protest at Aung San Suu Kyi In my view, Songs of… Read more »

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Mary Mitchell O'Connor

MARY MITCHELL O’CONNOR’S GENDER GAFFE

Date: November 16, 2017 - Last Refuge

FIANNA FÁIL and The Sunday Times rained on Mary Mitchell-O’Connor’s parade recently with allegations that she was backsliding on her pledge to introduce gender quotas in third level institutions. The day before the higher education minister was due to announce a task force on the issue FF education spokesman Thomas Byrne criticised her failure to… Read more »

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