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Henry McDonald

NOVEL CONSPIRACY

Date: October 19, 2017 - Fit to Print?

THE Sunday Independent ran a racy yarn last weekend about the Guardian and Observer whose political prejudices, the Sindo argued, was the reason why both newspapers had failed to review a novel by their own Belfast correspondent, Henry McDonald. “The Irish Times at least gave the book a review”, wrote Sindo columnist Zozimus before explaining… Read more »

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Josepha Madigan

IRELAND LEADS FROM REAR

Date: October 19, 2017 - Fowl Emissions

When cost to Ireland of Storm Ophelia’s fury is calculated, will that figure feature in future cost/benefit analyses as the Government considers whether to take real action to tackle climate change? The record to date is not encouraging – and the week before the storm hit was a particularly shameful one in the history of… Read more »

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Bog Cuttings

Bog Cuttings

Date: October 19, 2017 - Bog Cuttings

Rugby player avoids conviction CONNACHT rugby player Peter Robb will avoid a conviction for a public order offence provided he undertakes a training session with a Westport underage rugby team. Robb, with an address in Stillorgan, Co Dublin, appeared before the court following his failure to pay a penalty notice after being found to be… Read more »

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Brendan and Alison Parsons

STAR GAZING AT BIRR CASTLE

Date: October 19, 2017 - High Society

THERE IS plenty of excitement in Birr Castle at the arrival of a brand new state-of-the-art telescope, the I-LOFAR. Meanwhile, the Earl and Countess of Ross – Brendan and Alison Parsons – have been doing some tidying up with their trusts. Birr Castle is already the site of one of the most famous telescopes in… Read more »

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Hanby Sale

Date: October 19, 2017 - High Society

ONE OF the more impressive properties to come on the Dublin market this year is surely ‘Ellerslie’ on Temple Road in Dartry. The road has had its fair share of big sales, notably the €10.2m lashed out by former Paddy Power boss Paddy Kennedy. Ellerslie is on the market for quite a bit less, but… Read more »

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DUBLIN THEATRE FESTIVAL

Date: October 19, 2017 - ReviewsTheatre

AS THE 60th Dublin Theatre Festival concluded last weekend, a major hit to get all the luvvies talking had yet to surface. But the capital’s two producing houses and the country’s biggest independent production company unveiled their latest wares, with pretty mixed results. TRIBES – GATE THEATRE The breakthrough play by British playwright Nina Raine… Read more »

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Nicole Kidman

THE KILLING OF A SACRED DEER – DIRECTED BY YORGOS LANTHIMOS

Date: October 19, 2017 - MoviesReviews

THERE ARE many things that may justify a release being called an Irish film. Being filmed in Cincinnati is probably not one of them. Nor the fact that The Killing of a Sacred Deer is directed and written by two Greeks, with Yorgos Lanthimos and Efthymis Filippou bringing their considerable gifts to the project. But… Read more »

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Macdara Kelleher

THE SQUEEZE OF TROY

Date: October 19, 2017 - Behind the Scenes

ON AUGUST 24 last an interesting advert appeared on the UK film and TV production guild website. It relates to the latest international show to use Ireland and its tax-friendly environment to shoot here, which turns out to be good news for the Kelleher family. According to the ad: “Construction Accountant required to work under… Read more »

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Frances Crowley

FRANCES CROWLEY’S COMEBACK

Date: October 19, 2017 - Sport of Kings

WITH AIDAN O’Brien and his son, Joseph, winning more than their fair share these days, it looks like another branch of the clan is preparing to step back into the training arena. Frances Crowley, sister-in-law of AOB and a former Classic-winning trainer herself, was stocking up on yearlings at Goffs recently as if preparing for… Read more »

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De Bromhead

DE BROMHEAD’S BOO BOO

Date: October 19, 2017 - Sport of Kings

HENRY DE BROMHEAD runs a tight ship and is one of the most respected trainers in the country. However, even the best are prone to the odd cock-up, as was evident recently when the Waterford trainer brought the wrong horse to the races. De Bromhead’s Mount Hanover would have been well fancied for a hurdle… Read more »

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Bryan Cooper

GOOD NEWS FOR THE COOPERS

Date: October 19, 2017 - Sport of Kings

BRYAN COOPER has wasted little time in establishing links with other powerful owners, following his Gigginstown demotion. The news of his alliance with the UK-trained horses owned by Alan Potts is a big boost to the young rider. Cooper’s new arrangement is certainly a blow to Robbie Power, who will now miss out on partnering… Read more »

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Sheikh Fahad Al Thani

AL THANI’S SHAKEUP

Date: October 19, 2017 - Sport of Kings

QATAR’S SHEIKH Fahad Al Thani is shaking up his racing operation in Ireland, with a few of his horses moving yards in the hope that a change of scenery might improve their performance. Michael O’Callaghan has had to say goodbye to two of his former inmates, with Holy Cat making the short journey across the… Read more »

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Brian Cunningham

Brian Cunningham’s latest scrap

Date: October 19, 2017 - Briefcases

GOLDHAWK’s old pal Brian Cunningham popped up again last month after yet another bad day in the Four Goldmines. The distinctive Galway developer lost his appeal against a 2016 High Court ruling relating to a company called Keelgrove Properties Ltd, where Johnny Ronan, Richard Barrett and Niall O’Buachalla are former board members. Cunningham is best… Read more »

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Ian Mallon

Ian Mallon’s business interests

Date: October 19, 2017 - Briefcases

GOLDHAWK recently spotted an interesting decision in the High Court relating to solicitor Ian Mallon, the principal at Ian Mallon & Co Solicitors, which has offices in Newry and Dublin. Mallon is being pursued by the Law Society over alleged links to a claims-harvesting website and he had a tough day in the Four Goldmines… Read more »

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Nicholas O'Connor

Nicholas O’Connor’s disciplinary matters

Date: October 19, 2017 - Briefcases

SPARE a thought for Wexford number cruncher Nicholas O’Connor who has (yet again) fallen foul of the Chartered Accountants Regulatory Body (CARB), the disciplinary arm of Chartered Accountants Ireland (CAI). O’Connor, the principal at Reddy O’Connor Chartered Accountants, has had an eventful few years after pleading guilty to four counts of theft from a client… Read more »

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Katie Molony

More upheaval at Maximum Media

Date: October 19, 2017 - Briefcases

WHAT is going on at Maximum Media, the company behind JOE.ie and HER.ie, where chief executive Katie Molony has just announced her resignation? Regular readers will be well aware of the high staff turnover at Niall McGarry’s operation, which has said goodbye to three senior staff members in 2017. Molony joined the outfit as managing… Read more »

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Ian Gallagher

Ian Gallagher’s tax troubles

Date: October 19, 2017 - Briefcases

SPARE a thought for the shareholders at Dimension Media IT Ltd, which is facing down the barrel of a winding-up petition in the High Court, courtesy of the dreaded taxman. The majority shareholder here is Ian Gallagher, the young Cork entrepreneur and marketing whizz who founded the operation in 2011. Dimension is the outfit behind… Read more »

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Arkady Etingen (right) and friend

Shane Ormsby’s business partner

Date: October 19, 2017 - Briefcases

IT WAS reported last weekend that IBAT, one of the largest private colleges in the state, has been slapped on the wrist by a regulatory body. The Temple Bar-based business college has had accreditations for six of its business degrees withdrawn by Quality and Qualifications Ireland (QQI) after it found that the institution had shredded… Read more »

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End of Term

Date: October 19, 2017 - Briefcases

WHILE ASSORTED educational establishments around the country have been closed this week as a result of ex-Hurricane Ophelia, one operation that will be keeping its doors closed permanently is Athena College Of Ireland Ltd. Last month a liquidator was appointed to the Balbriggan-headquartered college, which had effectively run out of cash. Athena was one of… Read more »

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Miriam O’Callaghan

Miriam O’Callaghan’s ambitions

Date: October 19, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

MONTROSE matriarch Miriam O’Callaghan will have been quietly thrilled at the vote by Fianna Fáil ard fheis delegates last weekend to run a presidential candidate. She will also have been pleased to see Micheál Martin halt Bertie Ahern’s attempted rehabilitation in its tracks. He dismissed as “mischievous” efforts by the lads in Drumcondra to bestow… Read more »

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John Mulcahy

Profile: John ‘Glenveagh’ Mulcahy

Date: October 19, 2017 - Pillars of Society

IT IS hard to believe the audacity involved in the truly gobsmacking €550m IPO float of Glenveagh Properties last week, at the centre of which is executive chairman John Mulcahy, the ultimate property poacher-turned-gamekeeper-turned-poacher. He is teaming up with his old friends, the US private equity firm Oaktree (more commonly known as a ‘vulture fund’)… Read more »

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Louis Hoffman

Young Blood: TCD’s Louis Hoffman

Date: October 19, 2017 - The Young Bloods

Trinity College student Louis Hoffman (20) wants your attention. The former Blackrock boy has been making a name for himself on campus as a right-wing personality, championing Donald Trump and helping to set up a new online conservative publication, the Burkean Journal, with a group of like-minded young patricians. Just how successful can the new… Read more »

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Sheila Pratschke

Pratschke v Humphreys

Date: October 19, 2017 - Behind the Scenes

IT’S A TRYING time at the Arts Council where they have just lost a board member, the unions are kicking up and the chair has been putting the boot into the Minister for short-changing the agency. It was only last December that the Arts Council got its full complement of members but one of them,… Read more »

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Katie Ascough

Katie Ascough’s burrito blues

Date: October 19, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

KATIE ASCOUGH, the under-fire president of UCD’s student union (SU) will face her public next week when students vote on whether or not to impeach her over her removal of information about crisis pregnancy services from an SU handbook. At the moment, she’s having a tough time of it. Ascough, daughter of Iona Institute director… Read more »

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Paddy Agnew

Paddy Agnew and The Irish Times

Date: October 19, 2017 - Fit to Print?

THAT Michael O’Leary should be cornered by that European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruling forcing Ryanair to deal with employees in the country they are based was dealt with in some detail in The Irish Times. But the barely concealed pleasure of IT hacks and guest writers will not have been shared by the newspaper’s… Read more »

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Colm Tóibín

COLM TÓIBÍN’S WINDFALL

Date: October 19, 2017 - High Society

THE ULTIMATE networker, Colm Tóibín was recently installed as chancellor of the University of Liverpool at a ceremony in the college, the first time a citizen of another European country has held the ceremonial position. Given his lack of direct links to the college, this is quite an achievement for the busy novelist, who turns… Read more »

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Brian McDonagh

BRIAN MCDONAGH’S DATA OVERLOAD

Date: October 19, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

GOLDHAWK’S old pal, Brian McDonagh, didn’t come out too well of last week’s High Court ruling on the huge Apple data centre in Athenry, Co Galway. Judge Paul McDermott said the Dublin businessman, who had objected to the Apple plan, had shown a “lack of candour” by not disclosing that he was centrally involved in… Read more »

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Eamon Rothwell

Eamonn Rothwell’s numbers

Date: October 19, 2017 - Moneybags

EAMONN ROTHWELL rarely fails to surprise. Just as Irish Continental Group (ICG) is preparing to lash out €144m for its big new overnight ferry that is being built in Germany for delivery next year, he has pulled a rabbit out of the hat in the form of the sale of the old Isle of Innisfree… Read more »

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ST. SUSAN’S HALO SLIPS

Date: October 5, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

HOW comforting for the Fine Gael-led government that new chief justice, Frank Clarke, a strong Blueshirt down the years, should go some way to capitulating to the measures in the Judicial Appointments Bill. Clarke also conceded that the proposed Judicial Council Bill should identify judges disciplined by a judicial conduct committee. But where does this… Read more »

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Denis O'Brien

DENIS O’BRIEN TO DUMP NEWSTALK?

Date: October 5, 2017 - Fit to Print?

HAS the penny finally dropped with Denis O’Brien about his troublesome and loss-making radio station, Newstalk? The word is that he is preparing to quit and George Hook’s lamentable remark about rape was just the final straw in a venture that has caused him nearly as much angst as the Moriarty Tribunal. The essential problem… Read more »

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Michael O'Leary

Ryanair’s “ugly face of capitalism”

Date: October 5, 2017 - Moneybags

IT IS hard to believe that a company as large and successful as Ryanair could possibly walk itself into the nightmare it has created with its pilots. But it’s not so surprising that the chief executive of the company chose to deliberately aggravate his 4,000 pilots by pouring abuse on them and claiming that “pilots… Read more »

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Matt Cooper

Profile: Matt Cooper

Date: October 5, 2017 - Pillars of Society

HAS Matt Cooper’s self esteem got the better of his professional judgment? Signing up to a TV3 duet – or duel? – with Ivan Yates could easily end in a humiliating put down for Cooper. The competitive tension between the pair on The Tonight Show, successor to Vincent Browne’s late night gladiatorial programme, may not… Read more »

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Robert Troy

Young Blood: Robert Troy TD

Date: October 5, 2017 - The Young Bloods

Can enigmatic Fianna Fáil TD Robert Troy live up to head-office expectations and bring in a second seat in the Longford-Westmeath constituency, a critical part of the party’s programme of winning back its old pre-eminence in Irish politics — and vital for Troy’s own ministerial ambitions? Longford Westmeath was once a bastion of FF, with… Read more »

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Eamonn Brennan

BRENNAN EXITS IAA FOR €240,000 EU SLOT

Date: October 5, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

WHILE MOST of the focus in relation to the Ryanair flight cancellation farce has been on Mick O’Leary and his airline, what about the role of the supervisory authority here – the Irish Aviation Authority (IAA), where the boss is/was Eamonn Brennan – which oversaw the airline’s modus operandi? The IAA is chaired by Anne… Read more »

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Giancarla and Michael Alen Buckley

Windfarm upsets Gianni Forte

Date: October 5, 2017 - High Society

A HIGH COURT ruling last week by Judge Robert Haughton represented a potentially very costly blow to the owners of the impressive Strancally Castle in Co Waterford, Michael and Giancarla ‘Gianni’ Alen-Buckley. Fans of Goldhawk will be aware that Gianni Alen-Buckley is the daughter of the famous hotelier Charles Forte (she sits on the board… Read more »

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Vol35 No20

Vol.35 No.20

Date: October 5, 2017 -

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