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Rebecca Moynihan

A SMASHING PLAN!

Date: July 12, 2018 - Behind the Scenes

IN MARCH this year, the wheels came off Filmbase when Tom Murray was appointed liquidator but the story is far from over. For example, the Comptroller & Auditor General was brought into the loop by the Arts Council due to concerns about how finances were handled at Filmbase, including the failure to pay over Arts… Read more »

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Josepha Madigan

JOSEPHA MADIGAN STARTS TO BUILD

Date: July 12, 2018 - Behind the Scenes

IT’S FAIR to say there are few surprises in the expensive film industry review commissioned by Heather Humphreys in November 2016 from London consultants OlsbergSPI. In fact, the real surprise concerns the figures not in the report. OlsbergSPI is headed by former film producer Jonathan Olsberg, a regular on the festival circuit and well-placed to… Read more »

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Kevin Manning

KEVIN MANNING’S MISTAKE

Date: July 12, 2018 - Sport of Kings

NORMALLY when a rider appears to ease up prematurely in a race and loses a placing (possibly as a result of those actions), then that rider could easily have a case to answer for. Even more so when the horse is just pipped for third place, thus scuppering each-way bets. Kevin Manning seemed to stop… Read more »

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Dessie Scahill

AFTER DESSIE SCAHILL

Date: July 12, 2018 - Sport of Kings

AFTER NEARLY half a century as Ireland’s chief race commentator, Dessie Scahill will call his last race at the end of this month. Scahill’s contract is up for renewal at that time and the Association of Irish Racecourses, headed by chief executive Paddy Walsh, has decided the time is right to hand the baton over… Read more »

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Luke Comer

LUKE COMER JNR SHOWS THE WAY

Date: July 12, 2018 - Sport of Kings

AS HIS father’s lengthy quest to train a winner continues, Luke Comer Jnr got his own training career off to a decent start when Great Grey gave the rookie handler his first winner when scoring at Tipperary in late June. Comer Jnr has set up shop in Dunboyne at one of the many family properties,… Read more »

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Garry O'Gorman

WILLIE MULLINS’S BELLE DU JOUR

Date: July 12, 2018 - Sport of Kings

THE IRISH Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB) senior flat handicapper Garry O’Gorman has come in for criticism after a minor race at Leopardstown where the little known Willie Mullins-trained filly Bronagh’s Belle recorded her first victory. The main source of the aggravation came from runner-up trainer, Monaghan-based Anthony McCann, who believed the Mullins runner should not… Read more »

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Simon Cook

DRAPER ESPRIT GROWS BUT STILL IMPOSSIBLE TO VALUE

Date: July 12, 2018 - Moneybags

NO PRIVATE equity groups are quoted on the Irish Stock Exchange besides Draper Esprit (DE), which floated off on the ESM two years ago in June 2016 when it raised €90m at €3.78 a share. With this month’s €35m commitment to one of Earlybird Digital’s venture capital funds and an agreement to share dealflow, resources… Read more »

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Louis Coetzee

KIBO MINING COULD REWARD PATIENCE

Date: July 12, 2018 - Moneybags

KIBO MINING, set up in 2008 by Galway geologist Noel O’Keeffe, mainly focused on gold exploration in Tanzania around Victoria Lake. After years of exploring and discovering significant gold reserves with the help of chief executive Louis Coetzee and his Irish chairman, Christian Schaffalitzky, the company has gradually refocused on sub-Saharan coal reserves in Tanzania… Read more »

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Sonya Lennon

SONYA LENNON’S STYLE GUIDE

Date: July 12, 2018 - Brief Cases

CLOTHING designer (sorry “fashion guru”) and all round do-gooder Sonya Lennon popped up in Leinster House last week to highlight the growing number of what she calls “gender pay gap deniers”. She was there as a founder of Dress For Success, which launched a cross-party parliamentary group on workplace equality. While some might wonder how… Read more »

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Orna Madden

JIM AND ORNA’S DAY IN COURT

Date: July 12, 2018 - Brief Cases

ONE OF Goldhawk’s old pals, dentist-turned-developer Jim Madden, popped up in court last week where he had to pay a fine for some dodgy pharmaceutical dealings. Also in trouble was his legal eagle daughter, Orna Madden. Jimbo was no ordinary dentist and he sought to develop a chain of high tech private clinics in the… Read more »

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PETER KELLY’S KENTUCKY SURPRISE

Date: July 12, 2018 - Brief Cases

LAST MONTH saw the registering of a hefty €2.73m judgment by the Yank outfit Keeneland Association Inc against Emerald Equine Ltd in Kildare. The latter is an Irish bloodstock operation incorporated by Ballymore Eustace-based Peter Kelly (also a director of the loss-making Mullaboden Farms Ltd). According to the last accounts filed, Emerald had accumulated profits… Read more »

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Peter Gaynor and Clodagh McKenna

PETER GAYNOR’S BAD DISH

Date: July 12, 2018 - Brief Cases

THERE HAS been a lot of changing of ingredients at the Capital Foods Group, the Peter Gaynor/John Collins operation behind familiar names like Beeftro and Clodagh’s Kitchen (fronted by celebrity chef Clodagh McKenna). The latest news is that one company in the group has collapsed into liquidation. Gaynor’s name surfaced most publicly in early 2017… Read more »

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ANGELA OMAN’S ANTIQUE ACTION

Date: July 12, 2018 - Brief Cases

BACK IN the good times, James Oman – whose day job was running the high profile Oman Antiques Gallery on Capel Street, D2, with his wife Angela – developed a substantial retail/apartment scheme adjacent to the operation. Having been backed by AIB on the project, last year the bank took possession of Oman’s gallery property… Read more »

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Brian de Staic

BRIAN DE STAIC’S JEWELLERY CASE

Date: July 12, 2018 - Brief Cases

THIS WEEK is set to witness a pow-wow between the parties in a High Court action taken by well-known “jeweller to the stars” Brian de Staic (who claims the likes of Tom Cruise and Julia Roberts among the fans of his Ogham Stone jewellery collection) and two former employees. The latter – Jerry and Aideen… Read more »

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Sharon Horgan

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: July 12, 2018 - The Hot Air Brigade

In Ireland, where I lived, there was no such thing as a streetlight, so you looked outside and your own imagination would decide what was there. Sharon Horgan remembers growing up in 19th century Ireland, Vulture.com You could say it was the twinkle in his eye, his default Ulster earthiness, or the armchair-by-the-Aga warmth in… Read more »

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Brendan Duke Adrian Murray Mick Bailey

WINDING UP XENOBIA

Date: July 12, 2018 - Sport of Kings

THERE WERE a lot of surprised punters in Fairyhouse last weekend when the Bill Farrell-trained 12/1 shot Xenobia rode to victory ahead of Aidan O’Brien’s odds-on favourite, Could It Be Love. This contrasted sharply with the poor performance of Xenobia (owned by Paolo Neri) in recent outings, most notably the fifth out of six finish… Read more »

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Brian Hayes

FINE GAEL’S WAR GAMES

Date: June 28, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

CAREFULLY crafted PR spin on Tánaiste Simon Coveney’s attendance at the EU foreign affairs council this week referred to Ireland’s active role in shaping the EU’s security and defence policy. With the council’s agenda composed of the EU’s “engagement in the Horn of Africa/Red Sea region” as well as Jordan and the “EU Global Strategy”,… Read more »

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Dery Desmond

FIVE GUYS, ONE CRITIC

Date: June 28, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

GOLDHAWK certainly enjoyed Catherine Cleary’s demolition of the new Five Guys burger joint in her Irish Times review earlier this month. It turns out that she has form when it comes to the culinary ventures of Dermot Desmond’s scions. Five Guys is the posh (ie expensive) fast food burger chain that opened its first Dublin… Read more »

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Eamonn Rothwell

EAMONN ROTHWELL

Date: June 28, 2018 - Pillars of Society

THE BOTCHED arrival of the giant WB Yeats car ferry represented a bloody nose for Eamonn “Rottweiler” Rothwell, the loaded chief executive of Irish Continental Group (owner of Irish Ferries). The public relations disaster set to cost the company millions of euro has not fatally… Read more »

Angela Nagle

ANGELA NAGLE

Date: June 28, 2018 - The Young Bloods

IRISH WRITER and self-promoter extraordinaire Angela Nagle (34) has been fighting for her reputation recently. After a remarkable 12 months that saw her career take off in a flash, the author of the well-timed Kill All Normies (KAN) – a short but controversial study of online right-wing subcultures – has been accused of peddling other… Read more »

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Shane Ross

FG AND JUDGES STILL FIGHT SHANE ROSS

Date: June 28, 2018 - Last Refuge

THE rearguard action by judges and their Fine Gael supporters against Shane Ross’s Judicial Appointments Bill has reached the stage of political and legal hand-to-hand fighting with several strikes against the Minister this month alone. Recently, the government acceded to ex-FG minister and current president of the Court of Appeal “Boy George: Birmingham’s virtually unprecedented… Read more »

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Miriam O’Callaghan

MIRIAM O’CALLAGHAN’S TV SLOT

Date: June 28, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

RSVP magazine’s current edition gives a two-page spread to Miriam O’Callaghan NOT hosting her Saturday Night with Miriam show for the first time since 2005. Murrium explained that she dropped out of the show because she was making a documentary on 50 years of the Troubles. Will it really take RTÉ’s Superwoman a year or… Read more »

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Arlene Foster

NEW FACE FOR ARLENE FOSTER

Date: June 28, 2018 - Bird's Eye View

ARLENE FOSTER has thrown herself into an outreach campaign in the last month. In rapid succession she visited Muslims in Belfast for the festival of Eid complete with respectful shawl for head covering if necessary, attended an LGBT reception at Stormont on June 28 run by PinkNews and, of course with maximum publicity, attended the… Read more »

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MEL GIBSON V MACDARA KELLEHER

Date: June 28, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

CONGRATULATIONS to filmmaker Macdara Kelleher who received good news from the Superior Court of California last week in relation to an expensive row concerning a new $25m Mel Gibson film. Co-produced by Kelleher with Nicolas Chartier of Voltage Pictures, The Professor and the Madman – which tells the story of the creation of the Oxford… Read more »

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OLAF TYARANSEN’S LIBEL LETTERS

Date: June 28, 2018 - Wigs on the Green

IT WAS interesting to see music journalist Olaf Tyaransen post on his Facebook page recently about being “cast out of several realms that [he’s] used to operating in”. One realm he’s not currently operating in is his old publication Hot Press, which announced in February that he was standing down by “mutual agreement,” while he… Read more »

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PETER O’BRIEN’S ‘HAPPENINGS’

Date: June 28, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

ONE PERSON benefiting from the sweltering summer weather is ‘socially conscious’ entrepreneur Peter O’Brien, who is behind the Happenings event business that has recently been packing in punters. One of the more lucrative ‘happenings’ is the outdoor Yoga in the Park gig that he runs with Dublin City Council. O’Brien is the registered owner of… Read more »

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Lisa Duffy

LISA DUFFY’S MALTESE FASHION

Date: June 28, 2018 - High Society

INTERESTING TO see the name of Lisa Duffy pop up in relation to an online row with the mysterious Instagram account Bloggers Unveiled. This has resulted in all manner of legal threats. Meanwhile, it turns out that Lisa’s fashion business has a significant offshore element…. Read more »

Willie White

WILLIE WHITE’S WOES

Date: June 28, 2018 - Behind the Scenes

THE OFF-STAGE drama for the Dublin Theatre Festival has seen an Arts Council cut in funding for 2018. It looks like the writing was on the wall for the board, where there have been changes in recent times. Druid supremo Garry Hynes stepped down last year after nearly 14 years as a director. Exiting stage… Read more »

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Vol 36 No 13

Date: June 28, 2018 -

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Louise O'Neill

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: June 28, 2018 - The Hot Air Brigade

I could hear someone quietly sobbing, and jolted when I realised it was me. Louise O’Neill attends a stage adaptation of her own book, Asking For It, Irish Examiner, Submitted by reader I landed in the early hours of the morning, hit by a searing wall of heat as I stepped from the plane. Despite… Read more »

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THE FAMINE HACK

Date: June 28, 2018 - Fit to Print?

FRETTING recently over the possible erosion of Irish devotion to Britain and its royal family engendered by Brexit, Irish Times columnist Stephen Collins engaged in a spectacular display of revisionism in an article on the Famine and Queen Victoria. The IT’s former political editor told how the “appalling Maud Gonne” had propagated the myth that… Read more »

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Sean Sherlock

SHERLOCK’S BOOZY CONSTITUENCY

Date: June 28, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

SOME of Labour deputy Sean Sherlock’s parliamentary colleagues wondered if the Cork East TD had drink taken when he moved his unusual amendments to the Public Health (Alcohol) Bill undermining health warnings on labels and advertising of alcohol. Sherlock’s amendments not only put him at odds with Fine Gael Health Minister Simon Harris, but also… Read more »

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Eoin Ó Broin

SINN FÉIN COALITION SPLITS

Date: June 28, 2018 - Last Refuge

A SINN FÉIN ard fheis campaign by front bench housing spokesperson Eoin “Brainiac” Ó Broin TD to unseat longtime apparatchik Dawn Doyle as general secretary was perhaps more significant than declarations of intent on abortion. It indicates that the debate on coalition government will be as seminal and dramatic as any provided by the Peace… Read more »

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Deirdre Veldon

ROMAN FEUD AT THE IRISH TIMES

Date: June 28, 2018 - Fit to Print?

IRISH TIMES efforts to dispense with longtime Rome correspondent Paddy Agnew without decent recompense are developing into a legal saga in Rome with Judge Baroncini apparently unimpressed by management at the liberal paper of record. The fourth hearing at the Tribunale di Roma, Sezione Lavoro (the Labour division of the Italian legal system) came on… Read more »

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Kate O’Connell

O’CONNELL RED FLAG

Date: June 28, 2018 - Last Refuge

KATE O’CONNELL’S spin machine scored a hit with a recent Mail on Sunday splash – Minister Faces Revolt Led By Kate O’Connell, screamed the ‘special report’ on the front page. This concerned threats to the Ranelagh ghetto from the proposed overland Metro route in Dublin Bay South (DBS). The story claimed Fine Gael could lose… Read more »

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Denis Naughten

NAUGHTEN’S REVERSE PSYCHOLOGY

Date: June 28, 2018 - Fowl Emissions

“PLEASE IGNORE the email you received earlier!” It’s a subject line that’s guaranteed to make you go back and actually read the email you ignored earlier. Denis Naughten came up with his own ingenious version of this reverse psychology recently when he sent every TD and senator an email that began: “You may have received… Read more »

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