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Ryan Moore on Mendelssohn

COOLMORE PUNT PAYS OFF

Date: November 16, 2017 - Sport of Kings

LAST YEAR when MV Magnier signed the buyers docket at $3m for a yearling at Keeneland, that figure must have looked on the high side when the colt, subsequently named Mendelssohn, trailed in last behind stablemate Seahenge in a Group 2 race at Doncaster during the summer. Things have changed since. While he redeemed himself… Read more »

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Luke Comer Ban

ANOTHER SHOPPING SPREE FOR COMER?

Date: November 16, 2017 - Sport of Kings

WITH THE Goffs Foal and Breeding Stock sale looming large, it will be interesting to see if Luke Comer plays as active a role as he has done in previous years. Comer bought almost 70 broodmares at the sale last year and now that he has added another stud farm to his portfolio in the… Read more »

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Ruby Walsh

RUBY’S WEXFORD WOBBLE

Date: November 16, 2017 - Sport of Kings

RUBY WALSH found himself in the unusual position recently of being the subject of a running and riding inquiry when the stewards looked into his handling of the Willie Mullins-trained Itsonlyrocknroll at Wexford. The horse had won a bumper on his previous outing but was weak enough in the market and having opened at 7/4… Read more »

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Stephen Rae

NON-INDEPENDENT AWARDS

Date: November 16, 2017 - Fit to Print?

GROUP editor-in-chief of Independent News & Media (INM) titles Stephen Rae had a face like thunder at the Newsbrands Ireland Journalism Awards 2017 in the Mansion House recently. Not only did The Irish Times easily outstrip the rest of the media with seven awards but the Irish Independent took just three by comparison. Next day… Read more »

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George and Wendy Magan

GEORGE MAGAN’S TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS

Date: November 16, 2017 - High Society

LATER THIS week, an interesting case will be heard in the High Court. It concerns a Tory peer and one of Ireland’s most spectacular properties. But this is not the only legal spat involving the man who restored the property, George Magan – aka Baron Magan of Castletown – who has even been unceremoniously dragged… Read more »

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Catherine Day

THE CHESTER BEATTY’S NEW CHAIR

Date: November 16, 2017 - Behind the Scenes

AFTER ALMOST 20 years in the chair and a total of 26 years as a director since he was first appointed in January 1991, TP Hardiman has stepped down from the board of the Chester Beatty Library.The new chair is former European Commission secretary general Catherine Day, although Heather Humphreys will be expected to make… Read more »

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MORE MILLIONS FOR BAM

Date: November 16, 2017 - Behind the Scenes

INTERESTING to see a €1m allocation in the Department of Culture Budget Estimates for the troubled Cork Event Centre project. This latest allocation suggests the increasingly expensive looking 6,000-seat venue will be going ahead in some form, although there are still question marks hanging over it. The plan to develop a venue for assorted entertainment… Read more »

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Kevin Sheahan

Kevin Sheahan’s China crisis

Date: November 16, 2017 - Briefcases

SPARE a thought for Limerick Fianna Fáil (FF) county councillor Kevin Sheahan who just had a judgment for u1m registered against him by Danske Bank. Sheahan, a councillor for the Askeaton-Adare municipal district, is a colourful character with the distinction of being elected first chairman of the amalgamated Limerick City and County Council in 2014…. Read more »

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Paddy Mckillen Jr

Paddy McKillen Jr’s Union blues

Date: November 16, 2017 - Briefcases

PADDY McKillen Jr will be delighted with the glowing reviews his revamped Stella Cinema in Rathmines has received since opening its doors last month. Elsewhere, things aren’t as rosy for McKillen and his Press Up Entertainments business partner Matt Ryan at their company Tomose Ltd. McKillen and Ryan bought Kiely’s Pub in Mount Merrion in… Read more »

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Taxman Cometh

Date: November 16, 2017 - Briefcases

THE High Court has ordered the liquidation of two Kilkenny printers, Colour World Print Ltd and Koverto Envelopes Ireland Ltd, both owned by Kilkenny businessman Walter Lanigan and his wife Francesca Lanigan on foot of an unpaid tax bill. Koverto and Colour World, based in the Purcellsinch Industrial Estate in Kilkenny, have been in difficulty… Read more »

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Soundstore

Niall Crowley’s not-so sound investment

Date: November 16, 2017 - Briefcases

A COMPANY in Cork called Tranio Investments Ltd just filed an interesting set of accounts. Tranio is the outfit behind Soundstore, an electronics and computer retailer based in Bishopstown and where Fianna Fáil MEP Brian Crowley’s brother, Niall Crowley, is listed as a director and shareholder. Niall Crowley popped up in the news earlier this… Read more »

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Gary McGann

Gary McGann

Date: November 16, 2017 - Moneybags

GARY McGANN retired as Smurfit Kappa group chief executive just over two years ago aged 65 and duly to took on a number of lucrative non-executive directorships. Most significantly, he became chairman of Paddy Power Betfair and Aryzta – currently two of the most controversial Irish quoted companies. As a result, McGann finds himself in… Read more »

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John Halligan

HALLIGAN’S NORTH KOREAN LINKS

Date: November 16, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

DESPITE saturation media coverage and general bafflement at John Halligan’s proposed mission to North Korea little attention has been paid to the close links between Pyongyang and the Independent TD’s comrades, past and present in the Workers’ Party (WP). In particular, Halligan has maintained the most fraternal relationship with ex-WP president Sean Garland. For many… Read more »

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Paddy Cosgrave

PADDY COSGRAVE’S TALES FROM THE CRYPT

Date: November 16, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

SERIAL attention-seeker Paddy Cosgrave has a knack for pushing his luck. So it comes as little surprise that Goldhawk’s old pal has had to issue a grovelling apology to the Portuguese people after an ill-conceived stunt during his Lisbon Tech Summit last weekend. Taking to Twitter on Saturday evening, Cosgrave wrote: “Dear Portugal, I apologise…. Read more »

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Simon Coveney

LEO’S LITTLE HELPERS

Date: November 16, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

LEO VARADKAR and his handler, Brian Murphy, had to make some delicate decisions on how to utilise the deputy leader and defeated contestant for the leadership, Simon Coveney, at last weekend’s Fine Gael conference. MC for the session leading up to Vlad’s keynote speech was Josepha Madigan, the same TD who seconded Varadkar as Taoiseach… Read more »

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Aodhan O'Riordain

THE ‘INSPIRATION’ OF AODHAIN Ó RÍORDÁIN

Date: November 16, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

“INSPIRED by an impassioned speech made in the Seanad by Aodhán Ó Ríordáin…” So begins an online video describing the dramatic emergence of the Irish Stand, a “grassroots movement” devoted to protecting immigrants in the age of Trump. Having kicked off in New York last March as an angry alternative to the city’s St Patrick’s… Read more »

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Theresa May

GERRY ADAMS DOESN’T GIVE A PIP

Date: November 16, 2017 - Bird's Eye View

SINN FÉIN is quite content with the way the Stormont talks ended. In fact in some ways it’s lucky for the party they ended when they did. Formally the end came when northern secretary James Brokenshire introduced legislation in Westminster to strike a budget for 2017-18, not as the Irish Times editorialised last week for… Read more »

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Brendan Howlin

LABOUR PULLS THE HOUSE DOWN

Date: November 16, 2017 - Last Refuge

ALAN KELLY’S warning shot over his party leader Brendan Howlin’s head – AK47 recently gave Howlin less than six months to shape up or else – came just a week after Labour produced a burlesque performance in the Dáil on the burning issue of the housing crisis. Independent socialist TD Seamus Healy moved a private… Read more »

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RICCI COMES OUT AHEAD

Date: November 16, 2017 - Sport of Kings

THE MELBOURNE Cup proved an impressive showcase for Irish racing, with the first three home in Australia’s most iconic race trained here. The flamboyant Rich Ricci, who had two runners in the race, was ultimately well rewarded for his bold tactic of sending three of his horses to compete in Melbourne’s spring carnival after a… Read more »

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Fionnan Sheahan

INDO FIGHTS LIBEL ‘HORROR STORY’

Date: November 16, 2017 - Fit to Print?

WITH characteristic bombast and bereft of any sense of irony Independent News & Media (INM) titles recently reported “A major public debate on freedom of speech and the pressing need to reform Ireland’s draconian defamation laws”. Roping in Trinity College and “leading US Ivy League” Columbia University, INM organised the event at Trinity last week… Read more »

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Neil Hughes

NEIL HUGHES’S NICE PAD

Date: November 16, 2017 - High Society

ONE OF the most impressive Co Dublin properties to come on the market for a while is Emsworth in Kinsealy. The owner is looking for €7.5m which, even allowing for the truckloads of lolly he spent restoring the house and gardens, would result in a nice profit. Given that the owner turns out to be… Read more »

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Ed Guiney

RED ROCKS IN THE SUNSET

Date: November 16, 2017 - Behind the Scenes

THERE REMAINS some confusion over the fate of Andrew Lowe and Ed Guiney’s TV3 Garda station soap, Red Rock. A fortnight after TV3 put the Element Pictures show into an on-screen hiatus, it returned to production for two season-end specials for the third series. And now it’s in the money. As production began on October… Read more »

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Farrell’s Food

Date: November 14, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

WHAT A surprise to see one of achingly trendy Dublin restaurateur John Farrell’s eateries on the wrong end of a judgment for a paltry €10,000. Farrell is the brains behind the likes of in vogue Tex-Mex restaurant and cocktail bar 777 on South Great George’s Street, Dillinger’s and The Butcher’s Grill in Ranelagh and, most… Read more »

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HALAWA: THE FRENCH CONNECTION

Date: November 2, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

FOLLOWING Ibrahim Halawa’s release from a Cairo prison last week the government’s Strategic Communications Unit (SCU) and Iveagh House diplomats carried out a self congratulatory blitz on the media that contrasted sharply with the softly, softly attitude to Egyptian President Fatah al-Sisi in the last four years and more. As it happened, it was the… Read more »

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John Concannon

JOHN CONCANNON STRIKES BACK

Date: November 2, 2017 - Fit to Print?

MICHEÁL MARTIN has been accused of making too much of Leo Varadkar’s Strategic Communications Unit (SCU) as a €5m propaganda machine for Fine Gael in government. Even Martin’s internal party critics have alleged that the public does not care about the issue. But SCU head John Concannon appears stung by the criticism and went on… Read more »

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Hayden's Hotel

Hotel hangover for the Creaven brothers

Date: November 2, 2017 - Briefcases

HARD luck to Galway hoteliers John and Joseph Creaven who were landed with matching tax judgments for €100,000 last month. The pair owned the well-known Hayden’s Hotel in Ballinasloe with their brother Gabriel Creaven until they shut up shop last year with the loss of 40 jobs. Established in 1945, the 60-bedroom hotel was owned… Read more »

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Paul Stenson

Paul Stenson’s mixed results

Date: November 2, 2017 - Briefcases

THE company behind thin-skinned social media personality Paul Stenson’s Charleville Lodge hotel in Dublin 7 has just filed a revealing set of accounts. Stenson is the manager of the popular White Moose Café in the Charleville Lodge, which he has controversially promoted on social media over the last few years by threatening to shoot vegans… Read more »

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Ian Lucey

Ian Lucey’s latest row

Date: November 2, 2017 - Briefcases

INTERESTING to see that Blackrock businessman Ian Lucey’s Lucey Technology Ltd has been hit with another judgment by a creditor. Lucey Technology is the serial entrepreneur’s investment company, which funds fledgling start-ups and where Irish rugby star Jamie Heaslip was a director until last year. A Dublin-based accountancy firm called Anne Brady McQuillans DFK is… Read more »

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Hammond Lane Metal

Hammond Lane’s metal fatigue

Date: November 2, 2017 - Briefcases

HAMMOND Lane Metal Company Ltd (HLM), the Dublin-based subsidiary of metal-recycling operation Clearway Disposal, is having its mettle tested. The company filed its annual accounts recently and the details will trouble HLM’s owners, the Murphy family from Armagh. including Brian Murphy and Tracey Murphy, who are both listed as directors. Fans of Goldhawk will recall… Read more »

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Bryan Wixted’s medical problem

Date: November 2, 2017 - Briefcases

SPARE a thought for Bryan Wixted whose DMC Medical Ltd is facing a winding up petition in the High Court courtesy of a creditor, Deal Partners Logistics Ltd. DMC is a medical device manufacturing operation headquartered in Shannon with offices in California and China and with Limerick man Wixted at the helm as managing director…. Read more »

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Willie Mullins

ELLIOTT OUTPACES MULLINS

Date: November 2, 2017 - Sport of Kings

WILLIE MULLINS is going through a rare quiet spell at the moment and his chief rival, Gordon Elliott, is certainly taking full advantage of the champion trainer’s (presumably) brief slump. Over a 10-day period in October, Mullins sent out just one of 20 runners while in contrast Elliott cleaned up – saddling 12 winners from… Read more »

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Gene Murtagh

Kingspan’s share price at highrise levels

Date: November 2, 2017 - Moneybags

THE GRENFELL apartment block disaster in London earlier this year highlighted the importance of building facades from a safety point of view. Some Kingspan insulation material was used in the earlier Grenfell refurbishment but the company has pointed out that the installation was not carried out in accordance with Kingspan’s own specs nor was the… Read more »

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Eimear Mulhern

Profits at Goffs galloping ahead

Date: November 2, 2017 - Moneybags

EIMEAR MULHERN – the late Charlie Haughey’s daughter and wife of the late John Mulhern – has been chair of Goffs for over a decade. Her chief executive is Henry Beeby and the pair have managed some rough periods when the company teetered in the middle of the worst period of the crash but was… Read more »

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Jay Bourke

Jay Bourke’s latest judgment

Date: November 2, 2017 - Briefcases

HARD luck to Goldhawk’s old pal Jay Bourke who has just had a hefty judgment registered against him by the taxman. It comes hot on the heels of a recent High Court order disqualifying him from acting as a company director for seven years arising out of his conduct at Shebeen Shic Ltd, the outfit… Read more »

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Niall Harbison Now

Niall Harbison’s Manchester moves

Date: November 2, 2017 - Briefcases

CONGRATULATIONS to Goldhawk’s old pal Niall Harbison whose Lovin media group is continuing its social media expansion. Harbo’s lifestyle outfit is in the process of setting up franchises in far-flung places like New York and Saudi Arabia but Lovin, with new managing director Trevor Daly at the helm, has been making moves closer to home… Read more »

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Selina-Cartmell

Selina Cartmell’s Good News

Date: November 2, 2017 - Behind the Scenes

WITH the Gate Theatre’s new director, Selina Cartmell, now well ensconced in her office, the good news is that the financial picture looks rosy. Certainly, her predecessor Michael Colgan has been criticised on various fronts, including his enormous remuneration at one stage, but he knew how to make the numbers stack up. As a result,… Read more »

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