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CINEMA PLOTS IN GALWAY

Date: October 5, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

CHAPTER 15 of the Comptroller & Auditor General’s 2016 report, ‘Grant Funding of Galway’s Art House Cinema’, will not come as news to readers of Goldhawk’s chronicling of Lelia Doolan and her group’s attempts to build that bijou but bloody expensive cinema (see The Phoenix 10/3/17). But elsewhere in Galway, things are heating up too…. Read more »

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Willie O'Dea

FF Budget Split

Date: October 5, 2017 - Top Brass

COALITION with Sinn Féin is not the only divisive issue inside Fianna Fáil and the party’s social protection spokesperson, Willie O’Dea, is fighting the more ‘right wing’ front bench members over the forthcoming budget. In an ostensible attack on Fine Gael’s “ideology” and emphasis on income tax cuts for the rich, O’Dea has publicly demanded… Read more »

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Michael Ring

CIVIL WAR ON INISHBOFIN

Date: October 5, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

MINISTER for Culchies, Ringer (aka minister for rural and community development, Michael Ring) along with culture and the Gaeltacht minister Heather Humphreys and her junior minister, Joe McHugh, are in receipt of a letter pleading for intervention on the island of Inishbofin. There, the Inishbofin Development Company (IDC) is locked in mortal combat with the… Read more »

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CIARA KELLY’S COMPANY

Date: October 5, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

THINGS ARE looking up for Ireland’s best known GP, Ciara ‘Operation Transformation’ Kelly, who is itching to take over from George Hook on Newstalk’s primetime lunchtime radio slot, High Noon. With an array of media projects on the go, it is not surprising that Kelly has just incorporated her own company to manage her affairs… Read more »

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Curious Obit

Date: October 5, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

AN intriguing death notice in The Irish Times recently announced the death of Michael John de Clare Studdert (78), who died in Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire. A former Church of England curate, ex-lieutenant in the British Army Ordnance Corps and a millionaire, Studdert was the son of Venerable Augustine John de Clare Studdert. But there was… Read more »

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Ivana Bacik

POWER STRUGGLE DIVIDES HUMANISTS

Date: October 5, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

THE Humanist Association of Ireland (HAI) has had various differences in the last few years as its membership has increased in this secular age. Guest speakers at HAI gatherings, such as Ruth Dudley Edwards on the right and left-wing feminist Ailbhe Smyth, indicate the political bear pit that the movement can sometimes resemble. And four… Read more »

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Karl O'Hanlon

The Hot Air Brigade

Date: October 5, 2017 - The Hot Air Brigade

But I suppose our signature style is kind of rustic, country French with varying degrees of château glam and a touch of rock ‘n’ roll – comfortable and chic. Interior designer Karl O’Hanlon, Irish Times The average person simply doesn’t have the basic facts and figures that would enable them to take part in a… Read more »

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Simon Coveney

SIMPLE SIMON IS FLOUNDERING

Date: October 5, 2017 - Bog Cuttings

LAST Thursday at the All-Ireland Civic Dialogue talking shop on Brexit, Simon Coveney asserted once again that it is “madness” for him to be in Brussels talking about the north when it should be members of a northern executive there arguing their case. This soundbite, which Coveney repeats at every opportunity, exasperates northern nationalists. It’s… Read more »

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Katherine Zappone

ZAPPONE ON THE MOVE AGAIN?

Date: October 5, 2017 - Last Refuge

WHAT a dependable and supportive cabinet member the ‘Independent’ minister for children, Katherine Zappone, is turning out to be as her weekend remarks on the Eighth Amendment referendum indicate. But then, as Goldhawk has pointed out, Zapper is always ahead of her colleagues and has left Labour, Independent TDs and even her adoring – but… Read more »

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Brendan Ogle

Ogle’s New Party

Date: October 5, 2017 - Last Refuge

BRENDAN OGLE’S putative plans for a new quasi party or movement of the Left are well advanced. Resources have been secured from his union, Unite, as well as support from two or three other unions, and a meeting is planned for Dublin next month to mobilise support. In the meantime, The Ogre and Unite’s leadership… Read more »

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Micheál Martin

FIANNA FÁIL AND THE NORTH

Date: October 5, 2017 - Last Refuge

THE Vlad v. Mary Lou WWE show in the Dáil is the latest blood sport to grip the body politic. It is working out nicely for both sides, with each playing to their own fans whenever they land the other on the canvass. But the spectacle has left Fianna Fáil outside the ring, something that… Read more »

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Conor Killeen

IRISH TIMES’ POST HASTE

Date: October 5, 2017 - Fit to Print?

DID Liam Kavanagh, MD of The Irish Times DAC, lose the run of himself when he said his company would have a look at buying the Sunday Business Post as well as continuing to negotiate purchase of the Irish Examiner? Kavanagh argued that there needed to be consolidation in the newspaper market and The Irish… Read more »

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Eoghan Harris

Martin’s PR

Date: October 5, 2017 - Fit to Print?

THE lyrical odes to Micheál Martin penned almost weekly by Sindo columnist Eoghan Harris must surely be reddening the Fianna Fáil leader’s cheeks. Last Sunday, Harris referred to Leo Varadkar’s “flaccid contrast” to Martin when it came to savaging Sinn Féin and he argued inexplicably that the FF leader had forced Gerry Adams into talks… Read more »

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Denis Naughten

CITIZENS’ ASSEMBLY STRIKES AGAIN

Date: October 5, 2017 - Fowl Emissions

WHEN politicians want an issue to go away, a favourite ploy is to bury it alive in a talking shop. If that was the real motivation behind the establishment of the Citizens’ Assembly, they appear to have made a major miscalculation. Last weekend the assembly discussed how to deliver on the tall order of ‘Making… Read more »

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Bog Cuttings

Bog Cuttings

Date: October 5, 2017 - Bog Cuttings

bouncers Abused LISTOWEL District Court heard that a 25-year-old man had too much drink on the Saturday of Listowel Races and became abusive to security staff at the Three Mermaids when they refused to allow him in. Diarmuid Brosnan told the bouncers that he would “ruin them all” after he was told to go away…. Read more »

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Felipe Hinojosa Torres

torres retreats to sunnier climes

Date: October 5, 2017 - High Society

A COUNTY Kildare stud near Maynooth is to go to auction at the Carton House Hotel later this month and bidding is expected to be strong. Certainly, the owners of the operation – Spaniards Felipe Jnr and his father Felipe Hinojosa Torres – will be hoping for a better outcome than the last time they… Read more »

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Out of Fashion

Date: October 5, 2017 - High Society

THE FORMER fashion business run by Mary Daly, wife of super rich developer David Daly, is now being wound up. It represents the ongoing disengagement by the power couple with Ireland, resulting from a nasty Nama spat. Earlier this year it turned out that the real identity of the writer of the rip-roaring Grange Abbey… Read more »

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DUBLIN THEATRE FESTIVAL

Date: October 5, 2017 - ReviewsTheatre

AT 60, Dublin Theatre Festival is the grand dame of Ireland’s cultural calendar. But punters can be forgiven for scratching their heads over the landmark anniversary programme. Director Willie White, now in his sixth year at the helm, has the difficult job of balancing notable international and local productions. In the festival’s first week, both… Read more »

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Midwinter Break

MIDWINTER BREAK – BERNARD MacLAVERTY (JONATHAN CAPE)

Date: October 5, 2017 - BooksReviews

KNOWN MAINLY for his skillfully crafted short stories, Bernard MacLaverty’s first novel since 2001 takes place over four days of sightseeing in a wet and wintry Amsterdam. The story is centered on a retired couple, Gerry and Stella Gilmore, who appear to be in their late 60s. Originally from Northern Ireland, they have lived in… Read more »

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Katheryn Winnick

TAPPING THE TAXMAN

Date: October 5, 2017 - Behind the Scenes

THE REVENUE’S latest figures for Section 481 film and TV production tax beneficiaries have just been released at a time when Goldhawk hears the Taxman is looking to crack down on alleged abuses by producers of the tax credit system. For example, the tax credit is used to buy equipment for a production and this… Read more »

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Brian Kavanagh

ANYONE FOR RACING?

Date: October 5, 2017 - Sport of Kings

WITH THE emphasis these days on the efforts of Brian Kavanagh et al at Horse Racing Ireland (HRI) and racecourse managements around the country to get punters through the gates, maybe they should take a look at what happened at Ayr in Scotland recently. The racecourse suffered the misfortune of having its flagship three-day Ayr… Read more »

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Michael O'Hagab

MICHAEL O’HAGAN’S RETURN

Date: October 5, 2017 - Sport of Kings

MICHAEL O’Hagan was back in the limelight recently, making a splash at Tattersalls Ireland’s Yearling Sale when he purchased the top lot for €230,000. Just over five years ago, the former chief executive of Irish Thoroughbred Marketing (ITM) seemed to be galloping along nicely in the racing and bloodstock industry, having been promoted to a… Read more »

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Willie Mullins

MULLINS MAKES HAY

Date: October 5, 2017 - Sport of Kings

SPARE A thought for Harry Kelly and Philip Rothwell, who are the latest trainers to fall victim to the particular skills of Willie Mullins. Trainers hate to see an owner remove a decent horse from their care and send it to Mullins, and the worst fears of both Kelly and Rothwell were realised recently when… Read more »

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Tony Smurfit

Smurfit Kappa going through the motions

Date: October 5, 2017 - Moneybags

Smurfit Kappa, now led by the 53-year-old Tony Smurfit, is only going through the motions of surviving from day to day without addressing its key strategic deficiency – having a large USA base where the vast bulk of its multi-national customers are based. For all Tony Smurfit talks of “our unique market insights, tools and… Read more »

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Anna Kupka

Peter Conlon’s dynamic problem

Date: October 5, 2017 - Briefcases

BAD NEWS for former ‘Rich List’ regular Peter Conlon, who has reinvented himself as a charity technology guru courtesy of his Ammado platform, used by the likes of the Red Cross and Oxfam. While his base is now in Geneva, Conlon’s original Irish company, Ammado Internet Services Ltd, was landed last week with a High… Read more »

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Maria Kearney

Oliver Connolly’s Russian connection

Date: October 5, 2017 - Briefcases

SO FAREWELL then to the Russia Irish Cultural Foundation (RICF), a strange outfit incorporated to “promote cultural awareness and the advance of cultural relations between Ireland and Russia”, but which appears never to have traded. More interesting than its purpose surely is the make-up of the company’s board. A legal notice was published in the… Read more »

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Lindsey Holmes

Lindsey Holmes’s blind date

Date: October 5, 2017 - Briefcases

SURPRISING perhaps that the assorted showbiz hacks have not reported on the PR boo-boo associated with TV3’s much anticipated new show, Blind Date, fronted by the ubiquitous Al Porter. Presumably, this reticence has nothing to do with the power wielded by public relations operation LH Publicity (LHP). TV3 is betting big on Blind Date, which… Read more »

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Seamus McCarthy

How €2,000,000 was wasted on 23 Wolfe Tone St

Date: October 5, 2017 - Briefcases

THE PUBLICATION of the 2016 annual report of Seamus McCarthy, the Comptroller & Auditor General (C&AG), featured a number of long-running cases, with one of the more interesting focusing on the spending by the Department of Justice of over €2m on a leased building in Dublin 1 that was never occupied. While there is no… Read more »

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Judge Brian McGovern

Mark Monks’ “audacious” behaviour

Date: October 5, 2017 - Briefcases

THE HIGH Court has just issued a ruling on proceedings taken by Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) against one Mark Monks, which effectively brings to an end a saga stretching back to 1996. Judge Brian McGovern found the actions of Monks to be both “extraordinary and audacious”. Although the case was initially lodged against both Gerard… Read more »

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Sheikh Mohammed al Maktoum

More millions for Ballylinch’s John Malone

Date: October 5, 2017 - Sport of Kings

AS FANS of Goldhawk are aware, the decade-long standoff between the two superpowers, Coolmore and Godolphin, looks like ancient history and, as predicted, Sheikh Mohammed al Maktoum’s buying team got stuck into the progeny of Coolmore’s wonder-sire, Galileo, at the Goffs Orby Yearling Sale. However, it was the Ballylinch Stud team of John O’Connor and… Read more »

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John Butler Yeats self portrait

NGI misses john yeats MASTERPIECE

Date: October 5, 2017 - Behind the Scenes

FANS OF Goldhawk will not have been surprised at the latest state splurge on Yeats items, both ahead of and at Sotheby’s so-called ‘Yeats Family Collection’ auction last month in London (see The Phoenix 25/8/17). However, the National Gallery of Ireland has come out of the episode looking rather sidelined. The build-up to the Yeats… Read more »

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Dara Murphy

DARA MURPHY’S EURO JOB

Date: October 5, 2017 - Last Refuge

THE post of director of elections for the European People’s Party (EPP) at the European elections in 2019 sounds like a most responsible position, given that the EPP is the largest party in the EU. So former junior minister for Europe, Dara Murphy, must be delighted to have acquired this prestigious post, which he took… Read more »

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Mark Mellett

COS Mellett to head EU military

Date: October 5, 2017 - Top Brass

RITUAL assurances about the protection of Irish neutrality accompany most government decisions that push our Defence forces ever closer to integration in the developing EU military force. But the latest such move – the nomination of Defence Forces Chief of Staff, Vice Admiral Mark Mellett, for the post of chair (head) of the European Union… Read more »

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Noirin O’Sullivan

Nóirín O’Sullivan’s perfumed bullet

Date: September 21, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

THE received wisdom purveyed by the ‘serious’ media is that garda commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan’s resignation was a ‘stroke of luck’ for Leo Varadkar and that his government had nothing at all, at all to do with her surprise resignation. But a reading of the Sunday Business Post just hours before O’Sullivan resigned indicates that once… Read more »

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Vol.35 No.19

Vol.35 No.19

Date: September 21, 2017 -

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Micheal Ganley

GANLEYS GO TO COLLEGE

Date: September 21, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

BUSINESSMAN Declan Ganley was barely off social media last week, sending numerous tweets about the George Hook situation at Newstalk, railing against the PC brigade and the “corporate bullying” of the sponsors who threatened to withdraw their advertising lolly. Ganley said he would no longer be directing business towards Maldron or Clayton hotels, a desperate… Read more »

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