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Katie Holly - Blinder Films

HANDOUT TIME AT THE IRISH FILM BOARD

Date: November 2, 2017 - Behind the Scenes

WHILE THE global film business focuses on Harvey Weinstein’s unmasking, it was business as usual at Annie Doona’s Irish Film Board (IFB) where the third quarter of 2017 favours have been dispensed to the lucky few. Oddly, the IFB is still offering board members funding from its own coffers. While the niceties are, of course,… Read more »

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Brendan Duke

BRENDAN DUKE’S BAD NEWS

Date: November 2, 2017 - Sport of Kings

AFTER a few turbulent years, things had been going swimmingly in recent months for Curragh trainer Brendan Duke but all of sudden he finds himself on the backfoot. Duke benefits from the patronage of his former boss, Jim Bolger, and he trained the very smart Bolger homebred Warm The Voice to win three times during… Read more »

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Rory Nolan

POSTCARDS FROM THE LEDGE – GAIETY THEATRE

Date: November 2, 2017 - ReviewsTheatre

WHEN THE curtain rises on the latest Ross O’Carroll Kelly play, the ‘Ledge’ stands in front of a tiny derelict house, and describes it in estate agents’ fluffy marketing-speak: a perfect opportunity for the DIY enthusiast, etc. Ross may be famously thick, but he’s also a salesman who knows how to oversell a cheap product… Read more »

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Jackie Tyrrell - Warriors Code

THE WARRIOR’S CODE – JACKIE TYRRELL (TRINITY MIRROR)

Date: November 2, 2017 - BooksReviews

JACKIE TYRRELL is selfish. That’s not Goldhawk’s assessment, it’s Tyrrell’s own. On no fewer than 12 occasions in his new autobiography does he make this assertion, and it’s hard not to agree with him. Part of that is the relentless physical and emotional toil of life as an intercounty hurler, but part of it –… Read more »

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Bog Cuttings

Bog Cuttings

Date: November 2, 2017 - Bog Cuttings

Rat-arsed chef GETS INTO hot water A DRUNK chef jumped into a Galway canal to rescue his pet rat which had escaped from his pocket. Gardaí called to the scene found Dawid Szerner (39), with former addresses in Lurgan Park, Renmore, and the Fairgreen Hostel, back on dry land but soaking wet and very intoxicated…. Read more »

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Victoria Browne

CROWDING OUT CASTLETOWN HOUSE

Date: November 2, 2017 - High Society

THESE ARE anxious times at the impressive 18th century Castletown House in Co Kildare, birthplace of Arthur Guinness. A proposed controversial large scale property development, linked to a planned new town centre, looks set to have a negative effect on the surrounds of the famous house. Two previous plans submitted by the Durkan family of… Read more »

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AnneMarie and Aidan O'Brien

AIDAN O’BRIEN’S NEXT RECORD

Date: November 2, 2017 - High Society

THERE WAS, not surprisingly, acres of copy churned out praising the impressive feat achieved by racehorse trainer Aidan O’Brien last weekend when he broke the world record for the number of Group One winners saddled in a single season, courtesy of Saxon Warrior at Doncaster. With that record under his belt, O’Brien may now be… Read more »

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Frank Fitzgibbon

Master’s Voice

Date: November 2, 2017 - Fit to Print?

EVERY now and then London bosses at The Sunday Times like to remind readers and journalists of its Awrish edition just who is in charge. In the midst of the fundamental threat to the Irish economy posed by Brexit and with the government (Irish, that is) nervously clinging to the EU nurse for fear of… Read more »

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Denis Naughten

UNCONSTITUTIONAL CLIMATE

Date: November 2, 2017 - Fowl Emissions

WHEN ALL else fails, take them to court. Yet again, it falls to the poorly supported, barely solvent environmental NGO sector to try to force the state to do its grudging bare legal minimum on climate. Cork-based Friends of the Irish Environment (FIE) has taken legal action against the government for its failure to take… Read more »

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Michael McDowell

MICHAEL McDOWELL GIRDS HIS LOINS

Date: November 2, 2017 - Last Refuge

SEANAD leader, Fine Gael’s Jerry Buttimer, was quick to point out to the House that Michael McDowell had recently circulated a full colour brochure in the Dublin Bay South (DBS) constituency. The arresting literature was also circulated to TDs and senators in Leinster House but McDowell’s target market is Dublin Bay South and the brochure’s… Read more »

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Letters to the Editor

Date: November 2, 2017 - Last Refuge

Dear Editor In your edition (20th October) you suggested that I have “flitted around the Left, including Sinn Féin, in recent years but always settled back into the Labour camp”. As SIPTU president, I have sought to build a constructive relationship with Sinn Féin and others, and still do so. However, no-one could doubt my… Read more »

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Micheál Martin

Little Confidence

Date: November 2, 2017 - Last Refuge

MICHEÁL MARTIN and the Fianna Fáil leadership have become increasingly anxious to reassure Fine Gael ministers that the party will adhere to the confidence and supply accord for years to come. So much so that front bench members have been making soothing noises in private tête-à-tête with ministers. As reported (see The Phoenix, 20/10/17), there… Read more »

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Denis O'Brien

DENIS O’BRIEN TO THE ‘RESCUE’

Date: November 2, 2017 - Fit to Print?

TWO Sundays ago, Sunday Independent hack Liam Collins suggested that Independent News & Media’s new chief executive, Michael Doorly, should bid for the Irish Examiner. There is no way a humble hack like Collins would have penned this comment without having good intelligence on the wishes of his employers, Denis O’Brien and his boardroom man,… Read more »

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James Brokenshire

GROUNDHOG DEADLINES

Date: November 2, 2017 - Bird's Eye View

TO NO ONE’S surprise the DUP and Sinn Féin sailed through northern secretary James Brokenshire’s sixth “deadline” last Monday night. Many people thought Brokenshire’s predecessor Theresa Villiers – sacked after the 2015 British general election – was the most clueless bloodless and ineffectual northern secretary since Merlyn Rees in 1974. Now Brokenshire’s performance makes her… Read more »

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Michael Ring

VARADKAR WHIPS RINGER INTO LINE

Date: November 2, 2017 - Last Refuge

HAVING finally made it into cabinet as rural affairs minister, Michael Ring has become disillusioned to the point of rebellion against his new leader and Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar. Reports have spoken of Ringer’s post budget outburst against the Taoiseach before stunned cabinet members recently but only a few senior Fine Gael ministers were aware that… Read more »

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Cllr Orla Leyden

TERRY LEYDEN’S DYNASTY BID

Date: November 2, 2017 - Last Refuge

SENATOR Terry Leyden (aka El Tel) is busy master minding what he describes as the saving of the single Fianna Fáil seat – held by Eugene Murphy TD – in three-seat Roscommon-Galway via nomination of his daughter Orla Leyden for the general election. Leyden’s master plan has even included a kindly mention in The Irish… Read more »

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Paul Cummins

STUDIO SEQUELS

Date: November 2, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

AFTER BUYING the defunct Galway Airport at Carnmore in June 2014, Galway city and county councils sought views, commissioned reports and generally agonised over what to do with the place. The one option that wouldn’t go away was to turn the hangars into a “creative hub”, this being the default response of local authorities anxious… Read more »

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Maura Derrane

The Hot Air Brigade

Date: November 2, 2017 - The Hot Air Brigade

We were uncouth; we were like wild beasts. We didn’t know how to pose for a photo, we were only there at events for the free booze. You’re judged now on appearance rather than personality. Maura Derrane on her ‘wild days’ at TnaG, Sunday Independent I invited a distinguished professor of literature to dinner last… Read more »

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Judge Frank Clarke

SUPREME COURT GALA PERFORMANCE

Date: November 2, 2017 - Wigs on the Green

CHIEF JUSTICE Frank Clarke and most of his peers turned in an impressively choreographed performance for the cameras last week in the historic first-ever televised sitting of the courts. M’luds filed into the courtroom and took their seats in an informal manner that belied the usual pomp and reverence surrounding their every move in the… Read more »

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Kerry’s Hack

Date: November 2, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

GER COLLERAN has been editor and managing director of the Irish Daily Star and was at various times tipped to be editor of the Sunday Independent, Irish Independent and the Sunday Business Post. Now he has taken a job as editor of Kerry’s Eye in Tralee with the imminent retirement of current editor Colin Lacey…. Read more »

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Vol. 35 No. 22

Date: November 2, 2017 -

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Emily Logan

Profile: Emily Logan

Date: November 2, 2017 - Pillars of Society

CHIEF Commissioner of the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (IHREC) Emily Logan recently made the most forthright statement on abortion at the Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment. Adopting a basic right to choose position the commission has for the first time put itself on a potential collision course with government and Fine Gael…. Read more »

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Stefanie Preissner

Young Blood: Stefanie Preissner

Date: November 2, 2017 - The Young Bloods

WRITER Stefanie Preissner (29) is everywhere these days. The Cork woman is having a moment after the success of her RTÉ series Can’t Cope, Won’t Cope, leading to numerous public appearances and even her own book deal. But she’s still getting used to life as a Montrose star. Preissner, whose father is German, was born… Read more »

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Brian Kingham

Brian Kingham goes to court

Date: November 2, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

WHAT A surprise to see the name of Brian Kingham surface as one of two parties (along with Blessington Sailing Club) taking a High Court challenge against Wicklow County Council over a recent decision to allow a track for pedestrians and cyclists be developed around Blessington Lakes. The publicity-shy millionaire private security boss Kingham certainly… Read more »

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Lucy Gaffney

Lucy Gaffney’s selfie

Date: November 2, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

US SINGER, record producer and all-round internet phenomenon DJ Khaled is a rather well-known character, at least among the yoof. But his popularity clearly extends across the generations, which must explain why the 57-year-old Lucy Gaffney – chair of Denis O’Brien’s Communicorp radio station group and director of DOB’s mobile phone group Digicel – sidled… Read more »

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Rory Godson

RORY GODSON’S ADVENTURES

Date: November 2, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

WHAT an exciting, not to say dangerous, sequence of events Powerscourt PR boss Rory Godson endured last month in just 48 hours. On October 12, Godson hosted a private dinner for a group of PR and prospective business clients at the Cliff Townhouse, Stephen’s Green, where the PR executive presented the UK’s recently retired top… Read more »

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Lynsey McGovern

LYNSEY McGOVERN’S AMBITIONS

Date: November 2, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

LAST MONTH, Lynsey McGovern, independent councillor in the Dún Laoghaire Rathdown constituency, tweeted: “Great to see real progress made in healthcare.” It was in reply to a post from Leo Varadkar’s press unit concerning the new children’s paediatric outpatients centre at far off Connolly Hospital in Blanchardstown. This marked the end of the phoney war… Read more »

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John McAuliffe

John McAuliffe’s broadside

Date: November 2, 2017 - Behind the Scenes

FANS OF Goldhawk will not have been too surprised by the attack on culture minister Heather Humphreys and her Creative Ireland programme, penned by Arts Council member John McAuliffe in The Irish Times last week. It represents a significant escalation of hostilities between the Merrion Square Mafia and the minister. But is it the right… Read more »

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Ching Chiat Kwong

Sean Mulryan’s partner

Date: November 2, 2017 - Sport of Kings

AS SEAN MULRYAN gradually increases his re-involvement in racing, it is interesting to note that he is helping to boost Horse Racing Ireland’s new ownership figures by pulling in some of his international business partners to share the risk and the reward. Mulryan has persuaded Singaporean developer Chiat Kwong Ching to get involved in ownership… Read more »

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Demolition Job

Date: November 2, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

A JUDGMENT mortgage has been registered against Slaneygio Ltd, a company controlled by some members of the wealthy Germaine family of Baltinglass, Co Wicklow. The plaintiff was a barrister, Elaine Morgan, who owns a property in Carlow town, adjacent to one demolished “speedily and unsafely” over a bank holiday weekend last year by Slaneygio. The… Read more »

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Smile - Roddy Doyle

Roddy Doyle’s ‘Smile’

Date: November 2, 2017 - BooksReviews

THROUGHOUT his successful writing career, Roddy Doyle has been associated mostly with candid depictions of Irish family life, energetic prose and vernacular dialogue. His latest novel addresses the very familiar topic of institutional sexual abuse. The 54-year-old Victor Forde is an unreliable narrator with a tendency to be vague about his past – and particularly… Read more »

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Vol.35 No.21

Vol. 35 No. 21

Date: October 19, 2017 -

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Denis O’Brien

Denis O’Brien’s control problem

Date: October 19, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

DENIS O’BRIEN and INM chairman Leslie Buckley still await the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement (ODCE) inquiry into Robert Pitt’s complaint about that proposed Newstalk deal, but they will also be worried about the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland’s (BAI’s) inquiry into Communicorp’s blacking of Irish Times journalists. Will the BAI scrutinise the (non)… Read more »

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Elizabeth Mitrow

INVESTIGATING THE REFUGEE COUNCIL

Date: October 19, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

THE BOARD of the Irish Refugee Council (IRC) is involved in a spat with the European Commission over alleged “illegible” expenditure of grant aid on a two-year European project. This comes at a time when the lobbying organisation is struggling to maintain its income, with its core benefactor, Atlantic Philanthropies, having now ended the handouts…. Read more »

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NCAD

NCAD Issues

Date: October 19, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

AT LEAST the incoming Director of the National College of Art And Design, Sarah Glennie, won’t have to worry about the ridiculously overdue annual report for 2013-2014. The document has finally appeared on the website of the college. Glennie landed the €140,000 pa job at the start of the summer, although she will not be… Read more »

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Arlene Foster

DEAL OR NO DEAL?

Date: October 19, 2017 - Bird's Eye View

Sinn Féin and the DUP have now entered their customary period of brinkmanship, keeping Dublin and London on tenterhooks about the chances of a deal before a budget must be set at the end of this month. The British government plays its customary role in the drama, setting deadlines that the parties blithely ignore. The… Read more »

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