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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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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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