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Thomas Ryan’s nursing home woes

Thomas Ryan’s nursing home woes

Date: September 21, 2017 - Briefcases

A MAJOR row has broken out between the directors of a company called Quesada Developments Ltd, which has just had to appoint an examiner after running out of dosh. Quesada is the outfit behind Beech Park, a 48-bed nursing home in Dunmurry East, Co Kildare where the directors are listed Thomas Ryan, Brendan O’Hanlon and… Read more »

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Brendan Burgess

Brendan Burgess’s Hibernia pals

Date: September 21, 2017 - Briefcases

PERSONAL finance expert Brendan Burgess was back on television screens last week when he appeared on Pat Kenny’s TV3 panel show. Burgess discussed social housing provision, arguing that working families should be given priority on waiting lists in Dublin but his performance opened up a few old wounds. Burgess’s comments were received warmly by the… Read more »

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Jarlath Feeney

Galway Indo stops the presses

Date: September 21, 2017 - Briefcases

A DREADFUL year for local newspapers continued this month with the sudden closure of the Galway Independent, one title in Declan Dooley and Jarlath Feeney’s stable of freesheets. The Independent joins the North County Leader and the Wexford Echo – both closed their doors earlier this year – after creditors nominated Tom Murray of Friel… Read more »

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Pure NightClub

Des Foley’s tax trouble

Date: September 21, 2017 - Briefcases

SPARE a thought for Leitrim publican and developer Des Foley who has found himself on the latest list of tax defaulters. Foley reached a settlement with the Revenue for just over u118,000 after an audit by the taxman discovered that he had underdeclared his income tax and VAT. Foley is a well-known builder in the… Read more »

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Arnaud Gaultier

J’accuse!

Date: September 21, 2017 - Briefcases

KILDARE-based wine importer Arnaud Gaultier had another bad day in the High Court in front of Judge Seamus Noonan. Gaultier has been in the Four Goldmines a lot since his company Loire Valley Ltd was damaged by the taxman improperly seizing his wine over a decade ago. The Frenchman’s complaint relates to the 2006 seizure… Read more »

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Suzanne Jackson

Young Blood: Suzanne Jackson

Date: September 21, 2017 - The Young Bloods

IRISH beauty blogger and model Suzanne ‘SoSueMe’ Jackson (32) is more of a business than a businesswoman. The Dubliner has gone from blogger and social media star to successful entrepreneur at the head of a lucrative empire that includes her own cosmetics range with bit parts played by the whole family. What next can one… Read more »

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Jeremy Masding

Jeremy Masding’s PTSB gamble

Date: September 21, 2017 - Moneybags

JEREMY MASDING has to do something with the €5.8bn rump of non-performing loans in Permanent TSB (PTSB). He can no longer sit on these loans, six years after the crash and is being pushed by the European Central Bank to sort this out. If he can’t manage this directly then they will have to be… Read more »

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Fintan O'Toole

IT RESTORES PEACE WITH NEWSTALK

Date: September 21, 2017 - Fit to Print?

FINTAN O’TOOLE’S public gesture in proclaiming his boycott of Newstalk over George Hook’s rape commentary would surely have met with the approval of his colleagues in the most politically correct media organ in the world. Not so, apparently, as Denis O’Brien’s empire struck back within 24 hours by instructing Newstalk producers not to use IT… Read more »

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Howard Corscadden

Howard Corscadden’s many castles

Date: September 21, 2017 - High Society

WITH THE tourist industry booming according to Fáilte Ireland, it is not just Airbnb that is benefiting. One hotel group reporting impressive results is that belonging to Howard Corscadden and his family who have been doing very well with their collection of castle hotels. The latest to open is Markree Castle in Co Sligo, following… Read more »

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Simone Rocha

SIMONE ROCHA’S FASHION SENSE

Date: September 21, 2017 - High Society

IT WAS interesting to see The Irish Times gushing over the impressive achievement of achingly trendy London-based fashion designer, Simone Rocha, daughter of that other well-known designer, John. Given the expanding nature of Simone’s operation, Goldhawk was more curious about the source of funds. It turns out that despite her significant success to date, Simone,… Read more »

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Tony O'Reilly Jr

Nick Furlong buys Providence

Date: September 21, 2017 - Briefcases

IT WAS interesting to watch the feeding frenzy that took place on the Irish Stock Exchange after Providence Resources announced that it had hit water at its Drombeg prospect in the Southern Porcupine Basin last Monday. Meanwhile, swashbuckling investor Nick Furlong’s Pageant Holdings had a very busy day, increasing its shareholding in the Tony O’Reilly… Read more »

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Sarah Carey

Sarah Carey’s prescience

Date: September 21, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

THE mystery of broadcaster Sarah Carey’s absence from Newstalk has been solved. Her transgression was to warn station management and owner Denis O’Brien that the station’s deliberately provocative editorial philosophy would lead to offensive blunders like the Kevin Myers anti-semitic, sexist outburst that caused such turmoil. Prescient or what? It took Tesco and other corporate… Read more »

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AnneMarie Naughton

AnneMarie Naughton’s Rangle

Date: September 21, 2017 - Behind the Scenes

THE SUBJECT of industrial relations in the film industry is an especially touchy one and a new arrival on the scene could lead to union comrades shouting ‘cut’. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the new venture has been backed by Annie Doona’s Irish Film Board (IFB) and the EU’s Creative Europe cash machine, with Enterprise Ireland also coming… Read more »

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Leo Varadkar

LEO VARADKAR’S PR DANGER

Date: September 7, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

WITH exquisite irony Leo Varadkar has managed to turn a concerted PR initiative into a PR disaster with the distinct image now emerging of a Taoiseach obsessed with style rather than political substance. There are real dangers here for Varadkar, electorally and inside Fine Gael. Voters will not be impressed with a Taoiseach cavorting in… Read more »

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Fintan O'Toole

Profile: Fintan O’Toole

Date: September 7, 2017 - Pillars of Society

IRISH Times writer Fintan O’Toole is regarded as the media’s pre-eminent political intellectual and literary critic. Globally he is certainly the best known Irish critic, if only because of the platforms provided by approving Transatlantic editors and an Irish intelligentsia whose prejudices are comforted by this most prolific and civilised of Irish writers. Brexit and… Read more »

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Ken Murphy

BIG TOBACCO, BIG LEGAL THREATS

Date: September 7, 2017 - Wigs on the Green

IT will be interesting to see if Big Tobacco now proceeds to carry out its threats of shock and awe legal action against the government when plain packaging legislation takes effect at the end of next month. The cigarette companies had the very best legal advice when they said they would protect their intellectual property… Read more »

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Frankie Gaffney

Young Blood: Frankie Gaffney

Date: September 7, 2017 - The Young Bloods

IS NOVELIST and academic Frankie Gaffney (36) his own worst enemy? Recently landing himself in the centre of a high profile and toxic row about feminism and class, the Dubliner has been digging himself into holes on social media for the past few months and stoking the ire of the Irish sisterhood in the process…. Read more »

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TV3 Ireland's Got Talent

SCHEDULES WAR – RTÉ v TV3

Date: September 7, 2017 - ReviewsTV

OUTDATED IDEAS, over-familiar faces and second-hand formats dominate the autumn schedules recently unveiled by RTÉ television and TV3. A shortage of fresh thinking is par for the course among domestic broadcasters but the complacency of these offerings seems remarkable at a time when the future of traditional terrestrial TV is under unprecedented threat. Trouble is… Read more »

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Pat Doherty

PAT DOHERTY’S PAINTINGS

Date: September 7, 2017 - High Society

WHILE PROPERTY developer Pat Doherty is probably best known for his ambitious Titanic Quarter scheme in Belfast and for being one of Nama’s biggest clients, the Donegal man is also something of an art aficionado. It turns out Doherty’s collection is held by one of the subsidiaries of his Harcourt Developments group – Discretionary Art… Read more »

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Pearse Phelan

Pearse Phelan’s prescription

Date: September 7, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

THE LIQUIDATION of the Fitzwilliam Private Clinic Ltd has just been completed and it turns out there is not a cent for the unsecured creditors, who were owed around €½m. The good news is that the plush clinic remains in rude health and is up and running in Dublin 2, albeit with a different operating… Read more »

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Mary Hanafin

Mary Hanafin’s last shot

Date: September 7, 2017 - Last Refuge

THE mother of all Fianna Fáil faction fights is gearing up in Dún Laoghaire where ex-minister, now humble councillor, Mary Hanafin, is preparing to run in her sixth general election in 20 years. But like last time out, she will probably need the backing of Micheál Martin and HQ to secure a nomination as the… Read more »

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Niall O'Connor

Niall O’Connor’s political bombshell

Date: September 7, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

JUNIOR finance minister Patrick O’Donovan is still wiping egg off his face after his blunder in naming the IRA as perpetrators of the Dublin-Monaghan bombing. But did Irish Independent political reporter Niall O’Connor – who published the minister’s remarks without criticism, comment or question – and his editor, Fionnan Sheahan, not realise what a scoop… Read more »

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Vol.35 No.18

Date: September 7, 2017 -

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Tomas O Ruairc

TOUGH LESSONS FOR TEACHING COUNCIL

Date: September 7, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

FUN AND GAMES at the Teaching Council of Ireland (TCI) where the chief executive’s reappointment has caused ructions and has led to the chairman stepping down. Tomás Ó Ruairc was appointed council director in May 2012 for a five-year term. When queried by Goldhawk, the council said it had “commenced the process of appointing a… Read more »

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Fiona McLoughlin Healy

FINE GAEL’S TRANSPARENCY ROW

Date: September 7, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

THE Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has launched an inquiry into the procurement of contracts at the Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board (KWETB) following an audit of its finances recently. This will come as something of an indirect vindication of Fine Gael councillor Fiona McLoughlin Healy, who recently lost the party whip on… Read more »

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WB Yeats

The Yeats Family Collection

Date: September 7, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

NEXT WEEK, over 200 items from the Yeats Family Collection will go on display at Royal Hibernian Academy in Dublin before being shipped to London for the Sotheby’s auction that could scoop U2m for members of the Yeats family. Bizarrely, there has been no concern expressed by cultural vultures about the exporting of so much… Read more »

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Theresa May

BRITISH AGENTS IN IRELAND

Date: September 7, 2017 - Hush Hush

THE meeting in the European Parliament hosted by Sinn Féin MEP Lynn Boylan this week about the activities of British undercover police in Ireland and across Europe is partly an attempt to stir a wider political and media interest in Ireland. Outrage from a variety of governments at revelations of undercover British police working as… Read more »

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TJ McINTYRE’S SETBACK

Date: September 7, 2017 - Hush Hush

WHILE the ID cards issue has pushed the State’s use (or misuse) of personal data to the front pages in recent weeks, the overall matter of data retention by the State continues to be a subject that attracts only sporadic attention. For example, there was no reporting of last month’s ruling by Judge Caroline Costello,… Read more »

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Laura Kennedy

The Hot Air Brigade

Date: September 7, 2017 - The Hot Air Brigade

I as a philosopher am qualified to say that her argument isn’t well reasoned. Tweet by Irish Times scribe and “philosopher” Laura Kennedy Mr Buckley who ran the AGM with the seamless skill of a chirpy if steely ringmaster. Indo Business Editor Dearbhail McDonald on Leslie Buckley’s performance at the INM AGM, Irish Independent Still… Read more »

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Destruction of Mosul

THE DAESH STORY IS NOT ENDING

Date: September 7, 2017 - Foreign Frolics

By Ramzy Baroud IRAQ’S second largest city, Mosul, has been reduced to rubble. It has been finally conquered, snatched back from the notorious group, Daesh, after months of merciless bombardment by the US-led war coalition, and a massive ground war. But victory can hardly be the term assigned to this moment. Mosul, once Iraq’s cultural… Read more »

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Simon Coveney

COVENEY BOWS TO THE DUP

Date: September 7, 2017 - Bird's Eye View

SIMON COVENEY was in Belfast on Tuesday listening to the local parties to assess whether there was any point in convening a new round of talks. It was another opportunity for Sinn Féin to voice its frustration with this Fine Gael government in its various incarnations since 2011. Foreign affairs ministers in the past six… Read more »

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Regina Doherty

CABINET PENSION CALCULATIONS

Date: September 7, 2017 - Last Refuge

THE delicate political calculations about when Leo Varadkar might call the next general election will be determined by a number of fluctuating circumstances – the budget, the polls, the opposition’s mood and fortunes etc. But some Fine Gael cabinet members will be less objective on the economic and political electoral factors than others. Of the… Read more »

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Roisin Shortall

SOC DEMS ‘NO’ TO LABOUR

Date: September 7, 2017 - Last Refuge

THAT recent two fingers from the Social Democrats to the Labour Party’s pleas for unity was especially hostile and was accompanied by withering denunciation of Labour’s record and its current performance in opposition. But there are rumblings behind the scenes in the Soc Dems that have made Mesdemoiselles Roísín Shortall and Catherine Murphy a little… Read more »

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Liam Kavanagh

WHO WILL BUY ‘IRISH EXAMINER’?

Date: September 7, 2017 - Fit to Print?

THE Sunday Business Post’s recent report that a bid by The Irish Times Ltd to buy the Irish Examiner is virtually a done deal indicates that Post owners Key Capital are now definitely out of the bidding. But there is still confusion about who is buying which titles. The IT is only interested in buying… Read more »

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John Burns

John Burns’s Hard Neck

Date: September 7, 2017 - Fit to Print?

IS Sunday Times associate editor John Burns beyond embarrassment? Just a wet week or so after ST columnist Kevin Myers – whose outpourings he used to edit – was defenestrated for sexist and anti-semitic remarks about female journalists, Burns has taken to lecturing other media for gender bias against the same species. The ironies don’t… Read more »

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UKIP’s Anne Marie Waters

Date: September 7, 2017 - Last Refuge

A PECULIAR spin-off of Brexit has been the implosion of UKIP, the militant Little Englander group that now sees Irish woman Anne Marie Waters bidding for its leadership. But Anne Marie is proving too racist for many UKIP members and has even been accused of “neo-fascism” by UKIP MEP Bill Etheridge, who led an unsuccessful… Read more »

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