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The not-so sweet life of Roberto Pons

Date: July 13, 2017 - The Hot Water Brigade

NOT for the first time well-regarded Italian chef Roberto Pons recently fell foul of the Revenue. The chef, who trained at the Lausanne Palace Hotel in Switzerland and once upon a time managed the restaurant in the Shelbourne, was landed with a judgment for €50,000 late last month. Pons owned and operated the Il Ristorante… Read more »

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Couple’s crèche landing

Date: July 13, 2017 - The Hot Water Brigade

SPARE a thought for Castleknock crèche operators Mary Hale and her husband John Hale who were landed with a hefty judgment for €2m just last week. The couple – who own the Magic Years Crèche and Montessori School in Carpenterstown – were hit with the judgment in the High Court by a vulture fund called… Read more »

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Paddy McKeown’s ‘mere assertion’

Date: July 13, 2017 - The Hot Water Brigade

SPARE a thought for two Cork City landlords who had a tough time of it in the High Court recently courtesy of AIB. Earlier this summer, Judge Caroline Costello granted leave for the bank to enter judgment against Paddy McKeown and his wife Adelaide McCarthy for u1.5m and u1.4m respectively. Former Irish Navy officer McKeown… Read more »

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Maureen Coyne’s good day in court

Date: July 13, 2017 - The Hot Water Brigade

GOLDHAWK spotted an intriguing judgment recently involving a Mullingar woman who had a good day in the High Court at the expense of Danske Bank. Maureen Coyne took a case seeking damages against Danske after the High Court had granted summary judgment in favour of the bank for €137,000 against her and her husband, Raymond… Read more »

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PetMania’s Money

Date: July 13, 2017 - The Hot Water Brigade

PATRICIA Ingle was back in the news last week after securing E3m in the High Court to cover her medical bills. Ingle was left brain damaged in 2008 when she contracted a rare disease from a parrot while working at PetMania in Kilkenny and she sued the pet shop in 2010 before the HSE settled… Read more »

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Invincible Profit

Date: July 12, 2017 - Wigs on the Green

THERE IS an interesting figure buried in the 2016 accounts, filed this week by the Irish National Stud (INS), revealing the huge income generated for the lucky owners of wonder stallion, Invincible Spirit. Things are looking up for the INS, now chaired by former RDS president Matt Dempsey, who is having a rather easier ride… Read more »

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Vol.35 No.13

Date: June 29, 2017 -

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Jim O'Callaghan

FF JUDICIAL BLUNDER

Date: June 29, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

A RAFT of ‘eminent’ figures made fools of themselves in the furore over the government’s Judicial Appointments Commission Bill in the past week, chief among them being justice minister Charlie Flanagan. But Fianna Fáil’s justice spokesperson, Jim O’Callaghan, has inflicted serious damage on his own party, by diverting attention from the government as Fine Gael… Read more »

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DINNY’S SWORN ENEMY NO. 1

Date: June 29, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

THERE HAVE been changes on the share register of Red Flag Consulting – Karl Brophy’s consultancy outfit that is locked in an expensive legal battle with Denis O’Brien. The good news for the new shareholders is that Red Flag’s profitability does not appear to have been hit by the high profile legal spat. Until this… Read more »

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CARROLL MacNEILL’S POLITICAL PEDIGREE

Date: June 29, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

BARRISTER and author Jennifer Carroll MacNeill has been popping up a lot recently as a media commentator, with her latest outing in The Irish Times this week focusing on the subject of judicial independence. When it comes to the political independence, however, the former solicitor would hardly qualify. Earlier this month, Jennifer popped up in… Read more »

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Maura King

KING TAKES ON BAR COUNCIL

Date: June 29, 2017 - Wigs on the Green

BANE of the legal establishment Maura King BL has launched her latest offensive against the Law Library bigwigs by standing in elections to the Council of the Bar of Ireland. And she has delivered an election message unprecedented in its critical and strident tone. King has been locked in combat with the Bar Council since… Read more »

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LITIGIOUS LEGAL EAGLES

Date: June 29, 2017 - Wigs on the Green

JUNIOR vice-president of the Law Society James Cahill was a driving force behind the society’s volte face on Shane Ross’s judicial appointments bill which they decided to support – to assert solicitors’ rights against snooty barristers in the Law Library. But Cahill is also fighting another legal battle of sorts against his own organisation, specifically… Read more »

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DPP Study Law Society file

Date: June 29, 2017 - Wigs on the Green

WHAT on earth is happening in the Law Society? Quite apart from the internal battle between it and its junior vice-president James Cahill (above), it is also dealing with several inquiries by the Fraud Squad into allegations of perjury and other malpractice. A file on Fraud Squad investigations into two Law Society individuals is with… Read more »

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ATTORNEY GENERAL’S BACKYARD

Date: June 29, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

NEW Attorney General Seamus Woulfe has a rich legal and political background, having worked at the Beef Tribunal for then Labour TD Pat Rabbitte; acted for Fine Gael in its disastrous High Court action against party member, ex-junior minister John Perry, and served as Bar Council vice-chair. But perhaps the AG’s biggest test in recent… Read more »

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Jed Dowling

CORPORATE CASH BOOST FOR PRIDE COFFERS

Date: June 29, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

GOLDHAWK was interested to see a reference in The Irish Times to a decision by Grant Thornton accountants to send over 100 members of staff to join a beaming Leo Varadkar on the Dublin Pride parade, which took place last weekend. The move reflects an increasing corporatisation of the gay pride movement here, with businesses… Read more »

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CHRISTOPHER SINGH’S FIRE HAZARD

Date: June 29, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

IN THE wake of the Grenfell Tower disaster, fire safety issues have jumped to the top of the agenda and it was no surprise to see the High Court moving to have a Dublin northside Dublin property vacated on the grounds that it poses a fire risk. The owner of 24 Mountjoy Square East, D1,… Read more »

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Denis and Rupert

Date: June 29, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

WHAT A strange gathering of characters ended up in the Shelbourne Hotel earlier this month paying homage to Rupert Murdoch who had been over to mark the launch of the Oirish edition of The Times newspaper. He was accompanied by Rebekah Brooks and was joined for the lunch by a sort of rent-a-crowd of Irish… Read more »

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The Hot Air Brigade

Date: June 29, 2017 - The Hot Air Brigade

The flat white is the coffee order du jour that places Miriam firmly in the now. She has the air and flair of a millennial … Sarah Caden interviews Miriam O’Callaghan, Sunday Independent Life, Submitted by reader Rebel: John Deasy is the James Dean of Fine Gael. Caption from John Lee article on the Fine… Read more »

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MOVING CLOSER TO DOOM

Date: June 29, 2017 - Foreign Frolics

by BRIAN CLOUGHLEY THE Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has warned that the likelihood of a nuclear war is closer than since 1953. As the bulletin explains, in 1947 it devised the Doomsday Clock “using the imagery of apocalypse (midnight) and the contemporary idiom of nuclear explosion (countdown to… Read more »

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WHY SINN FÉIN WILL JOIN EXECUTIVE

Date: June 29, 2017 - Bird's Eye View

SIMON COVENEY certainly got thrown in at the deep end in Belfast. His first response to the astonishingly brazen deal between the DUP and Conservative Party was limited and incoherent. He said: “I note that the agreement provides for DUP support for British government legislation on Brexit. An enhanced Northern Ireland voice articulating an agreed… Read more »

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LEO VARADKAR’S DISAPPOINTED FANS

Date: June 29, 2017 - Last Refuge

THE biggest blunderer among those involved in the 2010 heave against Enda Kenny was Kieran O’Donnell who, having been made finance spokesman by Kenny to replace rebel leader Richard Bruton, declared for Bruton just two days later. Now another outspoken dissident, John Deasy, finds himself in a similar situation having been left out of Varadkar’s… Read more »

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CORK’S FOREIGN MINISTERS

Date: June 29, 2017 - Last Refuge

THE axing of Dara Murphy, junior foreign minister for European affairs, is seen as the price he paid for supporting fellow Corkonian Simon Coveney against the new Taoiseach in the leadership contest. But there is more to it than that. Last October then foreign minister Charlie Flanagan comprehensively ruled out a special Brexit minister on… Read more »

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Vlad v. Martin

Date: June 29, 2017 - Last Refuge

TÁNAISTE Frances Fitzgerald’s outrage at Micheál Martin’s criticism of Máire Whelan in the Dáil debate last week indicates the high regard the former justice minister has always had for the ex-Attorney General. Well, recently anyway. Fitzgerald interrupted Martin 11 times during the debate – “a disgrace … now you play the woman … withdraw” –… Read more »

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ENDA KENNY’S NEXT MOVE

Date: June 29, 2017 - Last Refuge

LEO VARADKAR’S parliamentary coup has resulted in competing demands from not just ambitious TDs but also senators and others looking for Dáil nominations and an interesting situation is developing in his predecessor Enda Kenny’s Mayo constituency. Enda’s Castlebar neighbour and longtime lieutenant, Senator Paddy Burke, has for long regarded himself as the ex-Taoiseach’s successor in… Read more »

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BEEB MAN KICKS ASS IN RTÉ

Date: June 29, 2017 - Fit to Print?

BBC legend John Simpson once remarked that while RTÉ’s new managing director of news and current affairs, Scouser Jon Williams, was a top journalist and foreign editor, he was not very popular with some BBC journalists as he “was capable of tremendous, titanic rages”. Several senior journalists at Montrose have since discovered that Simpson was… Read more »

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O’BRIEN V KEAVENEY

Date: June 29, 2017 - Fit to Print?

DENIS O’Brien’s brief, Michael Cush SC, told the Court of Appeal last week that former Fianna Fáil TD Colm Keaveney’s Dáil speech criticising O’Brien in 2015 had not included any proposed changes by PR firm Red Flag Consulting. But this flatly contradicts what Cush said on behalf of his client in October 2015 when arguing… Read more »

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Indo savages Varadkar

Date: June 29, 2017 - Fit to Print?

THERE is a distinct polarisation between The Irish Times and Irish Independent on new Taoiseach Leo Varadkar with the Indo attacking him while the IT defended him last week over Máire Whelan’s Court of Appeal appointment. Following last week’s Dáil spat between Micheál Martin and Varadkar, the IT gave saturation coverage to Chief Justice Susan… Read more »

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Dee Forbes

Date: June 29, 2017 - Pillars of Society

THAT RTÉ should scoop €107.5m for its Montrose land bank and yet still be in financial straits says it all about the apparently insuperable problem of sustaining a public service broadcast station. Having sold off the family silver which provided the security for its €50m… Read more »

CLIMATE FRIENDLY LEO VARADKAR?

Date: June 29, 2017 - Fowl Emissions

WITHIN hours of receiving his seal of office from Michael D Higgins, our new Taoiseach took the very deliberate step of publicly distancing himself from Enda Kenny’s (abysmal) record on climate change. During his maiden speech on June 14, Leo Varadkar told the Dáil he was “determined the government should show new ambition when it… Read more »

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Bog Cuttings

Date: June 29, 2017 - Bog Cuttings

Mooning on The Mall A CASTLEBAR man has been sentenced to 18 months in prison after baring his backside to gardaí in the foyer of the District Court. In February, Terry McDonagh, Moneen Road, Castlebar, had to be removed from a sitting of Castlebar District Court because he was using his phone to record proceedings,… Read more »

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Ciarán Garrett

Date: June 29, 2017 - The Young Bloods

CIARÁN GARRETT (26) represents a new generation of Labour Party personalities, seemingly untouched by the party’s recent history. A former chair of Labour Youth, Garrett is considered by the inner circles to be one of the young leading lights and a potential future Dáil candidate in Dublin Central for a party that is desperate to… Read more »

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PETER GAYNOR’S GOOD DEAL

Date: June 29, 2017 - High Society

IT LOOKS like the hapless Olivia Gaynor Long has taken a serious bath in the Residence private members club at 41 St Stephen’s Green. Certainly, the evidence is that the club’s new owner, Olivia’s younger brother, Peter Gaynor, has got himself a pretty good deal. Monaco-based Olivia – who is married to tech moneybags Brian… Read more »

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PETER WHITE’S NEW NEIGHBOURS

Date: June 29, 2017 - High Society

AN IMPOSING late Georgian style house on the corner of Wellington Road and Elgin Road in the heart of Ballsbridge has just gone on the market with a €3.75m asking price. The owners of 16 Wellington Road turn out to be moneybags Peter White, who scooped a fortune from the sale of a property portfolio… Read more »

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JODIE RONAN’S NUPTIALS

Date: June 29, 2017 - High Society

NO SURPRISE to see the Sindo gushing about the wedding of Jodie Ronan – daughter of developer Johnny Ronan and Mary Ronan – to John Savage who, like his bride, is very much part of Johnny’s property team. The 32-year-old Jodie Ronan is chief operating officer of the Ronan Group Real Estate (RGRE) operation, where… Read more »

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SARAH GLENNIE’S BIG PAY HIKE

Date: June 29, 2017 - Behind the Scenes

THE NEW director of the National College of Art and Design (NCAD) is Sarah Glennie, director of IMMA. Her decision to exit Kilmainham comes as something of a surprise given the absence of any sign of a move to advertise the position in the run-up to the end of her five-year IMMA contract in April… Read more »

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SEAN RAINBIRD’s contract

Date: June 29, 2017 - Behind the Scenes

WHILE NCAD has been able to announced that it has a new director, there is still no word from the National Gallery of Ireland (NGI) about its own director. With the gallery on the end of gushing media attention (including this week’s 90-minute promo on RTÉ 1) thanks to its completed refurbishment programme and the… Read more »

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