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Christy Loftus

RINGER’S WESTERN SPIN

Date: September 7, 2017 - Fit to Print?

MINSTER for Rural Development Michael Ring is at least as conscious of PR and media manipulation as his new boss, Leo Varadkar, and his latest appointments to the Western Development Commission (WDC) reflects this sensitivity. Ringer has just appointed the new WDC board and while that body is supposed to look after seven western counties,… Read more »

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Paddy McKillen’s Hotel Headache

Date: September 7, 2017 - High Society

BAD NEWS for Irish entrepreneur Paddy McKillen whose involvement with the Qatari-owned Maybourne hotel group in London (made up of Claridge’s, the Berkeley and the Connaught hotels) has dragged him into the row between Qatar and Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt. McKillen’s long-running battle with David and Frederick Barclay after he had… Read more »

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Noella Beaumont

TAX RELIEF AT HARRISTOWN DEMESNE

Date: September 7, 2017 - High Society

LAST WEEKEND the Sunday Business Post published a feature, “Houses fit for the sport of Kings”, that examined the stud farm market in Ireland in light of the recent €8m sale of Ballymacoll Stud in Co Meath (see The Phoenix 14/7/17). The most spectacular property featured was surely Harristown House in Co Kildare, which sits… Read more »

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Married Quarters

MARRIED QUARTERS – SHANE CONNAUGHTON (DOUBLEDAY IRELAND)

Date: September 7, 2017 - BooksReviews

SET IN the fictional border town of Butlershill, this sequel to Connaughton’s 1989 short story collection, A Border Station, offers a revealing portrait of rural life in the late 1950s. Narrated primarily through the voice of Danny, teenage son of the local police sergeant, chapters are named after seven individual guards. Each man has his… Read more »

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HUNT ON AT the HUNT MUSEUM

Date: September 7, 2017 - Behind the Scenes

AT LONG last, the job of director of the Hunt Museum in Limerick has been advertised (in the Limerick Leader). This process has somehow taken 15 months to put in train following the surprise exit last year of Hugh Maguire, who now describes himself as a cultural heritage consultant. The job advert states that the… Read more »

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Breege O'Donoghue

NEW FACES AT CRAFTS COUNCIL

Date: September 7, 2017 - Behind the Scenes

THE MINISTER for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Frances Fitzgerald, has just appointed two new members to the board of the Design and Crafts Council of Ireland (DCCI). The two new ministerial appointees are Toby Scott and Andrew Bradley. Scott, a Sligo-based Brit, is described as, er, “a catalyst in the creative industries” and is a… Read more »

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Morgan O'Sullivan

MORGAN O’SULLIVAN’S GERMAN PROBLEM

Date: September 7, 2017 - Behind the Scenes

THE PUBLICATION of the 2016 accounts for Octagon Films Ltd reminded Goldhawk of the ongoing legal tango in the Four Goldmines between Octagon directors Morgan O’Sullivan and James Flynn, and German shareholder W2 Film Filmproduktion und Vertriebs, who are looking for a bigger slice of the action. Octagon, which showed accumulated profits of €300,000, was… Read more »

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Sean Mulryan

SEAN MULRYAN’S SECOND ROUND

Date: September 7, 2017 - Sport of Kings

SEAN MULRYAN’S tentative move back into racehorse ownership has got off to a positive start. His City Ballerina, which runs in the colours of Mulryan’s wife, Bernardine, made a pleasing debut at the Curragh recently, finishing third. Jessica Harrington trains the two-year-old filly for the property developer and although the nag showed potential, she has… Read more »

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Music Box at Dundalk

BALLYDOYLE’S TROJAN WORKERS

Date: September 7, 2017 - Sport of Kings

WITH ALL the media focus on those overworked hapless grooms in Ballydoyle, it is perhaps surprising that nobody has mentioned any of the horses. Readers might spare a thought for the fillies in training there which are barely back in the stable after a race before being carted off to the next gig. Case in… Read more »

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Bryan Cooper

BRYAN COOPER’S DILEMMA

Date: September 7, 2017 - Sport of Kings

BRYAN COOPER is experiencing a bad run of luck that has seen him struggling badly to pick up rides. Will he cross the Irish Sea? In the last two weeks of August, Cooper rode in just seven races when the average number of rides taken by a sample of five of his peers numbered 22…. Read more »

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Breon Corcoran

Paddy Power Betfair no sure thing

Date: September 7, 2017 - Moneybags

IN The Phoenix 20/5/2016 Moneybags warned that Paddy Power shares at €113 were trading on a pro forma p/e multiple of 50 – “a rating that is simply unsustainable”. Breon Corcoran had been running the merged group for 18 months and the delayed platform integration of these two companies is only now being completed. The… Read more »

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Ivan Menezes

Frothy Diageo shares set to go flat

Date: September 7, 2017 - Moneybags

SHARES IN Diageo are flying high following a nice bounce courtesy of the recently published June 2017 results. But the truth is, the lofty share rating is misleading, with much of the froth on the drinks giant’s shares attributable to sterling’s collapse. To date, chief executive Ivan Menezes has proved a poor successor to Paul… Read more »

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David Ingram

Stressful times for David Ingram

Date: September 7, 2017 - Briefcases

MORE on Galvanic Ltd, the intriguing Dublin company that successfully petitioned the High Court to appoint an examiner last month. Fans of Goldhawk will recall that the outfit makes a device called The Pip, which measures stress levels by tracking changes in “electrodermal activity” through the pores on a user’s fingertips (see The Phoenix 11/08/2017)…. Read more »

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Trevor Daly

Trevor Daly is Lovin the new gig

Date: September 7, 2017 - Briefcases

EXCITING times at Niall Harbison’s Lovin media group, which is set to expand operations by opening up franchises in some far-flung places. Maybe this means the struggling outfit – where Leinster rugby star Jamie Heaslip is an investor – will start to make a few quid after shipping heavy losses over the last few years…. Read more »

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Francesca McDonagh

Francesca McDonagh’s headache

Date: September 7, 2017 - Briefcases

INTERESTING to see chief executive of Bank of Ireland Private Banking (BoIPB) Ltd Mark Cunningham announce his departure last week, just a month after the High Court ordered the merger of BoIPB with its parent company. The private banking arm will now operate within the retail division of Bank of Ireland but an appeal has… Read more »

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Sean Doyle

SEAN DOYLE’S BIG SPENDING

Date: September 7, 2017 - Sport of Kings

WEXFORD TRAINER Sean “Farmer” Doyle is back in the crosshairs of the Turf Club team of inspectors following a routine inspection carried out in February that has lead to the trainer copping a small fine of U1,250 for various infringements, based mostly around shoddy workplace practices and poor administration. Elsewhere, he had been attracting attention… Read more »

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Ian Hyland

Ian Hyland ‘reaches out’

Date: September 7, 2017 - Briefcases

GOLDHAWK’s old pal Paddy Cosgrave popped up last week to announce part of the line-up for his next Lisbon Web Summit. Meanwhile Ian Hyland – the man trying to plug the gap left here by Cosgrave’s departure – has been plugging his latest venture in a more private fashion. Fans of Goldhawk will recall that… Read more »

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Doug Minihane

Doug Minihane’s one-way ticket

Date: September 7, 2017 - Briefcases

SPARE a thought for the owners of Cork company Ticketscan Security Services (TSS) Ltd, which has just been put into liquidation. The principals here are listed as Cork businessmen Doug Minihane and Conor Brett and it’s the second of their event management companies to go to the wall in the last five years. The Mahon-based… Read more »

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Chris Donoghue

Spunout’s funding worries

Date: September 7, 2017 - Briefcases

THERE are rumblings of discontent coming from Spunout.ie after a former editorial staff member took to social media last week to complain about a recent round of redundancies at the youth information website. The ex-worker complained that Spunout – where Newstalk’s recently appointed political editor Chris Donoghue is chairman of the board – was hiring… Read more »

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Juice Store’s unhealthy numbers

Date: September 7, 2017 - Briefcases

GOLDHAWK spotted a troubling set of accounts recently filed by a company called The Organic Cold-Pressed Juice Company Ltd. This was the outfit behind Sinful Foods and the Juice Store which operated from the Royal Hibernian Way in Dublin 2, just one of many health food restaurants to have popped up in the capital in… Read more »

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James O’Rourke’s vulture troubles

Date: August 25, 2017 - Briefcases

SPARE a thought for south Dublin publican James O’Rourke whose company, Inveresk Ltd, has just had a receiver appointed to it on foot of an Ulster Bank mortgage from 2000. Ken Fennell was appointed receiver over the mortgage held on a property in Blackrock earlier this month by US vulture fund Cerberus, which bought the… Read more »

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Scammers

Scammers alert!

Date: August 25, 2017 - Briefcases

Scammers GOLDHAWK hasn’t been alerted to an internet registration scam in a while, but it seems that a certain German-based company is up to its old tricks. The outfit is sending out unsolicited letters to companies informing them of changes to European law relating to sales tax invoicing and urging businesses to confirm their details… Read more »

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Darina and John Gately

John Gately’s failed Republic

Date: August 25, 2017 - Briefcases

Darina and John Gately John Gately can’t seem to catch a break. His company, Gately Hospitality Consultants (GHC) Ltd, had to call in the liquidator last month, just two years after his last venture collapsed into liquidation after running out of dosh. GHC is the company behind Gately’s trendy Republic Bar and Grill in Ballincollig,… Read more »

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Gavin McDonagh

Gavin McDonagh’s Ranelagh ‘Brioche’

Date: August 25, 2017 - Briefcases

Gavin McDonagh IT’S been a tough 2017 for Dublin restaurants of all stripes, with the likes of Nick Munier’s up-market Avenue and Barry Sheehan’s trendy Aussie BBQ collapsing suddenly into liquidation earlier this year. The latest establishment to close down is chef/patron Gavin McDonagh’s Brioche, where the liquidator has just been called in. With stints… Read more »

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Sean Fitzmaurice

‘North County Leader’ stops the presses

Date: August 25, 2017 - Briefcases

Sean Fitzmaurice SPARE a thought for Dublin free-sheet the North County Leader, which is set to become the latest local newspaper to shut up shop with the loss of 15 jobs. The company behind the Leader, Else Newspapers Ltd, will hold a creditors meeting at the end of the month to appoint Cormac Mohan as… Read more »

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More troubles for Anthony Fitzpatrick

More troubles for Anthony Fitzpatrick

Date: August 25, 2017 - Briefcases

Sean Ryan MORE trouble for Limerick accountant Anthony J Fitzpatrick’s appeal against the High Court’s decision to remove him as liquidator of Star Elm Frames Ltd. The Revenue was in front of the President of the Court of Appeal, Seán Ryan, last month seeking leave to add new evidence to the case, which it claims… Read more »

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Charles Gallagher

Abbey shareholders miss out on property boom

Date: August 24, 2017 - Moneybags

Charles Gallagher AS FANS of Moneybags are well aware, Charlie Gallagher has run the Abbey house building group before, and especially during, the crash in his very own conservative style – one that also seems to muddy the water between Gallagher family interests and those of the other ‘outside’ shareholders. The has led, as is… Read more »

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Patrick Anderson

The other Irish gold rush – Dalradian

Date: August 24, 2017 - Moneybags

Patrick Anderson WHILE THERE has been significant media interest in the boardroom upheavals at Conroy Gold and Natural Resources, there is an even more interesting gold play further north, in the Sperrin Mountains, where Dalradian Resources is moving forward to develop a much larger gold source than any Conroy has so far found. Dalradian has… Read more »

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Conor O'Dwyer

Conor O’Dwyer’s Comeback

Date: August 24, 2017 - Sport of Kings

Conor O’Dwyer CONOR O’DWYER’S training career is clearly experiencing a renaissance this summer as the Curragh-based handler enjoys the most productive spell of his career in several years. O’Dwyer has trained eight winners so far this year, four on the flat and four over jumps – a total that supercedes the combined number of winners… Read more »

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Joseph O'Brien

O’Brien Jnr Targets Title

Date: August 24, 2017 - Sport of Kings

Joseph O’Brien LAST YEAR’S race for the title of champion jumps trainer proved riveting and went down to the very last day of the season, when Willie Mullins staged a remarkable comeback to wrestle the accolade from the grips of Gordon Elliott. The two trainers dominated the Irish jumps scene, with the pair winning almost… Read more »

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NIck Bradley

Beckford’s Near Miss

Date: August 24, 2017 - Sport of Kings

GORDON ELLIOTT and his team came agonisingly close to gaining a brilliant Group 1 win at the Curragh recently, when Beckford just failed to get to grips with the Aidan O’Brien-trained Sioux Nation in the Phoenix Stakes. While it was O’Brien’s 16th win in the race, victory for Beckford would have provided a juicy bonus… Read more »

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Hannah Kiely

Open Call at Galway 2020

Date: August 24, 2017 - Behind the Scenes

Hannah Kiely Capital of Culture operation has just appointed Chris Baldwin as its creative director and many other important positions have now been filled. However, there is still no sign of some overdue board appointments, despite an ‘open call’ five months ago. Described in The Irish Times as “a citizen of Europe,” Baldwin is more… Read more »

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Chester Beatty Vacancies

Date: August 24, 2017 - Behind the Scenes

IT IS not only Galway 2020 that is short on directors. Over at the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin, there are currently two vacancies on the board, both of which are in the gift of the Minister. The seat held by former National Library of Ireland (NLI) director Pat Donlon has been vacant since November… Read more »

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Annie Doona

Film Board’s Woman Problem

Date: August 24, 2017 - Arts & Entertainment

THE RELEASE by the Irish Film Board (IFB) of its latest round of handouts (sorry, loans) has come rather late in the day and includes a health warning noting “these funding decisions reflect offers of funding only. Some of these offers may expire and thus will not be drawn down”. Moreover, given recent pronouncements, there… Read more »

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Blathnaid Ni Chofaigh

The Mooney Show

Date: August 24, 2017 - RadioReviews

DEREK MOONEY and Bláthnaid Ní Chofaigh are natural born fillers. All broadcasting involves a degree of waffle but both of these second-string RTÉ stalwarts are especially gifted. Given the vast tracts of empty airspace opened up by the annual retreat of Montrose’s heavy-hitters to their holiday homes, it’s surprising that the yappy pair haven’t featured… Read more »

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Love in Row 27

Date: August 24, 2017 - BooksReviews

Eithne Shorthall – (Corvus) THIS DEBUT novel by the arts correspondent with the Sunday Times centres around Cora Hendricks, a Heathrow check-in attendant who likes to play matchmaker with unsuspecting travellers. Presuming that most single passengers are desperately lovelorn, Cora selects potential couples and seats them side by side in row 27 to see if… Read more »

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