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COOLMORE CREW’S CASH

Date: May 30, 2024 - High Society

ASSORTED IRISH racehorse owners featured prominently on the recent UK Sunday Times ‘Rich List’ and those with Coolmore connections were to the forefront. Some other familiar runner and riders featured too. Bahamas-based currency trader Joe Lewis ranked highest of those listed at 38th, with a guesstimated fortune of £5.3bn. The rather secretive Lewis – the… Read more »

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Lisa Jordan Zip Yard

KEEPING IT ZIPPED AT ‘VIP’

Date: May 30, 2024 - High Society

THE USUAL suspects (sorry, “the country’s best dressed fashionistas”) were out in force at the Irish InterContinental Hotel in D4 last month for the VIP Style Awards, with the judges giving the thumbs-up to Katja Mia, Bonnie Ryan, Doireann Garrihy and Lisa Jordan. The latter’s Best Dressed on the Night win featured a slightly awkward… Read more »

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Maura McGrath Linda Coogan Byrne

ARTS COUNCIL ARRIVALS

Date: May 30, 2024 - Behind the Scenes

AT LONG last, the membership of the Arts Council, which has a budget this year of €134m, is back to its full complement for the first time in over a year. The new chairwoman is HR consultant (and, until recently, chair of the National Concert Hall) Maura McGrath. She is joined by NCAD emeritus professor… Read more »

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Tailored Films Screen Ireland Perspectives DCCI Crescine Tarka Russell Lara Hickey Reality Check Sarah McInerney Irish Movies Paul Murray Arts Council Dublin Theatre Festival TWU Macdara Kelleher Richard Boyd Barrett DADC Cillian Murphy Terry McMahon Media Commission Ireland Kerlin Gallery Creative Ireland Section 481 Christine O’Donovan RTÉ Storyland NMI Board Vacancies IASCA Ossie Kilkenny RTÉ Original Programmes

ELAINE GERAGHTY’S CONCERNS

Date: May 30, 2024 - Behind the Scenes

GOLDHAWK WAS not surprised to see the latest lobbying campaign kicking off for Irish movie and TV producers. Hardly had the ink dried on the EU Commission’s thumbs-up for Michael McGrath’s generous package for offshore productions – one that increases the tax break cap per film or TV series to €125m – than assorted movers… Read more »

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Kia Joorabchian

KIA’S CHANGING ROSTER

Date: May 30, 2024 - Sport of Kings

OWNED IN partnership by Amo Racing and Giselle De Aguiar, Bucanero Fuerto galloped to success in the Naas Group 3 Goffs Lacken Stakes for dairy farmer and part-time trainer Adrian Murray and his more than capable assistant, Robson Aguiar. Remarkably, it was the Wootton Bassett colt’s third group race success in less than 10 months… Read more »

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Ed Dunlop David Dunsdon Sarah Lynam Rebecca May Wayne Hassett Eoin O'Brien Michael Burke Aine O’Connor Ashroe Diamond Thomand O’Mara Peter Keatley Timmy Hyde Coolmore All About Sunday Colin Keane Ronan Whelan JP McManus Jessica Harrington Dundalk Racecourse Paul Hensey Irish National Hunt Horse-racing Doping Paddy Walsh Tom Kelly Suspension

MICHAEL H BURKE’S BLOODSTOCK

Date: May 30, 2024 - Sport of Kings

MICHAEL JAMES Burke, son of Chanelle Pharma founder Michael Hilary Burke and brother-in-law of Tony (Sir Anthony) McCoy, has been accused, in an English court case, of involvement in an international money-laundering scam, a claim that he strenuously denies. His Dubai-based real estate and travel concierge business has been implicated in the Southwark Crown Court… Read more »

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Ken Murphy

TIME FOR KEN MURPHY TO TAKE TESCO OUT OF EASTERN EUROPE

Date: May 30, 2024 - Moneybags

DUBLIN-BASED Cork native Ken Murphy has one of the biggest retailing jobs in Britain, heading up the £62bn Tesco behemoth. Founded by Jack Cohen over 100 years ago in 1919, the business now dominates the British grocery market. While the UK and Ireland markets have been delivering the goods, an exit from eastern Europe should… Read more »

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Cathal Friel

CATHAL FRIEL’S EGT LOOKS TASTY FOR RISK TAKERS

Date: May 30, 2024 - Moneybags

AT A time when there are fewer and fewer flotations on this side of the Atlantic, Cathal Friel, the CEO and founder of small Dublin finance house Raglan Capital, stands out as one of the few active participants in the market. He is certainly proactive – as well as Raglan Capital facilitating IPOs, Friel is… Read more »

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Andy Noonan

ANDY NOONAN’S BARBECUE

Date: May 30, 2024 - Briefcases

Big Grill food festival, run by barbecue boy Andy Noonan, kicks off in August in Herbert Park, Ballsbridge, with tickets costing €30 a head (or €65 if you want to access the, er, exclusive covered area with “posh toilets”). This is the 10th year of the beano and Noonan has recently expanded into east London,… Read more »

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Vanessa Greenwood

THE GREENWOODS’ FAILED RECIPE

Date: May 30, 2024 - Briefcases

THE LIQUIDATOR of Cooks Academy Ltd (CAL) has just filed his penultimate report into the winding up of the eponymous cookery school established by Vanessa and Tim Greenwood. It is clear that there are no left overs for the unsecured creditors here. CAL was established at the height of the boom in 2006 when there… Read more »

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Budget Jack Chambers Nicki Minaj B’Tselem Phil Hogan UCD IRTA DIGI Katy Brown Rory Godson Pallonji Mistry Shark Hanlon Frances Ruane Taste of Dublin Listowel Writers’ Week Paddy Curran Harvey Norman Anton Savage Paul Hourican Enda O’Coineen PfP Red C Poll IFTA Ben Gilroy Luke Comer Sue Spence Fingleton Aubrey McCarthy Matt Cooper Parker Green Danny McConnell Gayle Killilea Maura Derivan Ed Honohan INS Arts Council EDAF Emuse Rosslare Golf Club Mairead Casey Colm O’Rourke Stephen Connolly Peter Aiken John Malone Tom Barry Anthony Halpin Ian Kehoe Kevin Bakhurst Geraldine O’Leary Dennis Horgan RUSI Gareth McAllister Ryevale House Joe Macken RUC Omagh Patrick Connolly Paddy Cosgrave The Ditch Newstalk Fake Tan Fred Logue Ian Paisley Sean O’Riordan Margaret Sweeney Jay Bourke Ellie Kisyombe Francesca McDonagh Ted Cunningham National Space Centre An Irish Goodbye Oscar Robert Quirke Ciara Kelly Executive Women Gathering Doug Taylor Florian Haufe Robbie Henshaw Bill Shipsey Breaking the Silence L’Ecrivain Ronan McNally National Lottery Michael Roche Energy Action Balls.ie Newspapers VAT Abbey Theatre Patricia Madden Irish Banking Culture Board Randox Aoife Gallagher Book Dalai Lama Trinity Trevor White RTÉ Chairperson Shane Houlihan Noel Smyth IKC Bob Geldof Landlord Ireland Neutrality Ukraine

GO HARVEY, GO!

Date: May 30, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

THERE MUST have been high fives in the commercial department at Mediahuis last week when free-spending Harvey Norman managed to take a lofty second place out of the 150 companies deemed by the Sindo to have made it on to its list of ‘Ireland’s Best Employers 2024’. The Aussie furniture, electrical and computer retailer has… Read more »

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Budget Jack Chambers Nicki Minaj B’Tselem Phil Hogan UCD IRTA DIGI Katy Brown Rory Godson Pallonji Mistry Shark Hanlon Frances Ruane Taste of Dublin Listowel Writers’ Week Paddy Curran Harvey Norman Anton Savage Paul Hourican Enda O’Coineen PfP Red C Poll IFTA Ben Gilroy Luke Comer Sue Spence Fingleton Aubrey McCarthy Matt Cooper Parker Green Danny McConnell Gayle Killilea Maura Derivan Ed Honohan INS Arts Council EDAF Emuse Rosslare Golf Club Mairead Casey Colm O’Rourke Stephen Connolly Peter Aiken John Malone Tom Barry Anthony Halpin Ian Kehoe Kevin Bakhurst Geraldine O’Leary Dennis Horgan RUSI Gareth McAllister Ryevale House Joe Macken RUC Omagh Patrick Connolly Paddy Cosgrave The Ditch Newstalk Fake Tan Fred Logue Ian Paisley Sean O’Riordan Margaret Sweeney Jay Bourke Ellie Kisyombe Francesca McDonagh Ted Cunningham National Space Centre An Irish Goodbye Oscar Robert Quirke Ciara Kelly Executive Women Gathering Doug Taylor Florian Haufe Robbie Henshaw Bill Shipsey Breaking the Silence L’Ecrivain Ronan McNally National Lottery Michael Roche Energy Action Balls.ie Newspapers VAT Abbey Theatre Patricia Madden Irish Banking Culture Board Randox Aoife Gallagher Book Dalai Lama Trinity Trevor White RTÉ Chairperson Shane Houlihan Noel Smyth IKC Bob Geldof Landlord Ireland Neutrality Ukraine

ANTON SAVAGE’S CLIENTS

Date: May 30, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

NEWSTALK WEEKEND presenter Anton Savage pitched into the 2FM crisis of its departing stars – Jennifer Zamparelli, Doireann Garrihy and the 2 Johnnies – with enthusiasm, and then some, last Saturday and Sunday. So voluble did Anton become he felt it necessary to tell listeners that they would be wrong to think that Newstalk and… Read more »

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Sue Gray

STARMER AND SUE GRAY’S ENEMIES

Date: May 16, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

THE LIKELY advent of Labour leader Keir Starmer and his chief of staff, Sue Gray, at the helm of the British government is already causing ripples in Whitehall and Northern Ireland Office (NIO) circles, both of which have experience of Gray’s modus operandi as a watchdog for the permanent government and the deep state in… Read more »

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Alan Moloney

PROFILE: ALAN MOLONEY

Date: May 16, 2024 - Pillars of Society

BACK IN 2016, film and TV producer Alan Moloney of Parallel Films; James Morris, founder of Windmill Lane and former Screen Ireland chairman; and US producer Gary Levinsohn of Saving Private Ryan fame put together a proposal for a huge film and TV studio complex on a 20-acre site on the Poolbeg peninsula in Dublin…. Read more »

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John McGahon

YOUNG BLOOD: JOHN MCGAHON

Date: May 16, 2024 - The Young Bloods

WITH A third of Fine Gael TDs announcing that they will not be seeking a return to the Dáil at the next general election, including Louth’s Fergus O’Dowd, there is a search for a candidate who can take his seat and Dundalk-based senator John McGahon thinks he’s the man for the job. John is the… Read more »

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Stella Creasy Justice Humphreys

RWANDA WARNING IGNORED

Date: May 16, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

THE DRAMATIC and forceful actions being taken by the current Government to address the refugee crisis, however unsympathetic they are to refugees, indicate a serious issue being tackled by a serious Government. As it happens, in Belfast’s High Court this week Mr Justice Humphreys made a ruling that may or may not have eased the… Read more »

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Nuala Jackson

BANK OF IRELAND’S ‘EXCEPTION’

Date: May 16, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

LATER THIS month, Judge Nuala Jackson will deliver a ruling in the High Court on a matter than could have significant implications for Bank of Ireland (BoI). At issue is whether a cache of documents that the bank is claiming are covered by legal privilege can be released on the grounds that the privilege has… Read more »

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TCDMichael O'Leary

CARELESS TCD

Date: May 16, 2024 - Fowl Emissions

FOR THE embattled dons of Trinity College Dublin (TCD), one PR disaster – being forced by its students to divest from Israeli companies on a UN investment blacklist – was unfortunate. Two, and it’s beginning to look like carelessness. First, TCD climbed down after sustained student protests – and loss of income at its lucrative… Read more »

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JAMES KELLY’S CRYPTO CHALLENGE

Date: May 16, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

THE FIRST report from the liquidator of James Kelly’s collapsed crypto-trading operation, Gigabyte Investment Ltd (GIL), reveals that there is plenty of investigating to be done before this winding up is completed. GIL was founded three years ago by then 21-year-old Kelly (grandson of developer Paddy Kelly) and his UCD pal, Sam Molloy, while foreign… Read more »

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Willie O'Dea

O’DEA’S MEDIA MESSAGE TO MARTIN

Date: May 16, 2024 - Fit to Print?

MICHEÁL MARTIN’S media maestro, Paul Clarkson, and Martin’s political brain, Deirdre Gillane, will have been very interested in the take of former minister, Willie O’Dea, on the upcoming local and EU elections in the Sunday Independent, which contain a cryptic message – threat even – about possible adverse results for Fianna Fáil early next month…. Read more »

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Budget Jack Chambers Nicki Minaj B’Tselem Phil Hogan UCD IRTA DIGI Katy Brown Rory Godson Pallonji Mistry Shark Hanlon Frances Ruane Taste of Dublin Listowel Writers’ Week Paddy Curran Harvey Norman Anton Savage Paul Hourican Enda O’Coineen PfP Red C Poll IFTA Ben Gilroy Luke Comer Sue Spence Fingleton Aubrey McCarthy Matt Cooper Parker Green Danny McConnell Gayle Killilea Maura Derivan Ed Honohan INS Arts Council EDAF Emuse Rosslare Golf Club Mairead Casey Colm O’Rourke Stephen Connolly Peter Aiken John Malone Tom Barry Anthony Halpin Ian Kehoe Kevin Bakhurst Geraldine O’Leary Dennis Horgan RUSI Gareth McAllister Ryevale House Joe Macken RUC Omagh Patrick Connolly Paddy Cosgrave The Ditch Newstalk Fake Tan Fred Logue Ian Paisley Sean O’Riordan Margaret Sweeney Jay Bourke Ellie Kisyombe Francesca McDonagh Ted Cunningham National Space Centre An Irish Goodbye Oscar Robert Quirke Ciara Kelly Executive Women Gathering Doug Taylor Florian Haufe Robbie Henshaw Bill Shipsey Breaking the Silence L’Ecrivain Ronan McNally National Lottery Michael Roche Energy Action Balls.ie Newspapers VAT Abbey Theatre Patricia Madden Irish Banking Culture Board Randox Aoife Gallagher Book Dalai Lama Trinity Trevor White RTÉ Chairperson Shane Houlihan Noel Smyth IKC Bob Geldof Landlord Ireland Neutrality Ukraine

PAUL HOURICAN’S SURPRISE

Date: May 16, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

AN ENGLISH firm, Igniyte Ltd, has just registered a judgment for a paltry €15,000 against a company owned by Goldhawk’s favourite landlord, Paul Hourican. It appears to have something to do with the management of his business’s reputation. Fans of The Phoenix will be familiar with Hourican’s rental adventures thanks to the high-profile collapse of… Read more »

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VOL 42 NO 10

Date: May 16, 2024 -

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Budget Jack Chambers Nicki Minaj B’Tselem Phil Hogan UCD IRTA DIGI Katy Brown Rory Godson Pallonji Mistry Shark Hanlon Frances Ruane Taste of Dublin Listowel Writers’ Week Paddy Curran Harvey Norman Anton Savage Paul Hourican Enda O’Coineen PfP Red C Poll IFTA Ben Gilroy Luke Comer Sue Spence Fingleton Aubrey McCarthy Matt Cooper Parker Green Danny McConnell Gayle Killilea Maura Derivan Ed Honohan INS Arts Council EDAF Emuse Rosslare Golf Club Mairead Casey Colm O’Rourke Stephen Connolly Peter Aiken John Malone Tom Barry Anthony Halpin Ian Kehoe Kevin Bakhurst Geraldine O’Leary Dennis Horgan RUSI Gareth McAllister Ryevale House Joe Macken RUC Omagh Patrick Connolly Paddy Cosgrave The Ditch Newstalk Fake Tan Fred Logue Ian Paisley Sean O’Riordan Margaret Sweeney Jay Bourke Ellie Kisyombe Francesca McDonagh Ted Cunningham National Space Centre An Irish Goodbye Oscar Robert Quirke Ciara Kelly Executive Women Gathering Doug Taylor Florian Haufe Robbie Henshaw Bill Shipsey Breaking the Silence L’Ecrivain Ronan McNally National Lottery Michael Roche Energy Action Balls.ie Newspapers VAT Abbey Theatre Patricia Madden Irish Banking Culture Board Randox Aoife Gallagher Book Dalai Lama Trinity Trevor White RTÉ Chairperson Shane Houlihan Noel Smyth IKC Bob Geldof Landlord Ireland Neutrality Ukraine

ENDA O’COINEEN’S STRATEGY

Date: May 16, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

EARLIER THIS MONTH, the Business Post published a cry to arms under a headline that warned: “The Irish media sector won’t hold out against social media”. The piece was written on foot of Mediahuis’s proposed purchase of The Journal, which is where the Biz Post also happened to be sniffing around. The Business Post Group… Read more »

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Budget Jack Chambers Nicki Minaj B’Tselem Phil Hogan UCD IRTA DIGI Katy Brown Rory Godson Pallonji Mistry Shark Hanlon Frances Ruane Taste of Dublin Listowel Writers’ Week Paddy Curran Harvey Norman Anton Savage Paul Hourican Enda O’Coineen PfP Red C Poll IFTA Ben Gilroy Luke Comer Sue Spence Fingleton Aubrey McCarthy Matt Cooper Parker Green Danny McConnell Gayle Killilea Maura Derivan Ed Honohan INS Arts Council EDAF Emuse Rosslare Golf Club Mairead Casey Colm O’Rourke Stephen Connolly Peter Aiken John Malone Tom Barry Anthony Halpin Ian Kehoe Kevin Bakhurst Geraldine O’Leary Dennis Horgan RUSI Gareth McAllister Ryevale House Joe Macken RUC Omagh Patrick Connolly Paddy Cosgrave The Ditch Newstalk Fake Tan Fred Logue Ian Paisley Sean O’Riordan Margaret Sweeney Jay Bourke Ellie Kisyombe Francesca McDonagh Ted Cunningham National Space Centre An Irish Goodbye Oscar Robert Quirke Ciara Kelly Executive Women Gathering Doug Taylor Florian Haufe Robbie Henshaw Bill Shipsey Breaking the Silence L’Ecrivain Ronan McNally National Lottery Michael Roche Energy Action Balls.ie Newspapers VAT Abbey Theatre Patricia Madden Irish Banking Culture Board Randox Aoife Gallagher Book Dalai Lama Trinity Trevor White RTÉ Chairperson Shane Houlihan Noel Smyth IKC Bob Geldof Landlord Ireland Neutrality Ukraine

NATO: WHAT’S IN A NAME?

Date: May 16, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

THE AVALANCHE of articles in mainstream media demanding that Ireland abandons neutrality has been accompanied by the Defence Forces becoming closer to both Nato and the EU’s burgeoning military forces. Every now and then reference is made in leaks from the Defence Forces about a new subgroup or project under the umbrella of Nato’s Partnership… Read more »

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Paddy Merrigan

PADDY MERRIGAN’S WILD RIDE

Date: May 16, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

FORMER JOCKEY Paddy Merrigan – who once claimed to have blown a million quid on drink, drugs and women – delivered an extended live monologue about Irish racing through his Mad Merrigan Coldbeer Sports online video on May 2. Its contents should, perhaps, have carried a health warning and the rant didn’t stay up for… Read more »

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Colin Wallace Henry Barron

‘NEITHER FANCIFUL NOR ABSURD’

Date: May 16, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

FIFTY YEARS ago this month, four UVF car bombs blew apart 34 people in Dublin and Monaghan. The late Henry Barron, a retired judge of the Supreme Court, investigated the atrocities for the Irish government. He concluded that suspicion of British intelligence involvement was “neither fanciful nor absurd”. He reached that conclusion before the emergence… Read more »

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Paul Bew EAP

BRITS ON STICKY WICKET

Date: May 16, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

BRITAIN’S UNILATERAL decision to stifle victims’ ability to seek truth and justice via its Legacy Act has been condemned not only by the Irish Government but also by the Council of Europe’s commissioner for human rights, the UN’s commissioner for human rights and all political… Read more »

Ursula von der Leyen EDIS

BRITISH ARMS FOR A UNITED IRELAND!

Date: May 16, 2024 - Hush Hush

WHEN EUROPEAN Commission president Ursula von der Leyen and Josep Borrell, the EU’s high representative for foreign affairs and security policy, recently introduced the first ever European Defence Industrial Strategy (EDIS), they were doing so after a comprehensive process with key stakeholders. These included member states, the defence industry, the financial sector, think tanks, academics and… Read more »

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Michael Flatley

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: May 16, 2024 - The Hot Air Brigade

I know there’s a lot of celebrity people that sign their names to certain whiskeys. This is absolutely not the case with what we’re doing. Michael Flatley on the launch of Flatley Whiskey, Business Post I remember the beautiful plainness of the event, the quiet dignity and respect displayed by working people – a butcher… Read more »

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TOM LYONS’S AIRPORT ANXIETY

Date: May 16, 2024 - Fowl Emissions

Won’t anyone think of Dublin Airport? Journalist and The Currency CEO Tom Lyons this week bemoaned the “myopic unwillingness” of our lily-livered politicians to make the “brave but necessary call” and expand Dublin Airport. Yes, Lyons acknowledged, we need to develop greener ways of flying but clearly this is a mere trifle compared with the… Read more »

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Vincent Kearney Barry McCaffrey

NO PHONE UNTAPPED

Date: May 16, 2024 - Northwind

Investigative journalist Barry McCaffrey and journalist film maker Trevor Birney got more than they bargained for when their case against the PSNI’s unlawful snooping on them finally came before Britain’s Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) a fortnight ago in London. The IPT is a superior court with a judge presiding. It considers complaints about covert action… Read more »

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Michael McDowell

MICHAEL McDOWELL LURKS STILL

Date: May 16, 2024 - Last Refuge

THERE HAS been relative silence from Michael McDowell and his right-wing fellow travellers since he led the alarmingly successful revolt against the liberal establishment and Government’s referendums on ‘family’ and ‘care’ last March. But such restrained behaviour should not be misinterpreted as a retreat from the fray – Field Marshall McDowell and his officers are… Read more »

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Bertie Ahern

BERTIE AHERN TRIES TO SAVE FF

Date: May 16, 2024 - Last Refuge

FIANNA FÁIL leader Micheál Martin may not appreciate it but one feels sure that his predecessor as leader, Bertie Ahern, had the best interests of the party in mind, and indeed the current leader, with his recent remarks about a united Ireland. One is equally sure that former taoiseach Bertie’s decision to speak at a… Read more »

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Eugene Murphy

SENATOR MURPHY V JUDGE SIMONS

Date: May 16, 2024 - Last Refuge

AN INTERESTING spat between Fianna Fáil senator Eugene Murphy and Friends of the Irish Environment (FIE) has arisen following remarks by Murphy in the Seanad recently concerning Judge Garrett Simons. The senator said that the judge had adjudicated in a case involving FIE but that he had also acted previously as a legal advisor to… Read more »

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Niall Boylan New Right

DUBLIN EU NEW RIGHT COMPETITORS

Date: May 16, 2024 - Last Refuge

THE RASH of candidates on the new right in the Dublin EU constituency – seven candidates come under this category – constitutes a surplus that is likely to damage all of them, with radio shock-jock Niall Boylan of Independent Ireland (II) perhaps emerging out of the less than magnificent seven to present a credible vote… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: May 16, 2024 - Bog Cuttings

BAILED FOR 30 MINUTES A 43-year-old man was arrested for breaching the terms of his bail some 30 minutes after it had been granted. Peter Kelly, of Glendallon, Ballytivnan, Sligo, had been charged with a number of public order offences, criminal damage and theft, and had been released on the condition that he refrain from… Read more »

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