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Susan Denham

A heads up

Date: July 27, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

Susan Denham Retiring Chief Justice Susan Denham has called for new guidelines to be considered to regulate social media during trials. For more on the outgoing chief justice see Pillar of Society. You can also read about social media, contempt and the Jobstown trial in our Young Blood profile of Solidarity press officer Dave Murphy.

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Trina Vargo

TRINA VARGO’S VENGANCE

Date: July 27, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

Trina Vargo “MY EXPERIENCES with the Irish Film Board (IFB) are kind of like James Comey’s experiences with President Trump – I’ve learned to take notes in the meetings, or as soon as I walk out the door, because I can expect alternative facts to follow.” Thus does the bolshy Trina Vargo of the US-Ireland… Read more »

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Dermot-Desmond

Plutocrats’ Pow-Wow

Date: July 27, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

Dermot Desmond MORE ON that strange plutocrats’ pow-wow at Dublin’s Shelbourne Hotel last month, when Rupert Murdoch was in town for the launch of the Irish edition of The Times newspaper. There was much scratching of the heads in D2 over the make-up of the group of mostly heavy-hitters who turned up to pay homage… Read more »

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Maura King

Paul McGarry v Maura King

Date: July 27, 2017 - Wigs on the Green

Maura King THE poll topping performance of dissident barrister Maura King who argued for greater transparency and accountability in recent elections to the Bar Council saw the Good Ol’ Boys strike back in double quick time with a long, detailed message to its 2,000 plus members. This rapid response enabled council chairman Paul McGarry and… Read more »

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Denis O'Brien

WILL DINNY GO FOR BROKE?

Date: July 27, 2017 - Wigs on the Green

Denis O’Brien NEXT MONTH’S annual general meeting of Independent News and Media (INM) will be a bumpy affair and awkward questions will be unavoidable on issues such as that bid to buy Newstalk, the investigation of the company by the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement and the relationship between the company’s chief executive,… Read more »

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Ruairi Quinn

QUINN NOW HEADS EURO QUANGO

Date: July 27, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

Ruairi Quinn CHAIRMAN of the Institute of International and European Affairs (IIEA), Brendan Halligan (81), has moved aside and has been bestowed with the more honorific title of president of an entity that has brought the securing of dole-outs from the state to a high art form. And the man that has replaced him as… Read more »

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Lisa Chambers

FF’s Friendly Faces

Date: July 27, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

Lisa Chambers THERE have been silly season rumblings against FF’s communications director, Pat McParland. A particular grievance is the selection by McParland, guided by the real boss, Deirdre Gillane, of front benchers for media outings. The repetitive selection of new Mayo TD, Lisa Chambers and the less photogenic Meath East TD, Thomas Byrne, has caused… Read more »

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Colm Toibin

The Hot Air Brigade

Date: July 27, 2017 - The Hot Air Brigade

Colm Toibin The page is not a mirror. It is blank when I start to write, but it contains a version of the world when I finish. It is there for others to be inspired by. Slowly then, a sentence or set of sentences that have their own integrity, their own sense of balance, their… Read more »

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Donald Trump

THE STORY BEHIND THE JERUSALEM ATTACK

Date: July 27, 2017 - Foreign Frolics

Donald Trump By Ramzy Baroud Al-Aqsa is believed to be the second mosque ever to be built, the first being Masjid al-Haram in Mecca. The Holy Quran mentions it as the place from which Prophet Mohammed ascended to heaven, journeying from Mecca to Jerusalem. For Palestinians, Muslims and Christians alike, the Mosque took on a new… Read more »

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GOVE’S DUP LOVE-IN

Date: July 27, 2017 - Bird's Eye View

Michael Gove THE visit of Michael Gove, Britain’s controversial Environment Secretary, to one of the north’s premier agricultural shows at Antrim was for some people akin to letting a fox loose among the prize poultry. When Theresa May disinterred Gove’s political career and re-appointed him to the Cabinet after her disastrous election, environmentalists protested. Some… Read more »

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Marcella Corcoran Kennedy

BIPARTISAN DRINKS PARTIES

Date: July 27, 2017 - Last Refuge

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy THE alacrity with which Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil voted through a bill allowing pubs to open on Good Fridays contrasts with the interminable obstruction that has seen the Public Health (Alcohol) Bill postponed indefinitely. Leo Varadkar’s equivalent of the Queen’s speech on being installed as Taoiseach last month included a pledge… Read more »

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Noel Rock

VARADKAR’S DISAPPOINTED FANS

Date: July 27, 2017 - Last Refuge

Noel Rock FURTHER signs of mutinous discontent among the ranks of those who fought not wisely but too well in support of Leo Varadkar’s seizure of the Fine Gael leadership have surfaced following earlier signs of disaffection from the same quarter. TDs Alan Farrell and Pat Deering, both passed over in Vlad’s appointment of new… Read more »

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Colm Keaveney’s Return

Date: July 27, 2017 - Last Refuge

FIANNA FÁIL’S Galway East TD Anne Rabbitte felt a slight chill when party leader Micheál Martin told Galway Bay FM last week that former TD Colm Keaveney would be on the party ticket at the next general election. A former Labour Party chairman, Keaveney joined… Read more »

Stephen Donnelly

STEPHEN DONNELLY IRKS FF INSIDERS

Date: July 27, 2017 - Last Refuge

Stephen Donnelly STEPHEN DONNELLY, who recently joined Fianna Fáil and was appointed the party’s Brexit spokesman, is experiencing a rather mixed welcome. A waspish line in Miriam Lord’s Irish Times column recently suggested he could become FF’s version of George Lee. The resurrection of Donnelly’s former critique of FF – a party characterised by “jobs… Read more »

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Paul Williams

PAUL WILLIAMS IN THE BOX

Date: July 27, 2017 - Fit to Print?

Paul Williams THE Sunday Independent’s extensive feature on Paul Williams’ evidence to the Charleton Tribunal described how the ”pre-eminent crime journalist of his time … gave as good as he got with no side drawing blood after he faced five senior counsel over several hours”. But the Sindo article omitted various pieces of evidence that… Read more »

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Brendan O'Connor

Brendan O’Connor for TV3?

Date: July 27, 2017 - Fit to Print?

Brendan O’Connor THE personalities mentioned as successor to Vincent Browne’s TV3 programme have ranged from Ivan Yates to Matt Cooper and the venerable David Davin Power. But TV3 heads Bill Malone and Aoife Stokes have been negotiating with Sunday Independent and RTÉ host on The Saturday Night Show, Brendan O’Connor, to take over the show… Read more »

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TRIBUNAL WITNESSES

Date: July 27, 2017 - Fit to Print?

TRIBUNAL chairman Mr Justice Charleton made a most significant statement about the motivation of witnesses when it was suggested by Paul Williams’ barrister Rossa Fanning that former Irish Independent journalist Gemma O’Doherty “may have an axe to grind with Independent Newspapers”. O’Doherty wrote to the tribunal to say that Williams had the garda file on… Read more »

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Emmanuel Macron

VARADKAR IS NO MACRON

Date: July 27, 2017 - Fowl Emissions

Emmanuel Macron A “fundamental societal transformation”. With these words, on the first page of his Government’s (very) long-awaited National Mitigation Plan (NMP) on climate change, published last week (July 19), Leo Varadkar rallied the nation to begin the long march out of the fossil fuel quagmire and into the promised land of post-carbon. Now, as… Read more »

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Bog Cuttings

Bog Cuttings

Date: July 27, 2017 - Bog Cuttings

‘Silly lady’ drenches little girl A 63-YEAR-OLD Ratoath woman pleaded guilty to assault in Trim District Court after drenching her neighbour’s three-year-old daughter with a garden hose. Karen Beattie of Somerville, Ratoath, denied the offence but eventually entered a guilty plea. The child’s father, Anthony McLoughlin, told the court that he was inside the house… Read more »

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THE BLOOD MIRACLES – LISA McINERNEY (JOHN MURRAY)

Date: July 27, 2017 - BooksReviews

THE FOLLOW-UP to Lisa McInerney’s award-winning 2015 debut, The Glorious Heresies, returns to the adventurous life of Ryan Cusack. The 20-year-old “mid-ladder dealer” is now struggling to maintain his uneasy position as one of Cork’s hard men. Ryan has issues. His mental health is unstable and his relationship with on-off girlfriend Karine is faltering. Most… Read more »

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PILGRIMAGE – DIRECTED BY BRENDAN MULDOWNEY

Date: July 27, 2017 - MoviesReviews

THE MEDIEVAL thriller Pilgrimageí opens with a scene that could be read as a metaphor for the cinemagoer who frequents Irish films, as a man is hauled out into the wild and pelted with stones while he begs for mercy. Fast-forward a few centuries and the rock that killed the sainted figure is being readied… Read more »

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Theo Cullinane

BLACK HOLE BY THE LEE

Date: July 27, 2017 - Behind the Scenes

Theo Cullinane WHAT ON earth is going on at the proposed Cork Event Centre? The construction company charged with the delivering the 6,000-seat venue, BAM (where Theo Cullinane is chief executive), has failed to progress the project five years after planning permission was obtained and the cost to the taxpayer now looks set to almost… Read more »

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Rose Mchugh

ROSE MCHUGH’S PRIORITIES

Date: July 27, 2017 - Behind the Scenes

Rose Mchugh THE NEW chair of the Crawford Art Gallery, accountant Rose McHugh, has plenty on her plate in Cork where the retirement of Peter Murray has left a gaping hole. McHugh is chair of the listed Origin Enterprises and also on the board of XiuLan hotels, the Chinese group that owns the Fota Island… Read more »

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Denis Hogan

HOGAN’S WISHFUL WINNINGS

Date: July 27, 2017 - Sport of Kings

Denis Hogan THE APPEALS and Referrals division of the Turf Club has had a busy month as the robustness of rule 212 has been tested recently by trainer Denis Hogan. The Tipperary man appealed a 42-day ban dished out to his horse Meadow Cross at Down Royal in June, on the basis that he was… Read more »

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RONNIE WOODS’S NEXT HIT?

Date: July 27, 2017 - Sport of Kings

ALL ROADS lead to Ballybrit this week as the seven-day bonanza for the Galway Races. It will be interesting to see how Dermot Weld and Tony Martin fare on the training front. Both are Galway specialists, with Weld the undoubted supremo, although he did get bested as leading trainer last year by Willie Mullins. Also… Read more »

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Henry de Bromhead

DRAMA AT KILLARNEY

Date: July 27, 2017 - Sport of Kings

Henry de Bromhead KILLARNEY’S summer festival provided its share of drama, with the penultimate race declared void after Stars Over The Sea was deemed to have been allowed a headstart over his rivals. The Henry de Bromhead-trained horse was proving reluctant to line up with the remainder of the field and, having eventually consented to… Read more »

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Caravaggio

EVEREST TOO STEEP FOR ‘CARAVAGGIO’?

Date: July 27, 2017 - Sport of Kings

Caravaggio JOHN MAGNIER has gone on public record over Coolmore’s great white hope, Caravaggio, potentially serving as a much needed breeding outcross to the harem of blue-blooded Galileo mares the farm has accumulated over the past decade. This is now likely to temper upcoming race choices. Having been hailed by Aidan O’Brien as the fastest… Read more »

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Bob Etchingham

Applegreen fuels share price growth

Date: July 27, 2017 - Moneybags

Bob Etchingham EVEN THOUGH Applegreen floated off in July 2015, raising e95m in fresh equity, it is still unclear what happened in December 2013 when the joint special liquidators of IBRC, Kieran Wallace and Eamonn Richardson, decided to allow holders of 12 specific IBRC loans to bid directly to buy out these loans from the… Read more »

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Paul Stenson

Paul Stenson’s bad reviews

Date: July 27, 2017 - Briefcases

Paul Stenson THIN-SKINNED restaurant proprietor Paul Stenson is generating plenty of publicity of the wrong sort for his café in Phibsboro, D7, after becoming embroiled in an online spat with a customer who, er, gave his restaurant a negative review. A quick look at his company accounts may provide clues as to why he’s so… Read more »

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Leo Sherlock’s libel woes

Date: July 27, 2017 - Briefcases

Leo Sherlock GREAT to see Goldhawk’s old pal Leo Sherlock back in the news after his two copyright rows were settled in Ardee District Court earlier this month. But the Louth man’s legal troubles are far from over with a High Court defamation case coming down the tracks that could put a stop to his… Read more »

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Huibrecht Luykx’s “lifestyle”

Huibrecht Luykx’s “lifestyle”

Date: July 27, 2017 - Briefcases

PJ Lynch SPARE a thought for Goldhawk’s old pals Belgian-Irish businessman Huibrecht Luykx and his wife Sally Ann Luykx who have been restricted in the High Court from acting as company directors for five years. The restriction order arose from their behaviour at a company called Windsor Corporate Catering, which was wound up in 2013… Read more »

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Jay Bourke

Jay Bourke’s Shebeen hangover

Date: July 27, 2017 - Briefcases

Jay Bourke DUBLIN restaurateur Jay Bourke had a bad day in the High Court courtesy of Judge Robert Haughton. Bourke was disqualified from acting as a company director for eight years with one year suspended arising out of his behaviour at the storied Shebeen Chic Ltd in an action brought by liquidator PJ Lynch, who… Read more »

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Paddy Holohan (Left)

Paddy Holohan’s “Staffing issue”

Date: July 27, 2017 - Briefcases

Paddy Holohan (Left) CONGRATULATIONS to former Dublin UFC fighter Paddy Holohan, who is opening up his brand new Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) gym, SBG Dublin 24, next week. Fans will be delighted that ‘the Hooligan’ is back in action after announcing his early retirement from the sport last year but his pals at his old… Read more »

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Niall Sullivan’s failure to file

Date: July 27, 2017 - Briefcases

SPARE a thought for retired accountant Niall Sullivan who was fined €4,000 and ordered to pay €3,500 in costs by the disciplinary tribunal of Chartered Accountants Ireland (CAI). UK-based Sullivan did not attend his hearing in Chartered Accountants House on Dublin’s Pearse Street where two formal allegations were levelled against him. Sullivan, who started his… Read more »

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Aussie BBQ

Burnt BBQ

Date: July 27, 2017 - Briefcases

Aussie BBQ BAD news for fans of the trendy Aussie BBQ restaurant on South Richmond Street in D2 where the High Court has appointed Miles Kirby as liquidator on foot of a petition by the Revenue. Regular readers will recall that Rathmond Ireland Ltd — the company behind the restaurant, owned by South Dublin businessman… Read more »

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Susan Denham

PROFILE: SUSAN DENHAM

Date: July 27, 2017 - Pillars of Society

Susan Denham AS SHE heads into bucolic retirement, Chief Justice Sue Denham will have ample time to enjoy the “horses and gardens” she once told an international Who’s Who were her favourite hobbies. Ever so modestly, she made it known she didn’t want the usual gushing tributes from unctuous underlings on her last day in the… Read more »

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