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Kieran Mulvey

KIERAN MULVEY’S FANCY FOOTWORK

Date: July 27, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

Kieran Mulvey A RULING by the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) that the Irish governing body for tennis – Tennis Ireland (TI) – discriminated against an applicant for the post of chief executive on the grounds of age is not only embarrassing for the tennis blazers but also might prove uncomfortable for the chairman of Sport… Read more »

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Dave Murphy

Young Blood: Dave Murphy

Date: July 27, 2017 - The Young Bloods

Dave Murphy SOLIDARITY press officer Dave Murphy (34) is the most dangerous man in Ireland, or so the Dublin media would have you believe. The Tallaght native has attracted opprobrium from the most respectable elements of the press after his widespread coverage on social media of the Jobstown trial, producing and posting daily videos online… Read more »

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Claire Loftus

THE CASE AGAINST DPP CLAIRE LOFTUS

Date: July 27, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

Claire Loftus SPARE A thought for the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Claire Loftus, who finds herself targeted publicly in a way her predecessors never were. Just over half way through her ten-year contract, the first female DPP has been having an annus horribilis and now Leo Varadkar has stuck the knife in. The most… Read more »

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Pat O'Sullivan

The battle for Conroy Gold

Date: July 27, 2017 - Moneybags

Pat O’Sullivan IT IS an unusual scenario to have an ex-professor of physiology running a gold mining company, especially given that Dick Conroy is now 84 years old. More predictable is that his shareholders in Conroy Gold and Natural Resources (Conroy GNR) are frustrated at the promise of a gold mine in Clontibret, Co Monaghan… Read more »

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Kate Hyde

KATE HYDE’S HAPPY PARTNERS

Date: July 27, 2017 - High Society

Kate Hyde CONGRAULATIONS to Kate Hyde, the woman behind the high profile henparty.ie brand, who was the first Irish businesswoman to be invited to Dell’s global Women’s Entrepreneur Network summit in sunny California. Having made a name for herself on RTÉ’s Dragons’ Den, Kate has attracted oodles of publicity ever since. But the real smart… Read more »

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David and Sabena Power

Dave Power’s Curragh bet

Date: July 27, 2017 - High Society

David and Sabena Power INTERESTING to see money-bags bookmaker David Power, who holds a valuable stake in the Paddy Power Betfair group, deciding to pump some loose change into the big Curragh redevelopment project. He obviously sees this as a good bet. David Power continues to operate his own on-course betting pitch these days and… Read more »

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Domhnal Slattery

Dómhnal Slattery’s des res

Date: July 27, 2017 - High Society

Domhnal Slattery THESE ARE busy times for aviation millionaire Dómhnal Slattery of Avolon aircraft leasing. The moneybags is preparing to move into Ouragh, the Shrewsbury Road pile previously occupied by Sean Dunne and Gayle Killela, which Slattery has picked up for an impressive €5.6m. Meanwhile, the high-flyer is facing some turbulence thanks to difficulties in… Read more »

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Miriam Allen

GENDER DISCRIMINATION IN THE IFB

Date: July 27, 2017 - Behind the Scenes

Miriam Allen IT WAS announced last week that Annie Doona’s Irish Film Board (IFB) is introducing assorted funding schemes that can be accessed only by women. But it turns out that when it comes to gobbling up the taxpayer-funded handouts (sorry, loans), female players are often far from the back of the queue at the… Read more »

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All sizzle, no steak at the Gate

Date: July 27, 2017 - ReviewsTheatre

FEW SHOWS in Irish theatre have prompted as much anticipation as Gatsby at the Gate. The story of the 1920s millionaire playboy in New York, whose wealth and generous decadence are eventually too good to be true – which can also be said of this all-style no-substance production. It’s not that anticipation wasn’t warranted. Selina… Read more »

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Vol. 35 No. 14

Date: July 13, 2017 -

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VARADKAR AND THE ATTORNEYS GENERAL

Date: July 13, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

THE unhealthy politicisation of the office of attorney general has been a hallmark of Fine Gael in government since 2011. And Leo Varadkar has barely been in power a wet week before he has carried on this process by dragging his new AG, Seamus Woulfe, into the political controversy over his remarks about garda evidence… Read more »

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TROUBLE BREWING

Date: July 13, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

HOW EMBARRASSING that the auditors of the company behind a state-backed craft brewery have found that it had contravened assorted Companies Act regulations when preparing the 2015 accounts. This is the brewery operation into which the former head of C&C Ireland, Michael Merrins, has invested €100,000 and is in situ as chairman. Bluebay Ireland, the… Read more »

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PATRICK O’SULLIVAN V RICHARD CONROY

Date: July 13, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

NEXT MONTH well known exploration entrepreneur Richard Conroy, executive chairman of Conroy Gold and Natural Resources, will go head to head with a little known investor, Patrick O’Sullivan, who has managed to build up a 28% stake in the listed vehicle and now wants to shake up what he sees as an underperforming company with… Read more »

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SCHOOL TRIP TO THE HIGH COURT

Date: July 13, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

THE PHONEY war is over in Deansgrange south County Dublin, where the initial salvos over the proposed sale by the Christian Brothers of school playing fields at Clonkeen College have resulted in the almost inevitable lodging of High Court proceedings. “Significant legal costs for all parties” are now forecast. As has been widely reported, earlier… Read more »

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NO ASYLUM FOR KENNY GROUP

Date: July 13, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

IT WAS reported in the Sunday Times last weekend that an accommodation centre for asylum seekers in Limerick was closed as a result of fire safety issues. What was not revealed is that the company behind the centre (which has a capacity to house up to 90 asylum seekers) is a well known west of… Read more »

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Eoghan Harris

WEST BRIT HISTORY FEST

Date: July 13, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

ASSEMBLING Roy Foster, Eoghan Harris, Kevin Myers, Ruth Dudley Edwards and various academic and media fellow travellers in the same room to discuss the War of Independence sounds like a humorous two fingers to the government’s Decade of Centenaries. Already the West Cork History Festival has been dubbed the West Brit History Festival by a… Read more »

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Kenny Libel Win

Date: July 13, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

HOWLS of indignation from Newstalk rang around the media following a front page “exclusive” in the Irish Sun whose headline claimed, “Kenny Facing Radio Axe”, in December 2015. The radio station lodged a High Court writ against Murdoch’s red top and the day after the Sun splash Denis O’Brien’s Irish Independent published a pointed article… Read more »

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Maura King

KING OF THE BAR COUNCIL

Date: July 13, 2017 - Wigs on the Green

CONGRATS to rebel barrister Maura King whose vociferous critique of the Good ’Ol Boys that run the Bar Council saw her top the poll in recent elections to the council with a message demanding that the council “regain the respect of the Bar and the public”. Maura was elected on the first count with 273… Read more »

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The Hot Air Brigade

Date: July 13, 2017 - The Hot Air Brigade

Who knows really, but yesterday, amid all the excitement of Canadian Prime Minister (and all-round dreamboat) Justin Trudeau’s State visit to Ireland, our very own Leo Varadkar became a certified “Sock-star” (badum-tish!) Kirsty Blake Knox, Irish Independent Leo Varadkar is a serious guy. He shouldn’t be afraid of being a serious guy. Brendan O’Connor, Sunday… Read more »

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ALAN FARRELL BUCKS THE TREND

Date: July 13, 2017 - Last Refuge

LEO VARADKAR’S promise of future promotion for the disappointed ones has not assuaged the ire of various unrewarded Fine Gael backbenchers. Immediate threats of rebellion over a government bill were not anticipated within the first weeks of Vlad’s government and yet two of the most militant anti-Kenny rebels behind his long march to power have… Read more »

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AK47 FACING SQUEEZE IN TIPP

Date: July 13, 2017 - Last Refuge

LABOUR leader Brendan Howlin has earmarked Drogheda as the venue for the party’s next think-in to assist Senator Ged Nash’s bid to retain his Louth Dáil seat. But if the Labour leader is seriously concerned about retaining as well as regaining party seats he should pay a visit to Tipperary. The constituency commission has brought… Read more »

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Brian Hayes Home?

Date: July 13, 2017 - Last Refuge

IS the architect of Fine Gael’s 2016 general election debacle, MEP Brian Hayes, about to return to domestic politics? Reports that the party’s 2016 director of elections intends to return to the Dáil have circulated for some time (see The Phoenix, 12/2/16) with Hayes targeting Dublin Bay North (DBN) on the presumption that Richard Bruton… Read more »

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O’CALLAGHAN EMASCULATING MARTIN

Date: July 13, 2017 - Last Refuge

MICHEÁL MARTIN’S Cardinal Richelieu, justice spokesperson Jim O’Callaghan, is coming under serious fire in Fianna Fáil as someone who is leading the party astray and Martin with him. Martin’s recent attack on Leo Varadkar over garda evidence in the Jobstown trial has, yet again, placed the party to the right of a right wing government… Read more »

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DAIL’S WAR CORRESPONDENTS

Date: July 13, 2017 - Fit to Print?

THE Fine Gael leadership contest was a polite straightforward affair compared to the machinations surrounding the election of a new chair of the Oireachtas press gallery at its recent annual meeting. Time was when then INM group political editor, Fionnan Sheahan, as chair of the press gallery committee, ruled with an iron fist and there… Read more »

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Indo Contempt

Date: July 13, 2017 - Fit to Print?

THE Irish Independent’s angst about TD Paul Murphy and supporters of the Jobstown Six being allegedly in contempt of court may be intensified next week depending on the outcome of their appeal against a contempt ruling two years ago over coverage of the Anglo tapes. Then, judge Iseult O’Malley ruled that the Indo and its… Read more »

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TORIES TO PUSH EQUALITY AGENDA

Date: July 13, 2017 - Bird's Eye View

HEIDI ALLEN, Conservative Cambridgeshire South, expressed the outrage of many MPs on both sides of Britain’s parliament when she told the House of Commons: “I can barely put into words my anger at the deal my party has done with the DUP. We didn’t need to do it. I must put on record my distaste… Read more »

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‘MR SHOWBIZ’ DONE FOR FRAUD

Date: July 13, 2017 - Fit to Print?

LEO VARADKAR will have been impressed at the northern Department for Communities’ successful prosecution last month of journalist Paul Martin for defrauding £13,250 benefit, one of 20 such convictions in June. So, too, are the tabloid red tops which are fond of running stories about “dole spongers” with the Irish Mirror titles, daily and Sunday,… Read more »

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Vincent Browne

Date: July 13, 2017 - Pillars of Society

IT IS not exactly characteristic of Vincent Browne to walk out of a €400,000 pa contract which still has a year to run. So what exactly happened to the ringmaster of TV3’s most controversial show which has survived for 10 years under his very personal direction? And where does the septuagenarian interrogator go from here?…. Read more »

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TRUMP’S IRISH ALLIES

Date: July 13, 2017 - Fowl Emissions

DESPITE the efforts of the Trump regime, the international consensus on stepping up action to tackle climate change remains largely intact. In some areas, the pace of change is surprisingly quick. France has announced a complete ban on all petrol and diesel vehicles by 2040. Car manufacturer Volvo will only produce electrics or hybrids from… Read more »

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Bog Cuttings

Bog Cuttings

Date: July 13, 2017 - Bog Cuttings

‘Look at that big thick head on you’ AN EGG seller lost his temper and began shouting abuse at a garda on a street in Birr, a recent sitting of Tullamore District Court was told. Garda Michelle Sweeney from Birr Garda Station told the court that at 2pm on a Wednesday she was driving down… Read more »

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Pat Crean

Pat Crean

Date: July 13, 2017 - The Young Bloods

FRESH-FACED developer Pat Crean (37) has stepped out from the shadow of his former business partner, Greg Kavanagh, and is starting to generate his own headlines. After arriving on the scene with Kavanagh at New Generation Homes, Crean was central to some of the biggest land deals since the crash and now he’s beginning to… Read more »

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CYNTHIA CHUA’S PROPERTY PLAY

Date: July 13, 2017 - High Society

GOLDHAWK was most impressed with the audacious scheme drawn up by the owners of the Deepwell mansion in Blackrock, south County Dublin, involving the proposed sale of the property for €13m, just three years after its purchase from the estate of John Reihill of Tedcastles fame. The current owners are financier and energy investor Nick… Read more »

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Strancally Wedding

Date: July 13, 2017 - High Society

IT IS probably not surprising that there was little coverage of one of the high society weddings of the year – that of Portia Alen-Buckley to her beau in the impressive surroundings of Strancally Castle. Portia is the daughter of wealthy hedge fund operator Michael Alen-Buckley of RAB Capital and Giancarla “Gianni” Alen-Buckley, scion of… Read more »

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BIDDING FOR BALLYMACOLL

Date: July 13, 2017 - High Society

ALTHOUGH NOT confirmed, the name of Frank Dunne of Dunnes Stores fame is doing the rounds as the buyer of Ballymacoll Stud (which neighbours his impressive Hamwood Stud in Co Meath) for a tasty €8.15m. One underbidder was a husband-and-wife team who seem to have a fair few bob at their disposal these days. Despite… Read more »

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ROOM – ABBEY THEATRE

Date: July 13, 2017 - ReviewsTheatre

NEARLY a decade on, Emma O’Donoghue’s breakthrough story keeps on giving. It was only a matter of time before Jack and Ma, and the claustrophobic living space that defines their existence in the Booker nominated Room, made it to the stage. The Canada-based Dubliner “always had a feeling” that it belonged in theatre, she writes… Read more »

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HALAL DADDY – DIRECTOR CONOR McDERMOTTROE

Date: July 13, 2017 - MoviesReviews

FORGET JOHN Carpenter, George A Romero and other masters of horror, there are few more disturbing sights in cinema than the phrase “Bord Scannán na hÉireann presents” appearing in a film’s title credits. Like most movies bearing the legend, Conor McDermottroe’s Halal Daddy has the feel of a potentially promising project hastily completed when last-minute… Read more »

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