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PROVOST PRENDERGAST’S NOISY PERK

Date: April 5, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

A REPORT in Trinity College’s student newspaper Trinity News has raised a few eyebrows about Provost Patrick Prendergast, whose perks of office include free accommodation in the magnificent Provost’s House. It seems the college head and his partner moved out of the plush environs of 1 Grafton Street before Christmas because of the all-night noise… Read more »

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Anne-Marie Dermody’s Legal Spat

Date: April 5, 2017 -

INTERESTING to see south Dublin Fine Gael councillor and solicitor Anne-Marie Dermody facing off against the Law Society – although she is keeping the details under wraps. Dermody was fancied to take a seat for the Blueshirts in the Dublin South-West constituency in last year’s general election but narrowly lost out on the fifth seat… Read more »

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HALAWA’S FRIENDS AND FOES

Date: April 5, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

AN altercation in the Dáil between Green TD Eamon Ryan and Richard Boyd Barrett, People Before Profit, has unlocked a power play that helps to explain the absence of solidarity from our so-called EU allies for Irish citizen Ibrahim Halawa. Goldhawk has already drawn attention to the hundreds of millions of euros (€380m between 2014… Read more »

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The Hot Air Brigade

Date: April 5, 2017 - The Hot Air Brigade

I’m just human. I’ll be human at best, and I’ll try to be the best human I can be, but it doesn’t mean that I don’t want you to put me on a pedestal. I will fall off it but I want you to see me as who I really am. Imelda May interviewed by… Read more »

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BROKENSHIRE’S BROKEN STRATEGY

Date: April 5, 2017 - Bird's Eye View

JAMES BROKENSHIRE, Britain’s hapless northern secretary, has managed to produce unanimous agreement among the northern parties on one point. They all use the word shambolic to describe the talks that weren’t talks which collapsed on March 26. There was no agenda, no structure, no plenary sessions and no agreement on anything other than Brokenshire’s ineptitude…. Read more »

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LEO’S SOUNDBYTES V SIMON’S CHAT-UP

Date: April 5, 2017 - Last Refuge

IN THE space of just nine days to last weekend, Leo Varadkar made eight pointed leadership statements or gestures highlighting the political differences between himself and Simon Coveney. But while Simon was virtually mute by comparison in the same period, he was busy promoting his own leadership credentials in a different MO. Vlad began this… Read more »

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REACTIONARY RENUA RENEWAL

Date: April 5, 2017 - Last Refuge

RENUA leader and Offaly councillor John Leahy is hardly Lucinda Creighton but he has moved to the fore as the single saviour of the party that has more money than members (the party gets €250,000 pa as it won 2% of the vote at last year’s general election). Leahy turned down an initial offer of… Read more »

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FF Split on Gardaí

Date: April 5, 2017 - Last Refuge

WHO speaks for the bulk of Fianna Fáil members on the question of whether Garda Commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan should be forced out of office? John McGuinness or justice spokesperson Jim O’Callaghan? In the 12 months leading up to the latest crisis, O’Callaghan twice saved the commissioner from getting her P45. The first time was in… Read more »

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BERTIE’S BOY ABANDONED?

Date: April 5, 2017 - Last Refuge

THE latest effort to reintroduce Bertie Ahern to Fianna Fáil crashed and burned at last week’s Comhairle Dáil Ceantair meeting in Dublin Central. Rumour spread that the meeting would hear Bertie’s response to last November’s invitation extended by Dublin Central (DC) members to rejoin the party. Instead there was much recrimination from two older lady… Read more »

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MYERS AND MOTHERS’ MILK

Date: April 5, 2017 - Fit to Print?

EXHIBITING characteristic tenderness for society’s victims, Sunday Times columnist Kevin Myers condemned those “pseudo republican papist zealots” and Irish society as a whole for conspiring to “stigmatise unmarried mothers”, as in the Tuam mothers and babies scandal. This produced several responses in the ST’s letters pages but thankfully, a reference in one such letter to… Read more »

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Post V. INM

Date: April 5, 2017 - Fit to Print?

DAVID McWILLIAMS has disappeared from the pages of the Sunday Business Post and is now disporting his flamboyant talents in the Saturday edition of the mid-market Irish Independent. Post editor Ian Kehoe had tolerated McWilliams writing for the Post as well as the Wednesday edition of the Indo for some years but when the Indo… Read more »

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McGUINNESS: HERO OR MONSTER?

Date: April 5, 2017 - Fit to Print?

THE Daily and Sunday editions of the Mail in Ireland published some measured articles on Martin McGuinness following his recent death, chronicling his deadly IRA phase as well as his contribution to the peace process. But British editions of the Mail had a rather different take on McGuinness. On the day of his funeral the… Read more »

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Alan Kelly, TD

Date: April 5, 2017 - Pillars of Society

THERE is an official and an unofficial agenda at this month’s Labour Party conference. The first is an attempt to breathe life into the nearly extinct party and the second is to marginalise Labour bold boy Alan Kelly who still lurks with leadership intent. Brendan Howlin is not exactly James Connolly – not even Brendan… Read more »

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ECO WARRIORS OF DESTINY

Date: April 5, 2017 - Fowl Emissions

IS FIANNA FÁIL in danger of becoming the party of the environment? The wonders of new politics have allowed grassroots campaigners to arm-twist Micheál Martin’s party into resisting at least two Government attempts recently to erode environmental protections. Last October, Sligo FG backbencher Tony McLoughlin’s Private Member’s bill to ban fracking unexpectedly passed second stage… Read more »

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Bog Cuttings

Date: April 5, 2017 - Bog Cuttings

The play is the thing for the Healy-Raes THERE was another packed house in Castleisland recently as hundreds came out to see the much talked-about play, The Rise and Rise of the Healy-Raes. The play, written by Killarney storyteller and actor Ray O’Sullivan, tells the story of two bachelor brothers, Densey and PJ Doona, who… Read more »

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Katie Ascough

Date: April 5, 2017 - The Young Bloods

SHARP INTAKES of breath were practically audible from college campuses across the country last month when Katie Ascough (20), a conservative anti abortion activist, was elected president of UCD’s student union (SU). It seems incredible that students who just last year mandated their union to campaign for liberalisation of abortion laws would elect someone as… Read more »

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RATING THOSE RICH LISTS

Date: April 5, 2017 - High Society

WHILE IT is generally accepted that the so-called rich lists published by the Sunday Times and Sindo are of little real value to those who want to know what Irish moneybags are actually worth, the real fun comes from the huge differences in the wealth levels attributed to the Irish super rich. When it comes… Read more »

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ANNA LIN’S WARDROBE

Date: April 5, 2017 - High Society

LOTS OF activity to report for Patrick and Anna Lin Parsons of Birr Castle – or Lord and Lady Oxmantown as they are now known. Patrick, eldest son of Brendan and Alison Parsons (Earl and Lady Rosse), has been busy setting up new investment vehicles targeting the Chinese market, where he has had some experience…. Read more »

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CARNIVALESQUE – NEIL JORDAN (BLOOMSBURY CIRCUS)

Date: April 5, 2017 - BooksReviews

IN BOTH his fiction and films, Neil Jordan has frequently been drawn into dream worlds of ghosts and tangled fairytale horror. This latest novel returns to the changeling idea as a device to explore familiar themes of identity and coming-of-age. It is a dark fanciful story set in a supernatural circus where nothing is ever… Read more »

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THE EFFECT – PROJECT ARTS CENTRE

Date: April 5, 2017 - ReviewsTheatre

AFTER PRODUCING a few notable pieces for the stage, British writer Lucy Prebble seems to have moved on from theatre to TV comedy, chirpy guest columns for the likes of GQ and scenes for cinematic shoot-em-up video games. Perhaps she realised that it’s tricky to tackle political issues, such as the boardroom malfeasance at the… Read more »

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THE SECRET SCRIPTURE – DIRECTED BY JIM SHERIDAN

Date: April 5, 2017 - ReviewsTV

ALTHOUGH IT sticks to a conventional approach familiar from the hoariest of melodramas, Jim Sheridan’s adaptation of Sebastian Barry’s Booker-nominated novel The Secret Scripture does at least buck one particular trend: that of Irish movies getting an easy ride from domestic reviewers, including the invariably upbeat Irish Times. Certainly, Sheridan faced an uphill battle to… Read more »

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PATRICK SUTTON’S RESIGNATION

Date: April 5, 2017 - Behind the Scenes

A FILING in the Companies Office last week showed, Patrick Sutton, long-time Director of the Smock Alley 1662 theatre in Dublin’s Temple Bar, stepped down as a member of the board last year. It is unclear if this is something that might get the Arts Council to loosen its purse strings. Sutton – whose Gaiety… Read more »

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CRAFT COUNCIL CANDIDATES

Date: April 5, 2017 - Behind the Scenes

THE CLOSING date has now passed for those who fancy serving on the board of the Design and Crafts Council of Ireland (DCCI), where jobs and enterprise minister Mary Mitchell O’Connor is preparing to make two appointments. Goldhawk expects plenty of applications were received, given there is at least a few bob on the table…. Read more »

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ANNIE DOONA’S AGENDA

Date: April 5, 2017 - Behind the Scenes

WHILE THE new board members of the Irish Film Board (IFB) get their feet under the table, and chair designate Annie Doona awaits her Oireachtas Committee rubber stamp, the recent mauling of a couple of big Irish film projects looks set to accelerate the drive to significantly increased funding for female directors, if they can… Read more »

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MAGNIER AND SHEIKH MOHAMMED

Date: April 5, 2017 - Sport of Kings

THE LONG-RUNNING and entertaining coolness between the Coolmore and Godolphin powerhouses looks to be finally fizzling out. For many years there has been a quasi trade embargo between the two rivals, especially when it came to yearling sales, when either team overlooked the progeny of the other team’s stallions. This often left breeders who used… Read more »

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PAT DOYLE’S LATE CALL

Date: April 5, 2017 - Sport of Kings

AN INTERESTING scenario was revealed at Cork races recently after the Pat Doyle-trained Kaiser Black won a five-runner maiden hurdle in effortless fashion. His trainer revealed after the race that he hadn’t planned on running the odds-on favourite, until he received a call from someone in Horse Racing Ireland (HRI) after the 10am declaration deadline… Read more »

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BLUEBLOODS AT NAAS

Date: April 5, 2017 - Sport of Kings

NAAS RACECOURSE manager Tom Ryan was no doubt excited to have hosted the opening day of the flat season recently, after the curtain-raiser was transferred to Naas from the Curragh building site. He also had a bonus at the end of the day. Some smart animals were in action throughout the day but nothing of… Read more »

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Wayne Jordan’s Rough Ride

Date: April 5, 2017 - Sport of Kings

ON JUST his second ride for Aidan O’Brien since joining the Ballydoyle squad of jockeys, Wayne Lordon found himself in hot water with the Dundalk stewards last week over the running and riding of Coolmore-owned newcomer Music Box. Lordan’s tender handling of the filly as she ran on to finish third to stablemate Asking (ridden… Read more »

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KIERAN FALLON’S FUTURE

Date: April 5, 2017 - Sport of Kings

FORMER MULTIPLE champion jockey and all round troubled soul, Kieran Fallon, is seriously considering a training career. Fallon has spent the winter in Dubai riding track work for Godolphin trainer Saeed Bin Suroor and with the culmination of the Dubai carnival, Fallon is now contemplating his immediate future. Options include a similar work riding role… Read more »

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High-risk investment in the Ardagh Group

Date: April 5, 2017 - Moneybags

LAST MONTH Paul “the Cooler” Coulson managed to raise €295m by floating off 7% of the Ardagh Group SA on the New York Stock Exchange. This is fresh equity for the group which has debts of over €7bn, and so represents relative peanuts but is possibly vital to keep the show on the road. Coulson… Read more »

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CRH needs the right person in the chair

Date: April 5, 2017 - Moneybags

IN JUST over three years since his appointment as chief executive in January 2014, Albert Manifold has done an excellent job running CRH. A significant part of his success has been down to implementing policies long highlighted to fans of Moneybags. This involved abandoning the scatter-gun small acquisition strategy and instead targeting large-scale expansion of… Read more »

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Leo Sherlock’s late filing

Date: April 5, 2017 - The Hot Water Brigade

TWO separate civil actions for breach of copyright against Goldhawk’s old pal Leo Sherlock are about to kick off in Ardee District Court. It will be recalled that Sherlock, who traded as the The Liberal.ie, is being sued by the Irish Independent and separately by court news reporting agency CCC Nuacht Teoranta over claims that… Read more »

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Nicholas O’Connor’s woes continue

Date: April 5, 2017 - The Hot Water Brigade

SPARE a thought for accountant Nicholas O’Connor who has just had his practising certificate withdrawn by Chartered Accountants Ireland (CAI) following a review by the institute’s quality assurance committee. Although CAI isn’t explaining why the committee took the decision, the Wexford number cruncher has had his share of spats with the institute’s disciplinary tribunal and… Read more »

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Cathal Pendred’s retirement plan

Date: April 5, 2017 - The Hot Water Brigade

FORMER Irish mixed martial artist Cathal Pendred is currently making the move into acting but a set of accounts filed recently by his company suggests that life after hanging up the gloves is no easy switch. Once upon a time, Dubliner Pendred was a high profile teammate of Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) superstar Conor McGregor… Read more »

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Ian Tighe’s eye-watering losses

Ian Tighe’s eye-watering losses

Date: April 5, 2017 - The Hot Water Brigade

MORE on Jed Dowling, the festival director behind Dublin LGBTQ Pride which reported a large deficit for 2015 in its latest set of accounts filed in February (see The Phoenix 24/02/2017). Dowling is an optician by trade and is listed as a director of Donal MacNally Opticians (DMO) Ltd, which also filed a troubling set… Read more »

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