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SHANE RYAN’S MANSIONS

Date: March 9, 2017 - High Society

AT LAST Shane Ryan has got around to lodging a planning application for his latest abode – the former French consulate on Ailesbury Road. Not surprisingly, the property hungry moneybags has attracted a couple of objections. It will be recalled (see The Phoenix 2/12/16) that last year, Shane Ryan’s Palladian mansion on Kilboy estate outside… Read more »

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ABOUT BEING NORMAL – DES FENNELL (SOMERVILLE)

Date: March 9, 2017 - BooksReviews

“THE ‘ECONOMIC foundation of independence’ cannot be built in a context of decreasing independence … It can be built … only in an independent nation which is reliant primarily on itself … [Our] comprehensive ‘modernisation’ … was comprehensively denationalising because it occurred in conditions of dependence.” Such fighting talk about the political and intellectual failure… Read more »

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DANIEL AND MAJELLA’S B&B ROAD TRIP – RTÉ ONE

Date: March 9, 2017 - ReviewsTV

FOLLOWING their initial success on UTV Ireland, the Donegal crooner and his wife have been nabbed by RTÉ for the new series of their laidback travel show. The format could hardly be simpler. Majella drives her rather famous partner through picture postcard landscapes to various upmarket B&Bs where they receive royal treatment. Along the way,… Read more »

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THE GOOD PEOPLE – HANNAH KENT (PICADOR)

Date: March 9, 2017 - BooksReviews

HANNAH KENT’S second novel follows her internationally successful debut, Burial Rites, the disquieting account of a young wife executed for her role in a murder that happened in Iceland in 1829. It also continues her preoccupation with real historical cases of women forced by dreadful circumstances into life-and-death decisions. Set in Co Kerry in 1825,… Read more »

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A TAXING MATTER FOR IAN JOYCE

Date: March 9, 2017 -

A VISUAL arts centre and artists retreat in a remote part of Donegal on the outskirts of Gortahork, which closed down in 2015, is now the subject of a High Court winding up petition by the Revenue no less. The operation has previously attracted bucket-loads of taxpayers’ dosh. Cló was established by local artists Ian… Read more »

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GARRY HYNES FEELS THE HEAT

Date: March 9, 2017 - Behind the Scenes

WITH Druid Theatre’s artistic director Garry Hynes coming in for fierce criticism over the lack of female playwrights in the company’s latest programme, one man who may have permitted himself a wry smile is former Abbey boss Fiach Mac Conghail. Hynes was quick to lock and load when Mac Conghail found himself under fire in… Read more »

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AND THE AWARD GOES TO …

Date: March 9, 2017 - Behind the Scenes

THE ANNUAL gong show season is upon us again and after the Oscars debacle, Áine Moriarty and Deirdre Hopkins at the IFTAs will also be looking to restore their own profile in light of the negative media coverage in recent years. Given how James Hickey’s Irish Film Board (IFB) has got rather more picky about… Read more »

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PHILIP’S CHELTENHAM HOPES

Date: March 9, 2017 - Sport of Kings

PHILIP REYNOLDS, son of former Taoiseach Albert, had a day to remember in March last year when he saw his own silks in the winner’s enclosure at Cheltenham for the first time. He is looking for more of the same this year but the handicapper has not been kind. Reynolds’s Mall Dini, trained in Galway… Read more »

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RACE ON FOR NEW STUD BOSS

Date: March 9, 2017 - Sport of Kings

OUTGOING Irish National Stud (INS) chief executive John Osborne certainly won’t be paying Brian Kavanagh a debt of gratitude any time soon. Meanwhile, the runners and riders are lining up for the race to succeed Osborne at the INS. Osborne is not permitted to seek another reappointment as chief of the state-owned stud even by… Read more »

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Tough Turf Club Tactics

Date: March 9, 2017 - Sport of Kings

The Turf Club’s stewards are not shy about implementing the new rules for alleged “non-triers”, particularly so when it comes to the smaller yards. They showed no leniency to the female duo of jockey Rachael Blackmore and trainer Ellmarie Holden when they appealed their respective five-day ban and U2,000 fine over the running and riding… Read more »

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SHEIKH FAHAD’S JUMPER

Date: March 9, 2017 - Sport of Kings

QATARI SHEIKH Fahad Al Thani has a good chance of adding a Cheltenham Festival win to his international haul of big race wins, which includes a Melbourne Cup and an Irish 1000 Guineas. Looks like he is developing a taste for the jumps. Fahad, who is a first cousin to the Emir of Qatar, has… Read more »

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UDG’s accounting manoeuvres

Date: March 9, 2017 - Moneybags

OVER THE past 16 years, Liam Fitzgerald dramatically transformed United Drug from being the biggest Irish wholesale drug and distribution company supplying most hospitals and 60% of Irish retail pharmacies to a company today that is not involved in drug distribution. Instead, it has turned itself into a marketing and promotion subcontractor to the drug… Read more »

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DCC shareholders sitting pretty but party is now over

Date: March 9, 2017 - Moneybags

TOMMY BREEN’S €270m acquisition of Esso’s retail petrol network in Norway last month and, even more so, last week’s decision to sell off DCC’s environmental division contradicts the group’s so-called strategic review, conducted at then chairman Michael Buckley’s request, after Jim Flavin had to stand down following the Fyffes insider trading scandal. Today DCC is… Read more »

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Jerry Carey’s pals in China

Date: March 9, 2017 - The Hot Water Brigade

MORE on Jerry Carey, the Cork businessman who has been a godsend for the political career of Fine Gael junior minister Dara Murphy. It will be recalled that Carey was a long-time pal of Murphy’s father and that his influence around Blueshirt HQ was a key factor in Murphy being added to the general election… Read more »

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Niall McGarry’s high standards

Date: March 9, 2017 - The Hot Water Brigade

CONGRATULATIONS are in order to hard-necked “new media” mogul Niall McGarry whose company, Maximum Media Network Ltd – the outfit behind the Joe.ie website – filed healthy looking accounts recently. However, the picture is very different for McGarry and his biggest investor, former Ireland and Munster rugby player Jerry Flannery, at their UK operation, Joe.co.uk…. Read more »

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End of the line for Noel McFeely

Date: March 9, 2017 - The Hot Water Brigade

SPARE a thought for Derry builder Noel McFeely who has been declared bankrupt in the north. McFeely follows in the footsteps of his brother, cowboy builder Tom McFeely, who was declared bankrupt in 2012 and who, as it happens, had a bad day in the High Court recently. Once upon a time Noel was a… Read more »

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‘Cloud bleed’ hits Captains?

Date: March 9, 2017 - The Hot Water Brigade

STRANGE that a recent major internet security breach went unreported in the Irish media recently. The phenomenon known as “cloud bleed” affected over four million web domains including a host of popular websites and apps, forcing a lot of people to change their passwords. In February, Google discovered a big mistake in something called Cloudflare,… Read more »

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Familiar names feature on defaulters list

Date: March 9, 2017 - The Hot Water Brigade

GOLDHAWK spotted some familiar names on the Revenue’s latest list of tax defaulters. Disgraced former District Judge Heather Perrin was hit with a tax judgment for close to €¼m in relation to under-declared income tax. It will be recalled that Perrin was handed a two-and-a-half year sentence in 2012 after she conned an elderly client… Read more »

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More tax trouble for Michael O’Leary

Date: March 9, 2017 - The Hot Water Brigade

SPARE a thought for Michael O’Leary (not that one) who has just had yet another judgment registered against him by the dreaded taxman, this time for €87,000. Wexford accountant O’Leary will be familiar to fans of Goldhawk for the various scrapes he’s been involved in and he mostly recently appeared in these pages as a… Read more »

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Vol.35 No.04

Date: February 23, 2017 -

February 24 – March 9, 2017

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BRUTON LURKS WITH INTENT

Date: February 23, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

THE studied but pregnant silence of Richard Bruton in the fevered Fine Gael leadership war could yet presage a surprise bid from the man that nearly unseated Enda Kenny seven years ago. Bruton has already executed the calculated and successful tactic of refusing to declare any leadership intentions while Kenny remains in situ. “There is… Read more »

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WHO editor Lisa Gaughran and Publisher Mike Hogan

LISA GAUGHRAN’S SETTLEMENT

Date: February 23, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

HAVING weathered a high profile legal action from top magazine publisher Norah Casey of Harmonia (the company behind the likes of Irish Tatler, Woman’s Way and U magazines), Lisa Gaughran is busy making money in her latest incarnation. Meanwhile, figures just filed show that Gaughran and hubby Garret Whelan have avoided a potentially ruinous outing… Read more »

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EUGENE McDERMOTT’S €7M REPRIEVE

Date: February 23, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

THERE WAS a surprising ruling in the High Court earlier this month when Judge Max Barrett threw out a €7m judgment against former high profile Kildare stud farm owner Eugene McDermott. The case, which attracted national attention at the time, will now have to be reheard. The appointment of a receiver by IBRC to McDermott’s… Read more »

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MARTIN BENDS TO O’CALLAGHAN

Date: February 23, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

THAT spat between Fianna Fáil’s Jim O’Callaghan and justice minister Frances Fitzgerald about whether or not O’Callaghan had alerted Fitzgerald to the Tusla file on Maurice McCabe has all the characteristics of a red herring. It served to divert attention away from FF’s limp position on garda commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan as well as the cracks… Read more »

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MARY COUGHLAN JOINS SENECA GROUP

Date: February 23, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

INTERESTING TO see that Ann Carrigy has just stepped down as a director of the new nursing home group, Seneca Healthcare. The fledgling company is the brainchild of a pair of brothers from Donegal who have managed to attract a rather remarkable bunch of directors, including former minister Mary Coughlan. Seneca Healthcare Ltd was only… Read more »

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MAHON: FINAL ACT?

Date: February 23, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

WITH Joe Murphy’s court case against the Mahon Tribunal finally listed for hearing next week, the paying public may learn at last what went on backstage at what was once the greatest blockbuster – estimated costs so far €160-€300m – in town. Established in October 1997 and supposedly to be all over by Christmas that year, the Flood Tribunal’s… Read more »

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TERENCE’S TITLES

Date: February 23, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

Terence O’Rourke (Left) A REPORT in The Irish Times last week focused on a hefty fine levied by the Central Bank against an advisory firm called Kinsale Capital Management (KCM) for breaches of regulations up to 2015. Presumably, there wasn’t room in the report to refer to the arrival six months ago on the board… Read more »

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REFERENDUM BLUES FOR PRIDE FESTIVAL

Date: February 23, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

WHILE MEMBERS of the gay community often find themselves moving ahead of trends, it turns out that the directors of Dublin Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgendered Queer (LGBTQ) Pride company are very much out of date when it comes to filing their figures. Moreover, the ones who have eventually been lodged reveal a big overspend in… Read more »

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Trinners Shinners

Date: February 23, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

INTERESTING to see that the student unions of Trinity College, UCD and NUI Galway will hold referendums on whether the unions should support a united Ireland. Even more interesting is the fact that it was Trinners students – not traditionally known for wearing the green jersey – who set the trend, with a motion tabled… Read more »

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Letters to the Editor

Date: February 23, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

WHITE WASH? Dear Editor It is perfectly understandable that Ronan Fanning would give a wide berth to a diplomatic report attributing offensive and sensational expressions to a person then still alive (see The Phoenix, 10/2/17). I would have some doubt that Major McDowell, then managing director of the Irish Times, when criticising his editor Douglas Gageby… Read more »

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RED LINES IN BELFAST

Date: February 23, 2017 - Bird's Eye View

VOTERS IN the north next Thursday won’t be electing a new executive. They’ll be electing negotiating teams. No one, including Dublin and London, believes there’ll be an executive formed in the foreseeable future. Officially Charlie Flanagan and the northern secretary, the appropriately named James Brokenshire, do not contemplate a period without a northern administration but… Read more »

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FINE GAEL LEADERSHIP CONTEST – SIMON COVENEY

Date: February 23, 2017 - Last Refuge

SIMON COVENEY’S Fine Gael leadership pitch is heavily dependent on securing support from the Enda Kenny old guard. But while the latter regard Leo Varadkar as an over-ambitious parvenu they have not forgotten that the Cork aristocrat played a very devious game during the failed 2010 mutiny. That was six years ago, since when Simon… Read more »

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FINE GAEL LEADERSHIP CONTEST – LEO VARADKAR

Date: February 23, 2017 - Last Refuge

THE gay genie is out of the bottle in the Fine Gael leadership contest and two former Fine Gael operators-turned-hacks – ex-minister Ivan Yates and Gay Mitchell’s presidential campaign handler John Downing – who have a good understanding of the party were dancing around the subject last weekend. The Sindo’s Brendan O’Connor was, characteristically, a… Read more »

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RE-IMAGINING RTÉ

Date: February 23, 2017 - Fit to Print?

ON April Fool’s Day last year RTÉ board chair Moya Doherty announced the appointment of Dee Forbes as director general saying: “The appointment of Dee Forbes stands to mark a significant moment in the development of RTÉ…. one where the future shape and financing of public service broadcasting is being re-imagined.” Since that mission statement,… Read more »

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The Hot Air Brigade

Date: February 23, 2017 - The Hot Air Brigade

Everyone that’s worked in government knows that there’s such a thing as government bandwidth. Alastair Campbell interviewed on RTÉ Radio 1 Because this is where it gets even stranger. This is where it goes from eyebrow raising to pure WTF. Gene Kerrigan on the McCabe scandal, Sunday Independent In the fast-moving world of politics, where… Read more »

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Irish Times inequality

Date: February 23, 2017 - Fit to Print?

JANUARY WAS undoubtedly a bad month for the paper of record, with its rivals gleefully seizing upon an admonishment by the Works Relations Commission for a breach of equality legislation at The Irish Times. There could be more trouble brewing, however. The IT was found to have discriminated against a female subeditor on the basis… Read more »

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