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THE ABBEY’S UNPAID CHAIR

Date: March 23, 2017 - Behind the Scenes

WITH A new chair of the Abbey Theatre to be appointed, following the retirement of former High Court judge Bryan McMahon, the list of applicants will be limited by the demanding workload outlined in the job advert, in return for which not a single cent will be earned. The closing date for submissions of interest… Read more »

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ARTS COUNCIl MONEY MAN

Date: March 23, 2017 - Behind the Scenes

A NEW adviser is in place at 70 Merrion Square, whose job it is to advise Arts Council clients how to tap the coffers of the wealthy. Last summer, the Arts Council advertised for applications to provide “private investment adviser services”. The new adviser is Kieran MacSweeney, whose role is “to develop sector wide private… Read more »

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IFB MEMBERS’ ‘RELATED TRANSACTIONS’

Date: March 23, 2017 - Behind the Scenes

COMPARED TO much larger statutory bodies like RTÉ, Annie Doona’s Irish Film Board (IFB) has always taken its time when it comes to releasing its annual report. Last week’s quiet posting on the IFB’s website of the 2015 report confirms the pattern, despite having been signed off by the board on October 11 last. Doona… Read more »

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CHASING THE IRISH NATIONAL

Date: March 23, 2017 - Sport of Kings

WITH AN increased prize-fund of a cool €1/2m, the Boylesports Irish Grand National is now Ireland’s most valuable jumps race – one that will most likely have a major bearing on who will be crowned Ireland’s champion national hunt trainer this season. It is no surprise then that Gordon Elliott, now setting a relentless pace… Read more »

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THE JAPANESE ARE COMING

Date: March 23, 2017 - Sport of Kings

LEOPARDSTOWN boss Pat Keogh has long made known his desire to see a Japanese-trained horse compete at the track and he has come a step closer to realising that ambition. An agreement has been reached between Horse Racing Ireland (HRI) and the Japan Racing Association to allow the winner of the Group 1 Osaka Hai… Read more »

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Jessica Harrington

CHELTENHAM TALES

Date: March 23, 2017 - Sport of Kings

CHELTENHAM delivered the usual array of stories but it is a festival one jockey will rather forget. Barry Geraghty’s injury two weeks before the festival provided a gilt edge opportunity for Mark Walsh to gain an elusive first win at the meeting, having stepped in to ride a number of JP McManus’s horses. Things started… Read more »

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SARAH FORAN’S TAX BILL

Date: March 23, 2017 - Sport of Kings

Sarah Foran (Left) RACEHORSE owner, Sarah Foran may have to scale back her racing interests after she made a €114,000 settlement with the Revenue Commissioners in the last quarter of 2016 for under-declaration of capital acquisition tax following an audit. Foran is married to bloodstock agent Michael Donohoe, who works with the Irish bloodstock agency… Read more »

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AIB flotation plan does not add up

Date: March 23, 2017 - Moneybags

WITH FINANCE minister Michael Noonan preparing to sell-off 25% of AIB and, as a taster, preparing to pay out a dividend of €250m, the question remains: Is this irresponsible given last year’s European Banking Authority (EBA) stress test report, which identified AIB as Europe’s second most vulnerable bank? Investors who pay any heed to the… Read more »

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Aer Lingus bargain helps IAG shares soar

Date: March 23, 2017 - Moneybags

THERE WAS considerable surprise in the Irish media when Willie Walsh announced IAG group’s results for 2016 and confirmed that Aer Lingus had managed to more than double its operating profits to €233m last year from U109m in 2015, a big achievement in the context of the airline’s expansion of its transatlantic route. But although… Read more »

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Tribunal gets tough with accountants

Tribunal gets tough with accountants

Date: March 23, 2017 - The Hot Water Brigade

TWO members of Chartered Accountants Ireland had a tough day earlier this month before the institute’s disciplinary tribunal. Frank McDonagh of McDonagh & Co Chartered Accountants in Shangort, Co Galway, was called before the tribunal to answer charges arising out of an inspection of his practice in March 2015. He was found to have carried… Read more »

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No love-in at Lovin Dublin

Date: March 23, 2017 - The Hot Water Brigade

INTERESTING times at Lovin Dublin where would-be start-up guru Niall “Harbo” Harbison announced last weekend he was taking a step back from “operational matters” at the lifestyle website. Could this be the first sign that Emmett O’Neill, the company’s largest single shareholder, is exerting his influence over Lovin? Regular readers of these pages will recall… Read more »

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Former film financier Forde falls foul

Date: March 23, 2017 - The Hot Water Brigade

SURPRISING to see Goldhawk’s old pal Ignatius Forde in trouble for the small amount of €2,054 owed to Carlow County Council. The judgment was registered against him and appeared in a recent issue of Stubbs Gazette but Forde has had his fair share of troubles over the years. It will be recalled that in 2001,… Read more »

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Gough grounded by tax judgment

Gough grounded by tax judgment

Date: March 23, 2017 - The Hot Water Brigade

ONE of the heftier judgments spotted by Goldhawk in the last couple of weeks was against Co Cork builder William Gough. Gough – a former director of William Gough and Sons Construction Ltd, which was struck off the companies register in 2012, was landed with a E1m plus judgment courtesy of the dreaded taxman at… Read more »

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Richard Quirke

‘Good Time’ Tax Bill

Date: March 23, 2017 - The Hot Water Brigade

STRANGE to see that Dublin Pool and Jukebox Company Ltd was named on the Revenue’s latest list of tax defaulters given the substantial resources at the outfit, according to it last set of accounts. The company is controlled by slot-machine impresario Richard Quirke and his wife, Ann, and through it they operate Dr Quirkey’s Good… Read more »

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Áine Collins’s bookkeeping troubles

Date: March 23, 2017 - The Hot Water Brigade

A PROPERTY company in Cork called Ocean View Lodge Ltd has fallen foul of its creditors who held a meeting to appoint a liquidator earlier this month. One familiar name linked to Ocean View is former Fine Gael TD Aine Collins, who is listed as a director of the Blackrock outfit. Former Cork North West… Read more »

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Vol.35 No.06

Date: March 23, 2017 -

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Vol.35 No.05

Date: March 9, 2017 -

March 10 – March 24, 2017

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LEO VARADKAR IN RETREAT

Date: March 9, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

IT’S EARLY days yet but the latest poll showing Fine Gael voters favouring Simon Coveney over Leo Varadkar have unnerved the latter’s supporters and right now the momentum is with the Cork prince. Ten months ago a Red C poll had Vlad on 39% among FG voters compared to 28% for Coveney, a lead of… Read more »

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MARIE COLLINS PUTS IT UP TO ‘IL PAPA’

Date: March 9, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

HOW careless of Pope Francis to lose abuse victim Marie Collins a year after Briton Peter Saunders jumped ship from the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors. The departure of Collins has highlighted worldwide that Il Papa Francisco is not in full control of the secretive Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, CDF,… Read more »

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HOW WEALTHY IS DINNY?

Date: March 9, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

THERE WAS the usual array of surprise valuations in the latest Sunday Times Rich List, with the likes of Martin Naughton, John Magnier and JP McManus all wildly undervalued, while the €471m guesstimate for Declan Ganley looks like an exaggeration of the Galway man’s coffers. But the biggest surprise is surely the €4.7bn attributed to… Read more »

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CLOCK TICKING AT NATIONAL GALLERY

Date: March 9, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

WHAT ON earth is going on at the National Gallery of Ireland (NGI)? The contract of the director of the institution, Sean Rainbird, expires on April 15 but the job has only just been advertised, in a most unusual manner. As revealed by Goldhawk (see The Phoenix 24/2/17) Rainbird’s five-year contract expires next month and… Read more »

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DUP Gaelgoir

Date: March 9, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

ONE DUP member who survived the party’s slaughter last week was Jim Wells who got help from Dublin Irish language academic Professor Ciarán Ó Coigligh, who canvassed with him in South Down. Wells, who hung onto his seat last week, is a fundamentalist who has spoken out against abortion for raped women and as health… Read more »

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MICHAEL CAREY TAKES THE BISCUIT

Date: March 9, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

WHAT GOES around, comes around. A Drogheda biscuit company called East Coast Bakehouse, which has been heavily promoting its products, is the brainchild of Michael Carey, a man with quite a track record in the biscuit business. Within two years of Fruitfield taking over Jacob’s in 2004, Carey made the bulk of the staff redundant… Read more »

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Letters to the Editor

Date: March 9, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

‘MALICIOUS’ SOURCES Dear Editor, You write (See The Phoenix, 24/2/17) that I, among others, suggested that RTÉ’s Paul Reynolds should reveal his garda sources in relation to his reporting about whistleblowers. But in the relevant Irish Times article I named no journalist. What I wrote was this: “Should crime correspondents generally now cooperate with the Charleton… Read more »

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MAHON TRIBUNAL RIP?

Date: March 9, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

With the settlement of Joe Murphy’s High Court case against the MahonTribunal last week, the taxpayer may now never learn the truth about what really went on in the Flood/Mahon tribunal whose cost — upwards of €160m — and machinations put the genre so much out of favour for so long. And any party faced… Read more »

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INVESTIGATING GALWAY’S ‘PALACE’

Date: March 9, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

THE STATEMENT issued by the Charities Regulator last week that it has opened a statutory investigation into the €9.5m and counting Solas-Galway Picture Palace Teo won’t have come as much of a surprise to fans of Goldhawk, who are well aware of the successive expensive bailouts at the bijou arthouse where Lelia Doolan chairs the… Read more »

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The Hot Air Brigade

Date: March 9, 2017 - The Hot Air Brigade

And then I thought, I can’t take my girls to a country where abortion is illegal. How could you do that? It’s like having black children and bringing them to apartheid South Africa. It’s that harsh. It’s that negation of being a woman. White feminist Caitlin Moran interviewed by Una Mullally, Irish Times Magazine, Submitted… Read more »

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TRIUMPH FOR SF IN NORTH

Date: March 9, 2017 - Bird's Eye View

UNIONISTS are still coming to terms with the new electoral landscape in the north after last week’s Assembly election. It’s worth having a look at that landscape. Out of 15 Assembly seats in Fermanagh and Tyrone, unionists have four. In Foyle, mainly Derry city, they have one. It’s not rosy east of the Bann either…. Read more »

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Shane Ross

LORD ROSS TO CURB JUDGES?

Date: March 9, 2017 - Last Refuge

THAT recent report about “leading judge” George Birmingham proposing a watering down of transport minister Shane Ross’s judicial appointments bill omitted one small detail, namely, that Birmingham is a former Fine Gael minister. And despite the bill’s provision for a lay majority in the new judicial appointments body being part of the programme for government,… Read more »

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SOC DEMS: STICKIES IN DISGUISE?

Date: March 9, 2017 - Last Refuge

ARE Social Democrats TDs Catherine Murphy and Roísín Shortall along with Irish Times ideologue Fintan O’Toole trying to recreate the Workers Party? It recently emerged that the DUP had received half a million euro from a shadowy group, the Constitutional Research Council (CRC), to disseminate pro-Brexit propaganda across Britain and the north. This was initially… Read more »

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O’Brien backs Simon

Date: March 9, 2017 - Last Refuge

LEO VARADKAR’S campaign team is getting jittery and it is not just because of that Irish Times poll showing Fine Gael members swinging over to Simon Coveney in the leadership contest. More to the point, Denis O’Brien is openly stating his preference for Coveney because he is “good for business”. Michael McDowell suggested recently that… Read more »

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WILL AOIBHINN SUCCEED ENDA IN MAYO?

Date: March 9, 2017 - Last Refuge

THERE is much fretting among Mayo Blueshirts about the future without An Taoiseach, Enda Kenny, and even more anxiety about the possibility that Michael Ring might also bow out. A highly speculative leak to the Sunday Independent last weekend told readers that Kenny was in line to succeed Donald Tusk as President of the European… Read more »

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DENIS O’BRIEN’S BOSWELL

Date: March 9, 2017 - Fit to Print?

IS Denis O’Brien’s enthusiastic apologist, John J May, deliberately trying to provoke a libel writ from one or more principals in the Moriarty Tribunal? Or is he trying to usurp James Morrissey’s role as O’Brien’s personal spokesman? May has spent years since the Moriarty Tribunal writing letters to the media denouncing the “malicious, false allegations”… Read more »

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Cop Culture

Date: March 9, 2017 - Fit to Print?

WITH exquisite timing the current edition of Garda Review, organ of the Garda Representative Association (GRA), was published the day before the Policing Authority held its latest public meeting on “matters in the public domain”. And the Review’s editorial denounced the authority in advance for its alleged capitulation to “government direction”. There was much media… Read more »

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Regina Doherty

Regina Doherty

Date: March 9, 2017 - Pillars of Society

GOVERNMENT chief whip Regina Doherty is the most ambitious woman in the Dáil and sees herself as a future Fine Gael leader and Taoiseach. She comes across as intelligent, feisty and articulate on radio and TV but is accident prone and often too quick to… Read more »

NAUGHTEN’S FUTILE ‘AMBASSADORS’

Date: March 9, 2017 - Fowl Emissions

DENIS NAUGHTEN is appointing “climate action ambassadors” in every county as part of a new “national dialogue on climate change” he launched in Dublin’s Mansion House last week. The climate action and environment minister and his department are getting ever better at launching initiatives, dialogues and the like, but are as weak as ever on… Read more »

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