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AFTER GARRETT HARTE AT NEWSTALK

Date: November 3, 2016 - Fit to Print?

THE announcement of Newstalk editor-in-chief Garrett Harte’s resignation came five days before the JNLR ratings for all stations. Coincidence? Hardly. But the shrewd Harte may have made his decision as he can see the writing on the wall at Newstalk. And Denis O’Brien’s recent warnings of much Irish media going out of business is ironic… Read more »

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Mail hardship

Date: November 3, 2016 - Fit to Print?

GALLEY slaves at the Irish Daily and Sunday Mail were summoned to MD Paul Henderson’s annual state-of-the-nation address and, after years of slashed editorial budgets, job losses and increased workloads, disgruntled staff were expecting yet more grim news. Sure enough, Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen lookalike Henderson painted a challenging picture of prospects for the papers and the… Read more »

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MARK HUMPHRYS

BARREL OF LAUGHS FROM MARK HUMPHRYS

Date: November 3, 2016 - Fit to Print?

THE SUNDAY TIMES has recently published more than one column from DCU lecturer Mark Humphrys, the latest of which says that if Palestinians are poor “it is their fault they are poor … and the Israelis deserve their wealth because they work hard to create it”. That ST associate editor in charge of opinion pieces,… Read more »

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Ruth Coppinger TD

Date: November 3, 2016 - Pillars of Society

RUTH COPPINGER’S clever manipulation of the abortion issue has helped to give the AAA/PBP a three-point boost to 9% in the latest Red C Poll. Coppinger’s AAA and Richard Boyd Barrett’s PBP – aka respectively as the Socialist Party (SP) and Socialist Workers Party (SWP) – have played various issues beautifully and water charges, the… Read more »

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FRACKING: WHAT’S IN A NAME?

Date: November 3, 2016 - Fowl Emissions

ANTI-FRACKING campaigners are not quite sure whether it’s too soon to celebrate – Clare Daly warned those gathered at the Dáil last week not to “put away your placards just yet” – but the fact that a bill by Fine Gael backbencher Tony McLoughlin to ban fracking passed its second stage on October 27 is… Read more »

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Bog Cuttings

Date: November 3, 2016 - Affairs of the NationBog Cuttings

Protein bar thief looked fit and healthy A 25-YEAR-OLD Waterford man appeared at Carrick-on-Suir District Court charged with stealing €124 worth of protein bars from a supermarket. Darren Lee of Kilcoban, Waterford, pleaded guilty to stealing the bars from a SuperValu. The court heard that he had paid for some items but also took a… Read more »

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Annie Hoey

Date: November 3, 2016 - The Young Bloods

Annie Hoey (28) made headlines last month when, as president of the Union of Students in Ireland (USI), she led a 15,000 strong march in Dublin against fees. After several quiet years, the student movement is back out on the streets, campaigning for increased investment… Read more »

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KIM GILBERT’S NEW CLUB

Date: November 3, 2016 - High Society

LAST WEEK brand new gig venue opened on Dublin’s South Anne Street, fronted by night club king – Michael Wright of The Wright Venue fame – and his pal Robbie Wootton who has returned to his old stomping ground from Italy. However, it turns out the business is now controlled by Mrs Michael Wright, Kim… Read more »

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GILLIAN RONAN

GILLIAN RONAN’S RETURN

Date: November 3, 2016 - High Society

TWO YEARS after exiting Kildare Street where she fronted a restaurant that typified the boom times, Gillian Kelly (aka Gillian Ronan), sister of property developer Johnny Ronan, has popped up with a wedding planning company. Kelly’s last high profile venture was the formerly trendy restaurant on Kildare Street, Town Bar and Grill, originally set up… Read more »

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GEORGIAN SOC COURTS THE YANKS

Date: November 3, 2016 - High Society

LAST WEEK the Irish Georgian Society (IGS) gala dinner in the US was held at the University Club in New York, with Beth Dater president of the American board heading up the fundraiser attended by the new president, David Davies. The 2015 annual report just published reveals that the US and indeed the UK remain… Read more »

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THE BEAUTY QUEEN OF LEENANE - THE GAIETY

THE BEAUTY QUEEN OF LEENANE – THE GAIETY

Date: November 3, 2016 - ReviewsTheatre

FEW COMPANIES and playwrights have enjoyed such an interdependent relationship as Druid and Martin McDonagh. Audiences could be forgiven for wondering whether, after two decades, the two still have much to say. Back in 1996, the London-based writer was unknown, and few outside Ireland had heard of the tiny Galway theatre company. Beauty Queen, first… Read more »

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TMI/SCORCHIO – RTÉ 2

Date: November 3, 2016 - ReviewsTV

IT WAS perhaps fitting that in Halloween week, that most terrifying of phrases – new RTÉ comedy show – should emerge from the crypt. Clearly feeling that 18- to 25-year-olds don’t have the attention span for narrative comedy these days, the national broadcaster unveiled two hidden camera programmes aimed at the yoof audience. First up… Read more »

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ALL WE SHALL KNOW – DONAL RYAN

Date: November 3, 2016 - BooksReviews

THE TIPPERARY author’s two previous novels (The Spinning Heart and The Thing About December) successfully explored the dark brutal side of Irish rural life. So much so that Donal Ryan is already widely regarded as one of the country’s most talented contemporary writers. The latest book, written from the perspective of Melody Shee, is yet… Read more »

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HUGH MAGUIRE’S SUCCESSOR?

Date: November 3, 2016 - Behind the Scenes

GOLDHAWK is wondering when the board of the Hunt Museum in Limerick will get around to advertising for a new director. The position has been vacant for nearly six months, since Hugh Maguire exited quietly in May. Maguire, previously at the Heritage Council for almost 10 years, arrived as director of the Hunt Museum in… Read more »

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SILENCE AT THE MUSEUM

Date: November 3, 2016 - Behind the Scenes

OPPOSITION is clearly building to the farcical plan to shift the Seanad into the National Museum of Ireland’s educational spaces on Kildare Street, with letters to The Irish Times and an editorial in the paper describing the proposal as “atrocious”. A recent letter came from Matthew Seaver of Unite trade union calling on senators to… Read more »

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DISHING OUT THE HALLOWEEN TREATS

Date: November 3, 2016 - Behind the Scenes

IT’S THAT time of year when the cashiers at the Revenue and Annie Doona’s Irish Film Board (IFB) announce their latest hand-outs of apples or nuts to the hungry film and TV ghouls. The amount paid out by Revenue under the Section 481 tax credit is suitably opaque – anywhere between a maximum of €32m… Read more »

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CALLING ALL OWNERS

Date: November 3, 2016 - Sport of Kings

IT’S GOOD to see Horse Racing Ireland (HRI) has wasted little time in allocating some of its generous budget for 2017 with the announcement of a new beefed-up ownership department. This role has been bandied about quite a bit over the years. The task of promoting racehorse ownership in Ireland was originally under the remit… Read more »

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O’LEARY GETting SOFT?

Date: November 3, 2016 - Sport of Kings

MICHAEL O’LEARY has found himself a new trainer and could there possibly be a hint of sentiment attached to his decision to send 15 young horses to Eddie Hales? Hales, an Englishman by birth but based in Ireland for the past 20 years, once had a thriving business in buying young horses and selling them… Read more »

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Mick O’Leary’s penny-pinching

Date: November 3, 2016 - Sport of Kings

GIGGINSTOWN House Stud seems well on its way to treating its riders in the way Ryanair treats its pilots. Boss of both operations Michael O’Leary recently wrote to several amateur jockeys who ride the many point-to-point horses he has in training with Gordon Elliott, Pat Doyle and others. He outlined how he wouldn’t pay the… Read more »

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SLAP ON THE WRIST FOR DORAN

Date: November 3, 2016 - Sport of Kings

AS GOLDHAWK revealed (see The Phoenix 26/8/16), owner Tom Doran was rather aggrieved with the Turf Club over a case at the Galway Festival, where his horse, Ondamoura, finished second to the Dermot Weld trained Tarazani, which Doran believed was not qualified to run in the race. Even though the race was restricted to horses… Read more »

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Carroll and Heraty’s focus unlikely to boost CPL share price

Date: November 3, 2016 - Moneybags

PAUL CARROLL and his wife, Anne Heraty, run the successful 26-year-old Irish CPL Resources job agency and, had they adopted a less cautious strategy, could have grown this into a giant international group. However, their focus is almost exclusively on attempting to dominate the Irish market and see this as CPL’s strength rather than its… Read more »

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Nama damned by Project Eagle report

Date: November 3, 2016 - Moneybags

THE SPECIAL report of Seamus McCarthy, Comptroller and Auditor General (C&AG), on Nama’s sale of its Northern Ireland portfolio – Project Eagle – is a valuable document in a number of ways. It discloses a lot of hitherto unknown facts that highlight why we should be more concerned about the unsatisfactory way the state agency… Read more »

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Hammond Lane’s heavy metal

Date: November 3, 2016 - The Hot Water Brigade

HAMMOND Lane Metal Ltd (HLM), a Dublin-based subsidiary of metal recycling giant Clearway Disposals, filed its latest accounts last week which revealed a mixed bag for the outfit. The good news is that the company, which operates on Pigeon House Road in Ringsend, had accumulated profits of a whopping €41.5m at the end of December… Read more »

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Stunning behaviour in Newcastle West

Date: November 3, 2016 - The Hot Water Brigade

GALWAY rockers The Stunning, fronted by brothers Joe and Steve Wall, went public last week with a row that’s been brewing between them and music festival organisers in west Limerick. In a Facebook post that the band described as a “warning to fellow musicians”, the Brewing Up a Storm hit-makers said they played West Fest… Read more »

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Ready for strike-off

Date: November 3, 2016 - The Hot Water Brigade

GOLDHAWK spotted an interesting company listed for striking off the register recently. Marc MacSharry Properties Ltd. Marc MacSharry Properties (MMP) is an auctioneers and property valuation company named for its owner, the Fianna Fáil TD for Sligo-Leitrim and son of former Tánaiste Ray MacSharry. The company is listed for striking off having failed to file… Read more »

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Other strike-offs

Date: November 3, 2016 - The Hot Water Brigade

SEPARATELY, Osberstown Developments Ltd – the property company through which the Millennium Park business complex was bought for over €310m by Nama developers Gerry Prendergast, Paddy Sweeney and Tom Considine in 2005 – is also strike-off listed having failed to file since 2014. According to those accounts, accumulated losses of a stomach-churning €460m had built… Read more »

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Redhill car crash continues

Date: November 3, 2016 - The Hot Water Brigade

THE long-running saga of Redhill Properties Ltd continued last month when the company had a tax judgment registered against it – a mere four months after its fifth receiver was appointed. The judgment for €62,000 was registered by the taxman at the beginning of October against the embattled company through which businessman and would-be property… Read more »

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Baron Taylor’s hefty losses

Date: November 3, 2016 - The Hot Water Brigade

ONE interesting company to file accounts recently was BOL Pubs Ltd, which trades as O’Loughlin’s Pub in Birr, Co Offaly. The unassuming pub company is owned by Baron John Taylor of Kilclooney, the bombastic former Ulster Unionist politician and media mogul who owns several properties through the company. But BOL’s latest set of accounts will… Read more »

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Ger Madden’s bad day in court

Date: November 3, 2016 - The Hot Water Brigade

IT TURNS out that Goldhawk’s old pal Ger Madden was declared bankrupt in the High Court earlier this year. The former Radio Limerick One (RLO) station boss, who has had his fair share of court dates over the years, was found bankrupt by Judge Robert Haughton following a petition by one Desmond Hayes. Goldhawk fans… Read more »

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Vol.34 No.21

Date: October 20, 2016 -

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THE REAL COST OF ROBBO’S SHRINE

Date: October 20, 2016 - Affairs of the Nation

A VERY, very expensive precedent has been set by the government in accepting Mary Robinson’s presidential archive to qualify as acceptable under Section 1003 of the Taxes Consolidation Act. The section relates to gifts which “must be an outstanding example of the type of item involved, pre-eminent in its class, whose export from the State… Read more »

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LIZ GARRAHY’S PEACE PROCESS

Date: October 20, 2016 - Affairs of the Nation

COULD PEACE be about to break out between the Arts For Peace Foundation (AFP) and the OPW? Relations between the two bodies hit rock bottom and the charity – fronted by Wicklow-based former actress, Elizabeth Garrahy – has not been able to carry out any of its programmes at Durrow Abbey Demesne for children from… Read more »

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INM’S O’BRIEN NERVY ABOUT TAKEOVER BID

Date: October 20, 2016 - Affairs of the Nation

SIGNS are that Denis O’Brien is nervous about securing approval from the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission and communications minister Denis Naughten for his purchase of the Celtic Media Group (CMG). And a recent survey by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) about the market share of his wholly owned broadcasting company, Communicorp, will not… Read more »

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GARDAÍ VISIT LAW SOCIETY

Date: October 20, 2016 - Affairs of the Nation

THE long-running battle between Kenmare solicitor Colm Murphy and the Law Society took a dramatic turn last week when detectives from the Garda Fraud Squad visited the society’s HQ seeking to interview various members connected to this legal saga. Murphy has engaged in litigation with the society for 12 years beginning with an action against… Read more »

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BOB’S BAUBLE

Date: October 20, 2016 - Foreign Frolics

by DAVID YEARSLEY THE NOBEL literature committee has wiped away the last blob of credibility or interest their annual awards might have retained up until the moment the Dylan announcement was made. In 1973, Marlon Brando declined a far more prestigious, and often more (indirectly) lucrative award – the Oscar – in protest over events… Read more »

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ALF SMIDDY’S SEAT

Date: October 20, 2016 - Foreign Frolics

INTERESTING to see outspoken Cork business consultant Alf Smiddy added to the board of the ESB earlier this month. Minister Denis Naughten obviously feels a little controversy is a good thing, given Smiddy’s starring role in the quasi civil war down south over the recommendation last year, by a committee chaired by Smiddy, that Cork… Read more »

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