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Taxman tackles Clare businessmen

Date: February 9, 2017 - Moneybags

GOLDHAWK spotted a couple of interesting names in Stubb’s Gazette recently, including Clare publican Martin Tubridy who had five separate tax judgments registered against him in January totalling €17,000. Luckily for the Cooraclare man – who owns a civil engineering and draughting company called GMD… Read more »

Derek O’Leary’s good day in court

Date: February 9, 2017 - Briefcases

CONGRATULATIONS to Goldhawk’s old pal Foxrock developer Derek O’Leary who had a pretty decent day in the Court of Appeal recently. One of O’Leary’s property companies, D&L Properties Ltd, is currently suing a Guernsey registered outfit called Yolanda Ltd, alleging that the latter company failed to repay money owed to D&L from a development in… Read more »

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Industrial distress in Trinity College

Date: February 9, 2017 - Briefcases

A ROW between management and workers has been on the boil in Trinity College where Unite and Siptu have been involved in talks with the college’s human resources department for the last number of weeks. The dispute between the college and non-academic staff centres on the introduction of a management-led employee evaluation scheme – which… Read more »

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WICKLOW’S SOCIAL DEMOCRAT

Date: February 9, 2017 - Last Refuge

MEDIA punditry about Stephen Donnelly reneging on his Independent, social democrat principles was predicated on the notion that he had cunningly negotiated his way into a future Fianna Fáil cabinet. But the former Wicklow Independent had become dangerously isolated, nationally and in his constituency, since last year’s general election, especially since he split from the… Read more »

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SINN FÉIN’S COALITION STRATEGY

Date: February 9, 2017 - Last Refuge

A CAREFULLY formulated article on coalition government by key Sinn Féin strategist Eoin Ó Broin in the Sunday Business Post recently was, if anything, more indicative of the party’s coalition intentions than Mary Lou’s recent statement. Ó Broin is the left figurehead in SF’s ongoing, agonising debate about government participation and he led the charge… Read more »

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Dara Murphy

Date: February 9, 2017 - Pillars of Society

THE perverse priorities of An Taoiseach Enda Kenny’s political appointments are personified by the undistinguished Dara Murphy, junior minister for European affairs. Murphy has a weak political record as well as a chequered business and academic CV, but he is a loyal Kenny supporter. With Ireland facing, as we are told, the greatest political and… Read more »

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Aryzta is now a buy-out target

Date: February 9, 2017 - Moneybags

OWEN KILLIAN in Aryzta has been hit by a perfect storm and is under particular pressure from his new largest shareholder, Causeway Capital Management, which last year bought a 7.5% stake when the shares collapsed from a peak of €73 in March 2014 to U40. But last month’s dive in the share price offers a… Read more »

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Charles Gallagher

Abbey shareholders increasingly isolated

Date: February 9, 2017 - Moneybags

HAVING GAINED control of the Abbey house building group with the blessing of the Irish Stock Exchange (ISE) authorities, Charlie Gallagher has now begun the final round of buy-ins that will inevitably lead to an eventual full take-out. Maybe this is the best option for the long-suffering shareholders. The process of the Gallagher takeover required… Read more »

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Carlow beer barons brew up success

Date: February 9, 2017 - Briefcases

CONGRATULATIONS are in order for the beer barons at Carlow Craft Brewery Ltd, the company behind the increasingly popular O’Hara’s range of craft beers. The Mhuine Beg brewer filed its annual accounts recently and will certainly make uplifting reading for the company’s new investors with the outfit making an annual profit of close to u½m… Read more »

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BEWARE THE IDES OF MARCH

Date: January 26, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

ONE of the most skilful tactics Enda Kenny has deployed in retaining his leadership is that of presenting continuous staging posts – the budget, the upcoming St Patrick’s Day meeting with Donald Trump, the papal visit etc – thereby blocking any window of opportunity for a heave against him. Such a period now looms into… Read more »

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Sean Lyons’s Doomsday Challenge

Date: January 25, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

A COMPANY with the interesting name of Doomsday Challenge has just been restored to the register by the High Court, presumably in connection with proceedings lodged against it by one Steve Armstrong. The principal in the company, Sean Lyons, is well known to fans of Goldhawk, having made a mint out of housing asylum seekers…. Read more »

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LAURA MAGAHY’S HEALTHY CONTRACTS

Date: January 25, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

Mary Mitchell O’Connor and Laura Maghahy GOLDHAWK’S old friend, Laura Magahy, found herself back under the spotlight last week after a number of years in which she managed to keep out of the headlines. The former chief executive of Temple Bar Properties is well known for her uncanny ability to land contracts in the public… Read more »

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Maura King

THE QUEEN OF KING’S INNS

Date: January 25, 2017 - Wigs on the Green

IF barrister Maura King’s elders and betters thought she was an irritable crank in her recent polemic against the Bar Council’s autocratic MO they got a rude awakening at the recent elections to the Council of the King’s Inns, the body that trains and admits barristers to the Bar. Not only was King elected on… Read more »

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JAMES CAHILL’S LAW SOCIETY PROSPECTS

Date: January 25, 2017 - Wigs on the Green

A RATHER unusual precedent has been set by the junior vice-president of the Law Society, Castlebar solicitor James Cahill, who has taken the society to the High Court. This follows a finding by the society’s client relations committee (CRC) that its junior vice-president had overcharged a client, a finding that Cahill is disputing vigorously and… Read more »

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THE RACE TO SUCCEED PAT HICKEY

Date: January 25, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

WHILE THERE has been much talk of a changing of the guard at the Olympic Council of Ireland (OCI), next month’s election of a new president could yet see the gold medal go to one of Pat Hickey’s old pals, Willie O’Brien. He is up against a couple of fancied performers but the campaign to… Read more »

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Peter Prendergast’s prescriptions

Date: January 25, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

WITH THE Christmas festivities fading into the memory, eager members of the public have turned to diets, gyms and purification regimes and there is presumably less call for the cocktail hangover cure promoted by Venus Medical clinic in Dundrum, Co Dublin, for around €300 a pop. The good news is that the owner, surgeon Peter… Read more »

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FROM TV3 TO LAGOS

Date: January 25, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

THE mystery surrounding Andrew Hanlon’s sudden departure from his job as TV3 director of news, a post he occupied since the station was launched in 1998, is easily explained. Hanlon has taken the job as CEO of Nigeria’s main broadcasting conglomerate, TVC, owned by leading government politician and one of the country’s richest men, Bola… Read more »

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RONAN CAVANAGH’S GOALS

Date: January 25, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

IT WAS interesting to see An Post in the headlines the same week as the deadline for the filing of returns by lobbyists. One of those who turns out to have been lobbying TDs for the postal workers union is Ronan Cavanagh, of Cavanagh Communications, who has fingers in some tasty pies. Cavanagh set up… Read more »

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John Waters

The Hot Air Brigade

Date: January 25, 2017 - The Hot Air Brigade

From the real source of religion to the infinite reach of rock ‘n’ roll; from the puzzle of the human ‘I’ to the true meaning of money, John Waters speaks and writes about his exhilarating, totally original reflection on the meaning of life in the modern world. From the homepage of John Waters’s website, Submitted… Read more »

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A ‘BRUTAL’ BAPTISM FOR O’NEILL

Date: January 25, 2017 - Bird's Eye View

SINN FÉIN has shot the DUP’s fox. In the 2016 Assembly elections, Arlene Foster campaigned on the basis that a vote for the UUP was a vote for Martin McGuinness to be First Minister. It wasn’t feasible because there was no way Sinn Féin was going to win 10 extra seats and overtake the DUP… Read more »

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BELL, BOOK AND CANDLE FOR FLANNERY?

Date: January 25, 2017 - Clerical Errors

REBEL CLERIC Fr Tony Flannery may have seriously miscalculated by defying a five-year-old Vatican ban on celebrating mass to mark his 70th birthday. Worse still, the Founding Father of the unapproved Association of Irish Priests has compounded his error by publicly ridiculing as an outdated relic from the 16th century, the Catholic Church’s deadly weapon… Read more »

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Mary Lou McDonald

SF LEADERENES

Date: January 25, 2017 - Last Refuge

THE switch from South Armagh’s ex-IRA man Conor Murphy to health minister Michelle O’Neill as Sinn Féin’s chosen leader in Stormont, surprised everyone, including most SF members. The swift and forensic manner in which O’Neill was delivered to the membership and the public was via a nomination from Gerry Adams to the ard comhairle last… Read more »

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ONE, TWO, THREE – BINGO!

Date: January 25, 2017 - Last Refuge

A BRIEF but fascinating discussion at last week’s Fine Gael parliamentary party meeting has caused much anxiety among the party leadership and they fear the avenging crusader of new politics, Shane Ross, will exact a heavy price for his silence on the matter. Junior sport and tourism minister Patrick O’Donovan introduced the gathering to ex-TD… Read more »

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FG DISMANTLING THEIR OWN BILL

Date: January 25, 2017 - Last Refuge

FINE GAEL is playing a most insidious game with its own Alcohol Bill and is effectively caving in to the blitzkrieg of lobbying from the alcohol and retailers that has nobbled its party members. Junior health minister Marcella Corcoran Kennedy has in turn been subject to intense pressure from party TDs. The minister has stated… Read more »

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THE JEAN MONNET OF CASTLEBAR

Date: January 25, 2017 - Last Refuge

MUCH wincing as well as suppressed giggling at the Fine Gael parliamentary party meeting last week as junior minister for European affairs Dara Murphy delivered an uninhibited accolade to his leader, Enda Kenny. But while Murphy’s overblown rhetoric embarrassed most (and annoyed others) the content of Murphy’s tribute was more calculating and emphasised the De… Read more »

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Ivan Yates

IVAN YATES OFF AIR

Date: January 25, 2017 - Fit to Print?

THE return from his US sojourn of former minister, bookie and broadcaster Ivan Yates has not resulted in Denis O’Brien begging him to resume his post at O’Brien’s ailing Newstalk radio station; not yet, anyway. Yates’s departure last summer left a gaping hole in the broadcasters’ line up and the Breakfast Show in particular, has… Read more »

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TK-Whitaker

TK WHITAKER’S VIEW OF DENIS O’BRIEN

Date: January 25, 2017 - Fit to Print?

THE Sunday Independent wrote with typical hyperbole about recently deceased TK Whitaker, pointing out that he had been voted the greatest living Irish man of the 20th century and was, according to Eoghan Harris, a “peerless public servant”. Particular praise was heaped on Whitaker for what Des O’Malley described as his “proper” ethos as a… Read more »

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Damery dismisses apology

Date: January 25, 2017 - Fit to Print?

AN apology appeared in the Irish Examiner last week to Ciaran Damery for wrongly accusing him of the rather serious crime of involvement in the IRA killing of Detective Garda Jerry McCabe in Adare over 20 years ago. However, it appears that the wording of the apology has not satisfied Damery who is now proceeding… Read more »

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BRENDAN OGLE

Date: January 25, 2017 - Pillars of Society

BRENDAN OGLE is a dangerous man. You can tell that from the media reaction to the Ogre’s leadership role in the Apollo House homeless occupation. But Ogle has also incurred the disapproval of various personalities and forces across the political spectrum – from Fine Gael housing minister Simon Coveney to most big union bosses, the… Read more »

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DONALD TRUMP’S CLIMATE CREED

Date: January 25, 2017 - Fowl Emissions

THE Trump presidency has become reality and with it eight years of American leadership on global efforts to curb the ever-worsening impacts of climate change have been eviscerated. This is unlikely to create any discord when The Donald hosts The Enda on Paddy’s Day, given Irish government policy on climate change. Within a minute or… Read more »

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Bog Cuttings

Date: January 25, 2017 - Bog Cuttings

‘THE DPP can kiss the ring of my arse’ A 21-YEAR-OLD man appeared in Ennis District Court charged with assault causing harm following an alleged incident in the town in 2015. Declan Sherlock, Dromard, faces two charges arising from the incident at Friar’s Walk near the Dunnes Stores car park where it is alleged he… Read more »

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Leo Sherlock

Date: January 25, 2017 - The Young Bloods

Leo Sherlock, owner and publisher of The Liberal.ie, is enjoying a moment of notoriety. At a time when the alt-right and fake news phenomena have come to haunt the nation’s opinion columns, Sherlock has managed to find himself at the Irish intersection of these two issues du jour. So who is the man behind the… Read more »

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DOMINIC WEST’S TAX PLANNING

Date: January 25, 2017 - High Society

YET MORE confusion at Glin Castle in Co Limerick, where the on-again off-again boutique hotel concept could be back on the cards. There may even be a tax wheeze to keep the property in the FitzGerald family, judging by a comment from actor Dominic West last week. Or maybe this is simply an another attempt… Read more »

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Image magazine’s editorial strategy

Date: January 25, 2017 - High Society

INTERESTING TO see where the priorities lie at the glossy Image magazine these days. A Sunday Business Post interview with chief executive of Image Publications Ltd (IP) Clodagh Edwards revealed that “editorial, design and commercial work much closer together now … Editorial spends a lot of time working on brand extensions, social events and dealing… Read more »

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MAY FRISBY’S NEW RECIPE

Date: January 25, 2017 - High Society

AFTER 27 years of operating Pasta Fresca on Chatham Street in Dublin 2, May Frisby’s restaurant has served up the last bowl of spaghetti and shut its doors. This is part of the fallout associated with plans by the current owner of a number of buildings on Chatham Street – vulture fund Lone Star –… Read more »

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Fiach Mac Conghail

WHY FIACH IS SMILING

Date: January 25, 2017 - Behind the Scenes

NOW THAT the Irish theatre industry’s annual navel-gazing exercise is just over a month away, it’s time to tally up the nominations for The Irish Times theatre awards. In that ego-serving numbers game, the judges have already crowned one clear winner for 2016 – the Abbey. You can almost hear the grin on Fiach Mac… Read more »

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