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Jerry Carey’s pals in China

Date: March 9, 2017 - Briefcases

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 - Briefcases

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 - Briefcases

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 - Briefcases

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 - Briefcases

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 - Briefcases

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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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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‘(S)INDO’ WOMEN FOR CHARLETON TRIBUNAL

Date: February 23, 2017 - Fit to Print?

THE Sunday Independent took another swipe at the Sunday Business Post last weekend via the Zozimus (Liam Collins) column with another litany of barbs about the “little newspaper” and irony of ironies, accusing the hacks there of “teenage levels of testosterone”. This is because the Post published some impertinent and unflattering stories about Denis O’Brien… Read more »

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Paul Reynolds

Date: February 23, 2017 - Pillars of Society

COMMISSIONER Nóirín O’Sullivan is the cop in the eye of the storm over Sgt Maurice McCabe but RTÉ crime correspondent Paul Reynolds is also on the rack. The media has begun to cannibalise itself over garda leaks about whistleblowers and Reynolds has become a target for some of his peers in the more esteemed investigative… Read more »

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NOT-SO-WISE FOOD PLAN

Date: February 23, 2017 - Fowl Emissions

CLIMATE DENIER Scott Pruitt was confirmed this month to head the US Environment Protection Agency. When working as Oklahoma’s attorney general, he took more than a dozen lawsuits against the agency he now heads. One of Pruitt’s letters blasting the EPA was revealed to have been written by an energy company, then copied-and-pasted directly onto… Read more »

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Bog Cuttings

Date: February 23, 2017 - Bog Cuttings

PENSIONER’S ‘amateurish’ GARDENING HOBBY A 74-YEAR-OLD South African man was handed down a three-year suspended sentence at Castlebar Central Criminal Court for growing cannabis with a potential street value of €40,000. Robin Jay of Ballinaclassa, Belcarra, Castlebar pleaded guilty to the cultivation of 50 plants following a search of his home in 2016. Mr Jay… Read more »

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Second Captains

Date: February 23, 2017 - The Young Bloods

The Second Captains – journalists Eoin McDevitt (36), Ken Early (38), Ciaran Murphy (34), Simon Hick (41) and Mark Horgan (35) – took a major punt earlier this month by ending their profitable relationship with The Irish Times. Following their break from Newstalk, the sports guys have found themselves in uncharted waters after adopting a… Read more »

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LADY JANE’S RARE WIN

Date: February 23, 2017 - High Society

A RULING by the Bowler Hats of the Turf Club last month saw a horse trained by Noel Meade disqualified and the race awarded to the runner-up. This represented a rare win for one Lady Jane Gillespie a colourful trainer and owner who has managed to keep a very low profile this side of the… Read more »

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CYRUS’S INDIAN BATTLE

Date: February 23, 2017 - High Society

A MEMBER of the family of the richest Irish citizens is embroiled in a bruising battle to regain control of the huge Indian Tata & Sons conglomerate. The biggest business story in the southern hemisphere in recent months has focused on the removal last October of 47-year-old Cyrus Mistry as chairman of the group by… Read more »

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WESTPORT HOUSE’S €2M CHARGE

Date: February 23, 2017 - High Society

THE PURCHASE for a reported €10m of Westport House by Cathal Hughes and the rest of the Hughes clan has been welcomed in Co Mayo. But there is one small matter to be cleared up – €2m in grants that may be repayable to the Heritage Council. Westport House has been one of the bigger… Read more »

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NO €40K HIKE FOR RAINBIRD

Date: February 23, 2017 - Behind the Scenes

Sean Rainbird (Left) WHILE THE National Gallery of Ireland (NGI) has been generating plenty of publicity courtesy of the touring Caravaggio exhibition, a quieter story is unfolding behind the scenes on the next head of the institution. The Department of Public Enterprise and Reform has shot down a request for a €40,000 pay rise for… Read more »

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HEATHER’S POT OF GOLD

Date: February 23, 2017 - Behind the Scenes

WITH THE economy throwing off more cash, arts minister Heather Humphreys was able to dish out millions of euro to assorted arts and culture centres earlier this month. The three biggest winners were in counties Kildare, Wexford and Cavan. Although the latter is in the Minister’s own constituency, the board was leaving nothing to chance… Read more »

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SOS FROM ARDMORE SAS

Date: February 23, 2017 - Behind the Scenes

LAST WEEKEND, there were 3,314 signatories to the Save Ardmore Studios (SAS) online petition, the numbers slowing to a trickle over the last month, despite a well-attended meeting in Bray on January 25. That the country’s established producers were absent from that meeting will not have gone unnoticed, suggesting that Ardmore is not critical, at… Read more »

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ROCKADOON SHORE – RORY GLEESON (JOHN MURRAY)

Date: February 23, 2017 - BooksReviews

AS A new wave of writers continues to energise Irish fiction, Rory Gleeson (son of Brendan) makes his literary debut with a novel about disenchanted youth. The writer’s celebrity pedigree explains the extensive publicity attached to this debut novel and, presumably, the positive reviews. Set in a remote holiday house, the story centres around a… Read more »

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THE DEAD – PAVILION THEATRE

Date: February 23, 2017 - ReviewsTheatre

SINCE James Joyce’s work came out of copyright five years ago, Irish theatre producers have spun his work in all manner of ways, with erratic success. This quirky opera hits the right notes. The sad tale of Gabriel and Gretta Conroy’s marriage falling apart at his aunts’ sumptuous Christmas party is Joyce’s most famous short… Read more »

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