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Simon Harris Tent City

LEADERSHIP PARANOIA IN GOVERNMENT

Date: March 21, 2024 - Last Refuge

THE WELTER of criticism levelled at integration minister Roderic O’Gorman about the near Gaza-like conditions of Tent City in Dublin’s Mount Street was led not by the opposition but by Government politicians last week. How strange. Or perhaps not. Fine Gael’s higher education minister, Simon Harris, and Fianna Fáil TD Jim O’Callaghan took aim at… Read more »

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Patrick O'Brien Bill Kenneally

ANOTHER KENNEALLY SCANDAL

Date: March 21, 2024 - Fit to Print?

CHILD ABUSER Bill Kenneally, a member of the well-known Fianna Fáil family, is in jail for multiple child sex offences committed between 1979 and 1990. He is currently the subject of a full-blown Commission of Inquiry, headed by retired judge Michael White. Although he admitted his abuse to a senior garda in 1987, Kenneally waited… Read more »

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BAD ADVICE

Date: March 21, 2024 - Fit to Print?

ROLL OF honour or street of shame? A hefty, three-page catalogue of the Government’s 68 advisors, national handlers and media manipulators drawn up by seven of the Irish Times’s finest was published last weekend. Introduced as a “Who’s who of the people behind the power”, they are described as well paid (two-thirds are on over… Read more »

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Nigel Farage Aidan Regan

ARAGE IMAGERY SLAMMED

Date: March 21, 2024 - Fit to Print?

THE BUSINESS POST provoked a storm on X recently with a studious and well-meaning article, by Aidan Regan, on immigration and how to blunt efforts by the far right to grow its appeal. Unfortunately, the imagery accompanying the piece attracted far more attention than Regan’s article, even though it was a sober assessment of Ireland’s… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: March 21, 2024 - Bog Cuttings

FISTICUFFED Sligo District Court heard the case of a 25-year-old man who pleaded guilty to engaging in abusive or threatening behaviour towards gardaí following an incident on Shore Road, Sligo. Sergeant Derek Butler told the court that officers were attending a report of a couple having an argument on September 24, 2022. When they arrived… Read more »

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Kilquade Hill House

PEDRO DE AZAMBUJA’S DOUBLE FAULTS

Date: March 21, 2024 - High Society

WITH AN asking price of no less than €5.5m, the Georgian Kilquade Hill House outside Greystones in Co Wicklow is one of the pricier piles to come on the market in recent times. According to the Irish Times, this “manageable sporting estate” on five acres was “totally transformed” over a three-year period with the help… Read more »

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Cillian Murphy Equity Union

IRISH OSCAR PLOT SPOILERS

Date: March 21, 2024 - Behind the Scenes

Despite all the hoopla around the successful Oscar run by Cillian Murphy in Oppenheimer and Element Pictures’ Poor Things, the delirious hacks have managed to remain undistracted by inconvenient plot spoilers, such as the fight for long-suffering Irish performers to be given contracts on a par with UK and US actors working in Ireland on… Read more »

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VICKI NOTARO’S FANS

Date: March 21, 2024 - Behind the Scenes

NO SURPRISE to see well-connected former VIP Publishing boss Vicki Notaro attracting some high-level plugs for her upcoming debut novel, Reality Check. These include the likes of fellow Penguin imprint author Paul Howard (“Absolutely hilarious”) and Sarah ‘Aisling’ Breen (“Escapism at its finest!”). Breen is formerly of Stellar magazine, part of the VIP stable. Reality… Read more »

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Barry Connell William Munny

WRECKING BALLS-UP

Date: March 21, 2024 - Sport of Kings

BARRY CONNELL’S short-priced ante-post favourite for Cheltenham’s Arkle Chase, Marine Nationale, was ruled out of Cheltenham following his flop at the Dublin Racing Festival last month. Of course, he also has William Munny – “the best bumper horse in Ireland” – but left the horse at home last week, earmarking him for the Punchestown Festival…. Read more »

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JOHN MOREHART’S WILDFOWL

Date: March 21, 2024 - High Society

JOHN MOREHART, squire of the splendid Bellamont House and its 1,000 acres outside Cootehill, Co Cavan, has been getting busy again. It will be recalled (see The Phoenix 8/3/24) that the loaded American lawyer has not been shy when it comes to objecting to issues in his neck of the woods. He had a rare… Read more »

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ANTI-DOPING INITIATIVE

Date: March 21, 2024 - Sport of Kings

THE IRISH Horseracing Regulatory Board and the British Horseracing Authority (BHA) recently joined forces in an anti-doping initiative. Citing “out-of-competition testing” as a critical component of any strategy, tests will be performed through joint operations in Ireland and Britain. One area sure to attract attention is the cost to taxpayers, given that Irish personnel will… Read more »

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Gene Murtagh

GENE MURTAGH’S STRANGE STRATEGY AT KINGSPAN

Date: March 21, 2024 - Moneybags

SHORTLY BEFORE the company’s latest PR debacle at the hands of the EU, Kingspan CEO Gene Murtagh announced a strategy involving the commitment of €750m to enter the American roofing and waterproofing market. This could well prove another of the follies that have characterised some of the big moves by the Murtagh family-dominated insulation group…. Read more »

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Michael Stanley

RISING CAIRN HOMES SHARES STILL UNDERVALUED

Date: March 21, 2024 - Moneybags

THE HOUSING crisis continues to dominate politics but, were it not for the raising of almost €1bn in equity between Cairn Homes and Glenveagh, the current state of affairs would be an awful lot worse. In particular, Michael Stanley’s Cairn Homes delivered 1,741 new homes last year, up from 1,526 in 2022, bringing the total… Read more »

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John Paul Keane

JOHN PAUL KEANE’S CONNECTIONS

Date: March 21, 2024 - Briefcases

THE LUXEMBOURG-based Irish financier John Paul Keane has been attracting a fair degree of media attention as a result of teaming up with one Conor McGregor. He has also had strong business connections in the past with another Irish millionaire, Michael Enright, who has had mixed fortunes since cashing in his hugely profitable logistics business…. Read more »

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Electric Nightclub

MAURICE GILLEN’S BUM NOTE

Date: March 21, 2024 - Briefcases

A NUMBER of companies that were controlled by the king of Galway’s nightclub scene during the boom, Maurice Gillen, are to be wound up next week, long after the wheels came off the operation. For decades, including the good old days, Gillen and his former business partner, Declan Farrell (who exited in 2016), were behind… Read more »

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Colm O'Cuilleanain

COLM O’CUILLEANAIN’S VISIBLE THREAD

Date: March 21, 2024 - Briefcases

A FIVE-bed pile in Rathmichael D18 has come on the market with a price tag of €2.8m – steep for sure but not quite Hamptons level. The owner here turns out to be Colm O’Cuilleanain, who made quite a killing when selling out of both the advertising and telecoms games. He was also an early… Read more »

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Yuzhu Kang Rose McHugh

ROUND TWO AT FOTA ISLAND RESORT

Date: March 21, 2024 - Briefcases

JUST ONE month after a settlement was reached in the high-stakes legal poker game between China-based businessman Yuzhu Kang and his former associate, Fota Island-based Xiu Xianj Kelly, over ownership of the valuable Fota Island hotel and golf resort, the parties are back in the… Read more »

Michael McDowell

McDOWELL PLOTS NEW DÁIL FORCE

Date: March 7, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

REGARDLESS OF the referendum results this week, the stand-out personality in an otherwise boring campaign was senator Michael McDowell, former justice minister and attorney general, who is determined to return to the Dáil and government, via a new political force. McDowell did not raise Cain in the referendums merely for its own sake and he… Read more »

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John McGuirk

PROFILE: JOHN MCGUIRK

Date: March 7, 2024 - Pillars of Society

THE EDITOR of Gript.ie, John McGuirk, has managed to look both foolish and incompetent in two legal stand-offs recently, just as his particular brand of reactionary politics appears to be making some progress among a section of the public. The controversial hack is plausible and editorially capable but is provocative to the point of occasional… Read more »

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Jenny Maguire

YOUNG BLOOD: JENNY MAGUIRE

Date: March 7, 2024 - The Young Bloods

JENNY MAGUIRE is a familiar name around the city, both inside and outside of Trinity’s campus. A co-organiser of Trans and Intersex Pride Dublin, Jenny has become one of the most recognisable and influential student activists of her generation. She has just triumphed in the election for the Trinity College Dublin Students’ Union (TCDSU) presidency,… Read more »

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Terence O'Rourke

CATHERINE MARTIN’S NEW CAST

Date: March 7, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

WITH FORMER chief KPMG number-cruncher Terence O’Rourke preparing to take charge of the RTÉ board, one of the first big tasks will be to examine the external review on corporate governance at Montrose. Catherine Martin’s arts and media department told Goldhawk that the report will be delivered this month and, coincidentally, it is being prepared… Read more »

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Bill McCabe

BILL McCABE’S BREAST IMPLANTS

Date: March 7, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

IT HAS been a rough few months for veteran investor Bill McCabe, who had pumped big bucks into the listed Irish medtech business, HealthBeacon, which collapsed from a market capitalisation of around €100m a couple of years ago to effectively zilch when it ran out of cash before Christmas. Now the holding company behind another… Read more »

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JP McManus

JP McMANUS’S BAD DREAM

Date: March 7, 2024 - Sport of Kings

BRED BY Brian and Claire Gleeson’s Brucetown Farms and ridden in all his starts by their son, John, A Dream to Share was last week awarded the Irish Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association’s (ITBA) Young National Hunt Horse of the Year. The timing may have been significant. Unbeaten in his five bumpers last year, including at the… Read more »

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Mari Hurley

RTÉ’S SENIOR HURLEY DIRECTOR

Date: March 7, 2024 - Last Refuge

VERY LITTLE attention has been paid to the political affiliation of Mari Hurley, RTÉ’s new chief financial officer appointed last week, although her financial and corporate pedigree – including positions at Sherry FitzGerald and Nama – were widely disseminated. But Mari’s most interesting position was as a committed trustee, among other positions, for the Fine… Read more »

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U2 WINS AWARD SHOCK!

Date: March 7, 2024 - Fit to Print?

ON THURSDAY March 7 U2 are to receive this year’s RTÉ Choice Music Prize for Classic Irish Album for their 1991 album Achtung Baby, with the Vicar Street event being aired on 2FM. The RTÉ publicity surrounding this Vegas-type event claims the record saw U2 “reinvent themselves musically and assert the band as one of… Read more »

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Lisa Chambers

MARTIN’S FEMALE FAVOURITES

Date: March 7, 2024 - Last Refuge

ONE ASPECT of Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin’s new way has been the electoral emphasis on young, middle-class females and prominent among these has been senator Lisa Chambers, former TD for Mayo. Another aspect has been Martin’s stranglehold over party decisions and policies but last week he over-extended himself. This resulted in grassroots members in… Read more »

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VOL. 42 NO. 05

Date: March 7, 2024 -

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FINGLETON’S FANS

Date: March 7, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

THE SINDO’S Liam Collins was waxing lyrical last month in an article headlined, “Fingers Fingleton rode to my rescue: 40 years later I’m finally free”. The piece recalled how Irish Nationwide Building Society (INBS) boss Michael Fingleton had greenlighted a mortgage for Collins back in the early 1980s. Fans of Goldhawk are aware of the… Read more »

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MICK HEANEY ON SARAH MCINERNEY

Date: March 7, 2024 - Behind the Scenes

FANS OF Goldhawk will be aware of Irish Times radio reviewer Mick Heaney’s drooling admiration of Drivetime presenter Sarah McInerney (see The Phoenix 26/2/21). He was back in fawning form last month, highlighting Sarah’s “lethally loaded questions” that left her guest “flummoxed for an answer”. Mick was bowled over by the presenter’s “uncompromising inquisitorial tone”… Read more »

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David Nally

RTÉ NALLY FIASCO: EPISODE 37

Date: March 7, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

TIRED JOKES about RTÉ repeats have been enlivened by the two-year sitcom based on the rise and exit of RTÉ’s former head of current affairs, David Nally, whose career was chronicled by The Phoenix over time. The Irish Mail on Sunday reported last weekend, for the second time in a fortnight, that Nally had been… Read more »

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Catherine Day Linda Farren-O’Shea

NUI CHANCELLOR CONTEST

Date: March 7, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

THE CONTEST to succeed that most magisterial of political and academic mandarins, Maurice Manning, as National University of Ireland (NUI) chancellor could well see a woman take this post for the first time in its 116-years old history. But which candidate might that be? One woman whose hunger for the position is regarded as boundless and… Read more »

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Mardi Kennedy SWAI

HELEN McENTEE’S MANOEUVRE

Date: March 7, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

IT IS highly unlikely that the Sex Workers Alliance Ireland (SWAI) is banking on a positive outcome from the long-delayed review of the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 2017, following a slick move by the mandarins to take the external process inside the justice department. The 2017 legislation introduced by Frances Fitzgerald, commonly referred to… Read more »

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Richard Lindzen BPM

GLOBAL WARMING: ‘NO BIG DEAL’

Date: March 7, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

A relatively new farmers’ lobby group, styling itself Beef Plan Movement (BPM), is pushing for full official recognition this year as a stakeholder organisation and to have a say in negotiating with Government on behalf of beef farmers. Like many other farming groups, it takes an à la carte approach to science. Its website includes… Read more »

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IS THE SAS IN GAZA?

Date: March 7, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

Last October there was a flurry of articles in the British media about the deployment of the SAS to Cyprus. The regiment was reported as being on standby in case it was needed to rescue British hostages in Gaza. Then, suddenly, there was complete silence…. Read more »

David Irving

IRVING IN A STATE OF DENIAL

Date: March 7, 2024 - Hush Hush

THROUGHOUT FEBRUARY there were reports that convicted Holocaust denier David Irving, who dismissed the Auschwitz gas chambers as a “fairy tale”, had fallen ill. Then in late February it was incorrectly reported online that he had died. There was some irony then when Irving’s family took to the internet to deny his death. Despite this,… Read more »

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Jennifer O'Connell

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: March 7, 2024 - The Hot Air Brigade

When in this country did the ‘common good’ ever mean anything other than the good of men? Jennifer O’Connell, Irish Times Charting the Scylla of draconian defamation laws and the Charybdis of contempt is difficult enough, but now it’s been confirmed that taxpayer-funded officials will deliberately shaft you. Fionnán Sheahan on Catherine Martin buggering up… Read more »

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