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Dakota Johnson

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: February 22, 2024 - The Hot Air Brigade

I worked with Paul Mescal, and he’s a really good friend of mine. I saw him speaking Irish and that blew my mind. Dakota Johnson, Irish Independent With Sara Greavu as curator, we aim to make a pavilion in tribute to those who persist, against the odds, in being shelter for each other. Artist Eimear… Read more »

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Michael O'Leary Business Post

MEDIA CLIMATE CALL

Date: February 22, 2024 - Fowl Emissions

In recent years, the Business Post had developed a reputation as a broadly progressive publication on many hot-button issues, including climate and environment. Notwithstanding the regular presence of hard-right commentator Lucinda Creighton, the Post under editor Richie Oakley made some effort to platform voices beyond the business/growth consensus. However, his replacement, former Irish Examiner political… Read more »

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MATT O’KEEFFE’S CLIMATE CALL

Date: February 22, 2024 - Fowl Emissions

Irish Times readers were recently treated to a glossy 32-page magazine insert, titled The Climate Call. According to the cover, it was about a “sustainable future” and “green efforts”. Published by IFP Media and edited by Matt O’Keeffe, confusingly this magazine appears to be a rebadged Dairy Ireland, a bi-annual industry magazine. Oddly, O’Keeffe did… Read more »

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Emma Little-Pengelly LucidTalk

NORTH POLL MELTS DUP ICE

Date: February 22, 2024 - Northwind

On the face of it, last week’s LucidTalk poll offered mixed fortunes for the DUP. The party did slide four points to 24% but, on the other hand, the poll vindicated DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson’s decision to face down his party’s hard liners and return to Stormont: 67% of unionists support that. That 67% score… Read more »

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Micheál Martin

MICHEÁL MARTIN’S CUNNING PLAN

Date: February 22, 2024 - Last Refuge

THE GROWING pressure on the reluctant Social Democrats to unite with Labour does not primarily come from the latter party but from the Fourth Estate, although inspired by ‘bourgeois’ parties of the Third Estate. These have used the willing platform of the Irish Times and others in efforts to coerce the Soc Dems to bond… Read more »

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Leo Varadkar

BEWARE MINISTERS BEARING GIFTS

Date: February 22, 2024 - Last Refuge

FURTHER EVIDENCE of the growing rift on Gaza between Leo Varadkar and Micheál Martin emerged last week when the Taoiseach joined with Spain to urge recognition of Palestinian statehood while Fine Gael’s Simon Coveney, a former foreign minister, described Israel as a “rogue state” and a “monster”. Meanwhile, Tánaiste Martin tailed his coalition partners by… Read more »

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Fintan O'Toole Irish Times Catholic

RELIGIOUS CENSORS AT ‘IRISH TIMES’

Date: February 22, 2024 - Fit to Print?

THE CENSORSHIP continues of letters and submissions to the Irish Times that challenge the newspaper’s view of unique Catholic repression and abuse in Irish society. The new year has seen further analysis of this allegedly exceptional Catholic behaviour but, more significantly, of censorship by the IT of any disagreement or criticism of this viewpoint. A… Read more »

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GUINNESS GUFF

Date: February 22, 2024 - Fit to Print?

THE SPECIAL pleading from Diageo against the imminent banning of its five-axle lorries from the city centre has the finger prints of a particularly experienced PR handler all over the rhetoric deployed to exempt it from such a fate. The Irish Times published a front-page report about the historic Guinness route to Dublin Port, once… Read more »

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Brenda Power

MIRIAM AND BRENDA SOCK IT TO THOMAS

Date: February 22, 2024 - Fit to Print?

IRISH TIMES columnist Miriam Lord gave Fianna Fáil minister Thomas Byrne, the party’s leader on the referendums, a good talking to recently and applauded Sunday Times columnist Brenda Power for trouncing “male, stale and inside the Pale” Tommy in a debate about the impending votes. The minister made the mistake, on RTÉ Radio’s Today with… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: February 22, 2024 - Bog Cuttings

‘FATHER TED & DOUGAL’ Clonakilty District Court heard the case of Gavin Sexton (47) of Carhue Timoleague, who was charged with engaging in threatening and abusive behaviour towards gardaí who found him asleep in a bush in a public car park. Garda Martin O’Regan told the court that on May 29, 2023, officers responded to… Read more »

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Shane Donohoe

DONOHOE’S MITIGATION

Date: February 22, 2024 - Sport of Kings

THE REFERRALS committee of the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB), chaired by legal eagle Robert Dore, recently convened to consider matters arising from a stable visit to the premises of trainer Shane Donohoe. He looks to have been a lucky boy. During the inspection, it was noted that three horses had not been returned as… Read more »

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MOLONEY’S ADVENTURES

Date: February 22, 2024 - Sport of Kings

AN INCIDENT at Cork racecourse between well-known trainer and breeze-up consignor Thomand O’Mara and IHRB clerk of the course Paul Moloney recently went before the board’s referrals committee. Moloney alleged that O’Mara both verbally and physically abused him and had been harassing him with repeated phone calls, including late at night. The hapless Moloney, more… Read more »

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CATCHING UP IN BRITTAS

Date: February 22, 2024 - High Society

INTERESTING TO see a truckload of documents filed in the Companies Registration Office (CRO) in recent months relating to Ballinacarrig Park Club (BPC), a name that will ring bells with visitors to the sandy environs of Brittas Bay in Co Wicklow. Ballinacarrig Park Club is known to many as the poshest of the various mobile… Read more »

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Peter Jackson

FLUTTER SHARES COULD HIT £300 IN NEXT TWO YEARS

Date: February 22, 2024 - Moneybags

IT IS quite jaw dropping to delve into the remarkable figures being delivered by gambling behemoth Flutter Entertainment. The company’s market capitalisation is almost £30bn and the transfer to the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) is set to push the shares higher in the short term. Indeed, given the potential for growth across the Atlantic,… Read more »

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Eddie O'Connor

TAPPING INTO NORWEGIAN ENERGY

Date: February 22, 2024 - Moneybags

IT IS hard to overestimate the impact Eddie O’Connor has had on the renewable energy sector, which is attracting increasing interest from shareholders as climate change continues to dominate the agenda. One interesting Norwegian operation, Aker Horizons, has had a remarkably stormy couple of years following its acquisition a couple of years ago of a… Read more »

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Grant Ashton Akya

GRANT ASHTON’S ADVENTURES

Date: February 22, 2024 - Briefcases

A RATHER interesting business that had been involved in cutting-edge integrated circuit technology architecture – and featuring a rather exotic shareholder base – was quietly wound up last month. The liquidation of Akya Holdings Ltd (AHL), however, comes more than six years after the operating subsidiary, registered in the UK, bit the dust. The UK… Read more »

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Bernard Caldwell ISSA

BERNARD CALDWELL’S MEMBERS

Date: February 22, 2024 - Briefcases

THERE WAS some off-track activity in the horseracing world this month, with Bernard Caldwell’s Irish Stable Staff Association (ISSA) holding its AGM last week in the Trim Castle Hotel. Interestingly, a change to the constitution means that all Irish stable staff who were historically defined as members of the association have to apply for membership…. Read more »

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Ard Aoibhinn Ciaran Rowsome

CLOCK TICKING FOR FLEXTIME

Date: February 22, 2024 - Briefcases

THERE WAS a suitably glowing write-up in the Indo’s property pages last week featuring a house called Ard Aoibhinn in Dundrum, south Co Dublin, which has gone on the market with a €1.85m price tag. While there was plenty of detail about the owners and their entrepreneurial skills, there was one significant detail overlooked. Ciaran… Read more »

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Mary Lou McDonald

MARY LOU’S BACK YARD MESS

Date: February 8, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

DESPITE THE ascent of Sinn Féin’s northern leader, Michelle O’Neill, to the Stormont summit, Mary Lou McDonald and SF have endured various tribulations down south in recent months. The latest setback is the Horlicks of a local election strategy in the North Inner City (NIC) electoral area located in McDonald’s Dublin Central Dáil constituency. Initially the… Read more »

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Ian Bailey

PROFILE: IAN BAILEY

Date: February 8, 2024 - Pillars of Society

THE DEATH of Ian Bailey, ‘chief suspect’ for the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier in 1996, drew the sort of crowd that sometimes gathers outside police stations to bang on the vans bearing murder suspects to court. Except that this particular crowd was composed… Read more »

Annie Hoey

YOUNG BLOOD: ANNIE HOEY

Date: February 8, 2024 - The Young Bloods

FRESH FROM being squeezed out of a Labour Party nomination to stand in the forthcoming European election, can vibrant senator Annie Hoey build on her strong involvement in student politics and lay the basis for a Dáil seat for herself and for her beleaguered party. The 35-year-old senator enjoyed a prolific and high-profile career in… Read more »

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Gordon Ramsay

RAMSAY’S IRISH RECIPE

Date: February 8, 2024 - Behind the Scenes

IT HAS probably escaped most viewers’ attention that the latest TV venture of Gordon Ramsay, Next Level Chef – Series 3, launched this week in the US on Fox’s Food Club. Irish taxpayers provided some of the ingredients here, as the series was co-produced by Pat Kiely’s BiggerStage at Joe O’Connell’s Ashford Studios. Ramsay’s series… Read more »

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Ciaran Toland Glencree Centre

ALL CHANGE AT GLENCREE CENTRE

Date: February 8, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

JUST WHAT is going on on the board of the publicly funded Glencree Centre for Peace and Reconciliation, where there have been some odd comings and goings? Despite being a charity in receipt of around €400,000 directly from the taxpayer, transparency does not appear to be high on the agenda at Glencree. The Glencree centre… Read more »

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AUBREY’S ELECTION WAR CHEST

Date: February 8, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

WITH MUCH of the political speculation focused, unsurprisingly, on the possible timing of a general election, one contest that looks set to go ahead is the by-election to determine David Norris’s successor in the Seanad. One person sure to throw his hat in the ring here is businessman and philanthropist Aubrey McCarthy, whose campaign won’t… Read more »

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PAUL HOURICAN’S NEW HAT

Date: February 8, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

GOLDHAWK’S FAVOURITE landlord, Paul Hourican, is back in action again, with a new company but some of the same old problems. Fans of The Phoenix will be familiar with Hourican’s rental adventures thanks to the high-profile collapse of Period Door Properties Ltd (PDP). It will… Read more »

Gemma and Andy Brown

THE BROWNS PULL THE PLUG

Date: February 8, 2024 - Briefcases

THE SURPRISE dispersal of the entire string of racehorses owned by Andy and Gemma Brown, the star of which was Grade 1 Future Champions’ Novice Hurdle winner Caldwell Potter, took place earlier this week in the aftermath of the Dublin Racing Festival. The move has resulted in plenty of head-scratching by punters and, for trainer… Read more »

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Mark Paul IDF

MARK’S ISRAELI VICTIMS

Date: February 8, 2024 - Fit to Print?

THE REVIVAL of an Israeli PR blunder – unusual for the well-resourced PR machine of Israel and the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) – was reported in the Irish Times last Saturday under the headline: “Hamas mutilated women ‘like garbage’ campaign launch hears”. Last week’s meeting in central London was hosted by Labour peer Lord Mendelsohn… Read more »

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David McManus

YOUNG BLUESHIRTS CHAMPION McMANUS

Date: February 8, 2024 - Last Refuge

HEALTHY RIVALRY is how Fine Gael councillor David McManus would likely describe a leaflet due to be distributed in his local election area of Rathfarnham-Templeogue this weekend. The leaflet has a Valentine’s Day flavour to it but is hardly a love letter to his party colleague on South Dublin County Council, Lynn McCrave. The leaflet… Read more »

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VOL 42 NO 03

Date: February 8, 2024 -

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Micheál Martin Daniel Hokanson

IRELAND-US MILITARY ALLIANCE

Date: February 8, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

NOT FOR decades has a Middle East crisis come so close to provoking war on a global scale of East versus West, with Ireland by now virtually dragooned into being part of it via Nato partnership groups and EU security policies. Just days ago the… Read more »

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MATT COOPER V RTÉ

Date: February 8, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

THE UBIQUITOUS Matt Cooper was taking pops at RTÉ once again last weekend in the Business Post, a pastime neither he nor his editor feels should be qualified by any mention of the degree to which his views as an independent commentator are hopelessly compromised. While the hack found space on a couple of occasions… Read more »

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Mark Foley

GROW UP, SENATORS!

Date: February 8, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

MARK FOLEY, the smooth-talking CEO of Eirgrid, got quite a rude response last week from senators Alice Mary Higgins (Independent) and Lynn Boylan (Sinn Féin) at an Oireachtas climate action committee on data centres and the stratospheric rise in their electricity use. Foley, a prominent advocate for data centre growth, had little time for the… Read more »

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THE ‘IT’ ON JOHN BRUTON

Date: February 8, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

In an obit of nearly 2,500 words, the Irish Times devoted just over 200 words to the stewardship of the late John Bruton of the peace process – damning him with faint praise on the issue – while commenting uncritically several times on his reverence for John Redmond and his condemnation of the 1916 Rising…. Read more »

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PARKER GREEN TRIMMED

Date: February 8, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

A COMPANY with the name of GEI Crystal Ltd has just been wound up by its owners, although it is unlikely that many would recognise the name, given that for years it was called Parker Green International (Waterford) Ltd. Under this guise it attracted plenty of media attention as a result of the company’s extensive… Read more »

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Michelle O'Neill Stormont

THE NEW REGIME

Date: February 8, 2024 - Northwind

It was the changing of the guard in the north on February 3 in more ways than one. Obviously the most historic and revolutionary change was a republican taking the position of first minister in a polity and in Stormont, a building where that was never supposed to happen. Sinn Féin’s Michelle O’Neill walked down… Read more »

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Taylor Swift Sam Melia

IRISH FAR-RIGHT FEARS

Date: February 8, 2024 - Hush Hush

THE PLIGHT of British far-right activist Sam Melia – who was convicted in January at Leeds Crown Court for inciting racial hatred and intentionally encouraging or assisting racially aggravated criminal damage – has incensed many agitators on the far right of Irish politics. Melia has… Read more »