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KENNY TRUMPS CLIMATE ACCORD

Date: September 7, 2016 - Fowl Emissions

DONALD TRUMP is probably not the first name that springs to mind when major international breakthroughs in tackling climate change are being discussed. The prospect, however remote, of The Donald being installed in 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue next January has concentrated minds in Washington and and galvanised the world’s top two polluters to ratify last December’s… Read more »

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Bog Cuttings

Date: September 7, 2016 - Bog Cuttings

Arrested for drink-driving twice in a day A 33-YEAR-OLD Derry man arrested for drink driving twice in one day was disqualified from driving. Stephen O’Donnell of Ballyorr Drive pleaded guilty to two charges of driving with excessive alcohol on his breath at Derry’s Magistrate’s Court. The court heard that police were sent to Water Street… Read more »

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Cora Sherlock

Date: September 7, 2016 - The Young Bloods

In 2016, Cora Sherlock (41) has become the most prominent Irish anti-abortion personality, surpassing the Iona Institute’s David Quinn and Breda O’Brien to become the de facto face of the movement in the media. Describing herself as a pro-life feminist, Cora represents something of a break from the anti-abortion campaign’s history, presenting a warmer, fuzzier… Read more »

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BELINDA STRUDWICK’S GOOD TIMES

Date: September 7, 2016 - High Society

LAST MONTH glamorous Belinda Strudwick popped up in The Owner column of the Irish Field to give her tuppenceworth on horseracing. When asked what advice she would offer to someone thinking of becoming a racehorse owner, she advised they should “be realistic and enjoy the good times”. She might also have added “and marry a… Read more »

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Suing Dermot O’Rourke

Date: September 7, 2016 - High Society

THE SINDO society pages focused last month on the Berkshire wedding of Iain O’Rourke and Charlie McKinney. Iain was described as the son of “property developer multi-millionaire Dermot O’Rourke”, Goldhawk’s old pal. Poor Dermot may have gained a daughter-in-law, Charlie, but is currently being sued by his son-in-law. Certainly, the term “multi-millionaire” is one that… Read more »

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TANYIA DEANE’S CASTLE

Date: September 7, 2016 - High Society

INTERESTING to see fashion designer-turned horse healer Tanyia Deane and her hubby upping sticks to move to sunny Florida. This means the couple have put their sprawling home on the market for €1.5m and got a nice spread in the Sunday Times headlined “Happy living in a fantasy”. Tanyia Deane was responsible for designing the… Read more »

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SMALLTOWN – TV3

Date: September 7, 2016 - Reviews

THE FIRST episode of the new three-part television drama by award-winning Kerry writer/director Gerard Barrett focused largely on the power of unarticulated feeling. It represents a jump for TV3’s indigenous dramatic output and puts Montrose on warning. While the story of a young person forced to leave rural Ireland for a better life isn’t exactly… Read more »

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LYING IN WAIT – LIZ NUGENT (PENGUIN IRELAND)

Date: September 7, 2016 - Reviews

BEFORE FINDING success as a crime novelist, Liz Nugent had written regularly for radio and TV drama, including RTÉ’s Fair City. There were obvious signs of this in her psychological thriller, Unravelling Oliver (about an abusive husband), which was published in 2014. Not surprisingly, this highly successful debut novel quickly became a firm favourite with… Read more »

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Seána Kerslake

A DATE FOR MAD MARY – DIRECTED BY DARREN THORNTON

Date: September 7, 2016 - Reviews

IRISH CRITICS have been falling over themselves to praise A Date For Mad Mary, the latest feature from director Darren Thornton. “A triumph,” declared The Irish Times. “Another Irish film to be proud of,” crowed the Irish Examiner. These days, Irish audiences could be forgiven for thinking domestic cinema was enjoying a golden age comparable… Read more »

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Sarah Durcan

FEMMES FATALES AT THE ABBEY

Date: September 7, 2016 - Behind the Scenes

THE INTRODUCTION by the Abbey Theatre of new “guiding principles for gender equality” – including “achieving gender equality in all areas of the artistic programme by presenting more work led by female theatre practitioners” – has raised eyebrows. It is a very wide ranging policy that brings up questions about the National Theatre’s quality priorities…. Read more »

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Ed Guiney

CREDITS NOT ROLLING FOR SOLAS PROJECT

Date: September 7, 2016 - Behind the Scenes

GOLDHAWK IS beginning to wonder if only the 30-year archive rule will shed light on the dealings around the overspend on Galway’s Picture Palace cinema, now assigned on a bargain lease arrangement to Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe’s Element Films. Promoted as far back as 2002 by Lelia Doolan’s Solas group of Galway film buffs,… Read more »

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CULLOTY AND RUSSELL RIDE AGAIN

Date: September 7, 2016 - Sport of Kings

AT LAST, jockey Davy Russell and trainer Jim Culloty have sorted out their differences. The pair famously teamed up to land the Cheltenham Gold Cup with Lord Windermere in 2014 but following the horse’s tame display in the 2015 Gold Cup under a sympathetic Russell ride, Culloty fired the Youghal man, saying he wouldn’t be… Read more »

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GRASSICK GETS THE NOD

Date: September 7, 2016 - Sport of Kings

CONGRATULATIONS are due to Sally-Ann Grassick who has been selected to join the ITV racing team which takes over the terrestrial coverage of British racing from Channel 4 next January. The Kildare native has been based primarily in France for some years, where she gained experience working for French racing channel Equidia, while more recently… Read more »

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POT LUCK for Henry De BROMHEAD

Date: September 7, 2016 - Sport of Kings

IT WILL be recalled (see The Phoenix 3/6/16) that Alan and Ann Potts have severed ties with their original trainer, Henry De Bromhead. The horses have now been fully dispersed. The last 13 Potts horses were removed from De Bromhead’s care recently and distributed between Jessica Harrington, Colm Murphy, Jim Dreaper and Mouse Morris. These… Read more »

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DAVID WACHMAN’S RETIREMENT

DAVID WACHMAN’S RETIREMENT

Date: September 7, 2016 - Sport of Kings

SO, WHAT next for David Wachman? After 20 years as a trainer, the 45-year-old has obviously decided there is more to life and plans to hand in his trainer’s licence at the end of this season. Wachman, who is married to John Magnier’s daughter, Katie, certainly won’t be on the breadline but eyebrows have been… Read more »

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Mike Donoghue

Ormonde Mining’s heavy metal fatigue

Date: September 7, 2016 - Moneybags

ORMONDE MINING is an unusual entity, particularly in the resource sector. Its business is developing a tungsten mine in western Spain, a process carrying significant risks, yet the risk has been significantly mitigated by a $100m funding arrangement put in place a year ago. All the factors are now more or less in place to… Read more »

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Sean McLoughlin

Millionaire McLoughlin’s Eye for Profits

Date: September 7, 2016 - The Hot Water Brigade

CONGRATULATIONS are in order to Irish YouTube sensation Sean McLoughlin, who made it into a recent Irish Times list of the “22 twenty-somethings” who are set to take the world by storm. The piece by Una Mullally entitled, “Ireland: The Next Generation”, listed online video game pundit McLoughlin – better known to his fans as… Read more »

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Tipp solicitor’s noble clientele

Date: September 7, 2016 - The Hot Water Brigade

GOLDHAWK spotted a tax judgment registered against a very interesting Tipperary solicitor recently. John G O’Donnell, of O’Donnell Solicitors in Tipperary Town, had the judgment for u19,000 registered against him by the Revenue. O’Donnell, who is the firm’s principal, is remembered as the former solicitor for Goldhawk’s old pal, Terence MacCarthy, the fake chieftain of… Read more »

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MARIE GORMAN

Date: September 7, 2016 - The Hot Water Brigade

A LIMERICK fashion company called Claraffa Ltd had a judgment registered against it last week by South Dublin County Council. The company operates the Little Chancers women’s clothes shop at the Crescent Shopping Centre in Limerick but the judgment for €42,000 in unpaid rates related to the company’s Dublin operation, based at the Liffey Valley… Read more »

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Limerick liquidator’s court battles

Date: September 7, 2016 - The Hot Water Brigade

GOLDHAWK spotted an interesting judgment in the Court of Appeal recently related to Limerick accountant Anthony J Fitzpatrick. He was voluntarily appointed liquidator to a door and window manufacturing company, Star Elm Frames (SEF) Ltd, formerly owned by Cork businessman Willie Murphy before it went into examinership in 2013 and then liquidation earlier this year…. Read more »

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Ronan O’Gara misses touch

Date: September 7, 2016 - The Hot Water Brigade

CONGRATULATIONS are in order for Irish rugby ace Ronan O’Gara who, along with his wife Jessica, was named sport and style ambassador for the Longines Champions Weekend at the Curragh this month. Ronan and the glamorous Jessica were interviewed by the Sunday Independent’s Niamh Horan recently, and the former Munster out-half cut a fine dash… Read more »

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Another bad day for Ken McMoreland

Date: September 7, 2016 - The Hot Water Brigade

GOLDHAWK’s old pal, Sligo accountant Ken McMoreland had a miserable day in the High Court recently, courtesy of Judge Miriam O’Regan. In the latest episode of the continuing saga of Foresthaze Developments Ltd, the court granted summary judgment for an eye-watering u6m against McMoreland in favour of AIB. It will be recalled that Fianna Fáil… Read more »

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Marie Gorman’s costs

Date: September 7, 2016 - The Hot Water Brigade

MORE on Marie Gorman, wife of Roscommon agricultural consultant Pauraic Larkin. It will be recalled that Eugene McCarthy, appointed liquidator to Pauraic Larkin & Associates Ltd, successfully applied to have Larkin restricted from acting as a company director in the High Court last month (see The Phoenix 26/08/16). McCarthy sought to restrict Gorman as well… Read more »

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Cheap Abbey shares stuck in bargain basement

Date: September 7, 2016 - Moneybags

THE WAY Charlie Gallagher runs the Abbey house building operation is a poor reflection on Deirdre Somers’s regulation team at the Irish Stock Exchange. The ESM-listed company has all the hallmarks of a private Gallagher family business, thanks to an overwhelming 75% majority controlling shareholding, with minority outside shareholders given short shrift. Moreover, private Gallagher… Read more »

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Vol. 34 No. 17

Date: September 4, 2016 -

Vol. 34 No. 17 August 26 – September 8, 2016

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Odessa Club soldiers on

Date: August 24, 2016 - The Hot Water Brigade

IT’S BEEN a tough couple of years for popular Dublin bar and restaurant Odessa Club with the company that operates the venue, Odessa Club and Restaurant Ltd, taking on a new owner after emerging from examinership last summer. Restaurant impresario Temple Garner took over the running of the boozer last June from Eoin Foyle and… Read more »

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Michael Doody’s tax woes

Date: August 24, 2016 - The Hot Water Brigade

CORK legal eagle Michael Doody has had yet another judgment registered against him by the Revenue, his seventh since 2012. The judgment against Michael, who is the principal at the well-known Doody’s Solicitors firm on South Mall in Cork City, was for €37,000 owed to the taxman. It will be recalled that in 2012, Doody… Read more »

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Stephen Evans-Freke’s castle battle

Date: August 24, 2016 - The Hot Water Brigade

CONGRATULATIONS to Stephen Evans-Freke who had a great day in the High Court before Judge David Keane ahead of the summer recess. Moneybags businessman, Evans-Freke – son of Peter Evans-Freke, the 11th Lord Carbery – was granted an injunction barring a property restorer from transferring her wealth out of the country. It’s the second “Mareva… Read more »

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Offside with Jamie Heaslip

Date: August 24, 2016 - The Hot Water Brigade

A DUBLIN company called Lucey Technology Ltd (LTL) has had a judgment for unpaid services registered against it by a consultancy outfit. Blackrock businessman Ian Lucey is the largest shareholder at LTL, an investment company that funds fledgling tech companies and where moneybags rugby star and serial entrepreneur Jamie Heaslip is in situ as a… Read more »

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Marie Gorman’s rub of the green

Date: August 24, 2016 - The Hot Water Brigade

GOLDHAWK spotted an interesting judgment recently, related to Roscommon agricultural consultant Pauraic Larkin and his wife, Marie Gorman. Larkin owned a company called Pauraic Larkin & Associates Ltd, which provided tree and hedging services to farmers, until it collapsed into liquidation in 2012. Liquidator Eugene McMahon of Mazars sought a restriction order in the High… Read more »

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John Sheehan’s strike off

Date: August 24, 2016 - The Hot Water Brigade

THERE was more bad news for Goldhawk’s old pal, Cork property developer and ex-security industry mogul John Sheehan, when receiver Michael McAteer of Grant Thornton was appointed to his company, ODS Developments Ltd (ODSD), earlier this month. Sheehan had applied for voluntary strike off of the company back in May, but now McAteer has filed… Read more »

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Muldoon’s clean sweep puts FBD on course

Date: August 24, 2016 - Moneybags

FIONA MULDOON has really shaken up the FBD Holdings insurance group. It had previously struggled to expand away from its farmer customer base, setting up its own online cut-price insurance vehicle, No Nonsense.ie, to compete with aggressive players like Quinn Insurance while the group’s investment in hotels and land speculation in Spain were ill-suited to… Read more »

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Mick Carvill survives Kenmare restructuring

Date: August 24, 2016 - Moneybags

MICK CARVILL has not had a good record and possibly the most imprudent move he ever made was to decide in 2010, at the bottom of a brutal recession, to up the ante and lash out $350m to increase Kenmare Resources’ big bet on its heavy sands mining project in Mozambique, by increasing production capacity… Read more »

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LAVERY’S CLOSE CALL

Date: August 24, 2016 - Sport of Kings

SUMMERHILL, County Meath trainer Sheila Lavery had a close call recently when she almost fell victim to a scam. Lavery was contacted by some individuals, believed to be from India, who claimed to be representing well known multi millionaire horse owner Vijay Mallya who was, allegedly, interested in investing in some high end yearlings at… Read more »

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MORE MONEY FOR POWERS

Date: August 24, 2016 - Sport of Kings

THE EUROPEAN yearling sales season kicked off in glamorous Deauville at Arqana in France earlier this month and Irish eyes were certainly smiling, based on the prices some Irish vendors received. The Power family, synonymous with that ace sprinter Sole Power hit another home run when their sole offering, a filly, was bought by the… Read more »

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WAGS’ MELBOURNE DREAM

Date: August 24, 2016 - Sport of Kings

THE SUCCESS of the Ruby Walsh-ridden Clondaw Warrior in the E300,000 Galway Hurdle last month sparked some joyous scenes. This was not surprising given that Walsh’s wife, Gillian, is part-owner of the horse along with three of her pals, Áine Casey, Aisling Gannon and former Horse Racing Ireland PR queen, Tamso Doyle. The Warrior has… Read more »

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