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RED INK AT THE ‘IT’

Date: November 3, 2016 - Affairs of the Nation

THE FINANCES of The Irish Times have come under a lot of scrutiny over the last week or so courtesy of the Sindo and its biggest shareholder, Denis O’Brien. Looking at the accounts just filed for 2015, it’s easy to see that trouble is brewing. The first salvo came in the Sindo business section, which… Read more »

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BRIAN McDONAGH VS APPLE INC

Date: November 3, 2016 - Affairs of the Nation

WICKLOW LANDOWNER Brian McDonagh has put the kibosh – at least temporarily – on Apple’s giant U850m proposed data centre in Athenry. Having cleared the various planning hurdles, Apple is now facing a lengthy judicial review, brought by McDonagh, who has been planning his own massive data centre in Kilpedder, Co Wicklow, for several years…. Read more »

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FLOOD TRIBUNAL COSTS SET TO SOAR AGAIN

Date: November 3, 2016 - Affairs of the Nation

THE DUMPING of virtually all findings of the Flood / Mahon Tribunal against previously named parties (see The Phoenix, 25/3/16) does not mean the ending of this hugely expensive legal fiasco (estimates of the tribunal’s cost range from around €160m to €300m). This Monday, Joseph (junior) Murphy, who is claiming aggravated damages against the tribunal,… Read more »

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21/07/2014 Aidan Eames of Eames Solicitors, reading a statement from Angela Kearns to the media outside the Four Courts yesterday(Mon) after a High Court hearing.Pic: Collins Courts

TAKING ON SOLICITOR EAMES

Date: November 3, 2016 - Affairs of the Nation

SURELY ONE of the busiest legal eagles in town is Aidan Eames, the former Fianna Fáil-appointed senator and ex-member of FF’s national executive, who is currently involved in high profile cases with Angela Kerins and Denis O’Brien. However, he also has had to deal with a complaint to the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT) filed by… Read more »

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‘IT’ TURNS BLIND EYE TO CHILD ABUSE SCANDAL

Date: November 3, 2016 - Affairs of the Nation

MOST media covered the recent catalogue of child sex abuse offences by religious lay worker Patrick O’Brien who pleaded guilty to 51 sample counts of abusing 14 children over a 33-year period to 2010. Described in one report as the largest number of offences reported against any individual in the history of the state, two… Read more »

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Gerry Adams

DISSIDENTS SET TO DUMP ARMS?

Date: November 3, 2016 - Affairs of the Nation

THE LAUNCH of a new dissident Republican party, Saoradh, recently would indicate more militarism, not less, given the bellicose political statements emanating from its inaugural meeting in Newry. But there is a strange mood spreading among the disparate dissident groups in the north and much revisionist talk of dropping the armed struggle to concentrate on… Read more »

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ANOTHER PLOT TWIST FOR LELIA DOOLAN

Date: November 3, 2016 - Affairs of the Nation

TWO REVEALING documents have been released to Goldhawk under the Freedom of Information Act concerning the increasingly expensive (€9.3m and counting) Solas ‘Picture Palace’ shambles in Galway. Meanwhile, there was a further setback for Lelia Doolan’s Solas Picture Palace company when the auditors, Collins & Associates, resigned last month. The released documents are the pivotal… Read more »

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Paul Williams

The Hot Air Brigade

Date: November 3, 2016 - The Hot Air Brigade

“The Garda Commissioner would have all her Gestapo in Garda headquarters, in the Kremlin, searching my phone,” he snarls. “That’s when I get angry.” Paul Williams on Newstalk, as reported by Mick Heaney, Irish Times, submitted by reader “The knives are out for jobs minister Mary Mitchell O’Connor for the crime of being a woman… Read more »

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ARLENE FOSTER BLOWS OUT DUBLIN

Date: November 3, 2016 - Bird's Eye View

OSCAR WILDE said there was only one thing in life worse than being talked about and that’s not being talked about. Currently that’s Martin McGuinness’s position. As if he’s on a zipwire, he swings between London and Dublin proclaiming Brexit a disaster which creates immense problems. No one seems to be listening. London loves to… Read more »

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BRENDAN OGLE’S NEW LEFT PARTY

Date: November 3, 2016 - Last Refuge

A PROJECT to set up another socialist party, in the Dáil and outside, is being masterminded by Unite trade union official Brendan Ogle, a central figure in the Right2Water campaign and the subsequent Right2Change general election campaign. Ogle’s new party has the backing and financial support of Unite in the UK which is in turn… Read more »

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ROSS RUNS RINGS AROUND O’DONOVAN

Date: November 3, 2016 - Last Refuge

WATCH out for a severe rebuke to the government and implicitly for junior sports minister Patrick O’Donovan from Sports Ireland (SI) chairperson Kieran Mulvey this week at the opening of the Special Olympics HQ in Abbotstown. O’Donovan had his eye wiped by his senior – transport, tourism and sport minister Shane Ross – in the… Read more »

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Harris retracts

Date: November 3, 2016 - Last Refuge

A SIGN that Leo Varadkar is edging ahead of Simon Coveney in the Fine Gael leadership stakes is the cringing effort by Sindo columnist Eoghan Harris to get onside with Vlad. Harris recently apologised to Varadkar for describing him as “too laid back to be a leader”. Harris should say sorry for what he really… Read more »

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MICHEÁL MARTIN’S EYE ON RUSSIA

Date: November 3, 2016 - Affairs of the NationLast Refuge

WHAT a pugnacious western warrior and protagonist of Russia’s Vladimir Putin Micheál Martin is turning out to be as he pillories the pesky Ruskies in speech after speech in the Dáil and elsewhere. His cold war posturing includes condemnation of the government, other Dáil parties and even the EU of being soft on the Russian… Read more »

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AFTER GARRETT HARTE AT NEWSTALK

Date: November 3, 2016 - Fit to Print?

THE announcement of Newstalk editor-in-chief Garrett Harte’s resignation came five days before the JNLR ratings for all stations. Coincidence? Hardly. But the shrewd Harte may have made his decision as he can see the writing on the wall at Newstalk. And Denis O’Brien’s recent warnings of much Irish media going out of business is ironic… Read more »

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Mail hardship

Date: November 3, 2016 - Fit to Print?

GALLEY slaves at the Irish Daily and Sunday Mail were summoned to MD Paul Henderson’s annual state-of-the-nation address and, after years of slashed editorial budgets, job losses and increased workloads, disgruntled staff were expecting yet more grim news. Sure enough, Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen lookalike Henderson painted a challenging picture of prospects for the papers and the… Read more »

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MARK HUMPHRYS

BARREL OF LAUGHS FROM MARK HUMPHRYS

Date: November 3, 2016 - Fit to Print?

THE SUNDAY TIMES has recently published more than one column from DCU lecturer Mark Humphrys, the latest of which says that if Palestinians are poor “it is their fault they are poor … and the Israelis deserve their wealth because they work hard to create it”. That ST associate editor in charge of opinion pieces,… Read more »

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Ruth Coppinger TD

Date: November 3, 2016 - Pillars of Society

RUTH COPPINGER’S clever manipulation of the abortion issue has helped to give the AAA/PBP a three-point boost to 9% in the latest Red C Poll. Coppinger’s AAA and Richard Boyd Barrett’s PBP – aka respectively as the Socialist Party (SP) and Socialist Workers Party (SWP) – have played various issues beautifully and water charges, the… Read more »

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FRACKING: WHAT’S IN A NAME?

Date: November 3, 2016 - Fowl Emissions

ANTI-FRACKING campaigners are not quite sure whether it’s too soon to celebrate – Clare Daly warned those gathered at the Dáil last week not to “put away your placards just yet” – but the fact that a bill by Fine Gael backbencher Tony McLoughlin to ban fracking passed its second stage on October 27 is… Read more »

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Bog Cuttings

Date: November 3, 2016 - Affairs of the NationBog Cuttings

Protein bar thief looked fit and healthy A 25-YEAR-OLD Waterford man appeared at Carrick-on-Suir District Court charged with stealing €124 worth of protein bars from a supermarket. Darren Lee of Kilcoban, Waterford, pleaded guilty to stealing the bars from a SuperValu. The court heard that he had paid for some items but also took a… Read more »

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Annie Hoey

Date: November 3, 2016 - The Young Bloods

Annie Hoey (28) made headlines last month when, as president of the Union of Students in Ireland (USI), she led a 15,000 strong march in Dublin against fees. After several quiet years, the student movement is back out on the streets, campaigning for increased investment… Read more »

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KIM GILBERT’S NEW CLUB

Date: November 3, 2016 - High Society

LAST WEEK brand new gig venue opened on Dublin’s South Anne Street, fronted by night club king – Michael Wright of The Wright Venue fame – and his pal Robbie Wootton who has returned to his old stomping ground from Italy. However, it turns out the business is now controlled by Mrs Michael Wright, Kim… Read more »

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GILLIAN RONAN’S RETURN

Date: November 3, 2016 - High Society

TWO YEARS after exiting Kildare Street where she fronted a restaurant that typified the boom times, Gillian Kelly (aka Gillian Ronan), sister of property developer Johnny Ronan, has popped up with a wedding planning company. Kelly’s last high profile venture was the formerly trendy restaurant on Kildare Street, Town Bar and Grill, originally set up… Read more »

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GEORGIAN SOC COURTS THE YANKS

Date: November 3, 2016 - High Society

LAST WEEK the Irish Georgian Society (IGS) gala dinner in the US was held at the University Club in New York, with Beth Dater president of the American board heading up the fundraiser attended by the new president, David Davies. The 2015 annual report just published reveals that the US and indeed the UK remain… Read more »

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THE BEAUTY QUEEN OF LEENANE - THE GAIETY

THE BEAUTY QUEEN OF LEENANE – THE GAIETY

Date: November 3, 2016 - ReviewsTheatre

FEW COMPANIES and playwrights have enjoyed such an interdependent relationship as Druid and Martin McDonagh. Audiences could be forgiven for wondering whether, after two decades, the two still have much to say. Back in 1996, the London-based writer was unknown, and few outside Ireland had heard of the tiny Galway theatre company. Beauty Queen, first… Read more »

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TMI/SCORCHIO – RTÉ 2

Date: November 3, 2016 - ReviewsTV

IT WAS perhaps fitting that in Halloween week, that most terrifying of phrases – new RTÉ comedy show – should emerge from the crypt. Clearly feeling that 18- to 25-year-olds don’t have the attention span for narrative comedy these days, the national broadcaster unveiled two hidden camera programmes aimed at the yoof audience. First up… Read more »

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ALL WE SHALL KNOW – DONAL RYAN

Date: November 3, 2016 - BooksReviews

THE TIPPERARY author’s two previous novels (The Spinning Heart and The Thing About December) successfully explored the dark brutal side of Irish rural life. So much so that Donal Ryan is already widely regarded as one of the country’s most talented contemporary writers. The latest book, written from the perspective of Melody Shee, is yet… Read more »

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HUGH MAGUIRE’S SUCCESSOR?

Date: November 3, 2016 - Behind the Scenes

GOLDHAWK is wondering when the board of the Hunt Museum in Limerick will get around to advertising for a new director. The position has been vacant for nearly six months, since Hugh Maguire exited quietly in May. Maguire, previously at the Heritage Council for almost 10 years, arrived as director of the Hunt Museum in… Read more »

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SILENCE AT THE MUSEUM

Date: November 3, 2016 - Behind the Scenes

OPPOSITION is clearly building to the farcical plan to shift the Seanad into the National Museum of Ireland’s educational spaces on Kildare Street, with letters to The Irish Times and an editorial in the paper describing the proposal as “atrocious”. A recent letter came from Matthew Seaver of Unite trade union calling on senators to… Read more »

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DISHING OUT THE HALLOWEEN TREATS

Date: November 3, 2016 - Behind the Scenes

IT’S THAT time of year when the cashiers at the Revenue and Annie Doona’s Irish Film Board (IFB) announce their latest hand-outs of apples or nuts to the hungry film and TV ghouls. The amount paid out by Revenue under the Section 481 tax credit is suitably opaque – anywhere between a maximum of €32m… Read more »

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CALLING ALL OWNERS

Date: November 3, 2016 - Sport of Kings

IT’S GOOD to see Horse Racing Ireland (HRI) has wasted little time in allocating some of its generous budget for 2017 with the announcement of a new beefed-up ownership department. This role has been bandied about quite a bit over the years. The task of promoting racehorse ownership in Ireland was originally under the remit… Read more »

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O’LEARY GETting SOFT?

Date: November 3, 2016 - Sport of Kings

MICHAEL O’LEARY has found himself a new trainer and could there possibly be a hint of sentiment attached to his decision to send 15 young horses to Eddie Hales? Hales, an Englishman by birth but based in Ireland for the past 20 years, once had a thriving business in buying young horses and selling them… Read more »

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Mick O’Leary’s penny-pinching

Date: November 3, 2016 - Sport of Kings

GIGGINSTOWN House Stud seems well on its way to treating its riders in the way Ryanair treats its pilots. Boss of both operations Michael O’Leary recently wrote to several amateur jockeys who ride the many point-to-point horses he has in training with Gordon Elliott, Pat Doyle and others. He outlined how he wouldn’t pay the… Read more »

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SLAP ON THE WRIST FOR DORAN

Date: November 3, 2016 - Sport of Kings

AS GOLDHAWK revealed (see The Phoenix 26/8/16), owner Tom Doran was rather aggrieved with the Turf Club over a case at the Galway Festival, where his horse, Ondamoura, finished second to the Dermot Weld trained Tarazani, which Doran believed was not qualified to run in the race. Even though the race was restricted to horses… Read more »

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Carroll and Heraty’s focus unlikely to boost CPL share price

Date: November 3, 2016 - Moneybags

PAUL CARROLL and his wife, Anne Heraty, run the successful 26-year-old Irish CPL Resources job agency and, had they adopted a less cautious strategy, could have grown this into a giant international group. However, their focus is almost exclusively on attempting to dominate the Irish market and see this as CPL’s strength rather than its… Read more »

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Nama damned by Project Eagle report

Date: November 3, 2016 - Moneybags

THE SPECIAL report of Seamus McCarthy, Comptroller and Auditor General (C&AG), on Nama’s sale of its Northern Ireland portfolio – Project Eagle – is a valuable document in a number of ways. It discloses a lot of hitherto unknown facts that highlight why we should be more concerned about the unsatisfactory way the state agency… Read more »

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Hammond Lane’s heavy metal

Date: November 3, 2016 - Briefcases

HAMMOND Lane Metal Ltd (HLM), a Dublin-based subsidiary of metal recycling giant Clearway Disposals, filed its latest accounts last week which revealed a mixed bag for the outfit. The good news is that the company, which operates on Pigeon House Road in Ringsend, had accumulated profits of a whopping €41.5m at the end of December… Read more »

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