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David Wildenstein

GOFFS AND THE BILLIONAIRES

Date: October 5, 2016 - High Society

THE GOFFS Orby sale this year attracted more attention than usual, thanks to the decision by David Wildenstein to offload over 100 horses through the auction house. The sale comes at a time when the billionaire Wildenstein dynasty has been generating headlines for all the wrong reasons. David Wildenstein is very much part of high… Read more »

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SHARON’S SWING

Date: October 5, 2016 - High Society

WHILE EUROPE was getting stuffed in the Ryder Cup last weekend, the K Club has been celebrating the ten-year anniversary of its hosting of the competition in 2006, as well as its 25th birthday. Among those enjoying the festivities has been Sharon Smurfit, daughter of Mick and, like him, quite a fan of the little… Read more »

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SHAKE-UP AT RESIDENCE

Date: October 5, 2016 - High Society

THE OWNER of private members club, Residence, on Dublin’s St Stephen’s Green – Olivia Gaynor-Long – who has pumped millions into the struggling business has finally gotten around to taking some action. The membership system is to be overhauled and members are being promised an “exciting future”. Maybe Olivia will then spend more time on… Read more »

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THE STAR MAN - CONOR O’CLERY

THE STAR MAN – CONOR O’CLERY

Date: October 5, 2016 - BooksReviews

PERHAPS because of the overdose this year on anything and everything related to 1916, earlier Irish historical material, fictional or otherwise, seems to have gone out of fashion. So this new Irish novel based in the final decade of the 18th century is welcome both for its rarity and its unusual theme. Conor O’Clery,… Read more »

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DON GIOVANNI – GAIETY THEATRE

Date: October 5, 2016 - Theatre

ON PAPER, it makes plenty of sense. Get a brand-name writer to put a modern spin on classic opera, in order to lure in new audiences and demonstrate that the art form can have contemporary Irish appeal. In practice, it’s trickier. Opera Theatre Company’s last attempt at this, 2015’s Rigoletto, translated by Marina Carr, turned… Read more »

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THE LESSER BOHEMIANS - EIMEAR McBRIDE

THE LESSER BOHEMIANS – EIMEAR McBRIDE

Date: October 5, 2016 - BooksReviews

IN THIS follow-up to her highly acclaimed (and much hyped) 2013 debut, A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing, Eimear McBride retains the familiar coming-of-age theme and writes in her signature high voltage stream-of-consciousness style. Set in 1994, the fraught story follows a naïve 18-year-old Irish girl who comes to London to take up a place… Read more »

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A Man Doing Accounts

A MAN WITHDRAWING PAINTING

Date: October 5, 2016 - Behind the Scenes

Man Doing Accounts (detail) THERE WAS an interesting aside in last weekend’s account of the latest Adams Irish art sale, penned by Michael Parsons in The Irish Times. The reference was to a painting titled A Man Doing Accounts, which was withdrawn from sale. It had once been owned by Derek “tax leakage” Quinlan before… Read more »

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REVIEWING THE CORK FILM FESTIVAL

Date: October 5, 2016 - Behind the Scenes

DOCUMENTS released to Goldhawk shine some light on the machinations leading to the recent bailing out of the Cork Film Festival and the ousting of its long-time principals. Two senior employees of the festival, Mick Hannigan and Una Feely, respectively festival director/CEO and programmer, were made redundant in March 2013 following a review of the… Read more »

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COLM MURPHY

COLM MURPHY’S EXIT

Date: October 5, 2016 - Sport of Kings

THE IRISH jumps scene will be missing some familiar faces this season. Not only will jockeys Adrian Heskin, Davy Russell and Jonathan Moore be plying their trade across the water on a regular basis, but trainer Colm Murphy becomes the latest handler to call it quits after a relatively short career. The costs associated with… Read more »

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Jessica Harrington

COBALT MILKSHAKES?

Date: October 5, 2016 - Sport of Kings

THE TURF CLUB has come under fire recently over its perceived inefficiency in implementing a new drug testing procedure for horses, particularly for elevated carbon dioxide levels (TCO2) and Cobalt. Trainers Jim Bolger and Jessica Harrington have both been vocal in expressing their disappointment over the Turf Club’s lack of action in the wake of… Read more »

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Davy Russell’s moment of madness

Date: October 5, 2016 - Sport of Kings

DAVY RUSSELL seemed to lose the plot at Clonmel last week riding Little Folke to a narrow victory for Henry De Bromhead. Russell was seen to strike the runner-up, Solar Heat, three times across the face with his whip in the closing stages. The stewards took a dim view of Russell’s actions, reversing the placings… Read more »

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WILIE MULLINS

WILIE MULLINS’S ROUGH RIDE

Date: October 5, 2016 - Sport of Kings

MICK O’LEARY has managed to get into a stand-off with someone as stubborn as himself. Despite being faced with the prospect of losing 60 high class horses, champion trainer Willie Mullins, has not entertained the Ryanair chief’s bargain-hunting tactics. The loss in income to the trainer is in the region of €100,000 a month. Mullins… Read more »

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Dermot Smurfit

Smurfit dynasty goes out with a whimper

Date: October 5, 2016 - Moneybags

WHEN DERMOT Smurfit (younger brother of Mick), originally bought the Finnish Savon Sellu paper mill in 2005, at the age of 61, it looked as if the family was preparing for its second round at creating a cardboard box empire dynasty. However, the Smurfit-led sale now to Madison Dearborn Partners – the same private equity… Read more »

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David McCann

Fyffes strange plunge into mushrooms

Date: October 5, 2016 - Moneybags

LAST YEAR Fyffes enjoyed a good year’s trading with revenue up 12% to €1.2bn and operating profits up a very healthy 37% to just on €45m to leave trading margins at 3.6%. There is a seasonal bias in Fyffes towards the first half of the year with the second half only accounting for 47% of… Read more »

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Peter Gallagher

Sibling rivalry at Abbey

Date: October 5, 2016 - Briefcases

THERE COULD be fun and games at the annual general meeting of the Abbey plc house building operation this week when Peter Gallagher, younger brother of chief executive Charlie prepares to let fly with both barrels about what he perceives to be the company’s shortcomings. According to the Sunday Business Post Peter also wants the… Read more »

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Val Timon’s Taxman troubles

Val Timon’s Taxman troubles

Date: October 5, 2016 - Briefcases

ONE interesting name to pop up on the Revenue’s latest list of tax defaulters was solicitor Val Timon, who was fined €1,500 in the second quarter of this year for failing to file income tax returns. But it’s not the first time the Killiney solicitor has been in trouble with the Taxman, having been fined… Read more »

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Robert Butler’s Hanging Gardens

Date: October 5, 2016 - Briefcases

ONE of the four sites named in the Limerick Twenty Thirty (LTT) development plan has an interesting history, linked to NAMA developer, Robert Butler. The ‘Garden Site’ on Henry Street in Limerick City is now in the possession of the LTT designated company after it was bought back by Limerick Council from NAMA, and the… Read more »

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Michael Noonan

Noonan’s Limerick Curtain Call

Date: October 5, 2016 - Briefcases

FINANCE minister Michael Noonan must be delighted that the Limerick development plan seems to finally be getting off the ground. The strategy, which is supposed to bring u500m in inward investment to the city, was re-launched in September at an event in Limerick. Central to the development plan is an outfit called Limerick Twenty Thirty… Read more »

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Alan Barrett’s court dates

Date: October 5, 2016 - Briefcases

FORMER director of EventElephant Ltd, Alan Barrett will be sentenced later this month after pleading guilty to charges relating to the incorrect filing of VAT returns earlier this year. In the meantime, the Courts Service last week published the full judgment from his High Court disqualification case in July and it’s full of interesting details… Read more »

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Hangover for Cork accountant Twohig

Date: October 5, 2016 - Briefcases

ONE familiar name to appear on Revenue’s latest list of Tax Defaulters was Goldhawk’s old pal, Cork accountant and ex-publican Edward Twohig. Edward, who trades as Twohig Kelleher accountants on Washington Street in Cork City, was fined a modest €2,500 for failing to lodge VAT returns, but it’s not the first time that the number-cruncher… Read more »

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Vol.34 No.20

Vol.34 No.20

Date: October 5, 2016 -

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Vol. 34 No. 19

Date: September 22, 2016 -

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Enda Kenny

NEUTRALITY: SEE NO EVIL

Date: September 21, 2016 - Affairs of the Nation

DESPITE Ireland facing one of the most fundamental issues in our history, the virtual silence surrounding our accelerating involvement in the militarisation of the EU is deafening. At the recent EU summit committing EU governments to further co-operation in defence and increased military expenditure, Enda… Read more »

Mick O’Leary

O’LEARY’S TURBULENCE IN D4

Date: September 21, 2016 - Affairs of the Nation

WHILE RYANAIR boss Mick O’Leary is clearly annoyed at objections to the planned new Dublin Airport runway, he is also facing an objection to his latest personal property project in the heart of leafy Ballsbridge. A big site at the rear of 3 Clyde Road (a stone’s throw from O’Leary’s pile on Raglan Road) was… Read more »

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KEVIN McGARRY’S VERY PRIVATE SECURITY

Date: September 21, 2016 - Affairs of the Nation

INTERESTING to see an apology in The Irish Times earlier this month to company KTech Security and its owner Kevin McGarry, who turns out to be doing rather well for himself. Moreover, the wily millionaire has moved his operation offshore. Despite the usually obscure nature of this sector, KTech has been one of the more… Read more »

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GERRY CALLANAN’S HORSE TRADING

Date: September 21, 2016 - Affairs of the Nation

WITH AN appeal lodged by Horse Racing Ireland (HRI) against a recent Small Claims Court ruling, it appears the innocuous looking challenge by Gerry Callanan of Nanallac Stud in Kildare to the Thoroughbred Foal Levy could have far reaching consequences. Callanan initiated proceedings against HRI through the Small Claims Court given that the sum at… Read more »

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PICKARD’S CRIME BACKGROUND

Date: September 21, 2016 - Affairs of the Nation

THE mystery of just who murdered Charles Brooke Pickard – whose remains the gardaí hope to find in Kerry’s Ballaghisheen mountain pass – may never be solved. But the bafflement of media about Pickard’s criminal past is itself baffling as it is a matter of record well known to gardaí. The Sunday Independent said last… Read more »

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JOHN BURNS’S COMRADES

Date: September 21, 2016 - Affairs of the Nation

WHAT a cheeky chappie Sunday Times associate editor John Burns is. He penned a wry sarcastic article last weekend about junior minister and Fine Gael critic John Halligan, a current target for all right (wing) thinking journalists. Burns heaped derision on the minister in his description of Halligan’s past political affiliations and positions before he… Read more »

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TIME WARP IN THE HIGH COURT

Date: September 21, 2016 - Affairs of the Nation

GOLDHAWK recently spotted a very odd High Court judgment in a case initiated in 1996 but, bizarrely, only heard in court this year. Despite a 19-year gap between the initial filing of proceedings in 1996 and the plaintiff giving notice of his intention to proceed in 2015 – a delay that Judge Michael White described… Read more »

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KENNEDY: A BRIDGE TOO FAR?

Date: September 21, 2016 - Affairs of the Nation

HAS Ireland, and even Wexford, finally been overcome by ennui with the cult of the dead Kennedys? A row has broken out in New Ross over the proposed name – Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy – of what will be the longest bridge in Ireland (the bridge is to be part of the New Ross bypass). Members… Read more »

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BLUESHIRT TICKET TROUBLE

Date: September 21, 2016 - Affairs of the Nation

FINE GAEL ladettes Senators Michelle Mulherin and Catherine Noone walked into an accidental ambush in O’Brien’s, the sporty Dublin 2 pub, on the eve of the All-Ireland football final. There they were met with much derision, hostility even, by a gang of Blueshirt colleagues who were unimpressed with their sense of entitlement to All-Ireland final… Read more »

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Michael D Higgins

The Hot Air Brigade

Date: September 21, 2016 - The Hot Air Brigade

“Far from being airy-fairy, his highly intellectual approach has allowed him to take on the biggest global issues.” Fintan O’Toole on Michael D Higgins, Irish Times, Submitted by reader “Possibly my favourite line from a Tom Waits song comes from On the Nickel, a song from his speakeasy period in the mid-1970s. It goes: ‘I… Read more »

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FRANK CUSHNAHAN AND THE DUP

Date: September 21, 2016 - Bird's Eye View

AT STORMONT’S finance committee last week Jim Allister QC, the hardline Traditional Unionist Voice leader, tried to raise the committee’s stalled inquiry into NAMA’s sale of all its northern loans to Cerberus, the giant New York investment firm. The committee’s new chair, Emma Little-Pengelly (DUP), stopped him, saying the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) inquiry… Read more »

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JOHN GRIFFIN’S TV STATION

Date: September 21, 2016 - Affairs of the Nation

DOCUMENTS released to Goldhawk by the Department of Communications reveal the strategy being adopted by the Irish TV channel to reduce fees being demanded of it and even get a slice of the TV licence fee for itself. While it may look like a long shot, the Mayo-headquartered station does have the support of one… Read more »

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Paschal Donohoe

MAYO MAN’S MOJO IS MELTING

Date: September 21, 2016 - Last Refuge

IT IS paralysis at the top and the bottom of the Fine Gael parliamentary party, and not Enda Kenny’s rejuvenated mojo, that is keeping the Taoiseach in situ. But if Leo Varadkar and Simon Coveney do not quickly discover their own mojo they may soon discover that a cunning plot is being hatched that will… Read more »

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Finian McGrath

GOVERNMENT’S ABORTION BUDGET DEAL

Date: September 21, 2016 - Last Refuge

ANOTHER political crisis is creeping up on the coalition government as AAA/PBP TD Ruth Coppinger’s cunningly timed bill to repeal the eighth Amendment is likely to reach a vote in the Dáil next month. What many Fine Gael ministers and TDs failed to realise – and still do – is that Independent Alliance ministers Shane… Read more »

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