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Colette Fitzpatrick

New Presenter for Drive Time

Date: July 15, 2016 - Fit to Print?

BRAVELY, Sarah McInerney, due to co-host Newstalk’s new Drivetime programme in September, has left The Sunday Times to take up her new job. The same cannot be said for two of the other ‘stars’ – Paul Williams and Colette Fitzpatrick – who hope to compensate for Ivan Yates’ exit from the station’s Breakfast show. Williams,… Read more »

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Bog Cuttings

Bog Cuttings

Date: July 15, 2016 - Bog Cuttings

KERRY RIVER CHANGES DIRECTION A BUILD-UP of gravel in the River Laune in Killorglin, Co Kerry, has caused the river to change direction. The Killorglin Rowing Club is looking into dredging the river because the silt and gravel deposit is causing damage to their boathouse. But Kerry County Council has said that it’s not their… Read more »

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Sandra Murphy

SANDRA MURPHY BOUNCES BACK

Date: July 15, 2016 - High Society

THIS WEEK, fashion blogger and accomplished self-promoter, Sandra Murphy (“one of Ireland’s most fashionable women”) popped up on TV3 to shoot the breeze on the Midday programme, where she is a regular presence. Indeed, TV3 is very familiar with the thirty-something businesswoman, who was also a candidate on The Apprentice show, where she got the… Read more »

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Patricia Tsouros

Tsouros makes a sale

Date: July 15, 2016 - High Society

CONGRATULATIONS to Patricia Tsouros, who looks to have made a few bob from the sale of her art venture, set up in the aftermath of a public spat. Patricia Tsouros managed to make a name for herself when she popped up campaigning for a ‘No’ vote alongside Declan Ganley in the run-up to the Fiscal… Read more »

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Aisling O’Sullivan

THE WAKE – ABBEY THEATRE

Date: July 15, 2016 - Reviews

MOST THEATRES use their summer programming slot as a cash cow, targeting tourist audiences with predictable crowd-pleasers by Friel, Wilde, or Boucicault. The Abbey started bucking this trend under director Fiach Mac Conghail, and, in the last few years, this prime position has been more likely occupied by a writer with something to say. And… Read more »

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Luigi Iafrate

BYPASSED – RTÉ ONE

Date: July 15, 2016 - Reviews

HAVING ENTERTAINED us no end with the Conor McGregor series, Notorious, the production company, Motive TV (Jamie D’Alton, Catherine McLoughlin and Michael Pilsworth), has made a documentary that could not be further from the frenetic world of the motor mouth of mixed martial arts. Tracing the construction of Ireland’s first motorway – the M7 from… Read more »

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Nothing on Earth

NOTHING ON EARTH – CONOR O’CALLAGHAN (DOUBLEDAY)

Date: July 15, 2016 - Reviews

DUNDALK-born O’Callaghan is better known for his poetry, but here he tries his hand at Gothic fiction. The result is a haunting debut novel whose dysfunctional characters play their parts in an edgy drama where people suddenly disappear without trace. Although no place-names are ever mentioned, the setting for this eerie story is an Irish… Read more »

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Rhona Byrne

IMMA’S EXPANDING COLLECTION

Date: July 15, 2016 - Behind the Scenes

THIS WEEK sees the opening of an exhibition at IMMA featuring four works by Irish artists that have been acquired by the Hennessy Cognac-funded ‘Art Fund for IMMA Collection’. The works are by Kevin Atherton, David Beattie, Rhona Byrne, and Dennis McNulty. Given the paucity of direct purchases of Irish art by IMMA since 2011,… Read more »

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TENDER TIME

Date: July 15, 2016 - Behind the Scenes

A COUPLE of tenders have been advertised this month in the arts world – one for the National Museum of Ireland (NMI) and the other for the Arts Council. The NMI tender relates to a master plan to create what is described as “a clear and concise road map and a sustainable long-term vision” for… Read more »

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Annie Doona

NEW FILM BOARD SCRIPT

Date: July 15, 2016 -

THE NEW Strategic Plan 2016-2020 for Annie Doona’s Irish Film Board (IFB) arrives five years after the last, heavily hyped Creative Capital report promised a whopping 10,000 audiovisual sector jobs by today. Needless to say, those jobs targets were never remotely attained. This time around there are plenty of promises but significantly there appears to… Read more »

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John Oxx

OXX NOT DONE WITH YET

Date: July 15, 2016 - Sport of Kings

NOT SURPRISINGLY, there has been much lauding of Irish Derby winner, Harzand, its owner the Aga Khan and trainer Dermot Weld. Spare a thought, however, for a certain master trainer, John Oxx, who under different circumstances could have been the winning Irish Derby trainer. Oxx was formerly the Aga Khan’s only trainer in Ireland, and… Read more »

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Dermot Weld

WELD’S WOES

Date: July 15, 2016 - Sport of Kings

TRAINER Dermot Weld reached a landmark last month when he trained his 4,000th winner, with Sea Swift winning at Naas on June 22. The sense of occasion was boosted by the fact that the horse was bred by his late mother, Marguerite. But other news took the gloss off somewhat. What Weld didn’t know when… Read more »

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James Lambe

LAMBE SEEKING RETURN

Date: July 15, 2016 - Sport of Kings

ARMAGH-BASED Jimmy Lambe has had a turbulent few years but the trainer is hoping to bounce back, having reapplied for his trainer’s licence. Lambe declared himself bankrupt earlier in the year and was subsequently stripped of his trainer’s licence in March, following the introduction of a Turf Club rule which restricts bankrupts from holding a… Read more »

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Derek McGrath

REDUCED FIELD AT THE CURRAGH

Date: July 15, 2016 - Sport of Kings

WITH NEWS that planning permission for the huge Curragh racecourse redevelopment project has being granted. it is a tad disconcerting that 7,000 less people attended the Irish Derby this year than last year. A crowd of little more than 18,000 showed up for the jewel in the crown of Irish flat racing although the event… Read more »

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Simon Cook

Draper Esprit’s potential comes with health warning

Date: July 15, 2016 - Moneybags

BOTH Jim Flavin’s DCC and Shane Reihill’s Trinity Venture Capital (TVC) floated on the Stock Exchange as venture capital vehicles but failed to make a long term impact in this sector. It is noteworthy, therefore, that there is a new entry into this space, Draper Esprit. This company just floated on the Irish Stock Exchange… Read more »

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Kirill Golovanov

Polymetal stake should boost Ovoca

Date: July 15, 2016 - Moneybags

THE BIGGEST challenges for shareholders in Ovoca Gold have been the company’s changing nature and the disjoint between its current dominant Russian shareholders and its management. This, however, changed dramatically last year when the CEO, Kirill Golovanov, bought out Ovoca chairman, Mikhail Mogutov, along with one of the other Russian shareholders in October 2015. This… Read more »

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Mark Little

The Hot Air Brigade

Date: July 15, 2016 - The Hot Air Brigade

“Twitter changed my life. I mean, I loved Twitter before it was even invented. I used to sit around in places like Afghanistan wanting to plug in to the outside world but I couldn’t. Now I get to work on things that actually touch lives.” Mark Little, touching lives in The Sunday Independent “I was… Read more »

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Eamon DeValera

De Valera’s Irish Pressures

Date: July 15, 2016 - Briefcases

IRISH Press PLC finally filed its 2014 accounts last month after a long wait, which saw it listed for striking off the Companies Register for the second time in under a year. But there’s bad news for investors in the company – where Eamon de Valera remains in situ as CEO – with accumulated group… Read more »

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Darren Lehane

BAR COUNCIL POLITICS

Date: July 15, 2016 - Wigs on the Green

“INDEPENDENCE, Expertise, Integrity” are the watchwords of the Bar Council which proclaims its members to be readily accessible and bound by an ethical code of conduct for the Bar of Ireland. Members of the Council of the Bar, who have just been elected for the year hence, also find it a most useful network and… Read more »

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KEVIN MYERS’ WAR

Date: July 15, 2016 - Fit to Print?

“Just to be clear. I thought then and think now, that the moral argument in favour of America intervening in Saddam’s Iraq was overwhelming”, was Sunday Times columnist, Colonel Myers’ response to the Chilcott Inquiry last week. But Myers was anything but clear in the 2002/3 debates about the morality of invading Iraq and switched… Read more »

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Charlie Flanagan

Charlie Flanagan

Date: July 15, 2016 - Pillars of Society

A very bad fortnight for Enda Kenny saw minister for foreign affairs and trade, Charlie Flanagan, also ship collateral damage in the matter of the mooted all-Ireland Brexit forum. But that’s the nature of the political relationship between the two men with Charlie’s fortunes always dependent on his rapport or otherwise with his party leader…. Read more »

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John Hume Jnr

MONSANTO GETS ROUNDUP EXTENSION

Date: July 15, 2016 - Fowl Emissions

AS a ‘good week to bury bad news’, the one following the Brexit vote was hard to beat. As it happened, the timing was probably more fortuitous than devious for the EU Commission as it renewed the licence for the sale of the weed killer glyphosate in the EU on June 28, despite a World… Read more »

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Gary Gannon

Gary Gannon

Date: July 15, 2016 - The Young Bloods

Councillor Gary Gannon (29) has had a meteoric rise in Dublin Central, from the margins of the Tony Gregory Group of independents to a Dublin City Council (DCC) seat in 2014, to a near victory as the Social Democrat candidate in the 2016 general election…. Read more »

Margaret Downes

‘TROPHY’ Dublin properties

Date: July 15, 2016 - High Society

WITH ‘TROPHY’ Dublin properties selling at increasingly inflated prices, the record for this year has been set by former Paddy Power boss Paddy Kennedy’s purchase of 19 Temple Road in Dartry, D6, for a whopping U10m. The happy sellers are barrister Vincent Foley and his wife, Helen, who have a fair few bob to spare… Read more »

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Michael O’Reilly’s Danske woe

Michael O’Reilly’s Danske woe

Date: July 15, 2016 - Briefcases

CELBRIDGE-BASED businessman and ex-director of construction giant Pierse Contracting Ltd, Michael O’Reilly had a €247,000 judgment registered against him by Danske Bank in June. The judgment is yet another headache for O’Reilly who last year avoided a restriction order brought against him and the other directors of Pierse by the company’s liquidator in the High… Read more »

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Receivers swarm on Redhill

Receivers swarm on Redhill

Date: July 15, 2016 - Briefcases

A COMPANY called Redhill Properties Ltd last month had its fifth receiver appointed to it in three years on foot of a tranche of mortgage charges created by Anglo Irish Bank back in 2004 and 2005. The principals here are Carlow-based Stephen Murphy – an engineer and developer whose companies have incurred some spicy losses… Read more »

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John McCormack

John McCormack’s huge losses

Date: July 15, 2016 - Briefcases

IT’S been a summer to forget for former Sligo Businessman of the Year John McCormack, with Bank of Ireland (BoI) appointing a receiver to his fuel and garage empire. Some 208 jobs were lost in Sligo and Leitrim – where jobs are thin on the ground – when the receivers closed 15 of McCormack’s businesses… Read more »

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Bad news for the Butler boys

Bad news for the Butler boys

Date: July 15, 2016 - Briefcases

GOLDHAWK recently spotted an interesting set of accounts filed in June by a company called Entertainment Enterprises Restaurants Holdings Ltd (EERH), one of the entities in Colum and Ciaran Butler’s Entertainment Enterprises (EE) group. The Butler brothers are listed as directors of the company, which is in turn controlled by another of the boys’ outfits,… Read more »

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Laurence Shields

Worrying Numbers for Michael Peirce

Date: July 15, 2016 - Briefcases

SPARE a thought for Oransay Developments Ltd (ODL), which had a receiver appointed to it last month on foot of a mortgage charge created by Bank of Scotland (BoS) back in 2008. The Dublin company is a subsidiary of Amiba Ltd, which trades as MDS Amiba and MDS Gateways, two large-scale suppliers of communications systems… Read more »

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Irish outposts for Blackstone’s schemes

Date: July 15, 2016 - Briefcases

INTERESTING to see that Saudi Arabia has agreed to invest $20bn in private equity giant Blackstone’s new US infrastructure fund. The fund is designed to funnel investment towards Donald Trump’s planned public works projects but one particular pie that Blackstone already has a finger in is Irish third-level education. Blackstone’s CEO is ostentatious republican Stephen… Read more »

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THE ASSASSINATION OF A JOURNALIST

Date: July 2, 2016 - Affairs of the Nation

Sunday Independent editorial executive Willie Kealy opened his tribute to Veronica Guerin last Sunday with a polemic against those who felt that she had not been well served by the newspaper before and after her death. Kealy is at least consistent, unlike half a dozen other INM personalities, all of them household names, who told… Read more »

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DES CROFTON’S SHOOT OUT

Date: July 2, 2016 - Affairs of the Nation

THERE WAS an interesting report last month concerning the hefty €75,000 awarded to Des Crofton, national director of the National Association of Regional Game Councils (NARGC), the body that represents shooters in Ireland, over comments made about him on Facebook. However, it turns out this was just the first blast in what is an ongoing… Read more »

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MORGAN O’SULLIVAN

MORGAN O’SULLIVAN’S GERMAN DRAMA

Date: July 2, 2016 - Affairs of the Nation

THE DRAGGING of James Flynn and Morgan O’Sullivan of Octagon Films into the Four Goldmines by German producer W2 Filmproduktion creates the prospect of a revealing spat about how players in the opaque Irish film and TV sector conduct their business. In an attempt to have the claim for a whopping €25m in lost revenue… Read more »

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FINTAN DRURY REINVENTS HIMSELF

Date: July 2, 2016 - Affairs of the Nation

WHAT on earth has come over Fintan Drury, the PR guru and dynamic businessman with all the right connections? He has come over all wet and liberal with journalistic outpourings on the world’s evils and has even criticised the corporate world he once belonged to for being hand in glove with the government in Britain…. Read more »

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DERMOT DESMOND’S PANAMA PROBLEM

Date: July 2, 2016 - Affairs of the Nation

IT looks like Der Kaiser is getting ready to do go to war with The Irish Times over the paper’s report of his links to the Panama Papers. Dermot Desmond is not a happy man with IT’s recent coverage of the Mossack Fonseca leak and a resulting article that linked him to a company that… Read more »

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DAVID HALL’S LUCRATIVE LIFELINE

Date: July 2, 2016 - Affairs of the Nation

MORTGAGE CAMPAIGNER and self-promoter extraordinaire David Hall was back in the news last week when he was appointed by the board of Console, the suicide prevention charity, to review the issues raised in the recent HSE audit and RTÉ investigation. This is just one of the many items he is currently dealing with apart from… Read more »

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