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Pat McCann

Massive margins at Dalata hotels

Date: April 21, 2016 - Moneybags

PAT MCCANN must be feeling pretty lucky, having raised €265m cash in new equity in March 2014 when he floated off his Dalata hotels group, despite the fact that the company had had a very poor five-year trading record up to that time, such that between trading and capital write-offs, it had lost €50m. Since… Read more »

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Albert Manifold

Manifold impact pushes CRH shares sky high

Date: April 21, 2016 - Moneybags

ALBERT MANIFOLD has had a significant impact on CRH since he was appointed CEO in January 2014. He immediately grasped that CRH needs to be focused on its fundamental operations and that it should build up more scale in these, while getting rid some of the less relevant activities which divert management time. The result… Read more »

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Mubarak Al Naemi

AL NAEMI’S ASSETS

Date: April 21, 2016 - Sport of Kings

THE ARRIVAL of Qatari moneybags Mubarak Al Naemi to these shores continues to bring dividends to Horse Racing Ireland who have been eager to up the amount of Qatari money in the sport. Having swooped on the famous Kilfrush Stud outside Knocklong, Co Limerick, in 2013, the super wealthy racing fan has been spending some… Read more »

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Tony Martin

KEVIN BLAKE’S CRITICISM

Date: April 21, 2016 - Sport of Kings

THE DECISION by the Turf Club’s Appeals and Referrals Committee to reverse the hefty 30-day ban imposed on Barry Geraghty for the ‘running-and-riding’ of Tony Martin’s favourite at Limerick earlier this month has again focused attention on the state of regulation of racing in Ireland. Geraghty was found to be in breach of Rule 212… Read more »

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Barry Connell

CONNELL’S ITCHY BRITCHES

Date: April 21, 2016 - Sport of Kings

ONE TIME hedge fund supremo Barry Connell is obviously a hard man to please when it comes to jockeys. He recently announced his split from his retained jockey Adrian Heskin after just two seasons together. This comes about after Connell’s previous short-lived association with jockey Danny Mullins, a nephew of champion trainer Willie and a… Read more »

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Trish Long

LIMERICK’S TROJAN HORSE

Date: April 21, 2016 - Behind the Scenes

WHEN plans were being hatched to turn Limerick’s former Dell plant into a film studio, there was plenty of PR guff about Ireland’s drastic shortage of studio space and the loss of film and TV production business to international competitors, especially those across the Irish Sea. One of those pushing this line was Limerick native… Read more »

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Elizabeth Garrahy

ELIZABETH GARRAHY’S DURROW DRAMA

Date: April 21, 2016 - Behind the Scenes

FOLLOWING A trip to the District Court to get an extension to file its overdue accounts, the charity Arts For Peace (AFP) has got its house in order, with the figures showing a deficit of €355,000 at the end of 2014. The main concern to the principal here, Wicklow-based former actress Elizabeth Garrahy, is the… Read more »

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FLAWED – CECILIA AHERN (HARPER COLLINS)

Date: April 21, 2016 - BooksReviews

GRIM ALLEGORICAL tales about dysfunctional futuristic societies have become staples in youth fiction over the past decade. ‘Young Adult’ novels – predominantly written by women – have enormous appeal for teenage girls. Having recently replaced wizards and vampires with a blend of fantasy, adventure and romance, most plots are currently driven by the will to… Read more »

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Philip Boucher Hayes

WHAT ARE YOU EATING? – RTÉ ONE

Date: April 21, 2016 - ReviewsTV

OVER RECENT years Philip Boucher-Hayes has spent a lot of time on television peeking into school lunch-boxes or people’s supermarket trolleys – and drawing damning conclusions. This latest six-part series is no different – more populist consumer fare served up by Shinawil Productions. The presenter loomed large from the outset, sauntering down the aisle of… Read more »

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DAVID RAETHORNE’S BIG PLANS FOR HAZELWOOD

Date: April 21, 2016 - High Society

THERE WAS some coverage in the business pages last week of the doubling in profits to E12m at Brentwood Investments Ltd, the private investment operation owned by low-profile moneybags David Raethorne and his wife, Sue. Of more interest to Goldhawk is the ambitious project being undertaken by the couple in Co Sligo, where their Hazelwood… Read more »

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Carmel Naughton

Niall Scott’s pad

Date: April 21, 2016 - High Society

THE write-up in The Irish Times for an impressive townhouse on Percy Place overlooking the Grand Canal was suitably effusive, given the €2.2m asking price. While much of the piece extolled the amenities and “timeless quality” of the area (“intriguing restaurants, classic watering holes and chi chi hotels”), there was special praise for the design… Read more »

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ANN REIHILL’S RETIREMENT

Date: April 21, 2016 - High Society

THE CHANGES continue at Image magazine, where Ann Reihill has now stepped down as a director of Image Publications Ltd, and has been replaced by her stepson, Raymond Reihill, the deputy chairman and 25% shareholder of Tedcastle Holdings. Another new face is young Sam Power. It will be recalled (see The Phoenix 18/12/15) that there… Read more »

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Lisa Chambers

Date: April 21, 2016 - The Young Bloods

ONE of the high points in a good election for Fianna Fáil was undoubtedly 29-year-old Lisa Chambers’ securing of a seat in Mayo. Not only did the young barrister deprive Fine Gael of an expected third seat out of four, but she gave Micheál Martin a welcome bulwark against the leadership threat posed by incumbent… Read more »

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Bog Cuttings

Date: April 21, 2016 - Bog Cuttings

CORK ON THE WILD SIDE TWO men were bound to the peace in a case where one claimed he was headbutted and the other was left with a broken jaw. After hearing the evidence at Cork District Court, Judge Olann Kelleher said he could not be satisfied beyond reasonable doubt to convict either man of… Read more »

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Martin McDonagh

Martin McDonagh

Date: April 21, 2016 - Pillars of Society

AN IRISH playwright (well London-Irish but that has never seemed to matter before) picked up one of the most prestigious awards in UK theatre earlier this month but it barely registered this side of the Irish Sea. Hangmen by Martin McDonagh – the man behind the Leenane trilogy – got the Olivier Award for Best… Read more »

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Vincent Browne to Retire?

Date: April 21, 2016 - Fit to Print?

LOOKS as though not just Ivan Yates but also that other big broadcasting beast, Vincent Browne, is on his way out of the media scene. Yates is off to the United States for a sabbatical with his long suffering wife, Deirdre, although Goldhawk would not be surprised to learn that Mrs Yates may have to… Read more »

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James Sheehan

SEAN O’CALLAGHAN’S EVIDENCE

Date: April 21, 2016 - Fit to Print?

WHAT a spoilsport the Irish Examiner has turned out to be with its failure to defend a libel action from Tralee’s James Sheehan, former director of elections for Sinn Féin TD Martin Ferris. Thus the public has been deprived of another High Court performance from IRA-turned-MI5 and special branch agent, Sean O’Callaghan, who was the… Read more »

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LYING DRUG MULE OR MISSIONARY?

Date: April 21, 2016 - Fit to Print?

THE Indo and Sindo managed to transform Michaella McCollum from an Aids charity worker to lying drugs pusher and back again to charity worker in the space of eight days following her recent parole from a Peruvian jail for drugs smuggling. The Indo’s Adam Cullen wrote a sympathetic article on Michaella the day after her… Read more »

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Michael McDowell

MICHAEL McDOWELL ON THE GO AGAIN

Date: April 21, 2016 - Last Refuge

HE’S BACK. The notion that Michael McDowell is running for the Senate merely to secure a platform was never an adequate explanation for the man whose appetite for politics on the national stage is insatiable. McDowell retains his ambition to head up a PD party Mark 11 and has declared as much in his little… Read more »

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Joan-Burton

JOAN BURTON CLINGS TO POWER

Date: April 21, 2016 - Last Refuge

LABOUR leader Joan Burton and most of her TDs, supported by a growing number of ever so sensible media voices, want the party to re-enter coalition with Fine Gael because they are worried about Labour’s future prospects in opposition. This is despite the fact that the Blueshirts have devoured the party in the last five… Read more »

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Enda Kenny’s Ace Card

Date: April 21, 2016 - Last Refuge

GOLDHAWK predicted recently that Enda Kenny would not easily be dislodged from his perch as Taoiseach and Fine Gael party leader (see The Phoenix 11/3/16) and despite noises about his unpopularity as well as that recent opinion poll, he is still fighting hard. Kenny’s ace card, ironically, is the troika of leadership contenders – Simon… Read more »

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McCONALOGUE MARTIN’S MAN

Date: April 21, 2016 - Last Refuge

FIANNA FÁIL’S team negotiating with Fine Gael is a little lopsided, with big beasts Michael McGrath and Jim O’Callaghan alongside second team players Barry Cowen (nothing like as sharp as the brother) and Donegal’s Charlie McConalogue. McConalogue performed mightily in the election, leading the charge in Donegal to eclipse Sinn Féin, whose second seat (Padraig… Read more »

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HILLARY CLINTON’S NEOCON PROBLEM

Date: April 21, 2016 - Foreign Frolics

by Gerald Sussman HILLARY Clinton has a dark history in foreign policy. She is a product of her husband’s alignment with the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) and the right wing shift of the party, which moved the Democrats away from its moorings in organised labour, the New Deal, civil rights, and the Great Society. Bill… Read more »

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Camille O’Sullivan

The Hot Air Brigade

Date: April 21, 2016 - The Hot Air Brigade

Sitting in a sunlight-filled room in Portobello, this woman from Passage West in Co Cork looks and sounds like a very glamorous and beautiful mix of Ophelia, Lady Macbeth and Patti Smith. Barry Egan on Camille O’Sullivan, Sunday Independent (submitted by reader) Buried in a photo album in my parents’ house, there’s a picture of… Read more »

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RED FLAG BUT NO WHITE FLAG

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

DOES Red Flag possess the financial resources to fend off telecom and media mogul, Denis O’Brien, as he pursues them through the courts for alleged defamation and conspiracy via that USB stick containing unflattering material on him? Already, the bill on both sides is roughly a million each, including legal and digital search costs. One… Read more »

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Peter Kelly

PETER KELLY’S BIBLE BELT

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

THERE has been an interesting encounter between the President of the High Court, Peter Kelly, and a couple of solicitors over the importance of the Bible. It may surprise lay people that this episode required two senior counsel to appear, but Kelly was clearly in no mood to take prisoners. The issue arose from a… Read more »

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SDLP FACING LOSSES IN ASSEMBLY ELECTION

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

THE North goes to the polls on May 5 in what will be, as usual, two elections, one in each politico-ethnic camp. Anyone watching the leaders’ debates on UTV and BBCNI could not but notice the absence of acrimony between the DUP and Sinn Féin. On UTV the most testy exchanges were between Martin McGuinness… Read more »

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Ken Murphy

LAWYERS FOR BIG TOBACCO

Date: April 21, 2016 - Affairs of the Nation

A LITTLE noticed part of Fine Gael’s health programme for government as pitched to Independent TDs recently was to reduce the number of smokers in Ireland to fewer than 5% by 2025. That’s a reduction of three-quarters and with a high minded consensus among all political parties on the need to curtail tobacco sales, advertising… Read more »

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Joe Lewis

PANAMA PAYDAY FOR JOE LEWIS

Date: April 21, 2016 - Affairs of the Nation

WHILE A couple of high profile Irish names have been appearing in the ‘Panama Papers’ revelations of offshore company activity, including the likes of Dermot Desmond and JP McManus, the most colourful Irish link is surely the one featuring the mysterious trader Joe Lewis, pal of the aforementioned duo, owner of assorted football clubs, including… Read more »

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Ibrahim Halawa

HALAWA: CAIRO TWO FINGERS TO FLANAGAN

Date: April 21, 2016 - Affairs of the Nation

HAS the penny not yet dropped with foreign minister Charlie Flanagan that the Egyptian government has contempt for the Irish government’s cap-in-hand approach to the incarceration of Dublin teenager, Ibrahim Halawa? Or does the latest ‘confusion’ about Halawa’s transfer to another prison indicate that the government is content to be continually gulled by Cairo? Flanagan… Read more »

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Guido Fawkes’s Irish Companies

Date: April 21, 2016 -

IT HAS been an eventful week for political blogger ‘Guido Fawkes’ whose Irish-based operation attracted the attention of the legal eagles, not for the first time. Fawkes found himself on the receiving end of a salvo from legal heavyweights Johnsons Solicitors after his blog revealed that Elton John and David Furnish were behind a so-called… Read more »

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“ZAPPER” ZAPPONE FOR NEXT CABINET?

Date: April 21, 2016 - Affairs of the Nation

KATHERINE ZAPPONE TD, liberal media darling, former beneficiary of Labour Party patronage and probably the most politically correct person in the western world, has shown unexpected political dexterity and ambition for one so earnest. She has also exhibited a rather catholic taste in political bedfellows, ranging from the soft social democrats of Labour to raging… Read more »

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Vol. 34 No. 07

Date: April 8, 2016 -

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Patrick Enright’s Punishment

Date: April 7, 2016 - The Hot Water Brigade

THE DECISION by the President of the High Court, Peter Kelly, to strike Patrick Enright, formerly of Patrick Enright & Co Solicitors, Castleisland, Co Kerry, off the Roll of Solicitors was notable for its contrast with the treatment of two far bigger fish a few years ago. Enright’s had forged documents purporting to be health… Read more »

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Tony Killarney’s Resignations

Tony Killarney’s Resignations

Date: April 7, 2016 - The Hot Water Brigade

LAST MONTH, telecoms multi-millionaire Tony Killarney was revisiting an episode in his business career he would rather forget, when he filed documents in the Companies Office forcing his resignation from three disastrous property vehicles. Foxrock-based Tony Killarney is a major player in the telecommunications business here and in the UK. He is most closely associated… Read more »

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Olivia Gaynor-Long’s Books

Date: April 7, 2016 - The Hot Water Brigade

THE BANKRUPT Stokes brothers – Christian and Simon – are back in the news due to an upcoming High Court appearance to provide details of their property holdings. However, Olivia Gaynor-Long, the current owner of the Residence private members club on Stephen’s Green originally opened by the boys, has her own issues relating to companies… Read more »

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