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SPILL SIMMER FALTER WITHER

Date: June 1, 2016 - BooksReviews

SARA BAUME (WINDMILL) THIS UNLIKELY story traces an eventful year in the life of a 57-year-old recluse who adopts an abandoned one-eyed dog. The book’s title (referring to the four seasons) typifies Baume’s keen interest in wordplay. Her debut novel begins and ends with the image of a dog “running, running, running”. In between, there… Read more »

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THE GUARDS

Date: June 1, 2016 - ReviewsTV

RTÉ2 DIRECTED BY Barry O’Kelly and filmed over two years, this short series shadowing the work of gardaí in Dublin got off to a predictably dramatic start. Hand-held cameras recorded a raid on a north-inner city apartment complex. This sensational opening sequence (one of the great clichéd documentary motifs) reflected the programme’s efforts in creating… Read more »

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QUINNT-ESSENTIAL FEARGAL

Date: June 1, 2016 - BooksReviews

FEARGAL QUINN – (O’BRIEN) PERHAPS the biggest revelation in Superquinn tycoon Feargal Quinn’s memoir, Quintessential Feargal, is that he once lost his temper. He was let down by a speaker at a charity event and “gave him a piece of my mind”. The tale of how the implausibly mild-mannered Quinn built up his Superquinn supermarket chain… Read more »

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DERY DESMOND’S REVIEWS

Date: June 1, 2016 - High Society

WHILE Dermot Desmond has fingers in many pies, the food and drink business is not one associated with the moustachioed one. However, his youngest son, Dery Desmond, has gone down this route and has just opened Zozimus, a flash restaurant/bar on the ground floor of his dad’s casino business, The Sporting Emporium, off Grafton Street,… Read more »

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IN THE RED AT RESIDENCE

Date: June 1, 2016 - High Society

THE OWNER of private members club, Residence, on Dublin’s St Stephen’s Green – Olivia Gaynor-Long – continues to pump money into the struggling business but the good news is that she claims it just might make a few bob this year. Gaynor-Long bought Residence back in 2010 and the experience has been an expensive one… Read more »

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Barry O’Callaghan

BARRY’S BARGAIN AT LYONS

Date: June 1, 2016 - High Society

MEDIA SHY Barry O’Callaghan has swooped on the Village at Lyons, the restored Famine Village on the edge of the Lyons Demesne in Co Kildare. The previous owner, Declan Ryan, looks to have taken a bath here. O’Callaghan’s first move into the restaurant business was with Richard Corrigan through Bentley’s on the Green (although Corrigan… Read more »

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Charlie McConalogue TD

Date: June 1, 2016 - The Young Bloods

IT’S a long way from the relative obscurity of north Donegal to the corridors of power in Leinster House, but that is the journey made by 38-year-old Charlie McConalogue with his surprise appointment to the Fianna Fáil government programme negotiating team. While McConalogue topped the poll in Donegal in the recent election with 17.1% of… Read more »

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Bog Cuttings (03 June 2016)

Date: June 1, 2016 - Bog Cuttings

WESTPORT CHIPPER ROW STARTED OVER ’96 ALL IRELAND FINAL MEATH man Sean Fitzsimmons with an address of Addinstown, Delvin, Co Westmeath appeared before Judge Mary Devins, after he was arrested following an argument with locals over the 1996 All Ireland football final between Meath and Mayo, which featured an infamous brawl between the two teams…. Read more »

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Sammy Wilson

FRACKING BY ANOTHER NAME

Date: June 1, 2016 - Fowl Emissions

“LIKE having a pissing section in a swimming pool,” is how Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan TD described the notion of allowing fracking on only one side of the border, a reminder that when it comes to water – and water contamination – Ireland is already united. Monday, May 16 was the day the fracking industry got… Read more »

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Dr Peter Boylan

Date: June 1, 2016 - Pillars of Society

DR PETER Boylan, former Master of the National Maternity Hospital (NMH), recently ramped up the row between the NMH and St Vincent’s Hospital over the proposed co-location of the two hospitals on the Merrion Road D4 site. Boylan, who is currently chair of the Institute of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (IOG), wants the NMH to retain… Read more »

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GARDAÍ AND MEDIA LEAKS

Date: June 1, 2016 - Fit to Print?

A THOROUGH breakdown of Judge Kevin O’Higgins’ findings on whistleblower Garda Maurice McCabe’s eight central allegations against the force were published in The Irish Times last weekend. The article showed that O’Higgins upheld every one of these complaints, qualifying some conclusions with comments about the whistleblower’s exaggeration and that an accusation about corruption in one… Read more »

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IRISH TIMES Vs DENIS O’BRIEN

Date: June 1, 2016 - Fit to Print?

LOOKS as though The Irish Times has summoned up previously untapped reserves of courage and is engaged in a serious confrontation with the most powerful man in Ireland, Denis O’Brien. O’Brien’s recent letter of admonition to the IT for not explaining in an article some… Read more »

Jennifer Cuffe

MICHEÁL MARTIN’S PC SENATE GESTURE

Date: June 1, 2016 -

MICHEÁL MARTIN’S personal decision to accept three Senate nominations and then select three non-Fianna Fáil people was a bit too clever for his own good. Certainly, he has enraged several party candidates who lost out in the Senate elections. If he wanted to avoid the appearance of cosy intimacy with FG then he should have… Read more »

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Lucinda Creighton

RENUA ‘CONFIDENTIAL’

Date: June 1, 2016 - Last Refuge

LAST weekend’s media leaks about Renua’s name change carried nothing like the full flavour of the party post mortem that has gone on at various meetings of members around the country. A quite intriguing report from the meeting in Portlaoise at which Lucinda’s resignation was announced comes in the most “strictly confidential” document issued by… Read more »

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Brendan Howlin

RÓISÍN TO REJECT BRENDAN

Date: June 1, 2016 - Last Refuge

WHO does Brendan Howlin think he’s kidding? Howlin may have assumed leadership of Labour via a clause in the party’s constitution that confers divine right on the former minister, but he will find that Róisín Shortall will decline to become one of his subjects. Howlin told the party and media at his recent coronation that… Read more »

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ENDA KENNY’S FAVOURITES

Date: June 1, 2016 - Last Refuge

SURPRISE, surprise, the FG internal inquiry has found those most responsible for the election disaster were the HQ officials (mainly general secretary Tom Curran) and consultants (PR guru Mark Mortell) and others drafted in (Brian Hayes as an MEP is a semi-detached politician, but not an FG minister). The report focuses on the need to… Read more »

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Archbishop Diarmuid Martin

PAPAL POLITICS AND IRISH VISIT

Date: June 1, 2016 - Foreign Frolics

A SUCCESSFUL visit to Dublin by Pope Francis in August 2018 will depend on Archbishop Diarmuid Martin’s ability to persuade his fellow bishops to make peace with the majority of Irish Catholics – now more liberal and modernist – who favour allowing priests to marry. A second factor enabling Il Papa Francesco to emulate anything… Read more »

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Mathias Feki

THE END OF GLOBALISATION?

Date: June 1, 2016 - Foreign Frolics

by MURRAY DOBBIN AT the height of the battle over the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement (FTA) in 1988, the biggest pushers of the deal, the Business Council on National Issues (the 160 largest public corporations), took out full page ads promising the country it would bring “more jobs, better jobs.” It was intended to counter… Read more »

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Rosanna Davison

The Hot Air Brigade

Date: June 1, 2016 - The Hot Air Brigade

It was when her first book, Eat Yourself Beautiful came out last year, that Rosanna felt really naked and felt that she was really revealing herself. Sarah Caden, Sunday Independent (submitted by reader) Taken in isolation his paintings might remain puzzling in their idiosyncrasy, but seen in the context of his championing of such notionally… Read more »

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Royals not invited

Date: June 1, 2016 - Affairs of the Nation

KILDARE SOUTH general election candidate, Fine Gael’s Cllr Fiona McLoughlin Healy, got whacked in the Kildare County Council chamber and in the Irish Independent this week for demanding accountability about 1916 commemoration grants. Moving a motion of no confidence in her party colleague and council mayor, Brendan Weld – for allegedly conspiring with Fianna Fáil… Read more »

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Vol. 34 No. 10

Date: May 20, 2016 -

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Investigating Dan McCarthy

Date: May 18, 2016 - Briefcases

A COUNTY Cork vet who recently found himself in trouble with the Department of Agriculture has plenty on his plate. Dan McCarthy pleaded guilty earlier in the month to impeding a department investigation into the alleged selling of veterinary antibiotics to customers without prescription, and now faces a probe by the Veterinary Council of Ireland… Read more »

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Veneto is Finito

Date: May 18, 2016 - Briefcases

ITALIAN banking operation Veneto Ireland Financial Services Ltd is to be wound up and placed in voluntary liquidation. The company – where local directors include financial consultant Adrian Masterson – is a subsidiary of the Italian Veneto Banca and managed to lose over U7m in 2014. This left accumulated profits standing at €54m. It’s unclear… Read more »

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CARB gets Frank with accountants

Date: May 18, 2016 - Briefcases

THE CHARTERED Accountants Regulatory Board (CARB) has had a busy couple of weeks. One unlucky accounting firm in Galway has had its investment authorisation revoked by CARB after failing to file an annual return. As a result, Frank McDonagh & Co of Shangort, Knocknacarra Cross, is no longer allowed to give investment advice to its… Read more »

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Dublin publicans’ tangled web

Date: May 18, 2016 - Briefcases

A COMPANY that owns popular Dublin sports bar, The Living Room, is facing a winding up petition in the High Court after losing a personal injuries claim. Andrew Quigley is due to have a petition heard in the High Court to liquidate Murraywalsh Ltd after he was awarded around €45,000 in Dublin Circuit Court in… Read more »

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Liquidator’s bad day in court

Date: May 18, 2016 - Briefcases

AN INTERESTING judgment was handed down in the High Court a couple of weeks ago when a liquidator failed in his attempt to restrict three members of the same family under section 150 of the Companies Act. Lacrombs Ltd, which owned the China Sichaun restaurant in Stilllorgan, operated by the Hui family, went into liquidation… Read more »

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Property company left for the buzzards

Date: May 18, 2016 - Briefcases

SPARE a thought for Buzzardstown Properties Ltd, which was placed in receivership last week on foot of a 2003 mortgage with First Active PLC. Developers Henry Prestage and Aidan Scully’s company was €758,000 in the red in 2014 according to the last set of accounts filed by the company. But the pair are old hands… Read more »

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Taxassist needs assistance

Date: May 18, 2016 - Briefcases

LOOK up the definition of irony and you might find a reference to Anne Cunningham Ltd in the dictionary. The Clane, Co Kildare-based company, which trades as part of the TaxAssist Accountants franchise, is on the receiving end of a winding-up petition by Revenue in the High Court. The company’s principal, Anne Cunningham, has had… Read more »

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Barry Maloney

Globo forced to the wall

Date: May 18, 2016 - Briefcases

INTERESTING to see Globoforce Group’s notice in The Irish Times last week, announcing that the company is seeking to reduce its capital. Maybe they should be focused on trying to reduce their massive losses, which stood at an eye-watering $29.5m (€26m) at the end of 2013. The Irish-registered multinational hasn’t filed accounts since then, and… Read more »

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Paddy Power Betfair shares on very high rating

Date: May 18, 2016 - Moneybags

PADDY POWER has been a phenomenally successful business and, following the merger with Betfair, it is in a commanding position in the lucrative gambling market place. However, the mistakes that preceded the return of Breon Corcoran as head man have been very expensive and cost the company some very big bucks. While the shares have… Read more »

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Hostelworld’s success could attract competition

Date: May 18, 2016 - Moneybags

IT IS hard to believe that the tiny online youth hostel booking business which IT geek Ray Nolan and Tom Kennedy – a hostel operator – set up 17 years ago in 1999 is today worth €300m. The US private equity group, Hellman and Friedman, approached the boys in 2009 with a whopping €200m cash… Read more »

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Robbie McNamara

CULLOTY’S COMPETITION

Date: May 18, 2016 - Sport of Kings

ROBBIE McNAMARA has launched his training career, just over a year after the racing fall that ended his riding career and left him paralysed from the waist down. This may not be great news for another handler. The Limerickman has set up shop on the Curragh and hopes to have his first runner in the… Read more »

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KIEREN FALLON’S RENAISSANCE

Date: May 18, 2016 - Sport of Kings

KIEREN FALLON is enjoying something of a renaissance since his move back to his native Ireland a few months ago. Not for the first time, Fallon surprised the racing community when announcing his return to Ireland from the US to take up a position as stable jockey to young Curragh trainer, Michael O’Callaghan. Fallon had… Read more »

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DANDY NICHOLLS’ COURT DATE

Date: May 18, 2016 - Sport of Kings

WELL-KNOWN trainer David ‘Dandy’ Nicholls currently finds himself in serious trouble with a looming court case in which he is accused of sexual assault. The 59-year-old Nicholls, a former jockey, is due before magistrates in Northallerton, Yorkshire, later this month. Police have indicated he was sent a postal requisition to appear in court to face… Read more »

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HYDE AND SEEKING

Date: May 18, 2016 - Sport of Kings

THERE WERE quite a few Irish connections to the recent Kentucky Derby winner, Nyquist. The superstar colt, unbeaten in eight runs, was bred by Tim Hyde Jnr of Camas Park Stud in Tipperary. Hyde bred the horse at his Kentucky based Summerhill Farm and sold him for $180,000 as a foal at Keeneland Sales in… Read more »

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JIM SHERIDAN’S ‘SECRET’ PROBLEM

Date: May 18, 2016 - Behind the Scenes

IT’S A far cry from 2003 for film director Jim Sheridan. Back then, he was finishing his autobiographical opus, In America, and fronting a campaign to prevent Charlie McCreevy doing away with the Section 481 tax break for film in the 2004 budget. Today, he is helming a production that looks to be in some… Read more »

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