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AlanKelly

ALAN KELLY POISED FOR LEADERSHIP

Date: May 5, 2016 - Affairs of the Nation

IT could all have been so different. A raggle taggle government of Blueshirts and Independents is being installed but efforts to re-create a coalition government, albeit minority, of Fine Gael and Labour was only scuppered by the spoilsport Labour grassroots a fortnight go. But Alan Kelly moved quickly to assert himself a week later with… Read more »

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Lelia Doolan

WILL MICHAEL TWEE RESCUE THE PICTURE PALACE IN GALWAY?

Date: May 5, 2016 - Affairs of the Nation

FANS OF Goldhawk will not be surprised by the ongoing farce surrounding Galway’s multi-million euro bijou but unfinished ‘Picture Palace’ cinema. Details of a dramatic saga behind the scenes have now emerged courtesy of an FOI request put in by the local City Tribune paper. Having turned the sod of the expensive project in 2009,… Read more »

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THE RISE AND RISE OF JIM O’CALLAGHAN

Date: May 5, 2016 - Affairs of the NationLast Refuge

IF Micheál Martin is the big winner in the recent election and in subsequent negotiations with Fine Gael, then the other winner is Fianna Fáil’s legal advisor, the previously unelectable senior counsel, Jim O’Callaghan. FF’s lead on the team negotiating with FG, O’Callaghan has emerged as a main player in the party, eclipsing some of… Read more »

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Bob Geldof

Profile: Bob Geldof

Date: May 5, 2016 - Pillars of Society

WAS William Butler Yeats reincarnated and dumped back on Earth as Sir Bob Geldof? St Bob seems to think so. In his hyperbolic two-part television eulogy, A Fanatic Heart: Geldof on Yeats, broadcast on RTÉ One in March and BBC One in April, the pop singer turned media millionaire hijacked Ireland’s most revered poet and… Read more »

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Catherine Martin

Young Bloods – Catherine Martin

Date: May 5, 2016 - The Young Bloods

CATHERINE Martin’s maiden Dáil speech made public something that Green Party members say they have known for a while; that the deputy leader should be taken very seriously. In her opening salvo, Martin (43) savaged the mainstream parties for intransigence on government formation. She attacked Enda and Micheál, making the Corkman visibly uncomfortable in the… Read more »

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Vol. 34 No. 09

Vol. 34 No. 09

Date: May 5, 2016 -

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Vol. 34 No. 08

Vol. 34 No. 08

Date: April 22, 2016 -

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TONY McLOUGHLIN TD AND FRACKING

Date: April 22, 2016 - Fowl Emissions

“THE EPA Research Study on Fracking is now stopped,” declared the Good Energies Alliance Ireland (GEAI) on its website on February 3, in what appeared to be one of those rare events in Irish history – a major victory for the environmental movement. Under the headline, “Good news – it’s official!”, the Leitrim-based organisation revealed… Read more »

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Derek O’Neill

Derek O’Neill’s Wellness Bonanza

Date: April 21, 2016 - Briefcases

HAVING decamped this week to the Provost’s House at Trinity College in order to try to secure a breakthrough in the negotiations, the boys and girls from Leinster House might consider a trip down to New Ross, Co Wexford, where they will find the Creacon Lodge Wellness Centre, run by spiritualist and ace businessman Derek… Read more »

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Mary Upton

Ciaran Larkin’s Shoeboxes

Date: April 21, 2016 - Briefcases

WITH NAMA having appointed a receiver to a company called Player Square Ltd (PSL), which was set up to redevelop the old Players cigarette factory site on Dublin’s South Circular Road, it looks like the wheels are to be set in motion for a massive €500m residential scheme. The good news for the main player… Read more »

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Sean Melly’s Campaign

Date: April 21, 2016 - Briefcases

WITH JUST days to the Seanad poll closing, outspoken venture capitalist Sean Melly, running for a Trinity College seat, was keeping his profile as high as he could. Meanwhile, one of his companies looks in need of some medical assistance. Melly’s election campaign got a boost last week when he was given an opinion column… Read more »

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Domini Kemp

Domini Kemp’s Recipe Book

Date: April 21, 2016 - Briefcases

CELEBRITY CHEF Domini Kemp, of RTÉ’s Recipe For Success, and her business partner in the Hatch & Sons restaurant on St Stephen’s Green – food consultant and former Irish Times food scribe Hugo Arnold – have been letting the heat get turned up at the Companies Office. One of Domini Kemp’s many vehicles is Bite… Read more »

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Eleanor McEvoy’s Good Timing

Date: April 21, 2016 - Briefcases

ONE OF the new faces on RTÉ’s Dragons’ Den is Limerick woman and serial entrepreneur Eleanor McEvoy, currently cleaning up in the electricity market in Northern Ireland. Whatever about switching on the lights in Belfast, Eleanor has shown an uncanny knack of knowing when to switch off her involvement in a business. McEvoy’s big killing… Read more »

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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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