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Breon Corcoran

BETFAIR BLUES

Date: February 25, 2016 - Sport of Kings

AFTER THE Isolde Goggin-chaired Competition and Consumer Protection Commission approved the €10bn Paddy Power merger with Betfair two months ahead of schedule, the betting exchange has seen an increase in technical problems affecting its clients. The Betfair platform went down on a number of occasions, one of which was due to a security risk after… Read more »

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REVIEW – GULL

Date: February 25, 2016 - Reviews

GLENN PATTERSON (HEAD OF ZEUS) IN RECENT years, Glenn Patterson has made his name as a reliable chronicler of ordinary life during and after the Troubles. His tenth novel is also focused largely on the North’s social history through the early 1980s when John DeLorean brought the production of his luxury sports car to Belfast. The… Read more »

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IRISH NEED NOT APPLY

Date: February 25, 2016 - Behind the Scenes

WITH THE Oscar hype keeping the Irish film sector centre stage (well, just behind the election), the absence of females in Irish Film Board-funded films has now been raised with the IFB. Given that the two IFB funded films nominated in the Best Picture category at the Oscars have strong female leads and that one,… Read more »

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Bernard Hanratty

YET ANOTHER NCAD DIRECTOR

Date: February 25, 2016 - Behind the Scenes

STILL NO sign of the 2013 accounts for the National College of Art and Design (NCAD), but at least the latest interim director is now in place. It will be recalled (see The Phoenix 25/9/15) that the previous director of NCAD, Declan McGonagle, announced his decision to retire last September, with more than three years… Read more »

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Áine Moriarty

The Other awards ceremony

Date: February 25, 2016 - Behind the Scenes

THERE WAS a time when a relatively brief eruption of showbiz excess appeared in the press to coincide with the BAFTAs and the Oscars. Now, it’s a full three-ring gushing circus, kicking off in November and lasting through to April, which is when the wannabe of the awards season, our very own film and drama Iftas,… Read more »

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BRIAN SPOLLEN’S MOMENTUM

Date: February 25, 2016 - Behind the Scenes

INTERESTING TO see MCD promoter Brian Spollen setting up a company to run the Life dance music festival in Belvedere House, Co Westmeath, this year. He will be hoping the gig goes rather better than previous companies he got involved with. The application advert for a licence to run the event names a company, Momentum… Read more »

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Catherine and Kevin Dundon

KEVIN DUNDON’S FINANCIAL RECIPE

Date: February 25, 2016 - High Society

TELEVISION chef Kevin Dundon had plenty to smile about this month when it was announced that his Dunbrody House Hotel in Co Wexford had bagged an award for best luxury country house hotel in the world. The man who fronts RTÉ’s Modern Irish Food show also turns out to have quite the knack for drawing… Read more »

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Anne-Marie Dermody

ANNE-MARIE’S GARDEN

Date: February 25, 2016 - High Society

OUTSPOKEN Rathfarnham lawyer and councillor, Anne-Marie Dermody, is hoping to land a seat for Fine Gael in the general election and has boasted of her business skills. However her venture with celebrity gardener Diarmuid Gavin was hardly a success. Gavin has just unveiled his predictably quirky (ie controversial) entry for this year’s Chelsea Flower Show,… Read more »

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Chitra and Roman Stern

ROMAN STERN’S CORK ESTATE

Date: February 25, 2016 - High Society

THE apparently wealthy owners of the Liss Ard estate outside Skibbereen, Roman and Chitra Stern, are packing their bags and have put it on the market with a U7.5m price tag. This, however, would only make a small dent in the huge spend that has taken place here over the last ten years. Fans of… Read more »

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Emmett O’Brien

Emmett O’Brien

Date: February 25, 2016 - The Young Bloods

LIMERICK barrister and general election candidate Emmett O’Brien (36) had a nasty falling out with Fianna Fáil in 2013, after he failed to win a place on the party’s ticket for the following year’s Limerick County Council elections. But the legal eagle went his own way and, in full martyr mode, won a seat as… Read more »

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Bog Cuttings

Date: February 25, 2016 - Bog Cuttings

CAR THEFT SUSPECT FOUND HIDING ON BUS DEPOT ROOF, COURT TOLD A YOUTH accused of fleeing from a stolen car that rammed into two police vehicles was found hiding on a bus depot roof, a court heard. The 16-year-old – who cannot be identified – had allegedly waded through a river as part of efforts… Read more »

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WILLIAM MORAN’S FAMILY FORTUNES

Date: February 25, 2016 - Beyond the Pale

GALWAY businessman William Moran and his wife, Sheila – of the famous seafood restaurant in Kilcolgan, Co Galway, known as Moran’s on The Weir – have some explaining to do at the High Court. William Moran had become heavily involved in the property game during the boom, which involved investments both in Ireland and overseas,… Read more »

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Lenny Abrahamson

Lenny Abrahamson

Date: February 25, 2016 - Pillars of Society

SOMETIME mid-afternoon on Sunday February 28, this year’s Academy Award nominees will amble along the expanse of red carpet to the entrance of the Dolby Theatre on LA’s Sunset Boulevard. Among the nominees will be Lenny Abrahamson, for some the finest film director that Ireland has produced. The bookies believe the Leo DiCaprio vehicle, The… Read more »

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Kenny V RTÉ

Date: February 25, 2016 - Fit to Print?

THERE is quiet fury among RTÉ broadcasters at DCU media professor Colum Kenny’s attack on the station in The Irish Times last week. Kenny said RTÉ is failing as a public service broadcaster and its highly paid broadcasters are not hungry enough; has no radical bite; has no serious competition, ignores some major issues and… Read more »

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Fionnan Sheahan

(S)INDO BASHES SINN FÉIN SHOCK!

Date: February 25, 2016 - Fit to Print?

IS the Irish and Sunday Independent’s onslaught against Sinn Féin finally bearing fruit? The (S)Indo coverage of SF during the election is surely worth a PhD by some media academic: ‘Gerry Adams can’t count; the IRA murdered a prison officer 33 years ago; widow of RUC man says Gerry Adams was in IRA; Adams to… Read more »

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Brian Hayes

RTÉ FACE DOWN FINE GAEL TROIKA

Date: February 25, 2016 - Fit to Print?

INCANDESCENT Fine Gael handlers marched into Montrose in the first week of the election quivering with indignation at a Prime Time special that debunked Michael Noonan’s fiscal space bonanza of €12 billion-plus. Noonan’s promise to voters and the subsequent exposure of the figures as out by €2 billion gave the party the worst possible start… Read more »

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INTRIGUING SCENARIO AHEAD FOR SENATE

Date: February 25, 2016 - Last Refuge

THE most intriguing scenario will transpire should Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil TDs not form a joint majority in the Dáil and a consequent coalition government. The electoral arithmetic will, obviously, determine most everything. But the numbers in the Senate will produce an entirely different set of figures that will create a very sticky situation… Read more »

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Mary Moran

Sexist Labour

Date: February 25, 2016 - Last Refuge

WOMEN voters in Louth will surely flock to support Senator Mary Moran following her persecution by Labour’s ‘sexist old boys’ club’. Moran’s running mate, Ged Nash – a former PR advisor to trade unions – organised a ‘monster’ trade union canvass in the Louth constituency last weekend but did not involve the senator. Thus, the… Read more »

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Marcella Corcoran Kennedy

ENDA’S NEXT CABINET

Date: February 25, 2016 - Last Refuge

IF Enda Kenny only has eight places to fill in a Fine Gael/Fianna Fáil cabinet, then who are the winners and losers, and how will he negotiate the gender/youth/geographic imperatives, not to mention the loyalty factor? Jobs minister Richard Bruton (63), former rebel leader, has the hex sign on him already and his report card… Read more »

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Darragh O’Brien

FIANNA FÁIL’S CABINET MEMBERS

Date: February 25, 2016 - Last Refuge

IF the Dáil arithmetic breaks down the way the polls predict and if Micheál Martin can persuade Fianna Fáil delegates to support a coalition arrangement with the hated pro-Treatyites, then the scramble for cabinet places will begin. If Fine Gael takes just over 50 seats and Fianna Fáil gets close to 40 seats, the correct… Read more »

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BREXIT UNIONISTS

Date: February 25, 2016 - Bird's Eye View

THE North’s First Minister, Arlene Foster, caused some astonishment last weekend, when she announced the DUP was recommending people vote ‘leave’ in June’s UK referendum on the EU. The fact is that thousands of DUP voters, particularly in rural districts, depend on EU subsidies and the North as a whole derives visible benefits from EU… Read more »

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Amanda Brunker

The Hot Air Brigade

Date: February 25, 2016 - The Hot Air Brigade

It’s not easy being me. Being gifted with a pretty face has been a curse at times. A burden even. Amanda Brunker, Irish Independent To me, a sonorous f-bomb from a be-tweeded Anglo-Irish old-boy, or a nonagenarian Kerrywoman really wrapping her lips around the word “balls”, is what smelling a newborn’s head is to many… Read more »

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MARKUS JOOSTE’S TAXING MATTERS

Date: February 25, 2016 - Affairs of the Nation

THE announcement that John Magnier’s Coolmore Stud has agreed a partnership with South African tycoon Markus Jooste is good news for the Coolmore thoroughbred breeding operation. However, the Cape Town moneybags comes with plenty of baggage and while his profile has been low in this part of the world, that is all set to change…. Read more »

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Ulick McEvaddy

THE McEVADDYS’ TOUGH MEDICINE

Date: February 25, 2016 - Affairs of the Nation

NO SIGN of the McEvaddy brothers, Ulick and Des, in last weekend’s Sindo Rich List. This may not come as a big surprise, as the boys have been struggling recently, although given that the lowest entry on the list is worth €31m, this means the Sindo believes the boys have dropped around €15m over the… Read more »

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GANG FEUD: THE POLISH CONNECTION

Date: February 25, 2016 - Affairs of the Nation

EASTERN Europe has more to do with the feuding gangs’ military fire power and proficiency than West Belfast, despite what certain media and even the Taoiseach have been claiming about the gangs’ links with the IRA and dissident republicans. The frightening arsenal and expertise shown by hit men from both the Kinahan and Hutch camps… Read more »

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‘Technical Glitch’ Costs Taxpayer

Date: February 25, 2016 - Briefcases

A TECHNICAL screw-up involving video-link evidence in a case before Galway Circuit Court last December has resulted in the taxpayer being left out of pocket. The case was before Judge Karen O’Connor and concerned a mother who was facing multiple charges relating to child neglect and cruelty, involving eight of her children. The case went… Read more »

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O’Callaghan AG?

Date: February 25, 2016 - Last Refuge

HAS Jim O’Callaghan’s time come at last? The Fianna Fáil legal advisor’s election record is not a happy one but he has had the ear and the support of three successive party leaders, Bertie Ahern, Brian Cowen and Micheál Martin. ‘Jimbo’ has been a Dublin City councillor since 2009 although he polled poorly then and… Read more »

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Diarmuid Wilson

€2M JUDGMENT AGAINST FF SENATOR

Date: February 25, 2016 - Affairs of the Nation

A JUDGMENT for almost E2m has just been registered against Fianna Fáil senator Diarmuid Wilson, courtesy of AIB. The judgment was in connection with a pub investment in Cavan that went badly wrong and was also registered against Wilson’s co-investors in the pub, a former FF councillor on Cavan County Council, TP Smith, and Anne… Read more »

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Stephen Rae

STEPHEN RAE FOR RTÉ DG

Date: February 25, 2016 - Affairs of the Nation

WHAT a perspicacious article appeared in the Sunday Independent recently informing readers that in the race for the RTÉ director general’s job, Rory Coveney, brother of agriculture minister, Simon, is “the one to watch ahead of the favourite, Kevin Bakhurst”. The same article dismissed as “total rubbish” the notion that ex-Independent News & Media (INM)… Read more »

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ENDA KENNY AND THE WHINGERS

Date: February 25, 2016 - Affairs of the Nation

ENDA KENNY’S gaffe, in which he described people in Castlebar as “All Ireland champion” whingers, has proved a significant setback for Fine Gael. Goldhawk wonders if the Taoiseach’s head has been turned, ever so slightly, by the ramblings of the new right wing think tank, the Hibernia Forum. Hibernia Forum was established last year, with… Read more »

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Maurice Buckley

MAURICE BUCKLEY’S RETURN

Date: February 25, 2016 - Affairs of the Nation

INTERESTING to see Maurice ‘TMG’ Buckley pop up as a director and shareholder in a Kildare-registered company called Hytech Energy Europe Ltd that supplies assorted fuel-saving devices. Buckley is a long-time pal of Michael Smurfit, with Monaco-based Mick in situ as ‘International Chairman’ of the New Jersey-based Irish Chamber of Commerce USA (ICCUSA), which is… Read more »

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Michael Noonan

MICHAEL NOONAN BLOWS IT

Date: February 25, 2016 - Affairs of the Nation

ENDA KENNY’S special talent for scapegoating officials and handlers will have to be refined after the worst Fine Gael election campaign since the 2002 campaign, when Michael Noonan was leader; and that’s not a coincidence. The invincible Noonan has been found to have feet of clay and whatever damage has been done to his party… Read more »

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Vol. 34 No. 03

Date: February 12, 2016 -

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The return of Alex Gibbons

Date: February 11, 2016 -

THE LAW SOCIETY isn’t letting up in its pursuit of rogue solicitor Alex Gibbons, the Cork-based legal eagle whose adventures will be familiar to fans of Goldhawk. Gibbons, from Clonakilty, has been struck off the Roll of Solicitors for a third time, according to a decision just published. This latest striking off is on foot… Read more »

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Alan Hanly’s Legal Woes

Date: February 11, 2016 - Briefcases

FANS of Goldhawk will already be familiar with the legal woes faced by Alan Hanly, one of the principals at Kilronan Castle Hotel and Resort in Co Roscommon, where a number of unhappy holiday home owners are currently suing the businessman (see The Phoenix 29/1/16). But Hanly’s legal problems don’t end with Kilronan Castle. He… Read more »

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Killally’s Victim Loses Appeal

Date: February 11, 2016 - Briefcases

AN UNFORTUNATE victim of bankrupt developer Ger Killally has failed in a legal attempt at recouping some of his losses, having made the big mistake of loaning Killally more than E400,000 in 2008, just as the developer’s world was about to come crashing down. Joe Delaney took proceedings against AIB, which was both his bank… Read more »

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