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John Moloney

JOE KEELING’S MEDIA MOVE

Date: November 20, 2015 - Sport of Kings

THE ASSOCIATION Of Irish Racecourses (AIR) and Galway racecourse supremo John Moloney have lost the battle to retain control of the all-important media rights committee of Horse Racing Ireland (HRI). Fans of Goldhawk will recall (see The Phoenix 2/7/15) that after an emergency general meeting of AIR held in Kildare, the independent body threatened legal… Read more »

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GETTING TO THE POINT

Date: November 20, 2015 - Sport of Kings

THERE WAS very little cheer for the Bowler Hats in Simon Coveney’s new Horse Racing Ireland Act 2015, but one battle they did manage to win was the fight to retain financial control of the issuing of Hunter Certificates. Goldhawk’s fans will recall (see The Phoenix 26/3/15) that Denis Egan had threatened legal action if… Read more »

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Fiona Muldoon

Muldoon’s new boom boosts outlook for FBD

Date: November 20, 2015 - Moneybags

FIONA MULDOON has had a significant impact at FBD Insurance. The former Central Bank exec was only appointed finance director of FBD in January of this year, but in July was appointed interim chief executive to replace Andy Langford, and had this position confirmed at the beginning of last month. Her actions so far have… Read more »

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Eimear Mulhern

Goffs proving itself a thoroughbred

Date: November 20, 2015 - Moneybags

THE LATE Charlie Haughey’s only daughter, Eimear Mulhern, has tended to keep a relatively low profile but she put her head above the parapet 10 years ago when taking on the chairmanship of Goffs Bloodstock Sales, before being appointed chairman of the overall group, Robert J Goff & Co (which includes Goffs Bloodstock Sales and… Read more »

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Power Play

POWER PLAY – DÉAGLÁN DE BRÉADÚN (MERRION PRESS)

Date: November 20, 2015 - Books

  THE RISE of Sinn Féin from political obscurity to its current position as a major player is one that has caused equal measures of horror and bewilderment, as the mainstream media try to grapple for an explanation. For the most part these ‘explanations’ consist of demonising the party, dismissing its democratic credentials and pushing… Read more »

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Lucy Morton

THE LEGEND OF LONGWOOD – DIRECTED BY LISA MULCAHY

Date: November 20, 2015 - Movies

IN ITS opening scene, where American teen Mickey Miller (Lucy Morton) recklessly urges her horse to an ill-judged jump, The Legend of Longwood packs a punch and sets the tone for a promising adventure. There are probably not enough live-action films (and certainly not enough Irish ones) for the lucrative pre-teens market, which also happens… Read more »

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Fiach Mac Conghail

FIACH Mac CONGHAIL’S CURTAIN CALL

Date: November 20, 2015 - Behind the Scenes

THE NATIONAL Theatre unintentionally kicked off a storm in an online teacup last week with the announcement of its 2016 programme, when writers and actors raged against director Fiach Mac Conghail for excluding female playwrights. The noise served as a distraction from any real discussion of what will be on stage when the Abbey marks… Read more »

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David Davies

NO IRISH NEED APPLY

Date: November 20, 2015 - Behind the Scenes

INTERESTING to see Michael Dervan in The Irish Times querying the lack of Irish involvement in the 2015 Wexford Festival Opera, which concludes this week. Of course, the agency that controls the purse strings here is the Arts Council, but while it turns out that there are ongoing discussions between the Council and the David… Read more »

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Humphreys Picks Modern Chair

Date: November 20, 2015 - Behind the Scenes

MINISTER for the Arts Heather Humphreys has turned to experienced troubleshooter David Harvey to chair the new board of the Irish Museum of Modern Art (Imma). Her move marks something of a shift in the type of heads chosen for the national cultural institutions, which have been almost exclusively the preserve of senior barristers and… Read more »

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STILL COUNTING CROWES

Date: November 20, 2015 - Behind the Scenes

IT IS exactly a year since James Hickey’s Irish Film Board (IFB) announced its intention to put together a brave new five-year ‘Strategic Plan’ for its future (see The Phoenix 7/11/14). So what has happened since? The IFB press release stated, “The overall strategic plan, the development of the key questions and the industry consultation… Read more »

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Beneath The Earth

BENEATH THE EARTH – JOHN BOYNE (DOUBLEDAY)

Date: November 20, 2015 - Books

OVER THE past 15 years, John Boyne has established his reputation as an ambitious and versatile writer. Success came in 2006 with The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, a short novel for younger readers about the forbidden friendship between two boys living in the shadow of Nazism. Most of his fiction since then has concentrated… Read more »

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Louise Kennedy

ACCOUNTING FOR LOUISE KENNEDY

Date: November 20, 2015 - High Society

FASHION designer Louise Kennedy must have been delighted with the puff piece in the Sunday Business Post last month, where she outlined her plans for her business. Reading like an advert for the company, the article noted that Kennedy is looking to expand and even appoint a non-executive board. Any potential candidates for this board… Read more »

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JOHN FARRINGTON’S SATISFACTION

Date: November 20, 2015 - High Society

CONGRATULATIONS to Drury Street antique jeweller John Farrington, who did rather well out of the sale of contents of his Capard House pile. He has just registered a satisfaction of the hefty €1.1m Revenue judgment with which he was hit just over a year ago. The high-profile Farrington has had a fair few run-ins with… Read more »

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Seamus Ross Jr

SEAMUS ROSS JR SELLS UP AGAIN

Date: November 20, 2015 - High Society

THERE WAS plenty of coverage of the impressive Georgian house on Wellington Place in the heart of Dublin 4 which came on the market, again, last month, with a price tag of a hugely reduced €4.65m. Rather less was said about the ‘Celtic Tiger cub’ who had overhauled the property and who has had a… Read more »

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Greg Ryan

Young Bloods – Greg Ryan

Date: November 20, 2015 - The Young Bloods

LIMERICK businessman Greg Ryan (31) pulled quite a stunt last month when he organised a topless photo shoot on Dublin’s Harcourt Street, featuring contestants in his beauty pageant, Miss Bikini Ireland, which took place later in October. The businessman claimed the goal of the shoot – which, predictably, created some controversy – was to “raise… Read more »

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BERNARD O’BYRNE’S BASKETBALL BUST-UP

Date: November 20, 2015 - Beyond the Pale

BASKETBALL IRELAND, the governing body for basketball in Ireland, is currently involved in a bitter dispute with a number of coaches and officials in the north east, who were members of a division of Basketball Ireland called the North East Basketball League (NEBL), but who split to form a breakaway league. The dispute is currently… Read more »

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Bog Cuttings

Date: November 20, 2015 - Bog Cuttings

MAN WHO DEFECATED IN DERRY CITY CENTRE SHOUTED ‘UP THE RA’ AS TROUSERS FELL DOWN A MAN who defecated in Derry city centre shouted ‘up the RA’ when his trousers fell down. Ryan Charles Doherty, of Glenabbey Drive, was fined £400 at Derry Magistrates Court. The court heard CCTV operators alerted police after Doherty defecated… Read more »

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Karl Brophy

Karl Brophy

Date: November 20, 2015 - Pillars of Society

IMPENDING danger or conflict is one meaning of the phrase ‘red flag’ and the head of Red Flag Consulting, Karl Brophy, is certainly no stranger to conflict. Karl’s perennial source of conflict in recent years has been Denis O’Brien, who was in charge when he left the premises of Independent News & Media (INM) three… Read more »

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Claire Brock

UTV HACKS’ GRIM FUTURE

Date: November 20, 2015 - Fit to Print?

THE galaxy of broadcasting stars and pretty faces lined up by UTV Ireland, which faces likely extinction when ITV completes the purchase of UTV north and south, will be recalling ruefully the bombastic claims of UTV Media’s CEO, John McCann, two years ago. The list of TV personalities include Pat Kenny, who has had a… Read more »

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Colum Kenny

PROF KENNY AND SINDO

Date: November 20, 2015 - Fit to Print?

IS it really possible that the Sunday Independent can dumb down under the post Anne Harris editorial regime? Apparently so, judging by the despairing exit from the Sindo of Professor Colum Kenny after 20 years columnising for the paper. A former member of the Broadcasting authority of Ireland and professor of Communications at DCU, author… Read more »

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Free and Independent Press?

Date: November 20, 2015 - Fit to Print?

HOW heartening to see the Sunday Independent is prepared to take on those bullying corporate moguls who abuse their untrammelled wealth and power to stifle a free media by use of the libel laws. A fortnight ago, the Sindo published two articles bemoaning the “libel lottery” that inhibits freedom of expression and news gathering. And… Read more »

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Alan Kelly

AK47 OUTGUNNED BY ALL SIDES

Date: November 20, 2015 - Last Refuge

ENVIRONMENT minister Alan ‘AK47’ Kelly is facing not only vastly superior fire power from the much bigger guns on Fine Gael finance minister Michael Noonan’s side, but also appears to have been fragged by his own comrades in Labour. Labour’s deputy leader has been abandoned by party leader and Tánaiste Joan Burton, as well as… Read more »

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Dara Murphy

BLUESHIRT SPLIT IN CORK

Date: November 20, 2015 - Last Refuge

ENDA KENNY has gone out of his way to support his beleaguered junior minister for Europe, Dara Murphy, in Cork, as well as Europe but he is risking the sole Fine Gael seat in Cork North-Central in the process. As it is, the local Blueshirts are just short of hand-to-hand fighting in the constituency organisation,… Read more »

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Keaveney Feeling Insecure?

Date: November 20, 2015 - Last Refuge

FIANNA FÁIL TD Colm Keaveney is facing security issues on more than one front. While he has requested that the Dáil authorities investigate the suspected hacking of his emails, he is also in conflict with Galway’s top cop, Chief Superintendent Tom Curley. The row has now gone to the Garda Ombudsman. Keaveney took issue with… Read more »

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Clare Daly

THE LEFT AND SINN FÉIN

Date: November 20, 2015 - Last Refuge

THE hysterical media reaction to Sinn Fein’s electoral transfer proposal ignores several factors, the chief one being that a natural pattern of transfers between Sinn Fein and other Left groups will assert itself in the general election in any case. The other factor is that despite the resistance of the Trotskyist left (ie. Paul Murphy’s… Read more »

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Mary McAleese

McALEESE Vs OLD BOYS’ CLUB

Date: November 20, 2015 - Clerical Errors

THE Church of Rome is constituted under the rule of a monarchical papacy and prides itself on not being democratic. However, in the more relaxed reign of Pope Francis, there is a mood to seek out a heavy hitter to break down the portals of male clericalism. Enter former President Mary McAleese. After her liberation… Read more »

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Arlene Foster

ROBINSON FOR HEAVE-HO?

Date: November 20, 2015 - Bird's Eye View

SOURCES in both Sinn Féin and the DUP predict a deal next week on welfare reform, the contentious matter which has blocked last December’s Stormont House Agreement since March. Both parties have moved, culminating in an important meeting on October 27. Afterwards, both Martin McGuinness and Peter Robinson gave separate interviews, McGuinness saying there could… Read more »

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John Cooke

JUDICIOUS BUSINESS INTERESTS

Date: November 20, 2015 - Affairs of the Nation

ONE of the things that the eagerly awaited Judicial Council – which has been long-fingered by successive governments – may wish to consider is a register of business interests of judges. This could, for example, outline the protocol to be followed in circumstances where a judge is hearing a case and has a business involvement… Read more »

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The Hot Air Brigade

Date: November 20, 2015 - The Hot Air Brigade

He is now a member of the establishment. It may be worse than that. He might now be a national treasure. Donald Clarke on Colm Tóibín, Irish Times (submitted by reader) I do believe that to garden is to be in love with life. It is to embrace the explicitness of the real. It is… Read more »

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MAHON TRIBUNAL’S TANGLED WEB

Date: November 20, 2015 - Affairs of the Nation

GOOD to see the media catching up with developments in the Mahon Tribunal (see The Phoenix 23/10/15 and passim), but it’s high time environment minister Alan Kelly demanded straight answers from it about what the hell has been going on over the last number of years. Last week’s smoke and mirrors statement to The Sunday Times… Read more »

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David Davies

DAVID DAVIES’ GEORGIAN CREDENTIALS

Date: November 20, 2015 - Affairs of the Nation

GOLDHAWK understands that the next president of the Irish Georgian Society (IGS) is set to be the super wealthy David Davies, a Welsh moneybags who is well known in cultural circles (last year he became president of Wexford Festival Opera) and who has a track record when it comes to creaking old properties. His arrival… Read more »

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Brenda Power

BRENDA POWER FOR DPP AGAIN?

Date: November 20, 2015 - Affairs of the Nation

SUNDAY TIMES columnist Brenda Power distinguished herself last month with a searching analysis of Travellers in the aftermath of the Carrickmines fire tragedy that saw ten Travellers, including five children, die. This is likely to provoke further complaints to the Gardaí from PC liberals and Travellers groups under the Prohibition of Incitement to Hatred Act,… Read more »

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Hugh Lewis

HUGH LEWIS’S ALLEGATIONS

Date: November 20, 2015 - Affairs of the Nation

THERE WERE frantic scenes at Dún Laoghaire Rathdown (DLR) Council last month, when a heated debate on alterations to the Draft Development Plan featured controversial allegations from People Before Profit councillor, Hugh Lewis, and subsequent legal correspondence. The various elements of the Draft County Development Plan 2016-2022 have already been well aired, but so-called Specific… Read more »

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Simon Coveney

COVENEY’S MILITARY SPENDING PLANS

Date: November 20, 2015 - Affairs of the Nation

DEFENCE minister Simon Coveney gave little away in answer to a parliament question about the protection of Irish sovereign airspace from foreign aircraft put by Fianna Fáil defence spokesperson Seán Ó Fearghaíl recently. But the minister did say that the “development of a more capable air combat intercept capability will be considered” as would the… Read more »

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Billy Walsh

BILLY WALSH’S KNOCKOUT

Date: November 18, 2015 - Affairs of the Nation

WHILE media coverage of the move to the US of boxing coach Billy Walsh has been unanimously critical of the handling of the affair by the Joe Christle-chaired Irish Amateur Boxing Association (IABA), the build-up to this bruising encounter began some time ago. Then, another figure – the popular Dominic O’Rourke – was floored by… Read more »

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Keaveney Makes Guarded Comments

Date: November 16, 2015 - Fit to Print?

GIVEN the upcoming election, Galway East TD Colm Keaveney is more concerned with the Connacht Tribune than INM newspapers’ coverage of his alleged involvement in a conspiracy against their boss, Denis O’Brien. In an article headlined, “Top Garda rubbishes claims on Tuam crime”, Tribune journalist Declan Tierney wrote recently that Galway’s top cop, chief super… Read more »

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