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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

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

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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Ger Killally

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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Galway Builders €9m judgement

Date: February 11, 2016 - Briefcases

SPARE A THOUGHT for Galway builder Tommy Finnerty, who found himself on the receiving end of a whopping €9.2m judgment, courtesy of Danske Bank. Finnerty is one of the principals in the west of Ireland property development outfit, O’Mahony Finnerty, although his former business associate, Fergal O’Mahony, is now out of the picture, having been… Read more »

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Eamon Gilmore

Matthew J Connolly’s Industrial Strife

Date: February 11, 2016 - Briefcases

DUBLIN businessman Matthew J Connolly is the principal of Connolly Shoes, a business that has been the focus of various complaints in recent years over breaches of employment law. Four workers of one of his companies, Macow & Associates Ltd, are owed awards of more than €100,000 since 2011, which the company failed to pay… Read more »

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Kathryn Thomas

Gwynne Thomas Vs Musgrave

Date: February 11, 2016 - Briefcases

CARLOW businessman Gwynne Thomas – father to RTÉ star Kathryn Thomas – is a man under pressure these days and, late last year, Nama installed receivers to a number of properties in Carlow previously owned by a company called Thomas Thompson Holdings Ltd (TTH), where the businessman is one of the principals. TTH’s main asset… Read more »

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C&C’s share buyback programme unfair to investors

Date: February 11, 2016 - Moneybags

IT TOOK the US share activist, Daniel Lewis, who runs the Orange Capital hedge fund in New York, to really shake up Stephen Glancey in C&C. The yank behind Orange Capital had been on Glancey’s back since secretly building up a 4.9% stake through the use of derivatives. The Sunday Times reported at the weekend… Read more »

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DCC’s high energy performance

Date: February 11, 2016 - Moneybags

THE €464m takeover of the big French Butagaz liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) business is a real game-changer for Tommy Breen in DCC. In the past, Moneybags has highlighted that DCC needs a clear strategic focus on its very successful energy division, and should forget about the small, erratic earners that make up the rest of… Read more »

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Free Lunch

Date: February 11, 2016 - Sport of Kings

THEY SAY there is no such thing as a free lunch, but Joe Keeling’s Horse Racing Ireland (HRI) is handing out complimentary meals to the top end of Irish racing. While the punters have to suffer inflated prices for inferior deep fried fare and those working on the bottom rungs have to pay for their… Read more »

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Meta Osborne

META OSBORNE’S DRUGS PRESCRIPTION

Date: February 11, 2016 - Sport of Kings

OVER A YEAR in the making, the long awaited report by the Irish Thoroughbred Industry Anti-Doping Task Force, chaired by Senior Steward Meta Osborne, was published last week. The ‘task force’ was made up of the usual ‘industry’ suspects, but with Osborne at its head, it was always going to be a Bowler Hat Baby…. Read more »

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Willie Penrose

CUTTING OFF SIMON COVENEY

Date: February 11, 2016 - Sport of Kings

WHILE Simon Coveney is regarded by followers of the sport of kings as a fairly shrewd operator, his attempt to pull a fast one during the final stages of the Dáil debate on the Horse Racing Act, 2015 did not go to plan. In an uncharacteristic move up the inside, Coveney attempted to introduce a… Read more »

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Willie Mullins

THE MULLINS FACTOR

Date: February 11, 2016 - Sport of Kings

SPEAKING in the Dáil during the debate on the Horse Racing Ireland Act 2015, which was passed on January 20, Labour’s Willie Penrose called for the implementation of a finding in the Indecon consultancy report that a value for money audit be conducted on Joe Keeling’s HRI. After chief executive Brian Kavanagh announced further downward… Read more »

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Aisling O’Sullivan

BIG MAGGIE – GAIETY THEATRE

Date: February 11, 2016 - ReviewsTheatre

BIG MAGGIE is back, and cynics have plenty of reason to raise an eyebrow. The timing of this revival by Druid – a nearly identical restaging of the company’s 2011 production – looks purely commercial. The production taps the country’s mood: Maggie Polpin feels like she was written to attract the noisy supporters of the… Read more »

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THE SCRAP – GENE KERRIGAN (DOUBLEDAY IRELAND)

Date: February 11, 2016 - Reviews

AS THE 1916 centenary approaches and the commemorative market becomes increasingly crowded, Gene Kerrigan’s book traces the involvement of one rebel unit – F Company, 2nd Battalion Irish Volunteers. Based in Fairview, the group included Charlie Saurin, Arthur ‘Boss’ Shields, Oscar Traynor and Harry Boland. With other rebels, they took over the GPO on Easter… Read more »

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Evicting Paddy Dunning

Date: February 11, 2016 - Behind the Scenes

‘MR TEMPLE BAR’ Paddy Dunning is used to being on the wrong end of bad news in recent years as a number of his businesses have struggled badly. However, the National Wax Museum in Dublin, across the street from Trinity College, has been one of the few bright spots he could point to. It has… Read more »

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LORETTA CLARKE’S SETTLEMENT

Date: February 11, 2016 - Behind the Scenes

DÉTENTE has broken out in Mayo, where a rather interesting looking defamation action has just been settled in Castlebar Circuit Court. The case in question featured the indefatigable Loretta Clarke and the high-flying historian, Sinéad McCoole. Both parties are well known to each other as a result of their significant roles in the establishment of… Read more »

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Heather Humphreys

HEATHER HUMPHREYS’ EMPTY SEATS

Date: February 11, 2016 - Behind the Scenes

AS THE politicians go about trying to get re-elected, it’s business as usual on the various state boards. In the case of the arts sector, however, there are an awful lot of vacancies to be filled and Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht Heather Humphreys could well be preparing to make a number of… Read more »

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Eddie O’Leary’s Profits

Date: February 11, 2016 - High Society

CONGRATULATIONS to Eddie O’Leary, younger sibling of high-flying Ryanair boss, Michael. While he may not be in the same league as his big brother when it comes to earning the spondoolicks, Eddie is proving no slouch. Mick O’Leary owns the Gigginstown Stud outside Mullingar and has proven a most successful racehorse owner. Gigginstown is run… Read more »

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Michelle Morrison

ARISE LADY MORRISON

Date: February 11, 2016 - High Society

THERE WAS plenty of coverage of rock legend Van Morrison receiving his knighthood from Prince Charles at Buckingham Palace earlier this month. While Van was accompanied by his beaming daughter (from his first marriage), Shana, there was no sign of Michelle Morrison née Rocca, his estranged wife. However the former model can now bask in… Read more »

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Feargal O’Rourke

FEARGAL O’ROURKE’S MANSION

Date: February 11, 2016 - High Society

WITH IRELAND’S Six Nations campaign underway, one man who will be paying particular attention to Joe Schmidt’s boys is ‘celebrity accountant’ Feargal O’Rourke, who sits on the finance committee of the IRFU. It turns out he’s also quite the whiz when it comes to the property market. The high-flying number cruncher first registered outside the… Read more »

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