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Willie Mullins

WILLIE MULLINS’S SMART MOVE

Date: November 6, 2015 - Sport of Kings

CHAMPION trainer Willie Mullins is now operating out of a stable he runs near Irish racing HQ at the Curragh. The remarkably successful handler, whose main yard is located in Carlow, is stabling a number of his high end jumpers at a yard near to the home of his stable jockey, Ruby Walsh, in Calverstown,… Read more »

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Aidan O’Brien

AIDAN O’BRIEN’S ‘DUCKS’

Date: November 6, 2015 - Sport of Kings

“THE DUCKS are not in a row.” Aidan O’Brien’s words before unwrapping the thick layers of cotton wool from his star miler, Gleneagles, at the Sheikh Fahad Al Thani-sponsored Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot last weekend. O’Brien clearly communicated via media interviews before and after the race that he was not happy running the horse,… Read more »

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Eamon McElroy

BLUE DAY FOR BOWLER HATS

Date: November 6, 2015 - Sport of Kings

THE FINE PRINT of Minister for Agriculture Simon Coveney’s new Horse Racing Bill 2015 was unveiled to the public earlier this month and the legislation marks the death knell for the once powerful Bowler Hats. After the defeat of the William Flood-led old guard in a recent landmark election (see The Phoenix 25/9/15) resistance to… Read more »

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Bernard Caldwell

WINNER ALL RIGHT

Date: November 6, 2015 - Sport of Kings

ONE OF the big winners of Simon Coveney’s new Horse Racing Ireland Bill 2015 is Joe Keeling’s Horse Racing Ireland (HRI), which sees its influence increase significantly. The two seats taken from the Bowler Hats are both transferred to Kildare Street, which now has the power to appoint three persons to the 13-member board for… Read more »

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Owen Killian

Can Owen Killian’s strategy pay off for Aryzta?

Date: November 6, 2015 - Moneybags

OWEN KILLIAN has been under pressure since March when Aryzta’s shares peaked at €73. Progressive trading updates have increasingly warned of not just a halt to the group’s fantastic growth record since it acquired Cuisine de France back in 1997, but an actual reversal, with underlying revenue for the year to July 2015 falling over… Read more »

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Carl McCann

Total Produce expanding rapidly but what’s the plan?

Date: November 6, 2015 - Moneybags

CARL MCCANN has been running Total Produce, the fruit and veg merchanting arm of the original Fyffes group, for nine years and has not done too bad a job of it. He has made an attempt to reposition the company on a more global basis, moving it away from full dependence on western Europe with… Read more »

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Kathryn Thomas

Kathryn Thomas’s Shares

Date: November 6, 2015 - Briefcases

THERE was some bad news last month for Carlow-based developer Gwynne Thomas – father to RTÉ star Kathryn Thomas – when a company he part-owns, Thomas Thompson Holdings Ltd, was put into receivership by Nama. An Irish company called Hermitage Investment Trust Ltd (HIT) holds a 45% stake in Thomas Thompson Holdings Ltd, and up… Read more »

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Jamie White

Jamie White’s Rehabilitation

Date: November 6, 2015 - Briefcases

CONGRATULATIONS are in order to budding young Dublin publisher, Jamie White, who enjoyed a nice plug earlier this month in the Sunday Independent, which included him in its ‘30 under 30’ list of up and coming business people. White may be a familiar name to fans of Goldhawk thanks to his website, College Times, although… Read more »

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Luigi Wewege

Luigi Wewege’s Legal Contacts

Date: November 6, 2015 - Briefcases

MORE ON Luigi Wewege, the colourful boss of Irish registered subprime mortgage company, Vivier Mortgages Ltd (VML), which is currently suing RTÉ for defamation over an investigation broadcast earlier this year that detailed the outrageous interest rates charged by the company (see The Phoenix 9/10/15). Wewege is also a plaintiff in that action and it… Read more »

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Tom Keane’s Bust Up With Beancounters

Tom Keane’s Bust Up With Beancounters

Date: November 6, 2015 - Briefcases

DUBLIN accountant Tom Keane – of BKRM accountants in north Dublin – has come out on the losing side of a row with the Certified Public Accountants Ireland (CPA Ireland), where he previously served as president. But it turns out that Keane has problems elsewhere. Keane had asked the High Court to judicially review professional… Read more »

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Clare Dooley

Clare Dooley’s Double-Dealing

Date: November 6, 2015 - Briefcases

FINANCIAL advisor Clare Dooley escaped jail last month over an insurance scam against New Ireland Life Assurance plc, but she was disqualified from acting as a company director for five years following her conviction. Dooley, an insurance broker and the principal in Dooley Financial Services Ltd (DFS), made a name for herself as a financial… Read more »

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Ruairi O’Ceallaigh’s Tax Affairs

Ruairi O’Ceallaigh’s Tax Affairs

Date: November 6, 2015 - Briefcases

SOME more bad news for disgraced legal eagle Ruairi O’Ceallaigh, who was jailed in 2014 for five years (with the final two years suspended) for pilfering €2.8m from clients to fund a property buying spree and to play the stock market. The Taxman has just registered a €33,000 judgment against O’Ceallaigh. O’Ceallaigh’s profession is described… Read more »

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The Return Of Alan Hynes

The Return Of Alan Hynes

Date: November 6, 2015 - Briefcases

GOLDHAWK was curious to learn of reports emanating from Wexford concerning disgraced accountant Alan Hynes, who has clocked up numerous findings of misconduct at the Chartered Accountants Regulatory Board (CARB). Hynes has “teamed up” with his cousin, Frank Hynes, and made an offer of €10m to buy a property in Wexford town through a Hynes-linked… Read more »

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More Bum Notes For Gary Hansard

More Bum Notes For Gary Hansard

Date: November 6, 2015 - Briefcases

NOT for the first time, Dublin property investor Gary Hansard – brother of Frames frontman Glen Hansard – has landed in trouble with the Taxman. Gary Hansard has just had a tax judgment registered against him for €40,000, which is the latest in a series of difficulties the businessman has had with the Revenue. It… Read more »

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RICHARD WOOD’S TAX BILL

Date: November 5, 2015 - High Society

FORMER BULA Mines director Richard Wood has just come a cropper with the Taxman and finds himself on the end of a judgment for €602,000. It represents the latest setback for the one-time high flyer, who made a name for himself at Bula before that venture came crashing down, leading to Wood being pursued through… Read more »

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John Kavanagh

John Kavanagh

Date: November 5, 2015 - The Young Bloods

THE remarkable growth in Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) in Ireland years is thanks in no small part to businessman and gym owner John Kavanagh (38), an MMA trainer who counts moneymaking machine Conor McGregor among his fighters. McGregor is now the biggest star in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), the lucrative US organisation in which… Read more »

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Brendan Howlin

Date: November 5, 2015 - Pillars of Society

The wonder of Michael Noonan’s political resurrection late in life has been much commented on, but what about the renaissance of his job sharing finance minister, Brendan Howlin? A twice-rejected Labour leadership candidate and an apparent relic of Old Labour, Howlin’s renewed rise and rise has been in inverse, even perverse, proportion to that of… Read more »

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Dermot Desmond

DERMOT DESMOND’S DATA DISCRETION

Date: November 5, 2015 - Affairs of the Nation

IS there no limit to the financial and legal resources that billionaires like Denis O’Brien and Dermot Desmond will expend to battle those sections of the media they do not already own? Between them, the two have launched somewhere between 50 and 100 High Court libel actions against the media, but they have also begun… Read more »

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Niamh Bushnell

ISRAELI ARMY START-UPS

Date: November 5, 2015 - Affairs of the Nation

THE new Dublin Startup Commissioner is get-up-and-go-girl, Niamh Bushnell, who has been getting a lot of airtime recently on RTÉ, Newstalk and so on. Funded privately by the DCU Ryan Academy, her Dublin office is also supported by various state bodies, including Dublin City Council (DCC); Dublin Chamber of Commerce; and Enterprise Ireland (EI), which… Read more »

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JOHN McCANN’S “ASTUTE” PURCHASE

Date: November 5, 2015 - Affairs of the Nation

THERE WAS plenty of focus last week on Tom O’Gorman’s audacious plan to ‘flip’ the sprawling Kilcooley estate in Co Tipperary for €8m, having bought the huge pile – for years the home of the Ponsonby family – for just €2.1m from Nama two years ago, before also buying the freehold on 950 acres of… Read more »

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Denis O'Brien

DENIS O’BRIEN IN CRISIS?

Date: November 5, 2015 - Affairs of the Nation

HAS Denis O’Brien completely lost it? Launching a lightning legal assault against a relatively inconsequential PR and lobbying consultancy, following on from his efforts to bring RTÉ and the Dáil to heel, seems a little OTT. Not necessarily, given the growing suspicion that O’Brien’s thrashing about owes more to his financial problems than any loss… Read more »

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