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Mark Paul IDF

MARK’S ISRAELI VICTIMS

Date: February 8, 2024 - Fit to Print?

THE REVIVAL of an Israeli PR blunder – unusual for the well-resourced PR machine of Israel and the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) – was reported in the Irish Times last Saturday under the headline: “Hamas mutilated women ‘like garbage’ campaign launch hears”. Last week’s meeting in central London was hosted by Labour peer Lord Mendelsohn… Read more »

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David McManus

YOUNG BLUESHIRTS CHAMPION McMANUS

Date: February 8, 2024 - Last Refuge

HEALTHY RIVALRY is how Fine Gael councillor David McManus would likely describe a leaflet due to be distributed in his local election area of Rathfarnham-Templeogue this weekend. The leaflet has a Valentine’s Day flavour to it but is hardly a love letter to his party colleague on South Dublin County Council, Lynn McCrave. The leaflet… Read more »

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Date: February 8, 2024 -

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Micheál Martin Daniel Hokanson

IRELAND-US MILITARY ALLIANCE

Date: February 8, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

NOT FOR decades has a Middle East crisis come so close to provoking war on a global scale of East versus West, with Ireland by now virtually dragooned into being part of it via Nato partnership groups and EU security policies. Just days ago the… Read more »

Budget Jack Chambers Nicki Minaj B’Tselem Phil Hogan UCD IRTA DIGI Katy Brown Rory Godson Pallonji Mistry Shark Hanlon Frances Ruane Taste of Dublin Listowel Writers’ Week Paddy Curran Harvey Norman Anton Savage Paul Hourican Enda O’Coineen PfP Red C Poll IFTA Ben Gilroy Luke Comer Sue Spence Fingleton Aubrey McCarthy Matt Cooper Parker Green Danny McConnell Gayle Killilea Maura Derivan Ed Honohan INS Arts Council EDAF Emuse Rosslare Golf Club Mairead Casey Colm O’Rourke Stephen Connolly Peter Aiken John Malone Tom Barry Anthony Halpin Ian Kehoe Kevin Bakhurst Geraldine O’Leary Dennis Horgan RUSI Gareth McAllister Ryevale House Joe Macken RUC Omagh Patrick Connolly Paddy Cosgrave The Ditch Newstalk Fake Tan Fred Logue Ian Paisley Sean O’Riordan Margaret Sweeney Jay Bourke Ellie Kisyombe Francesca McDonagh Ted Cunningham National Space Centre An Irish Goodbye Oscar Robert Quirke Ciara Kelly Executive Women Gathering Doug Taylor Florian Haufe Robbie Henshaw Bill Shipsey Breaking the Silence L’Ecrivain Ronan McNally National Lottery Michael Roche Energy Action Balls.ie Newspapers VAT Abbey Theatre Patricia Madden Irish Banking Culture Board Randox Aoife Gallagher Book Dalai Lama Trinity Trevor White RTÉ Chairperson Shane Houlihan Noel Smyth IKC Bob Geldof Landlord Ireland Neutrality Ukraine

MATT COOPER V RTÉ

Date: February 8, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

THE UBIQUITOUS Matt Cooper was taking pops at RTÉ once again last weekend in the Business Post, a pastime neither he nor his editor feels should be qualified by any mention of the degree to which his views as an independent commentator are hopelessly compromised. While the hack found space on a couple of occasions… Read more »

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Mark Foley

GROW UP, SENATORS!

Date: February 8, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

MARK FOLEY, the smooth-talking CEO of Eirgrid, got quite a rude response last week from senators Alice Mary Higgins (Independent) and Lynn Boylan (Sinn Féin) at an Oireachtas climate action committee on data centres and the stratospheric rise in their electricity use. Foley, a prominent advocate for data centre growth, had little time for the… Read more »

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Budget Jack Chambers Nicki Minaj B’Tselem Phil Hogan UCD IRTA DIGI Katy Brown Rory Godson Pallonji Mistry Shark Hanlon Frances Ruane Taste of Dublin Listowel Writers’ Week Paddy Curran Harvey Norman Anton Savage Paul Hourican Enda O’Coineen PfP Red C Poll IFTA Ben Gilroy Luke Comer Sue Spence Fingleton Aubrey McCarthy Matt Cooper Parker Green Danny McConnell Gayle Killilea Maura Derivan Ed Honohan INS Arts Council EDAF Emuse Rosslare Golf Club Mairead Casey Colm O’Rourke Stephen Connolly Peter Aiken John Malone Tom Barry Anthony Halpin Ian Kehoe Kevin Bakhurst Geraldine O’Leary Dennis Horgan RUSI Gareth McAllister Ryevale House Joe Macken RUC Omagh Patrick Connolly Paddy Cosgrave The Ditch Newstalk Fake Tan Fred Logue Ian Paisley Sean O’Riordan Margaret Sweeney Jay Bourke Ellie Kisyombe Francesca McDonagh Ted Cunningham National Space Centre An Irish Goodbye Oscar Robert Quirke Ciara Kelly Executive Women Gathering Doug Taylor Florian Haufe Robbie Henshaw Bill Shipsey Breaking the Silence L’Ecrivain Ronan McNally National Lottery Michael Roche Energy Action Balls.ie Newspapers VAT Abbey Theatre Patricia Madden Irish Banking Culture Board Randox Aoife Gallagher Book Dalai Lama Trinity Trevor White RTÉ Chairperson Shane Houlihan Noel Smyth IKC Bob Geldof Landlord Ireland Neutrality Ukraine

THE ‘IT’ ON JOHN BRUTON

Date: February 8, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

In an obit of nearly 2,500 words, the Irish Times devoted just over 200 words to the stewardship of the late John Bruton of the peace process – damning him with faint praise on the issue – while commenting uncritically several times on his reverence for John Redmond and his condemnation of the 1916 Rising…. Read more »

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Budget Jack Chambers Nicki Minaj B’Tselem Phil Hogan UCD IRTA DIGI Katy Brown Rory Godson Pallonji Mistry Shark Hanlon Frances Ruane Taste of Dublin Listowel Writers’ Week Paddy Curran Harvey Norman Anton Savage Paul Hourican Enda O’Coineen PfP Red C Poll IFTA Ben Gilroy Luke Comer Sue Spence Fingleton Aubrey McCarthy Matt Cooper Parker Green Danny McConnell Gayle Killilea Maura Derivan Ed Honohan INS Arts Council EDAF Emuse Rosslare Golf Club Mairead Casey Colm O’Rourke Stephen Connolly Peter Aiken John Malone Tom Barry Anthony Halpin Ian Kehoe Kevin Bakhurst Geraldine O’Leary Dennis Horgan RUSI Gareth McAllister Ryevale House Joe Macken RUC Omagh Patrick Connolly Paddy Cosgrave The Ditch Newstalk Fake Tan Fred Logue Ian Paisley Sean O’Riordan Margaret Sweeney Jay Bourke Ellie Kisyombe Francesca McDonagh Ted Cunningham National Space Centre An Irish Goodbye Oscar Robert Quirke Ciara Kelly Executive Women Gathering Doug Taylor Florian Haufe Robbie Henshaw Bill Shipsey Breaking the Silence L’Ecrivain Ronan McNally National Lottery Michael Roche Energy Action Balls.ie Newspapers VAT Abbey Theatre Patricia Madden Irish Banking Culture Board Randox Aoife Gallagher Book Dalai Lama Trinity Trevor White RTÉ Chairperson Shane Houlihan Noel Smyth IKC Bob Geldof Landlord Ireland Neutrality Ukraine

PARKER GREEN TRIMMED

Date: February 8, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

A COMPANY with the name of GEI Crystal Ltd has just been wound up by its owners, although it is unlikely that many would recognise the name, given that for years it was called Parker Green International (Waterford) Ltd. Under this guise it attracted plenty of media attention as a result of the company’s extensive… Read more »

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Michelle O'Neill Stormont

THE NEW REGIME

Date: February 8, 2024 - Northwind

It was the changing of the guard in the north on February 3 in more ways than one. Obviously the most historic and revolutionary change was a republican taking the position of first minister in a polity and in Stormont, a building where that was never supposed to happen. Sinn Féin’s Michelle O’Neill walked down… Read more »

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Taylor Swift Sam Melia

IRISH FAR-RIGHT FEARS

Date: February 8, 2024 - Hush Hush

THE PLIGHT of British far-right activist Sam Melia – who was convicted in January at Leeds Crown Court for inciting racial hatred and intentionally encouraging or assisting racially aggravated criminal damage – has incensed many agitators on the far right of Irish politics. Melia has… Read more »

Christian Stokes

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: February 8, 2024 - The Hot Air Brigade

I cannot emphasise enough the speed and turnaround they arranged in getting us up and home in their beautiful PC12. Christian Stokes expresses gratitude to Stellaer private jet business after he had found himself stuck in London, LinkedIn Celebrate the female form as artist Tamara Fiabane takes you step by step through the process of… Read more »

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Peter Casey Immigration

POLLS DISTORT REFUGEE ‘CRISIS’

Date: February 8, 2024 - Fit to Print?

ARE THE ‘quality’ broadsheet Sunday newspapers reflecting the crisis and anger about immigration or are they stimulating it with sensationalist coverage? Scrutiny of recent polls would indicate that sometimes the phrasing of the questions is designed to elicit the worst and most alarmist results. And if the results do not fit the catastrophic frame, they… Read more »

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BASHFUL BRENDAN O’CONNOR

Date: February 8, 2024 - Fit to Print?

RTÉ PRESENTER and Sindo front-page commentator Brendan O’Connor has turned out to be the shy, retiring type, despite giving the impression of being full of in-your-face braggadocio. And how ironic that it should be the Sindo that recently failed to elicit from O’Connor whether he had objected to RTÉ publishing his name and earnings as… Read more »

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Regina Doherty

REGINA V JOSEPHA V BARRY

Date: February 8, 2024 - Last Refuge

THE THREE-CORNERED battle between Fine Gael ex-minister and now senator Regina Doherty, junior education minister Josepha Madigan and senator Barry Ward for the Dublin nomination at the EU election will be settled at a convention later this month. Right now it is reckoned that the two women are neck and neck but Ward cannot be… Read more »

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Leo Varadkar General Election

EARLY ELECTION?

Date: February 8, 2024 - Last Refuge

REPETITIVE SPECULATION about an early general election – before the local and EU elections in June – is being argued about among ministers from the three Government parties, according to media reports. But this debate is also a burning question for backbench TDs in Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael. Much of the present debate has… Read more »

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Ray Bassett Policy Exchange

IRISH FREELOADING ON ‘BRITISH ISLES’

Date: February 8, 2024 - Last Refuge

A RECENT report by British think-tank Policy Exchange describes our foreign security policy as “persistent Irish security freeloading” just as “Russia once more poses a maritime threat to the Western Approaches to the British Isles”. The belligerent think-tank claims that “the UK also faces a… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: February 8, 2024 - Bog Cuttings

HIGH KING OF IRELAND A man claiming to be the “king of Ireland” appeared before Thurles District Court wearing a crown and his driver’s licence on a lanyard around his neck. The hearing concerned a claim notice he wanted to enforce against a Garda superintendent… Read more »

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A WAIT AT THE MUSEUM

Date: February 8, 2024 - Behind the Scenes

A MERE six months after the closing date on the advert seeking new board members for the National Museum of Ireland (NMI), arts minister Catherine Martin has announced the new chair, along with two ordinary directors. The delay is hard to justify. In June last year, the advert was posted in advance of outgoing chair… Read more »

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Jay Goenka Superjet Leasing

NOT SO SUPERJET

Date: February 8, 2024 - High Society

GOLDHAWK SPIES a creditors’ meeting has been called for Superjet Leasing Private Ltd, a company where the director is Indian moneybags Jayvaradhan ‘Jay’ Goenka. Goenka is the face of the Dynamix Group, which is one of India’s oldest real estate development businesses. He is the third generation of the Goenka family to front the conglomerate,… Read more »

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JP McManus Shane Filan

CHARITY BEGINS OFFSHORE

Date: February 8, 2024 - High Society

BILLIONAIRE BUDDIES – and fellow Swiss tax residents – JP McManus and John Magnier have been making headlines for their charitable deeds. It emerged last week that McManus provided Westlife star Shane Filan with a €780,000 loan so that the popstar, who emerged from bankruptcy in 2013, could purchase a house at Rosses Point in… Read more »

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Ballynatray House Henry Gwyn-Jones

HENRY GWYN-JONES’S HOUSE

Date: February 8, 2024 - High Society

THERE HAS been plenty regurgitation of the Irish Examiner’s scoop that UK billionaire James Dyson is set to acquire the impressive Ballynatray House on 850 acres on the banks of the Blackwater river in Co Waterford for over €30m. This looks like quite a result for the current Squire of Ballynatray, property investor Henry Gwyn-Jones…. Read more »

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Ricky Doyle

RICKY DOYLE’S POST

Date: February 8, 2024 - Sport of Kings

GRAND NATIONAL-winning jockey Ricky Doyle’s X social media profile photo shows him donning the famous green and gold silks of JP McManus. Ricky Doyle was viewed in a different context last month thanks to an ill-advised post on X. This year has not delivered the most auspicious of starts, with Doyle landing a 10-day suspension… Read more »

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KEATLEY’S BUSY AGENDA

Date: February 8, 2024 - Sport of Kings

FANS OF Goldhawk will recall that popular Curragh trainer Brendan Duke secured a temporary ex-parte injunction against the purchasers of Fenway House in Pollardstown, Co Kildare – Peter Keatley and Teresa Kearney – as well as the Dublin debt collection agency that the couple engaged, Seoige O’Faolain & Co (see The Phoenix 25/8/23). This followed… Read more »

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Ed Dunlop David Dunsdon Sarah Lynam Rebecca May Wayne Hassett Eoin O'Brien Michael Burke Aine O’Connor Ashroe Diamond Thomand O’Mara Peter Keatley Timmy Hyde Coolmore All About Sunday Colin Keane Ronan Whelan JP McManus Jessica Harrington Dundalk Racecourse Paul Hensey Irish National Hunt Horse-racing Doping Paddy Walsh Tom Kelly Suspension

JUSTICE DELAYED

Date: February 8, 2024 - Sport of Kings

RTÉ BOARD member and barrister Susan Ahern has plenty to keep here busy given events at Montrose. But she still finds time to chair assorted IHRB referrals committee hearings. A ruling has now been published concerning a point to point that took place no less than a year ago. At issue was a finding that… Read more »

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Margaret Sweeney

I-RES DIRECTORS DESERVE TO BE VOTED OUT

Date: February 8, 2024 - Moneybags

FANS OF Moneybags will not have been surprised by moves by 5% dissident shareholder in I-Res Reit, Vision Capital Corp (VCC), to requisition an EGM next week and seek effective control of the company by voting off five directors, including outgoing chairman Declan Moylan and outgoing CEO Margaret Sweeney. It is clearly the right move… Read more »

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Maurice Healy

MAURICE HEALY’S LATEST CRASH-LANDING

Date: February 8, 2024 - Moneybags

MAURICE HEALY floated off software company Glantus on the AIM market in London with an air of optimism in June 2021 at £1 a share to capitalise the company at £37m. Not for the first time, a company run by Healy found itself in trouble and by January 2023 Glantus shares had collapsed to 10p,… Read more »

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Shane Kenny Poblano Ltd

SHANE KENNY’S BURRITOS

Date: February 8, 2024 - Briefcases

THIS WEEK sees a creditors’ meeting being held for Poblano Ltd, which turns out to be the company behind Mexican burrito chain Tolteca, which had four restaurants around Dublin, all of which shut their doors at the end of last month. For one of the directors here, it is not his first setback in the… Read more »

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Michael O'Shea

WINDING UP DELTA INDEX

Date: February 8, 2024 - Briefcases

WITH MICHAEL O’Shea busy making an impact thanks to his Pulse Market cloud-based platform, which loftily promises to help companies “do business for good”, he may have missed the recent appointment of a liquidator to his former alma mater, the troubled Delta Index spread-betting operation. It will come as little surprise to followers of the… Read more »

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Peter Donnelly

PETER DONNELLY’S POOR DIAGNOSIS

Date: February 8, 2024 - Briefcases

IT WAS only a few years ago that the Dundalk Argus was highlighting the “life saving device for Africa” designed by Irish outfit Tapa Healthcare. Today, however, the company is in liquidation. Tapa is a business that was spun out of Dundalk Institute of Technology (DKIT) by Co Down-based medical technology consultant Peter Donnelly. He… Read more »

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Sam Bungey Sophie Toscan du Plantier

SAM BUNGEY ON IAN BAILEY AND THE MEDIA

Date: January 30, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

Sam Bungey (along with Jennifer Forde) created the 2018 13-episode ‘West Cork’ podcast on the Sophie Toscan du Plantier murder, which is Audible’s most listened to podcast ever. The saga of Ian Bailey has taught us this: should you ever find yourself subject to trial-by-media,… Read more »

Ian Bailey

PURSUED BEYOND THE GRAVE

Date: January 25, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

IN ONE respect it is salutary to behold the gardaí and their media Greek chorus join forces to posthumously convict Ian Bailey of Sophie Toscan du Plantier’s murder, something they manifestly could not do when he was alive. But posterior covering in both these camps… Read more »

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

PROFILE: AODHAIN ORIORDAIN

Date: January 25, 2024 - Pillars of Society

WHY DOES Labour Party TD and former junior minister Aodhán Ó Ríordáin want to run in the EU elections in Dublin? Does he believe he can kickstart a Labour Party revival by actually winning a seat in the European Parliament? Perhaps he wants to build, or rebuild, his credentials to run again for the party’s… Read more »

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Conor Reddy

YOUNG BLOOD: CONOR REDDY

Date: January 25, 2024 - The Young Bloods

AS PRESIDENT of the Postgraduate Workers’ Organisation of Ireland (PWO), Conor Reddy is no stranger to politics, both on campus and further afield. Although he failed to get elected for People Before Profit in Dublin North-West (DNW) at the last general election, Reddy has not… Read more »

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RTÉ ACCUSED OF GAZA BIAS

Date: January 25, 2024 - Fit to Print?

HAS THE predicted subservience of a demoralised and virtually bankrupt RTÉ come to pass already, with the station fearful of upsetting the Government in its coverage of the biggest global story since the Ukraine conflict, namely the genocide in Gaza? The Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign… Read more »

Oliver Callan

OLIVER CALLAN’S POOR MOUTH

Date: January 25, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

TO HARDLY anyone’s surprise, the safe pair of hands that is Oliver Callan landed the gig as Ryan Tubridy’s successor on RTÉ Radio 1. Maybe he will stop banging on about moolah. Callan was eager to highlight his efforts to “reach out” to poor Tubs when the brown stuff hit the fan in 2023, although… Read more »

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Kneecap

KNEECAP’S CAPITAL

Date: January 25, 2024 - Briefcases

CONTROVERSIAL HIP-HOP act Kneecap have attracted plenty of media coverage as a result of the antics of its three members, which have included some pretty provocative murals – the sort that attracts condemnation from the likes of the Daily Mail. Nevertheless, the boys’ eponymous biopic… Read more »