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Fergus Appelbe

GEORGINA’S GOOD NEWS

Date: August 10, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

GOLDHAWK SPOTTED a rather chunky judgment satisfaction registered in Stubbs Gazette this week. The defendant who has had the debt cleared is one Georgina Appelbe and the amount in question is a cool €3.5m. Georgina is the wife of one Fergus Appelbe, who will be familiar to fans of Goldhawk for his various scraps with… Read more »

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Katie Prendergast The Scoop Foundation

KIDS CHARITY SCOOPED!

Date: August 10, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

SO farewell then to The Scoop Foundation (Supporting Children Out Of Poverty), a charity that has just been wound up on foot of its liabilities, despite everything looking hunky-dory just nine months ago. Scoop was founded in 2009 by brothers Andrew and Calvin Sweeney, with the former installed as the first chief executive for a… Read more »

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PETER WILSON’S DOG FIGHT

Date: August 10, 2023 - The Hot Water Brigade

SOME BAD news for The Black Dog Communications, run by Peter Wilson, which provides billing services for “dating, psychic or adult chat” lines, amongst others. Black Dog had already been stung by two complaints made by former employees and directors, Lorraine Walsh and Barbara Coyle, in a case that the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) said… Read more »

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VOL.41 NO.16

Date: August 10, 2023 -

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PETER AIKEN’S SIDE BET

Date: August 10, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

WHILE IMPRESARIO Peter Aiken is currently engaged in a high-profile boundary dispute (see p18), he will have been keeping an eye on the All Together Now festival in Co Waterford. It turns out Aiken and wife Mary have a financial interest in the gig, which has just been landed with a High Court writ. All… Read more »

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JOHN ROBERTS’S MENU

Date: August 10, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

A COMPANY linked to Crackbrgr restaurant, owned by John Roberts, is being wound up next week, just a couple of months after the operation opened its doors in Temple Bar. It will be recalled (see The Phoenix 2/6/23) that hipster Joe Macken – a former business partner of Roberts – told the Business Post that… Read more »

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Lord Mountbatten Andrew Lownie

DEEP STATE AND MOUNTBATTEN

Date: August 10, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

Andrew Lownie has been monitoring his social media accounts for at least five years. Files surrendered to him included a flyer about a talk he gave at a bookshop, something that indicates the level of scrutiny under which he has been placed. The disclosure has… Read more »

Conor Skehan

NOT-SO-QUIET MAN

Date: August 10, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

As signs of the ever-deepening climate emergency become all but impossible to ignore, some of those voices who have peddled climate denial for years have had to adapt. Chief among these is long-time climate sceptic and former Fine Gael environmental advisor Conor Skehan. His latest foray into eco-contrarianism saw Skehan declare in his Sunday Independent… Read more »

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Justin Barrett National Party

CHASING AFTER FOOL’S GOLD

Date: August 10, 2023 - Hush Hush

The surreal nature of the crisis enveloping the National Party (NP) began with the revelation of the €400,000 worth of gold bars stored in vaults in Dublin 4, before competing factions claimed online to control the party. An Garda Síochána was called in by Justin… Read more »

Gerry Thornley

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: August 10, 2023 - The Hot Air Brigade

Yet this glass ceiling has become a monkey around the necks of Irish teams, and seemingly with increasing weight. What’s more, it is used as a stick to beat over the heads of the sport in this country by the anti-rugby lobby. Gerry Thornley, Irish Times Where are the Roses who have experienced homelessness, or… Read more »

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Wes Edens Climate Camp

CLIMATE CAMP POLITICS

Date: August 10, 2023 - Fowl Emissions

Ireland’s first Climate Camp in 2009 pitched up beside the peat-burning power station at Shannonbridge. The plant has since shut. In 2010 they protested against a planned new road in Tyrone. It was never built. There’s been only one Climate Camp since then – last… Read more »

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MUSK’S NEW MOVE

Date: August 10, 2023 - Fowl Emissions

AS SOON as Elon Musk took over Twitter last October, climate denial began surging on the platform, along with hate speech. Like many on the right, Musk is a “free speech” absolutist but is not so keen on critical speech directed at him. He’s now… Read more »

Jeffrey Donaldson

DONALDSON’S TRIMBLE MOMENT

Date: August 10, 2023 - Northwind

Former UUP leader Reg, now Lord, Empey says DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson is “approaching his David Trimble moment”. By that he means Donaldson is going to have to make a decision that will be unpopular with many in his party and may lead to a split in the DUP. The sweet irony here is that… Read more »

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Michael O'Flynn

O’FLYNN’S HOUSING ‘GUIDELINE’

Date: August 10, 2023 - Last Refuge

THE SPLIT on the Government’s Housing Commission sees one side, led by developer Michael O’Flynn, arguing that a housing referendum should be more of a guideline than a hard imperative. The ‘fear’, apparently, is that making the issue a hard and fast constitutional tenet – doing what it says on the tin, so to speak… Read more »

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GENERAL CLANCY’S CALL

Date: August 10, 2023 - Last Refuge

THE DEFENCE Forces chief of staff, Lieutenant General Seán Clancy, made quite a statement at the recent unveiling of a monument to honour the national army dead in the Civil War, even if those who regard themselves as guardians of the national record failed to notice or record it. For 100 years the mantra from… Read more »

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Helen O'Donnell John Moran

LIMERICK’S FIRST CITIZEN

Date: August 10, 2023 - Last Refuge

FEW CANDIDATES of calibre have stepped forward yet to proclaim their candidacy for the Limerick mayor’s job, although ex-finance mandarin John Moran wrapped the campaign victory (to secure Limerick’s mayoralty) around himself when it was announced. Moran has engaged in a personal and public campaign… Read more »

Ossian Smyth Bank of Ireland

CLIMATE-FRIENDLY BANKS

Date: August 10, 2023 - Last Refuge

LISTENERS TO RTÉ’s Morning Ireland awoke last week to the sound of Bank of Ireland’s new CEO, Myles O’Grady, reading a statement about how the bank’s new strategy, Refresh, had helped to deliver half-year pre-tax profits of more than €1bn. Meanwhile the polished Colin Hunt, chief executive of AIB, announced that his bank’s operating profits… Read more »

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Mark Tighe

‘SLAPPING’ THE MEDIA

Date: August 10, 2023 - Fit to Print?

GOLDHAWK WAS greatly impressed by the deliberations of various politicians, lawyers and media executives who gathered at the Oireachtas joint committee on justice last month to discuss amendments to the Defamation Act 2009 that might ease the crippling burden that defamation laws impose on the media and free speech. A particular tactic that some have… Read more »

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STEVE AIKEN’S BROADSIDE

Date: August 10, 2023 - Fit to Print?

Steve Aiken, former Ulster Unionist Party leader from 2019 to 2021 and before that a commander on Royal Navy nuclear-powered submarines, launched an attack on Irish neutrality recently in the News Letter. Aiken said that what “Ireland really needs to do is have a serious, grown-up conversation about potentially joining something like Nato”, adding it… Read more »

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Timmy Dooley Willie O'Dea

O’DEA V DOOLEY

Date: August 10, 2023 - Fit to Print?

Much media ink – and pixels – have been devoted to Fine Gael justice minister Helen McEntee in recent weeks, with quite a few stories referring to her positioning within the party for an eventual leadership bid. But a piece by Willie O’Dea in the Sunday Independent, and an immediate riposte by Timmy Dooley on… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: August 10, 2023 - Bog Cuttings

101 CONVICTIONS CORK DISTRICT Court heard the case of Patrick Fennelly, who had 101 previous convictions and was charged with two public order offences. The 51-year-old defendant, of Charlemont Terrace, Wellington Road, Cork, was found lying in the street at 4am on July 6 in a state of intoxication. Fennelly was roused by gardaí and… Read more »

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Susan Bergin

FILM BOARD’S DIVERSE CAST

Date: August 10, 2023 - Behind the Scenes

TO THE surprise of absolutely no one, arts minister Catherine Martin has yet to fill two seats on the Screen Ireland (SI) board, which have been empty for three months. As there are only seven seats on the Susan Bergin-chaired board, a total of five members are currently overseeing the multimillion-euro budget. The terms of… Read more »

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COVENEY’S NEW CHAIR

Date: August 10, 2023 - Behind the Scenes

UNLIKE SCREEN Ireland, whose board members receive not a cent in fees, the directors of the Design and Crafts Council of Ireland (DCCI) are paid €7,000 for their eight meetings a year (every second one of which is virtual), while the chair gets €12,000. This week was the closing date for applications to enterprise minister… Read more »

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Fahad Al Thani Saleh Al Homaizi

SHEIKH FAHAD’S BARGAIN

Date: August 10, 2023 - Sport of Kings

IT WAS around this time last year that British bloodstock agent Richard Knight began his $20m spending spree at yearling sales in Ireland, England, France and the US on behalf of Kuwaiti owner Saleh Al Homaizi. A few months later the sales companies began to claim that Al Homaizi had not paid his sales invoices… Read more »

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Cathal Byrnes Gearoid Brouder

CATHAL BYRNES BRISTLES

Date: August 10, 2023 - Sport of Kings

WHEN THE referrals committee of the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB) ruled that jockey Gearoid Brouder had tested positive for a metabolite of cocaine and suspended his licence for four years, it led to an outburst from Cathal Byrnes, the son of trainer Charles Byrnes. Brouder’s failed test stemmed from a routine IHRB testing of… Read more »

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NEIL JORDAN’S PLOT

Date: August 10, 2023 - High Society

FILMMAKER TURNED novelist Neil Jordan has been generating plenty of media hype for his latest buke, The Well of Saint Nobody. He might also be paying some attention to the long-listing of Paul Murray’s The Bee Sting for this year’s Booker prize. Jordan may have been well off the boil in recent decades when it… Read more »

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Eric Born Gavin Slark

MARKET STILL CONFUSED BY GRAFTON’S STRATEGY

Date: August 10, 2023 - Moneybags

AS GAVIN Slark was in situ as Grafton Group CEO until November 2022, he has the bulk of responsibility for where the company now finds itself. The changes in the direction at Grafton have clearly confused the market and the underwhelming share price reflects these concerns. This should make Grafton a bargain but cost-of-living increases… Read more »

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Kirill Golovanov

WAITING ON OVOCA BIO’S BLOCKBUSTER DRUG

Date: August 10, 2023 - Moneybags

AS AN Irish company now dominated by Russian shareholders, Ovoca Bio has been badly impacted by the Ukraine war and CEO Kirill Golovanov has had to develop an appropriate strategy. Investors are now waiting for the results of a delayed trial of a possible blockbuster ‘wonder drug’ but not too many are holding their breath…. Read more »

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PJ Lynch Nyhan Brothers

THE BUTCHERS’ CUT

Date: August 10, 2023 - The Hot Water Brigade

IT HAS been a long time coming but Goldhawk’s favourite butchers, brothers Sean and Paul Nyhan, are set to be restricted from acting as company directors following a decade of hard slog by liquidator PJ Lynch. There is, however, no good news for the hapless unsecured creditors. Rostella Properties Ltd was the entity behind three… Read more »

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Jackie Owens

JACKIE’S FLAG WAVING

Date: August 10, 2023 - The Hot Water Brigade

WHEN KATEO Investments Ltd, owner of the Thomas Moore Inn on Aungier Street in D2, applied to Dublin City Council for permission to retain a number of flag poles outside the boozer, the principals might have been concerned to see that a third-party submission had been lobbed in by planning consultants Hughes Planning. The submission… Read more »

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Rafal Strzelecki

BEYOND SAVING

Date: August 10, 2023 - The Hot Water Brigade

THIS WEEK a creditors’ meeting will be held for the impressive sounding CashDirector EU Ltd, a digital business service provider that was incorporated three years ago by Polish suit Rafal Strzelecki, who offers “Beyond Banking solutions for SME banks” no less. According to his LinkedIn page, Rafal has a “wealth of experience and expertise” and… Read more »

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Neil Hughes Martin O'Dowd

NURSING THEIR WOUNDS

Date: August 10, 2023 - The Hot Water Brigade

A TAX judgment has been registered against a company called Eldabane Properties Ltd (EPL), which was involved in the development of a nursing home in Co Roscommon. The two main players here are Martin O’Dowd and Simon Knowles, who built up extensive interests in the nursing home sector, although they had their fair share of… Read more »

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Kevin Bakhurst

BAKHURST ‘CONFLICT OF INTEREST’

Date: July 27, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

RTÉ’S SAVIOUR, new director general, Kevin Bakhurst, has made much of the need for a register of RTÉ employees’ interests and the avoidance of conflicts of interests. Bakhurst knows what he is talking about here as he came under fire from BBC rivals who levelled… Read more »

Helen McEntee

HELEN’S WALK ON THE WILD SIDE

Date: July 27, 2023 - Last Refuge

FOR ONCE justice minister, Helen McEntee’s accomplished PR handlers made an error of judgement in their staging of a photo opportunity with Helen McEntee sauntering around Dublin’s north inner city accompanied by senior gardaí and public expenditure minister, Paschal Donohoe. McEntee herself was dressed smart, casual in an expensive outfit that was more appropriate for… Read more »

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Paschal Donohoe

PROFILE: PASCHAL DONOHOE

Date: July 27, 2023 - Pillars of Society

IN 2002, Jim Mitchell TD was Fine Gael’s deputy leader and finance spokesman. Neither of those exalted positions saved him from losing his Dublin Central seat as FG suffered savage losses across the country in the general election that year. Mitchell’s task in retaining his seat wasn’t made any easier by a redrawing of constituency… Read more »

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YOUNG BLOOD: KIERAN CORRIGAN

Date: July 27, 2023 - The Young Bloods

EVER SINCE he kicked off his social media career in 2019, Kieran Corrigan has been trying hard – some might say way too hard – to launch himself into the influencer big league. The bogger mouthpiece has cultivated a sizeable following that predominantly appears to dwell in the boreens of rural Ireland, but he has… Read more »

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