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Maura Derivan

MAURA DERIVAN’S BIG YEAR

Date: January 25, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

EARLIER THIS month, Carrick-on-Suir accountant Bobby Fitzgerald’s 14-year-long defamation case against solicitor Maura Derivan, who until last November was president of the Law Society, came to a conclusion. Separately, it turns out that last year the society was itself engaging with a complaint about its then president – one involving a recommendation from the Ombudsman… Read more »

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MCD Denis Desmond

DENIS DESMOND’S RESTRUCTURING

Date: January 25, 2024 - Briefcases

THERE WAS plenty of coverage of the latest results from the MCD-Live Nation concert promotion behemoth last week as the LN-Gaiety Holdings joint venture published its 2022 accounts. Although the profits were, yet again, top of the pops, it looks like Denis ‘MCD’ Desmond is concerned that profit-hungry hoteliers might throw a small spanner in… Read more »

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Kevin Rafter

KEVIN RAFTER’S DISAPPEARING ACT

Date: January 25, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

THE DEADLINE has now passed for applicants looking to replace DCU’s Kevin Rafter as chair of the Arts Council following his premature exit from Merrion Square. Having been appointed at the end of June 2019, Rafter’s five-year term only comes to an official end next summer. Much like Mary Robinson chose to depart Áras an… Read more »

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VOL 42 NO 02

Date: January 25, 2024 -

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Eddie O'Connor

EDDIE AND BRENDAN

Date: January 25, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

THE PUBLIC veneration of the late Eddie O’Connor – with tributes to his visionary, wealth-creating genius and so on – included an unwitting reference to a particular aspect of this talent for making money, namely his friendship and partnership with the late Brendan Halligan. The Sindo’s Liam Collins described how Eddie “generously cut his mentor,… Read more »

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Blinne Ní Ghrálaigh

REVISING NÍ GHRÁLAIGH’S IDEAS

Date: January 25, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

THE IRISH TIMES’s authority on modern Irish history, Ronan McGreevy, seems confused about the political inspiration behind barrister Blinne Ní Ghrálaigh. The Irish lawyer has been lauded by many for her role as one of South Africa’s barristers laying the charge of genocide against Israel at the International Court of Justice. Strangely, McGreevy also posted… Read more »

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DANNY MCCONNELL’S RIGHT MOVE

Date: January 25, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

BUSINESS POST editor Danny McConnell gave Palestinian supporters in the Dáil a good telling off last week for supporting the South African charge of genocide against Israel, describing it as “a historically sensitive term”. As the mass murder toll in Gaza passes the 25,000 mark, it is difficult to appreciate the plea for sensitivity towards… Read more »

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Frank Kitson

KITSON’S DIRTY WAR

Date: January 25, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

THE RECENT demise of General Sir Frank Kitson (see The Phoenix 12/1/24) was a blessing in disguise for the darker elements of the British establishment: Kitson cannot now let slip anything he knows about the roots of the ‘dirty war’ in Ireland. Kitson was the… Read more »

Éirígí Brian Leeson

DISSIDENTS SPLIT THE DIFFERENCE

Date: January 25, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

WHILE SINN Féin’s project has brought the republican movement close to state power north and south, the factions that split away from SF retreated into political ghettoes and fruitless attempts to revive the ‘armed struggle’. Now, two such dissident political groups are attempting a left-republican renewal with a unification process. The development of a close… Read more »

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Michael D Higgins

IRELAND AT NATO MEETINGS

Date: January 25, 2024 - Hush Hush

Last June, when President Michael D Higgins commented on the Government’s Forum on International Security, he talked of a dangerous “drift” away from Ireland’s long-standing policy of neutrality. Tánaiste and foreign affairs minister Micheál Martin was quick to dismiss Higgins’s assertions, claiming: “The Government have made clear that we do not intend to change Ireland’s… Read more »

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Darren Kennedy

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: January 25, 2024 - The Hot Air Brigade

It involves making intentional decisions about what to keep, donate, or discard. In doing so, we create space for new possibilities and a sense of calmness in our lives. Darren Kennedy on throwing things away, Sunday Independent Life Magazine On Zoom from his home in London, looking far younger than his 60 summers, Norton is… Read more »

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Ray Bates

RAY BATES’S CAMPAIGN

Date: January 25, 2024 - Fowl Emissions

Climate denial has lost its most persistent Irish advocate with the recent death of Prof Ray Bates, formerly of Met Éireann and UCD. Since retiring over 20 years ago, Bates led a Quixotic campaign against action on climate change. In 2017, he spearheaded the formation of a club styling itself the Irish Climate Science Forum…. Read more »

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‘NEW’ CLIMATE DENIAL

Date: January 25, 2024 - Fowl Emissions

Climate denial was once a straightforward affair. All you had to do was to grasp what a poor understanding the public and most of the media have of even the basics of science. This meant that climate deniers could dress up crackpot ideas developed by a PR company working for the energy industry, push it… Read more »

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Gerry Adams Legacy Act

LEGACY OF LEGACY ACT

Date: January 25, 2024 - Northwind

A grim race has been running in the north’s coroners’ courts for several months. It will come to an abrupt end on May 1 when the Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Act comes into force. Among several of its noxious provisions it will, incredibly, stop inquests into Troubles-related deaths in their tracks. The race… Read more »

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Paul Kehoe Fine Gael TDs

FINE GAEL’S WILD GEESE

Date: January 25, 2024 - Last Refuge

IT’S NOT yet known where the soon-to-be-departed TDs and senators of Fine Gael will next surface, like some buccaneering wild geese marauding through board rooms and the professions or even the PR firms that fight so valiantly for the rights of tobacco companies and other… Read more »

Finian McGrath

FINIAN McGRATH RIDES AGAIN

Date: January 25, 2024 - Last Refuge

THE RETIREMENT of Fine Gael former minister and failed leadership candidate Richard Bruton from the electoral fray has alerted the minds of those surrounding former minister Finian McGrath in Dublin Bay North (DBN). McGrath retired at the last election, intending never more to grace public life with his statesmanlike presence. It was McGrath, rather than… Read more »

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James Browne Sunday Independent Sinn Féin

SF ‘HARD AND FAST ON MEDIA’

Date: January 25, 2024 - Last Refuge

THE GOVERNMENT parties, especially Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, will be pleased that the decade-long delay in doing anything in the face of media pleading for reform of the defamation laws has been shifted to the opposition. The country’s biggest newspaper and internet group, Mediahuis, has accepted – via its flagship Sunday Independent – that… Read more »

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Simon Harris European Elections

FINE GAEL’S LEAN, MEAN MACHINE

Date: January 25, 2024 - Last Refuge

READING A list of the generals that Leo Varadkar has appointed to his GHQ staff for the upcoming local, European and general elections as recently published in the Business Post, one is struck by the calibre and/or experience of nearly all of them. But one name and area of responsibility jumped off the page. The… Read more »

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DANA’S COMPLAINT

Date: January 25, 2024 - Fit to Print?

ONE OF the last defamation battles that singer, ex-MEP and former presidential candidate Dana has to sort out is, ironically, one that resulted from a libel case against her, instead of one taken on her behalf. Dana’s sister, Susan Stein, and a niece, Susan Gorrell, sued the singer over a 2011 interview with TV3 (now… Read more »

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The Currency Paul Henderson

‘CURRENCY’ EXCHANGE?

Date: January 25, 2024 - Fit to Print?

AS GOLDHAWK reported last year, the lofty “overarching philosophy” of The Currency is the creation of “journalism that is fearless, focused and always interesting” and free from “any corporate, sectoral or political interest – including our own” (see The Phoenix 25/8/23). The latest edition of the ‘fearless’ financial website reveals a publication that seems to… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: January 25, 2024 - Bog Cuttings

‘CORK PRICKS’ A man who had travelled to Cork to socialise became intoxicated to such an extent that he threatened to fight gardaí after being arrested for his own safety, Cork District Court has heard. Gavin Ryan (25) of The Grove, Pallasgreen, Limerick, was spotted by gardaí in a patrol car jumping out in front… Read more »

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Audrey Whitty Bonar Law Collection

AUDREY WHITTY’S GOOD NEWS

Date: January 25, 2024 - Behind the Scenes

HAVING JUST handed over €60,000 to the Crawford Art Gallery towards the acquisition at auction of Harry Clarke’s The Colloquy of Monos and Una, there was further evidence of the overflowing coffers in Catherine Martin’s arts department last week when she greenlighted the National Library of Ireland (NLI) to purchase the Bonar Law Collection of… Read more »

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REALITY CHECK

Date: January 25, 2024 - Behind the Scenes

THE LONG campaign to drag the Irish taxpayer into subsidising “unscripted” productions (ie reality TV shows) through the Section 481 tax break looks set to deliver. Then finance minister Pascal Donohoe first signalled that his officials were looking into the expansion in 2022 and current finance minister Michael McGrath reiterated his interest in the proposal… Read more »

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Patrick Mullins

PATRICK MULLINS’S INSTRUCTIONS

Date: January 25, 2024 - Sport of Kings

THE SIGHT of Patrick Mullins wagging his finger at cousin Danny Mullins at the end of the Faugheen Novice Chase at Limerick last month was a reminder of the pecking order in Willie Mullins’s remarkable Closutton racing operation. Following a ‘near miss’ between the two stablemates at the end of the race, there was plenty… Read more »

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FINAL FENCE FOR HBL

Date: January 25, 2024 - Sport of Kings

THREE MONTHS after the passing of high-profile Kilkenny bookmaker Triona Harrington, her company, Harrington Bookmakers Ltd (HBL), is being removed from the companies register. The good news is that business continues as usual under the popular Harrington name. Fans of The Phoenix will be familiar with HBL, which managed to attract a few headlines in… Read more »

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Nigel Rogers

NIGEL ROGERS PULLS THE TRIGGER

Date: January 25, 2024 - High Society

THERE WAS endless oohing and aahing when a huge 8,600 sq ft mansion in Shankill, Co Dublin, featured on RTÉ’s Selling Ireland’s Dream Homes earlier this month. Maybe that will give the property enough of a shove to ensure a sale is achieved seven months after it was put on the market by its minted… Read more »

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COSGRAVE FAMILY FEUDING

Date: January 25, 2024 - High Society

AS FAMILY spats go, the one involving members of the fabulously wealthy Cosgrave building family is set to be one of the biggest. In the week before Christmas, three new affidavits were lobbed in and the next outing in the Four Goldmines in pencilled in for February 12. Meanwhile, it appears to be business as… Read more »

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PAUL FITZPATRICK’S MIS-STEP

Date: January 25, 2024 - High Society

GOLDHAWK SPIES a creditors’ meeting called for one of the companies linked to the Fitzpatrick shoe retailing dynasty. Meanwhile, it turns out that the prime property on Grafton Street, previously owned by the family, is now fully owned by an investment vehicle controlled by auctioneer Keith Jameson, now based in Toronto. The Fitzpatrick family has… Read more »

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Martin Davis

ACTION REQUIRED AT MOLTEN VENTURES

Date: January 25, 2024 - Moneybags

IT CONTINUES to be very difficult to make sense of what is going on inside Molten Ventures plc. There have been some startling contrasts between the company’s own value of its investments and how the market treats them when they float. The latest interim results boast a net asset value (NAV) per share of £7.35,… Read more »

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Seamus Keating

TIME FOR KEATING TO DELIVER AT FD TECHNOLOGIES

Date: January 25, 2024 - Moneybags

OVER FOUR years on from the death of FD Technologies founder Brian Conlon, the company continues to struggle to convince the market that all is well. In the recent half-year figures, CEO Seamus Keating talks a good game but investors will be keeping a close eye on the profit performance for the year to the… Read more »

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Leo Mohan

LEO MOHAN’S MISHAPS

Date: January 25, 2024 - Briefcases

Goldhawk has followed the exploits of Leo Mohan for many years since the Monaghan entrepreneur was involved in a substantial Christmas tree business that came a cropper in the 1990s, leaving scores of unfortunate farmers out of pocket (see The Phoenix 22/5/98). He has just suffered another significant hit after finding himself on the wrong… Read more »

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Kieron McQuaid

KIERON MCQUAID’S ROUGH RIDE

Date: January 25, 2024 - Briefcases

IT WAS reported in the Irish Examiner last week that, in the lead-up to last October’s budget, finance minister Michael McGrath had sought to have the VAT rate for both pedal and electric bikes slashed in order to encourage their purchase. The proposal, however, was shot down by mandarins wary that other business groups “may… Read more »

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Simon Coveney

IRISH ARMS TO ISRAEL

Date: January 11, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

IT WAS hardly surprising that little or no fanfare accompanied Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment Simon Coveney’s release of the 2022 Annual Report on activity under the Control of Exports Act 2008. Covetous Coveney has been relatively outspoken – in EU terms – in… Read more »

John Hegarty

PROFILE: JOHN HEGARTY

Date: January 11, 2024 - Pillars of Society

TO ALL other media, the Irish Times exudes high principles, standards and a commitment to objective journalism. The paper claims to be liberal, a wholly independent voice with no hidden financial or political bias. It is especially censorious of sectarianism and narrow religious dogma. Overseeing… Read more »

Sinead Sheppard

YOUNG BLOOD: SINÉAD SHEPPARD

Date: January 11, 2024 - The Young Bloods

With Cork East’s Fine Gael TD David Stanton having announced his intention to bow out at the next general election, has an opportunity opened for ambitious Cobh FG councillor Sinéad Sheppard to make it to the Big House? A mother of three, Sheppard originally won… Read more »

Cillian Murphy

GOLDEN GLOBES GUFF

Date: January 11, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

WHEN THE heat really came on last year, RTÉ emphasised its news and current affairs output as evidence of its commitment to public service broadcasting. Its Six-One News coverage, however, of Cillian Murphy winning a Golden Globe for his title role performance in Oppenheimer differed little from the gushing accounts splashed across celebrity fan sites… Read more »

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