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SPI Susan Kirby

MOVIE PRODUCERS’ BIG BUDGETS

Date: July 13, 2023 - The Hot Water Brigade

AT AN Oireachtas committee hearing on the Section 481 tax credit earlier this month (see p17), Susan Kirby’s film and television lobby group, Screen Producers Ireland (SPI), found itself in the spotlight. It was noted by People Before Profit TD Richard Boyd Barrett that SPI had been “furiously putting out press releases all week on… Read more »

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Dermot Crowley

CROWLEY’S EXPENSIVE ROOMS

Date: July 13, 2023 - The Hot Water Brigade

ELSEWHERE IN this issue (see p23) the finances of the listed Dalata Hotels Group are analysed. One “case study” included relates to the opening of a new Maldron hotel last summer on the site of the old Tara Towers hotel in Booterstown, south Co Dublin…. Read more »

Micheál Martin

MICHEÁL MARTIN’S STRATEGY

Date: July 13, 2023 - Last Refuge

If Micheál Martin is indeed eyeing up a top EU job, it might explain his discretion on the issue of the US supplying cluster bombs to Ukraine, spurning yet another opportunity to showcase Ireland’s long history of ‘positive neutrality’ and diplomacy. Some 111 states, including most Nato members, have signed the Convention on Cluster Munitions… Read more »

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Security Forum Micheal Martin

MARTIN’S FORUM ON ‘NOT NEUTRALITY’

Date: June 29, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

IN ITS push back against President Michael D Higgins and other defenders of neutrality, the Irish Times last week blamed an allegedly mistaken Leo Varadkar last March in Brussels for characterising Tánaiste Micheál Martin’s security forum in the context of neutrality. Sure, what would the… Read more »

Sue Gray

PROFILE : SUE GRAY

Date: June 29, 2023 - Pillars of Society

British Labour Party leader Keir Starmer will likely come to power at the next UK general election. In 2019, the threat of a Jeremy Corbyn premiership became the stuff of nightmares for London’s bankers and big business, not to mention the champions of Britain’s ‘special relationship’ with Washington. Starmer has gone to great lengths to… Read more »

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Vogue Williams

YOUNG BLOODS: VOGUE WILLIAMS

Date: June 29, 2023 - The Young Bloods

For someone who started off her TV career on the RTÉ2 reality show Fade Street, which was heavily panned by critics, Vogue Williams has managed to salvage the situation by becoming a hit podcaster with a twice-weekly podcast attracting three million listeners per month. The success of My Therapist Ghosted Me, which she co-presents with… Read more »

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LAWYERING UP AT RTÉ

Date: June 29, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

THE COVERAGE of the Tubridy circus by RTÉ journalists has been extensive and unrestricted by Montrose management but defences have been mounted in more ways than one. Media reports spoke last weekend of how RTÉ declined to comment on what role if any its commercial… Read more »

Grainne MacAnthony

NOEL KELLY’S COMPETITION

Date: June 29, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

WITH “SUPERAGENT” Noel Kelly of NKM in the spotlight as a result of star client Ryan Tubridy’s travails in RTÉ, the turmoil might present an opportunity for rival agency Carol & Associates, owned by Gráinne MacAnthony. Certainly, one of her better-known signings, Oliver Callan, was… Read more »

Pizza Yard Robert Ryan

PIZZA YARD SLICED

Date: June 29, 2023 - The Hot Water Brigade

THE SUDDEN closure of Pizza Yard in Ranelagh should not really have come as a surprise. A message was uploaded last week to the restaurant’s social media pages stating that the business “is now closed due to unforeseen circumstances”. Given that Pizza Yard had been haemorrhaging money over the last couple of years, the writing… Read more »

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Maureen Kennelly & Richard Ford

LISTOWEL WRITERS’ WEEK SEQUEL

Date: June 29, 2023 - Behind the Scenes

EARLIER THIS month, the first Listowel Writers’ Week (LWW) under the new regime, following something of a clear-out at the long-running literary gig late last year, was well received by many of those in attendance, although there was no little dissent in the air, with… Read more »

Dublin Pride Jed Dowling

PROFITABLE PRIDE

Date: June 29, 2023 - The Hot Water Brigade

WITH THE month-long Pride festivities over for another year, the crew behind the big Dublin Pride parade and various shindigs can start to count the money. As has increasingly been the case, there was a queue of corporate types eager to participate, as were the politicians. Certainly, there were plenty of sources of funding, with… Read more »

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Neil Sands

SANDS MAKES WAVES

Date: June 29, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

BROSNAN RACING is a new name in the horseracing game, which announced its arrival on the scene when buying the top lot at the Goffs London Sale last week. One of the principals here is the colourful Neil Sands. Fronted by the father-and-son team of Con and Neil Sands from Piperstown House outside Drogheda, Brosnan… Read more »

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Bill Shipsey

BILL SHIPSEY’S DALKEY BALCONY

Date: June 29, 2023 - High Society

A SPRAWLING pile atop a hill in Dalkey has gone on the market with a €4.75m price tag. The owners turn out to be campaigning ex-barrister Bill Shipsey and his American legal eagle wife, Moira. A predictably glowing write-up in the Irish Times, however, suggested one feature that may not be available to any minted… Read more »

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VOL 41 NO 13

Date: June 29, 2023 -

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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

HORGAN & HOGAN

Date: June 29, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

DENNIS HORGAN is a highly regarded aerial photographer who has published assorted well-received books, most recently Ireland’s Guiding Lights, for which he captured aerial images of Irish lighthouses, attracting glowing reviews from the likes of Terry Prone and Joe Duffy. The latter would also be very familiar with Dennis’s missus, one Dee Forbes, currently in… Read more »

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Micheál Martin Forum Dame Richardson

MARTIN BUNGLES SECURITY FORUM

Date: June 29, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

IF MICHEÁL MARTIN believes that his ambition to secure a Brussels sinecure will be enhanced by his forum on international security then his political judgement is a lot more fallible than some pundits claim. He has managed to screw up what he and his Iveagh… Read more »

Naomi O'Leary Clare Daly

FORUM FREE SPEECH

Date: June 29, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

THE SECURITY forum heard much from its chair, Dame Louise Richardson, about her desire to “ensure freedom of speech” and for “maximum participation” of those at the forum. She was doubtless taking her cue from Tánaiste and aspirant EU commissioner Micheál Martin, who had already trumpeted the “inclusive” nature of the proceedings. Unfortunately, the Irish… Read more »

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James Allchurch Mark Collett

INCITEMENT TO HATE CONSEQUENCES

Date: June 29, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

The recent conviction of James Allchurch — online pseudonym, Sven Longshanks — from Wales has created quite a stir within Irish far-right circles. Allchurch’s online platform, Radio Albion, hosted a variety of podcasts and he was charged under the Public Order Act as authorities felt that many of the podcasts featured material that was racist,… Read more »

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Brian Leddin

‘INDO’ EXPOSES GREEN TD

Date: June 29, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

IN A story that should have wiped Ryan Tubridy off the front pages, Irish Independent political editor Philip Ryan has ruthlessly exposed a Green Party politician for doing exactly what he said he would do. Shame-faced Limerick TD Brian Leddin admitted to not flying to a conference in Scotland, having publicly committed to reduce or… Read more »

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Timoney Technology Jacqui McCrum

UKRAINE-RUSSIA IRISH ARMS LINKS

Date: June 29, 2023 - Hush Hush

SPENDING on military hardware and weapons by governments world-wide reached a new high of just over €2 trillion in 2022. Fuelled by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the ratcheting up of tensions between China and Taiwan, the expansion of the arms industry last year was the biggest in over three decades. In March 2022, news… Read more »

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Stephen Collins

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: June 29, 2023 - The Hot Air Brigade

His lack of concern for the conventions governing the President’s role may well have opened a Pandora’s box. The way is now open for a demagogue, of left or right, to campaign for office with the specific pledge to oppose the policies of the government of the day. Stephen Collins, Irish Times, submitted by reader… Read more »

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Pollution Duncan Stewart

THE POLLUTION PARADOX

Date: June 29, 2023 - Fowl Emissions

“What if someone nurtured nature, planted hedgerows to make room for the birds and bees, and quietly helped reduce emissions by stitching clover into grass… working together with the land to produce food in a more sustainable way… what if that someone was already here, and thousands strong?” This purple prose might read like the… Read more »

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Naomi Long

12TH CULTURAL RITES

Date: June 29, 2023 - Northwind

Liberty Hall in Dublin city centre is 59 metres high. Last year the gigantic bonfire at Craigyhill outside Larne commemorating King Billy’s landing at Carrickfergus in 1690 was 61 metres high. It was made mainly of pallets, over 17,000 of them, some ‘donated’ by local hauliers, others stolen and some bought. This year the builders… Read more »

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Sadhbh O’Neill

GREEN ATTACK ON SF

Date: June 29, 2023 - Last Refuge

The ongoing pearl-clutching about the prospect of a Sinn Féin government has been joined recently by the Green Party – and where better to do it than in the opinion section of the Irish Times. Influential climate campaigner and former Green councillor Sadhbh O’Neill revealed that her nightmares involve Mary Lou McDonald’s SF forming the… Read more »

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Irish Times Neutrality Diarmaid Ferriter

‘IRISH TIMES’ SPLIT ON NEUTRALITY?

Date: June 29, 2023 - Fit to Print?

AFTER SEVERAL days of semi-hysterical reaction from Irish Times hacks to President Michael D Higgins calling out Micheál Martin’s forum on security for what it is – an attempt to undermine public support for neutrality – cracks began to appear in the paper’s usual militarist… Read more »

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ANGLO-US MEDIA

Date: June 29, 2023 - Fit to Print?

PREDICTABLE DENUNCIATION of anti-war protesters at Micheál Martin’s security forum came from the Irish edition of the Sunday Times – Whitehall’s favourite Aawrish newspaper. Journalists John Mooney and Claire Scott combined in a piece that described their actions as a combination of “farce… ignorance, misconceptions and misunderstandings”. But the hacks over-reached themselves with some completely… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: June 29, 2023 - Bog Cuttings

‘JUST LOST IT’ Bandon District Court heard the case of a man who warned gardaí they would “fucking get it” if they tried to turn off the loud music coming from a house party he was attending at 5am on January 3. Responding to a noise report, gardaí arrived at the Bandon address in question,… Read more »

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VARIETY JONES’S TASTY DISH

Date: June 29, 2023 - High Society

THE TWO boys behind the highly regarded Variety Jones restaurant in D8 must have been delighted to see half of page 3 in the Business Post last weekend devoted to their business. Readers may have been a little more underwhelmed by the extensive puff piece in the ‘news’ section, however. The main player in Michelin-starred… Read more »

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Samantha Finnegan Susan Ahern

FINNEGAN’S WAKE

Date: June 29, 2023 - Sport of Kings

GOLDHAWK was surprised at the minimal coverage of an interesting ruling by the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB) appeals body, chaired by barrister (and RTÉ board member) Susan Ahern. The decision, supported by members Laurence McFerran and Finbar Cahill, was to uphold the refusal of Samantha Finnegan’s application for a training licence. At the centre… Read more »

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BITTERSWEET WEEK

Date: June 29, 2023 - Sport of Kings

IT COMES as a surprise to many racing fans that multiple champion jockey Colin Keane only rode his first Royal Ascot winner last week, when steering home the Jessica Harrington-trained Villanova Queen in the Kensington Palace Handicap. Despite winning several classics and four champion jockey titles, Keane had been nought from 50 rides before this… Read more »

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Carl McCann

SHAREHOLDERS CORNERED AT BALMORAL INTERNATIONAL LAND

Date: June 29, 2023 - Moneybags

FANS OF Moneybags are well aware of his reservations concerning the whole Balmoral International Land Holdings (BILH) operation, where the directors and executives have been doing remarkably well for themselves, despite the (lack of) performance of Carl McCann’s company. Indeed, the latest remuneration figures simply cannot be justified. Meanwhile, the hapless shareholders were presented with… Read more »

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Brian Hall

SMOOTHER ROAD AHEAD FOR GREAT WESTERN MINING

Date: June 29, 2023 - Moneybags

EMMETT O’CONNELL has been working in the Nevada Rockies for the last 20 years looking for gold, uranium and copper. He floated Great Western Mining on the Dublin market just over a decade ago in 2011 and the operation has been seeking to make the tricky and expensive move from pure exploration to actual production…. Read more »

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Susan Kirby Irish Equity

‘EXTREMELY CONCERNED’ TV PRODUCERS

Date: June 29, 2023 - The Hot Water Brigade

AS FANS of Goldhawk are well aware, the Irish TV and movie sector provides rich pickings for the coterie of movers and shakers with the most clout. It was interesting then that Susan Kirby’s Screen Producers Ireland (SPI) got hot and bothered about the heat around Ryan Tubridy. SPI got in touch with its members… Read more »

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The Currency Ian Kehoe

COUNTING ‘THE CURRENCY’

Date: June 29, 2023 - The Hot Water Brigade

THIS WEEK, the boys from The Currency have been making the news as well as covering it (see p3) but the good news is that the business is making some decent moolah. The founders and principals in The Currency are its editor, Ian Kehoe (former editor of the Business Post), and chief executive Tom Lyons,… Read more »

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Dermot Desmond

DESMOND’S SURGICAL STRIKE

Date: June 29, 2023 - The Hot Water Brigade

A LOW-profile tech company called Intumed Ltd was quietly wound up last month. It turns out to have been heavily backed by Dermot Desmond and although there was no red ink at the end, it does not look to have been one of DD’s better punts. Intumed developed a platform aimed at healthcare professionals, in… Read more »

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Ivana Bacik

IVANA’S FEMINIST RECORD

Date: June 29, 2023 - Last Refuge

THE INTERNAL debate about the report on Labour’s near demise currently being held behind closed doors is really a re-run of the now standard argument between Sandymount liberalism á la Ivana Bacik and traditional Old Labour, trade union politics as claimed by previous leader Alan Kelly. But the interesting feature of the recrimination is that… Read more »

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