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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

GAYLE KILLILEA AND DER KAISER

Date: December 14, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

FOLLOWERS OF the entertaining X account of Gayle Killilea saw her react in characteristic fashion to a two-page spread in the Indo about her new mansion near Ascot: “As the former Baroness of Ballsbridge, I’d like to thank my beautiful breasts for helping me conquer… Read more »

David Norris

DAVID NORRIS’S ‘MILLION POUNDS’

Date: December 14, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

FANS WHO managed to stay up (awake?) for RTÉ’s The Week In Politics programme last weekend were treated to an interesting titbit from David Norris, who was happy to confirm the degree to which he availed of the libel laws here to significantly boost his bank balance. The Trinners senator was the subject of a… Read more »

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Bono

BONO’S WINDFALL

Date: December 14, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

THE PEACE message frequently peddled by Bono has invariably been aligned with a western political agenda but a recent move by the singer saw him benefit from a financial deal funded by a bank entwined with those Israeli heroes that occupy and settle on Palestinian… Read more »

Charlie McConalogue Cop28

COP ON OR COP OUT?

Date: December 14, 2023 - Fowl Emissions

Won’t anyone think of the oil companies? In a frantic communiqué issued at Cop28, the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) warned that the “undue and disproportionate pressure against fossil fuels may reach a tipping point with irreversible consequences”. The tipping point exercising Opec has nothing to do with climate. It is the grave danger… Read more »

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Regina Doherty

REGINA V JOSEPHA – AND MAYBE BARRY

Date: December 14, 2023 - Last Refuge

LEO VARADKAR and his command staff officers in the bunker have one issue to deal with before others when it comes to the Dublin European seat and that’s whether to run one or two candidates. This likely means that Fine Gael delegates at convention will… Read more »

Harry McCalmont

HARRY McCALMONT’S HEAVY GOING

Date: December 14, 2023 - High Society

HARROW-EDUCATED horse breeder and well-known Turf Club personality Harry McCalmont found himself in the headlines last week when a legal action against him resulted in a High Court settlement for over €2m. The case, which concerned the death of stud groom George Williams while he… Read more »

VOL 41 NO 24

Date: December 14, 2023 -

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Micheál Martin Ukraine

UKRAINE DEFEAT LOOMS

Date: December 14, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

THE ISRAELI horror show in Gaza cannot hide for long the uncomfortable fact – for Nato and the West, including Ireland – that Ukraine stands on the edge of defeat in war against Russia. That the Irish Government, and Micheál Martin in particular, does not… 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

RTÉ’S FOUR SEATS

Date: December 14, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

AS GOLDHAWK revealed (see The Phoenix 1/12/23), the premature exit of Connor Murphy from the RTÉ board created a second vacancy for media minister Catherine Martin to fill. She has now advertised the €16,000-a-year seats, along with two other vacancies that have yet to arise. The queue of applicants is unlikely to be a long… Read more »

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Susan McKay Chris Andrews

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Date: December 14, 2023 - Letters to the Editor

In an article about Chris Andrews TD in your 1 December issue of The Phoenix you give a very misleading account of my position on politicians and defamation law. I have not condemned Mr Chris Andrews or his party. I have consistently said that, while everyone is entitled to go to law to defend their… Read more »

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Esmond Birnie NLAW

ARMS TO GAZA (VIA UKRAINE)

Date: December 14, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

THE ARMS industry makes a big deal of end-use certificates, which identify a government agency of the importing state that will use their weapons. Despite this, there is still a thriving illicit market for weapons in conflict zones and embargoed destinations around the world. The… Read more »

Drew Harris Dublin Riots

DREW HARRIS’S COP OUT

Date: December 14, 2023 - Hush Hush

Garda Commissioner Drew Harris’s credibility in the aftermath of the Dublin riots rests on his claim that no one could have anticipated the level of violence. But the level of lawlessness at far-right protests has been steadily escalating over the last four years. Also Harris’s cop out does not explain how, even in the aftermath… Read more »

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Conor McGregor

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: December 14, 2023 - The Hot Air Brigade

If anointed, the appointing of An Taoiseach will begin with a friendly sparring match in my purpose built, Presidents Octagon, in the grass outside Áras an Uachtaráin. Gumshield, 16oz gloves, shin pads, vale tudo for Caio. If you cannot spar a friendly spar with your President you should not lead the country. Televised on ppv…. Read more »

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Ian Paisley Snr NIAC

‘SENSIBLE’ NORTH REFORMS

Date: December 14, 2023 - Northwind

ON DECEMBER 4 Westminster’s Northern Ireland affairs committee (NIAC) published its proposals for reform of the Stormont assembly’s procedures for electing its speaker and first and deputy first ministers. The north’s unionist media were quite excited about the development. Some outlets in the south shared the excitement. The Irish Times, confirming once again that the… Read more »

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Emma Blain

THE 2023 GIRL

Date: December 14, 2023 - Last Refuge

THE FIRST and one of the most intriguing Fine Gael selection conventions for the next general election takes place in the new year (January 15) in Dublin Bay South (DBS), where the constituency that was once graced by Sir Garret FitzGerald no longer holds a… Read more »

Dylan Hutchinson

KINGSTOWN FG: THE ENEMY WITHIN

Date: December 14, 2023 - Last Refuge

A FRISSON of anti-Russian paranoia ran through a number of Dún Laoghaire Blueshirts recently, causing the postponement of the convention for candidates to the Blackrock area for next year’s local elections. Three such conventions were organised in the Fine Gael heartland of Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council, namely Dún Laoghaire, Killiney-Shankill and Blackrock. However, a complaint… Read more »

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Kieran McDaid Reach

‘MIRROR’ OVER REACHES ITSELF

Date: December 14, 2023 - Fit to Print?

THE ELEVATION of Irish Sun editor Kieran McDaid to the hot seat occupied until recently by Nóirín Hegarty at the Aarish edition of the Sunday Times also saw the transfer of Michael McNiffe to Murdoch’s flagship. McNiffe was lured from the post of executive editor at the Daily Mirror to the role of associate editor… Read more »

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Niall Meehan Eddie Gorman

CoI SLEEPS SOUNDLY

Date: December 14, 2023 - Fit to Print?

LAST WEEK the Church of Ireland (CoI) and the Scouts Association forked out £100,000 in damages to Eddie Gorman, who was abused by Rev WG (Bill) Neely in Mount Merrion Church, Belfast. Neely also abused children as a scout leader. The scouts expelled Neely in… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: December 14, 2023 - Bog Cuttings

‘FAT BASTARD’ A MAN who was found sleeping on a flower bed by gardaí appeared before Sligo District Court on two counts of public intoxication. At 7:35pm on June 14, gardaí discovered the defendant, Mark Sweeney (22), of Sunset Drive, Cartron Point, passed out in the flower bed after a day of drinking. On July… Read more »

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Oliver Sears

BUSY OLIVER SEARS

Date: December 14, 2023 - Behind the Scenes

ART DEALER and Holocaust awareness advocate Oliver Sears tends to generate plenty of media interest and most recently was afforded a lengthy outing on Brendan O’Connor’s RTÉ Radio One show. Presumably, the high profile is good for business and Sears has been raking it in at his Upper Fitzwilliam Street gallery in D2. He has… Read more »

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Sam Ewing Willie Mullins

ADVANTAGE MULLINS

Date: December 14, 2023 - Sport of Kings

IRISH Horseracing Regulatory Board stewards made a decision at Punchestown that could have ramifications for trainers and jockeys, especially in light of the BHA’s plans to introduce a limit of four runners per trainer in a race. After the four-runner Grade 1 Morgiana Hurdle, which was saw the Willie Mullins-trained State Man lead home a… Read more »

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Barry Connell Tim Husbands

CONNELL’S PLAN

Date: December 14, 2023 - Sport of Kings

THE RECENT ‘festivalisation’ of some of the big winter jumps meets has resulted in big crowds and great atmospheres at Irish tracks. Leopardstown boss Tim Husbands will be hoping this momentum carries on to the big four-day Christmas meeting. It is, of course, the horses that play the big part and have provided some thrilling… Read more »

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Brendan and Alison Parsons Birr Castle

BIRR CASTLE’S CHINESE MENU

Date: December 14, 2023 - High Society

IT LOOKS like some very wealthy people from around the world will be making contact with the owners of Birr Castle, who are offloading a much sought after private box in the Royal Albert Hall, home of Last Night of the Proms. With a potential €3.5m price tag, it could deliver a very nice Christmas… Read more »

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Dermot Smurfit

DERMOT SMURFIT’S BET ON GAN BLOWS UP

Date: December 14, 2023 - Moneybags

AT ONE stage, after floating off on the American Nasdaq market in May 2020 and raising $50m, the Dermot Smurfit-headed GAN Gaming looked to be well on the way to making it big in the US. The shares, originally floated on the AIM Market in London at €2 a share, floated on the Nasdaq at… Read more »

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Sean Coyle

ORIGIN’S LESS THAN FERTILE PERFORMANCE

Date: December 14, 2023 - Moneybags

THE CEO of Origin Enterprises, Sean Coyle, describes the company as “evolving and well positioned for future growth with strong fundamentals and sustainability at its core”. “Evolving” seems accurate enough but what is concerning investors is the wild fluctuation in results being delivered by the company. Last year was underwhelming and this year didn’t start… Read more »

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Barry Napier

BARRY NAPIER’S WINDFALL

Date: December 14, 2023 - Briefcases

CHRISTMAS CAME early for tech investor Barry Napier, whose remarkable multimillion-euro windfall from the sale of a controlling stake in his Cubic Telecom business to the Japanese SoftBank represents a hell of a comeback for a man who was on the wrong end of a €1m judgment only a couple of years ago. It will… Read more »

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Frank Boyle

FRANK BOYLE’S MISPLACED OPTIMISM

Date: December 14, 2023 - Briefcases

WELL-KNOWN Sligo-based medtech entrepreneur Frank Boyle is not going to have a happy Christmas and neither will any creditors of his Nektr Technologies Ltd (NTL) and its subsidiaries, all of which are being wound up next week. It looks like Frank was caught cold given that only a few weeks ago he was convinced that… Read more »

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John Russell Mizna

MIZNA’S STRONG MEDICINE

Date: December 14, 2023 - Briefcases

AMONG THE relatively small batch of tax defaulters published by the Revenue Commissioners earlier this month was a company called Mizna & Co Ltd, which is described as a medical services provider. It turns out to have been rather unhealthy. Mizna was incorporated in 2014 and the listed directors at the time it collapsed into… Read more »

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Max's Burgers Shane Mitchell

MAX’S BURNT BURGERS

Date: December 14, 2023 - Briefcases

AMONG THE more high-profile players in the hospitality game here in recent years have been Shane Mitchell and long-time business partner John Quinn, who are associated with a number of popular Dublin restaurants and bars, including the likes of Asador in Ballsbridge and Lennan’s Yard on Dawson Street. A recent addition to the stable of… 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

MAURA DERIVAN’S SETTLEMENT

Date: December 14, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

THE SETTLING this week of circuit court defamation proceedings by number-cruncher Bobby Fitzgerald against outgoing Law Society president Maura Derivan and her hubby, Patrick, took no less than 14 years. The case also almost prevented Maura from attending the prestigious International Bar Association (IBA) conference in Paris. Things got pretty hairy for Derivan, given that… 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

ED HONOHAN AND THE VULTURE FUNDS

Date: December 14, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

FORMER MASTER of the High Court Ed Honohan has been on the rampage in the US in recent weeks, with dramatic allegations against what he describes as collusion between the Irish Government and the mainly Wall Street-backed vulture funds that have been repossessing Irish properties. Essentially, Honohan is alleging that there is collusion between certain… Read more »

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Luke Holland Climate Denial John Fagan Wolf Europe David Quinn Duncan Stewart Data Centre Carbon Emissions Conor Skehan Chris Hazzard

BILL CALLANAN’S CANDID COMMENTS

Date: December 14, 2023 - Fowl Emissions

The long-standing nitrates derogation that allows some farmers to use 250kg per hectare ends this month. A new lower limit of 220kg will be in place in 2024 amid much weeping and gnashing of teeth in agri circles. But this is still far above the EU’s “safe” level of 170kg and will likely be gone… Read more »

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Janice Boylan Irish Military Mali Coolock Says No IFP Hermann Kelly Timmy Dooley Aontú Mal O’Hara Fintan O’Toole Josepha Madigan Eoghan Harris Ukraine War Micheál Martin Middle East Philip Ryan Seán Clancy Simon Coveney Hugo MacNeill Mountbatten Neasa Hourigan Green Party Martin NPT Ivana Bacik Independents Limerick Hospital Overcrowding Barry Cowen

SIMON COVENEY’S AMBITIONS

Date: December 14, 2023 - Last Refuge

YOU REALLY have to wonder who, apart from one of Simon Coveney’s people, inspired that Sunday Times story last weekend headlined, “TDs tip Coveney to replace Donohoe”, as speculation continues about public expenditure minister Paschal Donohoe becoming head of the IMF next year. The other suspects mentioned – servants of further education minister Simon Harris… Read more »

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Diageo Dana An Garda Síochána IT Trust No Stone Unturned Irish Times Black Friday Vicky Conway

NON-DISCLOSURE AT THE ‘IT’

Date: December 14, 2023 - Fit to Print?

IT LOOKS like the Irish Times DAC and also the IT Trust have weathered the stormy response of the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) and its chapel (NUJ branch) to the revelation that the outgoing editor and managing director received a total of €1.15m between them as they kissed goodbye to the company last year…. Read more »

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Tailored Films Screen Ireland Perspectives DCCI Crescine Tarka Russell Lara Hickey Reality Check Sarah McInerney Irish Movies Paul Murray Arts Council Dublin Theatre Festival TWU Macdara Kelleher Richard Boyd Barrett DADC Cillian Murphy Terry McMahon Media Commission Ireland Kerlin Gallery Creative Ireland Section 481 Christine O’Donovan RTÉ Storyland NMI Board Vacancies IASCA Ossie Kilkenny RTÉ Original Programmes

BOX OFFICE BLUES

Date: December 14, 2023 - Behind the Scenes

AROUND 40 ‘Irish’ movies, some of them re-releases or hold-overs from 2022, were released in cinemas in Ireland over the course of 2023. Many of these movies will have passed Irish cinemagoers by or, possibly, Irish cinemagoers decided they weren’t worth seeing. What counts as an Irish film continues to puzzle cinephiles but if it… Read more »

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Dame Louise Richardson

DAME LOUISE RICHARDSON: NO TRIPLE LOCK

Date: November 30, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

ANTI-TERRORIST EXPERT Dame Louise Richardson was hand-picked by Tánaiste and foreign minister Micheál Martin, to chair his forum on defence and security policy and also to compile a report on the proceedings. However, given the furore that greeted the forum’s bias and the carefully selected… Read more »