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Luke Comer

LUKE COMER’S HANDICAP

Date: September 21, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

THE WIDELY reported three-year suspension of the training licence of billionaire tax exile property developer Luke Comer is dividing opinion on the severity of the penalty. What is clear is that, despite the number of horses involved, Comer is not the Lance Armstrong-type figure that bolshy trainer Jim Bolger referred to when claiming Irish racing… Read more »

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Darragh O'Loughlin

PROFILE: DARRAGH O’LOUGHLIN

Date: September 21, 2023 - Pillars of Society

THE SHENANIGANS at RTÉ have hogged headlines in recent months and one outfit more than happy with this state affairs, surely, is the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB), the entity that was established by the Bowler Hats of the Turf Club and the Irish National… Read more »

Clara Roche

YOUNG BLOOD: CLARA ROCHE

Date: September 21, 2023 - The Young Bloods

THE NEW editor-in-chief of the University Times (UT), Clara Roche, has assumed leadership of a paper crying out for stability. Recent controversies have tarnished the reputation of the paper, which is funded by Trinity College Dublin Students’ Union (TCDSU). Roche ran for election on a manifesto emphasising accountability, accessibility and community. With the new college… Read more »

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Siobhan Talbot

SIOBHÁN TALBOT’S SURPRISE EXIT FROM GLANBIA

Date: September 21, 2023 - Moneybags

IT IS a surprise to see Siobhán Talbot exiting Glanbia given that the CEO for the last 10 years appears to be on something of a roll, having almost doubled her remuneration package last year from €3.5m to a whopping €6m. With Glanbia heading for a 15% increase in earnings this year, it would seem… Read more »

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Sean Quinn

SEÁN QUINN V JOHN McCARTIN

Date: September 21, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

IT IS clear that former bankrupt Seán Quinn has little time for John McCartin – one of the two names he dropped on Newstalk last week when asked which executives in Mannok Holdings (formerly Quinn Group) he would be happy to see beaten up. It… Read more »

Michelle O'Neill Lough Neagh

MICHELLE O’NEILL’S HEADACHE

Date: September 21, 2023 - Fowl Emissions

LOUGH NEAGH is by far the biggest lake in either Ireland or Britain. At 400 sq km, it is as large as the island of Malta and provides 40% of all of the north’s drinking water. The lake, however, is dying, crippled by pollution, overexploitation and neglect. There is also no little political fall-out, as… Read more »

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Iah Kehoe

LEAKS FROM RTÉ BOARD

Date: September 21, 2023 - Fit to Print?

BRENDAN GRIFFIN’S attack on RTÉ at last week’s Oireachtas media committee was colourful but it obscured an intriguing tussle between committee chair Niamh Smyth and deputy chair of the RTÉ board Ian Kehoe, who is also co-owner and founder of The Currency website. After a… Read more »

Lyra McKee Alleycats

LYRA’S LEGACY

Date: September 21, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

BBC NI commissioned a documentary called The Lost Boys of Belfast from TV production company Alleycats. It was due for broadcast in May 2021 but was never shown (see The Phoenix 6/5/22). It will now open the Irish Film Institute Documentary Festival on September 27…. Read more »

Ali Curran

ALI CURRAN’S NEW GIG AT IMMA

Date: September 21, 2023 - High Society

ALI CURRAN is now in situ as chair of the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) following a small hiatus when there was no chair in place. The arts consultant will now have to turn her attention to a long-overdue strategic plan and the small matter of a strange proposal from the west. Former chair… Read more »

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Ashling Kilduff

ASHLING KILDUFF’S CURATED COMEBACK

Date: September 21, 2023 - Briefcases

GOLDHAWK SPIES that Naas-based number-cruncher Patrick McDonnell has stepped down as a director of a company called Curated Designs Ltd just 16 months after its incorporation. The company turns out to be one set up with fashion queen Ashling Kilduff in the aftermath of the liquidation of her Design Centre business in Dublin’s Powerscourt Townhouse… Read more »

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David Mongey INS

DAVID MONGEY’S GOOD GOING

Date: September 21, 2023 - Briefcases

THE IRISH National Stud (INS) in Tully, Co Kildare, has had a change at the top as a result of the retirement of Irish Farmers Journal/Irish Field chairman Matt Dempsey and his replacement on the board, courtesy of agriculture minister Charlie McConalogue, is former Irish Times chairman Dan Flinter. The latter is getting into the… Read more »

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IHT Board Clare McGrath

McGRATH’S EXPANDING BOARD

Date: September 21, 2023 - Behind the Scenes

THIS WEEK was the closing date for expressions of interest in joining the board of the Parnell Square-headquartered Irish Heritage Trust (IHT). According to the trust’s constitution, directors can serve a term of five years and then be eligible for re-election by the board “for one further” five-year stint. The current 13-member board features three… Read more »

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VOL 41 NO 19

Date: September 21, 2023 -

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ROSSLARE GOLF CLUB BUNKERED

Date: September 21, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

THERE’S RARELY a dull moment at Rosslare Golf Club, where the latest spat relates to a €2m plan to sell off lands that ended up firmly in the bunker. Overseeing the current state of play is club committee chairman Paddy Lonergan. It will be recalled (see The Phoenix 12/1/23) that he replaced former senior suit… 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

MAIREAD CASEY’S JUDGMENT

Date: September 21, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

A HEFTY €¾m judgment has just been registered against Co Cork solicitor Mairead Casey by a UK property investment company called Advanced Industrial Technology Corporation Ltd (AITC). It is not the legal eagle’s first setback. Between 2008 and 2012, Mairead Casey (aka Margaret Casey), who previously practised with her brother, Greg Casey, as Casey &… Read more »

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Matt Carthy Shannon Airport US

SILENCE ON US SHANNON ROUTE

Date: September 21, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

SINCE IT’S now out in the open that Ireland’s Defence Forces personnel are providing weapons training to the Ukrainian army and that our National Cyber Security Centre is working with the Ukrainian government, it should come as no surprise that Shannon Airport and Casement Aerodrome… Read more »

Jens Stoltenberg

UKRAINE: NOTHING TO SEE HERE

Date: September 21, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

DESPITE BEING the ‘first casualty of war’, the truth about the Ukraine invasion sometimes emerges and from the strangest quarters, however unintended. Recent slips from Nato secretary general Jens Stoltenberg and Iveagh House mandarins are just further indications that western generals and would-be Irish generals… Read more »

Martin McGuinness Richard O’Rawe

MORE IRA SPIES

Date: September 21, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

Richard O’Rawe, a former IRA hunger striker turned author who fell out with the republican movement some years after the hunger strike — he later joined an ‘expert’ panel of the SDLP’s New Ireland Commission — has published Scappaticci’s Dirty War. It explores the career of Freddie Scappaticci, the IRA’s mole hunter, who was himself… Read more »

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Tim Cullinan

FARMERS LOSING THE MEDIA?

Date: September 21, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

The recently formed Farmers’ Alliance (FA) hosted a public meeting in Portlaoise at the weekend, with a “diverse range of guest speakers” present to offer “something for everyone”, according to the organisers. Everyone was welcome to attend, the FA flyer added. However, this warm welcome did not extend to the media, whose presence would be… Read more »

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Lorcan Price Mark Dooley

PHILOSOPHICAL RIGHT-WINGERS

Date: September 21, 2023 - Hush Hush

NOT ALL right-wing Irish politicos are street activists and some would affect a certain disdain for such extremist behaviour. Take the European Conservative (EC), which has a group of Irish writers in its editorial ranks. This quarterly magazine and website, which claims circulation of 100,000, is registered in Budapest but also has offices in Vienna and… Read more »

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Jamie Heaslip

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: September 21, 2023 - The Hot Air Brigade

Ireland’s rugby journey isn’t just about sport. It’s a testament to a nation’s mettle, and it casts shadows deep into our tech world’s relentless innovation. Jamie Heaslip, Twitter He is healthy and preposterously fit – pictures of him in his swimming togs had the ladies of Leinster House swooning over his six-pack a few years… 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

WOLVES AT THE DOOR

Date: September 21, 2023 - Fowl Emissions

“These figures speak for themselves”. So read the statement from the European People’s Party (EPP), of which Fine Gael is a member. The statistic in question is that around 18,000 livestock a year are killed by wolves. What the EPP failed to mention is that, across the EU, there are around 300 million livestock, so… Read more »

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Kemi Badenoch

THERE’S SUMMIT UP IN THE NORTH

Date: September 21, 2023 - Northwind

THE NORTH’S much-heralded International Investment Summit took place in Belfast on September 13. It was a flop. When the Brits announced the plan in the spring, they envisaged the ‘summit’ being addressed by ministers from a recently re-established Stormont executive. They would be signalling that the north ‘is back in business’. As predicted in these… Read more »

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Naoise Ó Muirí Richard Bruton

DUBLIN BAY NORTH AFTER BRUTON

Date: September 21, 2023 - Last Refuge

AFTER ALL the recent paeans of praise lavished upon Richard Bruton, the former minister and former leader of a failed coup in Fine Gael, the real question is what effect his absence will have on the constituency of Dublin Bay North (DBN). All the other… Read more »

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

SEERY KEARNEY’S LAW ‘N’ ORDER PITCH

Date: September 21, 2023 - Last Refuge

SENATOR MARY Seery Kearney was a little OTT with her demand that the Oireachtas media committee draw up protocols to guide journalistic standards. This followed Virgin Media’s decision to broadcast lengthy interviews with the loveable John Gilligan, prompting Scary Kearney’s attempt to get out in front of the pack on the law ‘n’ order issue…. Read more »

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Yurii Sheliazhenko

KYIV’S YURII FURY

Date: September 21, 2023 - Last Refuge

A STORY about a pacifist being prosecuted by his government that is engaged in all-out war with a neighbour would receive much sympathetic support from our Government and media if it was happening in Russia. That the scene of the action is actually the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, explains why there has been no outcry in… Read more »

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Mary Lou McDonald

AOIFE MOORE’S SHORT GAME

Date: September 21, 2023 - Last Refuge

AOIFE MOORE, political journalist and author of the latest ‘tell-all’ book on Sinn Féin, The Long Game — Inside Sinn Féin, has cleverly developed Shane Ross’s trick in promoting his book on Mary Lou McDonald. Ross told how SF denied him access or information but… Read more »

THE HARP THAT ONCE…

Date: September 21, 2023 - Fit to Print?

WHEN MEDIAHUIS last year launched a strong campaign to abolish Vat on newspapers, it claimed that democracy in Ireland was threatened by any decline in reporting capacity, to which the Vat burden was a contributory factor. Once the Vat rate was abolished in last year’s budget, it appears that Mediahuis embarked on a strategy that… Read more »

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CORRECTION

Date: September 21, 2023 - Fit to Print?

GOLDHAWK HAS been contacted by NewsBrands Ireland to point out that the newspaper lobby group, along with the Press Council of Ireland and Google News Initiative, does not, as stated in The Phoenix (see edition 25/8/23), organise the new Irish Journalism Awards. Alchemy Event Management now manages “all aspects of the awards, including financial”. We… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: September 21, 2023 - Bog Cuttings

TITS UP A Glenswilly man who told gardaí that he had “sniffed a load of drugs” appeared before Letterkenny District Court charged with engaging in threatening and abusive behaviour towards a garda. The court heard that gardaí spotted Ryan Toner (27), of Ballybeg, Breenagh, Glenswilly, acting aggressively and in a highly intoxicated state on Lr… Read more »

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ON THE FRINGE

Date: September 21, 2023 - Behind the Scenes

AS THE Dublin Fringe Festival draws to a close there has been little sign of the outfit known as the Trans Writers Union (TWU) looking to organise any boycott of the Irish Times, which is one headache less for Ruadhán Mac Cormaic. Back in 2021 the IT was targeted by the TWU courtesy of an… Read more »

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Jack Cantillon

JACK CANTILLON’S LONG SHOT

Date: September 21, 2023 - Sport of Kings

LAWYER TURNED bloodstock entrepreneur Jack Cantillon’s latest venture into the stallion market has hit a significant speed bump. Jack Cantillon recently teamed up with racing broadcaster and general multitasker Kevin Blake to purchase a French-trained sprinter called Bouttemont with the intention of retiring the nag from racing this autumn and standing him as a stallion… Read more »

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Philip Byrnes

BYRNES FAMILY FORM

Date: September 21, 2023 - Sport of Kings

CHARLES BYRNES and his sons, Philip and Cathal, have generated acres of column inches in recent times but an incident that went under the radar involved jockey Philip, who was riding a horse named Gendarme for his father at Sligo. Although Gendarme was second favourite,… Read more »

Chantilly House Richard Goodbody

CHANTILLY SPACE

Date: September 21, 2023 - High Society

AN IMPRESSIVE pile has gone on the market in Rathmichael, Co Dublin, with a chunky €4.65m price tag. It turns out to be owned by sailing-mad investment suit Richard Goodbody – director of stockbroking at Cantor Fitzgerald – and his wife, Gillian, but has also had some interesting previous tenants. Chantilly House, which sits on… Read more »

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Eamonn Rothwell

EAMONN ROTHWELL’S LOSS-MAKING CAR FERRIES

Date: September 21, 2023 - Moneybags

THERE WAS yet more good news this month for the lucky Irish Continental Group (ICG) captain, Eamonn Rothwell, when P&O Ferries announced it was exiting the Dublin-Liverpool ro-ro freight route, leaving some handy pickings for Irish Ferries. Rothwell previously lucked out when P&O got in a pickle on the Dover-Calais route on foot of attempts… Read more »

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KINGSPAN’S TROJAN HORSE

Date: September 21, 2023 - Briefcases

Does Kingspan have a Trojan horse strategy for the US? The news that the company had been in talks about a merger with an American outfit called Carlisle came as something of a surprise. Kingspan has been on an acquisition spree lately but this putative deal represented a different calibre altogether. Who would have been… Read more »

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