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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 - Briefcases

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 - Briefcases

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 - Briefcases

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 - Briefcases

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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Hugo McNeill Richard Moore

TOFFS AGAINST TERRORISM

Date: July 27, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

MI6 CHIEF Richard Moore paid a visit to Prague recently where he implored Russian officials to contact his service to help overthrow Vladimir Putin. Moore’s words were designed to prick Putin’s paranoia rather than a serious recruitment gambit. MI6 describes this sort of activity as ‘destabilisation’. Richard Moore is the grandson of a decorated Cork… Read more »

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JOHN MALONE’S TACTICS

Date: July 27, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

IT WAS hardly surprising that Virgin Media should wade into the RTÉ pay and governance row. The owner of the station is so-called ‘cable cowboy’ John Malone, who has, however, been facing some corporate governance criticisms of his own. Malone would be no fan of Montrose given that he competes directly with the station through… Read more »

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Fergus Cronin

FERGUS CRONIN’S NEXT GIG

Date: July 27, 2023 - Behind the Scenes

THE REMARKABLE level of promotion of the debut collection of short stories from septuagenarian businessman-turned-scribbler Fergus Cronin continues to impress Goldhawk. The latest gig for the fledgling artist is at the Arts Council (AC) funded Kilkenny Arts Festival next month. Cronin has clearly delivered with this buke given that a short story collection from an… Read more »

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LAURA BONNER’S BACKERS

Date: July 27, 2023 - High Society

INTERESTING TO see that legal eagle Joseph O’Malley has joined the board of Laura Bonner’s much-hyped booze operation, Muff Liquor Company (MLC). This follows on foot of a €¾m injection for a 30% stake by the celebrity-fuelled MLM Distillery Investments, whose shareholders include Ed Sheeran, Russell Crowe, Ronan Keating, Jimmy Carr, and one Noel Kelly… Read more »

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Alan Curran

BARRYROE SAGA STARTING TO LOOK VERY EXPENSIVE

Date: July 27, 2023 - Moneybags

THE SAGA of the attempts by Barryroe Offshore Energy (BOE) to develop a huge oil and gas field off the south coast of Ireland continues to cause headaches and, utterly unsurprisingly, assorted legal eagles have now been called into the fray. This follows on foot… Read more »

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VOL 41 NO 15

Date: July 27, 2023 -

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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

TOM BARRY’S FERTILE PROFITS

Date: July 27, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

CONGRATULATIONS ARE in order for agribusiness operator and property investor Tom Barry, who has been making hay while the sun shines. Clearly, he has put his embarrassing carry-on in the Dáil well behind him. Blueshirt Barry represented Fine Gael in the Cork East constituency after being elected in the 2011 general election. He proved a… Read more »

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Paul Cullen Climate

RYANAIR’S HOT AIR

Date: July 27, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

THIS YEAR is, according to the Climate Change Advisory Council (CCAC) “a critical year for delivery of Ireland’s national climate action”. Given that total national emissions reductions in 2022 amounted to a paltry 1.9%, and which doesn’t even include fast-rising emissions from aviation, and with the emissions-intensive livestock sector doubling down on dairy intensification, any… Read more »

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Lucinda Creighton Mali

MALIGN MALIAN MISSION

Date: July 27, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

SOMETIMES THE language of western diplomats jars with reality, especially when explaining the high-minded, humanitarian reasons for invading countries or even, as recently, when rationalising a hasty exit when things are not going to plan. The explanation for the presence of Irish troops in the EU Training Mission (EUTM) Mali – a former French colony… Read more »

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Malcolm Byrne Aodhagán Ó Súird

MALCOLM BYRNE’S “EXTRAORDINARY” EVIDENCE

Date: July 27, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

THE IMPROPER sacking of Aodhagán Ó Súird as principal of Wexford primary school Gaelscoil Moshíológ has generated plenty of headlines given the 11 years it took for the matter to be finalised in the Four Courts earlier this month. Goldhawk, however, feels that the starring… Read more »

Moya Doherty

RTÉ BOARD BACK IN THE MONEY

Date: July 27, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

WITH THE wait for RTÉ’s 2022 annual report going on, there will be some information included that may be of interest to followers of events at Montrose, specifically a return to the good old days of fees for the directors. When the Moya Doherty-chaired board… Read more »

Andrew Cottey Signal

DEFENCE FORCES DIFFER ON SECURITY

Date: July 27, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

IN THE summer edition of Signal, the biannual magazine of the Representative Association of Commissioned Officers (RACO), Micheál Martin, Tánaiste and Minister for Defence and Foreign Affairs, again went nuclear when the issue of Irish neutrality was alluded to. Signal editor, Ruairi Kavanagh merely asked, “should the government, and indeed past governments, have done more… Read more »

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Mícheál Martin

DECOMMISSIONING ARMS?

Date: July 27, 2023 - Hush Hush

LAST MONTH the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), the most prominent of Britain’s defence and security think tanks, issued a report, “The Defence Industry in Northern Ireland: Leveraging Untapped Potential”. As planned expenditure by the British Ministry of Defence over the next 10 years is estimated to be in the region of £242bn, the report… Read more »

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Pat Kenny

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: July 27, 2023 - The Hot Air Brigade

All we wanted the board and the council to do was to follow the rules and those rules involve protecting the badger. This is the badgers’ Alamo – they have nowhere else to go. Pat Kenny on permission being granted for the development of a nursing home bordering his property, Irish Independent A move to… Read more »

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Padraig Fogarty

CENSORSHIP AT WILDLIFE TRUST

Date: July 27, 2023 - Fowl Emissions

ONE OF Ireland’s leading environmental NGOs, the Irish Wildlife Trust (IWT) has been thrown into chaos following the resignation of its campaigns officer, Pádraic Fogarty. Fogarty’s decision followed a move by the board of IWT to censor his blog published on the trust’s website that had been highly critical of a perceived lurch to the… 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

DAVID QUINN’S CONVERSION

Date: July 27, 2023 - Fowl Emissions

IN A shocking epiphany, Iona Institute director and media commentator David Quinn has finally admitted the climate change is… real. “I think a lot of it is caused by us”. This breakthrough comes after years of mockery and denial by Quinn in assorted newspaper columns…. Read more »

Sammy Wilson Sunak DUP

SUNAK PLAYS THE DUP

Date: July 27, 2023 - Northwind

WHEN LEO Varadkar met Rishi Sunak in Moldova on June 1 he asked to be “kept informed” of any deal with the DUP about re-entering the Stormont executive. He added, “we would just like to be aware so we’re not caught off guard or by surprise and that there’s nothing that would concern us in… Read more »

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Mairead McGuinness

McGUINNESS PLAYS HARD TO GET

Date: July 27, 2023 - Last Refuge

DESPITE A glowing profile in the Business Post who last weekend depicted Heather Humphreys as a hot tip to be Fine Gael’s presidential candidate in 2025, Goldhawk believes that this nomination is firmly in the grasp of the, em, grasping hands of EU Commissioner, Mairead… Read more »

Leo Varadkar and Volodymyr Zelenskyy

MARTIN GAZUMPS VLAD

Date: July 27, 2023 - Last Refuge

NO SOONER had Tánaiste Micheál Martin departed on a week-long trip to South Africa and Mozambique that he hoped would further burnish his reputation as a great European statesman, than Taoiseach Leo Varadkar made a daring – and unannounced – dash to war-torn Kyiv to… Read more »

Deirdre O’Brien Ned O’Keeffe

O’KEEFFE DYNASTY AWAKENS

Date: July 27, 2023 - Last Refuge

SPECULATION ABOUT candidates for the Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) has alerted some of the more paranoid members of both Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael to the spectre of a cunning plan by the long-time FF TD, Ned O’Keeffe and his brood to make a comeback. Time was when Ned O’Keeffe was a junior minister for… Read more »

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Niall Meehan Dean Robert McCarthy

SECTARIAN SCOPING INQUIRY

Date: July 27, 2023 - Fit to Print?

The Irish Times is refusing to publish on its news pages the fact that a ministerial scoping inquiry into abuse in day and boarding schools excludes Protestant participation. Academic Niall Meehan, who has pursued the issue with the education minister, sent the paper a letter,… Read more »

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

BUGGER OFF!

Date: July 27, 2023 - Fit to Print?

IN WHAT must have ageing PSNI officers heaving with laughter at the sheer irony of it all, it has emerged that the filmmakers who were arrested following their award-winning documentary, No Stone Unturned, may also have been bugged. According to the Guardian this week, the secretive Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) is now investigating the complaint… Read more »

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Genivieve Carberry Review

AI REPORT PROLONGED

Date: July 27, 2023 - Fit to Print?

IRISH TIMES hack, Jennifer O’Connell was not five minutes in the role of opinion editor when that bogus article claiming the use of fake tan by Irish women is a form of “cultural appropriation” was published, and she came under critical scrutiny in the days immediately afterwards. Editor, Ruadhán Mac Cormaic quickly issued a statement… Read more »

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