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THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: June 15, 2023 - The Hot Air Brigade

I think even my harshest critics would say that any role I am given in government, I genuinely try to give it my all. It is my personality. It is how I operate. Simon Harris, Irish Times Something I say a lot is that someday you’ll find someone, and they’re going to find out how… Read more »

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iCrag Leo Varadkar

ICE IN LEO VARADKAR’S VEINS

Date: June 15, 2023 - Fowl Emissions

IN 2019 Leo Varadkar pointed out that climate change had its “benefits” as well as its “downsides”. You know, warmer Irish winters and the like. He was, rightly, pilloried. But there are winners as well as losers. Take the truly ominous report by scientists this… Read more »

Michelle O’Neill Rishi Sunak

SUNAK/DUP DEAL?

Date: June 15, 2023 - Northwind

Michelle O’Neill travelled to Washington on June 4, two days before British prime minister Rishi Sunak – but they were on different missions. Sunak was there to be seen to be meeting the US President for the TV news in Britain and to shake hands… Read more »

Catherine Murphy

MURPHY’S SOC DEMS OWN GOALS

Date: June 15, 2023 - Last Refuge

WAS THE blundering performance put in by Catherine Murphy in the Denis O’Brien/Siteserv saga one of the reasons for the change in the Social Democrats leadership and the elevation of Holly Cairns? Murphy’s image has changed from whistleblower against the ogre, O’Brien, to one of… Read more »

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 CONSTITUENCY

Date: June 15, 2023 - Last Refuge

IS SIMON COVENEY trying to emulate British Tory prime minister Harold McMillan’s electoral slogan, “You’ve never had it so good”, in an effort to galvanise Fine Gael as the party slips into demoralisation and leadership speculation? In a recent Irish Examiner interview, Covetous Coveney insisted… Read more »

Forum on International Security CitizenGo Micheal Martin

PACIFISTS SILENCED AT MARTIN’S FORUMS

Date: June 15, 2023 - Last Refuge

INDICATIONS OF the militarist tenor of Tánaiste and foreign affairs minister Micheál Martin’s Forum on International Security were noted in The Phoenix (see edition 24/4/23). Martin announced that the forum is to be chaired by security expert Louise Richardson DBE. He did not spell out… Read more »

Betty Purcell

VETTING ‘MALE’ REFUGEES AT INCH

Date: June 15, 2023 - Fit to Print?

FORMER COMMISSIONER of the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission and ex-RTÉ producer Betty Purcell has made an interesting complaint to RTÉ about the broadcaster’s recent coverage of the protests against asylum seekers in Inch, Co Clare. Purcell complained to the national broadcaster about the… Read more »

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JOHN DOWNING & THE BELGIANS

Date: June 15, 2023 - Fit to Print?

ERUDITE INDEPENDENT writer John Downing normally gives his newspaper titles a slightly higher tone but what are we to make of Downing’s apparently whimsical column recently about “famous Belgians”? Beginning with indignation about “trite… banal… smart aleck” types who sneer at Belgians, Downing quickly moved on to claim “you could wallpaper a fair-sized room with… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: June 15, 2023 - Bog Cuttings

TROLLEYED CRISIS A man who became abusive towards gardaí and nurses at Tullamore hospital appeared before Tullamore District Court. Sergeant James O’Sullivan told the court that officers spotted Patrick Hayes (23) of Castlekealy Lawns, Daingean, walking through Tullamore on March 12, 2023, carrying a piece of glass and acting aggressively outside Supermac’s. When approached, Hayes… Read more »

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CASHING IN ON CHATHAM ST

Date: June 15, 2023 - High Society

GOLDHAWK WAS interested to spy that a company called Dtat Ltd has just been wound up by its owners, who have scooped a fair few bob as a result. It turns out that Dtat is the company behind the high-profile ESL jewellery shop just off… Read more »

Richard de la Poer Beresford

EARL OF TYRONE’S TIPPLE

Date: June 15, 2023 - High Society

IT WAS reported last weekend in the Business Post that one Henry de la Poer Beresford, who happens to be the 9th Marquess of Waterford and owner of the impressive Curraghmore House and demesne, has objected to plans for a 35-acre solar farm on lands where he owns “shooting, sporting and killing” rights. Presumably paying… Read more »

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CAI Catherine Breathnach

FAT LADY SINGS

Date: June 15, 2023 - Behind the Scenes

SO FAREWELL then Classical Arts Ireland (CAI), where the curtain has officially come down. CAI, a not-for-profit enterprise established back in 2011, promoted opera, ballet and classical music here, as well as promoting Irish classical arts overseas and live screenings of the best international opera, ballet and orchestral music. Another aim of CAI was to… Read more »

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DAVE MCWILLIAMS’S KYIV COMPANY

Date: June 15, 2023 - Behind the Scenes

BONO, MARIELLA Frostrup and co will be popping up at the Dalkey Books Festival this weekend, with David McWilliams front and centre as usual. While many of the big-name gigs are sold out (including Tom Hanks) there are still tickets available for less mortals like… Read more »

Ger Lyons

SLOW START FOR LYONS

Date: June 15, 2023 - Sport of Kings

THE IRISH flat season is in full swing and one of the main talking points has been the absence of Ger Lyons-trained horses from the winners’ enclosure. Lyons has established himself as a top-five trainer over the past decade and last season finished third in the trainers’ championship, behind Aidan and Joseph O’Brien, having won… Read more »

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WHELAN’S WHIP WOES

Date: June 15, 2023 - Sport of Kings

KILDARE JOCKEY Ronan Whelan has enjoyed a fine start to the flat season but his momentum has been stalled after racking up a 13-day suspension for breaching the whip rules in Ireland and England. Whelan has delivered 15 first places already this year and has forged lucrative relationships with trainers such as Jessica Harrington and… Read more »

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Cathal Friel

HVIVO LOOKING HEALTHIER THANKS TO PANDEMIC

Date: June 15, 2023 - Moneybags

WHILE THE effects of the pandemic on businesses are starting to ease, some companies made great leaps forward over the last couple of years. One of these is hVivo (formerly Open Orphan), the Cathal Friel-backed contract research organisation. Despite the high price/earnings rating for the… Read more »

Aidan Garcia Diaz Cormac Lohan

CORMAC LOHAN’S COSTS

Date: June 15, 2023 - Briefcases

GOLDHAWK’S OLD friend, Athlone legal eagle Cormac Lohan, has suffered yet another setback, this time over a legal costs adjudication relating to the previous winding up of his company by the dreaded taxman. In 2018, the Revenue petitioned the High Court to wind up the solicitors’s consultancy business, Lohan Consulting Ltd, with Aidan Garcia Diaz… Read more »

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Seaweed Company Stefan Kraan

SEAWEED COMPANY SINKS

Date: June 15, 2023 - Briefcases

GOLDHAWK WAS surprised to see that a liquidator (Flavien Kelly) has just been appointed to The Seaweed Company Blue Turtle Ltd, the Irish subsidiary of a giant Dutch firm operating in the investment-friendly world of seaweed cultivation, having developed a 50-acre sea farm off the… Read more »

Ian Lucey

IAN LUCEY’S GUARANTEES

Date: June 15, 2023 - Briefcases

HAVING COME pretty close to the edge on a couple of occasions, serial tech investor Ian Lucey’s investment vehicle, Lucey Technology Ltd (LTL), where he is the only listed director, has been wound up by the High Court. The question is whether liquidator Neil Hughes will be able to realise anything like the value attributed… Read more »

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CHRIS WHOLEY’S SETBACKS

Date: June 15, 2023 - Briefcases

INTERESTING TO see long-established engineering business KC Civil Engineering Ltd (KCCE) on the wrong end of a judgment for €66,000 from suppliers Stakelums Hardware Ltd, although this is not the first such hit in recent times. KCCE owner Chris Wholey is well known to someone… Read more »

The Phoenix 40th Edition

Date: June 1, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

The 40th edition is packed with interesting and amusing stories from 80’s, 90’s, 2000’s and up to 2020. Also includes regular issue inside. Download the PDF here

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Simon Harris

FG LEADERSHIP PARALYSIS

Date: June 1, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

MANY FINE GAEL TDs and senators want Simon Harris to get a move on and go for the leadership of the party but the new dauphin (following the decline of Simon ‘Covetous’ Coveney’s ambitious designs) is stricken with fearful paralysis. The return to politics of… Read more »

Chris Horn

CATCH THE WIND

Date: June 1, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

While touted by some as Ireland’s green energy moonshot, the backlash against offshore wind energy seems to be gathering pace, long before a single pylon has been installed. Although experts were delighted with the results of the recent auction of 3GW of offshore wind, the Irish Times gave the news a distinctly cool reception, with… Read more »

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Niall Meehan Norma Foley

‘SEE NO SECTARIANISM …’

Date: June 1, 2023 - Fit to Print?

THE IRISH TIMES lasered in on the Government’s scoping inquiry into abuse “at private fee paying schools” recently, but its article had little to say about the most newsworthy aspect of the inquiry – its sectarian terms of reference, namely the exclusion of Protestant-school pupils. When the inquiry was set up in March, academic Niall… Read more »

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Brid Rogers SF

MEDIA STRUCK DUMB BY NORTH RESULTS

Date: June 1, 2023 - Sport of Kings

The results of May’s council elections in the north confirmed, as expected, SF’s political dominance, which it displayed in last year’s assembly election. The outcome is a political revolution, the significance of which was completely lost on media in the south. Showing its grasp of the northern political scene the day before the elections, the… Read more »

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Kevin Doyle

KEVIN DOYLE’S MISS-HIT

Date: June 1, 2023 - Sport of Kings

IT HAS been interesting to follow the progress, or indeed lack thereof, of a horse now named Montecam. Readers may recall that former Irish soccer international-turned-horse-breeder Kevin Doyle bought the brother to then superstar chaser Altior for €155,000 as a foal back in 2019. Doyle viewed the horse as a risky but potentially very rewarding… Read more »

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Forum on International Security CitizenGo Micheal Martin

THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING

Date: June 1, 2023 - Hush Hush

WHEN TÁNAISTE Micheál Martin went on the offensive in relation to The Ditch and it’s exposure of corruption among the political classes, he was careful to do so under Dáil privilege. Martin is no fool and knows that accusing The Ditch of not being “an… Read more »

Kathleen MacMahon Home Scar

THE HOME SCAR – KATHLEEN MACMAHON

Date: June 1, 2023 - BooksBooks|ReviewsReviews

FOR MORE than a decade, the fiction of Kathleen MacMahon has centred largely on family members coming together to support one another through various crises. It is the reader who may end up needing a little support, however. The former RTÉ journalist (and granddaughter of short story writer Mary Lavin) got off to flying start… Read more »

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Fergus Cronin

PROMOTING FERGUS CRONIN

Date: June 1, 2023 - Behind the Scenes

CONGRATULATIONS TO scribbler Fergus Cronin, whose debut collection of short stories, Night Music, has attracted the sort of promotion and exposure usually only afforded to established writers. But then Cronin is no ordinary aspiring fiction writer. He is also the hubby of Arts Council head… Read more »

Peter Gaynor

PETER GAYNOR SELLS UP

Date: June 1, 2023 - High Society

GOLDHAWK WAS interested to see that the spacious Rembrandt House at 1 Longford Terrace in Monkstown is on the market with a tasty €2.5m price tag. This address – with its “breath-taking uninterrupted sea views over Dublin Bay” – was formerly occupied by one Peter Gaynor and the impressive pile would be very familiar to… Read more »

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VOL 41 NO 11

Date: June 1, 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

RYEVALE HOUSE RESISTANCE

Date: June 1, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

THERE IS still significant opposition to the decision to use the impressive Ryevale House outside Leixlip, Co Kildare, to provide emergency accommodation for up to 80 refugees. It is, however, not clear if Ronan Mallon’s Coldec Props, which has been most closely associated with the controversy, owns any of the high-profile property. The Georgian mansion… 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

JOE MACKEN’S FORMER PARTNER

Date: June 1, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

GOLDHAWK’S one-time favourite restaurateur Joe Macken (see Young Blood 6/4/12) was in the news again last week when he took a pop at his former business partner, who turns out to have picked up some heavyweight backers. Hipster Macken has generally tended to get a soft ride from the press and even when it was… 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

MI5 MACHINATIONS

Date: June 1, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

HIS MAJESTY’S legislation to snuff out Troubles-related legacy cases looks like it will pass into law this year. The probe into the RUC’s failure to act on intelligence and prevent the Real IRA’s bombing of Omagh in August 1998 will, however, proceed. It is a statutory enquiry, an entity that is immune to the new… Read more »

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Ruairi O'Neill

BEDS BONANZA IN D6

Date: June 1, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

THE BLOCKADE in Inch and the burnt-out tent village in Dublin city centre have focused attention on the issues surrounding the housing of asylum seekers and those fleeing the war in Ukraine. It has also drawn more attention to the big bucks being generated in… 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

HAUGHEY’S GUBU ENEMIES

Date: June 1, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

Harry McGEE’S new book, The Murderer and the Taoiseach, describes the homicides perpetrated by Malcolm McArthur in 1982. Sensationally, McArthur was arrested while staying at the Dalkey apartment of Charles Haughey’s attorney general, Patrick Connolly. Within days the front page of the Sun was describing Patrick Connolly as “ballet-loving”, while the Daily Star described him… Read more »

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