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BAKHURST’S BLITZKRIEG

Date: July 13, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

WHILE RTÉ director general Kevin Bakhurst has attracted plaudits for “hitting the ground running”, maybe he is moving too fast. Certainly, Kev wasted no time before announcing the standing down of the broadcaster’s so-called executive board and its replacement with a “temporary interim leadership team”…. Read more »

Mainstream Renewable Power Eddie O'Connor

UP IN SMOKE IN CHILE

Date: July 13, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

INVESTORS IN the Sandyford-based Mainstream Renewable Power (MRP) must be aghast at losses continuing to accumulate – €630m in 2022, following on from a loss of €87m in 2021. Founded by former chief executive of Bord na Móna and former Airtricity CEO Eddie O’Connor, he and other Irish investors retain a significant stake, although 58.4%… Read more »

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Rally for Life Mattie McGrath

FAR RIGHT ALLY WITH PRO-LIFE

Date: July 13, 2023 - Hush Hush

NUMBERS AT the annual Rally for Life, organised by the Life Institute, have continued to fall. Only a few thousand showed up this year, despite organisers supplying posters and banners for marchers as well as memes and hashtags in advance to help promote the gathering… Read more »

Justine McCarthy

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: July 13, 2023 - The Hot Air Brigade

Ryan Tubridy has a lovely home. It is a mirror of its owner – congenial with no excess bulk. Justine McCarthy, Irish Times Her My Fair Lady-inspired hat of swirling red crinoline by milliner Carol Kennelly from Tralee, Co Kerry, featured ivory roses and a sea of billowing red tulle that caught the breeze on… Read more »

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Citibank Cecilia Ronan

BANKS’ GLOBAL CLIMATE ARSON

Date: July 13, 2023 - Fowl Emissions

Citibank’s European HQ in Dublin’s docklands was bedecked with rainbow flags for last month’s Pride festival. Nothing unusual there – Pride has become swamped by corporate branding in recent years. But what makes Citibank’s ‘Pride-washing’ particularly cynical is that the bank is a major funder of a regime with one of the world’s worst records… 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

LANSDOWNE OIL’S SUNSET

Date: July 13, 2023 - Fowl Emissions

It finally looks like it’s curtains for the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT), which allows corporations to sue governments if policy decisions – including climate action – affect their anticipated profits. Last week EU energy commissioner Kadri Simson signalled the EU would pull out of the… Read more »

Orange Marches Chris McGimpsey

ORANGE DISORDER

Date: July 13, 2023 - Northwind

After Wednesday’s parade through Belfast – easily the largest in the north – July 12 Orange marches face radical changes. An internal review by the Belfast County Grand Lodge recommends halving the length of the route, currently 10 miles – five out and five back. Controversially, the review proposes abolishing the lunch-time speeches at ‘The… Read more »

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Helen McEntee

HELEN’S LEADERSHIP CAMPAIGN REVIVAL

Date: July 13, 2023 - Last Refuge

WHAT A remarkable exclusive the Irish Times delivered to its readers last Saturday week, with a large colour photo of justice minister Helen McEntee dominating the front page. The accompanying blurb said: “Nobody has said it to my face. Helen McEntee on sexism, ambition and returning to work after maternity leave. Jennifer Bray speaks to… Read more »

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Garret Kelly Brigadier General Philip Brennan

MILITARY COUP INSIDE GREENS

Date: July 13, 2023 - Last Refuge

REACTION INSIDE the Green Party to its barely reported debate about abandoning the triple-lock mechanism – which requires Dáil, government and UN Security Council approval to send Irish troops abroad – has provoked consternation at the top and bottom of the party. At top level, former leader and minister John Gormley managed to amend a… Read more »

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Peter Casey

THE TRAVELLER’S RETURN

Date: July 13, 2023 - Last Refuge

ANTI-TRAVELLER and anti-social welfare recipient, presidential campaigner Peter Casey has been negotiating a pact with TD Mattie McGrath’s Rural Independent Group (RIG) to form a new, rural-based party. But the canny McGrath knows that Casey always has his own agenda and that another crack at… Read more »

Brendan O'Connor

DON’T HOLD THE FRONT PAGE

Date: July 13, 2023 - Fit to Print?

SOMETIMES IT’S not what you print but what you don’t print that tells a tale and, among those journalists who are somewhat conflicted by the RTÉ/Ryan Tubridy affair, Brendan O’Connor of the Sunday Independent and RTÉ is a prime example. However, he and Sindo editor Alan ‘Ben Bradlee’ English, contrived to offer a semi-plausible rationale… Read more »

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ANTON SAVAGE’S CLIENTS

Date: July 13, 2023 - Fit to Print?

LISTENING TO The Communications Clinic (CC) public relations manipulator, Anton Savage, interviewing film producer and media guru David Puttnam about public service broadcasting and the RTÉ crisis on Newstalk last weekend was a most elevating experience. They spoke of the contradictions between public service broadcasting and the private market, a subject that Anton knows a… Read more »

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Ivan Yates Nell McCafferty RTÉ Lord Laird Intro Matchmaking NewsBrands Martin McGuinness Dún Laoghaire Pat Leahy Cormac Lucey John Cooney Irish Journalism Awards Steve Aiken Anton Savage John Downing Lucinda Creighton Marina Sologub Eilis O'Hanlon Ian Kehoe Danny McConnell Sindo O'Connor Mediahuis Stephen Collins Book Justine McCarthy Rewriting the Troubles Lynn Ruane Sinn Féin

WHAT’S THE STORY, RORY?

Date: July 13, 2023 - Fit to Print?

RETIRED DIRECTOR of strategy Rory Coveney said two things about his and RTÉ’s disastrous project, Toy Show The Musical, last week. The first was that he had received a lot of advice from people in the music industry and nobody said not to go ahead… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: July 13, 2023 - Bog Cuttings

TOPLESS CHAOS A MAN who was so intoxicated that he started taking off his clothes in an apartment above a Tullamore pub, believing it was his own home, was fined €2,500 in Tullamore District Court. Gardaí received reports of Conor Kavanagh (30), of Spollanstown Wood, Tullamore, behaving erratically at Newton Bar in the early hours… Read more »

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WHAT RICHARD SAID

Date: July 13, 2023 - Behind the Scenes

IN THE midst of sell-out hearings into the RTÉ debacle, there was a near-empty Dáil for the sitting to adopt the report of the Budgetary Oversight Committee on the costly Section 481 film tax credit. Given the absence of chair Barry Cowan, Richard Boyd Barrett presented the report to the Dáil, with junior minister Jennifer… Read more »

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Baroness Bamford

BARONESS BAMFORD’S BLUES

Date: July 13, 2023 - Sport of Kings

THE GROUP 1 Pretty Polly Stakes at the Curragh is a race that is becoming known for the wrong reasons. Last year, there was the debacle of the Paddy Twomey-trained Rosscarbery being disqualified from third place after a malfunction of the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB) scales led to her carrying less weight than she… Read more »

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Nick Luck Ger Lyons

THE LYONS’ DEN

Date: July 13, 2023 - Sport of Kings

THE CURRAGH hosted British racing broadcaster Nick Luck’s usually entertaining Luck On Sunday show live from the track on Irish Derby morning and it was well worth a watch. There was an informative segment from jockey Seamie Heffernan on his long career in Ballydoyle and the mindset of Aidan O’Brien but the entertainment came from… Read more »

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Oonagh O'Hagan

OONAGH’S INCOME SUPPLEMENT

Date: July 13, 2023 - High Society

GOLDHAWK SPOTTED his favourite ‘celebrity pharmacist’, Oonagh O’Hagan, giving very informed tips in the Indo to hapless readers for the best way to deal with irritable bowel syndrome. Two of the tips from the media-friendly boss of the well-known Meagher’s Pharmacy chain referred to taking… Read more »

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PAUL WARD’S MOVIE PLOT

Date: July 13, 2023 - High Society

THERE HAS been plenty of activity on Irish Multiplex Cinemas Ltd (IMC) since that legal spat between Paul Ward and his equally minted siblings was settled last month. The wealthy Ward family, which owns Dublin’s Savoy cinema among many others, was engaged in this legal wrangle for almost four years, with the main player being… Read more »

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John Collison

MORE COLLISON MILLIONS IN ABBEYLEIX

Date: July 13, 2023 - High Society

IT WON’T come as too much of a surprise to hear that the 2021 acquisition of Abbeyleix House by John Collison has seen the Stripe founder chuck millions of euros into the operation. Most recently the billionaire checked the loose change down the back of… Read more »

Dermot Crowley

DALATA SHARES NOW LOOK UNDERVALUED

Date: July 13, 2023 - Moneybags

A RECENT trading update from Dalata Hotels Group suggests that some serious profits are set to be generated this year, leaving the shares looking undervalued. Investors, however, will need to be aware of certain limitations that may slow Dalata’s aggressive expansion. Dermot Crowley replaced Pat McCann as CEO when the latter stood down in November… Read more »

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David Horgan

CLONTARF ENERGY’S BOLIVIAN LONG SHOT

Date: July 13, 2023 - Moneybags

IT IS no easy task for David Horgan to fill the boots of John Teeling, even having worked alongside him for over 20 years. The challenge at Clontarf Energy is particularly tough, however, given that the company almost went wallop last year, having spent a chunky £4m for its 10% participation in the failed Sasanof… Read more »

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Yvonne Brady

YVONNE BRADY’S SHORTS

Date: July 13, 2023 - Briefcases

A FAIR few of the companies that featured on the Irish version of Dragons’ Den have come a cropper over the years and the latest one to bite the dust is Yvonne Brady’s much-hyped EVB Sports Shorts Ltd (EVB), which managed to attract some high-profile backing inside and outside the Dragons’ Den studio. Brady, an… Read more »

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SPI Susan Kirby

MOVIE PRODUCERS’ BIG BUDGETS

Date: July 13, 2023 - Briefcases

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 - Briefcases

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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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

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 - Briefcases

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 - Briefcases

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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