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GATHERING FEEDBACK

Date: January 23, 2025 - Behind the Scenes

LAST MONTH Jessica Drum’s Screen Guilds of Ireland (SGI) – an association of technicians’ guilds in film and TV – announced it would be “gathering feedback” from personnel in all film and TV production departments, with an online survey launched two weeks ago. The SGI is chaired by former Anglo Irish banker Peter Fitzgerald, who… Read more »

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Tim Husbands

HUSBANDS’ CUSTOMERS

Date: January 23, 2025 - Sport of Kings

LEOPARDSTOWN BOSS Tim Husbands and his team have decided it’s time to “improve customer experience” by making the 2025 Dublin Racing Festival (DRF) a pre-booked, ticket-only event. Certainly, the track could do with a good result next month. The thinking behind the Leopardstown move is that the executive can anticipate the volume of attendance and,… Read more »

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Ed Dunlop David Dunsdon Sarah Lynam Rebecca May Wayne Hassett Eoin O'Brien Michael Burke Aine O’Connor Ashroe Diamond Thomand O’Mara Peter Keatley Timmy Hyde Coolmore All About Sunday Colin Keane Ronan Whelan JP McManus Jessica Harrington Dundalk Racecourse Paul Hensey Irish National Hunt Horse-racing Doping Paddy Walsh Tom Kelly Suspension

LONDONOFFICECALLIN FLIES HIGH

Date: January 23, 2025 - Sport of Kings

HIGH-FLYING racehorse Londonofficecallin – a 23-times-raced maiden when leaving Evanna McCutcheon’s yard – won his seventh race from a dozen starts at Punchestown’s opening meeting of 2025 for his new owners, the In Bounds Syndicate. Winning for the second time in three starts for trainer Gavin Cromwell, the grey gelding had been successful five times… Read more »

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Ed Dunlop David Dunsdon Sarah Lynam Rebecca May Wayne Hassett Eoin O'Brien Michael Burke Aine O’Connor Ashroe Diamond Thomand O’Mara Peter Keatley Timmy Hyde Coolmore All About Sunday Colin Keane Ronan Whelan JP McManus Jessica Harrington Dundalk Racecourse Paul Hensey Irish National Hunt Horse-racing Doping Paddy Walsh Tom Kelly Suspension

HAYES BACK ON TRACK

Date: January 23, 2025 - Sport of Kings

FOLLOWING HIS 15-month suspension for failing to take proper care of a horse, Patrick Joseph Hayes has trained his first winner since being re-issued with a training licence by the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB). Hayes’s licence had been suspended by the regulatory body following his conviction in Naas Circuit Court for animal neglect after… Read more »

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Rahul Dhir

UNDERVALUED TULLOW OIL NEEDS NEW ENERGY

Date: January 23, 2025 - Moneybags

The International Chamber of Commerce announced on January 2 that Tullow Oil is not liable to pay the $320m branch profit remittance tax (BPRT), which the Ghanaian government was seeking to levy, on the grounds that BPRT falls outside the tax regime provided for in the petroleum agreements. This is obviously good news for Tullow… Read more »

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John Teeling

BOTSWANA DIAMONDS FAILING TO SPARKLE

Date: January 23, 2025 - Moneybags

There are three main areas for diamonds in the world – southern Africa, Canada and the Karelian Craton in Finland and Northern Russia – and Irish-connected companies have a presence in all three. The largest of these is the Dermot Desmond-linked Mountain Province Diamonds in the northern territories in Canada. The second is Karelian Diamonds,… Read more »

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Padraig O'Neill

VISUAL’S QUARE OLD LOSSES

Date: January 23, 2025 - Brief CasesBriefcases

HAVING JUST celebrated 15 years in operation, the well-funded Visual arts centre in Carlow – the largest visual arts space in the country – has started off 2025 with a pretty minimal offering to tempt in the arty-farty brigade, but presumably the coffers did get a boost before Christmas from Freezin’ – The Quare Cold… Read more »

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David Stone

DAVID STONE’S POP FLOP

Date: January 23, 2025 - Brief CasesBriefcases

ANOTHER SETBACK for hapless businessman David Stone, whose efforts to rescue one of his many companies has just fallen flat. For many, it is not Stone’s eclectic mix of investments that would be recognised but rather the headlines he made in 2023 as a result of his conviction for allowing the euthanasia drug pentobarbital to… Read more »

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Pat Doherty

KOREAN POWER PLAY

Date: January 23, 2025 - Brief CasesBriefcases

A JUDGMENT for a whopping €3m has just been registered by a South Korean energy giant against an Irish-registered company called Instant Upright Ltd (IUL), which was actually incorporated by the Stowe family in the sunny Turks and Caicos Islands in the Caribbean. No doubt Donegal property developer Pat Doherty is keeping one eye on… Read more »

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Dermot Desmond

WINDMILL LANE’S FADE-OUT

Date: January 23, 2025 - Brief CasesBriefcases

ON FRIDAY there will be a creditors’ meeting held for Windmill Lane Pictures Ltd (WLP) – the audiovisual post-production business established under James Morris’s leadership – at which Nicholas O’Dwyer and Paul Walsh of Grant Thornton are to be appointed as joint liquidators. The collapse has sent shockwaves through the sector given the company’s high… Read more »

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Bono

BONO BENDS TO BIDEN

Date: January 9, 2025 - Affairs of the Nation

BONO’S FAWNING behaviour towards US presidents and other powerful western leaders while simultaneously crying peace and freedom have become too much even for many U2 fans. But his latest blessing – Joe Biden’s award of the US Presidential Medal of Freedom – as well as his cloying response of gratitude to the US president is… Read more »

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Oliver Sears

PROFILE: OLIVER SEARS

Date: January 9, 2025 - Pillars of Society

DESPITE IRISH people’s revulsion at Israel’s continued slaughter of Palestinian children and other civilians in Gaza, the ‘paper of reference’, the Irish Times, has given a repeated platform to the Zionist rhetoric of art gallery owner Oliver Sears. London-born Sears claims that Ireland is suffused with antisemitism, the standard argument or diversionary insult of apologists… Read more »

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Albert Dolan

YOUNG BLOOD: ALBERT DOLAN

Date: January 9, 2025 - The Young Bloods

IS THE success of 26-year-old Albert Dolan in taking Fianna Fáil’s seat in Galway East – displacing incumbent Anne Rabbitte in the process – a harbinger of a new attractiveness of the party to the younger generation? While FF is preening itself after coming top in last November’s general election, opinion polls remain consistent in… Read more »

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Heather Humphreys

WUFF JUSTICE

Date: January 9, 2025 - Affairs of the Nation

WITH HEATHER Humphreys’ regulations banning the breeding and resale of XL bully dogs coming into force next month, it is not surprising that the ongoing rearguard action by animal charities has picked up pace. Their case has, however, not been helped by a shocking incident at the ISPCA’s National Animal Centre in Longford. Shortly before… Read more »

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Arts Council Maureen Kennelly

NOT SO MAGNIFICENT €7M PROJECT

Date: January 9, 2025 - Affairs of the Nation

THERE IS no sign of the Arts Council’s 2023 annual report, which was supposed to have been laid before the Houses of the Oireachtas by arts minister Catherine Martin months ago. It remains unclear exactly what is the cause of the delay but Goldhawk understands it relates to a multimillion-euro write-down of assets that has… Read more »

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DEIRDRE VELDON’S FUNERAL NOTICES

Date: January 9, 2025 - Affairs of the Nation

THERE HAS, not surprisingly, been a fair deal of whingeing about the impact of the takeover of RIP.ie by the Irish Times, on foot of the hefty €100 charge for funeral notices that kicked in this month. IT managing director Deirdre Veldon may have been as surprised as anyone else by the move. Certainly, the… Read more »

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Andrew Lowe and Ed Guiney

BIG BUDGET PÁLÁS FLOP

Date: January 9, 2025 - Behind the Scenes

THE LATEST plot twist in the tortuous tale of Galway’s Pálás arthouse cinema (controlled offshore since 2020) is the decision of Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe to call ‘cut’ on the business at the end of next month, claiming it is haemorrhaging money at the rate of €¼m a year. It appears to be a… Read more »

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Norma Foley

NORMA FOLEY’S POOR HOMEWORK

Date: January 9, 2025 - Last Refuge

EDUCATION MINISTER Norma Foley is expecting to either retain her current role or be moved sideways in Cabinet and with party leader Micheál Martin likely to have eight Cabinet places, an increase of two, the Tralee woman will surely not be axed. But that’s not necessarily the view of all Fianna Fáil decision makers, especially… Read more »

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Simone Rocha

SIMONE’S ‘SUBVERSIVE WORLD’

Date: January 9, 2025 - High Society

FASHION DESIGNER du jour Simone Rocha will be hard-pressed to top her performance in 2024, which started with her outfits on show at Jean Paul Gaultier’s haut couture show in Paris back in January and ended with a major gong at the British Fashion Awards and a high-profile boost for the brand courtesy of one… Read more »

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VOL 43 NO 01

Date: January 9, 2025 -

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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

BERNARD MCNAMARA’S CREDITORS

Date: January 9, 2025 - Affairs of the Nation

BOOM-TIME BUILDER extraordinaire Bernard McNamara has slowly but surely been building back up his business despite the odd setback. Now a couple of his firms are set to be liquidated. McNamara was one of the biggest casualties of the property crash, having been hugely backed by Anglo Irish Bank, with well over €½bn still outstanding… Read more »

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Nigel Farage

NIGEL FARAGE’S IRISH ALLY

Date: January 9, 2025 - Affairs of the Nation

REFORM UK leader Nigel Farage may have lost the support of Elon Musk but his ally in the north appears to be rock solid. Farage’s policy on Ireland is influenced by Jim Allister of the Traditional Ulster Voice (TUV), with whom he concluded a formal ‘partnership’ last March. Farage’s Scottish organiser, Craig Campbell, was starting… Read more »

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Ken McCallum

ENTRAPMENT STORY A POLITICAL TRAP

Date: January 9, 2025 - Affairs of the Nation

Last October the Sunday Times published an article asserting that ‘Cobalt’, a serving member of the Oireachtas, was a Russian agent. Cobalt denies this. Within days, the country was consumed with gossip about the sexual entrapment of the enigmatic Cobalt. A closer analysis of the original ST piece, however, reveals there is no evidence that… Read more »

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Alfred Rosenberg

‘IRISH’ RACISM

Date: January 9, 2025 - Affairs of the Nation

ONE OF the most prolific publishers of antisemitic books in Europe is Omnia Veritas Limited (OV), which has been based in Ireland for over a decade. OV has a modern online shop where one can search its catalogue of 645 books through 10 language options. It also has many of its titles available through a… Read more »

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Claire Hanna

‘STINKING STATUS QUO’

Date: January 9, 2025 - Northwind

Huge traffic congestion each evening in Belfast’s rush hour in the run up to Christmas seemed an appropriate metaphor for the north’s politics. Buses didn’t turn up, delivery drivers couldn’t deliver, taxis couldn’t pick up and people missed appointments. No one was going anywhere. The relevant Stormont minister, Sinn Féin’s John O’Dowd, was powerless and… Read more »

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Dame Richardson

MURKY DEPTHS OF IRISH MILITARY

Date: January 9, 2025 - Hush Hush

MicheÁl Martin and Dame Louise Richardson’s Forum on International Security Policy in June 2023 did not allow for unbiased debate and was widely seen as such. This has resulted in a return to factory settings for the coalition Government. They are looking to steadily increase Irish Defence Forces engagement in the EU’s Common Security and… Read more »

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Sonya Lennon

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: January 9, 2025 - The Hot Air Brigade

I spend a lot of time working in Zurich, and Kronenhalle is just about the best place to have smoked salmon blinis and a glass of Champagne while soaking up the work of Chagall, Miró and Braque. Sonya Lennon, Irish Independent Magazine There was a narrative satisfaction in the turn of events, that I had… Read more »

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Donald Trump

DRILL, BABY, DRILL!

Date: January 9, 2025 - Fowl Emissions

Just before Christmas Donald Trump ordered the EU to step up imports of US oil and gas. “Otherwise, it is TARIFFS all the way!!!” he warned. The US president-elect’s ultimatum is part of his payback to big oil, which donated at least $75m to his election campaign. This fell far short of the $1bn he… Read more »

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NIGEL’S ‘ENERGY INDEPENDENCE’

Date: January 9, 2025 - Fowl Emissions

Last summer Tullamore company Lumcloon Energy drummed up widespread community support in Coolpowra in east Galway for a supposed solar farm but then caused great upset by instead applying for planning permission for what would be the biggest fossil fuel power station ever built on this island. (See The Phoenix 23/8/24.) This track record made… Read more »

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Jimmy Carter

JIMMY CARTER’S IRISH POLICY

Date: January 9, 2025 - Last Refuge

IN THE second public reference recently to his stewardship of Anglo-Irish policy at home and abroad, Seán Donlon wrote in the Irish Times about the late US president Jimmy Carter’s Irish policy. This, of course, necessitated Donlon recounting the splendid role that his embassy played in this ever-so-positive development by the US president, guided by… Read more »

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Michael Lowry

INDEPENDENT SUPER JUNIORS

Date: January 9, 2025 - Last Refuge

LITTLE OR NOTHING was discussed between the two big Government parties and Independent TD groups over Christmas, despite insinuations and hints to media of serious policy negotiations. But Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael are aware of what the two different groups – one led by Michael Lowry and the other by Michael Healy-Rae – want… Read more »

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Michael Moynihan

VENGEANCE BEJAYSUS IN NORTH CORK

Date: January 9, 2025 - Last Refuge

FIVE YEARS ago the failure of Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin to reward one of his most loyal followers, Cork North-West’s Michael Moynihan, with a junior minister’s job provoked a ferocious response from the TD. This time around Moynihan has behaved impeccably but it remains to be seen if his delicate manoeuvring proves more effective… Read more »

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Emma Blain

MAYOR BLAIN’S MEDIA EXPOSURE

Date: January 9, 2025 - Fit to Print?

NEWLY ELECTED Dublin lord mayor Emma Blain recently told readers of the Sunday Independent, her old employer, that people should “get over” her past as one of the newspaper’s O3 girls. “We were a form of influencer back then in the Celtic Tiger,” she stated. In a most ironic statement Blain also said that she… Read more »

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VIRGIN MEDIA’S NEWS BLACKOUT

Date: January 9, 2025 - Fit to Print?

THE GOVERNMENT’S refusal to accede to Virgin Media’s demand for a slice of the licence fee when it bailed out RTÉ last year has been cited by management as the reason for the hollowing out of Virgin One’s news and current affairs output. But most of what is left of the station’s corps of news… Read more »

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John Bruton

JOHN ‘UNIONIST’ BRUTON

Date: January 9, 2025 - Fit to Print?

IRISH TIMES revisionism of national politics and modern history is one thing but revising the message purveyed in its own newspaper is pushing it a bit. Last week’s editorial attempt to rehabilitate John Bruton’s blundering management of the peace process was remarkable and, while it reflects the outlook of the newspaper’s Common Ground project, it… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: January 9, 2025 - Bog Cuttings

BATHROOM BREAK A man who entered a Garda station at 5:50am to use the toilet became aggressive towards gardaí after relieving himself, Portlaoise District Court has heard. The defendant, Gary Cripps, of 43 Oakleaf Place, was in a visibly intoxicated state when he arrived at Portlaoise Garda Station in the early hours of June 8… Read more »

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