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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: March 8, 2023 - Bog Cuttings

‘NOT A TAXI SERVICE’ AN INTOXICATED Tullamore man who walked into his local Garda station to ask for a lift found himself arrested instead. Speaking to Tullamore District Court, Sergeant James O’Sullivan recounted how on June 5, 2022, the defendant turned up at the Tullamore Garda Station requesting that someone drive him home. Sgt O’Sullivan… Read more »

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JEANNE BAARS’ BELLAIR SALE

Date: March 8, 2023 - High Society

GOLDHAWK NOTES that the sprawling Bellair Estate outside Ballycumber village in Co Offaly has been sold, a year after coming on the market with a juicy €5m price tag. Bellair was acquired many moons ago by Cecil Baars, who died in 2005 having established a substantial dairy farm operation and cheese-making plant on the lands,… Read more »

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Domini Kemp

DOMINI KEMP’S NEW RECIPE

Date: March 8, 2023 - High Society

THE OPENING of a new Rathmines restaurant called Lottie’s on the site of Fiona McHugh’s shuttered Lenehans eatery is the second venture for Domini Kemp’s Valence Hospitality group, where she has been joined by a partner with deep pockets, Brian Montague (see The Phoenix 14/1/22). Not that Domini hasn’t a few bob herself, judging by… Read more »

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Valerie Moran

THE MORANS CROSS THEIR FINGERS

Date: March 8, 2023 - Sport of Kings

WITH CHELTENHAM kicking off next week, all those big-spending owners will again battle it out to bag even the one winner that might justify the eye-watering sums being spent on jumps horses these days. Some have more on the line than others. Punters are accustomed to seeing the likes of Rich Ricci, JP McManus, Michael… Read more »

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Denis Hogan

DENIS HOGAN’S GAMBLE

Date: March 8, 2023 - Sport of Kings

IT IS three years since that controversial race in Dundalk in 2020 when the Denis Hogan-trained stable mates Tony the Gent and Yuften finished first and second in a claiming race. The unusual betting trends associated with that race and the contrasting rides given to each horse sparked an investigation by the Irish Horseracing Regulatory… Read more »

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REUBEN BROTHERS CLOSING IN

Date: March 8, 2023 - Sport of Kings

THE NEWS that UK outfit Arena Racing Company (ARC) is in advanced negotiations to buy Dundalk racecourse could have interesting implications for the landscape of Irish racecourses if the deal goes through. Owned by billionaire brothers Simon and David Reuben, ARC operates 16 turf and all-weather racecourses in the UK including Doncaster, the home of… Read more »

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Joseph O'Brien

O’BRIEN’S AUSTRALIAN ADVENTURE

Date: March 8, 2023 - Sport of Kings

HAVING PLUNDERED two of Australia’s most iconic races – the Melbourne Cup and the Cox Plate – in recent years, Joseph O’Brien has shipped a strong team down under for the potentially lucrative Autumn Racing Carnival in Sydney. O’Brien’s previous exploits in Australia have proved most rewarding (far more so than his illustrious father, Aidan… Read more »

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The Dry

THE DRY – RTÉ ONE

Date: March 8, 2023 - ReviewsReviews|TVTV

AS THE nepo-baby debate continues online, it’s ironic that RTÉ’s latest comedy-drama, The Dry, arrives courtesy of writer Nancy Harris, scion of one-time Sindo royalty Anne and Eoghan Harris. While a satirical farce about Eoghan’s Twitter antics could potentially be box office, RTÉ viewers have had to settle for The Dry, a middling comedy-drama about… Read more »

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TERRY MCMAHON’S BROADSIDE

Date: March 8, 2023 - Behind the Scenes

IN THE glut of recent Oscars-inspired media coverage of Irish cinema, fans of Goldhawk will be familiar with the absence of references to Irish performers’ battle to get the same standard of contracts as non-Irish actors in productions here (see The Phoenix 10/2/23). Striding into the fray last week, however, came Terry McMahon. The writer… Read more »

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Darragh Lyons

MALIN CORP’S SHARES CONTINUE TO BE UNDERRATED BY MARKET

Date: March 8, 2023 - Moneybags

DARRAGH LYONS has the valuable quality, as far as Malin Corp shareholders are concerned, of being boring. After the rollercoaster ride during Kelly Martin’s reign, which ended six years ago, a safe pair of hands is just what the doctor ordered. Moreover, Lyons has nursed Malin’s portfolio with no little skill and intelligence – something… Read more »

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Smurfit Kappa Group Tony Smurfit

SMURFIT KAPPA’S CRAZY PROFITS COMING UNDER PRESSURE

Date: March 8, 2023 - Moneybags

OVER THREE years after Smurfit Kappa Group (SKG) copped a huge fine for its role in a price-fixing cartel in the cardboard box market in Italy, it seems clear that the Irish company and other major European operators have absolutely no need of any dodgy agreements to rake in the cash. Indeed, the levels of… Read more »

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Brian Ormond

BRIAN ORMOND’S MISSTEP

Date: March 8, 2023 - Briefcases

BARELY A year after benefiting from oodles of free advertising in the Irish media, courtesy of gushing articles about Brian Ormond’s move into the footwear business, one of the companies behind the Movrs franchise is tripping into liquidation. K Club-based Ormond lives an enviable lifestyle, with a nice pile in the K Club and regular… Read more »

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Irish Pharmacy Union Dermot Twomey

PHARMACISTS’ FINANCIAL HEADACHE

Date: March 8, 2023 - Briefcases

IN RECENT weeks Dermot Twomey’s Irish Pharmacy Union (IPU) has been getting its fair share of attention, most notably as a result of the high-profile shortage of many medicines. No doubt IPU president Twomey and the other top brass are hoping that this helps to distract members from the continued haemorrhaging of money at a… Read more »

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Duncan Stewart

DUNCAN STEWART’S MANY HATS

Date: March 8, 2023 - Briefcases

WITH THE critically acclaimed Eco Eye television series jettisoned by RTÉ (see The Phoenix 24/2/23), it may not be too long before presenter and climate activist Duncan Stewart is back on our screens with his latest venture. He has had a fair few different corporate incarnations down the years. While Montrose sought to sugar the… Read more »

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CMC Glencore Cerrejón coal mine

CERREJÓN’S IRISH MINING COMPANY CALLS IT A DAY

Date: March 8, 2023 - Briefcases

THE IRISH-registered company that has been the sole marketer of coal from the controversial giant Cerrejón mine on the Colombia-Venezuela border has just been wound up. Not surprisingly, there was a few bob in the pot. Owned today by major London-listed commodity trader Glencore, CMC-Coal Marketing DAC has been selling coal from Cerrejón for 20… Read more »

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Bertie Ahern

BERTIE AHERN’S REAL AGENDA

Date: February 22, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

WHETHER INSPIRED by some devious and cunning politician or whether they became obsessed with Bertie Ahern’s presumed presidential ambitions, journalists en masse were diverted from the real agenda behind his recent re-entry to Fianna Fáil. As Goldhawk observed last year, Micheál Martin and other Fianna Fáil ministers anticipated a most embarrassing scenario unfolding with the… Read more »

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Douglas Taylor

PROFILE: DOUGLAS TAYLOR

Date: February 22, 2023 - Pillars of Society

FANS OF Goldhawk will be familiar with horseracing fanatic and scourge of the bookies Douglas Taylor, whose day job is CEO of the super-profitable MCR Group, one of the country’s biggest outsourcing companies. Having started as a construction recruitment specialist, it expanded into areas such as security, waste management and contract cleaning but Doug didn’t… Read more »

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Anluan Dunne

YOUNG BLOOD: ANLUAN DUNNE

Date: February 22, 2023 - The Young Bloods

CAN TRALEE’S Anluan Dunne confound the critics in Kerry and lead a Green march forward for the party in this most inhospitable of constituencies? That’s the question party strategists are debating. While the party is getting a battering in the opinion polls, a sharp eye is being kept on future prospects, with potential candidates being… Read more »

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Hugh Linehan

COLOUR-BLIND CRITICS

Date: February 22, 2023 - Fit to Print?

HUGH LINEHAN has been conspicuously silent about the race row over nominations to the Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards 2022. The IT’s arts and culture editor, who also hosts the weekly Inside Politics podcast, has stayed silent about the nomination of just two white actors in the play The Octoroon – with the other eight… Read more »

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Duncan Stewart

DUNCAN’S DOSH

Date: February 22, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

LAST WEEKEND climate activist and environmental campaigner Duncan Stewart got a run-out on Brendan O’Connor’s Radio 1 show on foot of the unpopular decision by Montrose to cease broadcasting the Eco Eye series, the last episode of which was aired on February 9. One of… Read more »

Michael O'Leary School Bus

MICHAEL O’LEARY ON THE BUSES

Date: February 22, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

IN DECEMBER last, Ryanair’s Michael O’Leary made one of his trademark outbursts, this time with a target that, even by his standards, was unexpected; the subject of his ire was that money was being “squandered” by the Government to run the state’s school bus service. According to Michael O’Leary, airline passengers are charged an EU… Read more »

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CIARA KELLY’S MORNING MOOLAH

Date: February 22, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

AS ONE of star agent Noel O’Kelly’s roster of ‘talent’, doctor-turned-broadcaster Ciara Kelly is proving quite the earner. The Newstalk presenter’s profile on NM Management’s website notes that, apart from the morning radio gig, Ciara is also “a regular keynote speaker for health conferences, speaking engagements and corporate events”. On top of these lucrative speaking… Read more »

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Hugh Cahill

HUGH CAHILL’S OWN GOALS

Date: February 22, 2023 - Briefcases

IT HAS been an unfortunate start to the year for RTÉ sports broadcaster Hugh Cahill, whose company has just gone into liquidation. On top of this setback, the well-known media personality finds himself on the end of a judgment from his local credit union. The popular Cahill has been a familiar face and voice for… Read more »

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Niamh Parker

NIAMH PARKER’S TWEETS

Date: February 22, 2023 - Briefcases

THE STORY of Altada’s travails keeps on giving and last weekend the Business Post featured a large spread detailing multiple criticisms of founder director Allan Beechinor from the recently appointed liquidator, John Healy. The story will not have come as a big surprise to followers of the Twitter account of Beechinor’s wife and Altada co-founder,… Read more »

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Fintan O'Toole Ukraine EPA

FINTAN CALLS TIME ON BIDEN

Date: February 22, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

FINTAN O’TOOLE is probably the most influential opinion former in Ireland and thus far he has laid most blame for the war in Ukraine on President Vladimir Putin rather than President Joe Biden. But this week he effectively urged the West to withdraw its support for Ukraine against the Russian invasion. But it is these… Read more »

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Ailish Kelly

AILISH KELLY’S FINE FIGURES

Date: February 22, 2023 - High Society

IT WAS not surprising to see media-savvy Ailish Kelly of the Avoca cosmetic surgery clinic in Co Wicklow pop up in a Sunday Times article last weekend, headlined “Designer vagina surgery soars”. She was quick to point out that around 12% of the procedures carried out at The Avoca Clinic each month are labiaplasties costing… Read more »

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VOL 41 NO 04

Date: February 22, 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

SISTERS’ SUMMIT

Date: February 22, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

IT LOOKS like Dublin’s Convention Centre will be the hot ticket in May when Executive Women Gathering (EWG), described as “Ireland’s largest female executive leadership summit”, kicks off. Promoted by ‘media partner’ the Irish Times, the one-day shindig costs a mere €445 with the early bird offer. Speakers on May 5 include candle queen Jo… Read more »

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Paul Niland

IRISH MEDIA AT WAR

Date: February 22, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

A REHASHED article that has effectively been published already by the Irish Times, Irish Independent, RTÉ, BBC and now the Sunday Times again last weekend, lionised Paul Niland, Dublin’s answer to Volodymyr Zelenskyy who refuses to leave Ukraine as it is his “home”. The director of suicide prevention hotline Lifeline Ukraine, Niland has received many… Read more »

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Ireland Syria Bashar al-Assad

IDLIB: IRELAND’S IMPACT

Date: February 22, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

THE EARTHQUAKES that hit south-eastern Turkey and north-western Syria caused widespread destruction of property and tens of thousands of death. The region has been ravaged by war for over a decade and both the local population and the many internally displaced people occupying camps have also in recent years had their dire situation compounded by… Read more »

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Colin Wallace

BAD APPLES

Date: February 22, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

DAVID BURKE, the specialist author on British intelligence in Ireland, is shortly to release an old-fashioned pamphlet entitled An Orchard of Bad Apples (which will soon be available on the Covert History Ireland website). Burke argues that the UK is paying a reputational price for the decades during which the state turned a blind eye… Read more »

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Wagner Group Mali Sergey Lavrov

THE SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA

Date: February 22, 2023 - Hush Hush

EARLIER THIS month United Nations general secretary António Guterres rang alarm bells when he told the general assembly (in the context of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine): “I fear the world is not sleepwalking into a wider war. I fear it is doing so with its eyes wide open.” Addressing the supply of heavy offensive weapons… Read more »

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Bertie Ahern

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: February 22, 2023 - The Hot Air Brigade

I’ve been up and down the country, particularly since 2014. I’ve been to conferences on Brexit in all the border counties, huge meetings in Cavan, Monaghan, in Donegal. Next week I’m with Ibec. I consider this my public service. Bertie Ahern, speaking to reporters, as quoted by RTÉ.ie, submitted by reader Manifestation is a way… Read more »

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Boris Johnson

DUP’S DEMOCRATIC DEFICIT

Date: February 22, 2023 - Northwind

IN OCTOBER 2019 Leo Varadkar went for a walk up the garden path in the grounds of Thornton Manor in the Wirral with Boris Johnson. What Varadkar might agree to was a source of concern for Irish officials. The main concession Vlad did agree then has now emerged as the biggest obstacle to a UK-EU… Read more »

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Fine Gael United Ireland Lorraine Hall

FINE GAEL CROSSES THE BORDER

Date: February 22, 2023 - Last Refuge

FINE GAEL’S move to set up its own organizational structures north of the border says as much about Fianna Fáil’s wavering commitment to a united Ireland under Micheál Martin as it does about FG under Leo Varadkar. It hardly caused an eyebrow to arch in establishment circles south of the border – reflecting the Dublin… Read more »

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Mary Fitzpatrick

BERTIE’S GOOD OL’ BOYS

Date: February 22, 2023 - Last Refuge

DOWN IN the constituency organisation of Fianna Fáil in Dublin Central (DC), one person who will have gritted her teeth while affecting to welcome Bertie Ahern back into the bosom of the party is senator Mary Fitzpatrick. She would likely have been an FF Dáil deputy from 2007 onwards had Bertie and the Drumcondra Mafia… Read more »

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