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Dairy Ireland Alice Doyle

POLLUTERS PARADISE

Date: May 3, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

The polluter’s paradox is the term given to the fact that the more polluting a company or sector is, the more it has to spend on both politics and advertising to ensure it evades being properly regulated. In the US, fossil fuel companies have invested heavily in buying up politicians as well as bamboozling the… Read more »

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Liz Truss

LIZ TRUSS FOR SECRET COURT CASE

Date: May 3, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

THE BRIEFEST of British prime ministers, Liz Truss, could find herself called in a dramatic court case that her government is trying to have heard in secret as it concerns allegations about British diplomatic misbehaviour and indiscretion in the US. An Irish passport holder and British civil servant, whose father hails from Galway, is suing… Read more »

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Kildare Street & University Club King Charles III

SEND HIM VICTORIOUS!

Date: May 3, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

A SIGN of ‘how far we have come’, as some modernists put it, is the invite to its members from the Kildare Street & University Club this weekend. There they will repair to the drawing room of their club for champagne and fine wine in order to celebrate the coronation of King Charles III over… Read more »

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Micheal Martin

THE MOUSE THAT ROARS

Date: May 3, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

MEDIA SPECULATION about the appetite of Tánaiste Micheál Martin for the post in foreign affairs – something that became very apparent in the months before the changeover with Leo Varadkar as Taoiseach last Christmas – was muted and polite, preferring not to mention the elephant or even the mouse in the room. But Martin’s Skibbereen-type… Read more »

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Date: May 3, 2023 -

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Avvio Frank Reeves

AVVIO’S AI BONUS

Date: April 20, 2023 - Briefcases

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) is generating quite the buzz at the moment but an Irish hotel booking software company, Avvio, that has been working away with this technology for a number of years recently hit the jackpot when US giants bought in. The big winner here was Frank Reeves. Elsewhere Goldhawk highlights the impressive PR skills… Read more »

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Susan Kirby

FILM PRODUCERS’ PROFITABLE PLOT

Date: April 19, 2023 - Briefcases

THE LOBBY organisation for film and television producers, Screen Producers Ireland (SPI), has just delivered a nice plot in its latest accounts, covering the year to December 2021. Presumably, most of its member companies are happy with the tough stance it has been taking on royalties for actors. Run by chief executive Susan Kirby, SPI… Read more »

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DJI Michelle Hetherington

MICHELLE HETHERINGTON’S CURATED COLLAPSE

Date: April 19, 2023 - Briefcases

A COMPANY called Curated Ltd has just collapsed into liquidation. This entity turns out to be linked to high-profile design company David James Interiors Ltd (DJI). The latter operates as DJI Design and Construction – David Clarke and Michelle Hetherington’s design company, which has built up a strong client base in the commercial interior fit-out… Read more »

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Claddagh Chris de Putron

CLADDAGH’S BIDEN BOOST

Date: April 19, 2023 - Briefcases

THE SINDO was rapturous in its reporting that Sleepy Joe Biden was gifted a vinyl copy of Almost Everything – a spoken-word album of the poetry of Patrick Kavanagh – by Michael D Higgins. As the paper pointed out, Claddagh Records is chaired and owned by Denis O’Brien’s PR man, James Morrissey, and has been… Read more »

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Eamonn Rothwell

P&O STORM DELIVERS SMOOTH SAILING FOR ICG

Date: April 19, 2023 - Moneybags

THE LATEST figures from Irish Ferries’ owner Irish Continental Group (ICG) are pretty impressive and reflect the wise move to expand on the busy Dover-Calais route – an opportunity provided by competitor P&O and gleefully accepted by Eamonn Rothwell, ICG boss since 1992. Shareholders, however, remain in the dark about various aspects of this Irish… Read more »

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Vodafone Margherita Della Valle

VODAFONE SHARES WORTH DOUBLE CURRENT PRICE

Date: April 19, 2023 - Moneybags

VODAFONE HAS seen some significant changes at the top recently – and not just in Ireland, where CEO Anne O’Leary switched provider for Meta/Facebook last September. Rather more significant, however, is the exit of the CEO of the whole Vodafone group, Nick Read, who was ousted at the end of last year having failed to… Read more »

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David McRedmond

McREDMOND’S RTÉ CAMPAIGN BLOWS UP

Date: April 19, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

DAVID McREDMOND came out with his hands up last Sunday issuing a statement saying he had “no further interest in a role at RTÉ” (actually, it was the other way round) following a veritable campaign to install him as RTÉ director general by his supporters on the national broadcaster’s board and in the wider media…. Read more »

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Devils Own

THE DEVIL’S OWN – MARIA McDONALD

Date: April 19, 2023 - Books|ReviewsReviews

THIS MUCH-HYPED historical suspense novel, The Devil’s Own, centres on three mysterious diaries dating back to the late 1800s but only discovered in 2020. After a lifetime in the Irish army, Brian McElroy is retiring. While clearing his attic before moving out of the Curragh Camp, he finds the journals and is instantly engrossed in… Read more »

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Neasa Hourigan

PROFILE: NEASA HOURIGAN

Date: April 19, 2023 - Pillars of Society

THERE WAS a time when Green Party members would have been calling for smelling salts to revive themselves if its TDs and other personalities engaged in political brawling in public. The suspension of Neasa Hourigan TD – for the third time in two years – reveals a party that has changed from the gentleness of… Read more »

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Keilidh Cashell

YOUNG BLOOD: KEILIDH CASHELL

Date: April 19, 2023 - The Young Bloods

MONAGHAN MAKE-UP artist Keilidh Cashell (27) has parlayed a talent for creating dramatic looks into a very profitable business, thanks to a little help from her friends. Her cosmetics brand, Kash Beauty, was made up when it wiped the eye of other more high-profile competitors in October. Out of a very crowded market, it became… Read more »

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Bertie Ahern

BERTIE’S OBSTACLE TO THE ÁRAS

Date: April 19, 2023 - Last Refuge

ANYBODY WHO presumed that Bertie Ahern would shy away from a bid to run for the presidency in 2025 because of the adverse comments made about him in the Mahon Tribunal will have been surprised by his remarks in an interview with Justine McCarthy in the Irish Times last week. There, Bertie made it clear… Read more »

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Mark Garrett Catherine Hegarty

LAW SOCIETY COCK-UP

Date: April 19, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

THERE WILL have been some red faces in Blackhall Place this month when the solicitors’ body had to apologise for a warning notice it had posted on its own website, which left readers with the impression that a totally innocent firm may have been acting in a dishonest manner. The good news for Law Society… Read more »

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CILLIAN MURPHY’S FOREIGN AFFAIR

Date: April 19, 2023 - Behind the Scenes

IT IS not well understood by the public that most of the taxpayers’ moolah that subsidises film production in Ireland is soaked up by (mainly) US producers, although assorted reports commissioned by Désirée Finnegan’s Screen Ireland (SI) emphasise the local jobs provided. An recent Irish film funded by SI, God’s Creatures, is a case in… Read more »

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ANGELA SCANLON’S MOOLAH

Date: April 19, 2023 - High Society

IT HAS been hard to avoid the hype around Angela Scanlon’s return to the screen with her Ask Me Anything talkshow on RTÉ. The bad news for fans, however, is that they won’t be seeing loads more of her as busy Angie has officially ruled herself out for The Late Late Show hosting gig, telling… Read more »

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JP McMahon

JP McMAHON’S NEW DINERS

Date: April 19, 2023 - High Society

WITH FINE dining under pressure as the rising cost of living kicks in and tourism numbers come under pressure due to a lack of hotel accommodation, it is not surprising that restaurateurs are looking at ways to boost their income. The latest brainwave involves serving up swanky tasting menus to kids. One of those extolling… Read more »

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Avril Stanley

STANLEY’S STRATEGY

Date: April 19, 2023 - Behind the Scenes

THE QUEEN of the Body & Soul festival in Ballinlough Castle, Avril Stanley, announced recently that she has cut the shindig’s capacity by almost 70% to 5,000 “to come back to what was important”. This may put the brakes on the impressive financial performance delivered by Avril but it is clear that she intends to… Read more »

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Coolmore John Magnier

MAGNIER’S COSTLY FILLY

Date: April 19, 2023 - Sport of Kings

THE OLD adage of breeding the best to the best and hoping for the best is as good a guide as any to navigating the tricky waters of breeding racehorses (although it’s a method that tends to require very deep pockets). With the flat season gathering pace there have been some interesting examples of horses… Read more »

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Quevega Cheltenham Winners Willie Mullins

DEVELOPERS’ WINNING WAYS

Date: April 19, 2023 - Sport of Kings

PROPERTY DEVELOPERS Sean Deane and Ger O’Brien have experienced highs and low in their business careers but have rarely enjoyed anything but good times when it comes to their horses. The boys are best known for the exploits of the great mare Quevega, who brought them into the Cheltenham winners’ enclosure no less than six… Read more »

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FRANK REEVES’S BIDEN BOOST

Date: April 19, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

GOLDHAWK DOFFS his cap to the PR skills of Frank Reeves, the Irish businessman behind hotel booking software operation Avvio, which he set up in Limerick 20 years ago with his brother, Brian. There was plenty of commercial interest in Joe Biden’s visit, given the potential for delivering marketing opportunities courtesy of copy-hungry hacks. Reeves… Read more »

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Colin Marry

COLIN MARRY’S SAUSAGES

Date: April 19, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

GOLDHAWK WAS surprised to see that a company touted as being behind the farming of “pigs that could change the world” has just collapsed into liquidation. It appears that Louth entrepreneur and farmer Colin Marry has found that changing the world is an expensive business. Certainly, he has thrown an awful lot of moolah at… Read more »

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Gordon Elliott

ELLIOTT’S ID FARCE

Date: April 19, 2023 - Sport of Kings

GORDON ELLIOTT was summoned before an Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB) referrals committee recently to explain how a significant mix-up in his yard led to two of the wrong horses being sent to compete at Navan in March. When the Elliott-trained filly Optoforce was presented by her groom for inspection to IHRB veterinary officer Emma… Read more »

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Noel Meade

NOEL MEADE’S PARTNER

Date: April 19, 2023 - Sport of Kings

THE PAST 10 years have seen a number of predominantly Wexford-based point-to-point trainers revolutionise the point-to-point game from what was an amateur discipline – often seen as a bit of fun for amateur riders and trainers – into what is now closer to a high-stakes poker game involving millions of euros worth of horseflesh. People… Read more »

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Silvana Landa

SILVANA’S LUXURY HANDBAGS

Date: April 19, 2023 - High Society

WHILE MOST of the big bucks invested in this country is focused on the likes of tech, pharma and property, there has been a fair few bob sloshing around in recent times looking for a home in the luxury goods market. One of those hoping to tap in here is Silvana Landa. As Goldhawk revealed… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: April 19, 2023 - Bog Cuttings

‘KING OF BALLINCOLLIG’ A 28-year-old who jumped on the bonnet of a patrol car during an altercation with gardaí was described by Judge Olann Kelleher at Cork District Court as acting as if he were “the king of Ballincollig”. Cillian Barry, formerly of Dromin Drive, Tower, Blarney, Cork, was spotted by patrolling gardaí acting in… 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

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

Date: April 19, 2023 - Fowl Emissions

Given the constant chorus from the livestock sector claiming it is being unfairly demonised on emissions while fossil fuel companies are not subject to the same scrutiny, a new international media analysis on industrial meat and climate change had some surprising findings. It noted that while livestock accounted for a whopping 14.5% of global emissions,… Read more »

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Irish Aid Simon Coveney

IRELAND DUMPS ON AFRICA

Date: April 19, 2023 - Fowl Emissions

In his recent address to the Oireachtas, US President Joe Biden said that “Ireland remembers the painful hollows of the Great Hunger”. He praised the fact that the Irish aid budget is now expanding to help the most vulnerable, “especially partner nations across Africa”. And, for good measure, Biden added that Ireland was a “global… Read more »

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Justine McCarthy

‘IT’ DENOUNCES SECTARIANISM

Date: April 19, 2023 - Fit to Print?

JUSTINE McCARTHY recently thundered against the “sectarian criteria” of the planned scoping inquiry into the abuse of children in “schools run by religious orders”, an inquiry stimulated by reports of abuse in Blackrock and other Spiritan schools. Confining the inquiry to schools run by religious orders limits the exercise to Catholic schools as Church of… Read more »

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Cathal Berry

OFFICER CLASS MEDIA FIGHT BACK

Date: April 19, 2023 - Fit to Print?

THE DAMNING report of the Independent Review Group (IRG) into sexual assault and other abuses in the Defence Forces was given a supportive response by PDForra – representing enlisted members – but a somewhat more guarded welcome on its release by the officers’ organisation, RACO. Chief of Staff, Lt General Seán Clancy has so far… Read more »

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Áine Lawlor Matt Carthy

IS SHANNON NEUTRAL GROUND?

Date: April 19, 2023 - Last Refuge

In two recent Morning Ireland interviews, Áine Lawlor has interrogated the details of Sinn Féin’s commitment to neutrality, a sensitive issue given the upcoming National Consultative Forum on Ireland’s International Security Policy. SF’s newly appointed spokesperson on foreign affairs and defence, Matt Carthy, was interviewed recently alongside Fianna Fáil MEP Barry Andrews. Carthy was definitive… Read more »

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Eviction Ban Leo Varadkar

NO COUNCIL HOUSES – NO COUNCIL DEBATE

Date: April 19, 2023 - Last Refuge

DAYS BEFORE Sinn Féin’s Dáil motion on ending the eviction ban and a fortnight before the ban was due to expire, Tánaiste Micheál Martin rounded on local councils and accused them of “resistance” to the scheme of buying homes with tenants in situ. The Fianna… Read more »

Tony Murphy Darragh O'Brien Balbriggan Housing

HOUSING FOR ALL… ELSEWHERE

Date: April 19, 2023 - Last Refuge

FIANNA FÁIL insiders raised an eyebrow last week at an Irish Independent report that housing minister Darragh O’Brien continues to send constituents with housing queries to an Independent councillor rather than a party colleague. But locals in Balbriggan have focused instead on the fact that the housing minister’s councillor of choice opposes housing developments. As… Read more »

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