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Andrew Hogan

ANDREW HOGAN’S HEAVY GOING

Date: November 2, 2022 - Sport of Kings

THE PROPOSED all-weather track development at Tipperary racecourse has suffered a potential setback in the form of a spanner lobbed into the planning works by two local residents. Having been given the green light by Tipperary County Council in August to proceed with the €18m project, an appeal has been lodged with An Bord Pleanála… Read more »

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CATHERINE MARTIN’S SHORTLIST

Date: November 2, 2022 - High Society

AS THE National Gallery of Ireland (NGI) hits the one-year mark for limping along with a board full of ministerial vacancies, the good news is that arts minister Catherine Martin has now received a shortlist of nine names selected by the expert panel from the 40 applicants. Given the assorted issues the NGI has had… Read more »

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Valerie Moran

THE MORANS’ RETENTIONS AND LOSSES

Date: November 2, 2022 - High Society

RACEHORSE-LOVING Noel and Valerie Moran have continued to splash their cash, with a new hotel in Co Meath their most recent undertaking. It turns out that the pair of moneybags had to apply for retention permission for some aspects of the multimillion-euro project but the good news is that all is now in order. The… Read more »

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Section 481 James Hickey

THE TALKING SHOP II

Date: November 2, 2022 - Behind the Scenes

WATCHING THE Oireachtas budget oversight committee at work on the Section 481 film industry tax credit last month, it looked a lot like a sequel to the contentious set of committee hearings held in 2018, which aired the serious grievances of some film and TV sector employees over working conditions. Once again, there was no… Read more »

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RTE’S DIVERSITY

Date: November 2, 2022 - Behind the Scenes

CONGRATULATIONS TO the three writers of the 25-minute dramas being broadcast on RTÉ 2 under the ‘Storyland’ banner. Certainly, the selection represents a vote of confidence in female talent. The first of the three selected programmes to be broadcast was Mustard, written by Eva O’Connor and directed by Hildegarde Ryan. Next up was Balor Hall,… Read more »

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Sean Coyle

ORIGIN SHARE PRICE FAILS TO REFLECT PERFORMANCE

Date: November 2, 2022 - Moneybags

ORIGIN ENTERPRISES doesn’t often make headlines. As a supplier of agronomy services and agricultural inputs such as fertiliser and seed, the significant inflation in raw material prices has put the whole sector under strain. There has been a major increase in fertiliser prices, for example, along with increased restrictions demanded by the EU Nitrates Directive,… Read more »

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Ivan Menezes

DIAGEO’S MENEZES NEEDS TO EARN HIS BIG BUCKS

Date: November 2, 2022 - Moneybags

READING THE analysis of Diageo’s very well paid CEO, Ivan Menezes, investors could imagine that the group had a fantastic year in the 12 months to the end of June 2022, with volume sales up 10.3%, combined with 6%-plus increase in prices, pushing up total group sales by 17% to a whopping £22.4bn. After excise… Read more »

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Ronan Healy Gavin Fogarty

EVENT ARMY SUFFERS DEFEAT

Date: November 2, 2022 - The Hot Water Brigade

THE DEFICIT at the online talent sourcing operation Event Army Ltd (EAL), which had traded as Mustard, could turn out to be pretty hefty judging by the figures revealed in last year’s accounts. The collapse of Gavin Fogarty’s company will be a blow to its various backers, which include Enterprise Ireland and assorted venture funds…. Read more »

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John Moore

JOHN MOORE SPLASHES THE CASH

Date: November 2, 2022 - The Hot Water Brigade

NOW BASED in sunny Lisbon in Portugal, self-described “rebel entrepreneur” and “concerned citizen” John Moore has been chucking his money around here, as evidenced by some interesting filings last month. Certainly, Moore has a fair few bob to throw around, having offloaded his 3D4 Medical operation in 2019 to Elsevier for a reported $50m. Given… Read more »

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Center Parcs Ireland Colin McKinlay

COLIN MCKINLAY’S ASBESTOS PROBLEM

Date: November 2, 2022 - The Hot Water Brigade

IT’S BEEN a difficult few years for Center Parcs Ireland (CPI). No sooner had the group opened its expensive holiday village in Co Longford than it was shut down thanks to the pandemic. It has bounced back judging by the €7.4m profit recorded in the 12 months to April this year but now CPI is… Read more »

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GORDON ELLIOTT’S NEW WINNER

Date: November 2, 2022 - The Hot Water Brigade

HIGH-PROFILE horseracing trainer Gordon Elliott has just filed some figures for his latest corporate entity. The Master of Cullentra remains the most likely jumps handler to take the champion trainer’s title off the undisputed king, Willie Mullins. At the moment, Elliott is leading (just) the field of contenders, boasting total prize money won of €1.07m… Read more »

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Peter Smyth Noonan Services

NOONAN FAMILY CLEANS UP

Date: November 2, 2022 - The Hot Water Brigade

A COMPANY with the rather boring name of NNF Services Ltd has just been wound up and it turns out there is quite a lot of moolah sloshing around. This should not be too surprising given that NNF is the company that started out back in 1977 as Noonan Services, before going on to become… Read more »

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Mary Lou McDonald

MARY LOU CHILLS OUT MARTIN

Date: October 19, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

MICHEÁL MARTIN, Shane Ross and other journalists have accused Sinn Féin, and Mary Lou McDonald in particular, of having a “chilling… spooked” effect on the media and politicians by suing them in a calculated campaign “to shut down political debate” (Martin) and that RTÉ has been “terrified” by this campaign (Ross). The reason for this… Read more »

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Chris Heaton-Harris

PROFILE: CHRISTOPHER HEATON-HARRIS

Date: October 19, 2022 - Pillars of Society

LIZ TRUSS appointed Christopher Heaton-Harris, an arch eurosceptic, as her secretary of state for Northern Ireland, after others turned down the post. His number two at the Northern Ireland Office is his long-standing ally, Stephen Baker, another eurosceptic talisman. Even before her current humiliating ordeal, the new prime minister had a lot on her plate… Read more »

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The Ditch Eoghan McNeill and Roman Shortall

YOUNG BLOODS: EOGHAN MCNEILL & ROMAN SHORTALL

Date: October 19, 2022 - The Young Bloods

“All killer, no filler” is how The Ditch’s editorial team of Roman Shortall and Eoghan McNeill describe their modus operandi of publishing stories that “mainstream outlets don’t want to or can’t publish”. While their claims may be bumptious, The Ditch has hit the back of the net on a few occasions. Its investigation into discrepancies and… Read more »

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Irish Times Editor Ruadhan Mac Cormaic

‘IRISH TIMES’ EDITORIAL WINS OUT

Date: October 19, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

FOR MANY years the commercial side of the house in Tara Street tended to win out over the lofty editorial staff with their crusading self-image. As far back as Douglas Gageby’s successor in the 1980s, Conor Brady – whose understanding of the market and the readership won out over the journalists’ favourite, Jim Downey –… Read more »

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Frances Ruane Abbey Theatre Review

FRANCES RUANE’S NEW DRAMA

Date: October 19, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

GOLDHAWK WAS interested to see a tender notice has been published by the Abbey Theatre, seeking applications from consultants to carry out what should prove a most interesting review of the national theatre. It marks a challenging start to the second term of chairwoman Frances Ruane. It will be recalled (see The Phoenix 12/8/22) that… Read more »

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Enoch Burke Prison

ENOCH BURKE PROTESTERS

Date: October 19, 2022 - Hush Hush

ENOCH BURKE is now well into his second month in prison after he breached an injunction instructing him to stay away from Wilson’s Hospital School, where he works as a secondary school teacher. One imagines that Burke, whose family are no strangers to national controversy, is embarrassed at the protests that have taken place outside… Read more »

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Lynn Sheehan

OUT OF AFRICA

Date: October 19, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

IRISH WOMAN Lynn Sheehan has just been appointed head of operations of the EU’s advisory mission in Ukraine. This follows her service as chief of staff at the European Union’s European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EUCAP) Sahel Niger. There, the mission’s mandate had been extended by two years with a budget of €72m and… Read more »

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AOIFE GALLAGHER’S INSTITUTE

Date: October 19, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

CONGRATULATIONS TO journalist-turned-analyst Aoife Gallagher, who has managed to generate a huge amount of publicity for her new book, Web of Lies (The Lure and Danger of Conspiracy Theories). She also finds time to do her day job, researching at the intriguing Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD). Gallagher’s book (published by Gill) covers various familiar… Read more »

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Danielle Ryan

DANIELLE RYAN’S LATEST FOUNDATION

Date: October 19, 2022 - High Society

GOLDHAWK was interested to come across an outfit called The Form Foundation, which turns out to be the latest arty incarnation for busy actor, businesswoman, philanthropist and multimillionaire Danielle Ryan (granddaughter of Tony). The Form Foundation describes itself as “an organisation conceived to enrich Ireland’s public art offering”, which will collaborate with institutions “to bring… Read more »

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Mark Little New RTÉ Chair

RTÉ’S NEW CHAIR

Date: October 19, 2022 - Fit to Print?

THE SHORTLIST of applicants to replace the chair of the RTÉ board, Moya Doherty, is down to three: super successful broadcaster and digital innovator Mark Little; highly effective tax avoidance expert, PWC managing partner and scion of the Fianna Fáil O’Rourke dynasty, Feargal O’Rourke; and long-time RTÉ broadcaster, Tommie Gorman. O’Rourke is ‘credited’, if that’s… Read more »

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VOL 40 NO 21

Date: October 19, 2022 -

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Bertie Ahern

BERTIE MOVING BACK CENTRE STAGE?

Date: October 19, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

WHY HAS the question of Bertie Ahern re-joining Fianna Fáil suddenly become an issue and why does the former taoiseach appear willing to return to the fold? More to the point, why does the party leadership, Micheál Martin and his advisors seem even more anxious than Bertie and his admirers for such a reconciliation? The… Read more »

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RANDOX’S RAP ON THE KNUCKLES

Date: October 19, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

THE Advertising Standards Authority of Ireland (ASAI) has issued its latest findings into alleged breaches of its code, including complaints about the seriously profitable Randox operation. After a significant wait, Peter Fitzgerald’s firms got the thumbs down. A major player in the medical devices sector, Randox’s testing business, here and in the UK, exploded during… Read more »

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CULTURE CLUB

Date: October 19, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

THERE HAS been a flurry of letter writing activity in the Irish Times this month relating to the little-known Irish Banking Culture Board (IBCB), with the main question being, what on earth is its purpose. It will probably come as little surprise that it turns out to be funded by the banking sector itself, with… Read more »

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Caroline Kennedy Tevian Mirrelson

TEVIAN’S TRAVAILS

Date: October 19, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

A JUDGMENT has just been registered by PR queen Caroline Kennedy against the fabulously named Tevian Mirrelson, who previously came to the attention of the taxman. Mirrelson has an interesting track record, having established himself as a player in the animal charity world, helping to raise funds through lottery ticket sales etc. He established a… Read more »

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Stuart Gilhooly Law Society Council

LAW SOCIETY ABSTENTIONISTS

Date: October 19, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

HOW EMBARRASSING. With elections pending to the Law Society Council, members have been informed there will be no such election as not enough solicitors have gone forward for the council. And so it appears that apathy has been installed among the legal eagles of the nation. With 15 places waiting to be filled on the… Read more »

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Una Mullally

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: October 19, 2022 - The Hot Air Brigade

I don’t say “Up the ‘RA” because I think it diminishes and collapses complex things into an edgy soundbite. Una Mullally, Irish Times I am good at getting focused and working really hard when I put my mind to it. But I’m an architect which means I’m a dreamer. Dermot Bannon, VIP Magazine Offering some… Read more »

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Keir Starmer Good Friday Agreement

UNIONIST MINORITY VETO?

Date: October 19, 2022 - Northwind

It’s now universally accepted that the British don’t keep treaties and certainly not the parts that don’t suit any incoming government, like the Conservatives in 2010. This dishonourable behaviour isn’t new: Britain wasn’t known as ‘perfidious Albion’ for nothing. In the 1950s Charles De Gaulle… Read more »

Mary Fitzpatrick Fianna Fáil Dublin

FIANNA FÁIL MARCH ON DUBLIN

Date: October 19, 2022 - Last Refuge

MICHEÁL MARTIN has hit on a devilishly clever plan to boost Fianna Fáil’s alarmingly low support base in Dublin, with its recent ard fheis confirming poll ratings and other evidence that the party is at a low ebb in the capital city. The statistics revealed by the vote for the national committee showed that, of… Read more »

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Mary Hanafin

MARY, MARY AGAIN CONTRARY?

Date: October 19, 2022 - Last Refuge

MARY HANAFIN may be poised to perform a political Lazarus act and attempt a return in Dún Laoghaire at the next general election, according to alarming (for Fianna Fáil leader Taoiseach Micheál Martin and perhaps sitting TD Cormac Devlin) reports from Kingstown. It had been assumed that Hanafin’s long, mostly successful and highly individualistic political… Read more »

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TIMMY DOOLEY’S HEALTH WARNING

Date: October 19, 2022 - Last Refuge

THAT MOST persecuted section of society, senior HSE managers, were ambushed by Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael backbench TDs last June, according to a recent Sunday Independent report. A brief meeting about waiting lists and hospital emergency departments in the Limerick area went ahead last summer with senior HSE managers and health minister Stephen Donnelly… Read more »

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Deirdre Conroy

DEIRDRE OF THE SORROWS

Date: October 19, 2022 - Last Refuge

IS COUNCILLOR Deirdre Conroy some sort of political masochist? As a Fianna Fáil by-election candidate in Dublin Bay South (DBS) last year, Conroy managed to pull in 4.6% of the first-preference vote in a disastrous campaign. It is hard to say whether the party nationally, leader Micheál Martin or local TD and leadership challenger Jim… Read more »

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Sunday Times Demelza de Burca

‘SUNDAY TIMES’ CULTURE CULL

Date: October 19, 2022 - Fit to Print?

SOMETHING OF a cultural counter-revolution is happening at the Irish edition of the Sunday Times, where new staff to replace the allegedly over-paid literati are moving into the positions recently made vacant by a ruthless purge. Take the new deputy editor, Demelza de Burca, who takes over from the urbane, cosmopolitan No 2, John Burns…. Read more »

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PLUGGING STEPHEN COLLINS

Date: October 19, 2022 - Fit to Print?

HOPEFULLY PUBLIC ennui with Brexit will not diminish sales of the recently published book, Ireland’s Call: Navigating Brexit, by Irish Times columnist and former political editor Stephen Collins. The newspaper appears to be taking no chances and found several reasons in one week recently to plug the book by shoehorning it into stories three days… Read more »

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