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Christy Kinahan John Mooney

IRAN-KINAHAN SCARY STORY

Date: December 1, 2022 - Fit to Print?

THE IRISH edition of the Sunday Times has been purged of most long-time, senior staff but crime and security correspondent John Mooney remains in situ. This is either because of editor Nóirín Hegarty’s appetite for spooky stories and tales of cops’n’robbers or because the ST’s London management appreciates the editorial value of Mooney’s sources in… Read more »

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Mickael Viljanen Ross Lewis

CHAPTER ONE’S NEW CHAPTER

Date: December 1, 2022 - High Society

THE WINDING-UP of a company called Lindley Ltd has just taken place, marking an ‘official’ end to the original Ross Lewis-fronted Chapter One restaurant business, where the name in lights these days is Mickael Viljanen. The good news for Ross is that he still appears to have comfortably the biggest share of the plate. Before… Read more »

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Sheikh Fahad Al Thani

SHEIKH FAHAD’S THOROUGHBREDS

Date: December 1, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

THERE HAS, not surprisingly, been oodles of coverage over the last month of the Qatar’s sports-washing agenda, which is playing itself out for a global audience courtesy of the World Cup. There is also the well-known and much-debated ownership of the Paris Saint-Germain football club by Qatar Sports Investments. Less high profile, however, is the… Read more »

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Robert Tyner

ROBERT TYNER’S U-TURN

Date: December 1, 2022 - Sport of Kings

ANOTHER TRAINER who had a spot of bother with the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB) earlier this year is Robert Tyner. During the summer the Cork-based trainer announced his intention to quit the business, citing staffing issues and quality of life as the main reasons, although it looks like he will be around for a… Read more »

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Diageo Dana An Garda Síochána IT Trust No Stone Unturned Irish Times Black Friday Vicky Conway

GO, HARVEY, GO!

Date: December 1, 2022 - Fit to Print?

IN A timely editorial last Saturday, the Irish Times warned: “Indigenous retailers have been effectively strong-armed into holding Black Friday sales by multinationals better equipped to buy in stock specifically for sales… many small and independent Irish retailers cannot afford such luxury but have little choice but to compete. Over 50 per cent of the… Read more »

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Green Party CETA Patrick Costello

GREENS DIVIDE ON CETA

Date: November 17, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

GREEN PARTY TD Patrick Costello has gone from naive radical to triumphant litigant fighting the EU-Canada trade deal, Ceta, with his successful Supreme Court victory last week. But it is his own party members, or more precisely the Eamon Ryan led leadership, that forms the real opposition to his crusade on the issue. As party… Read more »

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Varadkar Sinn Féin Jordan Bardella

VARADKAR’S BLACK AND BLUE SHIRTS

Date: November 17, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

RECENT ATTACKS by Leo Varadkar on Sinn Féin have tried to link the party to far-right movements in Europe. At the launch of the Fine Gael think-in in Kilkenny in September, Vlad ventured: “Bear in mind, if Mary Lou became Taoiseach there would only be three potential prime ministers who will be out of the… Read more »

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Eamon Marray

EAMON MARRAY’S MASK PROTEST

Date: November 17, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

THERE WERE fun and games in the Dublin County Registrar’s court last week when experienced commercial law barrister Eamon Marray made it pretty damn clear that he wouldn’t be wearing any mask for the call-over. It was not the first time the issue of masks had exercised the highly regarded legal eagle. Rita Considine is… Read more »

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Paul Hourican Judge Michael Quinn

PAUL HOURICAN’S RETURN

Date: November 17, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

GOLDHAWK’S favourite landlord Paul Hourican is living proof that you can’t keep a good man down. Having been burned by his adventure with Period Door Properties (PDP), the D4-based all-rounder is back in the estate agency game. It will be recalled (see The Phoenix 23/4/21) that Hourican first made an impact when the number of… Read more »

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LAST ‘POST’ GOES SCANDINAVIAN

Date: November 17, 2022 - Fit to Print?

REPORTS LAST week that Swedish publishing multinational Bonnier is to take an indeterminate stake in the Business Post may begin to shed light on just who the Post’s investors are, besides owner Enda O’Coineen. When he bought the paper in 2018, O’Coineen gave the impression that he was preparing for a flotation in Sweden. He… Read more »

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Anne Rabbitte

MISCOUNTING GENDER QUOTAS

Date: November 17, 2022 - Last Refuge

ELEVATION TO the Fianna Fáil ard comhairle (AC) may not be everyone’s idea of political paradise but it caused a dispute between junior equality and children’s minister Anne Rabbitte and party bosses. The dispute also recently involved former front-bench spokesperson and current party leader in the Seanad, Lisa Chambers. The parliamentary party nominated three women… Read more »

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Defence Department Aviva Simon Coveney

UNARMED COVENEY

Date: November 17, 2022 - Hush Hush

THE DEFENCE department released a press release last month regarding the information and networking event it had organised in the Aviva Stadium could not have been more bland, banal or even bureaucratic. The event title, “Building the ecosystem – identifying connections for collaboration in security, defence and dual technologies”, was stultifying. Yet the conference was… Read more »

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Pippa O’Connor Vodka

PIPPA O’CONNOR’S POT STILL

Date: November 17, 2022 - High Society

THE RELENTLESS expansion of Pippa O’Connor Ormond’s business interests has continued in the form of a move into the vodka game. Having signed on as a creative director at the Istil38 Irish vodka brand back in April, she has now put her money where her mouth is. Istil38 was established last year by John Reynolds… Read more »

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John Brady

JOHN BRADY’S PLOT TWIST

Date: November 17, 2022 - Behind the Scenes

AS FANS of Goldhawk are aware, there has been a relentless rise in the number of film and TV studio projects at various stages of planning – all preparing to slug it out for a share of the lucrative tax breaks worth around €110m pa at last count. One operation in the west now finds… Read more »

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Kevin Manning

KEVIN MANNING’S FUTURE

Date: November 17, 2022 - Sport of Kings

AFTER A successful career in the saddle spanning four decades, Kevin Manning finally hung up his boots after winning on Vocal Studies at Galway, trained by Jim Bolger, his father-in-law. The jockey’s retirement now raises the question of where he goes from here and will it involve being part of Bolger’s big training and breeding… Read more »

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THE QUEEN OF DIRT ISLAND - DONAL RYAN

THE QUEEN OF DIRT ISLAND – DONAL RYAN

Date: November 17, 2022 - BooksBooks|ReviewsReviews

HAVING MADE an impact with his early ‘recession-lit’ fiction, Donal Ryan continues to be associated with vividly drawn characters, wrenchingly sad lives and a compressed lyrical style. His latest novel has the usual rural Tipperary setting and takes place over four decades from the 1980s to the present time. The story traces turning points in… Read more »

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Price of Pint Ireland Sheena Horgan

DRINKAWARE’S BUSY YEAR

Date: November 17, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

THE PRICE of alcohol was back in the news this month as giant brewer Heineken upped the cost of a pint by around 10% in Ireland, with Budweiser and Diageo looking set to follow suit. Heineken and Diageo are also backers of the industry-funded ‘charity’ DrinkAware, which has just filed its 2021 annual report. DrinkAware… Read more »

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Micheál Martin 2024 Election

COP27: MARTIN ON CYNICISM

Date: November 17, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

IT’S NOT unusual to hear politicians being called out by NGOs and activists for their empty words and hollow rhetoric on the climate emergency. However, you sense that something significant has changed when Taoiseach Micheál Martin warned, at COP27, that “our citizens will become increasingly cynical, weary and hopeless if words are not urgently matched… Read more »

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Johnny Depp

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: November 17, 2022 - The Hot Air Brigade

Now, it’s rare for a creative genius like Shane to have one avenue of output. Such an incendiary talent is likely to have a multitude of facilities whereby his talent might infiltrate the atmosphere and change the climate. Johnny Depp in the foreword to Shane MacGowan’s new book, The Eternal Buzz and The Crock of… Read more »

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DUP Protocol Jim Allister

DUP: NO ONE LIKES US — WE DON’T CARE

Date: November 17, 2022 - Northwind

IN A remarkable series of assertions last month, Taoiseach Micheál Martin told the Financial Times that the Good Friday Agreement (GFA) is “not fit for purpose”, that its voting system “does polarise” and has to be reformed because “there’s a good spread of parties”. That’s not a great endorsement for the celebrations planned for the… Read more »

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Fianna Fáil Cabinet Seán Haughey

FF BALANCE OF FORCES

Date: November 17, 2022 - Last Refuge

MUCH SPECULATION about minor adjustments to Cabinet members of both Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael in the December upheaval ignores the likelihood of greater changes at junior ministerial level, something that would have a greater impact in FF. For some time there has been a clutch of TDs in FF who are neither part of… Read more »

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Big Oil EU Ursula von der Leyen

WHAT A LOVELY WAR

Date: November 17, 2022 - Fit to Print?

AMID MEDIA hand-wringing about Ukraine and Nato propaganda masquerading as journalism, it takes a small NGO to reveal who has really been making decisions about the energy and inflation crisis and who makes multi-billion profits from the same crisis. Coming after reports of the obscene profits (€78 billion plus) made by Big Oil during the… Read more »

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Ailbhe Noonan

NO IMPEACHMENT AT TRINNERS

Date: November 17, 2022 - Fit to Print?

IT’S BEEN a rocky start for Ailbhe Noonan, newly elected editor of University Times, the Irish student publication of the year for six out of the last seven years. However, this academic year’s first UT edition was error strewn, with articles finishing mid-paragraph, incorrect headings and no bylines on many articles. The second edition was… Read more »

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Declan Ryan Michael Lynch

DECLAN RYAN’S VERANDA

Date: November 17, 2022 - High Society

PLANNING PERMISSION has just been granted to a little-known company to add a veranda to the multimillion-euro former abode of the Brazilian ambassador on leafy Temple Road in D6. This is good news for one Declan Ryan. It will be recalled (see The Phoenix 11/3/22) that, despite owning an already impressive portfolio of Dublin properties,… Read more »

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Matt Ryan Paddy McKillen Jnr

PADDY’S CHOCOLATE ADVENTURE

Date: November 17, 2022 - High Society

HAVING SURPRISINGLY branched into the confectionery business with the purchase of Skelligs Chocolates, Paddy McKillen Jnr will be hoping to shift lots of ‘Chocolate Pyramids’ next month. Documents just filed reveal that he has bought a business primed for take-off. The Companies Office filings show that ownership of Skelligs was transferred from Colm Healy to… Read more »

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Breeders' Cup Aidan O’Brien City of Troy

MV MAGNIER’S SPENDING SPREE

Date: November 17, 2022 - Sport of Kings

AFTER SADDLING three winners at the Breeders’ Cup in Lexington Kentucky, Aidan O’Brien is within sight of becoming the most successful trainer in the history of the Breeders’ Cup. O’Brien currently sits on 16 winners, four behind retired American training legend D Wayne Lukas. Given O’Brien’s appetite for the game, he could well overtake Lukas… Read more »

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Charles Byrnes Ban

PHILIP BYRNES’S SETBACK

Date: November 17, 2022 - Sport of Kings

CHARLES BYRNES has bounced back in some style this year after serving his six-month ban for negligence in 2021 over the high-profile case of the mysterious nobbling of Viking Hoard at Tramore a few years ago. The trainer has also landed a few nice gambles, particularly in England. The most recent one came last month… Read more »

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Palladian Jewel Thurles Bryan Cooper

GAMBLE THAT NEVER WAS

Date: November 17, 2022 - Sport of Kings

A LOT of gambles are overhyped and often even invented by bookies to get ordinary punters to jump on the bandwagon and lash out the cash. Recently at Thurles, however, there was a significant gamble on the Tom Cooper-trained Palladian Jewel just minutes before the off, which saw the horse’s price tumble from an opening… Read more »

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Benny Nilsson

ROBERT DRENNAN’S SOUL SEARCHING

Date: November 17, 2022 - The Hot Water Brigade

SO FAREWELL then to Robert Drennan’s trendy sofa retailer Soul, which has been wound up after a decade in business. Happily, design conscious south Co Dublin urbanites will still be able to decorate their gaffs with gear from the replacement business, Modern Soul, which is already up and running. Soul actually stands for ‘spirit of… Read more »

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Jennifer Rock

JENNY ROCK’S ADVICE

Date: November 17, 2022 - The Hot Water Brigade

VIRTUALLY EVERY media outlet provides some kind of ‘your money’ or ‘how to save it’ advice these days, with some mid-tier entrepreneur or business guru offering words of wisdom. In such turbulent economic times, sage advice is not to be turned down, of course, so Goldhawk’s eye was caught by such advice in the Indo… Read more »

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Bono Book Award Gold trophy Award

ANNUAL 2022: GOLDHAWK’S AWARDS FOR THE PASSING PARADE

Date: November 17, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

MOYA DOHERTY WITH RTÉ on the hunt for a new board chair, outgoing chairwoman Moya Doherty will prove a hard act to follow for anyone seeking to avoid making a lasting impact. At a time of growing concern over the effect our actions have on the environment, Moya’s ‘leave no trace’ approach has to be… Read more »

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Micheal Martin

ANNUAL 2022: GOVERNMENT – THE REAL WAR: VLAD V MARTIN

Date: November 17, 2022 - Last Refuge

IF 2021 was the year in which Government parties and their praetorian guard in the media were rendered aghast by the rise of Sinn Féin to 30% circa in the polls, then 2022 conjured up images of barbarians at the gate. Mary Lou McDonald and her comrades rose to 35%-37% in the polls, causing shrieks… Read more »

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Labour Party Leadership

ANNUAL 2022: OPPOSITION – ALEXANDRA GIRL RULES OK!

Date: November 17, 2022 - Last Refuge

FOR A man who has cultivated such a pugnacious image, Alan Kelly gave up the leadership of the Labour Party with less than a whimper. His brother Declan’s firm, Teneo, sponsored Tipperary GAA for several years. They would be embarrassed to have walked off the field after putting up so little of a fight. But,… Read more »

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ANNUAL 2022: INDEPENDENTS/TROTS – INDEPENDENTS LEFT AND RIGHT

Date: November 17, 2022 - Last Refuge

THE INDEPENDENTS and minor parties of the left continue to cheerlead from the sidelines but they have little tangible achievement of which to boast. IN THE 2020 election, 18% of first-preference votes went to Independents or candidates of People Before Profit/Solidarity and Aontú. The far-left might dispute Aontú’s positioning here, since it is so vehemently… Read more »

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Mary Lou McDonald espouses liberal values that are in tune with most SF members and with the electorate north and south.

ANNUAL 2022: PROFILE – MARY LOU McDONALD

Date: November 17, 2022 - Pillars of Society

MARY LOU McDonald perplexes the pundits. For decades they warded off support for Sinn Féin’s message down south by appealing to a liberal community located in south county Dublin and equivalent locations across the state. The national question was peripheralised in the far-off north, about which the public was presumed to know little or nothing,… Read more »

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Irish Newspapers Ruadhan Mac Cormaic

ANNUAL 2022: PRINT – OLD WINE IN NEW BOTTLES

Date: November 17, 2022 - Fit to Print?

UPHEAVALS AT the top of Irish newspapers dominated the print and online market this year. The four or five leading titles all saw changes, with a new editor at the Irish Times, a newly appointed group editor at Mediahuis and a new editor awaited at the Business Post. Meanwhile, the relatively new editor at the… Read more »

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