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Pat Leahy Donohoe Expense

MEEK MEDIA AND PASCHAL DONOHOE

Date: January 26, 2023 - Fit to Print?

THE INITIALLY tardy attitude of most media to allegations that Paschal Donohoe’s breached election expenses rules is hard to explain (see p3). Surely the January 1 deadline for the implementation of the public expenditure minister’s budget gift to Big Media – zero VAT rate on newspapers – was not an inhibiting factor? When the main… Read more »

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Ross Fanning

PROFILE: ROSSA FANNING

Date: January 26, 2023 - Pillars of Society

THE LATEST hot-shot lawyer to be appointed Attorney General is Rossa Fanning SC, one of the top commercial barristers in the Four Courts and someone who has earned millions from this trade – as did his predecessor, Paul Gallagher. Also like Gallagher, Fanning is not a member of any political party, although neither man would… Read more »

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Una Healy (left), David Haye and Sian Osborne

YOUNG BLOOD: UNA HEALY

Date: January 26, 2023 - The Young Bloods

Reports that Una Healy is in a ‘throuple’ relationship with former heavyweight boxing champion David Haye and model Sian Osborne certainly helped to boost showbiz hacks out of the post-Christmas doldrums. But as it transpires, having the attention of two suitors is not an unusual situation for Healy to find herself in. Although she rose… Read more »

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Drew Harris Far Right Ireland

GARDA AND HARD RIGHT

Date: January 26, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

GARDA COMMISSIONER Drew Harris OBE grabbed the headlines this month when he described some of those involved in the anti-refugee protests as having a “sinister agenda… their motives are not good. Their motives could be described as far right.” It came just after the protests outside the Travelodge Hotel in Ballymun, which is accommodating refugees…. Read more »

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Michael Halford

HANDICAPPING MICHAEL HALFORD

Date: January 26, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

GOLDHAWK WAS surprised to spot that a company called Copper Beech Racing Ltd has just collapsed into liquidation. This is the business established by well-known racehorse trainer Michael Halford, who has trained for the likes of the Aga Khan. It represents the latest setback for Halford, who, until November last, was in the saddle as… Read more »

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AMNESTY FOR BILL SHIPSEY?

Date: January 26, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

INTERESTING TO see that Art for Amnesty (AfA), fronted by ex-legal eagle Bill Shipsey, has advised the Companies Office of a name change to Art for Human Rights. This is clearly a reaction to a legal action lodged last year. Shipsey found himself caught in the crosshairs back in September when Amnesty International (AI) commenced… Read more »

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ROBBIE HENSHAW’S VITAMINS

Date: January 26, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

RUGBY INTERNATIONAL Robbie Henshaw, who is set to return from injury, featured heavily at the weekend in the run-up to the start of the Six Nations. Most happy with the coverage was surely pharma giants Uniphar, which recently signed him up as a brand ambassador for one of its supplements. There were two pages, no… Read more »

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The Singularities

THE SINGULARITIES – JOHN BANVILLE

Date: January 26, 2023 - BooksBooks|Reviews

THROUGHOUT HIS career, John Banville has specialised in creating characters who don’t quite fit into their surroundings and whose time is spent struggling to understand themselves, and The Singularities is no exception. While he has never been much interested in conventional plots, his books usually excite extremes of critical appreciation and fans often appear to… Read more »

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Pat O'Boyle Noel Smyth

NO BONE FOR NOEL SMYTH

Date: January 26, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

REGIME CHANGE came to the Irish Kennel Club (IKC) earlier this month and this could be bad news for Goldhawk’s old pal, Noel Smyth. The board elections saw long-term president Sean Delmar lose out to HSE exec Pat O’Boyle, who recorded a significant majority when becoming the first woman president in the club’s 100-year history…. Read more »

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Tim Husbands

HUSBANDS’S HEADACHE

Date: January 26, 2023 - Sport of Kings

LEOPARDSTOWN BOSS Tim Husbands may still be basking in the glow of a successful Christmas festival, when over 60,000 race-goers attended over the four days, but the focus has moved swiftly to the Dublin Racing Festival and it is clear there is much work to… Read more »

Paschal Donohoe

DONOHOE: HOLD THE BACK PAGE!

Date: January 26, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

THE EFFORTS by Paschal Donohoe, Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil to resist an exposé of his dodgy election returns was initially supplemented by a remarkably nonchalant response from the media, especially the Irish Times but also from the Sunday and Irish Independent (see p12). That the Indo should, six days after it first reported the… Read more »

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Kevin Higgins

CANCELLING KEVIN HIGGINS

Date: January 26, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

THE COMPLIMENTARY obits to the late poet Kevin Higgins last weekend did not quite do justice to the bard’s talent and wit. Nor did they depict the full extent of the British Labour Party’s determination to hunt this dangerous poet down and purge him. Although he lived in Galway, Higgins was an exiled member of… Read more »

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Suzanne Laurie

SUZANNE LAURIE’S INSTITUTE

Date: January 26, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

WHILE THE health and wellness sector has been thriving in recent years, a Dublin-registered company, owned by Suzanne Laurie and Laurence Dann, that has been providing courses in this field has had to call in the company doctor to deliver a fatal dose of reality. The grandly titled Institute of Health Sciences (IHS) was incorporated… Read more »

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Charlie McConalogue

FOOD ‘VISIONARY’ McCONALOGUE

Date: January 26, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

WITH PRESSURE growing on all sectors to find ways to meet their legally binding emissions reduction targets, recent research conducted by the Irish Farmers Journal offered a rare, easy win for agriculture. The IFJ survey, involving over 800 farmers, found that around half were ready to either cut the size of their suckler cattle herds… Read more »

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Herman Kelly East Wall Protests

ALTERNATIVE PATRIOTS

Date: January 26, 2023 - Hush Hush

On JANUARY 12, 11 protests – eight in Dublin – were organised against the provision of accommodation for immigrants in Ireland. The plan was to cause major traffic disruption by blocking important roads. The protestors took to the streets at 5pm but it soon became obvious that the numbers turning out were far less than… Read more »

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Peter Burke

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: January 26, 2023 - The Hot Air Brigade

He’s the pre-eminent politician of our generation, internationally and both domestically. Fine Gael TD Peter Burke gives thanks to FG colleague Paschal Donohoe, Prime Time, RTÉ One Winter trees are not less than but differently beautiful to their summer fullness. Bare branches reveal fractals mirrored in our own organs, the bronchi that branch into bronchioles… Read more »

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Micheal Martin

MARTIN’S LONG BARGE POLE

Date: January 26, 2023 - Northwind

DURING ALL the toing and froing in the last couple of weeks as EU-UK talks on the protocol intensify, one aspect was notable: this Irish Government keeps northern nationalist representatives at arm’s length; with Micheál Martin as Tánaiste the arm will grow longer. One illustration is the kerfuffle on January 11, when British foreign secretary… Read more »

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Barry Cowen

PUSSY CAT BARRY COWEN

Date: January 26, 2023 - Last Refuge

MEDIA SURPRISE at the new model Barry Cowen’s merciful attitude to beleaguered Blueshirt minister Paschal Donohoe – normally a legitimate target in Cowen’s eyes – may or may not have been genuine. But if Irish Times court jester Miriam Lord was being deliberately ironic (likely) and the Indo’s Senan Moloney was merely regurgitating what Cowen… Read more »

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Micheál Martin 2024 Election

GENERAL ELECTION TIMING

Date: January 26, 2023 - Last Refuge

LEO VARADKAR’S stated preference for a general election to be held in the autumn of 2024 has not gone down well inside Fianna Fáil, especially in the parliamentary party, where there is fear and dread of any election and especially a Dáil election that would be held after the next locals. The local elections are… Read more »

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Leo Varadkar

VARADKAR’S SECOND COMING

Date: January 26, 2023 - Last Refuge

LAST WEEKEND’S Behaviour and Attitudes/Sunday Times (B&A/ST) poll, showing Fianna Fáil six points ahead of Fine Gael (25-19), reflects the difference between B&A/ST poll ratings of FF/FG compared to all the other polling firms’ results on the same parties in the last 12 months. Of nine B&A polls in that time, six showed FF ahead… Read more »

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Maria Bailey

MARIA BAILEY COMEBACK?

Date: January 26, 2023 - Last Refuge

FORMER FINE GAEL TD Maria Bailey paid off a few scores in Simon Carswell’s Irish Times piece at the weekend, with Taoiseach Leo Varadkar the main target, although junior minister Josepha Madigan did not come over as one of Maria’s VBFs either. But what is the agenda behind this heavily researched and carefully laid out… Read more »

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SIMON CARSWELL’S SILVER MEDALS

Date: January 26, 2023 - Fit to Print?

IRISH EXAMINER political editor Danny McConnell took the job as Business Post editor ahead of Simon Carswell, the public affairs editor and former Washington correspondent of the Irish Times, who many had expected to take the job given his broader experience. However, the Post is primarily business and politically oriented and Danny McConnell is also… Read more »

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Eoghan Harris

OFF WITH HIS HEAD!

Date: January 26, 2023 - Fit to Print?

CONSPIRACY THEORISTS believe an imposter may have used Eoghan Harris’s identity on social media to launch an attack on the British royal family for collaborating with the republican movement. This, the hypothesis goes, is because a recent tweet from Harris accused Charles III of being in league with Sinn Féin, as evidenced by the king’s… Read more »

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Charlie McConalogue Citizens’ Assembly Biodiversity

‘NAZI SHOW TRIALS’

Date: January 26, 2023 - Fowl Emissions

IRELAND’S BIODIVERSITY crisis is so severe it now requires a “societal response”, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar told the Citizens’ Assembly (CA) at the weekend. “This will benefit not just the people of Ireland but the entire ecosystem that we all depend on,” he said. The Citizens’ Assembly, the first in the world of its kind to… Read more »

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BOYD-BARETT AND THE NIMBYS

Date: January 26, 2023 - Fowl Emissions

WILL THE 2020s become the decade that Ireland finally takes its place as a major player in renewable energy? Not if the nimbys have anything to do with it. Plans are well under way to develop our first offshore wind farm in over 20 years, to be located on the Kish and Bray sandbanks, over… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: January 26, 2023 - Bog Cuttings

TRAFFIC JAM A 42-YEAR-OLD man appeared before Cork District Court charged with public intoxication after being found by gardaí, on November 17, blocking two lanes of traffic in Cork city. Garda Jonathan Corcoran told the court that he witnessed the defendant, Cormac Fitzpatrick, standing in the middle of the road at 3.30pm on the date… Read more »

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Brendan McDowell

BRENDAN McDOWELL’S £2M DIVIDEND

Date: January 26, 2023 - High Society

NO DOUBT cosmetics czar Brendan McDowell is glued to the latest series of Love Island, given his company’s marketing links to some of the stars of the series. Most recently, the BPerfect founder teamed up with the show’s 2022 winner, Ekin-Su Cülcüloğlu, to launch a new collection of slap on the market, BPerfect x Ekin-Su,… Read more »

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JOHN O’CONOR’S SUCCESSOR

Date: January 26, 2023 - High Society

WHILE PIANIST John O’Conor is currently delivering his residency at the Glen Gould School of Toronto’s Royal Conservatory, the hunt is on back home to find a new artistic director at the Dublin International Piano Competition (DIPC). Given that founder JOC had been in situ for decades as artistic director and chair of the international… Read more »

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Siobhan Byrne

SIOBHAN’S BANSHEE WEBINAR

Date: January 26, 2023 - High Society

MAYBE IT’S because Sunday Times editor Nóirín Hegarty previously worked for Lonely Planet but readers will have noticed a tendency of stories in the ‘news’ section of the paper to breathlessly puff up tourism and Irish travel agents in particular. This month saw headlines such as “Americans pay top dollar as tourism gets a reel… Read more »

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PAUL BYRNE’S HORSE TRADING

Date: January 26, 2023 - Sport of Kings

RACEHORSE OWNERSHIP is a well-known way to burn through money but one man who is proving most adept at making a decent living out of owning nags is Paul Byrne. Through his association with the Mullins clan, most notably his pal Emmett, Byrne has pulled off some impressive deals in recent years, selling his Cheltenham… Read more »

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PAUL HENSEY’S POLITICAL CHALLENGE

Date: January 26, 2023 - Sport of Kings

CLEARLY THE lure back to Ireland was too strong to resist for Paul Hensey, with the news that he is to take over from the retiring Paddy Walsh as head of the Association of Irish Racecourses (AIR). Hensey has been on an interesting journey since he ended his long association with the Curragh back in… Read more »

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John Magnier High Definition

DERRICK SMITH’S STRATEGY

Date: January 26, 2023 - Sport of Kings

WHEN THE former Aidan O’Brien-trained and Coolmore-owned High Definition was sold to bloodstock agent Mark McStay at Tattersalls last October for £350,000, it was reported that the high-class colt would be going to Joseph O’Brien to embark on a career over hurdles. That lead to the natural assumption that High Definition would be carrying the… Read more »

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Desiree Finnegan Ireland Film Tax Credit

DÉSIRÉE FINNEGAN’S DIVIDEND

Date: January 26, 2023 - Behind the Scenes

ON JANUARY 20 Désirée Finnegan’s Screen Ireland (SI) finally published its 108-page report on the Section 481 film tax credit, entitled: The Cultural Dividend Generated by Ireland’s Section 481 Film and Television Incentive. Those waiting for a rundown on the dividend in question will be sorely disappointed. What readers of the report may define as… Read more »

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KERLIN’S SMILING DIRECTORS

Date: January 26, 2023 - Behind the Scenes

ART-LOVING moneybags Paddy McKillen has been busy fighting legal actions in recent times courtesy of his increasingly fraught relationship with the Qatari royal Al Thani family. Separately, the Irishman has never been shy about spending big bucks on art projects, as evidenced by his 540-acre Chateau La Coste cultural/tourist project in France. Another of Paddy’s… Read more »

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Dalton Philips

THE ONLY WAY IS UP FOR GREENCORE

Date: January 26, 2023 - Moneybags

HAVING DISAPPOINTED the unfortunate Greencore shareholders over his 13-year reign, Paddy Coveney parachuted out of Greencore and left behind a company that is a shadow of what it once was. If investors were looking for some relief under a new regime, it is unlikely that… Read more »

Cathal Friel

CATHAL FRIEL DELIVERS AGAIN AT AMRYT

Date: January 26, 2023 - Moneybags

CATHAL FRIEL has plenty of followers who are impressed by his entrepreneurship and optimism. His Raglan Capital supported John Craven’s Cove Energy, which was taken out by the Thai state-owned PPT for $1.25bn. That deal delivered a fantastic return to all Cove shareholders, including Mike Nolan and Tommy O’Gorman, but was seen by many market… Read more »

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