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Arne Vigeland

ARNE VIGELAND’S IRISH ANGLE

Date: January 26, 2023 - Briefcases

NEXT WEEK will see a creditors’ meeting held for a company called SJI Equities Ltd, which is owned by a Norwegian investor named Arne Vigeland. This company had starred as the plaintiff in a multimillion-euro Norwegian legal action – initiated against the directors of the listed RenoNorden ASA – in which allegations of insider information… Read more »

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Joan Fitzpatrick Kite Medical

KITE MEDICAL’S CRASH LANDING

Date: January 26, 2023 - Briefcases

WHAT AT one stage looked like one of Ireland’s more promising medtech start-ups, Kite Medical Ltd, is now to be wound up after failing to secure long-term financing to complete the development of its patented technology. It attracted plenty of praise but not enough moolah. The company, which spun out of Galway University’s BioInnovate programme,… Read more »

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Pat O’Flynn Solvotrin

PAT O’FLYNN’S SUPPLEMENT BOOST

Date: January 26, 2023 - Briefcases

PAT O’FLYNN’S iron-absorption supplements company Solvotrin Therapeutics continues to attract the big bucks, with a business expansion scheme (BES) fund the latest to come on board here to join the stellar line up of existing investors. In total, €4m has been raised in this latest round at €250 a share, with €2.1m chucked in by… Read more »

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Paul Murphy Curragh Racecourse Ltd

BOWLER HATS’ BARGAIN AT THE CURRAGH

Date: January 26, 2023 - Briefcases

WHILE THE state-backed Curragh racecourse has been haemorrhaging money – the 2021 accounts filed before Christmas show that Curragh Racecourse Ltd dropped €4m that year and accumulated losses hit €22.3m – of more interest to some is the ownership structure. Of particular interest is the large stake acquired by the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB),… Read more »

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Paschal Donohoe Poster

DONOHOE’S SIPO COMPLAINT

Date: January 12, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

EUROPEAN POSTER-BOY boy Paschal Donohoe, now public expenditure minister and recently re-elected as president of the Eurogroup, may have his glistening image tarnished if a complaint to the Standards in Public Office Commission (Sipo) under the Electoral Act proceeds to a formal stage and an eventual adverse ruling. With some rather more serious allegations circulating… Read more »

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Jennifer Carroll MacNeil

PROFILE: JENNIFER CARROLL MACNEILL

Date: January 12, 2023 - Pillars of Society

While the media-hyped ministerial reshuffle turned out to be the damp squib that cynics had predicted, it was still interesting that Jennifer Carroll MacNeill, got the nod for a junior minister position ahead of the much-touted Neale Richmond. The 42-year-old barrister has makes no secret of her ambition to be a future leader of Fine… Read more »

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Peachylean Sharon Keegan

YOUNG BLOOD: SHARON KEEGAN

Date: January 12, 2023 - The Young Bloods

SURELY THE biggest asset Sharon Keegan has is her ability to talk up her athleisure brand Peachylean? This year business watchers who have followed the company’s trajectory since it launched five years ago will get to see if it can deliver on its founder’s confidence. Keegan could never be accused of lacking ambition – or… Read more »

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Liz Doyle IRTA

HEAVING GOING FOR TRAINERS

Date: January 12, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

A DEVASTATING ruling by the Court of Appeal has meant a very bad start to 2023 for the new regime at the Irish Racehorse Trainers Association (IRTA). There has to now be a question mark over whether the body can avoid a trip to the knacker’s yard. The IRTA went through a recent leadership change… Read more »

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Joe Biden Russian Orwell Road

MARTIN’S DIPLOMACY

Date: January 12, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

IT’S BEEN a rough year for Russian diplomats on Dublin’s Orwell Road since Russia invaded Ukraine, when the Russian embassy became a focus for protests by Ukrainian exiles and their Irish supporters. Probably the most dramatic of the protests in the early months was when Desmond Wisely, the owner of an ecclesiastical supplies company, drove… Read more »

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Mary McAleese Gulf

BRUSSELS BAGGAGE

Date: January 12, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

THERE HAS, not surprisingly, been acres of space devoted to the scandal over cash-fuelled lobbying by the Qatari government of European Parliament members, with a number of players arrested to date, most notably parliament vice president Eva Kaili. Goldhawk has previously reported on how other counties in the Gulf region, the United Arab Emirates (UAE)… Read more »

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Michael Heffernan

MICHAEL HEFFERNAN’S NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS

Date: January 12, 2023 - High Society

THERE HAVE been some changes in the business portfolio of Michael Heffernan, son of Dunnes Stores boss Margaret, with the businessman having checked out of his hotel group. Meanwhile, his fashion interests remain very much on trend. The annual return filed just before Christmas for H&H Hotels Collection covers the year to April 17, 2022,… Read more »

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Jacky Flavin Tehan

JACKY TEHAN’S PROMOTION

Date: January 12, 2023 - High Society

THERE HAVE been some changes at the Roche family’s investment company, where Jacky Flavin Tehan has moved into the hot seat. Flavin Tehan is the daughter of Mary and DCC founder Jim Flavin and indeed her hubby, Paddy Tehan, is a senior suit in the DCC group. Jacky’s own background is in accountancy, having worked… Read more »

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JOHN MAGNIER’S MASTERPIECE

Date: January 12, 2023 - High Society

IN JUST eight weeks an export ban will expire on the famous Sir Joshua Reynolds masterpiece, Portrait of Omai, which has been the subject of intense debate across the Irish Sea as the National Portrait Gallery (NPG) has sought to keep it in the country. John Magnier, the squire of Coolmore, famously picked up the… Read more »

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VOL 41 NO 01

Date: January 12, 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

STILL STANDING AND SHOUTING

Date: January 12, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

NEARLY 40 years ago to the day – January 7, 1983 – The Phoenix rose from the ashes of a previous media venture and it is still standing. Buffeted by legal threats from the rich and the crooked and opprobrium from the ‘responsible’ media; squeezed by mega media platforms and ongoing hostility from most (if… Read more »

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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

BLUESHIRT PLAYBOOK

Date: January 12, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

SOME AGEING Fine Gael members have been muttering about Irish Times anti-American liberals who blame the antics of Brazilian ex-president Jair Bolsonaro’s fascist fans on the precedent created by Donald Trump’s rabble storming Capitol Hill. The FG Good Ol’ Boys are quite put out as they claim their antecedents in the Blueshirts should receive the… Read more »

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Paul Kimmage

O’LEARY PULLS NO PUNCHES

Date: January 12, 2023 - Sport of Kings

PAUL KIMMAGE began 2023 by reminding his Sindo readers on New Year’s Day that he hasn’t given up when it comes to exposing a doping culture in the Irish racing industry. This is despite having failed to land a killer blow courtesy of his series of incendiary articles last year. After dishing out a hefty… Read more »

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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

GARDAÍ’S GOOD TIMING

Date: January 12, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

JUST BEFORE Christmas there was a high-profile conference, called ‘Breaking the Silence’, held in Dublin focusing on issues to do with the sex trade, trafficking and sexual violence. It was presumably entirely coincidental that, in the run-up to the event, the boys in blue got busy raiding the apartments of sex workers. No doubt the… Read more »

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Prince Harry RICHARD KEMP

HARRY’S GAME OF CHESS

Date: January 12, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

RICHARD KEMP, a former commander of British armed forces in Afghanistan and ex-chair of the Cobra Intelligence Group – co-ordinating MI5 and MI6 and answerable only to the British cabinet – was wheeled out to attack Buck House traitor Prince Harry last week. Kemp used the occasion to advertise his own security credentials and spoke… Read more »

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Gerard O’Neill

TURN AROUND FOR LEGAL EAGLE

Date: January 12, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

LIMERICK SOLICITOR Gerard O’Neill will have been pleased at the fight back he successfully mounted against press statements issued by the Irish Small and Medium Enterprises Association (Isme) following a High Court case presided over by Judge Michael Twomey in 2019. At that time, Judge Twomey threw out the personal injury actions of O’Neill’s two… Read more »

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Irish Media Ukraine Simon Coveney

IRISH ARMS TO ISRAEL

Date: January 12, 2023 - Hush Hush

THE CONTROL of Exports Act was passed in 2008 to ensure that Ireland would finally be in compliance with the provisions of the European Union’s Council Common Position, which was agreed in June 2003. This provided for controls around the export of goods and technology to certain military end users. The act requires that each… Read more »

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Una Mullally

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: January 12, 2023 - The Hot Air Brigade

In these places, character must be erased lest it tell a story. A sense of place must be rinsed until what emerges from the white walls is what Kyle Chayka labelled “AirSpace” – “a profusion of symbols of comfort and quality” – the triumph of the generic, the homogenous. Una Mullally on new-build studio apartment… Read more »

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Jeffrey Donaldson

DONALDSON’S BIG CALL

Date: January 12, 2023 - Northwind

DUP LEADER Jeffrey Donaldson has a big call to make in a couple of months as the EU and UK move inexorably towards a deal on the Northern Ireland Protocol. Since early 2021 Donaldson – egged on by loyalist bloggers and wary of the electoral threat of Jim Allister’s extremist TUV party – has adopted… Read more »

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Leo Varadkar

A TAOISEACH ONCE AGAIN

Date: January 12, 2023 - Last Refuge

ONE PRESUMES that former taoiseach, now Tánaiste, Micheál Martin, was not entirely gulled by the remarks of Leo Varadkar, then his second-in-command, to the Fine Gael ard fheis in November when he praised Martin to the rafters. In fact, Martin may have felt a shudder down his spine at Vlad describing him as a “good”… Read more »

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Kieran O'Donnell

ARISE LAZARUS O’DONNELL

Date: January 12, 2023 - Last Refuge

THE PROMOTION of long-time Fine Gael backbench TD Kieran O’Donnell to the post of junior minister for local government and planning was described by the Irish Times as not widely anticipated. However, one source said it was for recognition of “many years of hard work”. That’s one way of putting it for a man whose… Read more »

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Sinn Féin RTÉ Brendan Griffin

BRENDAN GRIFFIN’S AMBITIONS

Date: January 12, 2023 - Last Refuge

FINE GAEL TD and former junior sports minister Brendan Griffin walked off the pitch in what looked like a sulk as he was offered a junior ministerial post that was apparently beneath him just before Christmas. Griffin in fact cited family reasons for refusing the offer but his Kerry colleague, Independent TD Michael Healy-Rae, taunted… Read more »

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James Lawless Junior Minister

MARTIN’S PAYROLL VOTE CAPPED

Date: January 12, 2023 - Last Refuge

THE WEEKS leading up to the most uneventful ministerial reshuffle in memory saw repeated references to a possible expansion of junior ministers by two. In the event, no such ministerial additions were made. Why was this kite-flying exercise carried out and why was it rejected? The ostensible reason for the proposal was the need to… Read more »

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Eoin Ó Murchú Richard Pine

‘IRISH TIMES’ CRITICS

Date: January 12, 2023 - Fit to Print?

“SPECIAL CONSIDERATION shall be given to the reasonable representation of minority interests and divergent views,” according to the “principles of the Irish Times”. However, with political debate nowadays tainted by populists and extremists (ie those who disagree with the IT’s right-of-centre liberalism), the paper of reference cannot allow just anybody to sully its opinion columns… Read more »

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MEDIAHUIS RETREAT

Date: January 12, 2023 - Fit to Print?

EFFORTS BY Mediahuis, publishers of Independent titles and others north and south, to colonise the Sunday market in the north via the Sunday Independent have failed and the Belgians have fallen back to Dublin. This follows a previous and similarly unsuccessful effort to seize the northern Sunday market some years ago when the then neo-unionist… Read more »

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RTÉ’S MILITARY ‘EXPERTS’

Date: January 12, 2023 - Fit to Print?

TWO DAYS after Christmas RTÉ’s Morning Ireland interviewed the Atlantic Council’s Nicholas Blanford, an expert on the Middle East. Listeners were told that the council was a “US think-tank” and Nicholas Blanford spoke about the detention of an alleged suspect in the recent fatal shooting of Private Seán Rooney in Lebanon. The “US think-tank” is… Read more »

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Deirdre Grant

BRIGHT RED FLAGS

Date: January 12, 2023 - Fowl Emissions

GOLDHAWK WAS browsing the lobbying register during the Christmas break and was intrigued to see that a board member of Oxfam Ireland has been lobbying minister Eamon Ryan on behalf of a power-generation company. Deirdre Grant, a former special adviser to ministers Ruairí Quinn and Ged Nash, was seeking to “create better understanding of challenges… Read more »

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NOTEWORTHY EMISSIONS

Date: January 12, 2023 - Fowl Emissions

AN INVESTIGATION by the excellent Noteworthy website has revealed that data centres’ on-site carbon emissions are 35 times higher than a decade ago. This is about to get much worse. Last year regulators finally imposed some restrictions on how much these vampires can suck from the electricity grid but data centres are circumventing this by… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: January 12, 2023 - Bog Cuttings

GOING NOWHERE TULLAMORE DISTRICT Court heard the case of Derek Wyer (47), who was arrested following an altercation with gardaí outside the Bride House pub in the early morning of March 20, 2022. Garda Andrew Barron gave evidence that the defendant, of Ballykilmurray, Tullamore, was spotted being escorted from the premises by security staff and,… Read more »

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Desiree Finnegan

DÉSIRÉE’S IN-TRAY

Date: January 12, 2023 - Behind the Scenes

THERE IS no sign of a plot twist at Screen Ireland (SI) when it comes to publishing its annual reports. Successive head honchos, including current chief executive Désirée Finnegan, have presided over a release schedule that they clearly believe is building suspense. At the time of writing, the most recent accounts available are for the… Read more »

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CATHERINE MARTIN’S UNJUST TRANSITION

Date: January 12, 2023 - Behind the Scenes

WITH THE Arts Council planning to significantly expand its scale, maybe one of the new hires could keep an eye on the activities of Creative Ireland, the slush fund established within the arts department a few years ago. Shortly before Christmas, arts minister Catherine Martin and Green Party leader Eamon Ryan launched a €3m fund… Read more »

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Tom Rudd

LIMERICK’S MYSTERIOUS CROWDS

Date: January 12, 2023 - Sport of Kings

FORMER JUMP jockey Tom Rudd took over as the manager of Limerick racecourse late last year amid hopes that the track would see some continuity among the senior management after a turbulent few years. Former manager Patrick O’Callaghan vacated the role in autumn 2021 and was succeeded by Emma White, who had relocated from a… Read more »

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