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Mary Lou McDonald General Election

TIME NOT ON MARY LOU’S SIDE

Date: July 11, 2024 - Last Refuge

Despite government insistence that it intends to run its full term and that there will be no general election this year, there is still feverish speculation that the date will in fact be brought forward and that early November looks likely. This speculation was spurred on by the budget being brought forward a week, an… Read more »

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NFP Jean Luc Melenchon

NEW SPECTRE HAUNTS MACRON

Date: July 11, 2024 - Last Refuge

There was a widespread sigh of relief in European Union circles at the astonishing news that the expected far-right dominance in the French parliament had been thwarted. But there was less relief at the fact that this setback for Marine Le Pen’s ambitions was brought about primarily by the New Popular Front (NFP), the united… Read more »

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Nell McCafferty RTÉ Lord Laird Intro Matchmaking NewsBrands Martin McGuinness Dún Laoghaire Pat Leahy Cormac Lucey John Cooney Irish Journalism Awards Steve Aiken Anton Savage John Downing Lucinda Creighton Marina Sologub Eilis O'Hanlon Ian Kehoe Danny McConnell Sindo O'Connor Mediahuis Stephen Collins Book Justine McCarthy Rewriting the Troubles Lynn Ruane Sinn Féin

ULSTER-SCOTS’ PR

Date: July 11, 2024 - Fit to Print?

TIME WAS when one of the few unionists to see positive benefits in the peace process was ludicrous Lord Laird, who milked the Irish and British taxpayer for millions in the noughties for the Ulster-Scots Agency, which he chaired and which championed the DIY language Ulster Scots. Laird resigned in 2004 following probes by the… Read more »

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Catherine Martin RTÉ funding

RTÉ TOLD: DO MORE WITH LESS

Date: July 11, 2024 - Fit to Print?

RTÉ’s decision to outsource Fair City and The Late Late Show to outside production companies has been greeted with anger by Montrose trade unions who fear, correctly, that it will lead to job losses and lower wages. Both Siptu and the NUJ have announced that… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: July 11, 2024 - Bog Cuttings

‘SICK’ OF CORK A MIDDLE-AGED man who got involved in an altercation with gardaí in Cork city, shouted that he was “sick” of Cork and wanted to go home. Thomas Stone (57) was involved in a disturbance on Cornmarket Street on May 9, 2020, which led to the officers being summoned. The irate and intoxicated… Read more »

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Neil Jordan

NEIL JORDAN’S EDITING

Date: July 11, 2024 - Behind the Scenes

AMNESIAC, THE memoir of Neil Jordan, has hit the shelves, accompanied by a predictable glut of author interviews diligently name-checking the likes of Stanley Kubrick, Julia Roberts, Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt. So far, however, few reviews have bothered to look behind the roll call of luvvies and Hollywood gossip. The film director’s buke is… Read more »

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DCCI Crescine Tarka Russell Lara Hickey Reality Check Sarah McInerney Irish Movies Paul Murray Arts Council Dublin Theatre Festival TWU Macdara Kelleher Richard Boyd Barrett DADC Cillian Murphy Terry McMahon Media Commission Ireland Kerlin Gallery Creative Ireland Section 481 Christine O’Donovan RTÉ Storyland NMI Board Vacancies IASCA Ossie Kilkenny RTÉ Original Programmes

PETER HYNES’S HEADACHE

Date: July 11, 2024 - Behind the Scenes

STILL NO sign of an advert for the position of CEO of Design & Crafts Council Ireland (DCCI), which is in the process of procuring a recruitment agency. Incumbent Rosemary Steen is exiting after the summer but this is only one of the headaches for the Peter Hynes-chaired board, with the cancelling of jewellery and… Read more »

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Ed Dunlop David Dunsdon Sarah Lynam Rebecca May Wayne Hassett Eoin O'Brien Michael Burke Aine O’Connor Ashroe Diamond Thomand O’Mara Peter Keatley Timmy Hyde Coolmore All About Sunday Colin Keane Ronan Whelan JP McManus Jessica Harrington Dundalk Racecourse Paul Hensey Irish National Hunt Horse-racing Doping Paddy Walsh Tom Kelly Suspension

SARAH’S SHOTS

Date: July 11, 2024 - Sport of Kings

SARAH LYNAM, who recently called a premature halt to her own career as a trainer, turned her sights on fellow trainer Paddy Twomey in a radio interview. The recently turned pundit – who, like her sister, Amy, is not too shy about making her controversial opinions known – decided to have a pop at Twomey’s… Read more »

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Ed Dunlop David Dunsdon Sarah Lynam Rebecca May Wayne Hassett Eoin O'Brien Michael Burke Aine O’Connor Ashroe Diamond Thomand O’Mara Peter Keatley Timmy Hyde Coolmore All About Sunday Colin Keane Ronan Whelan JP McManus Jessica Harrington Dundalk Racecourse Paul Hensey Irish National Hunt Horse-racing Doping Paddy Walsh Tom Kelly Suspension

REBECCA MAY’S WINNER

Date: July 11, 2024 - Sport of Kings

LIMERICK-BASED corporate events queen Rebecca May finally tasted success as a racehorse owner (and presumably a tasty dividend from the bookies) when the 150/1 shot, Eaglewood, carried her purple and green colours to victory in the Tipperary Fillies INH Bumper. The former Buckingham Palace and Clarence House florist was without a win in over 11… Read more »

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Rachael Blackmore Lady Rita

CIRCUIT BREAKER

Date: July 11, 2024 - Sport of Kings

RACHAEL BLACKMORE’S riding of the Louise Lyons-trained Lady Rita in a Kilbeggan three-mile hurdle last year was presumably on the minds of the directors of the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB) when they moved to introduce yet another new sub-rule earlier this month. Having ridden Lady Rita to finish a circuit too early (see The… Read more »

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Aubrey McCarthy and JP McManus

AUBREY’S AWARD

Date: July 11, 2024 - High Society

CONGRATULATIONS TO millionaire and philanthropist Aubrey McCarthy, who has just been awarded an honorary lifetime membership of the RDS. This pat on the back from the Ballsbridge worthies was also extended to another businessman and philanthropist, albeit someone with rather deeper pockets, JP McManus. Besides their relative bank balances, another difference is that McCarthy is… Read more »

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JOHN MAGNIER’S MIXED FORM

Date: July 11, 2024 - High Society

IT HAS been a successful but mixed couple of weeks for John Magnier, Michael Tabor, Derrick Smith and the rest of the loaded Coolmore ‘lads’. Having landed the Epsom Derby in no little style, City of Troy scrambled to victory in the Coral Eclipse Stakes last weekend, on what was the 40th anniversary of the… Read more »

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C&C Patrick McMahon

CHAOTIC C&C’S PROFITS SET TO GET VERY FIZZY

Date: July 11, 2024 - Moneybags

THE C&C saga continues to deliver twists and turns. Less than one year after David Forde stepped down with immediate effect as chief bottlewasher at C&C (on foot of the disclosure of a €25m software adjustment charge in one division), his replacement as CEO, Paddy McMahon, has also cleared off. What is it about C&C… Read more »

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Tony Smurfit DS Smith

TONY SMURFIT’S US DREAM COULD BE A NIGHTMARE

Date: July 11, 2024 - Moneybags

IF THE agreed €7bn takeover of DS Smith group by International Paper (IP) goes through, this could be Tony Smurfit’s worst nightmare, just as he has completed the near $13bn reverse takeover by Smurfit Kappa Group (SKG) of the American WestRock packaging company. There are huge challenges in store for Smurfit, given the state of… Read more »

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TWIN OAKS JUDGMENT

Date: July 11, 2024 - The Hot Water Brigade

A JUDGMENT has just been registered by Fingal County Council for a paltry €4,500 against a company called Castleknock Hospitality but it seems unlikely that this small rates bill will be settled as the company has ceased trading. Owned by Stephen Donnelly with an address in the Ashleight retail centre, the firm traded as The… Read more »

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Luke Comer Ban

LUKE COMER’S BLEMISHED RECORD

Date: July 11, 2024 - The Hot Water Brigade

MONACO-BASED billionaire property developer Luke Comer is set to begin his lengthy three-year suspension as a racehorse trainer next Monday, although until the last minute it is possible that an application may be made for a judicial review of the ban imposed by the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB) on foot of traces of steroids being… Read more »

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BECKETT END GAME

Date: July 11, 2024 - The Hot Water Brigade

NEXT WEEK the High Court will hear a winding-up petition for a company called Beckett Acquisition Ltd (BAL). This is a company controlled by South Korean investors that owns the Beckett Building on East Wall Road, which had housed social media behemoth Facebook Ireland/Meta. Mark Zuckerberg’s operation, however, has cut short its lease and exited… Read more »

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Aubrey McCarthy

AUBREY MCCARTHY’S B&B

Date: July 11, 2024 - The Hot Water Brigade

ELSEWHERE IN this issue (see p18) Goldhawk looks at the awarding by the RDS of honorary lifetime membership to businessman and philanthropist Aubrey McCarthy. He is keeping his fingers crossed that An Bord Pleanála also awards him a prize, in the form of planning permission for a large B&B operation in Dublin’s city centre. Punchestown-based… Read more »

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Mary Lou McDonald Sinn Féin Election

MARY LOU’S POST MORTEM

Date: June 27, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

FOLLOWING ITS dreadful local election results, Sinn Féin members believed that the outcome of the internal battle over policies and electoral strategy would depend on just who Mary Lou McDonald would listen to: the conservative faction, which stands accused of hollowing out SF policies to prove to the establishment that the party can be trusted… Read more »

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Brid Smith

PROFILE: BRÍD SMITH

Date: June 27, 2024 - Pillars of Society

RECENT ELECTIONS stimulated much discussion about the centre-right, far-right, centre-left, Sinn Féin and so on, but very little about the small but sometimes significant far-left movement, whose main personality for some years now has been former MEP Clare Daly. A favourite trope of right-wing critics… Read more »

Lottie Ryan

YOUNG BLOOD: LOTTIE RYAN

Date: June 27, 2024 - The Young Bloods

When she was announced last month as the new face of afternoon radio on 2FM, it seemed that Lottie Ryan was living proof of the tenet that persistence pays off – or if you hang around somewhere long enough, you’ll finally get your moment in the sun. Gerry Ryan’s eldest child has been knocking about the 2FM building… Read more »

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Peter Wedderburn

PETER WEDDERBURN’S BARK

Date: June 27, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

WITH THE Dog Control Stakeholder Group set to meet this week to “prioritise” the issue of restricted dog breeds, the ante has been significantly upped by the minister responsible, Heather Humphreys, who has supported a ban on dangerous breeds. This comes in the midst of an ongoing PR campaign by opponents of a ban, including… Read more »

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Trevor White Little Museum of Dublin

TREVOR WHITE’S MUSEUM PIECES

Date: June 27, 2024 - The Hot Water Brigade

READERS OF the Irish Times last week would have noticed a couple of adverts for Trevor White’s very well-funded Little Museum of Dublin (LMD), inviting people to take one of the establishment’s tours and “discover the Little Museum pop-up around the corner from Stephen’s Green”. Apparently, the pop-up operation on Pembroke Street, D2 – a… Read more »

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Dermot Desmond DIL

DERMOT DESMOND’S WINDING UP

Date: June 27, 2024 - The Hot Water Brigade

A MYSTERIOUS company called Dies Irae Ltd (DIL) – linked to Dermot Desmond’s International Investment and Underwriting (IIU) investment vehicle – has been quietly wound up. It is hard to tell exactly what the entity ever got up to but what makes it interesting is that in 2021 Liam Collins in the Sindo reported the… Read more »

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Tom Lyons The Currency

IAN KEHOE’S ‘CURRENCY’ RATE

Date: June 27, 2024 - Fit to Print?

SIGNS ARE that Tom Lyons and Ian Kehoe, joint owners of digital financial publication the Currency, are intent on selling their company, judging by the recent release of its figures for the year to September 2023. Not many publications publicise their subscription numbers but the Currency boasted of 6,200 paying subscribers, although this is only… Read more »

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John Byrne

JOHN BYRNE’S BLINKERS

Date: June 27, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

PROPERTY MONEYBAGS John Byrne – the new chairman of the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB) – thanked “all those race-day staff and volunteers who commit to upholding the integrity of Irish horse racing”, when releasing the Bowler Hats’ 2022 annual report earlier this month. Remarkably, he added: “I am encouraged by the real progress we… Read more »

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SHARK HANLON’S ROUGH RIDE

Date: June 27, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

A VIDEO of an uncovered dead horse in an open builder’s trailer, which was being towed by John ‘Shark’ Hanlon’s Boylesports-sponsored horse box to a factory for disposal, went viral recently. While Shark Hanlon duly apologised for any distress caused, he stated that the tarpaulin that had been covering the horse came undone during the… Read more »

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FRANCES RUANE’S TIMING

Date: June 27, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

WHILE THE Abbey Theatre’s most famous Broadway hit of modern times, Brian Friel’s Tony award-winning Dancing at Lughnasa, is about to be produced by the Gate Theatre at the far end of O’Connell Street, the €7m-a-year Abbey, run by Frances Ruane, has been reduced to attaching its name to a New York run by independent… Read more »

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VOL 42 NO 13

Date: June 27, 2024 -

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Dana Erlich Killarney

KILLARNEY’S GAZA STANCE

Date: June 27, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

THE ISRAELI government will surely appreciate that it has finally and completely lost the global propaganda war when it receives a report from its ambassador, Dana Erlich, about the goings-on in Killarney, tourist mecca of Ireland and a must-see attraction for high-spending American tourists. Each year Killarney Chamber of Tourism and Commerce organises a Fourth… Read more »

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Sean Clancy Defence Forces Tribunal

NEW C/S FACES FIGHT

Date: June 27, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

OUTRAGE AT soldiers’ violence against women and the lenient treatment many have received on conviction will have strengthened the hands of reformists in the Defence Forces. So will the Defence Forces Tribunal, which is hearing complaints from the Women of Honour about abuse of women in the ranks. Alternatively, developments other than the Defence Forces… Read more »

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ALL IN GOOD TASTE

Date: June 27, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

LAST WEEK Merrion Square finally fully reopened to Dublin’s citizens after nearly three weeks of severe restrictions, which were put in place so the Dublin City Council-controlled public space could be given over for a four-day private shindig for foodies, Taste of Dublin. Sponsored by the uber-profitable Danish retail outfit, Jysk, punters were asked to… Read more »

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Patrick Crinnion Charlie Haughey

MI6, HAUGHEY AND THE MAFIA

Date: June 27, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

AN UPCOMING book on British intelligence in Ireland, The Puppet Masters, includes new material on Patrick Crinnion of Garda intelligence, who worked for MI6 in the 1960s and early 1970s. Author David Burke has gained access to papers written by Crinnion, which provide the backbone of the volume and shine new light on a string… Read more »

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Sean White

BIG JOBS FOR BIG IRISH SOLDIERS

Date: June 27, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

FOLLOWING THE appointment of Defence Forces chief of staff Seán Clancy as the first Irish chairman of the EU Military Committee, Irish ex-officer Seán White was appointed by the European Defence Agency (EDA) as director for industry, synergies and enablers (ISE). Thus, the integration of the top brass of the Irish Defence Forces into joint… Read more »

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Derek Blighe John McGuirk

NEW-RIGHT RIFTS

Date: June 27, 2024 - Hush Hush

FOLLOWING THE recent elections there has been feverish speculation about how Ireland’s new right could have a significant impact on the Irish political landscape if it could just find a common vehicle or platform. But the simplistic mathematics of adding together votes received by the Irish Freedom Party (IFP), National Party (NP), Ireland First (IF)… Read more »

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Ken Early

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: June 27, 2024 - The Hot Air Brigade

To travel by train is to see a textbook case of neoliberal capitalism’s endgame. Football hack Ken Early’s, er, interesting take on at Euro 2024 in Germany, Irish Times Like Jonathan [Anderson], Guinness has always seen the world differently, moving beyond life’s limitations and expectations to make a brighter world. Stephen O’Kelly, Guinness global brand… Read more »

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