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SF’S HAZZARD WARNING

Date: August 11, 2022 - Fowl Emissions

“If I had a De Lorean, I’d go back in time and ban sheep and sitka spruce.” The would-be time traveller is south Down Sinn Féin MP Chris Hazzard, who delivered some truth bombs at an event in Belfast that may have had his southern SF brethren running for cover. Hazzard, a vegetarian, also said… Read more »

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Frank Mitloehner Irish Farmers’ Association Emissions

JUST BECAUSE YOU’RE PARANOID…

Date: August 11, 2022 - Fowl Emissions

DID YOU know that attempts at regulating agriculture pollution are really part of a sinister globalist plot being co-ordinated by communists under the guise of protecting the environment and tackling climate change? It turns out that the whole “sustainability” narrative is “a tool to gain control over food, agriculture and people”. And the vehicle for… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: August 11, 2022 - Bog Cuttings

‘I’LL DO WHAT I WANT’ JARED SHERLOCK (19) of 40 Clonmich Wood, Tullamore, appeared before Tullamore District Court to plead guilty to engaging in threatening, abusive or insulting behaviour toward gardaí on May 20 last. Sergeant James O’Sullivan told the court that gardaí received a call in the early hours on the date in question… Read more »

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Consuelo O’Connor

CONSUELO’S REIGN

Date: August 11, 2022 - High Society

SO IT’S farewell then to Consuelo O’Connor, who has just officially stepped down from the board of the Beit Foundation, a whopping 46 years after she was first appointed a trustee of the entity that controls Russborough House. Long-time Ballsbridge denizen Consuelo (sister of former Dublin lord mayor Carmencita Hederman) had long been An Taisce’s… Read more »

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Bernard Caldwell ISSA AGM

CALDWELL’S HEAVY GOING

Date: August 11, 2022 - Sport of Kings

WITH THE Irish Stable Staff Association (ISSA) having generated headlines last month by delaying racing at Kilbeggan racecourse due to a protest over the failure to provide free bottles of water to stable staff, it is interesting to note that the association itself has been the subject of calls for a stewards’ inquiry over a… 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

TOM KELLY’S SECOND CHANCE

Date: August 11, 2022 - Sport of Kings

HERE WAS good news for jockey Tom Joseph Kelly last month when his appeal against a further three years of suspension proved successful. Kelly had ridden five winners before testing positive for the cocaine metabolite benzoylecgonine at Killarney. As a result, Kelly was handed a hefty four-year suspension from riding in December last year (backdated… Read more »

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Rose McHugh Crawford Art Gallery

ROSE McHUGH’S THREE SEATS

Date: August 11, 2022 - Behind the Scenes

LAST WEEK was the closing date for receipt of expressions of interest in (unremunerated) vacancies on the Rose McHugh-chaired board of the Crawford Art Gallery in Cork, with three seats to be filled by arts minister Catherine Martin. The seats are to be filled in part as a result of the expiration of the terms… Read more »

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Susan Bergin Marlowe Mullingar Film Studio RTÉ Self-Employment

CASTING GROUCH

Date: August 11, 2022 - Behind the Scenes

INTERESTED PARTIES are running the abacus over the spat between RTÉ and its non-staff contractors on the one hand and Revenue and the Department of Social Protection on the other since the “bogus self-employment” issue became a high-profile plot across the film and TV business a few years ago. The costs could start mounting up…. Read more »

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Louise O'Neill New Book

IDOL – LOUISE O’NEILL

Date: August 11, 2022 - BooksBooks|ReviewsReviews

SINCE HER 2018 adult fiction debut Almost Love, novelist Louise O’Neill has focused on writing about topical feminist themes (and more recently in her media columns) – particularly exploitative obsessive relationships, consent and victim-blaming, and her new book is no different. Her stories are usually centred around flawed and unlikable protagonists and there is more… Read more »

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Emer Reynolds Director

JOYRIDE – DIRECTOR: EMER REYNOLDS

Date: August 11, 2022 - MoviesReviews

IT’S A year since Goldhawk reviewed first-time writer/director Dave Minogue’s Poster Boys, an odd-couple road movie made on the hoof without the benefit of public funding and released in 12 cinemas: “Minogue has shown what can be achieved with a small fraction of the money regularly doled out to most films backed by Screen Ireland…… Read more »

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BÓRD GÁIS PRICE INCREASE

BORD GÁIS OWNER CENTRICA PLAYING WITH FIRE

Date: August 11, 2022 - Moneybags

WHEN BORD Gáis Energy (BGE), where Dave Kirwan calls the shots, announced a price increase of 29.5% for its 513,000 customers in March this year, there was an outcry. The backlash surfaced again last week when the company reported a 74% increase in operating profits for the first half of the year to June 2022…. Read more »

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Profilo Smart Liquidation

DOWN THE TOILET FOR LUCA MAMMI

Date: August 11, 2022 - The Hot Water Brigade

THE PANDEMIC has claimed another victim with the upmarket bathroom business Profilo Smart, owned by Dublin 6-based Italian designer Luca Mammi, entering liquidation. Profilo built up a reputation for delivering “accessible bathrooms” and marketed its “elegant and versatile tracking and cover system, unlimited colour palettes and beautiful accessories” to architects and designers so they could… Read more »

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Anne Davy Childcare Dublin

ANNE DAVY BOUNCES BACK

Date: August 11, 2022 - The Hot Water Brigade

IT’S BEEN a rocky few years for Anne Davy, the majority owner of the controversial Hyde and Seek childcare chain in Dublin. At least the numbers are looking up. Earlier this year La Davy was fined €4,000 after pleading guilty at Dublin District Court to breaching childcare regulations, some of which were documented in an… Read more »

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Conor McCarthy

FLIPDISH V AMAZON

Date: August 11, 2022 - The Hot Water Brigade

THERE HAS been much drooling by business hacks over the fundraising exploits of Conor and James McCarthy, the Dublin-based brothers behind Flipdish, an online directory of restaurants and food businesses that links customers directly with restaurants for takeaways. Sounds boring enough but it is in fact very big business – so much so that the… Read more »

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Niall Harbison Now

NIALL HARBISON’S DOGGY TREAT

Date: August 11, 2022 - The Hot Water Brigade

WHAT A surprise it was to see Goldhawk’s old pal, Niall Harbison, pop up in the Irish Times last month. Now living in Thailand, the founder and former boss of the Lovin’ Dublin website – who cashed out of the business for a reported €1m in 2018 – told the paper of record’s Barbara McCarthy… Read more »

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Irish Government Neutrality

RUSH TO ARMS

Date: July 28, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

THREE POLLS on Irish neutrality since the Russian invasion of Ukraine have disappointed the dogs of war in government and the Defence Forces who want to abolish Irish neutrality and spend billions, literally, on armaments. But despite these polls showing an unequivocal rejection of demands to abandon neutrality, the government has pressed ahead with policy… Read more »

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Nóirín Hegarty Sunday Times Staff Cuts Jobs

MURDOCH’S DAYS OF CARNAGE

Date: July 28, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

WHAT HACKS at Sunday Times Ireland and Times Ireland called ‘days of carnage’ came to an end last week with more than a dozen hacks either refusing to interview for jobs at the paper that they had been employed by for years, or acceding to interviews but not being re-employed. The management line of the… Read more »

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Press Ombudsman Ireland

PROFILE: SUSAN MCKAY

Date: July 28, 2022 - Pillars of Society

NEWLY APPOINTED Press Ombudsman, Susan McKay, has had a more dramatic career than most Irish writers, even those in the sometimes dangerous frontline of on-the-edge journalism in the north. Her apostasy as someone who has rejected her Protestant political background is well known to Loyalists and Unionists of all shades, and she has publicly embraced… Read more »

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Nina Carberry RTÉ

YOUNG BLOOD: NINA CARBERRY

Date: July 28, 2022 - The Young Bloods

Now that she has retired from her former career as a National Hunt jockey, Nina Carberry appears to be waltzing into a career as a media personality and influencer. Having bagged the Dancing with the Stars (DWTS) trophy earlier this year, Carberry is set to join the coaching panel of the RTÉ show, Ireland’s Fittest Family. Will an… Read more »

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Licence Fee Abolished

SIMON COVENEY’S MEDIA FUND

Date: July 28, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

ONE HIGHLY publicised element of the report by Brian MacCraith’s Future of Media Commission was the rejection of the recommendation that the licence fee be scrapped and replaced with direct funding of RTÉ by the state. This resulted from assorted ministers expressing concerns about the impact on democracy of such a move. The Government did… Read more »

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ENDA KENNY’S ENERGY SHARES

Date: July 28, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

WHILE IT may be assumed by many that Enda Kenny is taking things easy these days, apart from hosting the odd sleepy RTÉ documentary on Irish railways, he is in fact busier than ever and is now investing in the climate change sector. Indeed, he has now had to set up his own company to… Read more »

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Dublin International Piano Competition 2022

JOHN O’CONOR’S EXIT

Date: July 28, 2022 - High Society

IN THE year of his 75th birthday, John O’Conor has finally called it a day as a director of the Dublin International Piano Competition (DIPC), following its 2022 incarnation. O’Conor founded the DIPC back in 1987 and the first three-yearly competition was held in 1988 with GPA in situ as the corporate sponsor. (These days… Read more »

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Colm O'Gorman now

COLM O’GORMAN’S LEGACY

Date: July 28, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

GOLDHAWK’S favourite charity executive, Colm O’Gorman, is now settling in as a senior director at the Global Refugee Sponsorship Initiative. Given that it is backed by the likes of the Canadian government, University of Ottawa, the UN Commissioner for Refugees, the Open Society Foundation, the Giustra Foundation, and the Shapiro Foundation, it is unlikely that… Read more »

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Michael OLeary Successor

TIME FOR A CHANGE IN THE RYANAIR COCKPIT

Date: July 28, 2022 - Moneybags

MICK O’LEARY appears to be flying high. Amidst the chaos of other airlines cancelling flights and many airports failing to manage the inevitable traffic recovery, Ryanair has stood out, but the bottom line has not been showing the expected returns and the share price has been in near free-fall. The reason remains the man at… Read more »

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Penny Mordaunt Ireland

PENNY MORDAUNT’S REBEL IRISH ROOTS

Date: July 28, 2022 - Fit to Print?

WHAT FASCINATING information emerged in the media recently about the Republican activities of failed Tory leadership contender, Penny Mordaunt and her predecessors in Ireland, including involvement in the Land League, the IRA and the Civil War. How Liz Truss would have liked to have been apprised of such info at a sensitive time — during… Read more »

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HELEN MCENTEE’S CRITIC

Date: July 28, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

JUSTICE MINISTER Helen McEntee came under fire this month when shutting down visa exemption rules for refugees travelling to Ireland from other European countries. When it comes to taking potshots at ministers, some voices carry more impact than others, and one of the most outspoken critics was legal eagle Wendy Lyon. She is a partner… Read more »

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Mediahuis Editors

MEDIAHUIS RESHUFFLES EDITORS

Date: July 28, 2022 - Fit to Print?

PETER VANDERMEERSCH enjoyed the title of publisher of Mediahuis Ireland until recently but from next Monday he will glory in the title of Mediahuis chief executive officer. But having entrenched himself as top man in the corporate tier of the Irish operation, he has also made a strategic decision to reinstate and even promote to… Read more »

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VOL 40 NO 15

Date: July 28, 2022 -

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GARRY O’SULLIVAN’S MAMMON

Date: July 28, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

WHILE THE poor old print media has been under severe pressure in recent years as the digital giants like Google and Facebook hoover up the vast bulk of the online advertising moolah, it is very surprising when any new title surfaces. In the case of a brand new publication, however, the miracle may be less… Read more »

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Agriculture RTÉ

AGRI-CATASTROPHE

Date: July 28, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

Hysteria has this week been dialled up to 11 as the agri-industrial sector went into full scale panic mode in a last gasp effort to sabotage Ireland’s new sectoral carbon budgets. The airwaves have been flooded with impassioned special pleading, with Blueshirt MEP, Colm Markey, explaining how the debate around emissions is “too focused on… Read more »

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Thomas Niedermayer IRA

SECRET DIPLOMAT’S KIDNAP FILES

Date: July 28, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

FOREIGN AND Commonwealth Office (FCO) files have just been released which shed some light on the IRA kidnapping of Germany’s Consul in Belfast, Thomas Niedermayer, in December 1973. Secretly, the Provos demanded the release of Marian and Dolours Price from prison in England for his return. Publicly, no group admitted responsibility. Niedermayer’s body was not… Read more »

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Neo-Nazis Ireland

IRELAND CALLING!

Date: July 28, 2022 - Hush Hush

THE US based Antelope Hill Publishing (AHP) has developed a niche market by publishing out of print works by fascist and Nazi ideologues as well as contemporary far-right extremists. It has also made links with neo-Nazis, and far-right activists and propagandists in Ireland. Titles that AHP has resurrected from the dustbin of history include In His… Read more »

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Terry Prone

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: July 28, 2022 - The Hot Air Brigade

They were characterised by plots, betrayals and late-night phone calls. Minor-key music and the distant roll of drums. Number-crunching to record the ineluctable path of disaffection. Treachery anaesthetised by alcohol. David Mamet crossed with John B Keane. Great stuff, altogether. Terry Prone on the current leadership rumblings within Fianna Fáil, Sunday Times, submitted by reader… Read more »

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New British Prime Minister

AFTER BORIS …

Date: July 28, 2022 - Northwind

Politicians are still going on about the “opportunity” to reset British politics now that Boris Johnson has gone. Simon Coveney was at it when he visited Stormont last week. He emphasised he didn’t care who became British prime minister, but he hoped it would mean a change in Britain’s relations with Brussels and Dublin. It… Read more »

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FF New Leader

ANTI-MARTIN CAMP DIVIDES

Date: July 28, 2022 - Last Refuge

IT’S NOT exactly a split but Micheál Martin will be pleased enough to detect a disagreement about tactics among those members of his parliamentary party that want to get shot of him ASAP. Two quite different takes on the leadership stakes were published in the last fortnight — one in the Irish Mail on Sunday… Read more »

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CATHAL CROWE’S PLANNING PROBLEM

Date: July 28, 2022 - Last Refuge

FIANNA FÁIL TD, Cathal Crowe, a key member of the parliamentary party, is embroiled in a planning row over the construction of his new family home in Cratloe, Co Clare, amid claims of privileged access to council planners. The Clare Champion’s Dan Danaher reported recently that construction of Crowe’s house had been put on hold while Clare… Read more »

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