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AMO KEEPS OPTIONS OPEN

Date: January 12, 2023 - Sport of Kings

ONE MAJOR flat owner who likes to keep his trainers guessing is Kia Joorabchian of Amo Racing. The football club investor and tech entrepreneur upped his spending again last year, including buying the Michael O’Callaghan-trained Crypto Force for £900,000 at the Goffs London sale during the summer, and now has upwards of 100 horses in… Read more »

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Luke Comer Ban

COMERS’ CHRISTMAS PLAN

Date: January 12, 2023 - Sport of Kings

EIGHT YEARS after the Comer brothers, Luke and Brian, acquired the Kilternan sports and leisure complex in south Co Dublin for €7m – 96% less than the €171m spent on the site by the late Hugh O’Regan – a planning application has been submitted to help regularise development that has taken place at the so-called… Read more »

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An enemy of the crown

AN ENEMY OF THE CROWN – DAVID BURKE, MERCIER

Date: January 12, 2023 - BooksBooks|ReviewsReviews

DAVID BURKE’S An Enemy of the Crown provides essential reading on British disinformation and smears, bringing readers up to speed on what is sometimes referred to as the ‘seamier side’ of the conflict in the north. The term implies that sleaze was peripheral to the hostilities and mainstream political activities. In fact, it is central… Read more »

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Martin Davis

MOLTEN VENTURES INVESTMENTS EXPOSED TO THE DAYLIGHT

Date: January 12, 2023 - Moneybags

IT IS far from obvious just what has gone wrong at Molten Ventures, the investment fund previously known as Draper Esprit. What is clear, however, is that on foot of certain fundraising exercises a number of the company’s investments are awfully less valuable than shareholders may have suspected. This has been bad news for the… Read more »

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Seamus Keating

CAN FD TECHNOLOGIES DELIVER ITS SECOND ACT?

Date: January 12, 2023 - Moneybags

NEWRY WOULD not be known to most people for its prominence in the high-finance technology sector, courtesy of Brian Colon, who developed what is the world’s biggest financial derivatives software house in his home town. From nothing, Conlon managed to grow a phenomenally successful business resulting in the first Newry ‘unicorn’, with his First Derivative… Read more »

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John Magnier High Definition

JOHN MAGNIER’S BEDROOMS

Date: January 12, 2023 - Briefcases

WHILE MONEYBAGS John Magnier has tended to be seen as something of a deity in south Co Tipperary, where he has been splashing the cash for decades, the locals in part of the county also have a particular soft spot for the Rock of Cashel. While the businessman has attracted plenty of praise for his… Read more »

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Will Prendergast

WILL PRENDERGAST’S PREDICTIONS

Date: January 12, 2023 - Briefcases

AFTER TWO years in situ as a director on Advisable.com, venture capitalist and member of the Society of Kauffman Fellows Will Prendergast has stepped down from the board. Having recently divined that the investment market is in a tricky spot at the moment, he may be taking time out to plan for the next chapter…. Read more »

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Rick Earley

RICK EARLEY’S LATEST SETBACK

Date: January 12, 2023 - Briefcases

A LOW-PROFILE Co Longford company called Profill Ltd was wound up immediately before Christmas. Having started life as a mattress manufacturer in Tralee with a different name and under different ownership, Profill ended up going into liquidation having managed to build up millions of euro in losses. The main player here is Dún Laoghaire-based Rick… Read more »

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ZMG Cyril Murphy Newbridge College Peter Wilson Sporting Emporium Chris Wholey O'Kane God’s Creatures Film Tax Relief Anne Rossi Desmond Live Nation ESCADIA LTD Al Porter Comeback Gordon Elliott Clayton Love Ivan Wilde hot-water-brigade Parnells GAA Lawsuit

DESMOND BOUNCES BACK

Date: January 12, 2023 - Briefcases

ACCOUNTS HAVE just been filed by LN-Gaiety Holdings Ltd (LNGH), the joint venture between loaded concert promoter Denis Desmond and the Live Nation behemoth. It is clear that, post-pandemic, business is well and truly back on track. LNGH is owned by the London-headquartered Live Nation and Desmond’s Dublin-registered Gaiety Investments Unlimited, where the other director… Read more »

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Windhoist Ireland Uniti Bhalla

WINDHOIST HOISTED

Date: January 12, 2023 - Briefcases

THE WEEK before Christmas, a business involved in providing services to wind farms – Windhoist Ireland Ltd (WIL) – was wound up by the High Court on foot of a petition from the directors, following the liquidation of its UK-registered parent company. It turns out that the collapse came as quite a shock to all… 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

NEW REGIME IN ROSSLARE

Date: January 12, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

DESPITE THE hectic social calendars of members of Rosslare Golf Club, they somehow found time to squeeze in an extraordinary general meeting on December 27 to install a new chairman. This last-minute action was required as a result of the unusual outcome of its annual general meeting a couple of weeks earlier, when the incumbent… Read more »

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Leo Varadkar Nightclub Alan English

KISS AND TELL?

Date: December 15, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

THE MEDIA handling of that video showing incoming Taoiseach Leo Varadkar kissing a man in a nightclub combined a mixture of fear, ethical simplicity and conservatism. But in the end, forward-looking Mammon triumphed and the story was published, ironically, in two Sunday newspapers — the Sunday Independent and the Irish edition of the Sunday Times… Read more »

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Malachy Steenson

PROFILE: MALACHY STEENSON

Date: December 15, 2022 - Pillars of Society

TO SOME, Malachy Steenson is a political buffoon who careers around Dublin’s north inner city posturing as a modern James Connolly and other republican icons while crashing and burning at various elections over the years. To others, he is the real deal – a self-educated, working-class hero who stands up for his community. Right now… Read more »

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John Cummins

YOUNG BLOOD: JOHN CUMMINS

Date: December 15, 2022 - The Young Bloods

WHILE MAJOR attention focuses on whether the establishment parties can fend off the Sinn Féin challenge, a more intriguing battle is that between Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil as to which will speak for that establishment. Opinion polls suggest it will be FG (which has a consistent lead over FF in the polls) but what… Read more »

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COP15 Ireland Malcolm Noonan

BIO-BOYCOTT

Date: December 15, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

THOUGH YOU would struggle to find a mention of it anywhere across Ireland’s media, the most important international conference on nature and biodiversity this decade is currently taking place in Montreal. Known as COP15, this is a once-in-a-decade intergovernmental conference that will set out the key targets for protection of global biodiversity until 2030. Experts… Read more »

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Madeleine O'Sullivan Listowel Writers’ Week

PLOT THICKENS AT LISTOWEL WRITERS’ WEEK

Date: December 15, 2022 - Behind the Scenes

GOLDHAWK HAS been struck by coverage of the Arts Council-inspired restructuring of the Listowel Writers’ Week (LWW) organisation, including the disbanding of the long-standing volunteer committee. Front and centre has been Fianna Fáil senator Ned O’Sullivan, who has appealed to the LWW board to “turn back from this disastrous course”. Presumably his wife, Madeleine, is… Read more »

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Laura Whitmore Muff Liquor Company

LAURA WHITMORE’S MUFF MOVE

Date: December 15, 2022 - Briefcases

AN IRISH lass who has been making waves in London in recent weeks is TV presenter Laura Whitmore. Having fronted the insanely popular Love Island for three seasons, she has called it a day over “conflicting projects”, with the red tops making it very clear that this was a “shock announcement”. Also surprisingly, it turns… Read more »

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Suzanne Jackson Linda Stinson

LINDA STINSON’S COMPETITION

Date: December 15, 2022 - High Society

RTÉ HAS been keeping the red tops suitably topped up with the drip-feed of details about the array of ‘talent’ set to feature on the latest series of the Larry Bass-produced Dancing with the Stars (DWTS), which kicks off in the new year. One of the celebs set to feature large is the minted cosmetics… 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

A LOTTO MONEY

Date: December 15, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

IRELAND’S NATIONAL Lottery has been in the spotlight recently as a result of the introduction of legislation relating to gambling and on foot of significant criticism of the manner in which unclaimed prizes have been spent. What nobody has bothered to point out is that its Canadian, the Ontario Teachers Pension Plan Board (OTPPB) owners… 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

ELLIOTT’S FRONT NINE ADVANTAGE

Date: December 15, 2022 - Sport of Kings

THE IRISH national hunt season has provided entertainment over the last few weeks and viewers of RTÉ’s coverage of the sport every Sunday for several weeks in a row have had plenty to get their teeth into as Gordon Elliott loosens the reins. Fans have also voted with their feet, with decent attendances and vibrant… 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

ROCHE BELOW PAR

Date: December 15, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

THE AGM of Rosslare Golf Club last week proved rather eventful, with former senior newspaper man Michael Roche finding himself ousted as chairman. Roche was a no-nonsense exec at Independent News and Media and was sent Down Under to oversee the publishing end of the then Australian subsidiary, APN. When he returned, however, he found… Read more »

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4024-FP

VOL 40 NO 24

Date: December 15, 2022 -

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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

MCNALLY’S NAGS

Date: December 15, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

CONTROVERSIAL HORSE TRAINER Ronan McNally is planning heavy going for the stewards of the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB) when his punishment is dished out in the new year. McNally has been hit with multiple findings by the Judge Brian McGovern-chaired referrals committee, dating back a number of years. These include running his horses in… Read more »

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Rena Maycock

RENA MAYCOCK’S MANY HATS

Date: December 15, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

THE MULTI-TALENTED Rena Maycock was celebrating last week when she was informed that the state had become a major backer of her fledgling child-protection tech company. There is, however, still the small matter of securing a million or so spondoolicks from private investors. It also turns out that the dating site founder has now become… 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

NOT-SO-RICH FOOD

Date: December 15, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

ALTHOUGH IT was announced nearly three years ago that high-profile Michelin-starred restaurant L’Ecrivain in D2 was to close down for good, it was only this week that a creditors’ meeting was held for the company behind the famous dining establishment. It may come as a surprise to former clients that the business ended up in… Read more »

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Citizens Information Board Heather Humphreys

TOO MUCH INFORMATION?

Date: December 15, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

HEATHER HUMPHREYS has been social protection minister for two-and-a-half years but appears to have been unaware until recently of the convulsions inside the Citizens Information Centres (CICs), in particular the Citizens Information Board (CIB), which come under her remit and were aired on Joe Duffy’s Liveline programme last September. The service, funded by Humphreys’ department… Read more »

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Dolores Cahill Hermann Kelly

KELLY’S HEROES

Date: December 15, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

HERMANN KELLY, leader of the Irish Freedom Party (IFP), has been reinvigorated in recent weeks. Not only has he led his party activists and associates into protests against refugee accommodation in East Wall, he has also tried to out-manoeuvre other far-right parties and activists. Fresh from his verbal onslaught against Justin Barrett and the National… Read more »

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Richard Boyd Barrett European Army

IRISH AMBIGUOUS ARMY

Date: December 15, 2022 - Hush Hush

MICHEÁL MARTIN lost his cool with Cork TD Mick Barry of Solidarity in the Dáil recently. Barry was questioning the presence of Nato assessors in Kilworth, Co Cork, looking to judge the Irish Army’s interoperability with other Nato forces. Barry derided the oft-repeated claim by Government ministers that Ireland is not politically neutral but is… Read more »

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Darren Kennedy

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: December 15, 2022 - The Hot Air Brigade

I’m a huge fan of Japanese culture and design. Not many people know this, but when I took part in Celebrity Mastermind, my specialist subject was the geisha! What can I say, I’m full of surprises! Darren Kennedy, Irish Independent There’s something about its determinedly idealised portrayal of an Irish childhood which no longer exists,… Read more »

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Irish Times Border Poll Brendan O'Leary

DAMNED LIES AND BORDER POLL

Date: December 15, 2022 - Northwind

THE IRISH Times seems predictably smugly delighted with the figures in the ARINS poll jointly produced by the Royal Irish Academy and Notre Dame university in the US. As far as the Irish Times is concerned, it’s a slam dunk; no border poll “in the short or medium term”. Stop talking about it and especially… Read more »

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Leo Varadkar

VARADKAR AT RISK FROM COVENEY FANS?

Date: December 15, 2022 - Last Refuge

A STATE of fear and paralysis descended on Fine Gael members, especially at senior level, as that video of incoming Taoiseach Leo Varadkar kissing a young man at a gay nightclub spread like wildfire last week. But this is not the first time that Varadkar’s sexual orientation has become an issue inside the Fine Gael… Read more »

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Sinn Féin RTÉ Brendan Griffin

RTÉ DEFIES GOVERNMENT TDS

Date: December 15, 2022 - Last Refuge

WHAT BEGAN as a run-of-the-mill targeting of Sinn Féin by Government members of the Oireachtas joint committee on the media developed into an embarrassing own-goal last week. Instead of yet another media taunting of Sinn Féin, the Irish Daily Mail ran a story about RTÉ claiming that the politicians were “trying to interfere in its… Read more »

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Micheal Martin

IS MARTIN NOW SAFE AS LEADER?

Date: December 15, 2022 - Last Refuge

POLITICAL CORRESPONDENTS appear to be unanimous in their view — a view spun with assiduous intent by the party’s handlers — that Micheál Martin’s leadership of FF is now safe as houses (just like the party’s policy on houses). But some of the shrewder party operators know there are dangerous times ahead for the party… Read more »

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Derek Linster

‘IRISH TIMES’ AND CHILD ABUSE

Date: December 15, 2022 - Fit to Print?

ON NOVEMBER 21 last, the Irish Times published a brief report on the passing of 81-year-old Derek Linster (also known as Derek Leinster). It noted that he had “campaigned for the inclusion of Protestant institutions in government inquiries and redress schemes” and that he “wrote two books on his experience”. What the IT did not… Read more »

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MEDIAHUIS SUED

Date: December 15, 2022 - Fit to Print?

RTÉ AND Sunday Independent journalist Brendan O’Connor has arrived late to the privacy party being reluctantly hosted by Mediahuis, owners of the Indo and other titles in the group formerly controlled by Denis O’Brien. At one stage there was a list of 19 such litigants suing over their data being illegally accessed by the group’s… Read more »

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RTÉ’S ‘TOY SHOW’ DIRGE

Date: December 15, 2022 - Fit to Print?

MEDIA PREVIEWS of Toy Show The Musical were ecstatic, describing the lavish and very expensive production as the “perfect recipe… an instant Christmas classic” (Irish Examiner) and “Pack the tissues! It’s a roller coaster of emotions (Evoke), while RTÉ Radio 1’s Shay Byrne “was blown away”, (would you believe). Well, viewers and fans of The… Read more »

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