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David Horgan

CLONTARF ENERGY’S TINY VALUATION COULD PROVE TEMPTING

Date: September 8, 2022 - Moneybags

LAST MONTH there was bad news for shareholders in Clontarf Energy. The Australian gas well, Sasanof-1, in which the company has a 10% stake was drilled 100 miles offshore the west coast, targeting a huge identified seven trillion cubic feet enclosure. However, it proved a dud and the well was plugged and abandoned. Unsurprisingly, this… Read more »

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Colin Hunt

COLIN HUNT V FRANCESCA MCDONAGH

Date: September 8, 2022 - Moneybags

AT AIB, Colin Hunt reversed his attempt to withdraw cash facilities from 70 branches nationwide after getting a right hammering from commentators and politicians. The fallout may have surprised him, given that over at Bank of Ireland Francesca McDonagh has been rather more aggressive in her tactics, but faced a significantly smaller backlash after, for… Read more »

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John Malone Powerscourt Hotel

POWERSCOURT POWER PLAY

Date: September 8, 2022 - The Hot Water Brigade

THE BATTLE of the super-rich landowners of Wicklow over staff quarters on the grounds of American billionaire John Malone’s Powerscourt Hotel has now escalated to An Bord Pleanála, which will decide on a contentious issue between the Slazenger family and the Yank and his partners. Interestingly, the planning consultant is playing a starring role here. The… Read more »

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DUBLIN PARNELLS’ OWN GOAL

Date: September 8, 2022 - The Hot Water Brigade

LOOKS LIKE the long-established Parnells GAA club in Coolock, D5, might have scored an own goal following a costly lawsuit. Certainly, someone took their eye off the ball to allow recruitment firm Barry M Whelan to slip in and register a near €20,000 judgment against… Read more »

Jim McGettigan Ukraine Hotel Contracts

RODERIC O’GORMAN’S WAR EFFORT

Date: September 8, 2022 - The Hot Water Brigade

ELSEWHERE IN this issue (see p3) Goldhawk examines the awarding of contracts to accommodation providers, particularly hotel owners in relation to the arrival here of 50,000 refugees from Ukraine. There have been plenty of businesses stepping up to do their part – and being well rewarded for the effort too. A list of the contracts… Read more »

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DEE FORBES’S PLEADINGS

Date: September 8, 2022 - Behind the Scenes

THE INTRO to RTÉ’s autumn season launch is familiar to perusers of press releases from assorted Irish film festivals, Screen Ireland, IFTA and film industry organisations: “This upcoming season from RTÉ celebrates Irish culture, creativity and Irish talent, with Irish drama, unique Irish stories, and… Read more »

Factory Girls

FACTORY GIRLS – MICHELLE GALLEN

Date: September 8, 2022 - Books|ReviewsReviews

THE CASTLEDERG author’s debut novel Big Girl, Small Town (2020) features a 27-year-old chip-shop worker trapped in a Co Tyrone backwater during the 1970s. It offers an ominously comic perspective on a life overshadowed by sectarian conflict. Michelle Gallen’s second book, Factory Girls, also explores the legacy of the Troubles but is rather less sure-footed…. Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: September 8, 2022 - Bog Cuttings

‘Who’s Going To Ride Me?’ A 33-YEAR-OLD TV production graduate appeared before Dundalk District Court charged with public intoxication and being threatening and abusive towards gardaí, who had received reports of an intoxicated man acting suspiciously on Main Street, Blackrock, at around 5pm on September 26 last. When they arrived they found Chris Killingbeck, of… Read more »

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VOL 40 NO 17

Date: August 25, 2022 -

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Paul O’Neill Irish Times editor

‘IRISH TIMES’ HOT SEAT

Date: August 25, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

THE EXIT of Paul O’Neill, after little more than five years as the editor of the Irish Times, came as a surprise to outsiders, although the rumour machine has been in overdrive since last month. Now, the focus turns to his successor. The announcement from… Read more »

Norma Foley

PROFILE: NORMA FOLEY

Date: August 25, 2022 - Pillars of Society

THE ANNUAL back-to-school drama festival is kicking off with an all-star female cast in Dublin’s Marlborough Street, home of that venerable institution that has given us so much good theatre over the years – the Department of Education. The Irish Examiner’s political correspondent, Daniel McConnell, reported recently that some insiders call education minister Norma Foley… Read more »

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Muireann O’Connell Virgin

YOUNG BLOOD: MUIREANN O’CONNELL

Date: August 25, 2022 - The Young Bloods

HAVING BEEN dropped from her radio show on Today FM in 2019, the gobby Muireann O’Connell is powering ahead with her TV career with Virgin and side hustle as a social media influencer. While her brash style is not to every viewer’s taste, the 39-year-old is now firmly installed as the golden girl of Virgin… Read more »

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BARRY COWEN’S CAMPAIGN

Date: August 25, 2022 - Last Refuge

BARRY COWEN’S supporters in Fianna Fáil have been working overtime, pushing out a leadership election message via the sympathetic pages of the Irish Mail on Sunday. One of the paper’s weekly “exclusives” was headlined: “Cowen ‘a contender’ for Fianna Fáil leader” and was remarkably positive about the prospects of former taoiseach Brian Cowen’s brother. Apparently,… Read more »

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Dee Forbes RTÉ Current Affairs

MORE HEADACHES FOR DEE FORBES

Date: August 25, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

RTÉ’S HEAD of news and current affairs, Jon Williams, threw a clever feint with his new year’s message to staff back in January by telling them he was poised to become an Irish citizen (see The Phoenix 14/1/22). Clearly, this showed that the executive was… Read more »

James Cahill Law Society

LAW SOCIETY TRUCE

Date: August 25, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

BOTH SIDES have temporarily backed down in the Law Society controversy that saw a motion to expel 2020-21 president James Cahill from the society’s co-ordination committee, finance committee and all finance sub-committees (see The Phoenix 1/7/22). The two council members who moved the motion — Richard Hammond SC and Dr Shane McCarthy — argue that… Read more »

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Rosie Connolly

ROSIE CONNOLLY’S NEW FRIENDS

Date: August 25, 2022 - High Society

ALTHOUGH barely a year in existence, influencer Rosie Connolly’s new fashion brand has attracted some unlikely funders. Given that one of them is Tommy Kelly, the zillionaire behind the stupendously successful online sales outfit eShopworld, the future looks particularly bright for Rosie’s own online business…. Read more »

Fiona McHugh

FIONA MCHUGH’S CLOUDY OUTLOOK

Date: August 25, 2022 - The Hot Water Brigade

HAVING ONLY recently found herself on the end of a tiny judgment from the Revenue for just €1,850 (presumably as a result of some oversight), former Sunday Times editor turned businesswoman Fiona McHugh has suffered another setback with her Rathmines bar and restaurant availing of new legislation aimed at helping struggling small to medium-sized companies… Read more »

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Tom McNamara Data Centre Emissions Ireland

BIG DATA, BIG EMISSIONS

Date: August 25, 2022 - Fowl Emissions

“DATA CENTRES have a lot of roof space so installing solar panels on the top of their facilities could help make them energy self-sufficient.” This tip from industry insider Chris Collins of Schneider Electric was the concluding line of an otherwise mostly useful two-page spread in last Sunday’s Business Post on the problem with data… Read more »

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Lorraine Keane House

LORRAINE KEANE’S BATHROOMS

Date: August 25, 2022 - High Society

GOLDHAWK WAS surprised to see two pages devoted to Lorraine Keane’s Monkstown pile in the Sunday Times last weekend. Three years after the impressive house she shares with musician-cum-radio presenter Peter Devlin and their children was the subject of oodles of publicity when it was put on the market with a €2.65m price tag, the… Read more »

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PAT MCDONAGH’S BUN FIGHT

Date: August 25, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

BURGER KING Pat ‘Supermac’s’ McDonagh found himself in a stand-off with a Limerick-based franchisee John Lyons over alleged rent arrears. It looks like the bolshy McDonagh has met his match. Earlier this month, gardaí attended a burger joint on the Ennis Road that operates under the name The Hungry Lyons. They were called when McDonagh… 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

CLINTEL’S DECLARATION

Date: August 25, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

WITH EVIDENCE of climate change impossible to avoid this summer a Dutch-based group Clintel, mainly funded by a real-estate millionaire, issued a statement that there is “no climate emergency”. Carbon dioxide is “plant food, the basis of all life on Earth” and it’s “increasing the yields of crops worldwide”, according to Clintel, which added that… 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

HEAVY GOING AT HRI

Date: August 25, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

THE LONG overdue publication of the annual report of Brian Kavanagh’s Horse Racing Ireland (HRI) agency is due next month and there will be plenty of interest in its contents. The odds look pretty short that there is trouble brewing. The draft accounts were received from HRI headquarters by Comptroller & Auditor General Seamus McCarthy… Read more »

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Dermot McCarthy Ireland Energy Independence

DERMOT McCARTHY’S REVIEW

Date: August 25, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

WITH THE hapless Irish public facing a ‘perfect storm’ of power cuts, fuel rationing and soaring prices both this and next winter, the Government has asked former chief civil servant Dermot McCarthy to conduct “an independent review of electricity supply matters”. It is already clear that there will be plenty of blame to go around,… Read more »

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Allan Beechinor ALTADA

ALTADA SETS THE RECORD STRAIGHT

Date: August 25, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

IT HAS been a hectic August for Allan Beechinor and Niamh Parker, the principals in the Altada artificial intelligence (AI) outfit tipped to be the next ‘unicorn’ but now the subject of intense scrutiny over the level of spending and need for investment. While the… Read more »

Charlie Flanagan RIC Commemorations

‘TANS’ WRITTEN OUT OF HISTORY

Date: August 25, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

A DISAPPOINTED Charlie ‘BlackandTanAgain’ Flanagan and friends will not, as promised, be organising another effort to celebrate the contribution of the Royal Irish Constabulary to Irish independence and town planning via the burning of Cork City, Fermoy, Balbriggan, and many creameries and villages around the country. To our inestimable shame, nationalist Ireland felt the celebrations… Read more »

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John McKeague Kincora Home Abuse

KINCORA WHISTLE BLOWER DIES

Date: August 25, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

CAPTAIN BRIAN GEMMELL, who ran loyalist agents for MI5 in the mid-1970s, has died. When Gemmell discovered that boys were being abused by a staff member at Kincora Boys’ Home in Belfast, he reported this to MI5, only to be ordered to drop his inquiries by Ian Cameron, a top MI5 officer. In 2014 Gemmell… 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

ZUZANA’S ZETBACK

Date: August 25, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

GOLDHAWK SPOTTED that a judgment for a hefty $438,000 (€439,000) has been registered against Co Waterford developer Shane Houlihan and his American wife, Zuzana Ratajova – previously a senior finance executive at the giant Turner Entertainment group and vice president at CNN. This is not the first time the couple have found themselves in a… Read more »

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Ryan Tubridy

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: August 25, 2022 - The Hot Air Brigade

New York is hilarious, I’ve been to New York and in the subways, I get, ‘What are you doing here Tubs?’ I’m actually okay with it. Ryan Tubridy, Sunday World, submitted by reader The release of Chapter Three pays homage to history and craftmanship, a journey of age and time inspired by the element of… Read more »

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Charlie Haughey An Enemy of The Crown

AN ENEMY OF THE CROWN

Date: August 25, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

NEW INFORMATION about a decade-long MI6 smear campaign against Charles Haughey and even an operation to sully St John Hume is about to be published in a book called An Enemy of The Crown: The British Secret Service Campaign against Charles Haughey by David Burke. The campaigns were led by Sir Maurice Oldfield, a top-ranking… Read more »

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Loyalist bonfire Féile Concert

PLUS ÇA CHANGE…

Date: August 25, 2022 - Northwind

IT’S AS regular as well-oiled clockwork. Every July nationalist outrage at effigies of politicians and Irish and papal flags being burned on loyalist bonfires is followed by unionist outrage at republican chants during Féile concerts. And it’s all funded by the taxpayer. To add consistency, each year it’s the same effigies and flags and the… Read more »

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Joseph O'Sullivan Human Rights Ireland

BARRISTERS FIGHT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS

Date: August 25, 2022 - Last Refuge

THE BAR of Ireland’s human rights committee has had a mixed press recently, with its front-of-house personalities offering different perspectives on human rights depending on who and what issues are under discussion. But there is a party-political dimension to this debate. When it came to the elevation of ex-chief justice Frank Clarke and former High… Read more »

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Lorna Bogue Green Movement Ireland

WHITHER THE GREENS?

Date: August 25, 2022 - Last Refuge

RECENT POLL figures for the Green Party by the Business Post/Red C (4%), Irish Times (3%) and Sunday Independent (4%) will have many of its TDs and councillors worrying about their seats in upcoming elections. Eamon Ryan seems determined to plough on, however, assuming that even if the party has a bad election, maybe even… Read more »

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Peter Vandermeersch Mediahuis Awards

MAKING THE MEDIA GRADE

Date: August 25, 2022 - Fit to Print?

AFTER THREATENING last February to walk out of Newsbrands Ireland post haste – because its titles were “treated unfairly” in Newsbrands journalism awards – Mediahuis, the largest newspaper group in the country, appeared last week to have softened its attitude to the awards and Newsbrands itself. There was a time when the subpanels that selected… Read more »

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Michael Leahy MANY PEOPLE would have been surprised to learn that the chair of the right-wing, anti-immigrant Irish Freedom Party

IRISH FREEDOM PARTY CHAIR

Date: August 25, 2022 - Last Refuge

MANY PEOPLE would have been surprised to learn that the chair of the right-wing, anti-immigrant Irish Freedom Party (IFP), Michael Leahy, was the An Bord Pleanála board member who dealt with the ESB’s contentious, multimillion-euro Fitzwilliam Street redevelopment in 2015. Frank McDonald mentioned this in a Sunday Independent report recently. Leahy is one of only… Read more »

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Date: August 25, 2022 - Letters to the Editor

COLLINS AND VARADKAR Dear editor, What an extraordinarily disingenuous pronouncement from Leo Varadkar to say at Glasnevin Cemetery, on August 14, that Michael Collins and Arthur Griffith did not believe there was no alternative to war. Both men were front and centre in the republican movement, whose avowed objective in word and deed was to… Read more »

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Diageo Dana An Garda Síochána IT Trust No Stone Unturned Irish Times Black Friday Vicky Conway

VICKY CONWAY’S CONCERNS

Date: August 25, 2022 - Fit to Print?

THE MEDIA tributes to academic and policing expert Vicky Conway reflected the genuine esteem in which she was held by her peers. But many of the tributes by journalists and academics gave the misleading impression that this impressive woman was at one with such as ex-justice minister Charlie Flanagan and senior gardaí. Vicky Conway was… Read more »

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