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Sinn Féin Climate Darren O'Rourke

SF’S CLIMATE NO-CHANGE POLICY

Date: December 15, 2022 - Fowl Emissions

THIS YEAR Sinn Féin received some serious political flak for staying schtum on the thorny issue of setting emissions targets for agriculture to mitigate the sector’s significant role in climate change. In July Sinn Féin climate spokesman Darren O’Rourke implausibly tried to argue that their silence was all about not having “enough information” to even… Read more »

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GOLDEN DALE

Date: December 15, 2022 - Fowl Emissions

CONGRATULATIONS TO incoming director of Meat Industry Ireland Dale Crammond, who has spun through the revolving door of being a senior inspector in the Department of Agriculture dealing with greenhouse gas emissions straight into a lucrative gig lobbying against regulations for the livestock sector. While with the department, he worked hard to downplay methane emissions… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: December 15, 2022 - Bog Cuttings

VIGILANTE INJUSTICE DANIEL SHEEHAN (22), of 45 Churchfield Avenue, Churchfield, Cork, appeared before Cork District Court charged with verbally abusing a gardaí who was arresting a man involved in an entirely separate incident. On October 19, Sheehan spotted Garda Raz Ghetau arresting a man, who was unknown to the defendant. Despite having no context for… Read more »

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FAIRYTALE WEDDING

Date: December 15, 2022 - High Society

THE OIRISH Mail on Sunday was eager to plug the “fairytale wedding” of TV presenter Eibhlín Ní Chonghaile and moneybags Alan Maloney. Readers were told that the shindig was held in the “historic grounds of Mount Falcon Estate”, which provided the “enchanted location” for the happy couple, who have been together for around 13 years…. Read more »

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Aerial view of Ballybla Farm

CHRISTINE DAVIES’S ‘VISION’

Date: December 15, 2022 - High Society

THE FORMER Squire of Abbeyleix House, David Davies – president of the Irish Georgian Society – sold his listed Co Laois demesne to the Collison bothers last year and ‘downsized’ to the impressive Killoughter House in Ashford, Co Wicklow. This pile turns out to be just a stone’s throw from Ballybla Farm, a sprawling estate… Read more »

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Paddy Twomey

RORY COLLINS’S CATALOGUE

Date: December 15, 2022 - Sport of Kings

MEATH BREEDER and owner Rory Collins has cashed in several of his racing jewels in recent weeks with mixed results. The Ennistown Stud owner offered a few high-class two-year-old fillies to the market and was well rewarded when selling the Jim Bolger-trained Gan Teorainn for £1m, while another Bolger-trained horse, Speirling Beag, fetched €280,000. Paddy… Read more »

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Declan Queally

BONUS BLUES

Date: December 15, 2022 - Sport of Kings

FOR MANY, jockey Tom Queally will always be associated with steering the mighty Frankel to all of his successes on the racecourse 10 years ago and it is fair to say his career has never hit anything like those heights since. His brother, Declan, however, is making a name for himself at home in Ireland…. Read more »

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Michael O'Leary Plantation Stud

O’LEARY’S SPENDING SPREE

Date: December 15, 2022 - Sport of Kings

DESPITE THE general economic gloom, cost-of-living crisis, inflation concerns etc, etc, the market for high-end flat bloodstock is reaching boiling point and one moneybags keen to make the most of the buoyancy is Mick O’Leary. The high-flying Ryanair boss bought Plantation Stud in Newmarket a number of years ago with the intention of setting up… Read more »

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Terry Clune

LEO KICKS TO TOUCH

Date: December 15, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

THERE HAS been plenty of water under the bridge since Goldhawk highlighted the hugely expensive arbitration process that was left hanging over IDA Ireland and the taxpayer after the surprise exit two years early of Martin Shanahan from his role as the agency’s €195,000 pa chief executive (see The Phoenix 15/7/22). Now Shanahan is being… Read more »

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Louise Kennedy Novel - Trespasses

TRESPASSES – LOUISE KENNEDY

Date: December 15, 2022 - BooksBooks|ReviewsReviews

THIS DEBUT novel by Louise Kennedy – the latest winner of An Post’s Book of the Year award – is the much-hyped follow-up to her short fiction collection, The End of the World is a Cul de Sac. Many of these earlier stories centred around secrets and lies – particularly in failing relationships where women… Read more »

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Eamonn Crowley

PTSB MISSES SECOND PAYDAY BUT SHARES STILL FLYING

Date: December 15, 2022 - Moneybags

EAMONN CROWLEY, the chief executive of Permanent TSB (PTSB), is a lucky chap. The bank’s former boss, Jeremy Masding, jumped ship in July 2020 at a time when NatWest was considering dumping Ulster Bank. With the pillar banks out of the picture to a certain extent, PTSB found itself in prime position, with Crowley agreeing… Read more »

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ARKLE INVESTORS BETTING ON GLENCORE MOVE

Date: December 15, 2022 - Moneybags

ARKLE RESOURCES, previously known as Connemara Mining, has been engaged in mineral exploration in Ireland for just on 20 years and has worked up an interesting zinc resource in the Limerick area, as well as prospecting for gold in the Wexford-Wicklow region. More recently, the focus has been on lithium, the key battery mineral, with… Read more »

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Colm Lyon

LIKEWHERE’S LOADED PASSENGERS

Date: December 15, 2022 - Briefcases

A TRAVEL tech outfit called LikeWhere, founded by Simon Dempsey and Luke Middlewick, is set to officially crash-land next week. It turns out the boys were able to convince some heavy hitters to stick their hands in their deep pockets. Dempsey set up the marketing outfit LikeWhere in 2013 to “enable travel brands to engage… Read more »

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Simone Rocha

SIMONE ROCHA’S REWARDING GAZE

Date: December 15, 2022 - Briefcases

WHILE Laura Whitmore has been attracting headlines across the Irish Sea, another Irish player making an impact there is fashion designer Simone Rocha, who has started making some serious moolah. Although based almost exclusively in London, La Rocha maintains closes ties to this country and recently finished a seven-month run of an art exhibition –… Read more »

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BAH HUMBUG AT SUPERVALU

Date: December 15, 2022 - Briefcases

ESCADIA LTD, the company that was associated with a large SuperValu supermarket in Ardee Co Louth – controlled by Margaret Lanney and her son, David – finds itself facing a High Court winding-up petition from the owners of SuperValu the week before Christmas, having built up huge losses. For many years, the driving force behind… Read more »

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Catherine Martin Media Commission

CLOCK STARTS ON FILM LEVY

Date: December 15, 2022 - Briefcases

WITH THE Seanad’s final passing of the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022 on December 6, a revamp of the online and broadcast media environment is now awaiting Michael D Higgins’s presidential signature. The good news for producers is that there should be more moolah to go around, eventually. Celine Craig’s Broadcasting Authority of… Read more »

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VOL. 40 NO. 23

Date: December 1, 2022 -

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Roisin Ingle Blackrock Irish Times

BASHING BLACKROCK BOYS

Date: December 1, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

RUADHÁN MAC CORMAIC has handled his first crisis as Irish Times editor by ignoring it and Róisín ‘Bungle’ Ingle’s loud, long sneer at Blackrock College boys – in the week that the widespread abuse of Spiritan clergy was exposed –remains on the IT website in all its reverse snobbery and pseudo-feminist glory. No apology or… Read more »

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John Cooney

PROFILE: JOHN COONEY

Date: December 1, 2022 - Pillars of Society

THE LATEST flood of revelations about the horrific scale of previously unaddressed historic clerical sexual abuses at Blackrock College has spread to other fee-paying schools. This rising tide will force the coalition Government to convene yet another state inquiry next year into Church-controlled educational institutions. It also produced two remarkable articles by Irish Times premier… Read more »

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Rosie Connolly Quinn

YOUNG BLOOD: ROSIE CONNOLLY QUINN

Date: December 1, 2022 - The Young Bloods

FROM HUMBLE beginnings as a personal shopper at Arnotts, Rosie Connolly-Quinn has transformed her online persona from girl-next-door blogger to wealthy business woman. This has made her appeal soar from ‘relatable’ to ‘aspirational’, with her followers swooning over the plush new pad she purchased last year and family holidays at a five-star resort in Portugal…. Read more »

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Siun Ni Raghallaigh

NEW CHAIRPERSON AT RTÉ

Date: December 1, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

THE APPOINTMENT by Catherine Martin’s of Siún Ní Raghallaigh as chairwoman of RTÉ will not be too big a surprise to those who have watched the career of the canny businesswoman and former two-term chair of TG4 (originally appointed in 2012 by Pat Rabbitte). She is certainly familiar to fans of Goldhawk, who penned a… Read more »

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Surrender - Bono

SURRENDER: 40 SONGS, ONE STORY – BONO

Date: December 1, 2022 - BooksBooks|ReviewsReviews

SURRENDER IS a command and the media have complied. No editor appears to have given Surrender to someone qualified enough or brave enough to review its dubious history, politics and economics or to contest the results of Bono’s ‘activism’. Yet in interviews and in the book, the U2 frontman is beset by unnamed enemies, inheritors… Read more »

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BALLS.IE SCORES

Date: December 1, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

WITH THE World Cup in Qatar driving footie fans even to the outer reaches of the internet in search of more and more coverage, the event is clearly good news for sports media organisations, most obviously the likes of RTÉ and Mediahuis. There are, of course, other specialist sports websites making a killing, including “multi-platform… Read more »

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EAMON RYAN’S RED FACE

Date: December 1, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

THERE MAY be a few red faces at Green Party headquarters this week as a result of the Energy Action board deciding to call it a day. The decision was taken the same week that the Greens kicked off their party conference in Athlone, with climate minister Eamon Ryan in a buoyant mood. In Inchicore,… Read more »

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Newspapers VAT Paschal Donohoe

ZERO VAT FOR WEALTHY MEDIA

Date: December 1, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

PAUPERISED NEWSPAPERS and their websites recently reflected the windfall tax relief donated to them by the Government’s budgetary measures after a lengthy campaign that emphasised how close to ruin many of their titles were due to the punitive 9% Vat rate. The Vat rate is to be reduced to zero for newspapers – but not… Read more »

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Deirdre Veldon Paul Mulvaney

‘IRISH TIMES’ MUSICAL CHAIRS

Date: December 1, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

THE RECENT reshuffle of top editorial and commercial positions at the Irish Times solved what looked at one stage to be a chaotic situation. When deputy editor and former managing editor Deirdre Veldon lost out to Ruadhán Mac Cormaic in the contest for the editor’s post, colleagues described her as inconsolable and on the verge… Read more »

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Leo Varadkar Biodiversity Ireland

BIODIVERSITY WAKE UP CALLS

Date: December 1, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

DESPITE REPEATED attempts by vested interests trading on Ireland’s “green” reputation, Ireland’s biodiversity is in fact in freefall. Water pollution, largely as a result of livestock agriculture, is increasing, while two thirds of our native bird species are in decline. According to the Irish Wildlife Trust, Ireland is the world’s most deforested country, with native… Read more »

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Bobby Sands Sinn Féin Merchandise

SUNDAY TIMES’ TRUMP CARD

Date: December 1, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

ANOTHER EXCLUSIVE by the Aawrish edition of the Sunday Times on those dastardly Sinn Féin operators reported that the party has “taken a page from Donald Trump’s playbook by offering supporters a wide array of eye-catching political merchandise”. The British newspaper put two journalists on this investigation and their conclusions, explained in some detail, were… Read more »

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Justin Barrett National Party Ard Fheis

‘NAZIS AND NUTTERS’

Date: December 1, 2022 - Hush Hush

MANY WERE non-plussed at muffled media reports of an incident at the Lough Erne Resort in Co Fermanagh a fortnight ago involving the far-right National Party. It’s not the first time the National Party has held its ard fheis in such salubrious surroundings. It had already used the Lough Erne resort in 2018 and 2021,… Read more »

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Bono

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: December 1, 2022 - The Hot Air Brigade

How does someone who first shows up as a monumental pain-in-the-arise fundamentalist become someone who can write the greatest ode to love in two thousand years. Bono on writing ‘One’ in his book, Surrender She might be sitting on the bed in her dressing gown, but Varian Barry still manages to look like an image… Read more »

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Rishi Sunak

RISHI SUNAK’S WEAKNESS

Date: December 1, 2022 - Northwind

SPEAKING ON November 28 at the lord mayor’s banquet in London’s Guildhall, British prime minister Rishi Sunak explained that his foreign policy towards competitors would not be “grand rhetoric” – a dig at Johnson – but one of “robust pragmatism”, whatever that means. Rishi Sunak’s opponents and detractors among Conservative MPs (and there are many)… Read more »

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Catherine Martin Greens Coalition

‘UNITED’ GREEN PARTY

Date: December 1, 2022 - Last Refuge

THE GREENS put on a show of unity and purpose last Saturday in a convention that was several galaxies distant from traditional gatherings of yesteryear when policy differences were aired and debated with passion. That was then, when such dialogue was a distinction on which the party prided itself. Now the Greens are in coalition… Read more »

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Micheal Martin Belsat TV

IRELAND JOINS THE COLD WAR NEUTRALITY

Date: December 1, 2022 - Last Refuge

AN ALARMING note recently from one of Goldhawk’s agents in Moscow’s sphere of interest advanced the proposition that the Irish Government is involved in a western plot to effect regime change in Belarus, Russia’s strongest ally in the region. According to the current mission statement of Polish-based Belsat TV, the broadcasting station is “a democratisation… Read more »

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Gerard Craughwell

CRAUGHWELL’S FORGOTTEN ARMY

Date: December 1, 2022 - Last Refuge

SENATORS MICHAEL McDowell and Gerard Craughwell issued some aggressive statements about the refusal of Government and the Defence Forces to give official endorsement to last week’s commemoration of National Army soldiers who died in the Civil War. McDowell accused the Government of “tip-toeing around the Civil War in pursuit of an anodyne policy of offering… Read more »

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Peter Vandermeersch Mediahuis Newsbrands Ireland

MEDIA GONGS TO BE SILENCED?

Date: December 1, 2022 - Fit to Print?

GOLDHAWK SPECULATED recently that Mediahuis titles might show a marked improvement in the NewsBrands Ireland awards this year compared with their humiliation in 2021 (see The Phoenix 2/11/22). Last year Mediahuis, the biggest national newspaper group in the country, received just one award compared to six each for the Irish Times and its sister title,… Read more »

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Larry Goodman

LARRY GOODMAN’S OIL STRIKE

Date: December 1, 2022 - Fowl Emissions

YOU’RE NEVER too old to reinvent yourself. At 85, billionaire beef baron Larry Goodman is starting a new career – as an aspiring oil baron. Earlier this year he bought up 16% of the Sir Tony O’Reilly-founded Providence Resources, after which the company renamed itself Barryroe Offshore Energy. The rebranding may have been an attempt… Read more »

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