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Luke Holland Climate Denial John Fagan Wolf Europe David Quinn Duncan Stewart Data Centre Carbon Emissions Conor Skehan Chris Hazzard

EU ROUNDS UP RENEWAL

Date: December 1, 2022 - Fowl Emissions

Imagine if civil servants ignored the outcome of a Dáil vote and implemented a policy measure against the wishes of a majority of TDs. Something like that has happened in Brussels. The licence that allows glyphosate, aka Roundup weedkiller, to be sold in the EU is due to expire this month. When EU states voted… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: December 1, 2022 - Bog Cuttings

‘KNOW WHERE YOU LIVE’ A 73-YEAR-OLD who verbally abused county council waste enforcement officials received the Probation Act at Sligo District Court. The court heard that Willie Tighe, of Carrowgobbadagh, Ballisodare, Sligo, confronted two council workers while they were inspecting a yard on Oakfield Road, Sligo, on February 22, 2019. Sharon McKeown and Berry Guckian… Read more »

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Kasia Gaborec McEvoy

MY NAME IS KASIA

Date: December 1, 2022 - High Society

NO DOUBT Katarzyna ‘Kasia’ Gaborec-McEvoy was delighted with the latest lengthy plug her upmarket handbag company received in the Business Post last month, courtesy of the publisher’s media deal with Enterprise Ireland (EI). Also happy will be some recently arrived shareholders, who include a familiar name. The company, My Name Is Ted Ltd (MNIT), was… Read more »

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PAUL SHEERAN’S PLANS

Date: December 1, 2022 - High Society

THERE’S BEEN plenty of publicity in recent weeks for jeweller Paul Sheeran, who has been expanding on all fronts. Well established in the bling trade, Sheeran has shifted a fair few watches from his high-profile shop on Johnson’s Court off Grafton Street and has recently splashed the cash, in conjunction with half a dozen top… Read more »

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Kevin O'Ryan

KEVIN O’RYAN’S SCHEDULE

Date: December 1, 2022 - Sport of Kings

RACING TV presenter Kevin O’Ryan is known to keep himself busy within the sport, juggling his broadcasting role with acting as a jockeys’ agent, an equine talent scout for Goffs, while also running his own breaking and pre-training yard. It’s little surprise then that O’Ryan can sometimes get distracted by all his commitments and the… Read more »

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Ronan McNally Ithaka Horse

MCNALLY HANGING ON

Date: December 1, 2022 - Sport of Kings

THE CURIOUS case of trainer Ronan McNally rumbles on, despite reports in recent months that a decision was imminent as to whether he would face any sanctions from the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board. McNally came to the attention of the regulator after a number of his horses landed significant gambles in the past few years… Read more »

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Kevin Doyle

KEVIN DOYLE’S NEW GOAL

Date: December 1, 2022 - Sport of Kings

WHEN FORMER Republic of Ireland striker Kevin Doyle paid €155,000 three years ago for a foal that was a half-brother to a then star two-mile chaser, he announced it was an investment that he would hopefully cash in two-and-half years later when offering the horse for re-sale at Goffs as a three-year-old. That plan did… Read more »

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Visual Carlow Emma Lucy O'Brien

CARRY ON CARLOW

Date: December 1, 2022 - Behind the Scenes

HAVING LOST out on some money-spinners last year due to the pandemic, the cash-strapped Visual arts centre in Carlow is hoping nothing derails this year’s panto. While the institution (where Emma-Lucy O’Brien is in situ as chief executive) is heavily backed by the Arts Council to the tune of around €210,000 pa, the contemporary arts… Read more »

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BOYD BARRETT’S CAMEO ROLE

Date: December 1, 2022 - Behind the Scenes

WATCHING THE Oireachtas select committee on finance and public expenditure go through the nuts and bolts of the recently published Finance Bill would be a pretty tedious undertaking were it not for some members’ close interrogation of those assorted tax loopholes that don’t appear in the budget as expenditure because the money is never collected… Read more »

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Brian Hall

GREAT WESTERN’S GROWING PROSPECTS

Date: December 1, 2022 - Moneybags

EMMETT O’CONNELL floated off the tiny Great Western Mining exploration vehicle in Dublin in 2011, which focused on licences he had acquired in the west of the US state of Nevada. While the state is very mining friendly, this is not an easy place to explore – up in the Rockies and impossible during the… Read more »

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Paul O'Donnell

GREENCOAT MANAGERS CONTINUE TO REAP THE REWARDS

Date: December 1, 2022 - Moneybags

GREENCOAT RENEWABLES raised €270m at €1 a share in 2017. It has since gone on to raise over €1bn from investors, most recently €282m in April this year. It is essentially a capital fund that has invested in existing wind farms, initially in Ireland and over the last three years in Germany, France, Sweden, Finland… Read more »

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Bill McCabe

BILL MCCABE’S LEGAL HEADACHE

Date: December 1, 2022 - Briefcases

INTERESTING TO see a midland engineering outfit called Aubren Ltd lodging proceedings in the Four Goldmines against the high-profile air purification outfit WellAir Ltd, where the main player is well-known tech investor Bill McCabe. Indeed there are some interesting names on both sides WellAir has been hoovering up funding from an assortment of big international… Read more »

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Mark Galligan House of Ireland

MARK GALLIGAN’S EMPTY HOUSE

Date: December 1, 2022 - Briefcases

THE SUMMER of 2020, in the midst of the pandemic, the House of Ireland (HoI) crafts and gifts retail group collapsed into liquidation. The liquidator has now completed his task but the bad news is that, apart from a few bob to cover the winding-up fees, there is nothing in the kitty for the creditors… Read more »

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Ciara Donlon

RESCUING CIARA DONLON

Date: December 1, 2022 - Briefcases

HAVING WON her fair share of plaudits in recent years, Ciara Donlon – the woman behind Theya Lingerie Ltd, which produces post-surgery underwear from bamboo no less – finds herself in unfamiliar territory, looking to stave off liquidation through the recently introduced Scarp legislation. It is, however, far from clear what kind of state the… Read more »

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Michael Hackman

MICHAEL HACKMAN’S IRISH SCREENPLAY

Date: December 1, 2022 - Briefcases

INTERESTING TO see that the first accounts have been filed by Michael Hackman’s Ardmore and Troy Studios Limited, which acquired the two film and TV studios from Joe Devine’s consortium last year. This is only one of the Yank’s Irish interests. Fans of Goldhawk will be aware that Hackman’s group, HCP, has also entered a… Read more »

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Malachy Steenson

EAST WALL’S GANDHI RESURFACES

Date: December 1, 2022 - Last Refuge

AMONG THE speakers, mostly outsiders from the hard right, attempting to mobilise East Wall residents against refugees was a more exotic political personality, locally born Malachy Steenson, aka Gandhi of North Strand. Gandhi has managed to combine a history of diverse political attachments and allies with various campaigns, some of which led to fractious disagreements… Read more »

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Christy Kinahan John Mooney

IRAN-KINAHAN SCARY STORY

Date: December 1, 2022 - Fit to Print?

THE IRISH edition of the Sunday Times has been purged of most long-time, senior staff but crime and security correspondent John Mooney remains in situ. This is either because of editor Nóirín Hegarty’s appetite for spooky stories and tales of cops’n’robbers or because the ST’s London management appreciates the editorial value of Mooney’s sources in… Read more »

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Mickael Viljanen Ross Lewis

CHAPTER ONE’S NEW CHAPTER

Date: December 1, 2022 - High Society

THE WINDING-UP of a company called Lindley Ltd has just taken place, marking an ‘official’ end to the original Ross Lewis-fronted Chapter One restaurant business, where the name in lights these days is Mickael Viljanen. The good news for Ross is that he still appears to have comfortably the biggest share of the plate. Before… Read more »

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Sheikh Fahad Al Thani

SHEIKH FAHAD’S THOROUGHBREDS

Date: December 1, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

THERE HAS, not surprisingly, been oodles of coverage over the last month of the Qatar’s sports-washing agenda, which is playing itself out for a global audience courtesy of the World Cup. There is also the well-known and much-debated ownership of the Paris Saint-Germain football club by Qatar Sports Investments. Less high profile, however, is the… Read more »

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Robert Tyner

ROBERT TYNER’S U-TURN

Date: December 1, 2022 - Sport of Kings

ANOTHER TRAINER who had a spot of bother with the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB) earlier this year is Robert Tyner. During the summer the Cork-based trainer announced his intention to quit the business, citing staffing issues and quality of life as the main reasons, although it looks like he will be around for a… Read more »

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

GO, HARVEY, GO!

Date: December 1, 2022 - Fit to Print?

IN A timely editorial last Saturday, the Irish Times warned: “Indigenous retailers have been effectively strong-armed into holding Black Friday sales by multinationals better equipped to buy in stock specifically for sales… many small and independent Irish retailers cannot afford such luxury but have little choice but to compete. Over 50 per cent of the… Read more »

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Green Party CETA Patrick Costello

GREENS DIVIDE ON CETA

Date: November 17, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

GREEN PARTY TD Patrick Costello has gone from naive radical to triumphant litigant fighting the EU-Canada trade deal, Ceta, with his successful Supreme Court victory last week. But it is his own party members, or more precisely the Eamon Ryan led leadership, that forms the real opposition to his crusade on the issue. As party… Read more »

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Varadkar Sinn Féin Jordan Bardella

VARADKAR’S BLACK AND BLUE SHIRTS

Date: November 17, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

RECENT ATTACKS by Leo Varadkar on Sinn Féin have tried to link the party to far-right movements in Europe. At the launch of the Fine Gael think-in in Kilkenny in September, Vlad ventured: “Bear in mind, if Mary Lou became Taoiseach there would only be three potential prime ministers who will be out of the… Read more »

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Eamon Marray

EAMON MARRAY’S MASK PROTEST

Date: November 17, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

THERE WERE fun and games in the Dublin County Registrar’s court last week when experienced commercial law barrister Eamon Marray made it pretty damn clear that he wouldn’t be wearing any mask for the call-over. It was not the first time the issue of masks had exercised the highly regarded legal eagle. Rita Considine is… Read more »

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Paul Hourican Judge Michael Quinn

PAUL HOURICAN’S RETURN

Date: November 17, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

GOLDHAWK’S favourite landlord Paul Hourican is living proof that you can’t keep a good man down. Having been burned by his adventure with Period Door Properties (PDP), the D4-based all-rounder is back in the estate agency game. It will be recalled (see The Phoenix 23/4/21) that Hourican first made an impact when the number of… Read more »

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LAST ‘POST’ GOES SCANDINAVIAN

Date: November 17, 2022 - Fit to Print?

REPORTS LAST week that Swedish publishing multinational Bonnier is to take an indeterminate stake in the Business Post may begin to shed light on just who the Post’s investors are, besides owner Enda O’Coineen. When he bought the paper in 2018, O’Coineen gave the impression that he was preparing for a flotation in Sweden. He… Read more »

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Anne Rabbitte

MISCOUNTING GENDER QUOTAS

Date: November 17, 2022 - Last Refuge

ELEVATION TO the Fianna Fáil ard comhairle (AC) may not be everyone’s idea of political paradise but it caused a dispute between junior equality and children’s minister Anne Rabbitte and party bosses. The dispute also recently involved former front-bench spokesperson and current party leader in the Seanad, Lisa Chambers. The parliamentary party nominated three women… Read more »

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Defence Department Aviva Simon Coveney

UNARMED COVENEY

Date: November 17, 2022 - Hush Hush

THE DEFENCE department released a press release last month regarding the information and networking event it had organised in the Aviva Stadium could not have been more bland, banal or even bureaucratic. The event title, “Building the ecosystem – identifying connections for collaboration in security, defence and dual technologies”, was stultifying. Yet the conference was… Read more »

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Pippa O’Connor Vodka

PIPPA O’CONNOR’S POT STILL

Date: November 17, 2022 - High Society

THE RELENTLESS expansion of Pippa O’Connor Ormond’s business interests has continued in the form of a move into the vodka game. Having signed on as a creative director at the Istil38 Irish vodka brand back in April, she has now put her money where her mouth is. Istil38 was established last year by John Reynolds… Read more »

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John Brady

JOHN BRADY’S PLOT TWIST

Date: November 17, 2022 - Behind the Scenes

AS FANS of Goldhawk are aware, there has been a relentless rise in the number of film and TV studio projects at various stages of planning – all preparing to slug it out for a share of the lucrative tax breaks worth around €110m pa at last count. One operation in the west now finds… Read more »

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Kevin Manning

KEVIN MANNING’S FUTURE

Date: November 17, 2022 - Sport of Kings

AFTER A successful career in the saddle spanning four decades, Kevin Manning finally hung up his boots after winning on Vocal Studies at Galway, trained by Jim Bolger, his father-in-law. The jockey’s retirement now raises the question of where he goes from here and will it involve being part of Bolger’s big training and breeding… Read more »

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THE QUEEN OF DIRT ISLAND - DONAL RYAN

THE QUEEN OF DIRT ISLAND – DONAL RYAN

Date: November 17, 2022 - BooksBooks|ReviewsReviews

HAVING MADE an impact with his early ‘recession-lit’ fiction, Donal Ryan continues to be associated with vividly drawn characters, wrenchingly sad lives and a compressed lyrical style. His latest novel has the usual rural Tipperary setting and takes place over four decades from the 1980s to the present time. The story traces turning points in… Read more »

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Price of Pint Ireland Sheena Horgan

DRINKAWARE’S BUSY YEAR

Date: November 17, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

THE PRICE of alcohol was back in the news this month as giant brewer Heineken upped the cost of a pint by around 10% in Ireland, with Budweiser and Diageo looking set to follow suit. Heineken and Diageo are also backers of the industry-funded ‘charity’ DrinkAware, which has just filed its 2021 annual report. DrinkAware… Read more »

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Micheál Martin 2024 Election

COP27: MARTIN ON CYNICISM

Date: November 17, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

IT’S NOT unusual to hear politicians being called out by NGOs and activists for their empty words and hollow rhetoric on the climate emergency. However, you sense that something significant has changed when Taoiseach Micheál Martin warned, at COP27, that “our citizens will become increasingly cynical, weary and hopeless if words are not urgently matched… Read more »

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Johnny Depp

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: November 17, 2022 - The Hot Air Brigade

Now, it’s rare for a creative genius like Shane to have one avenue of output. Such an incendiary talent is likely to have a multitude of facilities whereby his talent might infiltrate the atmosphere and change the climate. Johnny Depp in the foreword to Shane MacGowan’s new book, The Eternal Buzz and The Crock of… Read more »

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DUP Protocol Jim Allister

DUP: NO ONE LIKES US — WE DON’T CARE

Date: November 17, 2022 - Northwind

IN A remarkable series of assertions last month, Taoiseach Micheál Martin told the Financial Times that the Good Friday Agreement (GFA) is “not fit for purpose”, that its voting system “does polarise” and has to be reformed because “there’s a good spread of parties”. That’s not a great endorsement for the celebrations planned for the… Read more »

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