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Michael O'Leary Horses

O’LEARY SHAKING UP OWNERS’ CONTEST

Date: September 22, 2022 - Sport of Kings

AS HE does every year, Michael O’Leary offloaded a good few of his lesser-performing horses at a Goffs UK sale recently. The Ryanair supremo netted around €400,000 when he bade farewell to some loyal servants, such as Grade 1 winners Battleoverdoyen, Notebook, Hardline and Felix Desjy. While this approach is consistent with the announced plan… Read more »

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Albert Manifold

MANIFOLD’S GLOBAL CRH STRATEGY DERAILED

Date: September 22, 2022 - Moneybags

ALBERT MANIFOLD took the top job at CRH in January 2014, having joined the firm as a 36-year-old accountant back in 1998. Despite being immersed in the company culture, he brought a new strategic vision to CRH, focusing on its core competencies on the heavy side of the construction industry – in particular cement, aggregates… Read more »

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Louis Coetzee Kibo Energy

KIBO ENERGY SHARE COLLAPSE LOOKS OVERDONE

Date: September 22, 2022 - Moneybags

GALWAY-BASED Kibo Energy was founded 14 years ago by Irish geologist Noel O’Keeffe. There have been a number of developments since then, with complete shifts in sectoral focus ensuring investors got the jitters. Today, the shares are friendless but there are some interesting projects in here. Capitalised at just £5m, Kibo could prove tempting to… Read more »

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Matt Farrell, Dorian

DORIAN’S GREY DAY

Date: September 22, 2022 - Briefcases

A CREDITORS’ meeting will be held next week to oversee the winding up of a Donnybrook, D4 restaurant/wine bar business that shut its doors after just a few months of trading. Dorian was a collaboration between Matthew Farrell, who founded Diep Le Shaker, and his daughter, Samantha, alongside Ray Power of Centric Health and “international… Read more »

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Barry O'Callaghan

BARRY O’CALLAGHAN’S HOSPITALITY

Date: September 22, 2022 - Briefcases

IT’S BEEN a busy few months in Waterford for tech moneybags Barry O’Callaghan, where he’s been ringing the changes at his swanky Cliff House Hotel in Ardmore. Baz is planning to add more rooms to the hotel and also double the use of the posh restaurant, but that expansion project, inevitably, got wrapped up in… Read more »

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Kieran Wallace L&M Keating

KEATING’S CREDITORS

Date: September 22, 2022 - Briefcases

DOCUMENTS FILED by joint liquidators Kieran Wallace and Andrew O’Leary reveal that the hapless unsecured creditors were owed a whopping €18m when Clare construction/civil engineering operation L&M Keating Ltd was wound up last year. Fans of Goldhawk will recall (see The Phoenix 12/2/21) that the Clare-headquartered engineering outfit collapsed into liquidation four months after a… Read more »

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Aisling Quinn MoShoppa

NIALL QUINN’S SHOPPING LIST

Date: September 22, 2022 - Briefcases

AS NOTED elsewhere (see p18), Ash Quinn, the daughter of former Irish international striker Niall Quinn, has moved on from her chief executive role at online retail operation MoShoppa. Whoever takes the reins next will find they have rather a lot on their plate, with heavy losses having been built up at the parent company…. Read more »

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Ukraine Refugees Ireland

UKRAINIAN SILVER LINING

Date: September 8, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

WITH AROUND 50,000 Ukrainian refugees now in Ireland, accommodating them has obviously caused some headaches. What is interesting, however, is that millions of euro continues to be allocated to some very familiar names without any formal tendering process taking place. Under EU rules, the State has to publish a list of contracts signed off each… Read more »

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Archbishop Eamon Martin

PROFILE: EAMON MARTIN

Date: September 8, 2022 - Pillars of Society

AGED 61 with already a decade of donning the purple behind him and 15 years to go before his retirement in 2037, Eamon Martin is likely to go down in history as the first Roman Catholic primate of all Ireland since partition to actually hold office in a reunified Ireland. Yet, he might also go… Read more »

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Aimee Connolly

YOUNG BLOOD: AIMEE CONNOLLY

Date: September 8, 2022 - The Young Bloods

AT 29, cosmetics queen Aimee Connolly has already achieved a significant level of success, with her Sculpted By Aimee brand generating a striking looking €2.6m profit last year. As she prepares to open a ‘bricks and mortar’ store next week, on Grafton Street no less,… Read more »

Leo Varadkar United Ireland

VARADKAR’S NORTHERN PLOT

Date: September 8, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

WHILE Taoiseach Micheál Martin mulls over his chances of surviving as Fianna Fáil leader until the next election, his replacement as leader of the country in December, Leo Varadkar, is plotting to seriously undermine him the minute he takes over at Christmas or in the New Year. Martin would be delusional if he thinks that… Read more »

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Clare Daly Mick Wallace Russia

DALY AND WALLACE TARGETED

Date: September 8, 2022 - Last Refuge

MEPS CLARE Daly and Mick Wallace continue to be singled out for special treatment by the media as well as Government politicians. The Irish Mail on Sunday (reflecting its London-based foreign policy outlook?), dished it out to them last weekend. “MEPs visit four of the least free countries on earth,” blared the newspaper in a… Read more »

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GELDOF’S ‘TENANT’

Date: September 8, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

WHEN MOTORMOUTH, and landlord, Bob Geldof paid a flying visit to Ireland this summer to visit Skibbereen and recall famine atrocities, he presumably checked in on some of his property interests here. One of those, in Dún Laoghaire, landed him in a landlord/tenant dispute with the controversial Period Door Properties (PDP). A Residential Tenancies Board… Read more »

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Dana RTÉ Eurovision

RTÉ BOYCOTTS DANA

Date: September 8, 2022 - Fit to Print?

THE CRASS behaviour by RTÉ in failing to invite Dana to participate in the RTÉ Concert Orchestra celebration of Eurovision is still confounding those concerned. Dana was the first and most celebrated Irish winner of the contest and her exclusion is bizarre. She is also, of course, the most political and – even worse in… Read more »

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Dan Veniez GRAEME DE RENZY

GRAEME DE RENZY’S $16M HEADACHE

Date: September 8, 2022 - Briefcases

GOLDHAWK WAS not surprised to learn that his old friend, Graeme de Renzy, is in another spot of bother, this time on foot of a consent order he signed relating to a settlement for a cool $16m (€16.1m). This follows on foot of a deal with a Canadian businessman that involved the Castleknock-based former bankrupt… Read more »

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Ed Guiney

ED GUINEY’S MOVIE MARATHONS

Date: September 8, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

IT MAY have come as something of a surprise that the biggest movie hit of the season by far, Tom Cruise’s Top Gun: Maverick, opened at the two ‘arthouse’ cinemas (the Lighthouse in Dublin and Pálás in Galway) that are owned by Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe’s Element Pictures. Both of these venues benefited from… Read more »

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Paddock Wood Brendan McCabe House

BRENDAN McCABE’S PRICEY PADDOCK

Date: September 8, 2022 - High Society

THE LATEST ‘super-prime’ property to come on the market is the impressive Paddock Wood pile on Killiney Hill Road, famously formerly owned by the hapless one-time bankrupt telecoms whizz John ‘Payzone’ Nagle and his missus, Joan Nagle. The current owners have a rather lower profile and it is unclear how much property and telecoms cable… Read more »

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VOL 40 NO 18

Date: September 8, 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

KENNEL CLUB’S NEXT DOGFIGHT

Date: September 8, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

FRIDAY NIGHT sees the latest monthly gathering of Irish Kennel Club (IKC) members, many of whom continue to fear a sale of the National Show Centre to moneybags Noel Smyth. It will, presumably, be more productive than last month’s meeting, when club president Sean Delmar got a pasting for refusing to circulate the minutes in… Read more »

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Boris Johnson

MI6 FIGHT BORIS RETURN

Date: September 8, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

BORIS JOHNSON ended his premiership with a campaign for his political rehabilitation and return via a ‘farewell tour’, showcasing his achievements to the Tory faithful. Does he hope for a mere return to the Cabinet or to reoccupy his apartment at Number 10 before Liz Truss has a chance to redecorate it? His enemies are… Read more »

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Ruadhan Mac Cormaic Irish Times New Editor

‘IRISH TIMES’ EDITORIAL CONTEST

Date: September 8, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

THE RACE to become the new editor at the Irish Times will be more complex, political even, than normal with the ascendancy of the commercial side of the house – a privilege it normally enjoys – being challenged by a felt need to solve a cultural malaise at the newspaper. Editorial staff tend to assume… 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

SIMON COVENEY’S TRAINING MISSION

Date: September 8, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

GOLDHAWK BOWS to the military genius and alacrity displayed by defence personnel recently when the question of Irish involvement in an EU training mission was leaked to the Irish Times. The war in Ukraine has provided ample opportunity for Deaprtment of Defence hawks to place Ireland’s long-standing neutrality under scrutiny. On August 26 the IT… Read more »

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Simon Coveney Ireland Nato

FACTS ON THE GROUND

Date: September 8, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

AS PHOENIX readers will know, Ireland’s co-operation with Nato has deepened in recent years. The Defence Forces involvement in Nato’s operational capability concept (OCC) since 2016 is possibly the most important aspect of such increased co-operation. The OCC’s aim is to “develop and train partner land, maritime, air or special operations forces that seek to… Read more »

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Kevin McPartlan Ireland Biofuels

ZERO CRED

Date: September 8, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

As the climate crisis deepens, it is heartening to see corporate Ireland respond to the emergency. Take the new group, The Alliance for Zero Carbon Heating (TAZCH), which is proposing to “transform Ireland’s heating sector” through the use of ‘biofuels’. This transformation involves promoting mysterious substances known as “low carbon liquid fuels”. These appear to… Read more »

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Caitriona Heini Irish Arms Industry

IRISH MILITARY INDUSTRIAL PLAN?

Date: September 8, 2022 - Hush Hush

ALONG WITH the huge increase in defence funding ‘agreed’ by the Government (a planned rise from €1.1bn to €1.9bn by 2028), there has been a significant push to develop an Irish arms industry. It is fascinating to track the circular reasoning concerning the agenda for our military establishment and the process of promoting an Irish… Read more »

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Fintan O'Toole

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: September 8, 2022 - The Hot Air Brigade

When my son was 2, I heard him mumbling to himself as he was going to sleep, ‘Mikhail Gorbachev’. It sounded like a promise that the world he would grow up in would be less fearful and more hopeful. Fintan O’Toole, Twitter, submitted by reader If I were RTÉ, I would probably regret losing that… Read more »

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Liz Truss DUP

TRUSS GRAPPLES WITH DUP

Date: September 8, 2022 - Northwind

ALL IS not going to plan between the DUP and the British government. To the surprise of no one in the North, the DUP is not co-operating with the Conservatives’ plans for dealing with the Irish Protocol. English politicians may not know the Ulster-Scots word ‘thran’ but they would be familiar with the American ‘ornery’,… Read more »

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Dara Calleary

CALLEARY BACK AT COURT

Date: September 8, 2022 - Last Refuge

THE UNASSUMING if still ambitious figure of ex-minister Dara Calleary can be seen stalking the corridors of power again, albeit as a mere junior minister. Some believe – or have been led to believe by the devious ones that surround Micheál Martin – that this is but a staging post on the way back to… Read more »

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Paschal Donohoe Finance

PASCHAL DONOHOE’S VIRTUE SIGNALLING

Date: September 8, 2022 - Last Refuge

BENEATH THE Blueshirts bonding bonhomie at their Kilkenny think-in this weekend, there will undoubtedly lurk some malicious thoughts and no small resentment at various leadership personalities.  Chief among these is finance minister Paschal Donohoe, whose heavy virtue-signalling as a prudent keeper of the nation’s wealth has not impressed all Fine Gael party members, TDs in… Read more »

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Emma Blain Leo Varadkar Constituency

LEO TO SWITCH CONSTITUENCY?

Date: September 8, 2022 - Last Refuge

SPECULATION SURROUNDS the personal intentions of Leo Varadkar at the next general election and in particular whether he will leave Dublin West for southside constituency Dublin Bay South (DBS). This is because the Fine Gael leader and Tánaiste now lives in the South Circular Road area with his partner, Matt Barrett, although some appear to… Read more »

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LYNN RUANE’S PARTY

Date: September 8, 2022 - Fit to Print?

THE SUNDAY TIMES’ Atticus column recently published a sniffy piece about “Sinn Féin politician” Senator Lynn Ruane, who failed in her complaint to the Press Ombudsman over comments made about her by the pro-life Senator Sharon Keogan at the Oireachtas committee on international surrogacy. The Meath Chronicle had reported local politician Keogan’s accusation that Ruane… Read more »

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Eve Morrison

REVISIONIST FEUD

Date: September 8, 2022 - Fit to Print?

THE FEUD between two media academics and politicos continues at TCD next week when historian Eve Morrison gives a lecture about the November 1920 Kilmichael ambush about which, she claims, Tom Barry invented a false surrender narrative. The late Peter Hart, author of The IRA and its Enemies, claimed this was a cover for “serial… Read more »

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Charlie McConalogue Irish Agricultural Emissions

POISONOUS DEBATE

Date: September 8, 2022 - Fowl Emissions

THE IRISH agricultural sector only recently signed up to challenging 25% cuts in overall emissions by 2030. Since the overwhelming bulk of these emissions come from ruminant livestock, you might assume the Government is supporting the industry in transitioning towards lower-carbon food systems. You would of course be wrong. Government campaigns are aimed at growing… Read more »

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DAMIEN O’REILLY’S EMISSIONS

Date: September 8, 2022 - Fowl Emissions

ALSO CONCERNED about the tenor of the agri debate is Damien O’Reilly, presenter of Countrywide on RTÉ and columnist with the Irish Farmers Journal, sponsor of his radio show. In Damo’s alternate world, frightened farmers are desperately trying “to correct the record on wild assumptions made by people on social media”. These dastardly (unnamed) environmentalists… Read more »

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PAMELA LAIRD’S MOXIE

Date: September 8, 2022 - High Society

PAMELA LAIRD, a former star of both the Irish version of Dragon’s Den and Alan Sugar’s version of The Apprentice, is rarely far from the headlines. For the last few years, La Laird has been the darling of the business hacks, who are happy to portray her as a hard-charging business titan in the making,… Read more »

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Patrick Guinness

PATRICK GUINNESS’S AQUACULTURE

Date: September 8, 2022 - High Society

INTERESTING TO see that an aquaculture company called A Harvest Industry Ltd (AHI) has gone into liquidation. AHI was incorporated in December 2016 and the most surprising player here turned out to be Patrick Guinness, who put in an 18-month stint on the board from 2017, joining Norway-based Jan Stykket and Bard Fredrik Fleischer. Among… Read more »

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