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Liz Oakes

LIZ OAKES’S RESOMARIUM

Date: November 2, 2022 - High Society

YOU’VE GOT to hand it to eyebrows queen Liz Oakes – the multi-talented businesswoman sure knows how to generate media attention. In the last couple of weeks there have been numerous outings in the press – both in print and on the national airwaves – regarding Liz’s latest business idea, which features emergency contact technology…. Read more »

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High Court Judges David Barniville

MUTINOUS JUDGES

Date: November 2, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

THE WHIFF of mutinous protest pervades the courts and even the judiciary at present, with elders among them trying hard to restrain the resentment felt by many judges, especially in the High Court. A recent Irish Times interview with High Court president Mr Justice David Barniville attracted much attention because of its unrestrained support for… Read more »

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ALL THE BROKEN PLACES – JOHN BOYNE

Date: November 2, 2022 - BooksBooks|ReviewsReviews

BACK IN 2006, John Boyne’s young-adult novel, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, focused on the story of Bruno, the son of an Auschwitz SS officer who befriends Shmuel, a Jewish boy imprisoned in the camp. Predictably perhaps, the author was accused of presenting a misleading view of the Holocaust. He has, however, always argued… Read more »

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VOL 40 NO 22

Date: November 2, 2022 -

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THE ABBEY’S WHISTLEBLOWER

Date: November 2, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

THERE IS little sign of the drama waning at the Frances Ruane-chaired Abbey Theatre, with Goldhawk hearing that a dreaded ‘whistleblower’ has been looking to shine a spotlight on the €7.5m pa funded venue, alleging corporate governance and other failings. Fans of Goldhawk may not be too surprised to hear that the issue of boring… Read more »

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SAJM Fiona O'Leary

TRESPASS IN CHURCH CHARGE

Date: November 2, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

THE SOCIETY of the Apostles of Jesus and Mary (SAJM) has been busy eschewing the links a number of its flock once had with the traditionalist Catholic group SSPX Resistance in West Cork, some of whose members believe in some arcane Catholic views from centuries back (see The Phoenix 22/10/21). SAJM was recently covered in… Read more »

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Escort Ireland Bruno Binda De Souza

ESCORT IRELAND’S FOREIGN FROLICS

Date: November 2, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

IN TRUE tabloid style, the Sunday World last week ran the grim story of Bruno Binda De Souza, a transexual prostitute who was recently released from prison after serving a sentence for possessing a large trove of child sexual abuse images. She had previously been raking in big bucks here courtesy of her advertising on… Read more »

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Ireland Mali Leo Varadkar

FRENCH PERFIDY IN MALI?

Date: November 2, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

IN 2018, with champagne corks popping in the background, the Department of Foreign Affairs issued a press release announcing Ireland’s election to the UN Security Council that was rich in hyperbole. What would phrases such as “a global island, with a clear and tangible ambition” and “shared values of peace, justice, and human rights” mean… Read more »

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MOUNTBATTEN QUERY

Date: November 2, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

RESEARCHERS INTO the squalid Kincora scandal – authors Andrew Lownie and David Burke – have asked gardaí to release the logs made by the unit assigned to protect Lord Mountbatten while he was in Ireland in 1977. Mountbatten spent most of August in Co Sligo each year. He was assassinated by the IRA in 1979…. Read more »

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Stephen White RUC

OOH AH, UP THE RUC

Date: November 2, 2022 - Hush Hush

ALMOST 25 years after the signing of the Good Friday Agreement, you might be surprised to discover that the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC), to use a rather hackneyed phrase, hasn’t gone away you know. In the last fortnight the RUC George Cross Foundation, a body established under the Police (Northern Ireland) Act 2000, organised a… Read more »

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THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: November 2, 2022 - The Hot Air Brigade

The book is deeply personal, searingly honest and at times laugh-out-loud funny. It reads like an anatomical lesson; he cuts himself open for all to peer inside. Simon Carswell on Bono’s memoir, Irish Times Yon-Ka is all about the psycho-sensory benefits of aromatic essential oils and their incredible ability to detoxify and control irritations and… Read more »

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Ireland Livestock Emissions Martin Heydon

WHERE’S THE BEEF?

Date: November 2, 2022 - Fowl Emissions

FOR DECADES the fossil fuel industry has avoided regulation by systematically misrepresenting the science around climate change. To maintain the illusion of credibility, Big Oil often funnels cash into front groups to present pseudo-science in the form of ‘declarations’ signed by non-specialists purporting to reject mainstream climate science. This playbook is now being adopted by… Read more »

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LESS THAN FRANK

Date: November 2, 2022 - Fowl Emissions

ALONG WITH developing dubious narratives around meat and nutrition, the livestock sector has also invested heavily in spinning away the huge climate impact of methane from cattle. The go-to guy for Irish lobbyists in recent years has been Prof Frank Mitloehner, a California-based scientist and self-styled ‘GHG guru’. Now Frank Mitloehner is under the spotlight,… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: November 2, 2022 - Bog Cuttings

BANG FOR YOUR BUCK DROGHEDA DISTRICT Court heard the case of a 22-year-old woman who pleaded guilty to charges of public intoxication, engaging in abusive behaviour towards gardaí and refusing to give her name and address. Judge Eirinn McKiernan was told in court that Siobhan Lynch, of Athcarne, Duleek, had come to the attention of… Read more »

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Micheal Martin

MARTIN WANTS FOREIGN POST

Date: November 2, 2022 - Last Refuge

IN THE increasingly fevered world of ministers obsessed with and angling for preferment in the December change-over and reshuffle, the word is that outgoing Taoiseach Micheál Martin wants and has secured agreement that he is to be foreign affairs minister. One reason for this is that it will offer the Fianna Fáil leader multiple opportunities… Read more »

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Micheál Martin Sinn Féin Mary Lou McDonald

FF LEADER EYES UP COALITION WITH SF

Date: November 2, 2022 - Last Refuge

ONE WISHFUL scenario being propagated by the media, and by the Irish Times in particular last week, is that even if Sinn Féin is the largest party by far after the next election, the three current coalition parties could still outweigh any government led by SF. The second and more disingenuous proposition is that Taoiseach… Read more »

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Attorney General Paul Gallagher

WILL GALLAGHER BE REPLACED AS AG?

Date: November 2, 2022 - Last Refuge

DUE TO a mixture of Fianna Fáil domination and coalition formation, Fine Gael legal eagles have provided just one attorney general in the last 25 years and then only for three years in the form of golfing enthusiast Séamus Woulfe. This perverse state of affairs has vexed those among the deep blue ranks in the… Read more »

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Northern Ireland Executive Naomi Long

THE NORTH IS A FAILED ENTITY

Date: November 2, 2022 - Last Refuge

SINCE JANUARY 2017 the executive and assembly of the supposed state of Northern Ireland have only functioned for 18 months. Before that, the system operated in fits and starts. The current hokey-cokey has caused deep frustration among other parties, especially the Alliance Party, which the Good Friday Agreement (GFA) classes as “other”, not being either… Read more »

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Newsbrands Ireland Journalism Awards Peter Vandermeersch

MEDIAHUIS AWARDS NOMINATIONS SOAR

Date: November 2, 2022 - Fit to Print?

WHAT A hugely enhanced performance has taken place in the standard of journalism at Mediahuis – the largest publishing stable in the country north and south, which includes the Sunday Independent, Irish Independent, Sunday Worst and other titles. At last year’s Newsbrands Ireland journalism awards, Mediahuis titles won just one gong between them and came… Read more »

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IT V SF

Date: November 2, 2022 - Fit to Print?

AMID THE welter of media hit jobs on Sinn Féin in the last fortnight, the most surprising such assault came from accomplished Irish Times journalist Simon Carswell, who was a contender for the IT’s editor’s post. Carswell referred to at least 10 anonymous politicians in either Fianna Fáil or Fine Gael who complained to the… Read more »

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Emmet Mullins

PAUL BYRNE’S NEW NAG

Date: November 2, 2022 - Sport of Kings

WHEN TRAINER Emmett Mullins teams up with owner pal Paul Byrne for a horse deal, punters tend to take notice. They pulled off an almighty coup last year when selling Noble Yeats to Robert and Sam Whaley Cohen for a high six-figure sum before that horse won last year’s Aintree Grand National. Presumably, the pair… Read more »

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Joe Keeling

KEELING’S PLAN STUMBLES

Date: November 2, 2022 - Sport of Kings

WHEN MONEYBAGS Joe Keeling and his ‘Friends of the Curragh’ proposed to boost the prize money to €600,000 for the Irish Cesarewitch at the track in September, the move was greeted with obvious enthusiasm by Curragh chief executive Brian Kavanagh. The former Horse Racing Ireland boss claimed such an injection for the two-mile contest would… Read more »

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John Shark Hanlon

SHARK’S YANKEE DOLLARS

Date: November 2, 2022 - Sport of Kings

NOT ONLY did John Shark Hanlon plunder America’s most prestigious jumps contest when his bargain buy, Hewick, landed the $250,000 American Grand National at Far Hills in New Jersey, but the increasingly high-profile trainer also bagged himself a few new clients while he was over there. A few days before the big race day across… Read more »

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Andrew Hogan

ANDREW HOGAN’S HEAVY GOING

Date: November 2, 2022 - Sport of Kings

THE PROPOSED all-weather track development at Tipperary racecourse has suffered a potential setback in the form of a spanner lobbed into the planning works by two local residents. Having been given the green light by Tipperary County Council in August to proceed with the €18m project, an appeal has been lodged with An Bord Pleanála… Read more »

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CATHERINE MARTIN’S SHORTLIST

Date: November 2, 2022 - High Society

AS THE National Gallery of Ireland (NGI) hits the one-year mark for limping along with a board full of ministerial vacancies, the good news is that arts minister Catherine Martin has now received a shortlist of nine names selected by the expert panel from the 40 applicants. Given the assorted issues the NGI has had… Read more »

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Valerie Moran

THE MORANS’ RETENTIONS AND LOSSES

Date: November 2, 2022 - High Society

RACEHORSE-LOVING Noel and Valerie Moran have continued to splash their cash, with a new hotel in Co Meath their most recent undertaking. It turns out that the pair of moneybags had to apply for retention permission for some aspects of the multimillion-euro project but the good news is that all is now in order. The… Read more »

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Section 481 James Hickey

THE TALKING SHOP II

Date: November 2, 2022 - Behind the Scenes

WATCHING THE Oireachtas budget oversight committee at work on the Section 481 film industry tax credit last month, it looked a lot like a sequel to the contentious set of committee hearings held in 2018, which aired the serious grievances of some film and TV sector employees over working conditions. Once again, there was no… Read more »

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RTE’S DIVERSITY

Date: November 2, 2022 - Behind the Scenes

CONGRATULATIONS TO the three writers of the 25-minute dramas being broadcast on RTÉ 2 under the ‘Storyland’ banner. Certainly, the selection represents a vote of confidence in female talent. The first of the three selected programmes to be broadcast was Mustard, written by Eva O’Connor and directed by Hildegarde Ryan. Next up was Balor Hall,… Read more »

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Sean Coyle

ORIGIN SHARE PRICE FAILS TO REFLECT PERFORMANCE

Date: November 2, 2022 - Moneybags

ORIGIN ENTERPRISES doesn’t often make headlines. As a supplier of agronomy services and agricultural inputs such as fertiliser and seed, the significant inflation in raw material prices has put the whole sector under strain. There has been a major increase in fertiliser prices, for example, along with increased restrictions demanded by the EU Nitrates Directive,… Read more »

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Ivan Menezes

DIAGEO’S MENEZES NEEDS TO EARN HIS BIG BUCKS

Date: November 2, 2022 - Moneybags

READING THE analysis of Diageo’s very well paid CEO, Ivan Menezes, investors could imagine that the group had a fantastic year in the 12 months to the end of June 2022, with volume sales up 10.3%, combined with 6%-plus increase in prices, pushing up total group sales by 17% to a whopping £22.4bn. After excise… Read more »

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Ronan Healy Gavin Fogarty

EVENT ARMY SUFFERS DEFEAT

Date: November 2, 2022 - Briefcases

THE DEFICIT at the online talent sourcing operation Event Army Ltd (EAL), which had traded as Mustard, could turn out to be pretty hefty judging by the figures revealed in last year’s accounts. The collapse of Gavin Fogarty’s company will be a blow to its various backers, which include Enterprise Ireland and assorted venture funds…. Read more »

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John Moore

JOHN MOORE SPLASHES THE CASH

Date: November 2, 2022 - Briefcases

NOW BASED in sunny Lisbon in Portugal, self-described “rebel entrepreneur” and “concerned citizen” John Moore has been chucking his money around here, as evidenced by some interesting filings last month. Certainly, Moore has a fair few bob to throw around, having offloaded his 3D4 Medical operation in 2019 to Elsevier for a reported $50m. Given… Read more »

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Center Parcs Ireland Colin McKinlay

COLIN MCKINLAY’S ASBESTOS PROBLEM

Date: November 2, 2022 - Briefcases

IT’S BEEN a difficult few years for Center Parcs Ireland (CPI). No sooner had the group opened its expensive holiday village in Co Longford than it was shut down thanks to the pandemic. It has bounced back judging by the €7.4m profit recorded in the 12 months to April this year but now CPI is… Read more »

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GORDON ELLIOTT’S NEW WINNER

Date: November 2, 2022 - Briefcases

HIGH-PROFILE horseracing trainer Gordon Elliott has just filed some figures for his latest corporate entity. The Master of Cullentra remains the most likely jumps handler to take the champion trainer’s title off the undisputed king, Willie Mullins. At the moment, Elliott is leading (just) the field of contenders, boasting total prize money won of €1.07m… Read more »

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Peter Smyth Noonan Services

NOONAN FAMILY CLEANS UP

Date: November 2, 2022 - Briefcases

A COMPANY with the rather boring name of NNF Services Ltd has just been wound up and it turns out there is quite a lot of moolah sloshing around. This should not be too surprising given that NNF is the company that started out back in 1977 as Noonan Services, before going on to become… Read more »

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Mary Lou McDonald

MARY LOU CHILLS OUT MARTIN

Date: October 19, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

MICHEÁL MARTIN, Shane Ross and other journalists have accused Sinn Féin, and Mary Lou McDonald in particular, of having a “chilling… spooked” effect on the media and politicians by suing them in a calculated campaign “to shut down political debate” (Martin) and that RTÉ has been “terrified” by this campaign (Ross). The reason for this… Read more »

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