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Frances Ruane

FRANCES RUANE’S AUDITION

Date: June 16, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

INTERESTING TO see that former ESRI director Frances Ruane resigned last month as a director of the registered company behind the Abbey Theatre. Her term as chairwoman has come to an end but she looks likely to audition again (albeit for a shorter run this time around) despite a series of dud performances off stage… Read more »

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DENIS STAUNTON’S CHINESE TAKEAWAY

Date: June 16, 2022 - Fit to Print?

THE IRISH TIMES obviously believes it has turned a corner if the planned posting of London correspondent Denis Staunton to Beijing comes to pass. Those familiar with Staunton know that his deliberate impression of some rakish character from one of Graham Greene’s novels is far from the reality. Staunton may well be imagined in a… Read more »

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Brendan Duke Adrian Murray Mick Bailey

KEVIN DOYLE’S OWN GOAL

Date: June 16, 2022 - Sport of Kings

THERE WAS a twist in the tale of ex-footie star Kevin Doyle’s ballsy bloodstock investment when it transpired that Doyle’s half-brother to Altior was ‘bought back’ by the former international striker when knocked down to bloodstock agent Mags O’Toole for €300,000 at Goffs. Having paid €155,000 for the horse as a foal, with the intention… Read more »

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Alex Conyngham

ALEX CONYNGHAM’S LUXURY YURTS

Date: June 16, 2022 - High Society

THERE HAS been plenty of media exposure recently for Alex Conyngham, aka Lord Alexander Burton Conyngham, aka Earl of Mount Charles, thanks to his role as ‘global ambassador’ for Slane Castle and Distillery. He has taken charge at Slane Castle where his father, Henry Conyngham, aka Lord Henry Mount Charles, confirmed recently that there will… Read more »

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Gerard Howlin

BERTIE’S OLD SPIN DOCTOR

Date: June 16, 2022 - Fowl Emissions

OUR PUBLIC sphere is peppered with grumpy old men pontificating inexpertly on climate change, pushing pragmatism and pooh-poohing climate action. Goldhawk fans will be familiar with the opinions of Michael McDowell, Joe Duffy, Conor Skehan and others. Another candidate for this club is Bertie Ahern’s former spin doctor, Gerard Howlin. Although more reasonable than the… Read more »

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Maria Steen

MARIA STEEN’S MAMMON

Date: June 16, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

WITH A substantial pile on leafy Raglan Road on the market for an optimistic €5.2m (see p19), this could be a big year, property wise, for former estate agent Seán Davin. He also has another big project on the go in conjunction with his daughters, which may further boost the coffers of the God-fearing family…. Read more »

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CONOR CLARKSONS TAX BILL

Date: June 16, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

FORMER RACEHORSE owner Conor Clarkson has suffered something of a setback just as he returns to the track. The dreaded taxman has registered a judgment for €20,000 against one of the more controversial casualties of the crash. Clarkson, who gives an address at Enniskerry Road, Stepaside, D18 is probably best known to sports fans as… Read more »

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VOL 40 NO 12

Date: June 16, 2022 -

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Micheál Martin

MARTIN RULES OK!

Date: June 16, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

AT 69 YEARS Willie O’Dea appears to be the only so-called dissident in Fianna Fáil with the energy and ability to stand up to Micheál Martin and the supine leadership of a party that is in danger of slipping down the plughole of history. Three times last week O’Dea slapped it up to the taoiseach,… Read more »

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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

CONAL HENRY V DAA

Date: June 16, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

THE OPENING address of the new chair of the Shannon Group, Conal Henry, made uncomfortable reading for the powers that be at Dublin airport. Henry nudged DAA back into the spotlight when describing Shannon as “a very, very well-run business”. He also pointed to the fact that 87% of traffic goes through Dublin airport, leaving… Read more »

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Joe Bonner

FINE GAEL LIBELS

Date: June 16, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

WHAT A litigious lot Meath East Blueshirts are. Last Monday Meath County Council meeting heard Fine Gael’s Cllr Alan Tobin apologise to Independent councillor Joe Bonner for wrongly accusing him of telling lies at a council meeting in September, 2020. Also, Tobin agreed to pay a sum of €5,000 to a local St Vincent de… Read more »

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Simon Coveney

EU TRADE THREAT TO ISRAEL

Date: June 16, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

THE ROW over the Northern Ireland protocol is regarded by European Union countries and the commission as a serious threat to the single market. But another dispute arising from the single market could seriously threaten trade between the EU and the Israeli occupied territories of Palestine. This appalling vista may be the reason why the… Read more »

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Dutch Doherty

TALE OF TWO HONEY TRAPS

Date: June 16, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

ANTHONY ‘DUTCH’ Doherty died earlier this year at Dublin’s Beaumont hospital age 71. He was part of an IRA unit – perhaps up to 10 in number – who planned the abduction and killing of three Royal Highland Fusiliers in Belfast in March 1971. The IRA used two attractive young women as a ‘honey trap’… Read more »

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ELEMENT PICTURES’ UK MOOLAH

Date: June 16, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

FOLLOWING THE sale to Fremantle by Conversations With Friends producers Element Pictures, Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe have just filed accounts for their London vehicle, Element Pictures UK, which shows a profit recorded in 2021 of more than £1m. There have also been a number of new directors arriving on set. The fresh faces are… Read more »

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Date: June 16, 2022 - Affairs of the NationLetters to the Editor

barristers’ low pay Dear Editor On June 3, 2022, a petition signed by 88 senior counsel and 182 junior counsel was hand-delivered to the Department of Justice alerting the minister to the unacceptable state of the criminal justice system in district courts throughout the state. A legal system designed to fail not only offends the… Read more »

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Annalena Baerbock

GREENS RESILE ON NEUTRALITY

Date: June 16, 2022 - Hush Hush

A MAJOR fault line has developed within the Irish Greens. Eamon Ryan and a majority of the parliamentary party seem at odds with the membership, councillors and possibly even its two MEPs, Ciarán Cuffe and Grace O’Sullivan, over militarisation in Ireland and the European Union. The experience of the Irish Greens is not unique. In… Read more »

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Mark Dooley

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: June 16, 2022 - The Hot Air Brigade

Free societies need people like Eoghan Harris – courageous contrarians who defy the culture of amnesia. Mark Dooley, European Conservative magazine A little piece of Notting Hill in the heart of Dublin’s Portobello. Irish Times property section ramps up the sales pitch for a two-bed house in D8, submitted by reader The crowd, mostly made… Read more »

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Boris Johnson

BORIS ‘SAVES’ PEACE PROCESS

Date: June 16, 2022 - Northwind

MICHELLE O’NEILL wrote in the Irish Times on June 1: “The Belfast Agreement must be applied in all its parts – an Assembly, Executive, North-South Ministerial Council and East-West structures and the British-Irish Intergovernmental Conference – and without further interruption. Boris Johnson’s government is regrettably pursuing an anti-Belfast Agreement agenda, which is disingenuously wrapped up… Read more »

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Caroline Conroy

CARDINAL RICHELIEU’S MISSUS

Date: June 16, 2022 - Last Refuge

A RELATIVELY unknown Green Party councillor, Caroline Conroy, is set to become lord mayor of Dublin as a result of the deal struck with the Greens’ 10 Dublin city councillors and other parties, Fianna Fáil (11), Labour (8) and the Social Democrats (5) in 2019…. Read more »

Mary Lou McDonald

“PERSONAL ANTIPATHIES”

Date: June 16, 2022 - Last Refuge

rise of Sinn Féin in the polls has unnerved many in Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael but some of the more hard-nosed handlers in these parties came up with an answer to the assumption that Mary Lou and comrades would automatically take power because they were the single biggest party. They pointed to the fact… Read more »

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Josepha Madigan

‘NEGLIGENT BEHAVIOUR’

Date: June 16, 2022 - Last Refuge

NO POLITICIAN in the current Dáil typifies how instant political success can sometimes be followed by rapid decline than Fine Gael’s Josepha Madigan who shot in and out of cabinet in recent years and now faces the loss of her Dublin Rathdown seat if current trends continue. Taking a seat at the first time of… Read more »

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Ronan McGreevy

BALLOT BOX AND THE TWEET

Date: June 16, 2022 - Fit to Print?

HOPEFULLY A spirit of harmonious academic dialogue will prevail at the Seán MacDiarmada Summer School this weekend where Irish Times journalist and author Ronan McGreevy – a modern critic of republicanism – and author and former Sinn Féin spokesperson Danny Morrison are due to speak. Recent Twitter polemics between the two reflect the rather different… Read more »

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Colm McCarthy

RIGHT-WING ECONOMISTS COP ON

Date: June 16, 2022 - Fit to Print?

THE DEBATE engineered by Europhiles and generals aimed at abolishing neutrality egged on by the Irish Times Greek chorus has proved unsuccessful so far, despite the opportunist exploitation of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. However, and despite the ‘respectable’ sections of academia and media backing the demand for Ireland to man up and prepare for war,… Read more »

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CLIMATE CAMP FIRES

Date: June 16, 2022 - Fowl Emissions

“IS IT time to start blowing up pipelines?” That was the incendiary title of a webinar last month, hosted not by a revolutionary guerrilla faction but by the quite respectable Friends of the Earth Ireland. The NGO was not advocating sabotage, it should be noted, but with climate tipping points looming and governments driving us… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: June 16, 2022 - Bog Cuttings

‘Catch me if you can’ A MAN who shouted “catch me if you can” at gardaí after crashing a scrambler bike in Bailieborough has been warned it’s the last chance he’ll get from the local district court. Tomasz Szczeplik (22), of Blackstep Cornaveagh was charged with a number of driving-related charges, including driving without insurance,… Read more »

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JERRY PADIAN’S PATENTS

Date: June 16, 2022 - High Society

GOLDHAWK RECENTLY reported on the appointment to the board of the Irish Heritage Trust (IHT) of Blueshirt politician-turned-lobbyist Avril Doyle. Another interesting name to pop up on the board of worthies is New York-based patent lawyer and angel investor Jerry Padian. His name will not ring too many bells here but he turns out to… Read more »

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Sean Davin

SEÁN DAVIN SELLS UP

Date: June 16, 2022 - High Society

A MOST impressive pile on Raglan Road in the heart of Dublin 4 has gone on the market with an eye-popping price tag of €5.25m. The owner should have a fair idea of the market for prime redbrick properties in the area, given his long career as an estate agent. The new owners will have… Read more »

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NORA – NUALA O’CONNOR

Date: June 16, 2022 - BooksBooks|ReviewsReviews

THE CHOSEN book for this year’s One Dublin One Book initiative is a richly fictionalised biography of Nora Barnacle’s life and times. Having already written accounts of poets Emily Dickinson and Elizabeth Bishop, Nuala O’Connor has now added the lifelong partner of another troubled genius to her roster. Whether the book is a good choice… Read more »

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Simon Delaney

ON THE ROADS WITH SIMON DELANEY – RTÉ ONE

Date: June 16, 2022 - ReviewsReviews|TVTV

AS PROGRAMME pitches go, a road safety series fronted by Simon Delaney is hardly the most electrifying. On The Roads… is also part of RTÉ’s ongoing attempt to rectify its poor record on climate change coverage, with the environmental impact of motoring crow-barred into the show. This series proves as punishing a watch as the… Read more »

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Avril Stanley

STANLEY’S DIVIDENDS

Date: June 16, 2022 - Behind the Scenes

THIS WEEKEND sees the return of the Body & Soul festival at Ballinlough Castle, Co Westmeath, which, according to the Irish Times, provides “the perfect opportunity to reignite your festival spirit in an intimate, natural space designed to feed the senses and rejuvenate mind and body”. It will also further rejuvenate the bank balance of… Read more »

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DÉSIRÉE FINNEGAN’S DELAYED RELEASE

Date: June 16, 2022 - Behind the Scenes

FANS OF Goldhawk will recall that Désirée Finnegan’s Screen Ireland had quietly commissioned a €75,000 ‘inaugural’ report into the cultural impact of the Section 481 tax bonanza for film and TV producers, which currently cost about €100m a year (see The Phoenix 25/2/22). Films that avail of the tax break must get clearance from arts… Read more »

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Joe Keeling

JOE KEELING’S CRITICS

Date: June 16, 2022 - Sport of Kings

NO MATTER the apparent PR value of any gesture especially one of real scale, there will always be a critic or two waiting in the turf. Joe Keeling’s recent announcement that himself and his ‘Friends of the Curragh’ would be boosting the value of a historic two-mile handicap – The Cesarewitch (now to be run… Read more »

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Aidan O'Brien

BALLYDOYLE’S YOUNG GUNS

Date: June 16, 2022 - Sport of Kings

AIDAN O’BRIEN will be banking on some big performances from his squad of two-year-olds at Royal Ascot this week to boost morale in Ballydoyle. The master trainer was, no doubt, buoyed by the Epsom Oaks victory last week but his day job is to develop future stallion prospects for John Magnier et al at Coolmore… Read more »

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Paddy Twomey

PADDY TWOMEY’S TOP FORM

Date: June 16, 2022 - Sport of Kings

TIPPERARY TRAINER Paddy Twomey’s business has been on a steep upward curve this past couple of years and the progress has been amplified further this season, with Twomey operating at a remarkable 35% win strike rate. Putting his record in context, Aidan O’Brien is next in line with 25%. Moreover, Twomey is not winning only… Read more »

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Michael Stanley

CAIRN HOMES SHARES STILL STRUGGLING DESPITE UNDERVALUATION

Date: June 16, 2022 - Moneybags

DESPITE AN audacious incentive package that resulted in the vesting of more than 80 million so-called founder shares following the float in 2015, Cairn Homes founders – developer Mick Stanley and Scottish impresario Alan McIntosh – failed to deliver, with the share price coming back to earth. McIntosh has moved on but CEO Stanley is… Read more »

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David Coulson

DAVID COULSON’S ROUGH SEAS

Date: June 16, 2022 - The Hot Water Brigade

THE MARINA company owned by the former CEO of Grafton Group – Ballsbridge-based Mick Chadwick – has just registered a judgment against Dalkey’s David ‘Tramyard’ Coulson. The judgment, for a paltry €1,400, was registered by Marina Marketing and Management Ltd (MMM), which has been 100% controlled by keen sailor Chadwick since 2010. This entity manages… Read more »

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