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Joseph O'Brien's Horses

ADDING UP AT MYRACEHORSE

Date: June 2, 2022 - Sport of Kings

THE MICRO-SHARE ownership vehicle Myracehorse.com got off to a great start when its part-owned Authentic won the Kentucky Derby in 2020 and the syndicate has now unveiled its first horse in training in Ireland.  The as-of-yet unnamed Joseph O’Brien-trained two-year-old filly is being offered to would-be owners for £89 per share but a comparison of… Read more »

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Brendan Duke Adrian Murray Mick Bailey

CANTILLONS IN CLOVER

Date: June 2, 2022 - Sport of Kings

DERMOT CANTILLON and his wife, former IHRB senior steward Meta Osborne hit the jackpot recently when selling one of their broodmares to the late Prince Khalid Abdullah’s Juddmonte Farms for a reputed €2m. The 10-year-old mare Repose, who was also bred by the couple at their Tinnakill House Farm in Co Laois, came to prominence… Read more »

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Gordon Elliot

GORDON ELLIOTT’S SURPRISE

Date: June 2, 2022 - Sport of Kings

THERE WAS an interesting Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board referral from Punchestown in April involving trainer Gordon Elliott.  The agency noted the late withdrawal of the Elliott-trained Eskylane shortly before the horse’s intended race – on the basis of “a change in ground conditions” given by team Elliott. The referral panel of Peter Allen, Anthony Byrne… Read more »

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Peter Jackson

ODDS NARROW ON FLUTTER SHARES JUMP

Date: June 2, 2022 - Moneybags

THE OPENING up of the online gaming market in the United States of America – worth a gross £100bn, based on the UK market – was supposed to be the key driver behind Flutter, representing a significant opportunity for the CEO, Peter Jackson, as each US state passes its own legislation. The outcome has yet… Read more »

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AMINEX SHARES COULD BE BOOSTED BY OVERDUE NOVEMBER DRILL

Date: June 2, 2022 - Moneybags

IT IS 10 years since former Aminex boss Brian Hall originally hit pay dirt in the Ruvuma licence in Tanzania, when he took on sole risk (after Tullow Oil pulled out of a 50/50 deal on the licence), discovering a secondary target flowing gas at 20 million cubic feet a day. Hall followed this up… Read more »

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Darryl Kavanagh

DARRYL KAVANAGH’S TROLL

Date: June 2, 2022 - The Hot Water Brigade

IT MUST have come as quite a surprise to the entrepreneurial Darryl Kavanagh to come across a couple of new web pages featuring his name that have dug up his less than sterling business record, suggesting to viewers that it might be better to avoid trading with the Bristol-based Irishman. This comes at a time… Read more »

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Donal Gallagher

DONAL GALLAGHER’S IRISH HEADACHE

Date: June 2, 2022 - The Hot Water Brigade

WHILE HE has been flying high in London in recent years, construction moneybags Donal Gallagher has been experiencing rather serious turbulence on this side of the Irish Sea. Liquidator John Healy is seeking a High Court declaration that the directors of Donegal abattoir operation Edenmore Farm Meats Ltd are guilty of reckless trading. Gallagher became… Read more »

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Brian McDonagh

MCDONAGH’S COSTS

Date: June 2, 2022 - The Hot Water Brigade

IT HAS been a tough few years for the indefatigable Brian McDonagh, the man who copped a lot of the blame for stopping that big Apple data centre in Athenry, Co Galway. Last week, the news only got worse, with a ruling against him on the no doubt substantial legal costs in a case related… Read more »

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Judge Isobel Kennedy

ARNAUD GAULTIER’S VINTAGE PERFORMANCE

Date: June 2, 2022 - The Hot Water Brigade

KILDARE-BASED wine importer Arnaud Gaultier recently suffered yet another setback in his continuing saga against the dreaded taxman. Fans of Goldhawk will remember Gaultier, who in 2006 had the misfortune of seeing the Revenue seize 22 pallets of presumably very drinkable wine that had been imported by his Finglas-based company, Loire Valley. Gaultier claimed that this… Read more »

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Simon Harris

VARADKAR FACES PARTY CRISIS

Date: May 19, 2022 - Last Refuge

THE ROW over the maternity hospital has many fathers and chief among the suspects is a certain panic in the ranks of Fine Gael, especially in leader Leo Varadkar’s office. Whereas frantic manoeuvreing among aspirant ministers anticipating the December reshuffle (when Vlad becomes taoiseach) was already under way (see The Phoenix, 22/4/22), the make-up of… Read more »

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Seán Clancy

PROFILE: SEÁN CLANCY

Date: May 19, 2022 - Pillars of Society

THE NEW chief of staff of the Defence Forces, Seán Clancy, has had an exciting introduction to public life. First, he was castigated by his political master, defence and foreign affairs minister Simon Coveney for being too familiar in public with Russian ambassador Yuriy Filatov. Second, he has become head of the armed forces just as… Read more »

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Erin McGreehan

YOUNG BLOOD: ERIN MCGREEHAN

Date: May 19, 2022 - The Young Bloods

WHILE FIANNA Fáil’s poll ratings are not as rosy as many media have reported, its levels of support among young people – and young women in particular – are even lower and remain disastrously low.That’s why the party is placing so much hope and expectation in candidates like 39-year-old Erin McGreehan in Co Louth. McGreehan… Read more »

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Ed Guiney

IN THEIR ELEMENT

Date: May 19, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

THEY SAY timing is everything in showbusiness. News of Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe’s sale of a majority stake in their Element Pictures operation to UK giant Fremantle Media was announced just ahead of decidedly mixed reviews of their much anticipated Sally Rooney adaptation, Conversations With Friends. It is, however, unclear what role the offshore… Read more »

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Stephen Donnelly

WHITHER STEPHEN DONNELLY?

Date: May 19, 2022 - Last Refuge

HEALTH MINISTER Stephen Donnelly has become a convenient target again in health controversies, this time at the national maternity hospital. The minister now has about two years left to rescue an undistinguished ministerial career before he flees politics for the rewarding haven of management consultancy from whence he came. This time, of course, he will… Read more »

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Roar

ROAR – CECELIA AHERN

Date: May 19, 2022 - BooksBooks|ReviewsReviews

THROUGHOUT HER career as a middling-to-awful fiction writer, Cecelia Ahern has generally given a wide berth to socio-political issues. But having noted the prevailing cultural winds, she has clearly looked at feminist-tinged storytelling and decided there’s gold in them hills. If it might seem an unlikely direction for a writer hitherto more associated with frothy… Read more »

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Roderic O'Gorman

ALLPRO’S WAR DIVIDEND

Date: May 19, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

RODERIC O’GORMAN’S Department of Integration has been dishing out contracts to companies for the provision of services relating to the housing of Ukrainian refugees. One of the lucky recipients is Galway headquartered Allpro Services, owned equally by Alan Connolly and Conor Nolan, whose latest gig is managing the Scouting Ireland hostels that have been provided… Read more »

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Ted Walsh

TED WALSH’S RTÉ RIDE

Date: May 19, 2022 - Sport of Kings

PUNTERS WILL be interested to see if Ted Walsh’s latest blunder on RTÉ’s racing coverage of Punchestown has any repercussions for his long-held punditry position. Despite issuing a public apology after coming under fire for highly critical and, er, blunt comments about a hapless nag running at Punchestown, Walsh’s longevity on the screen will surely… Read more »

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Jamie Myerscough

MYERSCOUGH’S WORK-OUT

Date: May 19, 2022 - High Society

DOCUMENTS JUST filed in the Companies Office records a different ownership structure in Jamie Myerscough’s Vitruvian Fitness operation than had been registered. Previously, it had been mistakenly recorded that as of September last year Jamie held all the shares in the firm, where his wife, Jennifer Kelly, is the other listed director. Meanwhile, he has… Read more »

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RAYMOND STANLEY’S SPREAD

Date: May 19, 2022 - High Society

AN IMPRESSIVE Victorian pile in Cabinteely in south Co Dublin has come on the market with a price tag of €2.75m. Although owned by Raymond and Lynda Stanley, a glowing write-up about the property in the Indo managed to overlook them, focusing instead on one-time owner Seamus McGrath, scion of Joe ‘Sweepstake’ McGrath. Seamus was a… Read more »

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Kevin Doyle

KEVIN DOYLE’S PUNT

Date: May 19, 2022 - Sport of Kings

FORMER IRISH international footballer Kevin Doyle caused something of a stir two-and-a-half years ago, when he paid €155,000 for a colt foal at Tattersalls Ireland. His hefty purchase related to a half-brother to the then Nicky Henderson-trained superstar steeplechaser Altior, and the one-time Premiership striker revealed at the time that he had bought the horse… Read more »

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VOL 40 NO 10

Date: May 19, 2022 -

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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

JP MCMANUS’S MIX-UP

Date: May 19, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

GENEVA-BASED zillionaire JP McManus is no ordinary racehorse owner. He has long been lashing out bucketloads of moolah to buy top-pedigree steeplechasers and currently would appear to have somewhere north of 500 animals, spread among a variety of trainers. Given the vast scale of the operation, things can go wrong, embarrassingly so. One of the… 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

NOEL SMYTH’S DOGFIGHT

Date: May 19, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

A MEETING takes place this week to decide whether solicitor turned property developer Noel Smyth can buy the National Show Centre near Dublin airport, owned by the Irish Kennel Club (IKC). It looks like he believes the deal is in the bag. Later this month, fans of canines will be heading to the Festival of… Read more »

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Fran McNulty

RTÉ DRAMA AWARD

Date: May 19, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

RTÉ’S FRAN McNULTY must have felt he was McNulty, front man in an episode of The Wire, rather than McNulty of Prime Time given the raft of rumours swirling around Montrose and the print media in the past few weeks. One thing is clear and that is that a row between McNulty and the managing… Read more »

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Kevin Cahill

HIGGINS, DR CAHILL AND THE NYC FRACAS

Date: May 19, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

THE DOCTOR at the centre of a controversial plan to sell off the most prestigious Irish-American building in the US has been ordered by a New York judge to attempt settlement of a case in which he is accused of sexually assaulting a patient after years of being ‘infatuated’ with her. Dr Kevin Cahill, 85,… 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

JOE MCHUGH’S EXIT

Date: May 19, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

THE RETIREMENT of former education minister, Donegal based Joe McHugh, is described as a blow to Fine Gael as the party, it is said, simply doesn’t have a candidate of McHugh’s calibre to retain its seat there. Cue rumours of various celeb candidates like mega-star footballer Michael Murphy, the county’s greatest ever player. However, the… Read more »

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Michael Collins

UNREST IN MICHAEL COLLINS COUNTY

Date: May 19, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

IN THIS the centenary of Michael Collins death in the Civil War, Cork Fine Gael members are not exactly brimming with pride or optimism about the future. Munster is the bedrock of FG, and Cork in particular is Blueshirt country. However, it managed to win just eight seats in the 11 Munster constituencies in the… Read more »

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Danny McCoy

McCOY’S FLEETING CLIMATE EPIPHANY

Date: May 19, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

IT IS widely assumed that within this government, only the Greens have any real interest in the climate crisis. However, there is growing evidence that taoiseach Micheál Martin now also knows exactly how bad the situation really is. Speaking at the recent ‘Dublin Climate Summit’ in UCD, hosted by business lobby group Ibec, Martin pulled… Read more »

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Paddy Prendergast

NO SET-TO IN WATERFORD

Date: May 19, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

TWO ACADEMICS have just made unexpected scholarly Odysseys from the country’s oldest university to the youngest. The first surprise was when former Trinity provost Paddy Prendergast re-emerged into a very different academic limelight as chair of the governing body of the South East Technological University (SETU). He certainly wanted something major to get his teeth… Read more »

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Jock Palfreeman

GENTLE EU POLICING

Date: May 19, 2022 - Hush Hush

WITH THE housing crisis; the logistics of helping Ukrainian refugees; and the furore over the National Maternity Hospital, a lot of the business of Leinster House may not be getting the usual scrutiny from political parties or the national media. Dáil Éireann recently backed the Prüm II proposal governing automated exchange of data between police… Read more »

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Pippa O'Connor

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: May 19, 2022 - The Hot Air Brigade

I think I was manifesting before I even realised what I was doing. Pippa O’Connor, VIP Magazine, submitted by reader Surprisingly for a couple noted for head-turning good looks, Paul, in white Adidas trainers and Phoebe, in clumpy black boots, sported unflattering black socks. Padraic Flanagan assesses Paul Mescal and Phoebe Bridgers, Irish Mail on… Read more »

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Naomi Long

ALLIANCE SURGE

Date: May 19, 2022 - Northwind

“SO YOU see now this growing middle ground of people who don’t want to be defined by religion or by ethnic or national identity and to me that is really encouraging and really presents an opportunity for a new Northern Ireland into the future.” This was part of Leo Varadkar’s lengthy response to Mary Lou… Read more »

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Willie O'Dea

FF-FG COALITION STRAINS

Date: May 19, 2022 - Last Refuge

THE OUTRAGED accusations from Fianna Fáil TDs and ministers against alleged dirty tricks by their Fine Gael counterparts over the National Maternity Hospital (NMH) and health minister Stephen Donnelly, have little to do with ‘clinically appropriate’ decisions. Nor is it a sign of paranoia on the part of FF TDs, although the latter have certainly… Read more »

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Martin Heydon

BLUESHIRT KULAKS REGROUP

Date: May 19, 2022 - Last Refuge

NOT SINCE Stalin massacred the Kulaks in the USSR did farmers receive such treatment as that meted out to the 11-year-old Fine Gael Agriculture Affairs Group (FGAAG) by the ruthless Bolsheviks at Mount Street HQ. The latter simply abolished the FGAAG, claiming that it was because the group had not held an AGM in 11… Read more »

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Michelle O'Neill

‘IRISH TIMES’ HAS BAD ELECTION

Date: May 19, 2022 - Fit to Print?

THE LATHER of excitement about the northern assembly elections whipped up by the Irish Times – stimulated by its craving for the hallowed middle ground or ‘Others’, to replace republicans and unionists – melted quickly in face of the results. But the champions of centrism in Tara Street certainly did their best to promote moderation… Read more »

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FT’S UNITED IRELAND LECTURE

Date: May 19, 2022 - Fit to Print?

WHAT AN interesting comment Financial Times contributing editor Philip Stephens made in his column last weekend about preparations (or not) for a united Ireland. Days before the northern assembly elections taoiseach, Micheál Martin put clear blue water between Sinn Féin’s demand that we prepare for a border poll and his own shared island agenda. He… Read more »

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