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Michael OLeary Successor

TIME FOR A CHANGE IN THE RYANAIR COCKPIT

Date: July 28, 2022 - Moneybags

MICK O’LEARY appears to be flying high. Amidst the chaos of other airlines cancelling flights and many airports failing to manage the inevitable traffic recovery, Ryanair has stood out, but the bottom line has not been showing the expected returns and the share price has been in near free-fall. The reason remains the man at… Read more »

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Penny Mordaunt Ireland

PENNY MORDAUNT’S REBEL IRISH ROOTS

Date: July 28, 2022 - Fit to Print?

WHAT FASCINATING information emerged in the media recently about the Republican activities of failed Tory leadership contender, Penny Mordaunt and her predecessors in Ireland, including involvement in the Land League, the IRA and the Civil War. How Liz Truss would have liked to have been apprised of such info at a sensitive time — during… Read more »

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HELEN MCENTEE’S CRITIC

Date: July 28, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

JUSTICE MINISTER Helen McEntee came under fire this month when shutting down visa exemption rules for refugees travelling to Ireland from other European countries. When it comes to taking potshots at ministers, some voices carry more impact than others, and one of the most outspoken critics was legal eagle Wendy Lyon. She is a partner… Read more »

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Mediahuis Editors

MEDIAHUIS RESHUFFLES EDITORS

Date: July 28, 2022 - Fit to Print?

PETER VANDERMEERSCH enjoyed the title of publisher of Mediahuis Ireland until recently but from next Monday he will glory in the title of Mediahuis chief executive officer. But having entrenched himself as top man in the corporate tier of the Irish operation, he has also made a strategic decision to reinstate and even promote to… Read more »

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VOL 40 NO 15

Date: July 28, 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

GARRY O’SULLIVAN’S MAMMON

Date: July 28, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

WHILE THE poor old print media has been under severe pressure in recent years as the digital giants like Google and Facebook hoover up the vast bulk of the online advertising moolah, it is very surprising when any new title surfaces. In the case of a brand new publication, however, the miracle may be less… Read more »

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Agriculture RTÉ

AGRI-CATASTROPHE

Date: July 28, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

Hysteria has this week been dialled up to 11 as the agri-industrial sector went into full scale panic mode in a last gasp effort to sabotage Ireland’s new sectoral carbon budgets. The airwaves have been flooded with impassioned special pleading, with Blueshirt MEP, Colm Markey, explaining how the debate around emissions is “too focused on… Read more »

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Thomas Niedermayer IRA

SECRET DIPLOMAT’S KIDNAP FILES

Date: July 28, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

FOREIGN AND Commonwealth Office (FCO) files have just been released which shed some light on the IRA kidnapping of Germany’s Consul in Belfast, Thomas Niedermayer, in December 1973. Secretly, the Provos demanded the release of Marian and Dolours Price from prison in England for his return. Publicly, no group admitted responsibility. Niedermayer’s body was not… Read more »

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Neo-Nazis Ireland

IRELAND CALLING!

Date: July 28, 2022 - Hush Hush

THE US based Antelope Hill Publishing (AHP) has developed a niche market by publishing out of print works by fascist and Nazi ideologues as well as contemporary far-right extremists. It has also made links with neo-Nazis, and far-right activists and propagandists in Ireland. Titles that AHP has resurrected from the dustbin of history include In His… Read more »

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Terry Prone

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: July 28, 2022 - The Hot Air Brigade

They were characterised by plots, betrayals and late-night phone calls. Minor-key music and the distant roll of drums. Number-crunching to record the ineluctable path of disaffection. Treachery anaesthetised by alcohol. David Mamet crossed with John B Keane. Great stuff, altogether. Terry Prone on the current leadership rumblings within Fianna Fáil, Sunday Times, submitted by reader… Read more »

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New British Prime Minister

AFTER BORIS …

Date: July 28, 2022 - Northwind

Politicians are still going on about the “opportunity” to reset British politics now that Boris Johnson has gone. Simon Coveney was at it when he visited Stormont last week. He emphasised he didn’t care who became British prime minister, but he hoped it would mean a change in Britain’s relations with Brussels and Dublin. It… Read more »

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FF New Leader

ANTI-MARTIN CAMP DIVIDES

Date: July 28, 2022 - Last Refuge

IT’S NOT exactly a split but Micheál Martin will be pleased enough to detect a disagreement about tactics among those members of his parliamentary party that want to get shot of him ASAP. Two quite different takes on the leadership stakes were published in the last fortnight — one in the Irish Mail on Sunday… Read more »

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CATHAL CROWE’S PLANNING PROBLEM

Date: July 28, 2022 - Last Refuge

FIANNA FÁIL TD, Cathal Crowe, a key member of the parliamentary party, is embroiled in a planning row over the construction of his new family home in Cratloe, Co Clare, amid claims of privileged access to council planners. The Clare Champion’s Dan Danaher reported recently that construction of Crowe’s house had been put on hold while Clare… Read more »

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Fine Gael Farmer Emissions

FINE GAEL MOONLIGHTERS

Date: July 28, 2022 - Last Refuge

LEO VARADKAR is incensed with those members of his parliamentary party that have followed the lead of TD, John Paul Phelan, in their crusade to defend farmers against the depredations of the Green Party and their demands to reduce emissions by 30%. The group is dominated by politicians of south-east rural, farming stock and the… Read more »

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Micheál Martin Northern Ireland

MARTIN “DANCES ON LEMASS’S GRAVE”

Date: July 28, 2022 - Last Refuge

MICHEÁL MARTIN would be foolish to dismiss the most concerted attack on any Taoiseach that has ever emanated from what is effectively the voice of nationalism in Northern Ireland. For decades the Irish News has been, and still is, the soul of moderate, democratic nationalism north of the border; and last week it published two columns from… Read more »

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NEWSPAPER COVER PRICE INFLATION

Date: July 28, 2022 - Fit to Print?

THE SUNDAY INDEPENDENT, last Sunday week, front-paged its story of Johnny Ronan’s bid to “up price of housing” at the Irish Glass Bottle site in Dublin 4 in what is fast becoming the new version of the unacceptable face of capitalism. Flicking over to page 2, readers were then treated to another inflation story with Sindo… Read more »

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Green Party Mining

CYANIDE WASHING?

Date: July 28, 2022 - Fowl Emissions

On Richard Bruton’s watch as environment minister a brave new era of mining opportunities was launched, sparking a surge in licensing that has continued despite the succession of a Green TD to the role in 2020. Éamon Ryan has granted prospecting licenses across at least eight counties and has renewed numeroius others. Academic research has… Read more »

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EAMON RYAN’S GOLD-MINERS

Date: July 28, 2022 - Fowl Emissions

A battle royal looms in North Leitrim as the farmers and other campaigners who saw off Canadian fracking company Tamboran Resources, and precipitated the national ban on fracking in 2017 have vowed to “shut the gates” to gold-miners. Flintridge Resources (yet another Canadian firm) has been granted a prospecting licence by Minister Éamon Ryan –… Read more »

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Bog-Cuttings-Defaul

BOG CUTTINGS

Date: July 28, 2022 - Bog Cuttings

‘I’M DENIS IRWIN’ A MAN NAMED Daniel Spillane, who identified himself to gardaí as “Denis Irwin, famous soccer player,” appeared before Cork District Court charged with engaging in threatening and abusive behaviour toward gardaí and failing to provide his correct details. Spillane, of 18 St. Bridget’s Road, Gurranabraher, Cork, was stopped by gardaí at around… Read more »

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AL NABOODAH’S GOLF BUDDIES

Date: July 28, 2022 - High Society

WITH THE hoopla surrounding the pro-am golfing tournament, hosted by JP McManus at his Adare Manor having died down, it is interesting to note that one of the lesser known moneybags, who made a guest appearance, with his own team was Abdullah Al Naboodah from the far off United Arab Emirates. The golf (and footie)… Read more »

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Rebecca Winckworth

THE WINCKWORTHS’ SLEEPING PARTNERS

Date: July 28, 2022 - High Society

COLOMBIA-BASED entrepreneur-cum-singer Rebecca Winckworth was presumably delighted with the recent glowing profile in the Sindo ‘Life’ magazine, headlined “Tangoing through Life”. The article waxed lyrical about the Irishwoman who moved permanently to South America a few years ago but remains the marketing director of her family bedding business, White & Green. It turns out there… Read more »

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NLI Director

OVERDUE AT THE LIBRARY

Date: July 28, 2022 - Behind the Scenes

A LITTLE late in the day, the board of the National Library of Ireland (NLI), chaired by former Eoin McVey, has advertised for a new Director of the institution. The new face will inherit an ongoing major redevelopment project and a recently published four-year strategy that was drawn up under the previous incumbent, Sandra Collins,… Read more »

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Susan Bergin Marlowe Mullingar Film Studio RTÉ Self-Employment

PAUL CHESNEY’S FILM STUDIO

Date: July 28, 2022 - Behind the Scenes

YET ANOTHER proposed film studio project made it into the news this month, this one in Mullingar. How many studio schemes can the market bear? The promoters behind the latest plan, Hammerlake Studios in Mullingar, are promising much the same on paper as Alan Moloney and James Morris’s Grange Castle studio in west Dublin, and… Read more »

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Rose Dugdale Biography

HEIRESS, REBEL, VIGILANTE, BOMBER – SEÁN O’DRISCOLL

Date: July 28, 2022 - BooksBooks|ReviewsReviews

THIS BIOGRAPHY of Rose Dugdale is the second in two years. Fascination on both sides of the Irish sea lies in her privileged English upper middle-class, origins, her identification with the IRA since the early 1970s, pulling off history’s biggest ever art heist, followed by arrest and imprisonment. On top of this, Republican maverick Eddie… Read more »

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Battle of the Food Trucks

BATTLE OF THE FOOD TRUCKS – RTÉ PLAYER

Date: July 28, 2022 - ReviewsReviews|TVTV

THE PURSUIT of culinary excellence is at the heart of RTÉ Player effort Battle Of The Food Trucks, in which contestants face off in hope of scooping the €5,000 prize money. Ironically, the series turns out to be a dog’s dinner. Now on its second series, the show is the latest addition to RTÉ’s landslide of… Read more »

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DANIEL DUNNE’S ROUGH RIDING

Date: July 28, 2022 - Sport of Kings

DANIEL DUNNE, who was representing Katy Brown at Dundalk earlier this summer, may not be a household name when it comes to racing, but his profile has been raised by his behaviour. Dunne was interviewed by the stewards at Dundalk after they received a report that he had allegedly been verbally abusive towards apprentice jockey… Read more »

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Montesilvano horse

O’BRIENS QUALIFY FOR PRIZE POT

Date: July 28, 2022 - Sport of Kings

READERS OF ‘Sport of Kings’ will recall questions being raised here about the use of auctions essentially to qualify horses for restricted races, with a major player being Aidan O’Brien and his family (see The Phoenix 11/2/22). Back in February at a sale in Goffs, the O’Briens offered a number of un-raced 2-year-olds for sale… Read more »

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Paddy Dunican Kilbeggan

DUNICAN VERSUS CALDWELL

Date: July 28, 2022 - Sport of Kings

THE HEAT wave took its toll at Kilbeggan recently, as tempers flared among stable staff with track manager Paddy Dunican and his failure to provide complimentary bottled water for stable staff. He is well used to dealing with spats. Despite racing officials and jockeys being kept well hydrated for free by Kilbeggan, those working in… Read more »

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Ballybrit 2022

GOING GOOD IN GALWAY

Date: July 28, 2022 - Sport of Kings

THE BUZZ will be back for the Ballybrit 2022 races as punters are allowed to attend the festival for the first time in three years. In fairness to track manager Michael Molony, his Galway squad is not taking unfair advantage of any pent-up demand for the festival by jacking up entrance prices. On the contrary,… Read more »

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Irish companies in Russia

UKRAINE INVASION: IRISH COLLATERAL DAMAGE

Date: July 28, 2022 - Moneybags

THE RUSSIAN invasion of Ukraine in February has had global implications. It also has had specific implications for some relatively low profile Irish companies that are closely tied in with the market in Russia. These include three in particular – Eurasia Mining, Petroneft and Ovoca Bio. The first two have been battered by the reaction… Read more »

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Barkhill Ltd Closing

BARKHILL LOSES ITS BITE

Date: July 28, 2022 - Briefcases

IT LOOKS like we will be waving goodbye in the next couple of months to a property company called Barkhill Ltd, which helped develop the huge Liffey Valley shopping centre in west County Dublin and generated its fair share of headlines in the past. Barkhill would be a name that rings plenty of bells, given… Read more »

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Brookfield College Closing

ELISHA DOWLING’S HOMEWORK

Date: July 28, 2022 - Briefcases

TWO YEARS on from the sudden closing of the long-established Brookfield College grind school in Tralee, when blindsided parents were advised that a liquidation was imminent, the owners of the company – Elisha and Angela Dowling – have kept their company alive. They have now sold the college premises. In August 2020, Leaving Cert and fifth… Read more »

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Moodley vegan burgers

THE VEGAN MOODLEYS’ MENU

Date: July 28, 2022 - Briefcases

ALTHOUGH VEGANISM is understood to be growing in Ireland (as elsewhere), this did not prevent the collapse of a company set up to provide the herbivores with fare designed to mimic old-fashioned burgers and bacon products. Gavyn Pedley and his wife, Aisling Mooney, made a name for themselves in the Irish vegan market a few… Read more »

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Louis Ronan

LOUIS RONAN’S DEADLY COMPETITION

Date: July 28, 2022 - Briefcases

GOLDHAWK’S OLD pal Louis Ronan senior will be breathing a sigh of relief after a rival crematorium to his Cork-based Island Crematorium was refused planning permission for the second time. Classic Lodges (Ireland) Ltd is a subsidiary of the business empire built by British billionaire Trevor Hemmings, who died last year at the age of… Read more »

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MCINERNEY FAVOURITE

Date: July 14, 2022 - Fit to Print?

WITH RSVP citing Sarah McInerney as favourite at 3/1 to take over Claire Byrne Live — the RSVP list ran to nine presenters with the outside bet being Brendan O’Connor at 14/1 — it looks as though McInerney has got the gig. McInerney has been trialled in a particular format that is intended to be more based on current… Read more »

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du Plantier case

NETFLIX’S NEW DRAMA

Date: July 14, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

IT CAN be hard to escape the name of Ian Bailey these days after the gardaí reopened the infamous Sophie Toscan du Plantier case, 25 years after she was murdered in Schull, Co Cork. Bailey quickly became the number one suspect and, since then, there have been two documentaries aired – Jim Sheridan’s one for… Read more »

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