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Ben Dunne

BEN DUNNE’S SHRINKING COLLECTION

Date: September 22, 2022 - High Society

CONGRATULATIONS TO the wily James Gormley et al at Gormley’s Fine Art on Dublin’s South Frederick Street, the boys scored quite the coup by landing the gig for the sale of Ben and Mary Dunne’s collection of 39 paintings, carrying an optimistic-looking €10m valuation. The exhibition and sale at the South Frederick Street gallery close… Read more »

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IHT CHL The Lion in Winter Racing Royalty Le Brocquy City of Troy Fitzwilliam Square AIRO Dermot Smurfit Ballinacarrig Park Club Cosgrave Fitzpatrick Keith Jameson National Gallery Collection Marissa Carter VG Tom Higgins Neil Jordan Laura Bonner Paul Ward Variety Jones Dtat Eathos Sharon Keegan Angela Scanlon Desmond Canouan Bellair Estate Bobby Flay John O’Conor Portrait of Omai Eibhlín Ní Chonghaile Wedding NGI Board Rachel Flynn JP McMahon Ash Quinn Pamela Laird Abdullah Al Naboodah Boundless Ocean

ASH QUINN MOVES ON

Date: September 22, 2022 - High Society

INTERESTING TO see the Sunday Times reporting on a move by glamorous Ash Quinn, daughter of footballer-turned-businessman Niall, to become a senior exec at Rónán Ó Dálaigh’s Thriftnifty online charity shopping business. Until now, Ash Quinn has been running online retail operation MoShoppa, where she is also a shareholder, along with daddy and assorted investors… Read more »

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David Murray

DAVID MURRAY’S TWO HOUSES

Date: September 22, 2022 - High Society

THERE WAS a predictably glowing profile in the Irish Times last week of Ingleside, a large five-bedroom house on the corner of Brennanstown Road and Glenamuck Road in south County Dublin, which has been placed on the market with the price tag of almost €4m. Significantly, the wily owners – who turn out to be… Read more »

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NCAD Chair Simon Harris

NCAD’S CHAIR

Date: September 22, 2022 - Behind the Scenes

THIS WEEK sees the election of a new chair of the National College of Art and Design (NCAD), following the recent vacancy on the board left by the retirement of chairman Richard Thorn (ex-president of Sligo IT). Earlier this year, higher education minister Simon Harris advertised for expressions of interest in serving on the college’s… Read more »

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Tailored Films Screen Ireland Perspectives DCCI Crescine Tarka Russell Lara Hickey Reality Check Sarah McInerney Irish Movies Paul Murray Arts Council Dublin Theatre Festival TWU Macdara Kelleher Richard Boyd Barrett DADC Cillian Murphy Terry McMahon Media Commission Ireland Kerlin Gallery Creative Ireland Section 481 Christine O’Donovan RTÉ Storyland NMI Board Vacancies IASCA Ossie Kilkenny RTÉ Original Programmes

SONGWRITERS’ SWAN SONG

Date: September 22, 2022 - Behind the Scenes

THE FINAL creditors’ meeting has been held by the liquidator of the Irish Association of Songwriters, Composers and Authors (IASCA), which was set up in 2011 “to foster a community of songwriters, composers and authors and to lobby and campaign on their behalf”. Not surprisingly, the cupboard was pretty bare. Singer Cathy Davey was in… Read more »

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NO WORRIES IF NOT!

NO WORRIES IF NOT! – RTÉ2

Date: September 22, 2022 - ReviewsReviews|TV

BATTLE-SCARRED survivors of RTÉ’s comedy output will have felt a cold shiver at the pitch for No Worries If Not!, which promised “quirky characters and off-the-wall sketches” featuring online “stars”. It follows the national broadcaster’s now-customary template for developing new comedy – machine-gunning commissions to comics with a half-decent social media following in the increasingly… Read more »

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THE NIGHT INTERNS

THE NIGHT INTERNS – AUSTIN DUFFY

Date: September 22, 2022 - Books|ReviewsReviews

THE DUNDALK author’s debut novel, This Living and Immortal Thing (2016), featured an Irish cancer researcher in a New York medical centre. Austin Duffy (who also works as an oncologist) returns to a similar setting in his latest book, The Night Interns. This short but compelling sketch follows the experiences of three permanently exhausted interns… Read more »

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JP McManus

JP’S ROUGH RIDE

Date: September 22, 2022 - Sport of Kings

JP MCMANUS may well be the self-appointed patron saint of Irish racing courtesy of the millions he spends every year on training fees and buying horses. That status, however, does not grant him immunity from the watchful eyes of the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board stewards and the Geneva-based zillionaire might be feeling rather aggrieved over… Read more »

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Leopardstown Racing Tim Husbands

HUSBANDS’S HANDICAP

Date: September 22, 2022 - Sport of Kings

IRISH CHAMPIONS Weekend may have been a success from a racing point of view, with top-quality action over the two days at Leopardstown and the Curragh, but the event is still not delivering the kind of attendance numbers that it should. Just over 10,000 punters went through the turnstiles at Leopardstown on a sunny afternoon… Read more »

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Ed Dunlop David Dunsdon Sarah Lynam Rebecca May Wayne Hassett Eoin O'Brien Michael Burke Aine O’Connor Ashroe Diamond Thomand O’Mara Peter Keatley Timmy Hyde Coolmore All About Sunday Colin Keane Ronan Whelan JP McManus Jessica Harrington Dundalk Racecourse Paul Hensey Irish National Hunt Horse-racing Doping Paddy Walsh Tom Kelly Suspension

EMPTY SADDLE AT AIR

Date: September 22, 2022 - Sport of Kings

ANOTHER SENIOR racing administrator has announced that he is to dismount. Paddy Walsh, chief executive of the Association of Irish Racecourses (AIR), has signalled his intention to call it a day in March next year, after 20 years in the saddle. Although due for retirement in November, Walsh is to stay on to oversee some… Read more »

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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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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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