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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 - Briefcases

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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Crohan O'Shea

CROHAN O’SHEA’S BARGAIN MANSION

Date: June 16, 2022 - Briefcases

A MANSION overlooking Killiney Bay (“on Dublin’s Riviera” according to the Business Post last month) is currently on the market for no less than €7.9m, which looks pretty steep by any standards. In this case, however, it surely represents a hell of a bargain, given that when the property was first put on the market,… Read more »

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Pat McDonagh

FAST-FOOD FRACAS

Date: June 16, 2022 - Briefcases

IN RUSSIA, McDonald’s made headlines when it was replaced in Moscow by franchisee Alexander Govor’s homegrown version of the burger chain, Vkusno i Tochka. Back at home there are problems of a different variety, with the US fast food giant being dragged to An Bord Pleanála by a Leitrim restaurateur. McDonald’s Restaurants Ireland is trying… Read more »

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Alan Torpey

ALAN TORPEY’S TURBULENCE

Date: June 16, 2022 - Briefcases

THE EXAMINERSHIP this week of the Ryco book cover company is the second major setback for this firm. Its enterprising principal, Malta-based Irish number cruncher Alan Torpey, has had his share of crash landings but is now looking to take off with a drone business where he is joined by an old pal from Bucharest…. Read more »

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Dalton Philips

DALTON PHILIPS’S TURBULENCE

Date: June 2, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

ONE MAN who might not have been too shocked by the queuing debacle at Dublin airport last weekend was former chairman of Morrisons supermarket chain, Sir Ken Morrison. He previously made some withering comments about Dalton Philips, the under-fire outgoing chief executive of Dublin Airport Authority (DAA), when the latter was in situ as boss… Read more »

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Paul O’Neill Irish Times editor

PROFILE: PAUL O’NEILL

Date: June 2, 2022 - Pillars of Society

THE IRISH TIMES appears to have mutated from its decades-long liberalism into a right-of-centre strain, judging by its increasingly hawkish views against neutrality and against a united Ireland or even a border poll. The editor presiding over these shifts in opinion is Paul O’Neill, but his colleagues say he has few if any political prejudices…. Read more »

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Russell Alford and Patrick Hanlon

YOUNG BLOODS: THE GASTROGAYS

Date: June 2, 2022 - The Young Bloods

WHILE DOUBLE acts are not unusual in the vast culinary and food arenas – think The Happy Pear, Cully and Sully and Two Fat Ladies – the GastroGays, aka Russell Alford and Patrick Hanlon, are a rather curious beast. Unlike the aforementioned pairings, rather than focusing on the narrow field of food preparation and health,… Read more »

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Mary Lou McDonald

POLLS: LEO V MARTIN AS MARY LOU RISES

Date: June 2, 2022 - Last Refuge

THE STATISTIC that jumped off the Red C/Business Post page at the weekend was that showing Sinn Féin at 36%, up two points from the last Red C poll a month ago and up three points from three Red C polls in the previous polls since January. The last time a party polled roughly at… Read more »

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Rupert Murdoch

‘SUNDAY TIMES’ VS GOLDHAWK

Date: June 2, 2022 - Fit to Print?

POOR GOLDHAWK is reeling from a frenzied attack by the Aawrish edition of the Sunday Times whose associate editor, John Burns, is very cross at criticism The Phoenix levels at “Nato, unionism, Israel etc”. But Burns’s list of ‘victims’ says rather more about the Sunday Times than The Phoenix and his line of attack is… Read more »

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Joe Alwyn and Alison Oliver

CONVERSATIONS WITH FRIENDS – BBC 3/RTÉ 1

Date: June 2, 2022 - ReviewsReviews|TVTV

DIRECTOR LENNY Abrahamson was perhaps asking for trouble with his second Sally Rooney adaptation in two years, following on from the deliriously OTT reviewed Normal People which, particularly in Ireland, was greeted as some kind of mix of Ulysses, Citizen Kane and Sgt. Pepper. Though that series was credited with a seemingly endless array of achievements, perhaps its greatest was… Read more »

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BONO’S FILM SCORE

Date: June 2, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

SET IN the Four Goldmines and promising plenty of action scenes, the Clondalkin film studio spat between Tyrone McKillen (son of Paddy) and the founders of Lens Media drags back up the original plan to locate the studio in the ‘Poolbeg peninsula’. That was scuppered, in part at least, by the suits in Dublin Port…. Read more »

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Owen Cullen

OWEN CULLEN’S CLIPPINGS

Date: June 2, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

WHILE LEINSTER Rugby head coach Leo Cullen had little to celebrate last weekend in Marseille, his younger brother, Owen, has been able to deliver a match-winning result in the family PR firm, Cullen Communications Ltd (CCL). This was thanks primarily to a lucrative gig involving the licensing of other PR companies for the use of… Read more »

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Kirsten Rausing

KIRSTEN RAUSING’S STUDS

Date: June 2, 2022 - High Society

THE SUNDAY TIMES’S UK edition still publishes its annual ‘Rich List’, while the Irish version called it a day a couple of years ago. This gives local readers a little less to speculate wildly about, with moneybags in Britain with Irish links of some sort a bit thin on the ground. One of those who… Read more »

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Brian Merriman

BRIAN MERRIMAN’S BAD REVIEW

Date: June 2, 2022 - Behind the Scenes

THE REJECTION by the Arts Council appeals panel of a funding application from Brian Merriman’s International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival (IDGTF) probably came as a surprise to observers, given the trend towards the supporting of entities delivering ‘queer’ productions. The decision did not go down well according to documents released to Goldhawk. Certainly, Merriman and… Read more »

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VOL 40 NO 11

Date: June 2, 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

BANKERS’ RETREAT

Date: June 2, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

A COMPANY with the relatively unassuming name of We.Trade Innovation has called a creditors’ meeting. It turns out that an awful lot of money has gone down the tubes here. We.trade is a joint venture blockchain trade finance operation owned by some of Europe’s largest banks, including HSBC, Deutsche Bank, Banco Santander, and the soon… Read more »

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BIDEN AND MARTIN’S UKRAINIAN WELCOME

Date: June 2, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

AN ALARMING Sunday Independent story about a “secret memo” to government in the form of a cross-government risk analysis recently warned of risks for social cohesion from the sudden influx of Ukrainian refugees. A warning of crisis in budgetary, accommodation, housing and health areas also came in the memo. Taoiseach Micheál Martin and government ministers… Read more »

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Osgur Breatnach

SALLINS TRAIN TRIAL LINED UP FOR THE UN?

Date: June 2, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

NOT A peep has there been from the media about the potential investigation by the United Nations of convictions for the £200,000 Sallins train robbery, convictions which were eventually overturned in perhaps the most notorious miscarriage of justice seen in the republic. The high-profile Belfast legal firm, KRW-LAW, led by Kevin Winters, is lodging a… 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

DR CAHILL’S CASE BOOK

Date: June 2, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

THE CONTROVERSIAL doctor at the heart of the American Irish Historical Society (AIHS) row tried to have the case in which he is accused of repeatedly violating a patient thrown out on a legal technicality, according to court papers. Dr Kevin M Cahill, 85, is alleged to have sexually assaulted the woman, 52 years his… Read more »

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Robert Nairac

THE GHOST OF ROBERT NAIRAC

Date: June 2, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

LAST MONTH, the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims’ Remains renewed an appeal for information about the whereabouts of the body of Captain Robert Nairac GC. He disappeared 45 years ago without a trace. His sisters, Rosemonde and Gabrielle, hope that his remains may yet be found. Nairac, an undercover British army military operative, colluded with the UVF… Read more »

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Yuri Filatov

DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY

Date: June 2, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

MANY OF the top brass were bemused at Simon Coveney’s rap across the knuckles of chief of staff, Lt Gen Seán Clancy, for meeting Russian ambassador Yuri Filatov in late January, a month before the Russians invaded Ukraine. Covetous Coveney is foreign minister (and defence minister) and he told the Fine Gael parliamentary party shortly… Read more »

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Date: June 2, 2022 - Affairs of the NationLetters to the Editor

DÉISE’S PRIDE AND JOY Dear Editor I would like to take issue with your article regarding the movement of past Trinity leaders Veronica Campbell and Paddy Prendergast to governance positions in the new SE Technological University. Having lived in Dublin for a period of 12 years and prior to becoming an elected TD for Waterford,… Read more »

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Seán Clancy

IRELAND’S NEUTRAL CIVIL WAR SKIES

Date: June 2, 2022 - Hush Hush

THE MOST recent issue of An Cosantóir, official magazine of the Irish Defence Forces, is a special edition commemorating the centenary of the establishment of the Irish Air Corps. It indicates that the top brass are sensitive to any triumphalism that elements in Fine Gael or the armed forces may harbour about the Civil War…. Read more »

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Ryan Tubridy

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: June 2, 2022 - The Hot Air Brigade

We became a show, I hope, of presence for people. We were kind of like a beacon in the fog, if you like, because now no one knew what time was, what day it was and where we were. Then you would see the owl on a Friday night. Ryan Tubridy on ‘The Late Late… Read more »

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Simon Coveney

BORIS JOHNSON AND BEING ‘IMPARTIAL’

Date: June 2, 2022 - Northwind

IN ITS opening section, ‘Constitutional Issues’, the Good Friday Agreement says, “the power of the sovereign government with jurisdiction [in the north] shall be exercised with rigorous impartiality on behalf of all the people”. The GFA then goes into great detail about the areas and aspects covered by this requirement of rigorous impartiality including “full… Read more »

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Sharon Tolan

FG’S FACTION FIGHTS IN MEATH EAST

Date: June 2, 2022 - Last Refuge

JUSTICE MINISTER Helen McEntee certainly came to her ministerial post well equipped with the knowledge of legal and other altercations in her Meath East constituency. Most embarrassingly, some of them even concerned members of her own Fine Gael party. Spare a thought for FG councillor Paddy Meade, who has just completed his second of two… Read more »

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Micheál Martin

MICHEÁL’S BORDER POLL COYNESS: RICHMOND ET AL POUNCE

Date: June 2, 2022 - Last Refuge

MUCH CONFUSION surrounds the political parties’ positions on the mooted issue of a border poll and, Fine Gael in particular, is playing a very Machiavellian game in an effort to embarrass Micheál Martin and Fianna Fáil. Martin derided Sinn Féin for not leading its northern assembly election campaign with demands for a border poll; Leo… Read more »

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Michael Ring

VLAD’S UNHAPPY CREW

Date: June 2, 2022 - Last Refuge

MY, BUT what a coincidence – and one that will surely have been clocked by Leo Varadkar as well as leadership hopefuls, Simon Harris, Helen McEntee and Peter Burke – is the list of names that was published in the media last week following that angry Fine Gael parliamentary party meeting over delays in handling… Read more »

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Jane Mahony

JANE MAHONY’S LETTER

Date: June 2, 2022 - Fit to Print?

A DETAILED and erudite letter to the Irish Times last week took issue with Catholic writer and columnist Breda O’Brien for saying in her weekly column that the Irish Sisters of Charity and some prelates believe there is no future for Catholic healthcare in Ireland. O’Brien had argued that this was the only plausible explanation… Read more »

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Zoe Kavanagh

THE LAND OF MILK , MOOLAH AND FITBITS

Date: June 2, 2022 - Fowl Emissions

FOR THE dairy industry, Ireland in recent years has been a land of milk and money. The sector has expanded at breakneck speed since EU milk quotas were lifted in 2015, and the face of the Irish countryside has been transformed in the process. While this rapid expansion has been a bonanza for many of… Read more »

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PHONEY CLIMATE WAR

Date: June 2, 2022 - Fowl Emissions

ONE OF the more ludicrous aspects of the climate emergency is that the Irish public has been conditioned to think that it can be addressed with tiny, painless actions. The degree to which inconvenience, never mind actual sacrifice, is unthinkable was seen in recent days in the circus that sprung up around delays at Dublin… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: June 2, 2022 - Bog Cuttings

BOG ROLL A 20-YEAR-OLD man, arrested in Co Cork last year for threatening gardaí and saying that he would use any summons as toilet paper, appeared before Cork District Court. Judge Marian O’Leary heard that gardaí were attending an incident in Togher, Cork, when one Aaron Austin, of Araglen Court, Togher, Cork, shouted at one… Read more »

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CHANELLE MCCOY’S NEW ARRIVALS

Date: June 2, 2022 - High Society

PRESUMABLY, CHANELLE – sorry Lady – McCoy will be paying close attention to a High Court challenge initiated by a Co Waterford retailer of cannabidiol derivatives (CBD) against the DPP and the state over their interpretation of the Misuse of Drugs Act. Mark Jenkins from Lismore is claiming that the sale of cultivated hemp products… Read more »

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