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Liz Truss DUP

TRUSS GRAPPLES WITH DUP

Date: September 8, 2022 - Northwind

ALL IS not going to plan between the DUP and the British government. To the surprise of no one in the North, the DUP is not co-operating with the Conservatives’ plans for dealing with the Irish Protocol. English politicians may not know the Ulster-Scots word ‘thran’ but they would be familiar with the American ‘ornery’,… Read more »

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Dara Calleary

CALLEARY BACK AT COURT

Date: September 8, 2022 - Last Refuge

THE UNASSUMING if still ambitious figure of ex-minister Dara Calleary can be seen stalking the corridors of power again, albeit as a mere junior minister. Some believe – or have been led to believe by the devious ones that surround Micheál Martin – that this is but a staging post on the way back to… Read more »

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Paschal Donohoe Finance

PASCHAL DONOHOE’S VIRTUE SIGNALLING

Date: September 8, 2022 - Last Refuge

BENEATH THE Blueshirts bonding bonhomie at their Kilkenny think-in this weekend, there will undoubtedly lurk some malicious thoughts and no small resentment at various leadership personalities.  Chief among these is finance minister Paschal Donohoe, whose heavy virtue-signalling as a prudent keeper of the nation’s wealth has not impressed all Fine Gael party members, TDs in… Read more »

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Emma Blain Leo Varadkar Constituency

LEO TO SWITCH CONSTITUENCY?

Date: September 8, 2022 - Last Refuge

SPECULATION SURROUNDS the personal intentions of Leo Varadkar at the next general election and in particular whether he will leave Dublin West for southside constituency Dublin Bay South (DBS). This is because the Fine Gael leader and Tánaiste now lives in the South Circular Road area with his partner, Matt Barrett, although some appear to… Read more »

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LYNN RUANE’S PARTY

Date: September 8, 2022 - Fit to Print?

THE SUNDAY TIMES’ Atticus column recently published a sniffy piece about “Sinn Féin politician” Senator Lynn Ruane, who failed in her complaint to the Press Ombudsman over comments made about her by the pro-life Senator Sharon Keogan at the Oireachtas committee on international surrogacy. The Meath Chronicle had reported local politician Keogan’s accusation that Ruane… Read more »

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Eve Morrison

REVISIONIST FEUD

Date: September 8, 2022 - Fit to Print?

THE FEUD between two media academics and politicos continues at TCD next week when historian Eve Morrison gives a lecture about the November 1920 Kilmichael ambush about which, she claims, Tom Barry invented a false surrender narrative. The late Peter Hart, author of The IRA and its Enemies, claimed this was a cover for “serial… Read more »

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Charlie McConalogue Irish Agricultural Emissions

POISONOUS DEBATE

Date: September 8, 2022 - Fowl Emissions

THE IRISH agricultural sector only recently signed up to challenging 25% cuts in overall emissions by 2030. Since the overwhelming bulk of these emissions come from ruminant livestock, you might assume the Government is supporting the industry in transitioning towards lower-carbon food systems. You would of course be wrong. Government campaigns are aimed at growing… Read more »

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DAMIEN O’REILLY’S EMISSIONS

Date: September 8, 2022 - Fowl Emissions

ALSO CONCERNED about the tenor of the agri debate is Damien O’Reilly, presenter of Countrywide on RTÉ and columnist with the Irish Farmers Journal, sponsor of his radio show. In Damo’s alternate world, frightened farmers are desperately trying “to correct the record on wild assumptions made by people on social media”. These dastardly (unnamed) environmentalists… Read more »

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PAMELA LAIRD’S MOXIE

Date: September 8, 2022 - High Society

PAMELA LAIRD, a former star of both the Irish version of Dragon’s Den and Alan Sugar’s version of The Apprentice, is rarely far from the headlines. For the last few years, La Laird has been the darling of the business hacks, who are happy to portray her as a hard-charging business titan in the making,… Read more »

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Patrick Guinness

PATRICK GUINNESS’S AQUACULTURE

Date: September 8, 2022 - High Society

INTERESTING TO see that an aquaculture company called A Harvest Industry Ltd (AHI) has gone into liquidation. AHI was incorporated in December 2016 and the most surprising player here turned out to be Patrick Guinness, who put in an 18-month stint on the board from 2017, joining Norway-based Jan Stykket and Bard Fredrik Fleischer. Among… Read more »

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Lydia McGuinness New RTÉ Drama

NORTH SEA CONNECTION – RTÉ ONE

Date: September 8, 2022 - ReviewsReviews|TV

FOR THOSE who think RTÉ’s drama output is a bit of a cod, it’s perhaps fitting that the national broadcaster’s new Sunday night series is a fishing thriller. Set in an isolated community cut off from modernity, North Sea Connection centres on fisherwoman Ciara Kenny… Read more »

SCENES Pride 2022 IDGTF

MARTIN’S TIMELY GRANT

Date: September 8, 2022 - Behind the Scenes

IT TURNS out that the arts department was particularly eager to support Brian Merriman’s International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival (IDGTF) after the Arts Council (AC) pulled the plug. The timing was particularly good. It will be recalled (see The Phoenix 3/6/22) that the Merrion Square mafia cut funding for the IDGTF, earning a strong rebuke… Read more »

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Michael Grassick Ryan McElligott IRTA

RYAN McELLIGOTT’S NEW JOB?

Date: September 8, 2022 - Sport of Kings

AFTER 10 years as head of the Irish Racehorse Trainers Association (IRTA), Michael Grassick is set to dismount. Although there has been no official announcement yet, Goldhawk understands that Ryan McElligott, best known as a journalist with the Irish Field and Gordon Elliott’s race planner, will be taking over the IRTA role from the retiring… Read more »

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Ross Coakley

COAKLEY COMES A CROPPER

Date: September 8, 2022 - Sport of Kings

YOUNG IRISH jockey Ross Coakley’s career has been on an upward curve since he relocated to England last year but the rider’s momentum has been severely halted by a particularly harsh ban picked up when riding in Germany recently. Ross Coakley, who has ridden 44 winners in Britain this year – more than twice the… Read more »

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John Joseph Murphy Tony Hunt

MURPHY’S LAW

Date: September 8, 2022 - Sport of Kings

IT HAS been reported that Cork trainer John Joseph Murphy was recently fined €4,000 by the referrals committee of Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (chaired by Tony Hunt) after one of his horses, Ten Ten Twenty, tested positive for the prohibited substance Meloxicam following his win in a flat race at Cork on August 7 last… Read more »

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Kia Joorabchian Crispy Cat Horse

RYAN OUT OF AMO

Date: September 8, 2022 - Sport of Kings

IT HAS been an eventful week for Kia Joorabchian’s Amo Racing. The increasingly familiar ownership group, run by the UK-based football investor, has suffered from a case of second album syndrome on the track this year, notably at Royal Ascot, when Amo’s Michael O’Callaghan-trained Crispy Cat suffered significant interference when in with a chance in… Read more »

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David Horgan

CLONTARF ENERGY’S TINY VALUATION COULD PROVE TEMPTING

Date: September 8, 2022 - Moneybags

LAST MONTH there was bad news for shareholders in Clontarf Energy. The Australian gas well, Sasanof-1, in which the company has a 10% stake was drilled 100 miles offshore the west coast, targeting a huge identified seven trillion cubic feet enclosure. However, it proved a dud and the well was plugged and abandoned. Unsurprisingly, this… Read more »

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Colin Hunt

COLIN HUNT V FRANCESCA MCDONAGH

Date: September 8, 2022 - Moneybags

AT AIB, Colin Hunt reversed his attempt to withdraw cash facilities from 70 branches nationwide after getting a right hammering from commentators and politicians. The fallout may have surprised him, given that over at Bank of Ireland Francesca McDonagh has been rather more aggressive in her tactics, but faced a significantly smaller backlash after, for… Read more »

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John Malone Powerscourt Hotel

POWERSCOURT POWER PLAY

Date: September 8, 2022 - Briefcases

THE BATTLE of the super-rich landowners of Wicklow over staff quarters on the grounds of American billionaire John Malone’s Powerscourt Hotel has now escalated to An Bord Pleanála, which will decide on a contentious issue between the Slazenger family and the Yank and his partners. Interestingly, the planning consultant is playing a starring role here. The… Read more »

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DUBLIN PARNELLS’ OWN GOAL

Date: September 8, 2022 - Briefcases

LOOKS LIKE the long-established Parnells GAA club in Coolock, D5, might have scored an own goal following a costly lawsuit. Certainly, someone took their eye off the ball to allow recruitment firm Barry M Whelan to slip in and register a near €20,000 judgment against… Read more »

Jim McGettigan Ukraine Hotel Contracts

RODERIC O’GORMAN’S WAR EFFORT

Date: September 8, 2022 - Briefcases

ELSEWHERE IN this issue (see p3) Goldhawk examines the awarding of contracts to accommodation providers, particularly hotel owners in relation to the arrival here of 50,000 refugees from Ukraine. There have been plenty of businesses stepping up to do their part – and being well rewarded for the effort too. A list of the contracts… Read more »

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DEE FORBES’S PLEADINGS

Date: September 8, 2022 - Behind the Scenes

THE INTRO to RTÉ’s autumn season launch is familiar to perusers of press releases from assorted Irish film festivals, Screen Ireland, IFTA and film industry organisations: “This upcoming season from RTÉ celebrates Irish culture, creativity and Irish talent, with Irish drama, unique Irish stories, and… Read more »

Factory Girls

FACTORY GIRLS – MICHELLE GALLEN

Date: September 8, 2022 - Books|ReviewsReviews

THE CASTLEDERG author’s debut novel Big Girl, Small Town (2020) features a 27-year-old chip-shop worker trapped in a Co Tyrone backwater during the 1970s. It offers an ominously comic perspective on a life overshadowed by sectarian conflict. Michelle Gallen’s second book, Factory Girls, also explores the legacy of the Troubles but is rather less sure-footed…. Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: September 8, 2022 - Bog Cuttings

‘Who’s Going To Ride Me?’ A 33-YEAR-OLD TV production graduate appeared before Dundalk District Court charged with public intoxication and being threatening and abusive towards gardaí, who had received reports of an intoxicated man acting suspiciously on Main Street, Blackrock, at around 5pm on September 26 last. When they arrived they found Chris Killingbeck, of… Read more »

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VOL 40 NO 17

Date: August 25, 2022 -

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Paul O’Neill Irish Times editor

‘IRISH TIMES’ HOT SEAT

Date: August 25, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

THE EXIT of Paul O’Neill, after little more than five years as the editor of the Irish Times, came as a surprise to outsiders, although the rumour machine has been in overdrive since last month. Now, the focus turns to his successor. The announcement from… Read more »

Norma Foley

PROFILE: NORMA FOLEY

Date: August 25, 2022 - Pillars of Society

THE ANNUAL back-to-school drama festival is kicking off with an all-star female cast in Dublin’s Marlborough Street, home of that venerable institution that has given us so much good theatre over the years – the Department of Education. The Irish Examiner’s political correspondent, Daniel McConnell, reported recently that some insiders call education minister Norma Foley… Read more »

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Muireann O’Connell Virgin

YOUNG BLOOD: MUIREANN O’CONNELL

Date: August 25, 2022 - The Young Bloods

HAVING BEEN dropped from her radio show on Today FM in 2019, the gobby Muireann O’Connell is powering ahead with her TV career with Virgin and side hustle as a social media influencer. While her brash style is not to every viewer’s taste, the 39-year-old is now firmly installed as the golden girl of Virgin… Read more »

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BARRY COWEN’S CAMPAIGN

Date: August 25, 2022 - Last Refuge

BARRY COWEN’S supporters in Fianna Fáil have been working overtime, pushing out a leadership election message via the sympathetic pages of the Irish Mail on Sunday. One of the paper’s weekly “exclusives” was headlined: “Cowen ‘a contender’ for Fianna Fáil leader” and was remarkably positive about the prospects of former taoiseach Brian Cowen’s brother. Apparently,… Read more »

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Dee Forbes RTÉ Current Affairs

MORE HEADACHES FOR DEE FORBES

Date: August 25, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

RTÉ’S HEAD of news and current affairs, Jon Williams, threw a clever feint with his new year’s message to staff back in January by telling them he was poised to become an Irish citizen (see The Phoenix 14/1/22). Clearly, this showed that the executive was… Read more »

James Cahill Law Society

LAW SOCIETY TRUCE

Date: August 25, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

BOTH SIDES have temporarily backed down in the Law Society controversy that saw a motion to expel 2020-21 president James Cahill from the society’s co-ordination committee, finance committee and all finance sub-committees (see The Phoenix 1/7/22). The two council members who moved the motion — Richard Hammond SC and Dr Shane McCarthy — argue that… Read more »

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Rosie Connolly

ROSIE CONNOLLY’S NEW FRIENDS

Date: August 25, 2022 - High Society

ALTHOUGH barely a year in existence, influencer Rosie Connolly’s new fashion brand has attracted some unlikely funders. Given that one of them is Tommy Kelly, the zillionaire behind the stupendously successful online sales outfit eShopworld, the future looks particularly bright for Rosie’s own online business…. Read more »

Fiona McHugh

FIONA MCHUGH’S CLOUDY OUTLOOK

Date: August 25, 2022 - Briefcases

HAVING ONLY recently found herself on the end of a tiny judgment from the Revenue for just €1,850 (presumably as a result of some oversight), former Sunday Times editor turned businesswoman Fiona McHugh has suffered another setback with her Rathmines bar and restaurant availing of new legislation aimed at helping struggling small to medium-sized companies… Read more »

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Tom McNamara Data Centre Emissions Ireland

BIG DATA, BIG EMISSIONS

Date: August 25, 2022 - Fowl Emissions

“DATA CENTRES have a lot of roof space so installing solar panels on the top of their facilities could help make them energy self-sufficient.” This tip from industry insider Chris Collins of Schneider Electric was the concluding line of an otherwise mostly useful two-page spread in last Sunday’s Business Post on the problem with data… Read more »

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Lorraine Keane House

LORRAINE KEANE’S BATHROOMS

Date: August 25, 2022 - High Society

GOLDHAWK WAS surprised to see two pages devoted to Lorraine Keane’s Monkstown pile in the Sunday Times last weekend. Three years after the impressive house she shares with musician-cum-radio presenter Peter Devlin and their children was the subject of oodles of publicity when it was put on the market with a €2.65m price tag, the… Read more »

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PAT MCDONAGH’S BUN FIGHT

Date: August 25, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

BURGER KING Pat ‘Supermac’s’ McDonagh found himself in a stand-off with a Limerick-based franchisee John Lyons over alleged rent arrears. It looks like the bolshy McDonagh has met his match. Earlier this month, gardaí attended a burger joint on the Ennis Road that operates under the name The Hungry Lyons. They were called when McDonagh… Read more »

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