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VLADISLAV AIMS HIGH

Date: December 12, 2024 - Sport of Kings

AGROLEXICA INTERNATIONAL Trading BV – the Dutch agricultural commodity trading entity with interests in Ukraine and owned by Ukrainian Vladislav Pasztirya (see The Phoenix 17/10/24) – was in the racing news here once again when snubbing huge sums for a nag. Having raised eyebrows with its high-profile purchase of a €850,000 Blue Point yearling filly… Read more »

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Enda McEvoy

ENDA McEVOY’S INDIGESTION

Date: December 12, 2024 - High Society

MICHELIN-STAR chef Enda McEvoy has moved to wind up the company that was behind his award-winning Loam restaurant in Galway, which closed a couple of years back, as well as another foodie venture that has now also called it a day. McEvoy was one of the poster boys of the upmarket Irish dining scene, with… Read more »

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Edmond Scanlon

KERRY GROUP DEAL A BONANZA FOR CO-OP SHAREHOLDERS

Date: December 12, 2024 - Moneybags

AFTER A decade of bickering, Kerry Co-Op Creameries has eventually agreed to a €500m deal to buy the listed Kerry Group’s Irish dairy business. Fans of Moneybags will be aware he has been advocating this move for over a decade but the problem was the difficulty in satisfying both the 9,000-plus dry shareholders in Kerry… Read more »

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Eddie Byrne

NEW LOOK AT I-RES REIT, SAME OLD PROBLEMS

Date: December 12, 2024 - Moneybags

HAVING SURVIVED the attempted ousting of the board by Jeff Olin’s Vision Capital Corp (VCC) early this year, I-Res Reit nevertheless has a rather different look today. But for shareholders, new CEO Eddie Byrne has yet to deliver any improvement to the bottom line. Quite the reverse in fact. With the situation looking gloomy ahead… Read more »

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Aubrey McCarthy

AUBREY’S ELECTION CAMPAIGN

Date: December 12, 2024 - Briefcases

WITH NOMINATIONS closed for the upcoming university Seanad elections, the battle for the three seats in Trinity College will be more interesting than usual, given the absence from the ballot of long-term shoe-in David Norris, who retired last year. One player eyeing up one of the three seats on offer is millionaire, philanthropist, “visionary leader”… Read more »

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David Rock

DAVID ROCK’S HEALTH EMERGENCY

Date: December 12, 2024 - Briefcases

TWO OF David ‘RocDoc’ Rock’s companies are to be wound up next week on foot of liabilities built up. This follows last year’s liquidation of RocDoc Health Check Ltd (RHC), which turns out to have owed unsecured creditors just on €1m. Ashbourne-based GP David Rock became something of a pandemic poster boy courtesy of his… Read more »

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Noel Frisby

NOEL FRISBY’S FEISTY FOES

Date: December 12, 2024 - Briefcases

WATERFORD DEVELOPER Noel Frisby’s plans to build a three-block development of around 79 apartments at a site on the ring road around Waterford city has hit a bit of a snag, with an appeal lobbed in to An Bord Pleanála by some grumpy local residents. Frisby is one of Waterford’s most prolific developers, having set… Read more »

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Loretta Dignam

LORETTA DIGNAM’S MENOPAUSE MONEY

Date: December 12, 2024 - Briefcases

LORETTA DIGNAM will have plenty to celebrate this Christmas, having just secured €¼m in funding for her Menopause Hub operation. There are some interesting names among the backers. The menopause business is an increasingly hot one these days and corporate sponsors have been queuing up to display their credentials, with various parties now vying for… Read more »

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Marian Keyes

MARIAN KEYES’S AMERICAN DREAM

Date: December 12, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

THE MYRIAD of fans of scribbler Marian Keyes had a collective meltdown online last week when RTÉ announced The Walsh Sisters, a six-part drama based on her series of novels about “a chaotic, dysfunctional but deeply lovable family of five sisters, a devout mother and a bemused father”. Although the author is Irish, the director… Read more »

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Simon Harris

FINE GAEL: WHAT NEXT?

Date: November 28, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

THE TRENDS are impossible to dismiss – Fianna Fáil is in the ascendant over Fine Gael and even a battered Sinn Féin looks to have had a better general election campaign than Fine Gael. But while An Taoiseach and party leader Simon Harris is, naturally, shipping most of the blame from party members for the… Read more »

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Micheál Martin

PROFILE: MICHEÁL MARTIN

Date: November 28, 2024 - Pillars of Society

YOU HAVE to hand it to Micheál Martin – or to chance – he has presided over the continued, resilient existence of Fianna Fáil and even its place in government since it was nearly wiped out in 2011. This is despite the hollowing out of the party’s long-time political character and membership as well as… Read more »

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Barry Heneghan

YOUNG BLOODS: BARRY HENEGHAN

Date: November 28, 2024 - The Young Bloods

WITH OPINION polls showing that 20% of voters will back Independent candidates, keen observers are asking whether the new boy on the block, councillor Barry Heneghan, can also break the mould and take a seat in the five-seat Dublin Bay North (DBN) constituency. A protégé of former Independent TD and super junior minister Finian McGrath,… Read more »

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Gerry Hutch

HUTCH TO TAKE OUT STEENSON?

Date: November 28, 2024 - Last Refuge

THE SPECTRE of master criminal Hutch or right-wing, anti-immigrant councillor Malachy Steenson – or both – entering Leinster House after the general election has unnerved many in and outside the Dublin Central constituency. It has even excited those self-styled ‘adults in the room’ in the media and establishment parties, who were quietly anticipating with relish… Read more »

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Conor McGregor

CONOR MCGREGOR’S NEW-RIGHT SUPPORT

Date: November 28, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

Over the last year much was made of Conor McGregor’s posts on X about his plan to run for the presidency. With Elon Musk backing him online, it was no surprise to see many who should have known better expressing support for the Dublin MMA fighter’s political ambitions. But given the recent civil court guilty… Read more »

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Samantha Libreri

HARRIS, KANTURK AND RTÉ STORY

Date: November 28, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

SIMON HARRIS is correct to say that contact was made with RTÉ following the Kanturk incident but it is not true that this was done merely to offer RTÉ a statement on the matter, which is an “appropriate and normal thing to do during an… Read more »

Bono

BONO’S EXTENSION

Date: November 28, 2024 - High Society

A NEW planning application has just been greenlighted by Kildare County Council to ensure that the whiskey distillery planned by Bono and Paddy McKillen Sr on an old mill site a couple of kilometres from Monasterevin will be completed within the rules. Last year, the boys chucked in an additional €5.5m to facilitate the development…. Read more »

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Cillian Murphy

CILLIAN MURPHY’S MOOLAH

Date: November 28, 2024 - Behind the Scenes

SUPERSTAR Cillian Murphy continues to take on new roles and his latest is as the saviour of the Phoenix cinema in Dingle, which has been closed since 2021. The actor has set up a company called Dingle Phoenix Projects Ltd, where he is joined as a director and equal shareholder by his wife, artist Yvonne… Read more »

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Judge Michael Twomey

TARGETING JOHN MAGNIER

Date: November 28, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

GOLDHAWK WONDERS if John Magnier spat out his tea when perusing the Indo earlier this week. The Squire of Coolmore might have wondered just who Micheál Martin was referring to in the paper’s farming supplement story headlined, “Tánaiste pledges Budget action against ultra-wealthy land buyers”. Having recently been on the end of a kicking from… 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

EDITING SALLY HAYDEN

Date: November 28, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

HIGHLY REGARDED journalist Sally Hayden was notably underwhelmed by the hapless editing process in the Irish Times, where many of her impressive news stories, concerning events in the Middle East in particular, appear. Hayden has made quite a name for herself in recent years and her book, My Fourth Time, We Drowned – which focuses… Read more »

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Carl McCann

BALMORAL SHAREHOLDERS SUFFER AS EXECS RAKE IT IN

Date: November 28, 2024 - Moneybags

THE PRIMARY fiduciary duty of directors is to serve the interests of all the company’s shareholders. In the case of Balmoral International Land Holdings (BILH), it is difficult to see how this is being implemented. For the hapless small shareholders, the actions of the board that have just played out represent a second whipping in… Read more »

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EDITING MOLI

Date: November 28, 2024 - Behind the Scenes

NINE MONTHS after it emerged that the Museum of Literature Ireland (MoLI) on St Stephen’s Green was in financial disarray, the required cuts have been implemented. It turns out that the operation was haemorrhaging money at a remarkable rate. It will be recalled (see The Phoenix 22/2/24) that MoLI is a “partnership” between UCD and… Read more »

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VOL 42 NO 23

Date: November 28, 2024 -

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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

CHUPI SWEETMAN’S BOUNCE

Date: November 28, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

GOLDHAWK was surprised to see that media-friendly jeweller Chupi Sweetman has been having a tough time, with the spoilsports in the dreary Irish Times taking the shine off her recent move to a “flagship” store in Dublin’s Powerscourt Townhouse Centre. Happily, all seems well now, despite the gallons of red ink on her books, and… 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

BERTIE’S LUCKY BREAK

Date: November 28, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

ONE WOULD expect Bertie Ahern to be pleased at the rosy prospects for Fianna Fáil as the general election reaches a climax, but there is a story behind the story of Bertie’s delight at this turn of events. FF leader Micheál Martin had set his sights on either winning another term as taoiseach or running… Read more »

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MULLOOLY

MEP MULLOOLY’S MOOING

Date: November 28, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

WHILE GOVERNMENT politicians and many others may regard as “sinister” Sinn Féin’s intention to order a “peer review” of RTÉ’s international coverage, support for the move came from the other end of the political spectrum in the form of Independent Ireland (II) MEP Ciaran Mullooly. The former RTÉ hack said he wanted not just a… Read more »

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Keith Walsh

KEITH WALSH’S MONOPOLY

Date: November 28, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

IT IS interesting to see that one-time RTÉ star Keith Walsh is one half of Moth News, a brand new video and social media platform that aims to give the Irish people the real story. It has already landed itself on the end of High Court defamation proceedings from US investor Jeffrey Leo but clearly… 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

SEAN O’KEEFFE’S BOOKEND

Date: November 28, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

THE LIMITED company that registered the business name for Sean O’Keeffe’s controversial Liberties Press publishing house is to be wound up next week. In the past, this company was behind books published by the likes of Michael D Higgins and Eamon Gilmore. O’Keeffe would be familiar to fans of Goldhawk as a result of the… 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

DUB-MON BOMBS: STRANGE DELAYS

Date: November 28, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

There are three ongoing enquiries into the 1974 Dublin-Monaghan (D-M) massacre. First, there’s an allegedly ‘open’ Garda investigation, which began in 1974 but never made a single arrest. Second is Operation Denton, led by Sir Iain Livingstone, and third is Operation Newham, an inquiry by the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland (PONI). Operations Denton and… Read more »

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Keith Woods

BLOOD AND HONOUR

Date: November 28, 2024 - Hush Hush

With the National Party (NP) running nine candidates in the general election, most party activists have been busy campaigning in constituencies across Ireland. However, prominent NP member Keith Woods (pseudonym of Roscommon native Keith O’Brien) has not featured in the many pictures of NP activists electioneering, some in forced, relatively moderate tones. Instead he spent… Read more »

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Terry Prone

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: November 28, 2024 - The Hot Air Brigade

The floating voter is a fascinating human being, not least because they never sink. You can hit them with corruption, scandal, inflation, housing, and health crises and they keep floating, buoyed up by a marvellously, indeed, possibly unique Irish combination of hope and cynicism. Terry Prone, Irish Examiner A year on, I know I took… Read more »

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Martin Kenny

HOW PARTIES RATE ON CLIMATE

Date: November 28, 2024 - Fowl Emissions

It’s a political truism that the electorate is far more concerned about the end of the month than the end of the world, and so it has proved yet again in Election 2024. Despite relentless climate-fuelled weather disasters around the world – deadly heatwaves, record-smashing flooding events and brutal droughts – climate change barely registered… Read more »

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Paul Givan

MIDDLE GROUND VANISHES AGAIN

Date: November 28, 2024 - Northwind

The standard response from Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil leaders when asked about the prospects of reunification or preparing for a border poll is to say they’re “focussed” (politicians’ latest ‘in’ word) on making the institutions of the Good Friday Agreement (GFA) work. Last Sunday Simon Harris told Sky’s Trevor Phillips it was “entirely possible”… Read more »

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Michael Collins

NEW GOVERNMENT TO MOVE SHARP RIGHT?

Date: November 28, 2024 - Last Refuge

AFTER THE votes are counted this weekend, the action will move to government formation and there is a real possibility that a much spikier third force than the Green Party is about to form a coalition government with Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael. Despite a persistent campaign by Government parties and media to encourage a… Read more »

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Kate O'Connell

KATE O’CONNELL’S SOLO RUN

Date: November 28, 2024 - Last Refuge

THE POLAR opposite of the Dublin Central constituency – Gerry Hutch, Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald, new-right councillor Malachy Steenson etc – is surely balmy Dublin Bay South (DBS) – blue-blood legal eagle, Fine Gael’s James Geoghegan; Fianna Fáil leadership challenger Jim O’Callaghan; and Lazarus Labour leader Ivana Bacik. But even DBS has its… Read more »

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Micheál Martin

RED FLAGS FOR FF

Date: November 28, 2024 - Last Refuge

THE RISE of Fianna Fáil in the polls would seem to be inexorable and FF leader Micheál Martin and party activists are convinced they will be clearly ahead of Fine Gael in the tally of TDs this weekend. The final arithmetic will determine whether the gap will be enough for Martin to deny Simon Harris… Read more »

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Archbishop of Canterbury

CANTERBURY TALES

Date: November 28, 2024 - Fit to Print?

THE IRISH TIMES published a perfunctory article on the recent resignation of the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby. This followed a report blaming the archbishop for failing to ensure a proper investigation into decades-old allegations against a man described in the report as arguably the church’s most prolific child abuser. Despite this cursory report, the… Read more »

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