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Greencoat Renewables

GREENCOAT RENEWABLES’ JAMMY CONTRACT

Date: July 14, 2022 - Briefcases

GOLDHAWK WAS interested to see that the Rónán Murphy-chaired board of the listed wind energy conglomerate Greencoat Renewables has been busy renewing the lucrative contract held by the company’s ‘investment manager’, Greencoat Capital. There has, however, been a ‘reduction’ in the chunky fees on offer to the principals here. The main driver behind the formation… Read more »

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Dublin Airport Car-Park

GERRY GANNON’S WINDFALL

Date: July 14, 2022 - Briefcases

IT LOOKS like yet another bumper payday is heading the way of developer and landowner extraordinaire Gerry Gannon, who has put the former Quickpark 6,100-space car park on 42 acres at Dublin Airport on the market, with a guide price of a high-flying €70m. The sale of the Dublin Airport car-park follows on from a… Read more »

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IFA President

CULLINANE’S COWS

Date: July 14, 2022 - Fowl Emissions

WHAT A topical if misleading article the Irish Times published this week from Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) president, Tim Cullinane, on the burning issue of methane. For decades, the focus of global efforts to tackle spiralling greenhouse gas emissions has been on carbon dioxide (CO2), a heat-trapping gas released mainly by the burning of fossil… Read more »

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Mary Aiken

MARY AIKEN’S PALS

Date: June 30, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

WITHOUT DOUBT, the most interesting of the women conferred with the freedom of Dublin City last month is Mary Aiken (whose latest gig is Professor of Cyberpsychology at Capitol Technical University in Maryland). Given the rarity with which the honour is handed out by Dublin City council, Aiken finds herself in rarefied company that includes… Read more »

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Simon Coveney

MALIGN MISSION

Date: June 30, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

THE IRISH Times reported last week that the government is reconsidering its military mission in Mali, due mainly to security issues; human rights violations by Malian forces; and the increasing influence of the Russian military body, the Wagner Group. Phoenix readers would not have been that surprised at these reports and neither would the smooth… Read more »

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Helen McEntee

PROFILE: HELEN MCENTEE

Date: June 30, 2022 - Pillars of Society

WAS THERE ever a politician that is so much a product and beneficiary of their own family as minister for justice, Helen McEntee; whose every significant political move has been linked to family members? The minister’s second pregnancy, announced recently, has raised questions about the absence of formal procedures for female politicians to take leave… Read more »

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Danny O'Reilly

YOUNG BLOOD: DANNY O’REILLY

Date: June 30, 2022 - The Young Bloods

As he gears himself up for co-hosting RTÉ One’s new Friday night music show, The Main Stage, hirsute rocker Danny O’Reilly must be thanking the gods of fortune for beaming down on him once again. Despite his complete lack of TV hosting experience, the lead singer with The Coronas has been given yet another prime… Read more »

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Sean Delmar

NOEL SMYTH’S WUFF RIDE

Date: June 30, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

THIS WEEK will see the next chapter in the ongoing saga of a potential sale by the Irish Kennel Club (IKC) of its valuable National Show Centre near Dublin Airport to solicitor-cum-developer Noel Smyth for €6m. It looks like trouble is brewing. Fans of Goldhawk will be aware (see The Phoenix 20/5/22) that Smyth’s arrival… Read more »

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Cian O’Connor

CIAN’S FOUR STARS

Date: June 30, 2022 - High Society

Showjumping royalty Cian O’Connor has pulled out all the stops with his upgraded ‘state of the art’ equestrian centre in Co Meath. It certainly got a five-star review from Nicola Anderson in the Indo, possibly prompted by O’Connor’s own description of his operation as “like a Four Seasons for horses”. What is clear is the… Read more »

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John Collison

JOHN COLLISON’S OFFSHORE ENTITY

Date: June 30, 2022 - Briefcases

A NEW company has been established following the acquisition from David Davies of Abbeyleix House last year by Stripe billionaire John Collison. He is not a director but is rather familiar with the couple who are in situ. Abbeyleix House was sold to Collison for a price recorded in the Property Price Register of €11.5m,… Read more »

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Paul Ward

PAUL WARD’S €15M JUDGMENT

Date: June 30, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

THE HIGH Court has just awarded a hefty €15m judgment against cinema magnate Paul Ward as a result of a legal action taken by his sisters over a share agreement gone south. The wealthy Ward family, which owns Dublin’s Savoy cinema among many others, has been engaged in this legal wrangle for almost three years,… Read more »

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Ruth and Pen

RUTH & PEN – EMILIE PINE

Date: June 30, 2022 - BooksBooks|ReviewsReviews

THIS DEBUT novel expands on many of the same well-worn themes aired in Emilie Pine’s Notes to Self (2018), a short collection of essays that read more like a frank personal memoir. Unfortunately, there is little new on offer here. The story centres on two women who are strangers to each other and takes place… Read more »

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Aideen O'Byrne

AIDEEN’S SUNNY ASPECT

Date: June 30, 2022 - High Society

LEESON PARK is one of the more exclusive roads around Dublin 6, featuring handsome and spacious three-storey Victorian piles, a couple of which are currently on the market for more than €3m. One of these is owned by ‘executive coach’ Aideen O’Byrne, a woman with quite a few strings to her bow. Aideen’s most interesting… Read more »

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VOL 40 NO 13

Date: June 30, 2022 -

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Colin Hunt

COLIN HUNT’S PRESIDENCY

Date: June 30, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

THERE WERE eyebrows raised last week when it emerged that AIB’s Colin Hunt is to receive the Ireland-US Council’s 2022 Global Business Leadership award at a black-tie bash, just days after the record €97m tracker mortgage fine imposed on AIB by the Central Bank. The timing has led to calls for the hapless Hunt to… Read more »

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IN PRAISE OF GERALDINE BYRNE NASON

Date: June 30, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

Quite a few diplomatic and political eyebrows were raised last week by the Business Post’s breathless account of how a civil servant, our woman at the UN, Geraldine Byrne Nason, won and is guiding Ireland’s temporary seat on the UN Security Council. Readers were treated to 5,500 words about Ambassador Byrne Nason’s work, promoted on… Read more »

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James Cahill Law Society

LAW SOCIETY SPLIT

Date: June 30, 2022 - Wigs on the Green

WHAT A fascinating Law Society council meeting its members can expect when it eventually meets to discuss a startling motion demanding that the 2020-21 president, James Cahill, be booted off the co-ordination committee, the finance committee, and any sub-committee of the finance committee of which he is a member. The two council members that have… Read more »

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Malcolm Byrne

MALCOLM BYRNE IN LABOUR COURT FEUD

Date: June 30, 2022 - Wigs on the Green

IT LOOKS like the board of Wexford primary school, Gaelscoil Moshíológ, which got trounced at the Labour Court recently for unfairly dismissing its founder and principal – amid some damning comments from the court – is intent on prolonging its decade-long pursuit of the principal, Aodhagán Ó Súird. However, Ó Súird’s legal eagle, solicitor Robert… Read more »

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Clare Daly

SIEGE MENTALITY!

Date: June 30, 2022 - Hush Hush

MANY IRISH politicians and commentators have been exercised by Boris Johnson’s cynical domestic ploy in transferring asylum seekers to Rwanda. Sinn Féin’s Michelle O’Neill tweeted, “The London elite will send asylum seekers to Rwanda. A policy that is inhumane, cruel and brutal. Shame on Boris Johnson.” MEP Clare Daly made reference to the policy too… Read more »

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Bono

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: June 30, 2022 - The Hot Air Brigade

Bono also chooses Ice Cream Sundae by Inhaler, a band fronted by his son Elijah, as one of the tracks he would take with him because it’s “a brilliant song” with a great opening line: “I’m in the pursuit of happiness, I’m gonna get it.” Bono’s choice for last weekend’s ‘Desert Island Discs’, the Sunday… Read more »

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Jeffrey Donaldson

DUP HOKEY COKEY

Date: June 30, 2022 - Northwind

The Brexit ultras in the Conservative party’s European Research Group (ERG), about seventy strong, now hold Boris Johnson hostage. The confidence vote the party held on 6 June revealed that only about eighty back benchers supported him; certainly many fewer now after the two huge by-election defeats. Since 6 June Johnson has been tossing chunks… Read more »

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Eamon Ryan

DON’T MENTION THE WAR!

Date: June 30, 2022 - Last Refuge

THE MYSTERY surrounding Green Party policy on defence, security and — once that most cherished Green principle of all — neutrality, had, until recently, led to an apparent vow of silence from its senior members and the party press office in the face of the most basic questions. Many Green members suspect that Éamon Ryan… Read more »

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Philip Brennan

FRIENDLY, PEACEFUL NATO

Date: June 30, 2022 - Last Refuge

MANY PEOPLE will have heard of the splendidly titled ‘Nato Partnership for Peace’, which Ireland joined more than 20 years ago amid earnest assurances that it would not undermine Irish neutrality. But very few Irish voters will know anything or have even heard of the European Union Military Committee (EUMC), which Ireland has also joined,… Read more »

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Clifford Lee

DARRAGH O’BRIEN V. CLIFFORD LEE

Date: June 30, 2022 - Last Refuge

THE FIRST signs of just how horrid supporters of current housing minister, Darragh O’Brien, were behaving towards Darragh’s ‘colleague’ and Fianna Fáil running mate, Lorraine Clifford Lee, came within months of the solicitor being added to the ticket in Dublin Fingal in 2015. Then, Lorraine claimed that she was called a “blow-in” by O’Brien’s supporters… Read more »

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Kevin Higgins

FIRST CASUALTY

Date: June 30, 2022 - Fit to Print?

THE CORDIAL and professional relationship enjoyed by poet Kevin Higgins and Irish Times books editor Martin Doyle is probably down to their shared, aesthetic admiration for the outsider in this regimented world of bean counters and establishment groupthink. Thus, Doyle has published various poems and literary critiques by Higgins in the IT in recent times…. Read more »

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BILLY BINGHAM’S GESTURES

Date: June 30, 2022 - Fit to Print?

RECENT OBITUARIES to Northern Ireland soccer manager and player, Billy Bingham, in the Irish Times and Sunday Independent were positive, cheery even, as befits media obits. But softening references to controversial or provocative behaviour by deceased personalities is one thing. Deleting them from the record entirely is another. Most soccer fans of a certain age… Read more »

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MI5’S CHINATOWN

Date: June 30, 2022 - Fit to Print?

IT HAPPENED 10 years ago but MI5, which takes an uncommonly keen interest in Irish affairs judging by the spooky stories in the Sunday Times Aawrish edition, has exposed another nefarious plot by Chinese spies in Ireland. MI5 recently warned that solicitor, Christine Lee, a British solicitor of Chinese heritage, was engaged in “political interference” on behalf… Read more »

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John Paul Phelan

POLITICS OF FOOD

Date: June 30, 2022 - Fowl Emissions

Political tensions are nearing boiling point as FF and FG close ranks in supporting special pleading from the agri-industrial lobby in its demand for a free pass on climate action in the upcoming sectoral emissions budgets. While Friends of the Earth warned that “agri-business lobbyists must not be allowed to hold Ireland’s climate targets to… Read more »

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THE IRISH NATURE

Date: June 30, 2022 - Fowl Emissions

A new European study on ‘nature connectedness’ found that those with high levels of affinity to nature enjoy better mental health and tend to act in more environmentally friendly ways. Of the 14 countries surveyed, Ireland was ranked second lowest in connection to nature, and outright worst in awareness of biodiversity. Environmentalists and ecologists have… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: June 30, 2022 - Bog Cuttings

Buy & Sell Gardaí Gerard Gormley (35) of Carrowgavneen, Coolaney, Sligo appeared before Sligo District Court charged with using threatening and abusive behaviour toward gardaí. Judge Deirdre Gearty heard that, on August 15 last year, gardaí were notified by a concerned onlooker that the defendant was spotted in an intoxicated state before climbing into an… Read more »

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JOHN GIVEN’S GAFF

Date: June 30, 2022 - High Society

FORMER GOODBODY and Philip Lee heavy hitter John Given has added another string to his bow, with KPMG hiring him to head its legal services business. The loaded legal eagle previously made a killing as chairman of the controversial Malin Corp life sciences investment vehicle, whose founders have since launched a high profile legal action… Read more »

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Shane Daniel Byrne & Pamela Uba

LOVE BITES – RTÉ PLAYER

Date: June 30, 2022 - ReviewsReviews|TVTV

A TEXTBOOK example of how RTÉ these days commissions shows, the origins of Love Bites go back to lockdown, when struggling comedian Shane Daniel Byrne began posting sketches on his Instagram page. The 32-year-old Byrne’s most popular character proved to be Shannon, an anti-lockdown beauty salon owner. The sketches managed to amass a half-decent social media… Read more »

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Catherine Martin

WAITING AT IMMA

Date: June 30, 2022 - Behind the Scenes

BRIAN MACCRAITH was highly critical of the delay by the minister for media etc, etc, Catherine Martin, in publishing the Future of Media Commission report. In another of her various briefs – arts and culture – the Green Party deputy leader has a well-earned reputation for putting decisions on the long finger. One example is… Read more »

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BRIAN MERRIMAN’S GOOD NEWS

Date: June 30, 2022 - Behind the Scenes

CONTRATULATIONS ARE in order for Brian Merriman and his crew at the International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival (IDGTF), who clearly have been receiving rather better reviews in the arts and culture department than at 70 Merrion Square. It will be recalled (see The Phoenix 3/6/22) that the “cash-rich Arts Council” managed to upset the IDGTF… Read more »

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Michael O'Callaghan

O’CALLAGHAN’S MIXED WEEK

Date: June 30, 2022 - Sport of Kings

CURRAGH TRAINER Michael O’Callaghan certainly endured the highs and lows of Royal Ascot week and despite the majority of his horses running below expectations, it still ended up a lucrative week for him. O’Callaghan kicked things off in style when offering two of his Royal Ascot runners for sale at the Goffs auction held in… Read more »

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Joseph O'Brien's Horses

FAMILY FORTUNES

Date: June 30, 2022 - Sport of Kings

COULD THIS be the year when Aidan O’Brien loses his grip on the Irish trainers’ championship? For the past 15 years, O’Brien has monopolised the leading trainer award and on a few occasions has even managed to be crowned champion in Ireland and the UK in the same season. For the first time in the… Read more »

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