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KAVANAGH’S CURRAGH COVER PRICE

Date: June 30, 2022 - Sport of Kings

BRIAN KAVANAGH’S decision to charge €50 for a ticket into the Curragh on Derby Day last weekend was predictably not well received in the build-up to the track’s flagship day. Indeed, the decision seems to have contributed to yet another underwhelming atmosphere at this prestigious race. When challenged on the entrance price hike at a… Read more »

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Paul Kimmage

JOHN HALLEY’S DOG

Date: June 30, 2022 - Sport of Kings

COOLMORE VET John Halley’s embarrassing doping case involving the family dog – understandably raised plenty of eyebrows. While cynics may find the excuse surprising, it is also true that the odds are very long that a successful professional would jeopardise his career and reputation for a miniscule reward. Although chief vet to Coolmore and Ballydoyle,… Read more »

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Carl McCann

STRUGGLING BALMORAL LAND DIRECTORS ARE STILL SMILING

Date: June 30, 2022 - Moneybags

COMPLETING THE full integration of Total Produce into Dole Fruit to form the new enlarged group, Dole plc, in July 2021 was surely the pinnacle of Carl McCann’s career. This is a huge operation and the biggest fruit company in the world – much bigger than Fyffes ever was – with sales last year of… Read more »

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Tony Smurfit

FRIENDLESS SMURFIT KAPPA SHARES SIGNIFICANTLY UNDERVALUED

Date: June 30, 2022 - Moneybags

TONY SMURFIT has failed to excite the market, despite Smurfit Kappa Group (SKG) being perfectly positioned to take advantage of the boom in cardboard packaging demand, driven by the pandemic-related explosion in online ordering. Maybe there is some lingering regret over the way a juicy looking approach from International Paper was rebuffed in 2018 but,… Read more »

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Catherine Clinch

AN CAILÍN BOOM

Date: June 30, 2022 - Briefcases

INTERESTING TO see that the development money pendulum at the state film funding agency Screen Ireland (SI) has swung in favour of female talent. Of the 13 Irish feature film projects given the thumbs up in the first quarter of this year, eight are written, or written and directed, by women. Meanwhile, there was a… Read more »

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DUBLIN AIRPORT’S MARQUEE PLAYERS

Date: June 30, 2022 - Briefcases

WITH CHAOS still the order of the day for air passengers passing through Dublin Airport, at least someone is making a few bob out of the turbulence. In the immediate aftermath of the chaotic scenes at the end of May, outgoing DAA boss Dalton Philips arranged for marquees to be installed a the airport to… Read more »

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Sean Doyle

SEÁN DOYLE’S ENTERTAINMENT PROBLEM

Date: June 30, 2022 - Briefcases

BAD NEWS for expansive Wexford businessman Seán Doyle, whose hospitality company has just been hit with a judgment from South Dublin County Council for €83,000. This is actually the third judgment registered by SDCC against Seán Doyle Entertainments, which is part of the sprawling Sean Doyle Group that includes interests in hospitality, property, scaffolding and… Read more »

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Nicola Mitchell

NICOLA MITCHELL’S BRAVERY

Date: June 30, 2022 - Briefcases

PESTICIDES QUEEN Nicola Mitchell, the 2020 EY entrepreneur of the year, who, apparently, is considering floating her Life Scientific company on the Dublin stock market, was considered “brave beyond belief” in the Sunday Times last weekend. Nick Webb is a keen reader of markets and certainly knows a bull from a bear. With share prices… Read more »

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Dónal de Róiste

WHY WAS DE RÓISTE FRAMED?

Date: June 30, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

53 YEARS is a long time to wait for justice if you were forced to ‘retire’ and had your life ruined for no apparent reason. Young Defence Forces officer Dónal de Róiste has now been vindicated at the age of 77 by a barrister whose report was commissioned by defence minister, Simon Coveney, but was… Read more »

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Dalton Philips

LOADSAMONEY AT DISASTROUS DAA

Date: June 16, 2022 - Moneybags

THE SCENES at Dublin airport last month have shone an international spotlight on Dublin Airport Authority (DAA). In front of the Dáil committee the following week, the focus was on the CEO, Dalton Philips, for whom calls have been made for his sacking, despite the fact that he already has one foot out the door…. Read more »

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Patrick Costello

PROFILE: PATRICK COSTELLO

Date: June 16, 2022 - Pillars of Society

IF GREEN Party leader Eamon Ryan thought Cllr Hazel Chu was a pain in the butt in recent times he ought to have known that her husband, TD Patrick Costello, was equally obstreperous. He certainly knows now, with Costello rebelling against government policy on the national maternity hospital and losing the whip along with another… Read more »

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Louise O'Neill

YOUNG BLOODS: LOUISE O’NEILL

Date: June 16, 2022 - The Young Bloods

HER PENCHANT for surfing the zeitgeist and heavy employment of themes around sexuality, consent and power ensure that Louise O’Neill is the recipient of a slew of fawning media coverage and book reviews. As her star ascends further, the weekly column used by the Cork woman to get her gripes (mostly about men, natch) off… Read more »

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Simon Coveney

COVENEY ABANDONS HIS CONSTITUENCY

Date: June 16, 2022 - Last Refuge

FEVERISH SPECULATION about the future political intentions of Simon ‘Covetous’ Coveney, already rife, have greatly intensified due to not only the usual gossip and rumour about his intentions but also the more recent and harder evidence of his domestic plans. Covetous recently purchased a well-appointed residence in the Victorian quarter of Rushbrooke in Cobh, at… Read more »

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Frances Ruane

FRANCES RUANE’S AUDITION

Date: June 16, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

INTERESTING TO see that former ESRI director Frances Ruane resigned last month as a director of the registered company behind the Abbey Theatre. Her term as chairwoman has come to an end but she looks likely to audition again (albeit for a shorter run this time around) despite a series of dud performances off stage… Read more »

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DENIS STAUNTON’S CHINESE TAKEAWAY

Date: June 16, 2022 - Fit to Print?

THE IRISH TIMES obviously believes it has turned a corner if the planned posting of London correspondent Denis Staunton to Beijing comes to pass. Those familiar with Staunton know that his deliberate impression of some rakish character from one of Graham Greene’s novels is far from the reality. Staunton may well be imagined in a… Read more »

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KEVIN DOYLE’S OWN GOAL

Date: June 16, 2022 - Sport of Kings

THERE WAS a twist in the tale of ex-footie star Kevin Doyle’s ballsy bloodstock investment when it transpired that Doyle’s half-brother to Altior was ‘bought back’ by the former international striker when knocked down to bloodstock agent Mags O’Toole for €300,000 at Goffs. Having paid €155,000 for the horse as a foal, with the intention… Read more »

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Alex Conyngham

ALEX CONYNGHAM’S LUXURY YURTS

Date: June 16, 2022 - High Society

THERE HAS been plenty of media exposure recently for Alex Conyngham, aka Lord Alexander Burton Conyngham, aka Earl of Mount Charles, thanks to his role as ‘global ambassador’ for Slane Castle and Distillery. He has taken charge at Slane Castle where his father, Henry Conyngham, aka Lord Henry Mount Charles, confirmed recently that there will… Read more »

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Gerard Howlin

BERTIE’S OLD SPIN DOCTOR

Date: June 16, 2022 - Fowl Emissions

OUR PUBLIC sphere is peppered with grumpy old men pontificating inexpertly on climate change, pushing pragmatism and pooh-poohing climate action. Goldhawk fans will be familiar with the opinions of Michael McDowell, Joe Duffy, Conor Skehan and others. Another candidate for this club is Bertie Ahern’s former spin doctor, Gerard Howlin. Although more reasonable than the… Read more »

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Maria Steen

MARIA STEEN’S MAMMON

Date: June 16, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

WITH A substantial pile on leafy Raglan Road on the market for an optimistic €5.2m (see p19), this could be a big year, property wise, for former estate agent Seán Davin. He also has another big project on the go in conjunction with his daughters, which may further boost the coffers of the God-fearing family…. Read more »

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CONOR CLARKSONS TAX BILL

Date: June 16, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

FORMER RACEHORSE owner Conor Clarkson has suffered something of a setback just as he returns to the track. The dreaded taxman has registered a judgment for €20,000 against one of the more controversial casualties of the crash. Clarkson, who gives an address at Enniskerry Road, Stepaside, D18 is probably best known to sports fans as… Read more »

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VOL 40 NO 12

Date: June 16, 2022 -

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Micheál Martin

MARTIN RULES OK!

Date: June 16, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

AT 69 YEARS Willie O’Dea appears to be the only so-called dissident in Fianna Fáil with the energy and ability to stand up to Micheál Martin and the supine leadership of a party that is in danger of slipping down the plughole of history. Three times last week O’Dea slapped it up to the taoiseach,… 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

CONAL HENRY V DAA

Date: June 16, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

THE OPENING address of the new chair of the Shannon Group, Conal Henry, made uncomfortable reading for the powers that be at Dublin airport. Henry nudged DAA back into the spotlight when describing Shannon as “a very, very well-run business”. He also pointed to the fact that 87% of traffic goes through Dublin airport, leaving… Read more »

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Joe Bonner

FINE GAEL LIBELS

Date: June 16, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

WHAT A litigious lot Meath East Blueshirts are. Last Monday Meath County Council meeting heard Fine Gael’s Cllr Alan Tobin apologise to Independent councillor Joe Bonner for wrongly accusing him of telling lies at a council meeting in September, 2020. Also, Tobin agreed to pay a sum of €5,000 to a local St Vincent de… Read more »

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Simon Coveney

EU TRADE THREAT TO ISRAEL

Date: June 16, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

THE ROW over the Northern Ireland protocol is regarded by European Union countries and the commission as a serious threat to the single market. But another dispute arising from the single market could seriously threaten trade between the EU and the Israeli occupied territories of Palestine. This appalling vista may be the reason why the… Read more »

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Dutch Doherty

TALE OF TWO HONEY TRAPS

Date: June 16, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

ANTHONY ‘DUTCH’ Doherty died earlier this year at Dublin’s Beaumont hospital age 71. He was part of an IRA unit – perhaps up to 10 in number – who planned the abduction and killing of three Royal Highland Fusiliers in Belfast in March 1971. The IRA used two attractive young women as a ‘honey trap’… Read more »

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ELEMENT PICTURES’ UK MOOLAH

Date: June 16, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

FOLLOWING THE sale to Fremantle by Conversations With Friends producers Element Pictures, Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe have just filed accounts for their London vehicle, Element Pictures UK, which shows a profit recorded in 2021 of more than £1m. There have also been a number of new directors arriving on set. The fresh faces are… Read more »

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Date: June 16, 2022 - Affairs of the NationLetters to the Editor

barristers’ low pay Dear Editor On June 3, 2022, a petition signed by 88 senior counsel and 182 junior counsel was hand-delivered to the Department of Justice alerting the minister to the unacceptable state of the criminal justice system in district courts throughout the state. A legal system designed to fail not only offends the… Read more »

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Annalena Baerbock

GREENS RESILE ON NEUTRALITY

Date: June 16, 2022 - Hush Hush

A MAJOR fault line has developed within the Irish Greens. Eamon Ryan and a majority of the parliamentary party seem at odds with the membership, councillors and possibly even its two MEPs, Ciarán Cuffe and Grace O’Sullivan, over militarisation in Ireland and the European Union. The experience of the Irish Greens is not unique. In… Read more »

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Mark Dooley

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: June 16, 2022 - The Hot Air Brigade

Free societies need people like Eoghan Harris – courageous contrarians who defy the culture of amnesia. Mark Dooley, European Conservative magazine A little piece of Notting Hill in the heart of Dublin’s Portobello. Irish Times property section ramps up the sales pitch for a two-bed house in D8, submitted by reader The crowd, mostly made… Read more »

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Boris Johnson

BORIS ‘SAVES’ PEACE PROCESS

Date: June 16, 2022 - Northwind

MICHELLE O’NEILL wrote in the Irish Times on June 1: “The Belfast Agreement must be applied in all its parts – an Assembly, Executive, North-South Ministerial Council and East-West structures and the British-Irish Intergovernmental Conference – and without further interruption. Boris Johnson’s government is regrettably pursuing an anti-Belfast Agreement agenda, which is disingenuously wrapped up… Read more »

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Caroline Conroy

CARDINAL RICHELIEU’S MISSUS

Date: June 16, 2022 - Last Refuge

A RELATIVELY unknown Green Party councillor, Caroline Conroy, is set to become lord mayor of Dublin as a result of the deal struck with the Greens’ 10 Dublin city councillors and other parties, Fianna Fáil (11), Labour (8) and the Social Democrats (5) in 2019…. Read more »

Mary Lou McDonald

“PERSONAL ANTIPATHIES”

Date: June 16, 2022 - Last Refuge

rise of Sinn Féin in the polls has unnerved many in Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael but some of the more hard-nosed handlers in these parties came up with an answer to the assumption that Mary Lou and comrades would automatically take power because they were the single biggest party. They pointed to the fact… Read more »

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Josepha Madigan

‘NEGLIGENT BEHAVIOUR’

Date: June 16, 2022 - Last Refuge

NO POLITICIAN in the current Dáil typifies how instant political success can sometimes be followed by rapid decline than Fine Gael’s Josepha Madigan who shot in and out of cabinet in recent years and now faces the loss of her Dublin Rathdown seat if current trends continue. Taking a seat at the first time of… Read more »

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Ronan McGreevy

BALLOT BOX AND THE TWEET

Date: June 16, 2022 - Fit to Print?

HOPEFULLY A spirit of harmonious academic dialogue will prevail at the Seán MacDiarmada Summer School this weekend where Irish Times journalist and author Ronan McGreevy – a modern critic of republicanism – and author and former Sinn Féin spokesperson Danny Morrison are due to speak. Recent Twitter polemics between the two reflect the rather different… Read more »

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Colm McCarthy

RIGHT-WING ECONOMISTS COP ON

Date: June 16, 2022 - Fit to Print?

THE DEBATE engineered by Europhiles and generals aimed at abolishing neutrality egged on by the Irish Times Greek chorus has proved unsuccessful so far, despite the opportunist exploitation of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. However, and despite the ‘respectable’ sections of academia and media backing the demand for Ireland to man up and prepare for war,… Read more »

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