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CLIMATE CAMP FIRES

Date: June 16, 2022 - Fowl Emissions

“IS IT time to start blowing up pipelines?” That was the incendiary title of a webinar last month, hosted not by a revolutionary guerrilla faction but by the quite respectable Friends of the Earth Ireland. The NGO was not advocating sabotage, it should be noted, but with climate tipping points looming and governments driving us… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: June 16, 2022 - Bog Cuttings

‘Catch me if you can’ A MAN who shouted “catch me if you can” at gardaí after crashing a scrambler bike in Bailieborough has been warned it’s the last chance he’ll get from the local district court. Tomasz Szczeplik (22), of Blackstep Cornaveagh was charged with a number of driving-related charges, including driving without insurance,… Read more »

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JERRY PADIAN’S PATENTS

Date: June 16, 2022 - High Society

GOLDHAWK RECENTLY reported on the appointment to the board of the Irish Heritage Trust (IHT) of Blueshirt politician-turned-lobbyist Avril Doyle. Another interesting name to pop up on the board of worthies is New York-based patent lawyer and angel investor Jerry Padian. His name will not ring too many bells here but he turns out to… Read more »

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Sean Davin

SEÁN DAVIN SELLS UP

Date: June 16, 2022 - High Society

A MOST impressive pile on Raglan Road in the heart of Dublin 4 has gone on the market with an eye-popping price tag of €5.25m. The owner should have a fair idea of the market for prime redbrick properties in the area, given his long career as an estate agent. The new owners will have… Read more »

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NORA - NUALA O’CONNOR

NORA – NUALA O’CONNOR

Date: June 16, 2022 - BooksBooks|ReviewsReviews

THE CHOSEN book for this year’s One Dublin One Book initiative is a richly fictionalised biography of Nora Barnacle’s life and times. Having already written accounts of poets Emily Dickinson and Elizabeth Bishop, Nuala O’Connor has now added the lifelong partner of another troubled genius to her roster. Whether the book is a good choice… Read more »

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Simon Delaney

ON THE ROADS WITH SIMON DELANEY – RTÉ ONE

Date: June 16, 2022 - ReviewsReviews|TVTV

AS PROGRAMME pitches go, a road safety series fronted by Simon Delaney is hardly the most electrifying. On The Roads… is also part of RTÉ’s ongoing attempt to rectify its poor record on climate change coverage, with the environmental impact of motoring crow-barred into the show. This series proves as punishing a watch as the… Read more »

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Avril Stanley

STANLEY’S DIVIDENDS

Date: June 16, 2022 - Behind the Scenes

THIS WEEKEND sees the return of the Body & Soul festival at Ballinlough Castle, Co Westmeath, which, according to the Irish Times, provides “the perfect opportunity to reignite your festival spirit in an intimate, natural space designed to feed the senses and rejuvenate mind and body”. It will also further rejuvenate the bank balance of… Read more »

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DÉSIRÉE FINNEGAN’S DELAYED RELEASE

Date: June 16, 2022 - Behind the Scenes

FANS OF Goldhawk will recall that Désirée Finnegan’s Screen Ireland had quietly commissioned a €75,000 ‘inaugural’ report into the cultural impact of the Section 481 tax bonanza for film and TV producers, which currently cost about €100m a year (see The Phoenix 25/2/22). Films that avail of the tax break must get clearance from arts… Read more »

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Joe Keeling

JOE KEELING’S CRITICS

Date: June 16, 2022 - Sport of Kings

NO MATTER the apparent PR value of any gesture especially one of real scale, there will always be a critic or two waiting in the turf. Joe Keeling’s recent announcement that himself and his ‘Friends of the Curragh’ would be boosting the value of a historic two-mile handicap – The Cesarewitch (now to be run… Read more »

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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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Joe Biden Russian Orwell Road

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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