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GERRY O’BRIEN’S GRIPES

Date: March 10, 2022 - Behind the Scenes

THE ACTORS keep threatening to act up as evidenced by a cross border union initiative this week. Whether a predictable ending is in store is the question the luvvies are asking. There was something of a revolution among the ranks of the lesser known luvvies in the actors’ union Irish Equity at its AGM a… Read more »

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Simon Kerins

TOPSY TURVY AT TATTS

Date: March 10, 2022 - Sport of Kings

SINCE THE turn of the year, there have been a lot of comings and goings at the Tattersalls Ireland headquarters in Fairyhouse. Within a short space of time, former finance director Roger Casey left to become chief financial officer at Horse Racing Ireland, taking the position made vacant by the promotion of Suzanne Eade to… Read more »

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Ed Dunlop David Dunsdon Sarah Lynam Rebecca May Wayne Hassett Eoin O'Brien Michael Burke Aine O’Connor Ashroe Diamond Thomand O’Mara Peter Keatley Timmy Hyde Coolmore All About Sunday Colin Keane Ronan Whelan JP McManus Jessica Harrington Dundalk Racecourse Paul Hensey Irish National Hunt Horse-racing Doping Paddy Walsh Tom Kelly Suspension

THE CHELTENHAM SHOWDOWN

Date: March 10, 2022 - Sport of Kings

AFTER LAST year’s total domination by Irish trainers at Cheltenham, when they claimed 23 of the 28 races, the question this year is which Irish trainer will end up in the No 1 spot at the four-day festival? Not surprisingly, the answer is surely either Willie Mullins or Gordon Elliott, as the pair will field… Read more »

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JP McManus

McMANUS DERBY DREAM

Date: March 10, 2022 - Sport of Kings

WHEN A horse called Martinstown is registered with Horse Racing Ireland it should come as no surprise that there is a JP McManus connection. It turns out that the name was applied recently to a three-year-old colt by the late Galileo belonging to Sue-Ann Foley – daughter of JP and Noreen. The colt was also… Read more »

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Kia Joorabchian

JOSEPH O’BRIEN’S NEW GOAL

Date: March 10, 2022 - Sport of Kings

JOSEPH O’BRIEN can already list an international football star as one of his owners and recently he welcomed controversial UK-based football moneybags Kia Joorabchian into the fold at Carriganog Racing. Iranian-born Joorabchian has accumulated a fortune managing the economic rights of international soccer players, a practice that has attracted plenty of attention over the years…. Read more »

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Kevin Nowlan

HIBERNIA REIT’S DEAL GIVES NOWLAN BREATHING SPACE

Date: March 10, 2022 - Moneybags

JUST BEFORE Christmas, Hibernia REIT chief executive Kevin Nowlan announced a truly impressive deal, with the pre-let sign-up of KPMG for a 20-year deal on 288,500 sq ft of office space in Hibernia’s redevelopment on Harcourt Square, D2. There is a possible profit in store of about €230m, which is very good news for investors…. Read more »

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Henry Beeby

GOING IS GOOD AGAIN BUT GOFFS STILL HANDICAPPED

Date: March 10, 2022 - Moneybags

THE IRISH horseracing bloodstock sector is a huge earner and one of the players joining the gallop is Goffs auction house. The company, however, continues to struggle to deal with the level of competition from UK rivals Tattersalls despite having a number of inherent advantages. The decision by Goffs CEO Henry Beeby and chairman Eimear… Read more »

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Wissam Al Mana

WISSAM’S IRISH PROFITS

Date: March 10, 2022 - The Hot Water Brigade

WITH BROADCASTER Miriam O’Callaghan extracting a grovelling apology out of Facebook Ireland over “malicious” ads posted on the social media platform, Goldhawk wonders if Qatari moneybags and art collector Wissam Al Mana will be next to score a hit against Mark Zuckerberg et al. The head of the Al Mana luxury brands conglomerate has also… Read more »

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Colm Wu

COLM WU’S BUSY SCHEDULE

Date: March 10, 2022 - The Hot Water Brigade

BUSY PROPERTY owner Guoquing Wu (known here as Colm Wu) has started off this year as he ended the last, with a lot on his plate. Wu recently put two prime city centre properties on the market – 67 Lower Leeson Street and 37 Dame Street, both in D2 – with a combined asking price… Read more »

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Skeffington Arms Hotel

JOHN CALLANAN SAVES THE SKEFF

Date: March 10, 2022 - The Hot Water Brigade

GOLDHAWK WAS relieved to hear of some good news, finally, for John Callanan of Callanan Hotels – owner of the Skeffington Arms Hotel, Co Galway, the venue known locally as the Skeff. Callanan had been trying to get planning permission to knock the nightclub portion of the hotel and build 44 extra hotel rooms in… Read more »

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Myles Kirby

WILLIAM GOUGH’S WOES

Date: March 10, 2022 - The Hot Water Brigade

INTERESTING TO see one that William Gough, with an address in Glynstown, Glanmire, Co Cork, has been adjudged a bankrupt. His name may ring a bell with fans of Goldhawk, given his bruising encounter with liquidator Myles Kirby that almost resulted in a stint in the slammer for the hapless developer. Gough featured in these… Read more »

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VOL 40 NO 05

Date: March 10, 2022 -

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Simon Coveney

IRELAND JOINS BIG BOYS IN WAR GAMES

Date: February 24, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

IT IS both apt and ironic that the Defence Forces should emulate warmonger Winston Churchill’s dictum, ‘Never let a good crisis go to waste’. The top brass and sympathetic ministers, led by Simon ‘Covetous Coveney’, utilised the Ukrainian crisis to great effect in recent weeks in support of their desire for serious weapons of war… Read more »

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Desiree Finnegan

PROFILE: DÉSIRÉE FINNEGAN

Date: February 24, 2022 - Pillars of Society

LAST WEEK Désirée Finnegan – the chief executive of the state’s film and television funding agency, Screen Ireland – delivered yet another close-up, with the issuing of one of the agency’s regular self-promoting press releases, this time extolling the ever-growing level of activity in the sector. A predictably broad claim of a €½bn spend in… Read more »

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Sophie White

YOUNG BLOOD: SOPHIE WHITE

Date: February 24, 2022 - The Young Bloods

FROM POLE dancing on live TV to drinking pigs’ blood when pregnant, there is little that is off limits for writer Sophie White. Described in the Sunday Times as a “mistress of the macabre”, and as “Nora Ephron meets Bram Stoker” by publisher Tramp Press, the perennially attention-seeking Sindo columnist has made a career out of discussing her myriad issues…. Read more »

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Micheál Martin

IS MARTIN’S REVIVAL FOR REAL?

Date: February 24, 2022 - Last Refuge

‘IRISH TIMES’ readers could almost smell the strong odour of relief wafting from political editor Pat Leahy’s analysis of Micheál Martin’s apparent comeback in the polls, the media and the body politic. Leahy has an excellent knowledge and understanding of the Fianna Fáil leadership and if he says they are feeling good about things then… Read more »

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Brendan O'Connor

BRENDAN O’CONNOR’S PANDEMIC

Date: February 24, 2022 - Fit to Print?

GOOD NEWS from the Joint National Listenership Research (JNLR) figures about news and current affairs radio programmes was meted out to readers of the Irish Independent this month but, as the newspaper also noted, the pandemic has been largely responsible for the (almost) widespread rise in radio listenership. The Indo’s John Meagher was deft in his handling… Read more »

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Jimmy Carr

JIMMY CARR’S TIMING

Date: February 24, 2022 - Behind the Scenes

THE ARTS Council may be wondering if it is a case of when rather than if it will be dragged into the increasingly febrile so-called cancel culture debate, with that Jimmy Carr joke on Netflix generating significant heat. At the same time, writer Rosemary Jenkinson has highlighted her dropping by publishers Doire Press over an… Read more »

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Catriona Carey

CATRIONA CAREY’S EARLY PROMISE

Date: February 24, 2022 - The Hot Water Brigade

THE NAME of Catriona Carey has certainly grabbed the public’s attention over the last couple of weeks, following the broadcasting of the RTÉ Investigates programme that dug into her alleged financial scam that targeted people whose homes were about to be repossessed. Fans of Goldhawk may, however, recall earlier business exploits. The name of the… Read more »

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Damien Grey

DAMIEN GREY’S RECIPE FOR SUCCESS

Date: February 24, 2022 - High Society

THERE WAS the usual banquet of media hype last week, following the release of the names of those restaurants that picked up new (or additional) Michelin stars. One of the big winners was Damien Grey’s Liath in Blackrock, south Co Dublin. It turns out he is becoming quite the businessman. Grey has been a darling… Read more »

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Joe Donnelly

JOE DONNELLY’S BETS

Date: February 24, 2022 - High Society

IT’S THAT time of the year again, when the name of low-profile former bookie Joe Donnelly, now two decades in self-imposed exile, starts to feature in the sports media in the run-in to Cheltenham. The black and yellow silks of Al Boum Photo look certain to feature in the Gold Cup on Paddy’s weekend as… Read more »

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Free Statism & the Good Old IRA

FREE STATISM & THE GOOD OLD IRA – DANNY MORRISON

Date: February 24, 2022 - BooksBooks|ReviewsReviews

THIS IS a book of two parts but just one laser-like focus: ‘free statism’ and its hypocrisy, double-standard and betrayal of Irish citizens in the north. Those ’free staters’ who actually read it will find some accusatory passages and what is clearly a genuine sense of grievance. Author Danny Morrison, today a writer and arts… Read more »

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Here Before

HERE BEFORE – DIRECTED BY STACEY GREGG

Date: February 24, 2022 - MoviesReviews

KENNY BRANAGH’S mawkish Belfast might put some people off Stacey Gregg’s Here Before – a film actually made in, if not about, Belfast, unlike the Branagh opus, which was notionally about the city but filmed in England. Gregg’s film, her first, is set at the end of a housing estate over which Cave Hill leans… Read more »

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Ted Walsh

TED WALSH’S BIG MOUTH

Date: February 24, 2022 - Sport of Kings

FORMER MULTIPLE champion jumps trainer Noel Meade and his stable jockey Sean Flanagan found themselves in hot water at Thurles recently when their fourth place finisher Bugs Moran was adjudged by the stewards not to have run on his merits. The outcome was a €2,000 fine for Meade and a 10-day ban for Flanagan, the… Read more »

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Sam Waley Cohen

PAUL BYRNE CASHES IN

Date: February 24, 2022 - Sport of Kings

EMMETT MULLINS and owner Paul Byrne have pulled off another coup courtesy of the sale of Byrne’s Noble Yeats to wealthy English father and son duo Robert and Sam Waley-Cohen. The horse was purchased for the Waley-Cohen scion to ride in the Aintree Grand National in April – a race in which the highly rated… Read more »

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Seamie Heffernan

HEFFERNAN’S WHIP HAND

Date: February 24, 2022 - Sport of Kings

SENIOR FLAT jockey Seamie Heffernan has not got his riding year off to a good start, after being hit with an 11-day ban for misuse of the whip when winning on the John McConnell-trained No Trouble at Dundalk recently. The Ballydoyle jockey, whose career over the past two years has been blighted with a number… Read more »

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Michael O’Leary

O’LEARY’S LAMENT

Date: February 24, 2022 - Sport of Kings

MICK O’LEARY’S annual rant about the Grand National weights has become a right snore-fest at this stage and exactly what he hopes to achieve from these predictable outbursts is hard to fathom. After his dual Aintree winner Tiger Roll was allotted 11st 4lb by race handicapper Martin Greenwood – a mere 2lbs higher than the… Read more »

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Bog-Cuttings-Defaul

BOG CUTTINGS

Date: February 24, 2022 - Bog Cuttings

‘F**k you all!’ A Kildare man who stripped off his top and told gardaí that he was not going to be arrested was handed a suspended prison sentence by Judge Geraldine Carthy at Carlow District Court. The 31-year-old Kildare man pleaded guilty to using threatening, abusive and insulting behaviour towards a garda on September 15,… Read more »

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Nick Read

VODAFONE SHARES NOW READY TO DELIVER

Date: February 24, 2022 - Moneybags

ABOUT 380,000 Irish investors in the original Eircom float in 1999 became shareholders in Vodafone in 2001 when the mobile phone business Eircell was spun off, with shareholders getting €3.6bn worth of Vodafone stock. The latter became the dominant mobile phone force in Ireland, inheriting Eircell’s 1.5 million mobile customers. In recent years, Vodafone has… Read more »

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Donal Murphy

MURPHY’S STRANGE STRATEGY AT DCC

Date: February 24, 2022 - Moneybags

DCC WAS a non-focused conglomerate a decade ago but dumped half of its then six divisions, finally disposing of the waste sector in May 2017, just before chief executive officer Donal Murphy stepped into the shoes of his boss, Tommy Breen, in July 2017. There was an opportunity then to look to focus exclusively on… Read more »

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Judge David Keane

JERRY DONOVAN’S JUDGMENT

Date: February 24, 2022 - The Hot Water Brigade

AN OLD friend of Goldhawk’s, property developer Jerry Donovan, has just suffered a significant setback with the registering of a judgment by Nama against the now UK-based operator for a cool €11.5m. Jerry, who once featured in the Sunday Times ‘Rich List’ with an estimated personal wealth of €37m in 2009, is accustomed to getting… Read more »

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Willie O'Dea

WILLIE O’DEA’S SHARES

Date: February 24, 2022 - The Hot Water Brigade

FIANNA FÁIL’S Willie O’Dea was all over the media last weekend, with a flurry of eye-catching statements that hungry pol corrs leapt on. First, there was his claim that he would quit FF and run as an Independent if Micheál Martin went into coalition with Fine Gael again, the moustachioed former defence minister showing his… Read more »

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John Molloy

JOHN MOLLOY’S PHONE TROUBLE

Date: February 24, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

HAVING HOOVERED up millions of euro to fund his safe smartphone app for children, John Molloy’s company is heading into liquidation. Molloy made a name for himself when he helped to develop an animal tracking and traceability product known as Eurovet. In 2016, he set up a company called iKydz Ltd (that traded as Zyalin)… Read more »

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Paul Niland

UKRAINE VETS’ DUBLIN HERO

Date: February 24, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

DUBLIN-BORN but Ukrainian-based Paul Niland has been lionised by RTÉ, BBC, the Irish Times and Irish Independent both for his suicide prevention service to Ukrainian vets and soldiers and his message of defiance against the Russian army. “I’m not going to leave the country [like others] … I’m staying here. I have things to do… Read more »

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Jon Williams

GREENWASH AWARDS’ WORTHY WINNERS

Date: February 24, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

IN THE immortal words of Kermit the Frog, it’s not easy being green, but that doesn’t stop some people from at least pretending. Details of the Irish Green Awards 2022 were recently announced by its ‘media partner’, the Irish Times, and its new headline sponsor was revealed. This “semi-state climate solutions company helping lead Ireland… Read more »

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Simon Coveney

THE SILENT NEUTRALITY

Date: February 24, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

DESPITE THE intense media focus on the Ukraine crisis there has been little or no attention paid to the oft expressed will of the Irish electorate on whether Irish neutrality should be abandoned. Is this because successive polls indicate that a large majority favour its retention? In 2019 there had been much debate during the… Read more »

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