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Montesilvano horse

O’BRIENS QUALIFY FOR PRIZE POT

Date: July 28, 2022 - Sport of Kings

READERS OF ‘Sport of Kings’ will recall questions being raised here about the use of auctions essentially to qualify horses for restricted races, with a major player being Aidan O’Brien and his family (see The Phoenix 11/2/22). Back in February at a sale in Goffs, the O’Briens offered a number of un-raced 2-year-olds for sale… Read more »

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Paddy Dunican Kilbeggan

DUNICAN VERSUS CALDWELL

Date: July 28, 2022 - Sport of Kings

THE HEAT wave took its toll at Kilbeggan recently, as tempers flared among stable staff with track manager Paddy Dunican and his failure to provide complimentary bottled water for stable staff. He is well used to dealing with spats. Despite racing officials and jockeys being kept well hydrated for free by Kilbeggan, those working in… Read more »

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Ballybrit 2022

GOING GOOD IN GALWAY

Date: July 28, 2022 - Sport of Kings

THE BUZZ will be back for the Ballybrit 2022 races as punters are allowed to attend the festival for the first time in three years. In fairness to track manager Michael Molony, his Galway squad is not taking unfair advantage of any pent-up demand for the festival by jacking up entrance prices. On the contrary,… Read more »

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Irish companies in Russia

UKRAINE INVASION: IRISH COLLATERAL DAMAGE

Date: July 28, 2022 - Moneybags

THE RUSSIAN invasion of Ukraine in February has had global implications. It also has had specific implications for some relatively low profile Irish companies that are closely tied in with the market in Russia. These include three in particular – Eurasia Mining, Petroneft and Ovoca Bio. The first two have been battered by the reaction… Read more »

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Barkhill Ltd Closing

BARKHILL LOSES ITS BITE

Date: July 28, 2022 - Briefcases

IT LOOKS like we will be waving goodbye in the next couple of months to a property company called Barkhill Ltd, which helped develop the huge Liffey Valley shopping centre in west County Dublin and generated its fair share of headlines in the past. Barkhill would be a name that rings plenty of bells, given… Read more »

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Brookfield College Closing

ELISHA DOWLING’S HOMEWORK

Date: July 28, 2022 - Briefcases

TWO YEARS on from the sudden closing of the long-established Brookfield College grind school in Tralee, when blindsided parents were advised that a liquidation was imminent, the owners of the company – Elisha and Angela Dowling – have kept their company alive. They have now sold the college premises. In August 2020, Leaving Cert and fifth… Read more »

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Moodley vegan burgers

THE VEGAN MOODLEYS’ MENU

Date: July 28, 2022 - Briefcases

ALTHOUGH VEGANISM is understood to be growing in Ireland (as elsewhere), this did not prevent the collapse of a company set up to provide the herbivores with fare designed to mimic old-fashioned burgers and bacon products. Gavyn Pedley and his wife, Aisling Mooney, made a name for themselves in the Irish vegan market a few… Read more »

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Louis Ronan

LOUIS RONAN’S DEADLY COMPETITION

Date: July 28, 2022 - Briefcases

GOLDHAWK’S OLD pal Louis Ronan senior will be breathing a sigh of relief after a rival crematorium to his Cork-based Island Crematorium was refused planning permission for the second time. Classic Lodges (Ireland) Ltd is a subsidiary of the business empire built by British billionaire Trevor Hemmings, who died last year at the age of… Read more »

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MCINERNEY FAVOURITE

Date: July 14, 2022 - Fit to Print?

WITH RSVP citing Sarah McInerney as favourite at 3/1 to take over Claire Byrne Live — the RSVP list ran to nine presenters with the outside bet being Brendan O’Connor at 14/1 — it looks as though McInerney has got the gig. McInerney has been trialled in a particular format that is intended to be more based on current… Read more »

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du Plantier case

NETFLIX’S NEW DRAMA

Date: July 14, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

IT CAN be hard to escape the name of Ian Bailey these days after the gardaí reopened the infamous Sophie Toscan du Plantier case, 25 years after she was murdered in Schull, Co Cork. Bailey quickly became the number one suspect and, since then, there have been two documentaries aired – Jim Sheridan’s one for… Read more »

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Sally Rooney's Books

PROFILE: SALLY ROONEY

Date: July 14, 2022 - Pillars of Society

When Conversations with Friends was unleashed upon the world in 2017, Sally Rooney’s editor at Faber & Faber dubbed her a “Salinger for the Snapchat generation”. Faber outbid six other publishers for the rights to the debut, which was also sold to 11 international publishers. Publisher Mitzi Angel described it as a “cracklingly brilliant first… Read more »

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Cormac Devlin

YOUNG BLOOD: CORMAC DEVLIN

Date: July 14, 2022 - The Young Bloods

WILL DÚN LAOGHAIRE TD and Fianna Fail deputy whip, Cormac Devlin stay sitting on the fence about the leadership of the party and its identity and direction, or will the party’s dire opinion poll figures make him jump one way or another? Currently, Fianna Fáil is stuck on around 15% support, well down on its… Read more »

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Boris Johnson MI6

SPOOKS DO FOR BORIS

Date: July 14, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

HOW FASCINATING it is to note that two and more of the senior British civil servants that downed British PM, Boris Johnson, have links with intelligence (MI6) and security (MI5) services. Furthermore, MI6 had a low opinion of Boris for some years, even when he was in 10 Downing Street. When Teresa May was PM,… Read more »

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Randox Testing Kits

PETER FITZGERALD’S RANDOX TESTING BONANZA

Date: July 14, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

LAST WEEK, the Advertising Standard Authority of Ireland (ASAI) issued its latest bulletin on complaints received over advertisements alleged to be misleading or offensive. There was, however, no sign of the name of Peter Fitzgerald’s uber profitable Covid testing outfit Randox, whose latest results are, er, extremely positive. A major player in the medical devices… Read more »

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Vulva Facials

CYNTHIA CHUA’S ‘VULVA-VERSE’

Date: July 14, 2022 - High Society

IT’S INTERESTING to see that the colourful and loaded Cynthia Chua – who has long been extolling the virtues of “vulva facials” – has just filed accounts for the Irish company she owns with hubby and renewable energy entrepreneur Nick Holman. Deepwell Developments – named after the impressive Blackrock pile acquired by the couple for… Read more »

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Maia Dunphy podcast

READ THE ROOM- PADDY COURTNEY/MAIA DUNPHY PODCAST

Date: July 14, 2022 - PodcastsPodcasts|ReviewsReviews

A CREATION of Newstalk owners Bauer Media, the Go Loud app is quickly developing its own niche in the era of landfill podcasting, as it continues to churn out a punishing onslaught of dubious ‘content’. Following on from such essential listening as Go Loud Selects – Simon Delaney’s cultural recommendations – comes Read The Room, whose pitch… Read more »

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RTÉ Vacancy

JON WILLIAMS’S SUCCESSORS

Date: July 14, 2022 - Fit to Print?

MINOR MYSTERY surrounded that Covid-19 super-spreader going-away party attended by RTÉ broadcasters recently. This is presumed to have assisted the infection of some of the 25 members of RTÉ’s news and current affairs division that contracted Covid-19 recently. It led to large gaps in rostered current affairs programmes and an emergency meeting days after the… Read more »

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Elgin Road Apartments

SENAN SEXTON’S DARK APARTMENT

Date: July 14, 2022 - Briefcases

A LARGE property on Elgin Road D4 in the heart of the embassy district is on the market with a hefty price tag. It turns out to be owned by former number cruncher Senan Sexton who is very well acquainted with the property market and has just been co-opted as an independent councillor in Dún… Read more »

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JP McManus Pro-Am

KAY MULCAIRE’S ADARE BOUNCE

Date: July 14, 2022 - High Society

THERE WAS plenty of predictable drooling by the hacks over the two-day JP McManus Pro-Am golfing extravaganza at the Geneva “tax resident’s” Adare Manor last week, with the course described as “a masterpiece,” and the various moneybags in attendance feted for their charitable efforts. One of those who appears to have done rather well out… Read more »

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VOL 40 NO 14

Date: July 14, 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

NGI NEW BOARD

Date: July 14, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

THE NATIONAL Gallery of Ireland (NGI) is looking for four new board members. Presumably, by the time they are in situ, we will know who the new NGI Director will be. The NGI board is chaired by the Law Society’s Mary Keane and includes the likes of RHA president Abigail O’Brien (sister of Dinny), Irish… 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

MARTIN SHANAHAN’S SURPRISE EXIT

Date: July 14, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

THERE WAS plenty of praise for outgoing IDA Ireland boss Martin Shanahan, who surprised everyone by calling it a day at the state agency – where the role comes with a healthy €195,000 pa remuneration package. The exit is taking place two years before the end of Shanahan’s current five-year contract, which was only signed… Read more »

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Cold Case Review

SOPHIE’S COLD CASE REVIEW

Date: July 14, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

WHAT IS the real motivation behind the cold case review and reopening of the investigation into the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier 26 years after the event? Ian Bailey, former chief suspect, believes or would like to believe that the fresh inquiry will add additional weight to his claim of innocence and to his… Read more »

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Anti-Semitism Ireland

ISRAEL MONITORS THE IRISH

Date: July 14, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

IN MARCH this year, Maurice Cohen, chair of the Jewish Representative Council of Ireland, had a pop at Irish parliamentarians – during a UN Human Rights Council periodic review of this country – for perpetuating antisemitic tropes leading to attitudes of anti-semitism prevailing in Ireland. He also criticised incoming ‘hate speech’ legislation as inadequate for… Read more »

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Irish Neutrality

IIEA NEW MANDARIN: DAVID O’SULLIVAN

Date: July 14, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

THE NEW director general of the Institute of International and European Affairs (IIEA), David O’Sullivan, has been quick to use the institute’s favourite platform, the Irish Times, to launch an attack on Irish neutrality. The former EU and Irish career diplomat told IT readers recently that Irish military non-alignment had served Ireland well until 2016…. Read more »

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Defence Forces Report

MUTINOUS NOISES

Date: July 14, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

THE MOST interesting thing about that internal, unpublished government Defence Forces report on the state of relations between the Defence Forces and the defence department is not what it says but what it doesn’t say. What neither the report nor its leaks spell out is the virtual unarmed civil war raging between some of the… Read more »

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Colin Duffy

NINE-YEAR TRIAL

Date: July 14, 2022 - Hush Hush

In December 2013, a fortnight after an armed ambush on a convoy of PSNI vehicles in Ardoyne, Belfast, Colin Duffy, Alex McCrory and Henry Joseph Fitzsimons were charged with IRA membership, preparing and directing terrorism and conspiracy to obtain both firearms and explosives. The latter two were also charged with attempted murder in relation to… Read more »

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Padraig Harrington

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: July 14, 2022 - The Hot Air Brigade

It’s the best venue in the world as far as I’m concerned. Padraig Harrington on the course at Adare Manor, where he advised on the redesign, Irish Independent Ronan O’Gara, introspective, wise, relentlessly curious, unafraid to chase distant horizons in his pursuit of the remarkable, is among the most riveting and thought-provoking Irishmen of his… Read more »

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New Prime Minister

POST BORIS: NO CHANGE

Date: July 14, 2022 - Northwind

There’s a tendency in the Government, particularly in Fianna Fáil circles, to believe that when the current Tory turmoil subsides normal service will be resumed. The new prime minister might be bad, but couldn’t be as bad as Johnson. That’s wishful thinking: there’ll be no return to a pre-2019 Conservative government, a ‘reset’ as some… Read more »

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McConalogue Mica

McCONALOGUE TAKES THE MICA

Date: July 14, 2022 - Last Refuge

JOE McHUGH TD appears to be in the firing line of mica campaigners in his Donegal constituency given that he felt compelled to honour his commitment to campaigners by resigning from Fine Gael. But his Donegal constituency colleague, agriculture minister, Charlie McConalogue, could be the real loser come the general election. Both men have swopped… Read more »

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James Geoghegan

GEOGHEGAN COMEBACK

Date: July 14, 2022 - Last Refuge

THE NOTION that James Geoghegan, model Fine Gael candidate and a barrister possessed of an unrivalled judicial pedigree, was going to walk off the pitch after Ivana Bacik wiped his eye in the Dublin Bay South by-election last year looks wide of the mark. Geoghegan is determined to prove he is made of the right stuff and has… Read more »

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Navan Hospital Controversy

RUNNERS AND RIDERS IN NAVAN

Date: July 14, 2022 - Last Refuge

PARTY DISCIPLINE has gone out the window in both Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael when it comes to Our Lady’s hospital in Navan. The only politician that comes up smelling of roses is Aontú leader, Peadar Tóibín, and his name is now synonomous with the Navan Hospital controversy, especially as he is chair of the… Read more »

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Who will replace Micheál Martin?

MARTIN FACES NEW REVOLT

Date: July 14, 2022 - Last Refuge

JUST WHEN the Taoiseach, Micheál Martin thought things had finally quietened down in Fianna Fail another rising has broken out, and the occupation of party premises in Leinster House was alarmingly well supported. However, with some party elders urging caution, and demands being made to call off the uprising in recent months, there was some… Read more »

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Cara Hunter porn

ABUSE OF SDLP MEMBERS

Date: July 14, 2022 - Fit to Print?

SDLP MLA, Cara Hunter, received much sympathetic media coverage, north and south, after she was targeted with online porn smears. This falsely depicted her as engaged in a sex act in a widely circulated video during the recent elections to the northern assembly. Hunter and another female MLA, the DUP’s Diane Forsythe, were both targeted… Read more »

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ECO ROVER

Date: July 14, 2022 - Fowl Emissions

The Irish Times recently reported on the painful dressing down delivered to Land Rover for its advertorial featuring gardener Diarmuid Gavin in his hulking “sustainable” two-and-a-half-ton diesel SUV. However, the news report modestly neglected to mention that the Gavin advertorial was featured in the print and online editions of the IT, as part of a series of “stars” bragging… Read more »

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Bog-Cuttings-Defaul

BOG CUTTINGS

Date: July 14, 2022 - Bog Cuttings

ROUND OF SHOTS Eric Nicholson (25) of 6 Oak Drive, Ballacollig, Mountmellick, pleaded guilty in Portlaoise District Court to public intoxication and being abusive toward gardaí. Sergeant Mark Daly told the court that gardaí spotted the defendant, who was unsteady on his feet, on Limetree Avenue, Portlaoise, on April 30 last. When they approached, Sergeant… Read more »

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