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Simon Coveney

BORIS JOHNSON AND BEING ‘IMPARTIAL’

Date: June 2, 2022 - Northwind

IN ITS opening section, ‘Constitutional Issues’, the Good Friday Agreement says, “the power of the sovereign government with jurisdiction [in the north] shall be exercised with rigorous impartiality on behalf of all the people”. The GFA then goes into great detail about the areas and aspects covered by this requirement of rigorous impartiality including “full… Read more »

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Sharon Tolan

FG’S FACTION FIGHTS IN MEATH EAST

Date: June 2, 2022 - Last Refuge

JUSTICE MINISTER Helen McEntee certainly came to her ministerial post well equipped with the knowledge of legal and other altercations in her Meath East constituency. Most embarrassingly, some of them even concerned members of her own Fine Gael party. Spare a thought for FG councillor Paddy Meade, who has just completed his second of two… Read more »

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Micheál Martin

MICHEÁL’S BORDER POLL COYNESS: RICHMOND ET AL POUNCE

Date: June 2, 2022 - Last Refuge

MUCH CONFUSION surrounds the political parties’ positions on the mooted issue of a border poll and, Fine Gael in particular, is playing a very Machiavellian game in an effort to embarrass Micheál Martin and Fianna Fáil. Martin derided Sinn Féin for not leading its northern assembly election campaign with demands for a border poll; Leo… Read more »

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Michael Ring

VLAD’S UNHAPPY CREW

Date: June 2, 2022 - Last Refuge

MY, BUT what a coincidence – and one that will surely have been clocked by Leo Varadkar as well as leadership hopefuls, Simon Harris, Helen McEntee and Peter Burke – is the list of names that was published in the media last week following that angry Fine Gael parliamentary party meeting over delays in handling… Read more »

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Jane Mahony

JANE MAHONY’S LETTER

Date: June 2, 2022 - Fit to Print?

A DETAILED and erudite letter to the Irish Times last week took issue with Catholic writer and columnist Breda O’Brien for saying in her weekly column that the Irish Sisters of Charity and some prelates believe there is no future for Catholic healthcare in Ireland. O’Brien had argued that this was the only plausible explanation… Read more »

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Zoe Kavanagh

THE LAND OF MILK , MOOLAH AND FITBITS

Date: June 2, 2022 - Fowl Emissions

FOR THE dairy industry, Ireland in recent years has been a land of milk and money. The sector has expanded at breakneck speed since EU milk quotas were lifted in 2015, and the face of the Irish countryside has been transformed in the process. While this rapid expansion has been a bonanza for many of… Read more »

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PHONEY CLIMATE WAR

Date: June 2, 2022 - Fowl Emissions

ONE OF the more ludicrous aspects of the climate emergency is that the Irish public has been conditioned to think that it can be addressed with tiny, painless actions. The degree to which inconvenience, never mind actual sacrifice, is unthinkable was seen in recent days in the circus that sprung up around delays at Dublin… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: June 2, 2022 - Bog Cuttings

BOG ROLL A 20-YEAR-OLD man, arrested in Co Cork last year for threatening gardaí and saying that he would use any summons as toilet paper, appeared before Cork District Court. Judge Marian O’Leary heard that gardaí were attending an incident in Togher, Cork, when one Aaron Austin, of Araglen Court, Togher, Cork, shouted at one… Read more »

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CHANELLE MCCOY’S NEW ARRIVALS

Date: June 2, 2022 - High Society

PRESUMABLY, CHANELLE – sorry Lady – McCoy will be paying close attention to a High Court challenge initiated by a Co Waterford retailer of cannabidiol derivatives (CBD) against the DPP and the state over their interpretation of the Misuse of Drugs Act. Mark Jenkins from Lismore is claiming that the sale of cultivated hemp products… Read more »

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Bella Bielenberg

CHRISTOPHER BIELENBERG’S MANY HOMES

Date: June 2, 2022 - High Society

WITH SUMMER approaching, Goldhawk perused the predictable extended plug for the sprawling Sandbrook House in Co Carlow, the sometimes abode of Christopher Bielenberg and Arabella Wauchope Huddart (aka Bella), who have been expressing their undying love in the pages of the Irish media for the past few years. Which is all very nice but the… Read more »

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POGUEMAHONE – PATRICK McCABE

Date: June 2, 2022 - BooksBooks|ReviewsReviews

FOLLOWING HIS early success with The Butcher Boy in 1992, Patrick McCabe’s distinctive tongue-in-cheek fiction has often been hit and miss. The alternating scenes of familial trauma and false jollity in his new novel immediately signal recognisable elements from previous work, raising questions that he is simply retelling the same essential ‘Bog Gothic’ story as… Read more »

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CATHERINE MARTIN’S LA STORY

Date: June 2, 2022 - Behind the Scenes

PRESUMABLY Leo Varadkar et al were envious of Catherine Martin’s recent LA junket, the purpose of which would have been to reassure the moguls that Irish taxpayers are happy to front up €100m-plus a year to entice shows here. The press release referred to “opportunities for increased collaboration” and Goldhawk is certain that the thorny… Read more »

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Kieran Cotter

COTTER’S SETBACK

Date: June 2, 2022 - Sport of Kings

KIERAN COTTER’S progress as an upwardly mobile trainer has been halted for a while after he was the recipient of one of the biggest fines ever handed out by the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB). Cotter’s misdemeanours – which centred on a positive test for cobalt for one of his horses, Slade Runner, after winning… Read more »

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Joseph O'Brien's Horses

ADDING UP AT MYRACEHORSE

Date: June 2, 2022 - Sport of Kings

THE MICRO-SHARE ownership vehicle Myracehorse.com got off to a great start when its part-owned Authentic won the Kentucky Derby in 2020 and the syndicate has now unveiled its first horse in training in Ireland.  The as-of-yet unnamed Joseph O’Brien-trained two-year-old filly is being offered to would-be owners for £89 per share but a comparison of… Read more »

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CANTILLONS IN CLOVER

Date: June 2, 2022 - Sport of Kings

DERMOT CANTILLON and his wife, former IHRB senior steward Meta Osborne hit the jackpot recently when selling one of their broodmares to the late Prince Khalid Abdullah’s Juddmonte Farms for a reputed €2m. The 10-year-old mare Repose, who was also bred by the couple at their Tinnakill House Farm in Co Laois, came to prominence… Read more »

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Gordon Elliot

GORDON ELLIOTT’S SURPRISE

Date: June 2, 2022 - Sport of Kings

THERE WAS an interesting Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board referral from Punchestown in April involving trainer Gordon Elliott.  The agency noted the late withdrawal of the Elliott-trained Eskylane shortly before the horse’s intended race – on the basis of “a change in ground conditions” given by team Elliott. The referral panel of Peter Allen, Anthony Byrne… Read more »

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Peter Jackson

ODDS NARROW ON FLUTTER SHARES JUMP

Date: June 2, 2022 - Moneybags

THE OPENING up of the online gaming market in the United States of America – worth a gross £100bn, based on the UK market – was supposed to be the key driver behind Flutter, representing a significant opportunity for the CEO, Peter Jackson, as each US state passes its own legislation. The outcome has yet… Read more »

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AMINEX SHARES COULD BE BOOSTED BY OVERDUE NOVEMBER DRILL

Date: June 2, 2022 - Moneybags

IT IS 10 years since former Aminex boss Brian Hall originally hit pay dirt in the Ruvuma licence in Tanzania, when he took on sole risk (after Tullow Oil pulled out of a 50/50 deal on the licence), discovering a secondary target flowing gas at 20 million cubic feet a day. Hall followed this up… Read more »

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Darryl Kavanagh

DARRYL KAVANAGH’S TROLL

Date: June 2, 2022 - Briefcases

IT MUST have come as quite a surprise to the entrepreneurial Darryl Kavanagh to come across a couple of new web pages featuring his name that have dug up his less than sterling business record, suggesting to viewers that it might be better to avoid trading with the Bristol-based Irishman. This comes at a time… Read more »

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Donal Gallagher

DONAL GALLAGHER’S IRISH HEADACHE

Date: June 2, 2022 - Briefcases

WHILE HE has been flying high in London in recent years, construction moneybags Donal Gallagher has been experiencing rather serious turbulence on this side of the Irish Sea. Liquidator John Healy is seeking a High Court declaration that the directors of Donegal abattoir operation Edenmore Farm Meats Ltd are guilty of reckless trading. Gallagher became… Read more »

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Brian McDonagh

MCDONAGH’S COSTS

Date: June 2, 2022 - Briefcases

IT HAS been a tough few years for the indefatigable Brian McDonagh, the man who copped a lot of the blame for stopping that big Apple data centre in Athenry, Co Galway. Last week, the news only got worse, with a ruling against him on the no doubt substantial legal costs in a case related… Read more »

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Judge Isobel Kennedy

ARNAUD GAULTIER’S VINTAGE PERFORMANCE

Date: June 2, 2022 - Briefcases

KILDARE-BASED wine importer Arnaud Gaultier recently suffered yet another setback in his continuing saga against the dreaded taxman. Fans of Goldhawk will remember Gaultier, who in 2006 had the misfortune of seeing the Revenue seize 22 pallets of presumably very drinkable wine that had been imported by his Finglas-based company, Loire Valley. Gaultier claimed that this… Read more »

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Simon Harris

VARADKAR FACES PARTY CRISIS

Date: May 19, 2022 - Last Refuge

THE ROW over the maternity hospital has many fathers and chief among the suspects is a certain panic in the ranks of Fine Gael, especially in leader Leo Varadkar’s office. Whereas frantic manoeuvreing among aspirant ministers anticipating the December reshuffle (when Vlad becomes taoiseach) was already under way (see The Phoenix, 22/4/22), the make-up of… Read more »

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Seán Clancy

PROFILE: SEÁN CLANCY

Date: May 19, 2022 - Pillars of Society

THE NEW chief of staff of the Defence Forces, Seán Clancy, has had an exciting introduction to public life. First, he was castigated by his political master, defence and foreign affairs minister Simon Coveney for being too familiar in public with Russian ambassador Yuriy Filatov. Second, he has become head of the armed forces just as… Read more »

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Erin McGreehan

YOUNG BLOOD: ERIN MCGREEHAN

Date: May 19, 2022 - The Young Bloods

WHILE FIANNA Fáil’s poll ratings are not as rosy as many media have reported, its levels of support among young people – and young women in particular – are even lower and remain disastrously low.That’s why the party is placing so much hope and expectation in candidates like 39-year-old Erin McGreehan in Co Louth. McGreehan… Read more »

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Ed Guiney

IN THEIR ELEMENT

Date: May 19, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

THEY SAY timing is everything in showbusiness. News of Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe’s sale of a majority stake in their Element Pictures operation to UK giant Fremantle Media was announced just ahead of decidedly mixed reviews of their much anticipated Sally Rooney adaptation, Conversations With Friends. It is, however, unclear what role the offshore… Read more »

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Stephen Donnelly

WHITHER STEPHEN DONNELLY?

Date: May 19, 2022 - Last Refuge

HEALTH MINISTER Stephen Donnelly has become a convenient target again in health controversies, this time at the national maternity hospital. The minister now has about two years left to rescue an undistinguished ministerial career before he flees politics for the rewarding haven of management consultancy from whence he came. This time, of course, he will… Read more »

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Roar

ROAR – CECELIA AHERN

Date: May 19, 2022 - BooksBooks|ReviewsReviews

THROUGHOUT HER career as a middling-to-awful fiction writer, Cecelia Ahern has generally given a wide berth to socio-political issues. But having noted the prevailing cultural winds, she has clearly looked at feminist-tinged storytelling and decided there’s gold in them hills. If it might seem an unlikely direction for a writer hitherto more associated with frothy… Read more »

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Roderic O'Gorman

ALLPRO’S WAR DIVIDEND

Date: May 19, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

RODERIC O’GORMAN’S Department of Integration has been dishing out contracts to companies for the provision of services relating to the housing of Ukrainian refugees. One of the lucky recipients is Galway headquartered Allpro Services, owned equally by Alan Connolly and Conor Nolan, whose latest gig is managing the Scouting Ireland hostels that have been provided… Read more »

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Ted Walsh

TED WALSH’S RTÉ RIDE

Date: May 19, 2022 - Sport of Kings

PUNTERS WILL be interested to see if Ted Walsh’s latest blunder on RTÉ’s racing coverage of Punchestown has any repercussions for his long-held punditry position. Despite issuing a public apology after coming under fire for highly critical and, er, blunt comments about a hapless nag running at Punchestown, Walsh’s longevity on the screen will surely… Read more »

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Jamie Myerscough

MYERSCOUGH’S WORK-OUT

Date: May 19, 2022 - High Society

DOCUMENTS JUST filed in the Companies Office records a different ownership structure in Jamie Myerscough’s Vitruvian Fitness operation than had been registered. Previously, it had been mistakenly recorded that as of September last year Jamie held all the shares in the firm, where his wife, Jennifer Kelly, is the other listed director. Meanwhile, he has… Read more »

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Tayanglet

RAYMOND STANLEY’S SPREAD

Date: May 19, 2022 - High Society

AN IMPRESSIVE Victorian pile in Cabinteely in south Co Dublin has come on the market with a price tag of €2.75m. Although owned by Raymond and Lynda Stanley, a glowing write-up about the property in the Indo managed to overlook them, focusing instead on one-time owner Seamus McGrath, scion of Joe ‘Sweepstake’ McGrath. Seamus was a… Read more »

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Kevin Doyle

KEVIN DOYLE’S PUNT

Date: May 19, 2022 - Sport of Kings

FORMER IRISH international footballer Kevin Doyle caused something of a stir two-and-a-half years ago, when he paid €155,000 for a colt foal at Tattersalls Ireland. His hefty purchase related to a half-brother to the then Nicky Henderson-trained superstar steeplechaser Altior, and the one-time Premiership striker revealed at the time that he had bought the horse… Read more »

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VOL 40 NO 10

Date: May 19, 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

JP MCMANUS’S MIX-UP

Date: May 19, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

GENEVA-BASED zillionaire JP McManus is no ordinary racehorse owner. He has long been lashing out bucketloads of moolah to buy top-pedigree steeplechasers and currently would appear to have somewhere north of 500 animals, spread among a variety of trainers. Given the vast scale of the operation, things can go wrong, embarrassingly so. One of the… 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

NOEL SMYTH’S DOGFIGHT

Date: May 19, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

A MEETING takes place this week to decide whether solicitor turned property developer Noel Smyth can buy the National Show Centre near Dublin airport, owned by the Irish Kennel Club (IKC). It looks like he believes the deal is in the bag. Later this month, fans of canines will be heading to the Festival of… Read more »

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