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Domhnal Slattery

DÓMHNAL SLATTERY’S AWARD

Date: February 24, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

GOLDHAWK WAS delighted to see that Shrewsbury Road resident and Avolon air leasing moneybags Dómhnal Slattery has landed the Irish Times Business Person of the Month award for January. Ironically, that was also the month that a venture he would probably prefer to forget about was finally dissolved. Moreover, the award also reflects the comeback… Read more »

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Caitriona Heini

THE COMMISSION ON DEFENCE’S MEMBERS

Date: February 24, 2022 - Hush Hush

THE COMMISSION on the Defence Forces includes retired officers from the Irish, Finnish and Norwegian defence forces and a handful of civil servants, academics and a trade unionist. But probably the most interesting commission members are Dr Gerry Waldron and Caitríona Heinl. Waldron is a medical doctor who served for 16 years with the Irish… Read more »

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Eddie Hobbs

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: February 24, 2022 - The Hot Air Brigade

I think I’ve put in a very good shift in getting a lot of things right on behalf of the Irish people. Eddie Hobbs, interviewed by Donal Lynch, Sunday Independent, submitted by reader The thing is, Kanye – or ‘Ye’ as he’s now known – seems firmly stuck in the dark, reeling, painful first stages… Read more »

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Sammy Wilson

EXECUTIVE WILL NOT RETURN

Date: February 24, 2022 - Northwind

THERE IS a difference of opinion about the future of the north’s power-sharing executive. One view is that there will be interminable talks about forming one, which will fail about Christmas and be followed by a new assembly election in 2023: but to what? The other view is that the executive will never return. Asked… Read more »

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Tom Clonan

TRINNERS LOVES INDEPENDENTS

Date: February 24, 2022 - Last Refuge

ALMOST EVERY candidate in the Trinners (Dublin University) byelection is standing as an Independent but some are more Independent than others. While four of the candidates are either present or past members of the Green Party only two are current members, namely, Cllr Hazel Chu and Paula Roseingrave. Chu hardly needs an introduction and is… Read more »

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Helen McEntee

FG MUCKS OUT FARMERS’ GROUP

Date: February 24, 2022 - Last Refuge

A SIGN of Leo Varadkar’s fear at the decline of his party’s future election prospects came recently with an email from Vlad to members of the FG Agriculture Affairs Group (FGAAG) abolishing their organisation. The reasons for this edict is that many members, including Vlad and his right-hand apparatchik, newly installed general secretary, John Carroll,… Read more »

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Jennifer Carroll MacNeill

CARROLL MACNEILL REVIVES FRIENDS OF ISRAEL CLUB

Date: February 24, 2022 - Last Refuge

EFFORTS TO revive the cross-party oireachtas Friends of Israel group begin with an invitation to a pro-Israel speaker – who has served in the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) – to address members this week. In the same month as an Amnesty International report concluded that Israel is an apartheid state, Yospeh Haddad – an Arab-Israeli… Read more »

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Rory Montgomery

MANDARIN MONTY PRESSES HIS CASE

Date: February 24, 2022 - Fit to Print?

GOOD TO see that the arbiters of press complaints – members of the Press Council of Ireland – who exist also to “promote press freedom and the right to freedom of expression” have selected yet another highly thought of mandarin from Iveagh House to chair their deliberations. The new chair is the distinguished (aren’t they… Read more »

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David Horgan

DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER

Date: February 24, 2022 - Fowl Emissions

FOR YEARS oil executive David Horgan has enjoyed a side gig as one of the media’s favourite pundits, thanks in part to a sort of harmless schoolboy persona. But as his industry fights to survive, he is starting to sound a tad more aggressive as he battles with climate change activists. During a debate with… Read more »

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VOL 40 NO 04

Date: February 24, 2022 -

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LIQUIDATING LOTUS GREEN

LIQUIDATING LOTUS GREEN

Date: February 22, 2022 - The Hot Water Brigade

SO FAREWELL then Lotus Green, a company whose name may ring a bell or two. Most readers who kept an eye on the gripping insider trading court case that featured starring roles for then DCC boss Jim Flavin and the McCann brothers of Fyffes fame may have missed the decision of Lotus Green’s owners to… Read more »

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Mike Morris

MIKE MORRIS’S HOTEL HEADACHE

Date: February 22, 2022 - The Hot Water Brigade

THIS YEAR is not looking any better for hapless hotelier Mike Morris, whose Belmont Hotel in Knock, Co Mayo, burnt down at the end of last year. The dreaded taxman has now petitioned the High Court to wind up Morris’s Belmont Hotels Ltd, with the hearing scheduled for March 7. A few weeks before Christmas,… Read more »

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RICHARD BRUTON’S HOT AIR

RICHARD BRUTON’S HOT AIR

Date: February 22, 2022 - Fowl Emissions

IN 2019, Ireland was on the cusp of a “rooftop revolution”. Minister Richard Bruton’s Climate Action Plan promised that by the end of that year, arcane planning restrictions would be lifted, freeing up thousands of schools and community buildings to instal solar panels. Three years later, nothing has changed. Planning permission is still required to… Read more »

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Diageo Dana An Garda Síochána IT Trust No Stone Unturned Irish Times Black Friday Vicky Conway

LITERARY LOVE-IN

Date: February 22, 2022 - Fit to Print?

FINTAN O’TOOLE and John Banville have incurred the ridicule of British satirical mag Private Eye, despite their deserved status as two of Britain’s favourite Irish luvvies. The Eye recently observed that the two long-time Irish Times colleagues’ reverential views and reviews of each other’s works has reached an epic scale. The mag regurgitated extracts from Banville’s… Read more »

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CANADIAN CONVOY CASH

Date: February 22, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

SINISTER ASPECTS of the Canadian protest movement against the anti-Covid 19 restrictions of Justin Trudeau’s government include the far-right politics of some of the organisers and the way they set about funding the convoy. Pat King is one of the most prominent of the ‘convoy’ protestors and he gained international fame in recent weeks, being… Read more »

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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

NANCY HARRIS’S DRY RUN

Date: February 22, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

LAST WEEK RTÉ went into overdrive when “revealing” a “first look” at a new TV comedy drama called The Dry, which is about a hard-drinking protagonist who returns to Dublin after years of partying in London. This effort is the first offering by London-based playwright Nancy Harris (daughter of Anne and Eoghan Harris) for the… Read more »

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BRETT DESMOND’S ‘BOOST’

Date: February 21, 2022 - High Society

THE UPMARKET burger chain run by Dermot Desmond’s scions considers itself a notch above the competition. Dishing out expensive burgers has proved, however, a seriously expensive business for Brett, Ross and Dery Desmond, all of whom must have been delighted with a headline in the Irish Times last week that read: “Lifting of dining restrictions… Read more »

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Munira Mirza

BORIS JOHNSON’S ‘BRAIN’

Date: February 10, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

THAT BORIS Johnson’s government should include mandarin Sue Gray, a top level member of the ‘deep state’ (see The Phoenix, 28/1/22), may not surprise everybody. But that Boris has in recent years surrounded himself with former members of the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP) might cause an arched eyebrow or two. Especially as one of these former… Read more »

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Simon Coveney

PROFILE: SIMON COVENEY

Date: February 10, 2022 - Pillars of Society

UNTIL RECENTLY the presumption inside and outside Fine Gael was that if any disaster – political or legal – should befall Leo Varadkar that Simon Coveney would be the clear favourite to succeed him. Thus the ‘dauphin’ would fulfil his long-promised destiny as one born to rule. Recent events and surprisingly undiplomatic clangers by Coveney… Read more »

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Randal Plunkett

YOUNG BLOODS: RANDAL PLUNKETT

Date: February 10, 2022 - The Young Bloods

SO-CALLED nobleman turned eco-warrior Randal Plunkett – aka the 21st Baron of Dunsany – has garnered bucketloads of fawning media attention for the environmentally friendly initiatives he promotes, such as rewilding the family estate in Co Meath. Some of the OTT coverage has been hard to stomach and the wannabe filmmaker is proving just what… Read more »

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Dara Calleary

CALLEARY TO BE REINSTATED?

Date: February 10, 2022 - Last Refuge

THE APPARENT acceptance by media following the freeing of the Golfgate Four that former minister Dara Calleary could be reappointed to cabinet by Micheál Martin later this year is surprising. And the statements from the taoiseach about the cabinet door being “always open … for a person of the calibre of Dara Calleary” were as… Read more »

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JOHN HOGAN’S BUSINESS ‘AWARDS’

Date: February 10, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

IT HAS been a hectic start to 2022 for publisher John Hogan and his business partner, US-based Tommy Quinn, who found their publishing operation’s ‘awards’ at the centre of a mauling on Joe Duffy’s Liveline RTÉ Radio One show over the past few days but kept their heads well down. So, who are the lads… Read more »

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Joe Duffy

JOE DUFFY AND GRETA THUNBERG

Date: February 10, 2022 - Fowl Emissions

COMMON SENSE, as Albert Einstein put it, is “the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen”. Joe Duffy, 66, the voice of the people, is RTÉ’s third highest paid presenter, earning €400,000 a year. Duffy regards his salary for fronting Liveline, the phone-in show as “good value”. However, rather than just letting the public have… Read more »

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Sean O'Rourke

WHITHER SEAN O’ROURKE?

Date: February 10, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

RTÉ BROADCASTER Sean O’Rourke was, presumably, one of those referred to by Judge Mary Fahy when she noted in her golfgate judgment that “a lot of very good people lost very good jobs”. And he would surely also claim that he was one of those whom Fahy described as “responsible people” who would not have… Read more »

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‘SUN’ SUBS SACKED

Date: February 10, 2022 - Fit to Print?

CUTS AT the Irish edition of the Sunday Times have for years attracted attention as well as causing strife between Irish editorial colonials in Dublin and their superiors at the imperialist news desk in London (see The Phoenix, 22/10/21). However, it’s the Oirish Sun wot has gawn and done it by getting rid of virtually… Read more »

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Sean Rainbird

RAINBIRD’S SUCCESSOR?

Date: February 10, 2022 - Behind the Scenes

FANS OF Goldhawk will not be surprised to see that arts minister Catherine Martin continues to allow the board of the National Gallery of Ireland (NGI) limp along with depleted numbers, three months after the terms of various members came to an end. Significantly, this is the situation at a time when the board is… Read more »

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Kim Nemser

BACKING THE BOTOX BROTHERS

Date: February 10, 2022 - High Society

WITH RESTRICTIONS lifted lots of businesses will be waiting to see if Covid has changed habits; one of these is the SISU chain of upmarket cosmetic clinics, which expanded rapidly after its incorporation in 2018. It will need to pump a lot of botox, however, if it is to hit the targets set by its… Read more »

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John Collison

SAVING MILLBROOK HOUSE

Date: February 10, 2022 - High Society

GOLDHAWK WAS interested to see that billionaire brothers John and Patrick Collison have spent some loose change (€400,000) to buy the dilapidated Millbrook House, a stone’s throw from the rather more impressive Abbeyleix House, which was acquired last year by John from David Davies for €11.5m. Once part of the De Vesci estate, the Victorian… Read more »

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Judge Senan Allen

WALSH FAMILY’S FOXROCK GOLDMINE

Date: February 10, 2022 - The Hot Water Brigade

HAVING COME a cropper in the financial crash, Foxrock developer John Walsh and his wife Bronagh are back in the game, with a huge scheme to develop just on 100 apartments on the site of their Foxrock pile – Tinnahinch, on Westminster Road – and an adjoining property. Tinnahinch has previously been the subject of… Read more »

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JOHN BYRNE’S SMOOTH RIDE

Date: February 10, 2022 - High Society

CONGRATULATIONS TO Ballsbridge-based moneybags John Byrne, who is in the saddle at the hugely valuable property empire built up by his father John Byrne Sr (who was rather well known to Squire Hockey). He has just assumed the role of deputy chair of the Irish Horseracing Thoroughbred Board, which places him next in line for… Read more »

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DÉSIRÉE’S ‘DIVIDEND’

Date: February 10, 2022 - Behind the Scenes

IT IS 30 years since Michael Twee Higgins launched the film and TV tax break, now known as Section 481. The scheme is supposedly targeted at productions that are “of importance to the promotion, development and enhancement of the national culture including, where applicable, the Irish language”. Despite a number of expensive reports over the… Read more »

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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

RELAXED REFERRALS

Date: February 10, 2022 - Sport of Kings

THE TARDINESS of the procedures at the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB) was highlighted again recently when two very minor cases, each one more than two-and-a-half years old, only came before a referrals panel late last month. The individual cases came about as a result of two IHRB stable inspections carried out at the premises… Read more »

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AGAIN, MARIAN

Date: February 10, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

CONGRATULATIONS to super scribe Marian Keyes, who managed to generate a whirlwind of publicity just ahead of the publication of her latest novel. It is fair to say that her follow-up to Rachel’s Holiday, which sold more than a million copies, is long awaited. A week ahead of the new novel’s drop, Marian also got… Read more »

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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

COMRADES GREALISH AND MCDOWELL

Date: February 10, 2022 - Last Refuge

IT WAS only right and fitting that Michael McDowell should travel west to tell Judge Mary Fahy to dismiss the ‘golfgate’ charges against his client Noel Grealish TD, his old comrade from their days in the PDs, or Desocrats, as they were known to Phoenix readers. Certainly, Grealish falls into the category of a “responsible”… Read more »

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ÉANNA NÍ LÉANNA’S ENDORSEMENT

ÉANNA NÍ LÉANNA’S ENDORSEMENT

Date: February 10, 2022 - Fowl Emissions

GREENWASHING EFFORTS by fossil fuel interests aimed at kids have gone into overdrive. Fuel retailer Applegreen has jumped on the bandwagon with a new competition called ‘BioDive’ aimed at getting kids to pester their parents into shopping at Applegreen, in the interest of ‘biodiversity’, of course. What’s remarkable about the Applegreen-wash is that it is… Read more »

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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

WAITING ON CATHERINE MARTIN

Date: February 10, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

WITH THE terms expired for a half-dozen members of the Arts Council (AC), minister Catherine Martin is taking her time about putting her stamp on the agency. Four months after the closing date for expressions of interest, there is still no sign of her filling the €6,000 pa vacancies. The arts department told Goldhawk, “a… Read more »

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