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ELEMENT PICTURES’ UK MOOLAH

Date: June 16, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

FOLLOWING THE sale to Fremantle by Conversations With Friends producers Element Pictures, Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe have just filed accounts for their London vehicle, Element Pictures UK, which shows a profit recorded in 2021 of more than £1m. There have also been a number of new directors arriving on set. The fresh faces are… Read more »

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Date: June 16, 2022 - Affairs of the NationLetters to the Editor

barristers’ low pay Dear Editor On June 3, 2022, a petition signed by 88 senior counsel and 182 junior counsel was hand-delivered to the Department of Justice alerting the minister to the unacceptable state of the criminal justice system in district courts throughout the state. A legal system designed to fail not only offends the… Read more »

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Annalena Baerbock

GREENS RESILE ON NEUTRALITY

Date: June 16, 2022 - Hush Hush

A MAJOR fault line has developed within the Irish Greens. Eamon Ryan and a majority of the parliamentary party seem at odds with the membership, councillors and possibly even its two MEPs, Ciarán Cuffe and Grace O’Sullivan, over militarisation in Ireland and the European Union. The experience of the Irish Greens is not unique. In… Read more »

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Mark Dooley

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: June 16, 2022 - The Hot Air Brigade

Free societies need people like Eoghan Harris – courageous contrarians who defy the culture of amnesia. Mark Dooley, European Conservative magazine A little piece of Notting Hill in the heart of Dublin’s Portobello. Irish Times property section ramps up the sales pitch for a two-bed house in D8, submitted by reader The crowd, mostly made… Read more »

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Boris Johnson

BORIS ‘SAVES’ PEACE PROCESS

Date: June 16, 2022 - Northwind

MICHELLE O’NEILL wrote in the Irish Times on June 1: “The Belfast Agreement must be applied in all its parts – an Assembly, Executive, North-South Ministerial Council and East-West structures and the British-Irish Intergovernmental Conference – and without further interruption. Boris Johnson’s government is regrettably pursuing an anti-Belfast Agreement agenda, which is disingenuously wrapped up… Read more »

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Caroline Conroy

CARDINAL RICHELIEU’S MISSUS

Date: June 16, 2022 - Last Refuge

A RELATIVELY unknown Green Party councillor, Caroline Conroy, is set to become lord mayor of Dublin as a result of the deal struck with the Greens’ 10 Dublin city councillors and other parties, Fianna Fáil (11), Labour (8) and the Social Democrats (5) in 2019…. Read more »

Mary Lou McDonald

“PERSONAL ANTIPATHIES”

Date: June 16, 2022 - Last Refuge

rise of Sinn Féin in the polls has unnerved many in Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael but some of the more hard-nosed handlers in these parties came up with an answer to the assumption that Mary Lou and comrades would automatically take power because they were the single biggest party. They pointed to the fact… Read more »

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Josepha Madigan

‘NEGLIGENT BEHAVIOUR’

Date: June 16, 2022 - Last Refuge

NO POLITICIAN in the current Dáil typifies how instant political success can sometimes be followed by rapid decline than Fine Gael’s Josepha Madigan who shot in and out of cabinet in recent years and now faces the loss of her Dublin Rathdown seat if current trends continue. Taking a seat at the first time of… Read more »

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Ronan McGreevy

BALLOT BOX AND THE TWEET

Date: June 16, 2022 - Fit to Print?

HOPEFULLY A spirit of harmonious academic dialogue will prevail at the Seán MacDiarmada Summer School this weekend where Irish Times journalist and author Ronan McGreevy – a modern critic of republicanism – and author and former Sinn Féin spokesperson Danny Morrison are due to speak. Recent Twitter polemics between the two reflect the rather different… Read more »

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Colm McCarthy

RIGHT-WING ECONOMISTS COP ON

Date: June 16, 2022 - Fit to Print?

THE DEBATE engineered by Europhiles and generals aimed at abolishing neutrality egged on by the Irish Times Greek chorus has proved unsuccessful so far, despite the opportunist exploitation of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. However, and despite the ‘respectable’ sections of academia and media backing the demand for Ireland to man up and prepare for war,… Read more »

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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

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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