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MORE LOVE LOST

Date: May 5, 2022 - Briefcases

THIS WEEK’S liquidation of Blackpool Developments represents the second significant setback for Cork merchant prince Clayton Love and Neill Love and Sarah Cronin, in the space of a year. The appointment of Aidan Heffernan as liquidator mirrors his installation as liquidator of another of the Love family’s businesses. Blackpool Developments was behind Cork’s biggest retail… Read more »

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President Zelenskyy

ZELENSKIY’S OFFSHORE LINKS

Date: April 20, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

THERE HAS, unsurprisingly, been plenty of media coverage of the main players in the Ukrainian war, with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy the recipient of lavish praise for his tactics against the Ruskies. One area that the normally curious hacks have opted to ignore is the hero president’s links to offshore companies, as revealed in the explosive… Read more »

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Peter Burke

PROFILE: PETER BURKE

Date: April 20, 2022 - Pillars of Society

LEO VARADKAR clawed back 2% in his own personal ratings and, more importantly, saw the same increase for Fine Gael in the latest Irish Times/Ipsos poll. But is this a temporary lull or a real reversal of the negative polling trend against the party and its leader? Either way, various aspirant leaders continue to circle… Read more »

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Nathan Adams and Donal Óg Cusack

YOUNG BLOOD: NATHAN ADAMS

Date: April 20, 2022 - The Young Bloods

ENTREPRENEUR AND celebrity squeeze Nathan Adams is quite the man about town around Cork, organising launches, lashing out new enterprises, and hanging out with social media influencers. With titles like CEO and MD already under his belt as well as four companies and four brands, the 26-year-old boyfriend of former Cork goalkeeper Dónal Óg Cusack… Read more »

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Miriam O'Callaghan

FACEBOOK FACES UP TO MIRIAM

Date: April 20, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

CELEB SOLICITOR Paul Tweed was a natural as Murrium O’Callaghan’s brief in her case against Facebook for “malicious falsehood, defamation, various breaches of constitutional rights, and unlawful appropriation of personality” (phew). And Tweed issued a ringing statement on her behalf welcoming resolution of the proceedings which had terminated the fake ads on Facebook. The false… Read more »

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Patrick and John Collison

BURSTING THE COLLISONS’ BUBBLE

Date: April 20, 2022 - Briefcases

IRISH BUSINESS hacks predictably lapped up the news that John and Patrick Collison, the tousle-headed tech tyros, are now worth a whopping $9.5bn each, according to the Billionaires List compiled by American business bible Forbes. In the Irish Times, Laura Slattery breathlessly reported that “most of the surge in Irish billionaire wealth relates to the… Read more »

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Noelle O'Connor

NOELLE O’CONNOR’S GLOW

Date: April 20, 2022 - High Society

THIS MONTH is the first in which online and e-commerce sales of fake tanning (sorry, self-tanning) products are subject to new EU regulations limiting the level of the chemical dehydroxyacetone (DHA) to a maximum of 10%. Some players in the seriously lucrative market have adapted better than others. The DHA carbon sugar is the ingredient… 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

TREVOR’S TONIC

Date: April 20, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

GOLDHAWK IS delighted to report that accounts just made available reveal that the Little Museum of Dublin has been sailing through the pandemic, and the salary of its director Trevor White remained in rude health despite the precipitous fall-off in visitors in 2020. It is hardly surprising that 2020 should have seen income plummet at… Read more »

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Vol. 40 No 08

Date: April 20, 2022 -

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John Kilraine

JOHN KILRAINE: RTÉ’S MAN IN LONDON

Date: April 20, 2022 - Fit to Print?

LONG-TIME RTÉ Dublin correspondent John Kilraine is switching capital cities to become the station’s London corr, a logical step in one sense in that he was born there, although he has spent most of his life in Ireland. However, there were a few baffled responses from some broadcasters and admirers of other candidates at Kilraine’s… Read more »

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Gordon Elliott

GORDON ELLIOTT’S TV SNUB

Date: April 20, 2022 - Sport of Kings

WHEN GORDON ELLIOTT trained a Grade 1 double at Aintree recently, with JP McManus’s Three Strip Life and Sire Du Berlais, there were a lot of raised eyebrows over the fact that Elliott was not interviewed by ITV Racing after either of the wins. The fact that Elliott spoke to Racing TV presenters after each… 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

JAY BOURKE’S PR

Date: April 20, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

IT HAS been hard to avoid disqualified restaurateur and publican Jay Bourke, whose media campaign in recent weeks has seen him feature prominently in the news bemoaning the determination of creditors to get their pound of flash. Jayo has been rambling on about all the bastards who have done for him, most notably vulture funds… Read more »

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Jim O'Callaghan

MARTIN TRUCE WITH O’CALLAGHAN?

Date: April 20, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

ONE OF the intriguing choices Micheál Martin will get to make when he retires as taoiseach in December is who to appoint as justice minister. The deal with Fine Gael is that incoming taoiseach, Leo Varadkar will choose ‘his’ attorney general and that Fianna Fáil gets its (wo)man in justice. So who will it be?… 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

RTÉ’S LOST DECADE

Date: April 20, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

“FUTURE GENERATIONS will judge us by how we deal with climate change”, presenter Fran McNulty solemnly intoned when opening RTÉ’s Prime Time climate special last week. The ‘us’ McNulty referred to might well have been RTÉ itself, given the national broadcaster’s dismal performance on this crunch issue. According to co-presenter Miriam O’Callaghan: “We all know… Read more »

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Simon Coveney

MALI AND SIMON COVENEY’S ‘SHOCK’

Date: April 20, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

HIDDEN AWAY at the bottom of page 4 in the Irish Times recently was a short article about how the Irish Defence Forces had ceased training the Malian military after verified reports of a massacre of 300 Malian civilians by their own army. The news report also said that Irish soldiers would instead train the… Read more »

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Brian Polly

RACEHORSE OWNERS UNSADDLE CHAIRMAN

Date: April 20, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

THIS WEEK sees the second annual general meeting in a few months of the Association of Irish Racehorse Owners (Airo), the representative organisation for bloodstock owners that has been characterised in recent years by some very rough riding and calls for a stewards inquiry by its own chairman Brian Polly. A late withdrawal from the… Read more »

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Lyra McKee

DISSIDENT GROUPS’ EASTER TREAT

Date: April 20, 2022 - Hush Hush

APART FROM Sinn Féin there are others that lay claim to the tradition of Irish republicanism and they haven’t gone away either, you know. Easter has for decades allowed observers of the Irish republican scene to get a measure of the relative strengths of the various organisations. The relative weakness of the likes of Éirígí,… Read more »

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Imelda May

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: April 20, 2022 - The Hot Air Brigade

I’m an empath and I feel things so strongly sometimes that I have to work hard to turn it off, you know? And I feel everything all the time. Like where people are telling me a story, I’ll absorb it, you know, whatever they’re feeling. Imelda May, Irish Independent, submitted by reader Why we should… Read more »

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Jeffrey Donaldson

CLIFF EDGE FOR JEFFREY AND JIM

Date: April 20, 2022 - Northwind

UNIONISM IS deeply divided, not only between parties but within parties. On the face of it, the divide seems to be about the response to the protocol which keeps the north in the EU single market and customs union. The DUP and TUV have been speaking at anti-protocol rallies in unionist towns across the north… Read more »

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Tony Holohan

‘I COME TO BURY NOT TO PRAISE TONY’

Date: April 20, 2022 - Last Refuge

CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER (CMO) Tony Holohan was effectively buried by Micheál Martin when he ‘paused’ (shafted) his sweet deal at Trinity College Dublin. The taoiseach followed up with the obligatory but measured expression of gratitude to the “CMO Tony Holohan for his outstanding service to the Irish people, and for his leadership … in particular… Read more »

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GALWAY BAY FM BLUES

Date: April 20, 2022 - Last Refuge

STAFF AT Galway Bay FM and local members of Fine Gael will be hoping that things settle down following turmoil at the station in the past year or so. In February the ‘shock’ announcement was made over the airwaves that Katie Finnegan, producer and sometimes acting host on the flagship morning programme, Galway Talks, was… Read more »

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Cian O'Callaghan

CIAN O’CALLAGHAN V AODHÁN Ó RÍORDÁIN

Date: April 20, 2022 - Last Refuge

NEW LABOUR leader Ivana Bacik’s dead cat bounce has not deterred Labour handlers from predicting seat gains that will double their complement of seven TDs at the next general election. But Labour will be fortunate to hang on to their seven seats and, on a bad day, could return with just three or four TDs…. Read more »

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Michael D Higgins

MICHAEL D HIGGINS’S NEUTRALITY WARNING TO GOVERNMENT

Date: April 20, 2022 - Last Refuge

MESSRS MARTIN, Varadkar and Ryan cannot say they were not warned should there be open confrontation between them and President Higgins over neutrality and the government’s rush to arms. In the past fortnight, as ministers and media ratcheted up the cold war rhetoric, Higgins made clear his unrestrained championing of neutrality as well as his… Read more »

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Pat Leahy Donohoe Expense

MAJORITY DISAGREE WITH ‘IRISH TIMES’!

Date: April 20, 2022 - Fit to Print?

PATHOLOGICAL EUROPHILES at the Irish Times were gobsmacked at the rebuff received from the newspaper’s poll asking if people wanted to abandon neutrality. After several weeks of Lord Kitchener type propaganda against Ireland’s neutrality – encased in concern for the slaughter in Ukraine – the newspaper’s editorial team decided to show how close their editorial… Read more »

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ALL KINDS OF DEFAMATION

Date: April 20, 2022 - Fit to Print?

THE IRISH TIMES is the latest newspaper to concede defeat and cough up a serious sum of money to John Brown, brother of Dana Rosemary Scallon, former MEP and former presidential candidate. The pair have cut a swathe through the Irish media ever since Brown was acquitted of all charges of child abuse in an… Read more »

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CROKE PARK HOT AIR

Date: April 20, 2022 - Fowl Emissions

“MORAL AND economic madness,” is how UN secretary general António Guterres recently described investing in new fossil fuel infrastructure. Don’t tell the speakers at next week’s Energy Summit 2022 at Croke Park. Organised by the Business Post, it’s basically a gas industry event dressed up as a talking shop on the transition to renewables, with… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: April 20, 2022 - Bog Cuttings

‘A F***ING ROOKIE, AND A F***ING TRAMP’ A CORK man appearing before Cork District Court denied being intoxicated, or saying a string of profanities, while being confronted by gardaí after an incident at Chapel Field, Gurranabraher, on May 4, 2020. Gda Denis O’Sullivan told the court that he and a colleague were attending a scene… Read more »

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Jamie Moran

MAKING MONEY WITH JAMIE AND LAUREN

Date: April 20, 2022 - High Society

A NICE looking Dublin 6 pad, at 65 Ranelagh Road, got the full sales pitch from the Business Post earlier this month. It turns out to be just one of a number of similar multimillion-euro townhouses built in the area by wily developer Jamie Moran, whose other half turns out to be quite the entrepreneur… Read more »

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Derry Girls

DERRY GIRLS – CHANNEL 4

Date: April 20, 2022 - ReviewsReviews|TVTV

ARRIVING ON the now-familiar wave of hype, the Ireland.com-sponsored third and final series of Derry Girls once again saw some home-grown commentators return to a favourite theme – that of the best Irish comedy being outsourced to the UK. But, given the rather patchy opening to season three, Derry Girls perhaps has more in common with the average… Read more »

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Last Funeral

THE LAST GOOD FUNERAL OF THE YEAR – ED O’LOUGHLIN

Date: April 20, 2022 - BooksBooks|Reviews

IN THIS short memoir, Ed O’Loughlin casts an analytical and often self-critical eye over the events that have “shaped” his life. The novelist and former Irish Times correspondent’s story is told non-linearly in starkly vivid chapters – all shot through with a sense of remorse. For a writer with so much self-doubt, this unlikely course of introspection… Read more »

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Chandrika Narayanan Mohan

WRITERS CENTRE’S WINNING PLOT

Date: April 20, 2022 - Behind the Scenes

NEXT WEEK sees the launch (online, natch) by the Irish Writers Centre (IWC) of the 2023 Novel Fair, which promises to introduce 12 lucky scribblers to top publishers and literary agents – or take them “on a journey from self to shelf”. Approximately 400 hopefuls will be looking to bung in the first 10,000 words… Read more »

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Kenny Alexander

NO MONEY NO HONEY

Date: April 20, 2022 - Sport of Kings

WHEN THE Nicky Henderson-trained Constitution Hill stormed to victory in the opening race at Cheltenham last month, his owner Michael Buckley suggested he would not be averse to letting his rising star take on the mighty Honeysuckle at Punchestown later this month. Henderson was cooler on the prospect given that Constitution Hill is a young,… Read more »

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Ian Renton

THE DRIVE FOR FIVE

Date: April 20, 2022 - Sport of Kings

THE TALK of Cheltenham possibly adding on a fifth day to the annual March shindig has been rumbling on for some time now and it moved one step closer to reality with the news that the Jockey Club-owned track has officially started a consultation process with a view to the introduction of an extra day… Read more »

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Gearoid Brouder

TOLERATING TITAN JACK

Date: April 20, 2022 - Sport of Kings

THE IRISH Horseracing Regulatory Board has put a lot of effort in recent times into discouraging non-triers and rooting out doping offenders. One area, where not enough is being done, however, concerns potential no-hopers. A recent case in point involves a horse called Titan Jack, who has competed on three occasions this spring for trainer… Read more »

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Eamonn Rothwell

POST-PANDEMIC SEAS STILL ROUGH FOR ICG

Date: April 20, 2022 - Moneybags

WITH P&O deciding to sack all 800 of its British car ferry staff and introduce new ‘yellow pack’ crewing arrangements, ICG could well find itself in store for a serious bump in the level of competition. Noises from Whitehall suggest there could yet be action taken by the British government to enforce minimum wage levels… Read more »

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Darragh Lyons

THE DRUGS ARE WORKING FOR MALIN CORP

Date: April 20, 2022 - Moneybags

MALIN CORP had an eventful history after Kelly Martin raised €400m when floating it in 2015. Unfortunately for investors, the plan to back small pharma entities and turn them into something like unicorns failed to deliver and Martin exited in 2018, admittedly after trousering a huge chunk of cash. Today things are looking an awful lot… Read more »

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