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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: April 7, 2022 - Bog Cuttings

‘Big F***ing Thick’ DUNDALK DISTRICT Court heard the case of Jim Cash (37) of Boot Road, Clondalkin, Dublin 22, who was charged with using abusive language towards a garda after being informed that his vehicle was about to be seized. Cash, who failed to appear for the case which was listed for a contested hearing,… Read more »

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Catherine Tate

KIERAN’S CORRIGAN’S NAN

Date: April 7, 2022 - Behind the Scenes

BACK IN 2019 Catherine Tate’s The Nan Movie was shot in Ireland with Goldhawk’s old pal Kieran Corrigan handling the €1m-€2m tax credit bounty provided by taxpayers for the film. Having taken the decision to bypass the po-faced critics, it looks like the comedienne will have the last laugh. The special vehicle firm that Corrigan… Read more »

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PAT KIELY’S BIG DEAL

Date: April 7, 2022 - Behind the Scenes

CONGRATULATIONS ARE in order for ex-Virgin Media television boss Pat Kiely, whose decision to go it alone is paying off. Kiely is a well-known face in Irish media but branched out a couple of years ago, having spent more than 20 years at Virgin (and its predecessor TV3), ending up as MD. He set up… Read more »

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Jessica Harrington

HARRINGTON’S WRIST SLAP

Date: April 7, 2022 - Sport of Kings

WHEN THE Co Kildare premises used by the now high-profile equine therapist John Warwick were raided by Department of Agriculture officials in tandem with the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB) last November, Jessica Harrington was one of a handful of trainers who happened to have a horse present on the facility – receiving treatment from… Read more »

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Ado McGuinness

ADO’S PUNT PAYING OFF

Date: April 7, 2022 - Sport of Kings

WHEN TRAINER Ado McGuinness convinced owner Gary Devlin to fork out a reputed €¼m for recent Dubai winner A Case Of You a little more than a year ago, it would have been considered a risky enough punt. Although the horse had shown considerable promise as a two-year-old for ex-trainer John McConnell, A Case Of… Read more »

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Robbie Dunne

DUNNE’S EARLY RETURN

Date: April 7, 2022 - Sport of Kings

ROBBIE DUNNE was vindicated in lodging an appeal against his 18-month suspension for his bullying of fellow jockey Bryony Frost. The reduction in the jockey’s ban to 10 months means he can attempt to get his career back on track in October, just as the jumps season begins to get into gear again after a… Read more »

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THE GROUP CHAT

THE GROUP CHAT

Date: April 7, 2022 - PodcastsPodcasts|ReviewsReviews

THIS PODCAST from Virgin Media is aiming to capitalise on the sizeable social media popularity of its news reporters Richard Chambers, Zara King and Gavan Reilly – whose combined Twitter following exceeds 300,000. The Group Chat’s frothy tone was established by the trio’s promo appearances prior to its launch. King’s visit to The Six O’Clock Show was… Read more »

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THE COLONY - AUDREY MAGEE

THE COLONY – AUDREY MAGEE

Date: April 7, 2022 - BooksBooks|ReviewsReviews

THE EMOTIONAL power that distinguished Audrey Magee’s 2014 debut novel The Undertaking earned her widespread critical praise. Written in simple, understated language, her alternate view of life in Nazi Germany was an absorbing story of ordinary people in extraordinary times. Magee’s fans expecting more of the same will be disappointed, as The Colony is let… Read more »

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Bertrand Gautier

GREENCOAT BOARD SHOULD TERMINATE INVESTMENT MANAGER CONTRACT

Date: April 7, 2022 - Moneybags

THE LATEST fundraising exercise by wind farm owner Greencoat Renewables went off without a hitch but the biggest beneficiary of the group’s activities continues to be the ‘investment manager’, Greencoat Capital LLC, which earns big bucks in fees. While the unsatisfactory contract can be terminated by the board this July, investors should not hold their… Read more »

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John Teeling

BOTSWANA DIAMONDS STARTING TO SHINE

Date: April 7, 2022 - Moneybags

DIAMOND MINING is not the kind of business that attracts too many Irish entrepreneurs, particularly as the industry is an effective monopoly, dominated by the giant South African De Beers group. At the moment there are two interesting players with very different strategies – the highly experienced John Teeling and relative newcomer Dermot Desmond. The… Read more »

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Martin Cullen

MARTIN CULLEN’S COMEBACK

Date: April 7, 2022 - Briefcases

THE BUILD-UP to the Dublin City LGBT Pride festival has begun in earnest as the various corporate entities prepare to display their rainbow credentials for all to see. (The organisers previously reacted to criticism of the hijacking of the annual event by big business by pushing the corporates who stump hard cash – Facebook, Tesco,… Read more »

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Tom Ryan

TOM RYAN’S LEGAL BILLS

Date: April 7, 2022 - Briefcases

THERE WAS no luck for Goldhawk’s old friend, Tom Ryan, whose bid to appeal €8.5m in judgments in the UK has suffered a setback. He remains one of the more interesting characters to have appeared in the pages of The Phoenix down through the years, stretching back to his so-called Ryan’s Irish Cream liqueur business,… Read more »

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Ellie Kisyombe

ELLIE’S BUSY SCHEDULE

Date: April 7, 2022 - Briefcases

IT WAS a busy week of news coverage for Ellie Kisyombe, self-described “public figure, politician, mum, food & direct provision campaigner”, as well as hot sauce maker, Irish food cafe award winner, and the co-founder of ‘Our Table’, a charity-cum-SME that aims to end direct provision in Ireland while providing culinary training for employment. Phew!… Read more »

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UNIPHAR’S D6 DUD

Date: April 7, 2022 - Briefcases

HAVING REPORTED a most impressive set of 2021 results last month, Goldhawk was surprised to see a creditors’ meeting called for one of healthcare giant Uniphar’s pharmacies in Rathmines, D6. Uniphar is involved in an array of medical and pharmaceutical operations and in 2020 the group – chaired by €176,000 pa chairman Maurice Pratt –… Read more »

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Fintan O'Toole

UKRAINE: ‘EDITORIAL FARM’

Date: March 24, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

THE RUSSIAN onslaught against Ukraine has revealed a surprising and disappointing dearth in the Irish media – with a few honourable exceptions – of anti-war journalists. Despite the cynical and brazen exploitation of the crisis by dozens of scribblers and self-serving interests to try and drag Ireland into a European war machine, there has been… Read more »

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Marian Keyes

PROFILE: MARIAN KEYES

Date: March 24, 2022 - Pillars of Society

IT’S ALMOST impossible to avoid the media frenzy that continues to accompany the release of Marian Keyes’s Again, Rachel, with wall-to-wall fawning coverage here and in the UK. Then again, it’s hardly surprising given the almost cult-like media following surrounding the Dublin-based novelist, who has sold 40 million copies of her 18 novels and four non-fiction… Read more »

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Duncan Smyth

YOUNG BLOOD: DUNCAN SMYTH

Date: March 24, 2022 - The Young Bloods

IN HISTORY it is often the person closest to the victim who inflicts the fatal wound, so it is perhaps not so surprising that it was one of Alan Kelly’s closest associates in the parliamentary party – the man who had nominated him for the leadership and had managed his campaign among the party membership,… Read more »

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Barry Andrews

BARRY ANDREWS GETS TOUGH

Date: March 24, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

WHAT A rabble-rousing politician MEP Barry Andrews has turned out to be, reverting to the more direct, radical tone of his grandfather Todd Andrews rather than his more patrician sounding father, former minister David Andrews. In recent months Andrews has verbally lashed moderate unionist, Irish… Read more »

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TRINITY’S UNIVERSITY CHALLENGE

Date: March 24, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

IT WILL be a tense couple of weeks for the deputy editor of Trinity College student paper, the University Times, who faces a challenge for the remunerated role of editor – the first time such an election has had to take place. It follows some controversial reporting by the title. UT is edited by Emer… Read more »

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Chanelle McCoy

CHANELLE MCCOY’S GOOD GOING

Date: March 24, 2022 - Briefcases

CHANELLE MCCOY, a former Dragon’s Den dragon raised a fair few bob for her new cannabidiol (CBD) extract company, Chanelle McCoy Health (CMH), where her hubby, legendary jump jockey Tony McCoy, is in situ as company secretary. This may help explain the arrival on the share register of one Ronnie Barrett. Chanelle has been raising… Read more »

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Denis O'Brien

DINNY’S HOTEL BILL

Date: March 24, 2022 - High Society

BILLIONAIRE Denis O’Brien’s campaign to help several Caribbean countries to seek slavery reparations from former colonial powers was highlighted in the Sunday Times earlier this month, courtesy of comments from Digicel board member Kieran Mulvey. Elsewhere in the paper there was a glowing review for one of Dinny’s more local endeavours. While O’Brien is as… Read more »

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John O'Conor

JOHN O’CONOR’S RED MENACE

Date: March 24, 2022 - High Society

IT IS perhaps not surprising in the current climate that organisations should be scrambling to display their anti-Putin credentials but the decision by the Dublin International Piano Competition (DIPC) to ban young Russian musicians from the deferred 2022 event looks like a desperate act and does not reflect well on the organisation whose chairman noted… Read more »

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Captain Patrick Bury

RTÉ’S UKRAINIAN EXPERTS

Date: March 24, 2022 - Fit to Print?

DR PATRICK BURY is regularly interviewed by RTÉ on the Russian invasion of Ukraine and is introduced as a lecturer at Bath university and a Nato analyst. But there is a bit more to the former British army officer than that. Irishman Bury told the Guardian some years ago that he visited the “excellent Parachute Regiment museum”… Read more »

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TONI & GUY’S HAIRCUT

Date: March 24, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

BACK IN the 1990s, Alan Boyce was revered by so-called fashionistas as the guy who modernised hairdressing in dreary old Dublin. No doubt, he has made a few bob in the decades since but it turns out that one of the more high-profile salons in Dublin city centre had been recording hair-raising losses. After Boyce… Read more »

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President Higgins

CIVIL WAR CIVILITY

Date: March 24, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

ALREADY THERE has been a clear schism between the government and President Michael D Higgins over how to deal with centenary commemorations of that sensitive subject, the Civil War. A recent statement from the government reflects its determination to avoid recrimination by one side or the other. The statement referred to the holding of a… Read more »

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Jim Allister

DUP DISARRAY

Date: March 24, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

IT IS 40 days to the north’s assembly election on May 5 and the Sinn Féin posters are already up in North Belfast while the DUP only selected its candidates for the constituency a week ago. That was because the two sitting MLAs, including the party deputy leader – a token woman political nonentity –… Read more »

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Cathal Divilly

HEIGH-HO…

Date: March 24, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

AN IMPENDING winding-up hearing in the High Court may have somewhat spoiled the Paddy’s Day celebrations for Cathal Divilly (CEO) and his partner, Jim Flynn, principals in Great Place To Work (Ireland) Ltd. This is the entity behind the annual back-slapping celebration of the best businesses in this country in which to put in 40… Read more »

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John Fitzgerald

BLOWIN’ IN THE WIND

Date: March 24, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

THE ECONOMIC and supply chain shockwaves from the war in Ukraine have re-energised the ‘realists’ to use the crisis as cover to push existing agendas with renewed zeal. At Irish and EU level, nature-friendly agri policies are in the firing line. In the name of ‘food security’, of course. A similar wave of ‘realism’ regarding… Read more »

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Andrew Deeks

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: March 24, 2022 - The Hot Air Brigade

“My personal plea to the Russian government is to immediately cease military operations in Ukraine.” UCD president Andrew Deeks’s email bulletin to staff, but is Putin listening? (submitted by reader) The watching world wants her to verbalise it, but that’s not her gift. Every sentence is – thus – dusted with the same, faintly bashful… Read more »

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Kate Hoey

‘FENIAN’ JUDGES RULE, OK!

Date: March 24, 2022 - Northwind

ON MARCH 14 the north’s Court of Appeal found the Irish Protocol and Withdrawal Act lawful and dismissed the challenge by leading unionists Jim Allister QC, and former UUP leader Steve Aiken and arch Brexiteers Baroness Kate Hoey and former Brexit party MEP Ben Habib. The court rejected all five grounds of the appeal in… Read more »

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John Carroll

VARADKAR: FOLLOW ME UP TO MALLOW

Date: March 24, 2022 - Last Refuge

PREPARATIONS FOR the replacement of the Fine Gael Agriculture Affairs Group (FGAAG) (see The Phoenix, 25/2/22) have not been running smoothly. This is despite the best efforts of Leo Varadkar, general secretary John Carroll and long-time (very long time) FGAAG chair George O’Connor. A Zoom meeting was called for last week and, when asked by… Read more »

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Ivana Bacik

LABOUR AND SOC DEMS TO UNITE?

Date: March 24, 2022 - Last Refuge

UNITY OF the left – or the Labour/Social Democrats part of the left – is highly prized by the former of these two parties but strongly resisted by the latter. But it may be that unless some progress is made towards unity that the two parties will both perish. The most damning commentary on the… Read more »

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BEST-LAID PLANS OF FF AND FG

Date: March 24, 2022 - Last Refuge

A FRETFUL Irish Times article last weekend reported (and appeared to agree) that government backbenchers believe the next election will be lost if it is about housing or health. It also quoted a government source as saying, significantly, that if the current polls stood up, Sinn Feín would still need either Fianna Fáil or Fine… Read more »

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Michael D Higgins

‘IRISH TIMES’ VALUES

Date: March 24, 2022 - Fit to Print?

THERE WAS a time when a broadside from President Michael D Higgins, direct or indirect, against government policy would stimulate controversy and sometimes even stern admonition, depending on the gravity of the issues addressed from the Áras. But the popularity of various statements by the president, in particular his decision to boycott an event honouring… Read more »

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‘SHOCK DOCTRINE’

Date: March 24, 2022 - Fowl Emissions

THIS YEAR’S Census form includes a box in which you can send a message to people 100 years in the future. The question of how habitable Ireland or the world will be in 2122 is frightening to contemplate, considering that two weeks before Census day 2022, there were simultaneous freak heatwaves in the Arctic and… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: March 24, 2022 - Bog Cuttings

GARDA A ‘RAT BASTARD’ A GARDA was verbally abused as “a rat bastard” and other insulting terms when he went to deal with a disturbance in Knocknaheeny. At Cork District Court Ian Locklear (35) of Killala Gardens, Knocknaheeny, was jailed after he pleaded guilty to engaging in threatening behaviour during the incident last December. Sgt… Read more »

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