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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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Fran McNulty

RTÉ DRAMA AWARD

Date: May 19, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

RTÉ’S FRAN McNULTY must have felt he was McNulty, front man in an episode of The Wire, rather than McNulty of Prime Time given the raft of rumours swirling around Montrose and the print media in the past few weeks. One thing is clear and that is that a row between McNulty and the managing… Read more »

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Kevin Cahill

HIGGINS, DR CAHILL AND THE NYC FRACAS

Date: May 19, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

THE DOCTOR at the centre of a controversial plan to sell off the most prestigious Irish-American building in the US has been ordered by a New York judge to attempt settlement of a case in which he is accused of sexually assaulting a patient after years of being ‘infatuated’ with her. Dr Kevin Cahill, 85,… 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

JOE MCHUGH’S EXIT

Date: May 19, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

THE RETIREMENT of former education minister, Donegal based Joe McHugh, is described as a blow to Fine Gael as the party, it is said, simply doesn’t have a candidate of McHugh’s calibre to retain its seat there. Cue rumours of various celeb candidates like mega-star footballer Michael Murphy, the county’s greatest ever player. However, the… Read more »

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Michael Collins

UNREST IN MICHAEL COLLINS COUNTY

Date: May 19, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

IN THIS the centenary of Michael Collins death in the Civil War, Cork Fine Gael members are not exactly brimming with pride or optimism about the future. Munster is the bedrock of FG, and Cork in particular is Blueshirt country. However, it managed to win just eight seats in the 11 Munster constituencies in the… Read more »

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Danny McCoy

McCOY’S FLEETING CLIMATE EPIPHANY

Date: May 19, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

IT IS widely assumed that within this government, only the Greens have any real interest in the climate crisis. However, there is growing evidence that taoiseach Micheál Martin now also knows exactly how bad the situation really is. Speaking at the recent ‘Dublin Climate Summit’ in UCD, hosted by business lobby group Ibec, Martin pulled… Read more »

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Paddy Prendergast

NO SET-TO IN WATERFORD

Date: May 19, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

TWO ACADEMICS have just made unexpected scholarly Odysseys from the country’s oldest university to the youngest. The first surprise was when former Trinity provost Paddy Prendergast re-emerged into a very different academic limelight as chair of the governing body of the South East Technological University (SETU). He certainly wanted something major to get his teeth… Read more »

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Jock Palfreeman

GENTLE EU POLICING

Date: May 19, 2022 - Hush Hush

WITH THE housing crisis; the logistics of helping Ukrainian refugees; and the furore over the National Maternity Hospital, a lot of the business of Leinster House may not be getting the usual scrutiny from political parties or the national media. Dáil Éireann recently backed the Prüm II proposal governing automated exchange of data between police… Read more »

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Pippa O'Connor

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: May 19, 2022 - The Hot Air Brigade

I think I was manifesting before I even realised what I was doing. Pippa O’Connor, VIP Magazine, submitted by reader Surprisingly for a couple noted for head-turning good looks, Paul, in white Adidas trainers and Phoebe, in clumpy black boots, sported unflattering black socks. Padraic Flanagan assesses Paul Mescal and Phoebe Bridgers, Irish Mail on… Read more »

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Naomi Long

ALLIANCE SURGE

Date: May 19, 2022 - Northwind

“SO YOU see now this growing middle ground of people who don’t want to be defined by religion or by ethnic or national identity and to me that is really encouraging and really presents an opportunity for a new Northern Ireland into the future.” This was part of Leo Varadkar’s lengthy response to Mary Lou… Read more »

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Willie O'Dea

FF-FG COALITION STRAINS

Date: May 19, 2022 - Last Refuge

THE OUTRAGED accusations from Fianna Fáil TDs and ministers against alleged dirty tricks by their Fine Gael counterparts over the National Maternity Hospital (NMH) and health minister Stephen Donnelly, have little to do with ‘clinically appropriate’ decisions. Nor is it a sign of paranoia on the part of FF TDs, although the latter have certainly… Read more »

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Martin Heydon

BLUESHIRT KULAKS REGROUP

Date: May 19, 2022 - Last Refuge

NOT SINCE Stalin massacred the Kulaks in the USSR did farmers receive such treatment as that meted out to the 11-year-old Fine Gael Agriculture Affairs Group (FGAAG) by the ruthless Bolsheviks at Mount Street HQ. The latter simply abolished the FGAAG, claiming that it was because the group had not held an AGM in 11… Read more »

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Michelle O'Neill

‘IRISH TIMES’ HAS BAD ELECTION

Date: May 19, 2022 - Fit to Print?

THE LATHER of excitement about the northern assembly elections whipped up by the Irish Times – stimulated by its craving for the hallowed middle ground or ‘Others’, to replace republicans and unionists – melted quickly in face of the results. But the champions of centrism in Tara Street certainly did their best to promote moderation… Read more »

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FT’S UNITED IRELAND LECTURE

Date: May 19, 2022 - Fit to Print?

WHAT AN interesting comment Financial Times contributing editor Philip Stephens made in his column last weekend about preparations (or not) for a united Ireland. Days before the northern assembly elections taoiseach, Micheál Martin put clear blue water between Sinn Féin’s demand that we prepare for a border poll and his own shared island agenda. He… Read more »

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Maeve Carton

OLD LADY OF TARA STREET’S TRUSTEES

Date: May 19, 2022 - Fit to Print?

WHAT A perfect business pedigree newly appointed governor of the Irish Times Trust, Maeve Carton, possesses and how well she will fit in with the recently developed corporate and right-wing ethos of the newspaper. Carton is certainly a heavy hitter and was for years a director at CRH. She also chaired the National Treasury Management… Read more »

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Eamon Ryan

EAMON RYAN AND BIG TECH’S FREE PASS

Date: May 19, 2022 - Fowl Emissions

THERE WAS a distinctly Churchillian, spirit-of-the-Blitz feel to the unveiling by environment minister Eamon Ryan last month of the Energy Security Emergency Group (ESEG), a committee to oversee Ireland’s response to the energy impact of the war in Ukraine. Rationing of fuel and electricity is among the war-time measures being considered, and a press release… Read more »

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DELOITTE’S COAL CLIENT

Date: May 19, 2022 - Fowl Emissions

DELOITTE IRELAND CEO Harry Goddard shared some profound words of wisdom on the subject of corporate climate leadership at the launch of DCU’s Centre for Climate and Society, of which Deloitte is a founding partner. “Bold and effective leadership is crucial,” he declared, adding that the climate crisis called for a “period of self-reflection on… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: May 19, 2022 - Bog Cuttings

FIGHT NIGHT DROGHEDA DISTRICT Court heard the case of one John Lynn (54) of Rathmullen Park, Drogheda, who was arrested for challenging gardaí to a fight in a pub. Staff at Fairgreen Bar on George’s Street, Drogheda, called gardaí to report that they were being verbally abused by an intoxicated man. When they arrived they… Read more »

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THE ASHMANS’ BOTTOM DRAWER

Date: May 19, 2022 - High Society

IAN AND VICKY Ashman, a couple of loaded English corporate solicitors who swapped legal briefs for the skimpy ones when they set up a lingerie firm here, have put their Killiney mansion on the market looking for no less than €12m and dissolved their Irish company. The former senior partners in international law firm Walkers… Read more »

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Pandemonium

PANDEMONIUM – JACK HORGAN-JONES/HUGH O’CONNELL

Date: May 19, 2022 - BooksBooks|ReviewsReviews

THIS IS the second book on the Covid-19 pandemic in Ireland. It also has two experienced political hacks as authors and benefits from this set-up. The two boys’ 337-page tome spans the period before the pandemic and the looming general election in 2020, right up to the effective ‘end’ of the crisis in February 2022…. Read more »

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Benjamin King

NETFLIX’S LOBBYING

Date: May 19, 2022 - Behind the Scenes

IT IS something of a paradox that, under legislation intended to bolster local and European culture against globalised mass media, the Irish taxpayer shells out far more moolah every year to offshore Anglophone productions than it does to productions originated and owned in Ireland. With a levy being proposed to redress the balance, Netflix has… Read more »

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ANDREW NOONAN’S NEW MENU

Date: May 19, 2022 - Behind the Scenes

AMONG THE number of festivals lined up for a presumably pandemic-free 2022 is the music/food mishmash that is the Big Grill Festival, now an annual beano in Herbert Park, Ballsbridge, D4. There have been some recent changes on the menu. Among the various participants this year will be Damien Grey of super expensive Liath, Jess… Read more »

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TYNER’S TIMING

Date: May 19, 2022 - Sport of Kings

WHEN CORK trainer Robert Tyner recently announced his intention to begin winding down his business after a successful 30-year career, citing the constant graft and a lack of staff as the main factors, there was no shortage of empathy and understanding from colleagues and commentators. Presumably, the move has nothing to do with a bit… Read more »

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Darragh O’Loughlin

O’LOUGHLIN’S IHRB PRESCRIPTION

Date: May 19, 2022 - Sport of Kings

USUALLY WHEN an outsider is appointed to a high-profile position in horseracing, there is a mention or two about how he or she has, at the very least, a passing interest in the sport or, more often, a long-held passion for the turf. There was not a peep, however, about any interest in the sport… Read more »

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Gary Morrison

HOSTELWORLD SHARES WELL PLACED FOR TRAVEL BONUS

Date: May 19, 2022 - Moneybags

HOSTEWORLD FOUND itself in a vulnerable place during the pandemic but is set to bounce back as people, especially younger ones, start travelling in large numbers again. The good news for CEO Gary Morrison and chairman Michael Cawley is that the last week’s market update confirms that the strong start in the first quarter of… Read more »

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Rita Fagan

WEIGHT WATCHERS CASH OUT

Date: May 19, 2022 - Briefcases

THE BUSINESS and methods of keeping the Irish public ship-shape (at least in terms of sheer bulk) has been an increasing topic of debate over the past 12 months, with the most recent series of RTÉ’s Operation Transformation, for example, finding itself under attack for focusing too much on weight loss. Indeed, there were calls… Read more »

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Aiden Murphy

PHILIP MAGUIRE’S POWER FAILURE

Date: May 19, 2022 - Briefcases

RADIO LISTENERS may have noted an ad campaign by the Roger O’Connor-chaired Sports Ireland Campus, which is spending a fair few bob promoting its Abbotstown complex. The campaign coincides with a Companies Office filing by Aiden Murphy, liquidator of a building firm, United Power, which was centrally involved in the development of the national indoor… Read more »

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