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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

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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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

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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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

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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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

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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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

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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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

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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Eirenne Carroll

TENI’S REPEAT PERFORMANCE

Date: February 10, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

IT’S A case of déjà vu at Transgender Equality Network Ireland (TENI). The lobbying group (chaired by Sara R Phillips) is once again late at filing its accounts, despite its significant funding by the state. And there have been changes at the top. Goldhawk has previously reported on TENI’s slowly-does-it approach to making its finances… Read more »

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Colette Connolly

BACKPEDALING IN GALWAY

Date: February 10, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

HOPES OF persuading some of the good citizens of Galway to leave their cars at home took a bit of a battering in recent weeks as city councillors took to social and local media to express strong opposition to their own plans for a temporary 3km cycleway along the seafront in Salthill. After coming under… Read more »

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National Party (South Africa)

EMBLEMATIC CONCERNS

Date: February 10, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

GOLDHAWK NOTES that a complaint has recently been lodged with clerk of the Dáil Peter Finnegan by Donegal councillor Micheal Cholm Mac Giolla Easbuig in relation to the right-wing National party’s status on the Register of Political Parties. Under the Electoral (Amendment) Act 2001, in order to be able to contest Dáil, European, local and… Read more »

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Sinead Gibney

BALLAD OF DISREGARDING JAIL

Date: February 10, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

FORMER CHAIRPERSON of the Gay and Lesbian Equality Network (GLEN) Kieran Rose was one of those who welcomed the appointment of Sinéad Gibney as chief commissioner of the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (IHREC) in February 2020. This followed many disputes and disagreements with the Department of Justice about IHREC appointments, with Rose himself… Read more »

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Geraldine Byrne Nason

IS IRELAND NEUTRAL IN MALI?

Date: February 10, 2022 - Hush Hush

AFTER TWO coups in Mali since June 2020 the country’s present junta is now looking to push out military forces associated with both the United Nations and the European Union, with Ireland’s small but politically significant forces involved with both. The UN Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) has more than 13,000 military personnel and nearly 2,000… Read more »

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Stephanie Priessner

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: February 10, 2022 - The Hot Air Brigade

There’s an argument for travel being covered under health insurance – it really can be a salve on a wounded psyche. Stephanie Preissner, on her family holiday in Abu Dhabi, Sunday Independent ‘Life’ magazine But let’s get ethnocentric, and back to the Irish Times. Fintan O’Toole is so much part of what this is. The… Read more »

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Liz Truss

DUP AND LOYALISTS COMBINE

Date: February 10, 2022 - Northwind

A FEW weeks ago Joe Joyce and Michael McDowell were getting hot under the collar in the Irish Times about outside, unelected people influencing Sinn Féin policy and querying who really leads the party. Ten days later, on January 28, DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson met the Loyalist Communities Council (LCC) at a community centre… Read more »

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Leo Varadkar

GENDERGATE PANICS BLUESHIRTS

Date: February 10, 2022 - Last Refuge

OH DEAR, Goldhawk’s predictions two years ago that a simmering row within Fine Gael over mandatory staff retirement at 65 would bubble over seems to be coming to pass. Of course, the party apparatchiks in Upper Mount Street paid little attention to the prognostications of what they consider a mangey old bird but the Workplace… Read more »

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Mary Lou McDonald

WHO WILL SF COALESCE WITH?

Date: February 10, 2022 - Last Refuge

SUNDAY INDEPENDENT pundit Jody Corcoran appears to have given up at last on both Fianna Fáil and taoiseach, Micheál Martin in his latest analysis of the newspaper’s own poll by Ireland Thinks polling agency. The Sindo has also retreated from its recent position that despite Sinn Féin consistently polling ahead of either FF or Fine… Read more »

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Peter Vandermeersch Mediahuis Awards

MEDIAHUIS SULKS OVER MEDIA AWARDS

Date: February 10, 2022 - Fit to Print?

WITH ETHICAL and egalitarian precepts in mind Newsbrands Ireland Journalism Awards were reorganised last year in a laudable effort to achieve balance, fairness etc. However, the results of this new methodology were not to the liking of Mediahuis, the country’s largest newspaper group, which is on the verge of walking away in a very large… Read more »

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Recent 'Indo' front page

PRICEY SEASONAL GESTURES

Date: February 10, 2022 - Fit to Print?

NEWSPAPER HEADLINES about soaring inflation – ‘highest in EU’ etc – are apt given the contribution of the newspaper owners themselves to this crisis over the cost of living with all the quality and middle-brow newspaper prices rising in the Christmas and new year period. However, while the papers splashed inflation across their front pages… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: February 10, 2022 - Bog Cuttings

‘Ya Gomie’ Midleton District Court heard the case of two men who were arrested for being threatening and abusive towards gardaí. Sgt Kelleher told the court that the guards were alerted to a group of about 20 youths drinking in public and when they arrived they were confronted by Keith O’Callaghan, of 11A Cushing Road,… Read more »

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DOINEANN – DIRECTED BY DAMIAN MCCANN

Date: February 10, 2022 - MoviesReviews

IT’S ALWAYS somewhat bewildering when advance press releases for a film give prospective audiences vital plot information they either won’t encounter when they see the film, or quickly discover is incorrect after they’ve paid the price of admission. Advance PR for Damian McCann’s Doineann tells us, “Tomás [Peter Coonan] is a successful television producer. Specialising… Read more »

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The raptures

THE RAPTURES – JAN CARSON

Date: February 10, 2022 - BooksBooks|ReviewsReviews

THIS IS Jan Carson’s follow-up to The Fire Starters, which portrayed a dystopian view of modern-day east Belfast and its people. The Ballymena writer’s latest novel is more of a genre hybrid – an unsettling account of mass trauma, a coming-of-age mystery story, and an exploration of innocence. It is a high-wire act that proves… Read more »

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Ana O'Brien

ANA O’BRIEN’S BIG SALES DAY

Date: February 10, 2022 - Sport of Kings

WITH BOTH Joseph and Donnacha O’Brien opting to steer their career down the same track as their parents, Aidan and Annemarie O’Brien, it is now the turn of another sibling – Ana – to show what impact she can make at the money end of the sport of kings. Ana – whose own career in… Read more »

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Cliodhna Guy

CLIODHNA’S HEAVY GOING

Date: February 10, 2022 - Sport of Kings

IT HAS not been an easy ride so far for IHRB acting CEO Cliodhna Guy, as she comes under pressure from the Public Accounts Committee to deliver on a target that is well overdue. It seems there were flaws in the procurement process rolled out by the IHRB to get CCTV installed in all racecourse… Read more »

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Rachael Blackmore

RACHAEL’S CHOICE

Date: February 10, 2022 - Sport of Kings

MANY PUNTERS would have been surprised not to see Rachael Blackmore in the saddle aboard Barry Maloney’s Cheltenham Gold Cup winner Minella Indo when the Henry De Bromhead-trained gelding lined up for the Irish Gold Cup at Leopardstown at the Dublin Racing Festival last weekend. Blackmore, who is De Bromhead’s stable jockey, chose the wrong… Read more »

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Ian Ireland

WILL IAN IRELAND OFFLOAD DONEGAL INVESTMENT GROUP?

Date: February 10, 2022 - Moneybags

IAN IRELAND, the CEO at Donegal Investment Group (DIG) – formerly Donegal Creameries – has really impressed over the past decade and a half and has extracted value from a hotchpotch of subscale businesses that had been built up inside the 123-year-old group. Will the next step be the sale of the group? Ireland’s biggest… Read more »

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Urs Jordi

URS JORDI PUTS ARYZTA BACK ON TRACK

Date: February 10, 2022 - Moneybags

THE FIVE-year chairmanship of Aryzta is the gig that Gary McGann may best be remembered for. He oversaw huge equity destruction, with the share price dropping from €40 when he went in as chairman in December 2016 to 46c, after turning in a €900m half-year pre-tax loss shortly before he exited completely. This share drop… Read more »

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Ian Lucey

IAN LUCEY’S CREDITORS’ MEETING

Date: February 10, 2022 - The Hot Water Brigade

GOLDHAWK’S favourite tech investor Ian Lucey is dealing with more major bugs at one of his companies. Having found himself coming out the wrong end of a High Court battle with Killiney-based developer Philip Gannon, Lucey Technology Ltd (LTL) is set to be wound up next week. LTL was Lucey’s investment vehicle, through which he… Read more »

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Michael Kavanagh

MICHAEL KAVANAGH’S WEALTH PROBLEM

Date: February 10, 2022 - The Hot Water Brigade

LAST MONTH, a company called Mittand collapsed into liquidation, with Gerard Murphy installed as liquidator. The name may not ring a bell with some of those who had done business with it in the past but that is because until the end of 2020 the name was Kavanagh Wealth Management Ltd (KWM). KWM was incorporated… Read more »

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Philip Meade Sr

PHILIP MEADE’S BIG POTATOES

Date: February 10, 2022 - The Hot Water Brigade

THE AMBITIOUS Philip Meade – Meath’s very own ‘potato king’ – has encountered resistance over plans to develop a vodka distillery on his sprawling Meade Farm enterprise. For the past few years, Meade has been expanding his farm (and putting his children, such as operations manager Eleanor, in charge of the business) but the increasing… Read more »

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VOL 40 NO 03

Date: February 10, 2022 -

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Sue Gray

SUE GRAY ‘RUNS UK’

Date: January 27, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

BORIS JOHNSON clearly has good reason to fear top British mandarin Sue Gray, given her reputation as perhaps the most powerful person in Britain. However, despite or perhaps because of this image, Sinn Féin deputy first minister Michelle O’Neill faced her down and vetoed her appointment to lead the Northern Ireland Civil Service (NICS) in… Read more »

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Oonagh O'Hagan

PROFILE: OONAGH O’HAGAN

Date: January 27, 2022 - Pillars of Society

TWO DECADES after buying Meagher’s Pharmacy, Oonagh O’Hagan has been engaging in a publicity blitz. This will come as no surprise given her uncanny ability to generate exposure for her business and herself with a particular talent for working the social media channels in conjunction… Read more »

Ursula Quill

YOUNG BLOODS: URSULA QUILL

Date: January 27, 2022 - The Young Bloods

IVANA BACIK’S victory in the Dublin Bay South (DBS) Dáil byelection was proclaimed at the time as heralding a return of the Labour party to the big time in Irish politics, but it looks as if the Seanad byelection in the Trinity constituency, caused by her Dáil success, is seeing a drawing in of the… Read more »

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Leo Varadkar

‘CHE’ VARADKAR

Date: January 27, 2022 - Last Refuge

FORMER FIANNA Fáil handler and Sunday Times columnist Gerry Howlin put it well at the weekend when calling Fine Gael under Leo Varadkar as a big spending party that talks about tax cuts. But even Howlin underestimates Vlad’s political promiscuity. In 2010 the politics behind the leadership battle between Enda Kenny and Richard Bruton were… Read more »

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Jim O'Callaghan

O’CALLAGHAN’S ELECTION MANIFESTO

Date: January 27, 2022 - Last Refuge

JIM O’CALLAGHAN’S offering to Fianna Fáil’s commission on the party’s “aims and objectives” – the title says much about the party’s problems – is really a leadership statement of claim and, as such, it touches some raw nerves in Micheál Martin’s leadership and those around him. The main strategic and political thrust of O’Callaghan’s document… Read more »

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Colm Toibin

COLM TÓIBÍN’S FINANCIAL PLOT TWISTS

Date: January 27, 2022 - The Hot Water Brigade

THIS MONTH Ireland’s most prolific and prestigious living writer (© The Guardian) Colm Tóibín picked up yet another accolade when he was named as the new Laureate for Irish Fiction by the Arts Council (see p19). Certainly, the columnist-novelist-playwright has plenty of diehard fans, although there was a time when the Companies Office was unlikely… Read more »

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