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MIKE MORRIS’S HOTEL HEADACHE

Date: May 19, 2022 - Briefcases

THE WESTERN PEOPLE reported last week that a “damaged” Mayo hotel is up for sale for €¼m. This is almost €3m less than was paid for it during the boom. The Belmont hotel is a name that will ring a bell with fans of Goldhawk (see The Phoenix 25/2/22). Owned by hapless hotelier Mike Morris,… Read more »

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Paddy Coveney

PADDY COVENEY’S PERKS

Date: May 19, 2022 - Briefcases

SANDWICH MAKER Greencore finally announced a replacement last week for Patrick Coveney, with DAA boss Dalton Philips getting the nod. It’s taken Greencore three months to find a replacement for Coveney, who had been in the hot seat since 2008, but had overseen a pretty hefty drop in the company’s share price from a high… Read more »

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Olga Shajaku

OLGA SHAJAKU’S ‘MISFORTUNE’

Date: May 19, 2022 - Briefcases

IMMIGRATION LAWYER and businesswoman Olga Shajaku, principal of MS Solicitors in Dublin 8, has been making a name for herself in promoting links between Ireland and Russia (at least until recently). Separately, the translation business she owns with hubby Agim ‘Jimmy’ Gashi – Word Perfect Translation Services Ltd – has been reporting impressive profits. Goldhawk… Read more »

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Joe Purcell

MINCON DRILLING DEEP TO KEEP UP WITH DEMAND

Date: May 19, 2022 - Moneybags

MINCON HAS become a global rock drilling equipment supplier, having been set up by Paddy Purcell in 1977 and now run by his sons, Joe (CEO) and Tom, who runs the American arm. They are continuing to expand the business, with the largest diameter down-the-hole (DTH) hammer drill in the world successfully tested last year… Read more »

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Alan Campbell

MI5, BBC, KINCORA … AND COVER-UPS

Date: May 5, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

IN FEBRUARY 2016 Dame Janet Smith published a 700-page report into sexual abuses by Jimmy Savile at the BBC. “The culture of the BBC enabled Savile to go undetected for decades and the BBC missed at least five opportunities to stop the abuse”, she wrote. BBC staff members were aware of complaints against Savile but… Read more »

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Mick Wallace & Clare Daly

PROFILE: CLARE DALY AND MICK WALLACE

Date: May 5, 2022 - Pillars of Society

THE DEMONISATION of Clare Daly and Mick Wallace is essentially a political witch-hunt but the media has created the impression of a political Bonnie and Clyde squaring up to the cops at home and the Feds in Brussels. At bottom, though, the behaviour of the… Read more »

Laura Bonner

YOUNG BLOOD: LAURA BONNER

Date: May 5, 2022 - The Young Bloods

AS THE millennial chief executive of the Muff Liquor Company (geddit?), Laura Bonner’s biggest skill lies with saying the right things. She has been cultivating a stage Oirish brand identity for her drinks company but the shareholder register has a rather more cosmopolitan identity, stretching from Dubai to the Cayman Islands. The 37-year-old Donegal businesswoman… Read more »

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Francesca McDonagh

FRANCESCA’S RUTHLESS STREAK

Date: May 5, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

AS GOLDHAWK noted recently (see The Phoenix 25/3/22), Francesca McDonagh’s €1m pa CEO role in Bank of Ireland (BoI) was “the ideal platform for her to position herself nicely” for a move to another bigger bank. Now it turns out she is off to a senior role at Credit Suisse, where she will reportedly double… Read more »

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Helen McEntee

McENTEE’S SOFT FOCUS MEDIA PITCH

Date: May 5, 2022 - Last Refuge

JUSTICE MINISTER and Fine Gael leadership aspirant Helen McEntee made a rather obvious sales pitch for the post in the Irish independent last Saturday – on the best sales day of the week in the country’s bestselling daily newspaper – in what looks like an effort to catch up with other contenders. After a period… Read more »

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Cecilia Ahern

CECELIA’S REVIEWS

Date: May 5, 2022 - Behind the Scenes

IT HAS been a busy few weeks for scribbler Cecelia Ahern, whose short story collection, Roar, has been adapted for Apple TV+. Not everybody is impressed with the results, however. The achingly on trend Roar – which sets out to deliver “a portrait of what it means to be a woman today” (yawn) – has… Read more »

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MAX BARRETT’S BOOK

Date: May 5, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

GOLDHAWK WONDERS how much the Red Cross will make out of sales (at a mere £95 a pop) of a book by Judge Max Barrett, The Art and Craft of Judgment Writing. Published in the UK, Max has earmarked any potential profits from its sales for the charity. Certainly, the beak knows a thing or… Read more »

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Daniel Kinahan

‘STAR’ KOs KINAHAN

Date: May 5, 2022 - Fit to Print?

BELATED VINDICATION accrued to the Irish Daily Star recently when the US of A led the western world in turning against the Kinahans and mercenaries everywhere scrambled for the bounty money on offer. But the Star was in a lonely place when it tried to organise a posse of sports/crime/current affairs media to boycott the… Read more »

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Barry Connolly

BARRY CONNOLLY’S KINDER SURPRISE

Date: May 5, 2022 - Briefcases

WHILE THE confectionery multinational Ferrero was in the news for all the wrong reasons last month due to the Salmonella outbreaks linked to its Kinder chocolate products, there was a nice surprise for marketing whizz Barry Connolly when the Italian-headquartered giant announced it had acquired the fast-growing Fulfil Nutrition ‘vitamin and protein’ bar brand (outside… Read more »

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VOL 40 NO 09

Date: May 5, 2022 -

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Charles Talbot

CHETWYND-TALBOT’S TROUBLES

Date: May 5, 2022 - High Society

OH DEAR, Goldhawk is rather taken aback that his esteemed and noble friend Charlie Talbot is in a spot of bother over his commercial activities. Charlie is better known in these parts as Earl of Waterford and Baron of Dungarvan but in the House of Lords he sits as a hereditary Tory peer under his… Read more »

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IAN CURLEY’S MANSIONS

Date: May 5, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

IT WILL not have gone unnoticed that St Ann’s, a posh pile overlooking Killiney bay, has just gone on the market for a whopping €7.5m. It turns out that the moneybags offloading it had already swapped it for another mansion, also overlooking the bay, albeit one that required the controversial demolition of what the Irish… Read more »

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Tyrone McKillen

TYRONE MCKILLEN MOVIE PLOT

Date: May 5, 2022 - Briefcases

GIVEN THE number of different players now getting into the high-stakes film studio business in Ireland, it is perhaps not surprising that one of the projects – James Morris and Alan Moloney’s 56-acre Grangecastle Media Park – could be the subject of a nail-biting drama in the Four Goldmines. Fans of Goldhawk will recall (see… Read more »

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George Orwell

‘IRISH TIMES’ ATTACKS NATO!

Date: May 5, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

MOST PEOPLE probably think that because of recent clear-cut poll conclusions, the Russian inspired debate about neutrality is over and that the good guys won, ie, the government will drop its efforts to abandon neutrality. Most people would be wrong. For a start, there is more than one debate, that is, whether or not we… Read more »

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Peter Fitzgerald

RANDOX’S TESTING TIME

Date: May 5, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

LAST WEEK, the Advertising Standards Authority of Ireland (ASAI) reported that it had received 1,450 complaints in 2021 in relation to more than 900 advertisements. More recent complaints include ones relating to the seriously profitable Randox operation, and a ruling on this is expected next month. Fans of horseracing will have found it impossible to… Read more »

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IRISH MEDIA’S METHODS

Date: May 5, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

‘IRELAND FOR UKRAINE’ describes itself as “a united response from Irish media organisations to harness the generosity of the Irish public and ensure it reaches those who need it most”. To this end, the Community Foundation for Ireland, which boasts “22 years in philanthropy and grant masking”, has organised for media to raise funds for… Read more »

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Kevin Cahill

‘ANOTHER’ PRESIDENT HIGGINS?

Date: May 5, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

FOREIGN MINISTER Simon Coveney and various New York-based Irish officials heaved sighs of relief last St Patrick’s Day but one (2021) when New York attorney general, the formidable Letitia ‘Tish’ James, announced a “thorough review” of matters at the American Irish Historical Society (AIHS). But barely a year later, the same minister and mandarins will… Read more »

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Pat Hayes

PAT HAYES’S HORSEPLAY

Date: May 5, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

WITH THE crowds back at Punchestown and Gordon Elliott passing the 2,000 winners mark, the general consensus was that the trainer is now fully over that dead horse photo controversy that knocked him off his stride. What the Master of Cullentra’s fans believe, of course, is that Elliott was publicly scapegoated and harshly treated, given… Read more »

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General Philip Breedlove

FROM RATHGAR WITH LOVE

Date: May 5, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

‘DR STRANGELOVE’ lives, it appears, with former Nato Supreme Allied Commander Europe General Philip Breedlove doing a more than passable imitation of the hawkish US commander as depicted in the film of that name in an RTÉ interview last Sunday. The general expressed his contempt for the lily-livered western governments’ reliance on sanctions against the… Read more »

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Andrew Parker

THE POWER OF BABEL

Date: May 5, 2022 - Hush Hush

AFTER THE death of George Floyd two years ago, protests erupted all over the USA, which police were barely able to contain. Curfews were introduced in more than 200 cities and the national guard was mobilised in more than 30 states. The day after Floyd’s murder, the Minneapolis police force fired tear gas and rubber… Read more »

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Mark Little

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: May 5, 2022 - The Hot Air Brigade

He is someone who obviously bends reality to his own will, whether it’s gravity or launching electric cars. Mark Little on Elon Musk, Morning Ireland RTÉ Radio 1, submitted by reader Raffishly endearing rather than smart-arsed. Newstalk’s Anton Savage gets the Mick Heaney seal of approval, IT, submitted by reader That question sparked a journey… Read more »

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Boris Johnson

BORIS TO SHAFT EXECUTIVE

Date: May 5, 2022 - Northwind

TUV LEADER Jim Allister told an anti-protocol rally in Ballymena on May 1, “We must bring the mendacious prime minister … to the point where he has to make a choice. The leverage we have is to make the prime minister choose: do you want to save the protocol, or do you want to save… Read more »

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Leo Varadkar

VARADKAR, DPP AND THE PUBLIC INTEREST

Date: May 5, 2022 - Last Refuge

WHAT A speedy riposte came from the Irish Times last week to the Sunday Independent’s unnerving front page story that said the DPP would not have decided on whether to prosecute Leo Varadkar by the time he was due to become taoiseach next December. And more reassuring noises came in last weekend’s Business Post, which… Read more »

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Micheál Martin Sinn Féin Mary Lou McDonald

COALITION SQUEEZE

Date: May 5, 2022 - Last Refuge

RECENT POLLS have given some encouragement to Micheál Martin and Fianna Fáil as they draw much closer to Fine Gael. Although the latter is still a handful of points ahead of FF in most polls the gap is much closer and it’s a long time since FG was polling multiples of FF’s percentage. The record… Read more »

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Sharon Keogan

ABOLITIONIST SENATOR SHARON KEOGAN

Date: May 5, 2022 - Last Refuge

INDEPENDENT SENATOR Sharon Keogan is ‘provocative … speaks her mind … tells it like it is’ etc, but despite her feminist and left-wing critics she has stuck to her principles and has also brushed up against authority figures in her former party Fianna Fáil down the years. A former member of the FF executive, Sharon… Read more »

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IAN HYLAND’S AWARDS

Date: May 5, 2022 - Fit to Print?

A WARM glow descended on the grandiose awards ceremony run by Business & Finance magazine when it came to the special TK Whitaker Award which went to the late John and Pat Hume. Surprise guest Bono presented the award to the Hume family and B&F co-owner Ian Hyland, who specialises in these feelgood, tinsel town… Read more »

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Nadia Dobrianska

AZOV HUMAN RIGHTS

Date: May 5, 2022 - Fit to Print?

IRISH-SPEAKING Nadia Dobrianska works for a human rights organisation in her native Kyiv and has become quite the Irish media darling. Dobrianska works for ZMINA, which “aims to promote human rights, the rule of law and the ideas of civil society in Ukraine”. In a recent ZMINA report, ‘The situation of human rights defenders and civil activists… Read more »

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Michael McDowell

VARADKAR WINDS UP PARTY TDs

Date: May 5, 2022 - Fowl Emissions

WHILE YOU wouldn’t think it based on the tone of the recent public debate, there is, in fact, a solid majority of Irish people who favour banning peat. Almost seven in 10 of the 4,000 respondents to a national survey carried out by the Environmental Protection Agency last year supported such a ban, to include… Read more »

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GERRY MURPHY’S FORECAST

Date: May 5, 2022 - Fowl Emissions

MET ÉIREANN has been doing some media outreach of late, with forecaster Gerry Murphy in studio with Claire Byrne on RTÉ radio to talk about a weather phenomenon called ‘la ñina’. He sounded distinctly uncomfortable on climate issues, explaining how “climate change is very hard to pin down to any specific event”, adding that you… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: May 5, 2022 - Bog Cuttings

‘HOW MANY JUDGES I KNOW’ DONAGH CALLANAN (52) of Toames West, Macroom, Cork, appeared before Cork District Court in relation to an incident in February 2022. Gda Thomas McKenna told the court that he was on patrol on Oliver Plunkett Street when he was approached by a woman who said she had been hassled by… Read more »

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IRISH TIMES CHOICES

Date: May 5, 2022 - High Society

THE INCREASINGLY eclectic selection of personalities for the obituary page of the Irish Times saw a thousand words devoted last month to one Mary Taylor Walton Curley (who she? – Ed), who died in Manhattan in March at the grand old age of 97. It is a constant challenge on Tara Street to find enough… Read more »

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Ossie Kilkenny

SELLING SLEVOIR HOUSE

Date: May 5, 2022 - High Society

A CO Tipperary pile is on the market with a hefty asking price. It has had some interesting previous owners, some of whom came unstuck. The sprawling Slevoir House in Terryglass, once owned – but quickly sold on by the Squire of Ballyfin House, Fred Krehbiel – has a price tag of just on €3m,… Read more »

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