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BELFAST – DIRECTED BY KENNETH BRANAGH

Date: January 27, 2022 - MoviesReviews

KENNETH BRANAGH’S autobiographical Belfast has been on a strategic path to the awards red carpet since it launched on the festival circuit last September. It picked up the People’s Choice Award at the Toronto Film Festival and has performed well with audiences at assorted gigs since. There were also seven Golden Globe nominations, winning one… Read more »

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Michael O'Keeffe

MICHAEL O’KEEFFE’S NEW CASTING

Date: January 27, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

HAVING PRESIDED at the top of the broadcasting regulatory and funding regime for decades, Michael O’Keeffe retired as chief executive of the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) last year. He has just popped up as a director of Áine Moriarty and Deirdre Hopkins’ Irish Film and Television Academy operation, having been appointed a director of… Read more »

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John FitzGerald

FITZGERALD LOOKS UP

Date: January 27, 2022 - Fowl Emissions

NETFLIX VIEWING records were broken this month by ‘Don’t Look Up’, a meteorite disaster movie that brilliantly satirises political and media indifference to the threat of climate apocalypse. Some film critics have dismissed the satire as heavy-handed and lacking subtlety, but in a world where economists debate whether saving the planet is worth the ‘cost’ of climate… Read more »

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Bruce Stanley

STANLEY’S OPERA ROLE

Date: January 27, 2022 - High Society

THE LATEST member of the cast at Irish National Opera is accountant and tax expert Victor ‘Bruce’ Stanley who is something of the culture vulture. Apart from his day job as a tax partner at accountancy firm HLB Sheehan Quinn in Sandyford, he is a director of assorted arts entities. Stanley can boast more cultural… Read more »

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Joseph O'Brien

JOSEPH O’BRIEN’S TV RUN

Date: January 27, 2022 - The Hot Water Brigade

INTERESTING to see the Sindo reporting that Box to Box Films – the producers of the hit Netflix series Drive to Survive (about Formula One racing) – has turned its attention to the sport of kings. It is planning to produce a pilot for a series with the less than appealing working title of Ride… Read more »

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KATE O’CONNELL’S STRATEGY

Date: January 27, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

KATE O’CONNELL’S kite-flying stunt in the Irish Mail on Sunday about running as an Independent in the Trinners byelection can’t be dismissed, but it does not change her real ambition, namely, to get back into the Dáil via Dublin Bay South, preferably as a Fine Gael TD. O’Connell would have a reasonably strong profile and… Read more »

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VOL 40 NO 02

Date: January 27, 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

JAMES MACGUILL’S ELECTION

Date: January 27, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

CONGRATULATIONS TO legal eagle James MacGuill SC, who has just taken up the prestigious role of president of the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE). The lawyer, who is managing partner of MacGuill and Co – which has offices in Dundalk and Dublin – was elected as CCBE president just before Christmas…. 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

THE WORKERS ARE REVOLTING

Date: January 27, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

THE LATEST lobbying returns reveal that the Convenience Stores and Newsagents Association (CSNA) lobby group has been busy trying to put some manners on the workers employed (or rather not employed) by their members. The high-profile chief executive of the CSNA is Vincent Jennings, who has been in a tizzy for quite some time over… Read more »

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Simon Coveney

ARMY SEX ASSAULTS COVER-UP

Date: January 27, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

BROADCASTER KATIE Hannon’s RTÉ report on sexual assaults against women in the Defence Forces can’t be swept under the carpet, said retired army captain Deirdre Byrne, one of the Women of Honour who met with the defence minister Simon Coveney this week. At the time, a departmental spokesperson said it was “very concerned” at the report and that 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

THE RATHGAR INQUISITION

Date: January 27, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

THE STRANGE case of the disappearing priest and other Church activists from the Church of Three Patrons in Dublin’s Rathgar in recent months has perplexed parishioners there. They were further baffled when matters came to a head with the removal of Father Michael Commane, its fondly regarded celebrant, as parish chaplain following the earlier transfer… Read more »

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Jackie Cahill

JIHAD’ AGAINST FARMERS

Date: January 27, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

TAOISEACH MICHEÁL Martin recently welcomed the setting up of the Climate Bar Association as a step towards improved legal expertise on environment and climate issues. These are, he reminded the launch symposium, “the defining issues of our times”. Martin’s new-found concern for access to justice for environmental protection is a long way from his thinly… Read more »

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David Collier

ISRAEL’S IRISH CAMPAIGN

Date: January 27, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

FRESH FROM his assault on the Republic of Ireland, its body politic and media for being thoroughly antisemitic, Israeli polemicist David Collier (see The Phoenix, 17/12/21) has been explaining to Revelation TV in Britain how the Irish have been corrupted and how we are facing retribution on a grand scale for our sins. Ireland has been… Read more »

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Sarah Ryan

SARAH RYAN’S RIGHT-ON JOURNEY

Date: January 27, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

IT IS perhaps not too surprising to see that one Sarah Ryan has now joined the board of the conservative ‘think tank’ founded by Richard Miller in the late 1980s – the Edmund Burke Institute. It has been quite the transformation for the one time Fianna Fáil hopeful. Ryan is the daughter of former FF… Read more »

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Aengus O'Snodaigh

ETHICAL ARMS DEALERS?

Date: January 27, 2022 - Hush Hush

A QUICK look at the ‘Purchase Orders’ of the Department of Defence and the Defence Forces published each quarter shows that a large amount of money is being paid out to Aeronautics Defence Systems Ltd. In the last quarter published, from July to September 2021, the company was paid €228,000. In fact, since 2015 the company… Read more »

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Lorraine Barry

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: January 27, 2022 - The Hot Air Brigade

I was praying Dancing With The Stars would come back this year because the whole country needs it in these months. Lorraine Barry on the return of DWTS, RSVP Live Down the years [Operation Transformation] has shipped flak for parading the leaders in lycra during the weekly weigh-ins… But Kathryn Thomas points out that the… Read more »

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Jeffrey Donaldson

DONALDSON DROWNING

Date: January 27, 2022 - Northwind

T.S. ELIOT said April is the cruellest month. The DUP leader, Sir Jeffrey Donaldson, may beg to differ. January has been disastrous for him. His hopes that his uncompromising stand on the Northern Irish Protocol would pay off with increasing electoral support have been dashed. He is also blamed for the failure of the attempt… Read more »

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Sorca Clark

SINN FÉIN APPEASES FIANNA FÁIL

Date: January 27, 2022 - Last Refuge

IT HAS taken Micheál Martin, or should that read Leo Varadkar (with help from Simon Coveney), the best part of two years but Fianna Fáil has now caught up with and even surpassed Fine Gael. The stats are still variable but a trend is now emerging whereby FF appears to have at least levelled with… Read more »

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Brian Fitzgerald

MEATH MATTERS

Date: January 27, 2022 - Last Refuge

WEXFORD COUNTY councillors may love their chief executive Tom Enright despite (or perhaps because of) him leaning heavily on the local radio station, but nine Meath councillors have just scored a significant victory over council officials in a row that also touched on the media and the public right to know. As Goldhawk first noted… Read more »

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Michael McDowell

‘IRISH TIMES’ STANDS FIRM

Date: January 27, 2022 - Fit to Print?

HAS THE Irish Times taken on the responsibility of confronting the forces of republican darkness in these dangerous times now that its own polls show a chunk of its ABC target market has succumbed to the siren call of Mary Lou? How to explain the commissioning of neurotic opinion columns railing against Sinn Féin by former hacks… Read more »

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Katy Hayes

KATY HAYES AND THE WOMEN

Date: January 27, 2022 - Fit to Print?

TIMING IS, as they say, everything. But while most British readers may not have been outraged at last week’s Sunday Times critical tract, “too many Irish plays depict violence against women” – published a mere four days after the murder of Ashling Murphy – Irish women and many men will have been apoplectic at the article in the ST’s… Read more »

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FILM CENSORED

Date: January 27, 2022 - Fit to Print?

FILM-MAKER Teresa Lavina says film festivals and cinemas have been unwilling to screen her documentary ‘Untold Secrets’ centering on a survivor of the Tuam Mother and Baby Home – after receiving legal letters on behalf of the Killilea family of Tuam, Co Galway. This followed its premiere at the Galway Film Fleadh in July of… Read more »

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NOT SO GREEN HYDROGEN

Date: January 27, 2022 - Fowl Emissions

“A WORLD first that would make Australia a global leader,” was how Australian prime minister Scott Morrison described a historic shipment of liquid hydrogen to Japan last week. While this might be good news for Japan, which can count this as a zero-emissions fuel for cars and power plants, it’s a filthy mess for Australia…. Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: January 27, 2022 - Bog Cuttings

‘F**king Muppets’ Two neighbours who pleaded guilty to charges of using abusive language towards gardaí seizing a car at the side of the road were each sentenced to 150 hours of community service in Cork District Court. Sergeant John Kelleher told the court that gardaí were seizing a car parked outside 30 Templeacre Avenue, Gurranabraher,… Read more »

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JONATHAN BEWLEY’S FOUNDATION

Date: January 27, 2022 - High Society

ONE OF the lower-profile charities here is the Bewley Foundation, overseen by Jonathan Bewley, the great grandson of the founder of the Jacob’s biscuit group, William Jacob. Jonathan was probably celebrating with more than tea and bikkies after a stellar year from his Bewley Foundation, pandemic or no. Since his exit from the family’s biscuit… Read more »

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Cyril Camus

BARON RAVELSTOKE’S BRANDY BUDDY

Date: January 27, 2022 - High Society

WITH RESTRICTIONS being lifted globally, it is expected that there will be a post-pandemic boost to the sales of expensive liquor. At least that is what Cyril Camus, the minted head of the famous Camus cognac house in France, is hoping. Certainly, sales of premium brandy would be expected to shift a fair few more… Read more »

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Colm Tóibín

COLM TÓIBÍN GETS THE GIG

Date: January 27, 2022 - Behind the Scenes

THE ANNOUNCEMENT by the Arts Council of scribbler Colm Tóibín as the new Laureate for Irish Fiction is unlikely to surprise too many people given his impressive record as a writer and unbridled ambition. In the end, Tóibín was one of just four writers contacted who confirmed that they would accept the 2022-2024 gig. Goldhawk… Read more »

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GER CONNOLLY’S HEADACHE

Date: January 27, 2022 - Behind the Scenes

THERE WAS a bit of a plot twist for Ger Connolly, director of the Irish Film Classification Office, whose operation has suffered an income drop of a third due to a combination of pandemic-related cinema closures and the rise and rise of streaming, even for new film releases. Next year will be the centenary of… Read more »

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DID YE HEAR MAMMY DIED? - SÉAMAS O’REILLY

DID YE HEAR MAMMY DIED? – SÉAMAS O’REILLY

Date: January 27, 2022 - BooksBooks|ReviewsReviews

THIS AFFECTIONATE childhood account about growing up on the Derry-Donegal border during the 1990s is one of several recent memoirs set during the Troubles in the north. The author is best known as a columnist on parenting for the Observer and for regular pieces in various other newspapers. This effort at a novel tends, however, to… Read more »

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Jim Balfry

JIM BALFRY’S COMEBACK

Date: January 27, 2022 - Sport of Kings

THERE WAS an interesting face in the winners’ enclosure at Punchestown last week. Jim Balfry – the former manager of the controversial ownership syndicate Supreme Racing – appeared in the photograph for winning connections after the Pat Doyle-trained Knockanard Lady made a winning debut in the bumper for owners, the John Battersby Racing Syndicate. It… Read more »

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Craig Suann

SUANN DRUGS REPORT

Date: January 27, 2022 - Sport of Kings

THE ANTI-DOPING protocols of the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB) were given a seal of approval following that comprehensive review undertaken by the oireachtas agriculture committee, published late last year. Despite this thumbs-up, however, the IHRB is paying an independent expert to carry out a similar audit. Retired Australian vet Craig Suann has been tasked… Read more »

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NOT SO APPEALING

Date: January 27, 2022 - Sport of Kings

TWO SIGNIFICANT ‘non-trier’ cases from late in 2021, in which the IHRB dished out a hefty €12,000 in fines, came before the appeals panel last week and there were mixed fortunes for the trainers involved. On balance, though, the panel for each case deemed the race-day stewards were correct in their findings. Clare trainer Brian… Read more »

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Tim Husbands

HUSBANDS’S DRY JANUARY

Date: January 27, 2022 - Sport of Kings

WITH THE Dublin Racing Festival on the horizon, Leopardstown boss Tim Husbands is dealing with the unusual scenario of more or less a full house of punters passing through the turnstiles and the possibility of a distinct lack of horses competing for the prestigious prizes over the two days. After abandoning the prospect of welcoming… Read more »

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Keith McGrane

CORRE ENERGY’S VERY LONG TERM SCHEDULE

Date: January 27, 2022 - Moneybags

ALONG WITH HealthBeacon, another recent arrival on the Dublin Stock Euronext Growth Market is Corre Energy, helping to partly reverse the defections over the past decade from the Irish stock market as a result of takeovers and migration of listings to London. What is surprising is that Corre has been able to tap into significant… Read more »

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Margaret Sweeney

I-RES REIT FINALLY DUMPS COSTLY CONTRACT

Date: January 27, 2022 - Moneybags

IRISH RESIDENTIAL Properties(I-Res) REIT floated in 2014, at which stage Capreit, the Canadian company behind the group, signed itself up to a lucrative management deal whereby it got 3% of total rent income plus 1.5% pa of the total value of the apartments bought, as well as remunerating Capreit for the direct costs incurred. Moneybags pointed… Read more »

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Kilcoran Lodge Hotel

PAUL BOWES’S HOTEL BILLS

Date: January 27, 2022 - The Hot Water Brigade

AN OLD pal of Goldhawk’s popped up just before Christmas with a circuit court application to appoint an examiner to the company that owns the Kilcoran Lodge hotel in Cahir, Co Tipperary. Given his past record, Goldhawk is confident that the irrepressible Paul Bowes will see his way through this latest challenge. Bowes and fellow… Read more »

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