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Sarah Bunting Irish Language

WEAPONISING IRISH

Date: September 19, 2024 - Last Refuge

THE DUP has once again raised the charge that Sinn Féin is “weaponising” the Irish language, as Belfast City Council issues a draft language policy for consultation with the public. The draft includes proposals to allow for the use of Irish or English in correspondence with the council, along with Ulster Scots. It also sets… Read more »

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Mark Ryan Religious Orders

ONLY CATHOLICS ABUSE CHILDREN

Date: September 19, 2024 - Fit to Print?

MOST ABUSE survivors surely could not have been taken in by the restrictive terms of reference in the scoping inquiry to determine the form of a statutory investigation into abuse in schools run by “religious orders” – except those who do not realise that it is only Catholic clerics that are covered by the term… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: September 19, 2024 - Bog Cuttings

‘THAT’S MY HASH’ Cork District Court heard the case of Patrick Fennelly (63), who was charged with a number of public order offences arising from several incidents in May and June this year. On May 30 the defendant appeared at Mercy University Hospital (MUH) in an intoxicated state and became abusive towards staff. Sergeant John… Read more »

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Una Carmody Dublin Theatre Festival

FESTIVAL CASTING CALL

Date: September 19, 2024 - Behind the Scenes

AFTER 13 years at the helm, Willie White is stepping down as artistic director and CEO of Dublin Theatre Festival (DTF). Would-be applicants have until the day after the curtain comes down on this year’s shindig. The decision on the new festival boss will essentially be down to the DTF’s chairwoman, arts consultant and Arts… Read more »

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A MATTER OF PERSPECTIVE

Date: September 19, 2024 - Behind the Scenes

DÉSIRÉE FINNEGAN’S Screen Ireland (SI) has just launched yet another funding initiative, Perspectives, which is intended to provide “a window into experiences and viewpoints that may not have been widely represented on the big screen before”. Apparently, the scheme is particularly interested in stories that can “touch on a wide range of experiences across Irish… Read more »

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Steve Parkin

STEVE PARKIN’S MOVES

Date: September 19, 2024 - Sport of Kings

FALLEN ANGEL, the Irish 1,000 Guineas winner and dual Group 1 winner, owned by Steve Parkin, has been sold to continue her racing career with Wathnan Racing. The Too Darn Hot filly had raced in Parkin’s Clipper Logistics colours for Karl Burke, winning four of her six starts. She first raced in the Wathnan colours… Read more »

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SHARK SLAPPED

Date: September 19, 2024 - Sport of Kings

FANS OF Goldhawk will recall (see The Phoenix 27/6/24) that a video of an uncovered dead horse in an open builder’s trailer, which was being towed by John ‘Shark’ Hanlon’s Boylesports-sponsored horse box to a factory for disposal, went viral. While Shark apologised for any distress caused, stating that the tarpaulin that had been covering… Read more »

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John Stewart

INTERCEPTING JOHN STEWART

Date: September 19, 2024 - High Society

GOFFS SUPREMO Henry Beeby and his team will have their fingers crossed that the free-spending Resolute Racing founder, John Stewart, will get to participate at the upcoming autumn sales, rather than spending his dosh at Coolmore. Former Toyota assembly line worker Stewart, who founded private equity firm MiddleGround Capital, went on a whirlwind spending spree… Read more »

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Development will ‘shrink’ the park

HERBERT PARK’S NEW NEIGHBOUR

Date: September 19, 2024 - High Society

LAST WEEK, Ballsbridge residents were greeted with a sign, erected on the ugly fencing fronting the controversial site on the edge of Herbert Park, announcing the 103 swanky new apartments that are to be erected there, years after the first planning application was submitted. The good news for the well-heeled potential purchasers is that 40… Read more »

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Luis Gallego Aer Lingus

AER LINGUS IN FOR A BUMPY RIDE

Date: September 19, 2024 - Moneybags

AFTER THE high-profile industrial relations stand-off at Aer Lingus, the airline is in the bad books of its owner, International Airlines Group (IAG). The underwhelming performance of the Irish business in the first six months of this year reflects the turbulence and, with senior management focused on the other airlines in the group, Aer Lingus… Read more »

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James Fitter

ONEVIEW HEALTHCARE IN SEARCH FOR RIGHT MEDICINE

Date: September 19, 2024 - Moneybags

IT WAS considered a surprising move when Darragh Lyons jumped ship from Malin Corp last Christmas, at a time when he seemed to be doing a decent job of sorting out the company’s various ailments. It is surely even more surprising that he has joined up with Mark McCloskey’s Blackrock-based Oneview Healthcare, taking over as… Read more »

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GAY FUTURE COUP

Date: September 19, 2024 - Briefcases

FOXROCK-BASED moneybags Ger O’Leary had plenty to celebrate last month after the part-time racehorse trainer saddled Doyen For A Drink to land Cartmel’s bank holiday Monday EWGA Handicap Hurdle on the 50th anniversary of the famous ‘Gay Future Coup’. O’Leary is best known for his control of the OKR Group, which includes high-profile franchises for… Read more »

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Mark Quick 9th Impact

MARK QUICK’S MANY HATS

Date: September 19, 2024 - Briefcases

IT’S BEEN a challenging few years for entrepreneur Mark Quick, who has dipped his fingers in a great many pies but pulled up relatively few plums lately. His eclectic track record, however, suggests he won’t be kept down for very long. Fans of Goldhawk will recall that Quick’s 9th Impact gaming company got a €170,000… Read more »

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Simon Harris Ireland Israel

HARRIS’S GAZA MOVE

Date: September 5, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

A FORTNIGHT ago, August 24, Taoiseach Simon Harris said there was no scope for Ireland to act unilaterally against Israel. A week later he implied he wanted to do just that, saying he had asked for fresh advice from the Attorney General about “trade at… Read more »

Roderic O'Gorman

PROFILE: RODERIC O’GORMAN

Date: September 5, 2024 - Pillars of Society

JUST AS the Green Party faces up to the imminent slashing of its dozen TDs to about half that number – on a good day – at the next general election, it has selected Roderic O’Gorman, a lightning rod for discontent, as its new leader. Eamon Ryan knew well what he was doing with the… Read more »

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Laura Fox

YOUNG BLOODS: LAURA FOX

Date: September 5, 2024 - The Young Bloods

AFTER THE turmoil created by the ‘great exodus of 2024’, Laura Fox has finally been pushed front and centre of the 2FM schedule. It was probably inevitable as – with the departures of Jennifer Zamparelli, Doireann Garrihy, the 2 Johnnies and Donncha O’Callaghan around the same time – Montrose was practically a ghost town. When Zamparelli… Read more »

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Conor Lenihan

GENDER TRAP FOR CONOR LENIHAN

Date: September 5, 2024 - Last Refuge

ONE OF the first but definitely not the last tale of woe from a disappointed general election hopeful who faces rejection because of the gender quota is likely to be that of former Fianna Fáil minister Conor Lenihan. Conor awaits his fate as FF apparatchiks and members of the national constituencies committee in Mount Street… Read more »

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PHIL HOGAN’S LONG WAIT

Date: September 5, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

IT TURNS out that Goldhawk’s favourite former EU commissioner, Phil Hogan, had to wait an awfully long time for an honorary doctorate from UCD. At the start of July, UCC graduate Big Phil received his award at a ceremony in Belfield but documents released to Goldhawk reveal that he had first been proposed all the… Read more »

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Jenny Keane

JENNY KEANE’S BOTTOM LINE

Date: September 5, 2024 - High Society

GOLDHAWK’S FAVOURITE ‘holistic sex educator’, Jenny Keane, shows no sign of slowing down after becoming a mother. Indeed, she has found yet more ways to put a smile on her face following what turns out to have been a financially pleasurable year in 2023. The camera-friendly Keane has an uncanny knack for generating headlines courtesy… Read more »

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David McWilliams Data Centres

McWILLIAMS’S BLUFF

Date: September 5, 2024 - Fowl Emissions

HERE’S THE choice: Ireland can either opt for a coherent national climate and energy strategy or we can back the rampant expansion of gigantic energy-sucking data centres to service multinationals. We assuredly can’t have both, as is becoming ever clearer. In 2015, some 5% of Ireland’s electricity production was used to power data centres. By… Read more »

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Abbey Theatre

THE ABBEY’S ‘SENSE OF RELIEF’

Date: September 5, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

CONGRATULATIONS TO the board of the €8.5m per annum Abbey Theatre, which pulled off quite the media coup in light of some damning findings in a corporate governance review carried out by Crowe-Ireland (CI). A summary of 12 findings was released last week and the… Read more »

Eddie Hobbs

EDDIE HOBBS’S SOUR TREAT

Date: September 5, 2024 - Briefcases

THE OFFICIAL end is nigh for one of the various businesses that financial adviser Eddie ‘Rip Off Republic’ Hobbs has backed over the years. Treatdrop Ltd is an e-commerce company co-founded by Hobbs in 2012. This was a few years before the implosion of the Brendan Investments Pan European Property vehicle he launched. It raised… Read more »

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Luke Comer Jnr

HEAVY GOING FOR THE COMERS

Date: September 5, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

BOTH LUKE Comer senior and junior, in the space of just six weeks, have had their racehorse training licences revoked by the Bowler Hats in the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB). The billionaire family may be starting to feel that they can’t catch a break. It was only in July this year that Monaco-based property… Read more »

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VOL 42 NO 18

Date: September 5, 2024 -

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Michael Mulcahy

MICHAEL MULCAHY’S MANY HATS

Date: September 5, 2024 - Briefcases

GOLDHAWK’S POST-Sunday-lunch indigestion was exacerbated by the work involved in deciphering the Sindo’s exciting tale of regrets, recriminations, homophobia and padel tennis last week. The good news is that “Cork PR guru” Michael Mulcahy, who now “deeply regrets” promoting the padel tennis business run by former tennis coach Mark White, is opening one of his… Read more »

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ODDS ON FOR IRTA

Date: September 5, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

NINE MONTHS after a devastating court of appeal ruling in a defamation case, the odds on the Irish Racehorse Trainers Association (IRTA) – whose directors include the likes of Aidan O’Brien and Gordon Elliott – falling at the next hurdle are shortening. A High Court action was taken against IRTA by the Irish Horseracing Regulatory… Read more »

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Robert Nairac

PEACE-WASHING CAPTAIN NAIRAC

Date: September 5, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

EVERY TIME the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims’ Remains (ICLVR) makes an initiative, behind the scenes ‘sources’ swing into action with stories depicting British Army undercover operative Robert Nairac as a most virtuous man – a latter day ‘Gentle Black and Tan’. Now that the ICLVR is hinting that it has located Nairac’s… Read more »

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Linda O’Shea Farren NUI Chancellor

NUI CHANCELLOR ELECTION

Date: September 5, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

THE PATRICIAN Seanad may be under threat from a vulgar populism in these menacing times but standards have been maintained in academia where a small portion of the 250,000 or so graduates of UCD, UCC, UofG, Maynooth University, the RCSI and the IPA will next month vote for the sixth chancellor of the National University… Read more »

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PÓGING THE THÓIN!

Date: September 5, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

I strongly suspect that everyone’s favourite peacemaker – Bono – also played a part. He’s thick as thieves with Noely G and his son Elijah Hewson is best friends with Noel’s daughter, Anaïs. The pair grew up together, nepo babying around the south of France. Elijah is a bona fide musician in his own right… Read more »

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Micheal Martin Nato

NATO CODS IRELAND

Date: September 5, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

WHEN IRELAND concluded its individually tailored partnership programme (ITPP) governing continued co-operation with Nato under Partnership for Peace from 2024 to 2028 in February, protection against threats to undersea infrastructure was floated as central to the logic of the agreement. The argument was that the undersea explosions that damaged the Nord Stream gas pipelines in… Read more »

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Eliza Manningham-Buller Stakeknife

MI5 BOSS: ‘I KNOW NAWTHING’

Date: September 5, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

Freddie Scappaticci was the UK’s most lethal mole in the IRA. His codename was Stakeknife. Last March the interim report of Operation Kenova concluded that a string of murders he perpetrated “could and should have been prevented [but] were allowed to take place with the… Read more »

Justin Barrett IFP

RIGHT-WING DIVISIONS

Date: September 5, 2024 - Hush Hush

With the general election imminent, Ireland’s new-right candidates are frantically trying to finalise preparations for their campaigns. Throughout August, however, internal divisions and the not-so-veiled threats of Justin Barrett to sabotage an electoral alliance have undermined any progress that had been made. In the aftermath of the Irish Freedom Party (IFP) ard fheis in August,… Read more »

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Justine McCarthy

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: September 5, 2024 - The Hot Air Brigade

How are we to capture the memories that are supposed to sustain us between now and the spring after a summer of protracted sensory deprivation?… Will those days ever come back, or is this our lot now on this patch of our perishing planet? Justine McCarthy’s summer blues, Irish Times Can I talk a little… Read more »

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POST HOT AIR

Date: September 5, 2024 - Fowl Emissions

Kudos to the Business Post for once again fearlessly standing up for the right of the highly polluting aviation sector to enjoy untrammelled expansion in the teeth of a climate emergency. A recent edition featured a triple sandwich comprising front-page lead story, inside editorial and back-page comment piece, all decrying the “complacent inertia” and “rank… Read more »

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Claire Hanna SDLP

REDUNDANT PARTIES

Date: September 5, 2024 - Northwind

The Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) and SDLP have both reached the point of no return. Three elections – assembly, council and British general elections – in two years have cruelly exposed the parties’ shortcomings. In large parts of the north, neither party has any organisation nor members and it shows. They can’t canvas or even… Read more »

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Aidan Mullins

SF REP RESIGNS OVER TRANS POLICY

Date: September 5, 2024 - Last Refuge

THE RESIGNATION of Sinn Féin’s long-standing Laois councillor, Aidan Mullins, has raised questions as the party wrestles with various policy issues and just what is meant by returning to basics in terms of policy. The Portarlington-based representative, who has been a member of SF since 1973 and a councillor since 2014, has criticised the party’s… Read more »

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