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John Reddington

REDDINGTON’S RIDE

Date: August 22, 2024 - High Society

CONGRATULATIONS TO London-based construction magnate John Reddington, who hails from Bohola in Co Mayo. Last week, the minted part-time jockey returned west of the Shannon to give his racehorse, Love At Sea, a hell of a ride when he beat the Willie Mullins-trained Surfin USA by 20 lengths at Sligo. The punters at the scenic… Read more »

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MAGNIER’S RACING ROYALTY

Date: August 22, 2024 - High Society

FANS OF Goldhawk will know about the various private tours of horse racing establishments now being offered by top trainers and breeders, proving them with a welcome additional income stream (see The Phoenix 9/8/24). One option, however, stands out above all the others. Among those offering tours are trainers Jessica Harrington (€200 a head) and… Read more »

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Tresillian House

DISCOUNT SPECIAL IN FOXROCK

Date: August 22, 2024 - High Society

GOLDHAWK SPIES that the sale of a Brighton Road pile called Tresillian House, sitting on an acre (and including a two-bedroom bungalow), has finally taken place, a full three years after it was put on the market with a remarkably optimistic looking price tag. At the time the Foxrock property went for sale, the Irish… Read more »

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Rita-Rose Gagne

HAMMERSON DROPS €½BN ON ITS SALE OF VALUE RETAIL STAKE

Date: August 22, 2024 - Moneybags

INVESTORS DON’T like surprises. The CEO since November 2020 of Hammerson plc, the largest retail property investor in this country, is Rita-Rose Gagné and she seemed a strange enough choice when she arrived mid-pandemic. Last month, very surprisingly, the CEO moved to sell off the group’s £1.1bn stake in Value Retail, which holds stakes in… Read more »

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Myles O'Grady BoI

BANK OF IRELAND PROFITS FROM DUOPOLY BUT SHARES UNDERVALUED

Date: August 22, 2024 - Moneybags

ALONG WITH seeking to ensure that the Irish banking system is a solid one, the Central Bank of Ireland (CBI) has a key role in facilitating a competitive banking system in this country. In this latter crucial role, the performance of the CBI has not been one that would land it anywhere the near the medals… Read more »

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Bill McCabe

BILL MCCABE’S IMPLANTS

Date: August 22, 2024 - Briefcases

A FEW months after the liquidation of the heavily indebted breast implant manufacturer Global Consolidated Aesthetics Ltd (which was backed by the likes of veteran investor Bill McCabe), another company in the group has been wound up, this time as a solvent liquidation, which appears to be part of a restructuring involving Tim Flynn’s London-based… Read more »

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Mark Quick 9th Impact

9TH IMPACT’S TAX GAME

Date: August 22, 2024 - Briefcases

DIGITAL GAMING is big business and an Irish company that has been at the forefront in recent years is 9th Impact, which was set up a decade ago by pals Finn Krewer and Mark Quick. It turns out that the company is not too hot when it comes to the game of paying the taxman…. Read more »

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Joan Fitzpatrick KML

KITE MEDICAL’S TURBULENCE

Date: August 22, 2024 - Briefcases

A YEAR and a half after collapsing into liquidation, the final wind up meeting has been held for Kite Medical Ltd (KML). While there was a few bob to be shared with the unsecured creditors, the backers of HBAN Medtech Syndicate might be scratching their heads over an oddly timed investment by the angel investment… Read more »

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Denis Coleman Cognito HRM

WORKCOMPASS LOSES ITS WAY

Date: August 22, 2024 - Briefcases

ELSEWHERE IN this issue (see p5) Goldhawk looks at the adventures of Dundrum-based businessman, landlord and philanthropist Aidan Corless, who is now in situ as CEO of a software outfit called Cognito HRM Ltd, following a €200,000 investment in the troubled company that trades as WorkCompass. He came on board last year when the business… Read more »

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Johnny Adair Patrick Quinlan

NEW RIGHT (DIS)UNITY

Date: August 22, 2024 - Hush Hush

EFFORTS BY disparate new right groups to translate anti-immigration sentiment into unified electoral success have been seriously undermined by a section of the anti-immigrant movement in the south recently lining up alongside Ulster loyalists and British fascists in Belfast.  Before the racist riots in Belfast, the National Party (NP), Ireland First (IF) and Irish People… Read more »

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Derry O’Rourke

‘IRISH TIMES’ CENSORS

Date: August 22, 2024 - Fit to Print?

COVERAGE OF the recent conviction of prolific child abuser Derry O’Rourke in the Irish Times was a commendable, warranted catalogue of outrage against O’Rourke and empathy with his victims, expressed over a week in thousands of words. Every word was the truth, but not the whole truth. For many years the IT has published reams… Read more »

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Huw Edwards

HUW EDWARDS AND MI5

Date: August 8, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

HOW DID Huw Edwards, the former face of BBC News, maintain virtual immunity for so long given the evidence of his crimes involving sexual pictures of children? Police presented evidence at Westminster Magistrates’ Court last week of Edwards sharing indecent images of children as far back as December, 2020. Yet the extent of MI5 surveillance… Read more »

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Aengus Ó Snodaigh

PROFILE: AENGUS Ó SNODAIGH

Date: August 8, 2024 - Pillars of Society

WITH SINN FÉIN under pressure after a disastrous local election, the promotion of 60-year-old Dublin South Central TD Aengus Ó Snodaigh is being seen as a gesture of reassurance to the membership that the leadership means what it says about reverting to basic left-republican politics. So, in addition to his long-standing responsibility for SF policy… Read more »

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Esme Dunne

YOUNG BLOOD: ESME DUNNE

Date: August 8, 2024 - The Young Bloods

ESME DUNNE has been making waves in activist circles these past few years as founder of the Dublin branch of Empower The Voice, a non-profit organisation dedicated to raising awareness of the issue of sexual harassment. Apparently unafraid of – even welcoming – controversy, Dunne’s group has amassed thousands of followers on social media and… Read more »

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Anne Davy

ANNE DAVY’S CHILD’S PLAY

Date: August 8, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

THREE MONTHS after agreeing to settle High Court proceedings involving 41 children, creche operator Hyde & Seek Childcare is clearly well able to afford the payouts and legal costs. The Hyde & Seek group, owned by Anne Davy, hit the headlines after a 2019 RTÉ Investigates documentary showed children being roughly handled in secretly recorded… Read more »

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Eoin Ó Broin SF Housing

CAN MARY LOU BOUNCE BACK?

Date: August 8, 2024 - Last Refuge

PUBLICATION LAST week of the revised housing policy of Sinn Féin (SF) – originally scheduled for next month – is part of a concerted effort by Mary Lou McDonald, Eoin Ó Broin et al to reset the political debate away from immigration and back to housing, where the party has its strongest hand. For eight… Read more »

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Una Healy Westmeath Bachelor Festival

BACHELOR FESTIVAL BLUES

Date: August 8, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

A COUPLE of high-profile names found themselves with a free Friday night in the run-up to the August bank holiday weekend, having originally committed to being judges in the one and only Westmeath Bachelor Festival. The hooley, however, never made it to the altar this year. Having bounced back on to the scene after Covid-19,… Read more »

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Vladimir Putin

PUTIN’S IRISH GUN SLINGERS

Date: August 8, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

THE TABLOID-reading British public is losing sleep over an alleged disinformation operation being directed by Vladimir Putin to subvert the United Kingdom. Britain has been reliably informed by undisclosed security sources that the Kremlin is responsible for sparking the recent riots in the UK. Last week the Mail reported: “Russia linked to fake news that… Read more »

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Mike Ormonde Packed.House

MIKE ORMONDE’S RESCUES

Date: August 8, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

ALMOST TWO YEARS on from the approval of a rescue plan, the company behind Mike Ormonde’s media content and production outfit, Packed.House (formerly Electric Media), is the subject of a winding-up meeting next week. Packed.House has a number of online sites, including Entertainment.ie and Beaut, and also offers sponsored content as well as graphic and… 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

KATY BROWN’S HANDICAP

Date: August 8, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

FANS OF The Phoenix will be familiar with outspoken racehorse trainer Katy Brown, who started last month with a second win in two runs for Petrol Head, in the €50,000 Bia Energy handicap at Bellewstown (see The Phoenix 26/7/24). What makes this horse interesting is that the gelding had previously been trained by no less… Read more »

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Peter Aiken PFL

PETER AIKEN’S NEW GIG

Date: August 8, 2024 - Behind the Scenes

THE ADVERTISING blitz right up to the kick-off of the All Together Now festival in the grounds of Henry de la Poer Beresford’s Curraghmore Castle in Co Waterford reflects the increasing competition for the festival-goers’ dollar. It is clear that for the co-promoters here, Pod Festivals Ltd (PFL), every ticket counts. Now centre stage is… Read more »

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VOL 42 NO 16

Date: August 8, 2024 -

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General Pinochet Frances Shannon

IRELAND SAID ‘NO’ TO PINOCHET

Date: August 8, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

THE CHILEAN Supreme Court demanded Irish government co-operation in establishing the alleged guilt of the two Shannon sisters, Dubliners Frances and Christine, in a helicopter jail break of four anti-government guerrillas in December 1996. This was allegedly organised by the pair in an IRA gesture of solidarity with the Chilean resistance. It led to diplomatic… 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

TOM’S TROUBLES

Date: August 8, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

GOLDHAWK’S OLD friend, Tom Ryan, has just had a judgment registered in Stubbs Gazette against him in London for no less than €3m by the dreaded taxman. He first popped up on this side of the Irish Sea with his Ryan’s Irish Cream liqueur business, where he was joined at various stages by other familiar names… Read more »

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Terry Leyden

LEYDEN AT LARGE

Date: August 8, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

AFTER MANY years of ducking and diving and not a little in-fighting in Roscommon politics, as well as 43 years in the Dáil and Seanad, former Fianna Fáil junior minister Terry Leyden has not in fact retired from public life but has segued into the world of international diplomacy. Members of the Oireachtas recently received… Read more »

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Malachy Steenson UDA

BRITISH AND IRISH FAR RIGHT

Date: August 8, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

THAT A section of the anti-immigrant movement in the south was prepared to line up alongside Ulster loyalists and British fascists in racist attacks in Belfast last weekend indicates extreme stupidity as much as extreme politics. When the ‘Coolock Says No’ banner was brought to an anti-immigrant demo at Garda HQ two days later, some… Read more »

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Micheal Martin Ireland Taiwan

MARTIN LIVING IN INTERESTING TIMES 

Date: August 8, 2024 - Hush Hush

THE RECENT public unveiling of the prototype for a new armoured combat vehicle by the Taiwanese Army might prove embarrassing for the Irish Government. The 8×8 armoured vehicle is designed for Taiwan by Timoney Technology Ltd from Navan at a time when Ireland is deepening its economic ties with China. Given that there are also… Read more »

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Barry Egan

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: August 8, 2024 - The Hot Air Brigade

Beyond the velvet rope at the world’s greatest nightclub. Barry Egan chats to Robbie Fox about the long-gone Pink Elephant, Sunday Independent Opening a new book by poet Paul Muldoon is like breaking through the floor of an unopened catacomb. Nothing can prepare you for the panoply of riches, the mummified pets, the indecipherable runes… Read more »

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Joe Duffy Jon Williams

RTÉ’S CLIMATE ‘STRATEGY’

Date: August 8, 2024 - Fowl Emissions

FOR YEARS RTÉ’s coverage of the climate emergency has vacillated between lukewarm and non-existent. It reached such a low point that in July 2021 its then managing director of news, Jon Williams, was forced to admit how dire its performance had been. Jon Williams promised the immediate establishment of a team “working across RTÉ News… Read more »

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Luke Holland Climate Denial John Fagan Wolf Europe David Quinn Duncan Stewart Data Centre Carbon Emissions Conor Skehan Chris Hazzard

MCCONALOGUE’S MANURE

Date: August 8, 2024 - Fowl Emissions

Slight reductions in emissions from agriculture in 2023 have been attributed to cuts in the use of chemical nitrogen and was celebrated by farm advisory agency Teagasc as proving the sector was on the right track at last. What then to make of agriculture minister Charlie McConalogue recently urging farmers to use more nitrogen? “My… Read more »

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Vincent Kearney IPT

PSNI SNOOPS

Date: August 8, 2024 - Northwind

The plot thickens in the ongoing saga of the PSNI snooping on journalists and lawyers. Investigative journalist Barry McCaffrey and film maker Trevor Birney finally dragged the PSNI, as Birney said, “kicking and screaming” before the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) in London in April for unlawfully trying to find the journalists’ sources for their film,… Read more »

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Una McCarthy

BUTTIMER V MULLINS AND COVENEY

Date: August 8, 2024 - Last Refuge

RUCTIONS AT Fine Gael’s Cork South-Central general election convention have only increased since the meeting a fortnight ago, which saw members react angrily at a head office ‘diktat’ telling them to vote for two candidates, including one that had to be from Carrigaline. This meant that the only Carrigaline candidate, councillor Úna McCarthy, was duly… Read more »

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Bobby McDonagh

IVEAGH HOUSE OLD-BOY DIPLOMACY

Date: August 8, 2024 - Last Refuge

GOOD TO see the Irish Times maintain the high diplomatic style for which the paper of record is famous, with former Irish ambassador to Britain Bobby McDonagh recently giving a critical analysis of Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán, who also happens to be the current EU Council president. With masterful tact, the man described as… Read more »

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Michael Cahill FG Kerry

FF/FG CIVIL WAR IN KERRY

Date: August 8, 2024 - Last Refuge

THE DELIGHT of handlers in Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil at the transfer pattern in the local elections has led to mutual and optimistic assumptions about a repeat at the general election and the return of the two Civil War parties to government with a small requirement of either Green or Independent TDs. There is… Read more »

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Ian Kehoe CEA

THE ‘CURRENCY’ AND ‘WEIRD’ INM REPORT

Date: August 8, 2024 - Fit to Print?

THE ENORMOUSLY expensive (€5.67m) and lengthy (six years) High Court inspectors’ report into various goings-on at Independent News & Media (INM) has laboured to produce not even a mouse. But while the Corporate Enforcement Authority (CEA) thanked the two inspectors for their work – commissioned at the instigation of the CEA’s parent body in 2018… Read more »

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Finn McRedmond

FIONNUALA ON EDNA O’BRIEN

Date: August 8, 2024 - Fit to Print?

IRISH TIMES columnist Finn (Fionnuala) McRedmond wisely decided to choose the New Statesman rather than her weekly Irish platform for a treatise on Edna O’Brien that contained the usual Punch cartoon images to describe Ireland in the 1960s as “a country fully captured by the papacy”. One Nation Tory Fionnuala reminded British liberals of the… Read more »

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