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James McCarthy

FLIPDISH’S RED INK

Date: January 27, 2022 - The Hot Water Brigade

THERE WAS plenty of hype for food delivery company Flipdish this month when it was announced that the company has raised an €85m investment from Chinese conglomerate Tencent, valuing the Irish firm at $1.25bn and bestowing ‘unicorn’ status on the business. While the food may be fast, however, it looks like there is a very… Read more »

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Jim O'Callaghan

MICHEÁL MARTIN PREPARES TO FIGHT

Date: January 13, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

THE CALM that that appears to have settled on Fianna Fáil is an illusion and both pro and anti Martin camps are preparing for a resumption of hostilities in the near future. Already there have been isolated strikes from both sides but the business end of this long struggle for the party leadership will ignite… Read more »

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Paddy Cosgrave

PROFILE: PADDY COSGRAVE

Date: January 13, 2022 - Pillars of Society

IS PADDY COSGRAVE a spoilt child of the techie boom, a born again socialist-republican or a prodigious, canny businessman? If it is the latter, is he cultivating Sinn Féin because he sees the party as likely to be in charge of the next government? The emotionally charged rantings against government, and Fine Gael in particular,… Read more »

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Louis O'Hara

YOUNG BLOOD: LOUIS O’HARA

Date: January 13, 2022 - The Young Bloods

SINN FÉIN is scouring the electoral landscape to see where – and how – it can pick up the extra seats that the polls indicate are coming its way. High on the list of candidates who could win potential seats is Galway East’s Louis O’Hara. The 24-year-old solicitor’s son from Cashla, Athenry, came close to… Read more »

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Harold Macmillan

IS PASCHAL RECONSIDERING?

Date: January 13, 2022 - Last Refuge

THE CONCLUSION reached many months ago by many of his own Fine Gael colleagues is that finance minister Paschal Donohoe – and more importantly, his wife, Justine – want out of the grubby backwater of domestic Irish politics. A suitably remunerated corporate job in the financial area of Euroland would be nice and there is… Read more »

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Prince Andrew

PAUL TWEED AND PRINCE ANDREW

Date: January 13, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

BELFAST SOLICITOR to the stars, Paul Tweed, comes over all coy when it comes to mentioning his work for the York family: that’s the Duke of York or Prince Andrew, his ex-wife, Sarah Ferguson and their two children. As the world knows, Andrew has been accused of behaving in less than regal fashion and faces… Read more »

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Kate Hoey

BARONESS KATE HOEY AND THE IRA

Date: January 13, 2022 - Fit to Print?

PROVOCATIVE UNIONIST Baroness Kate Hoey attracted more attention than usual with her remarks about nationalists in various professions such as journalism and the law. The National Union of Journalists condemned her as did many others. But while Hoey was for long the most unionist member of the British Labour party she has the most eclectic… Read more »

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Michael Wall

ABBEY’S ‘NEW’ CAST

Date: January 13, 2022 - Behind the Scenes

THE ABBEY Theatre has started the new year with its board no longer limping along on one leg, thanks to some late-in-the-day appointments immediately before Christmas. Fans of Goldhawk will not be surprised by at least one of the (not so) new faces. It will be recalled (see The Phoenix 18/6/21) that barrister and Irish… Read more »

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Des and Lisa McGahan

MICHAEL JACKSON’S BOLTHOLE

Date: January 13, 2022 - High Society

WITH MARQUEE properties proving tricky enough to sell in the current environment it is, perhaps, no surprise that a Georgian pile on 25 acres outside Kinsale, which has housed some familiar guests, should remain unsold. Happily, almost a year after the property was first covered by the Irish media when it arrived on the market… Read more »

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Domini Kemp

DOMINI KEMP’S NEW BUSINESS PARTNER

Date: January 13, 2022 - High Society

THERE WAS bad news for fans of the Hatch & Sons restaurant brand, which operated two outlets on St Stephen’s Green but which has now shut its doors. It was one of a multitude of businesses run by the energetic chef-cum-entrepreneur Domini Kemp. The good news, however, is that she has recently set up a… Read more »

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Niall Horgan

NIALL HORGAN’S MONEY MACHINE

Date: January 13, 2022 - The Hot Water Brigade

LAST YEAR proved a pretty good one for Niall Horgan and his Gym+Coffee, which is understood to have shifted significant volumes of its trendy ‘athleisure’ gear, despite the various lockdowns. And just before Christmas the company raised yet more millions. Impressively, the fledgling Gym+Coffee managed to suck in more than €4m in investments from the… Read more »

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Gemma Leah-Devereux

SMOTHER (RTÉ ONE)

Date: January 13, 2022 - ReviewsReviews|TV

DESPITE THE fact that the series was a bog standard drama of the sort pumped out relentlessly these days, RTÉ was mightily pleased with the first series of Smother, Kate O’Riordan’s attempt at a Scandi-noir style thriller set in Clare. In a desperate attempt to hype last April’s season one finale, the Montrose publicity machine even… Read more »

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Des Dalton

DISSIDENT DISSIDENTS!

Date: January 13, 2022 - Hush Hush

ON NOVEMBER 18, Derry republican Patrick McDaid was granted bail after his cousin agreed to provide a cash surety of £50,000. There were a couple of reasons that McDaid being granted bail was quite strange. McDaid has been charged with IRA membership and preparing acts of terrorism in a case where MI5 and the PSNI… Read more »

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TARGETING OPERATION TRANSFORMATION

Date: January 13, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

AMONG THOSE piling in on RTÉ’s Operation Transformation last weekend was Louise McSharry, who is well known in Montrose where she worked as a presenter. That relationship, however, ended on a sour note. McSharry has been outspoken on media coverage of obesity in the past, so her intervention was not unexpected. What might have caught… Read more »

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BARON MAGAN’S BAD NEWS

Date: January 13, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

SO FAREWELL then to Castletown Estates Ltd, the English company controlled by George Magan, aka Baron Magan of Castletown. The hapless George had a most eventful 2021 and is currently appealing a €½m rent arrears judgment secured by the administrators of the Castletown Foundation – an offshore trust that had been set up to benefit… Read more »

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Therese Bermingham

LEGAL JAMBOREE FOR ‘IRISH TIMES’

Date: January 13, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

READERS OF the Irish Times have been treated to a glut of stories about the spats and schisms in the Scouting Ireland movement and the newspaper has since found itself fighting legal action on two fronts. Following a high-profile rocky period inside Scouting Ireland (SI), matters came to a head at a board meeting last… Read more »

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Barry O'Kelly

MARC GODART V RTÉ

Date: January 13, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

A PROGRAMME by the Prime Time Investigates team at the end of 2020 examined the apparently lax implementation of regulations to prevent overcrowding in accommodation settings, which is particularly important during a pandemic. A year later, the broadcast finds itself the subject of legal proceedings from a Luxembourg property investor. The programme, fronted by Barry… Read more »

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RTÉ Vacancy

PADDY-JON WILLIAMS

Date: January 13, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

INDICATIONS THAT RTÉ’s head of news and current affairs Jon Williams has relinquished long-suspected career ambitions to head back to Blighty for a real executive job in broadcasting is evident in his latest message to staff. Many of the cynical broadcasters in Montrose had believed that Williams saw his very senor job in RTÉ as… Read more »

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Eamon Waters

MILLIONAIRE HOTELIERS BACK TO COURT

Date: January 13, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

A SPAT between some heavy-hitters that appeared to have been settled has been re-ignited, with the legal eagles called in once more. Property developer Padraic Rhatigan and waste moneybags Eamon Waters previously clashed over their respective hotel plans in Dublin city centre. In 2016, Rhatigan’s company, Luxor Investments Ltd, sought to expand his Radisson hotel… Read more »

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Mary Robinson

PRESIDENTIAL PURGE

Date: January 13, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

IRISH TIMES news values asserted themselves days after Christmas with a front page story culled from declassified 1990 state papers headlined, “Áras in a shambles when Robinson arrived to move in”. The shocked IT described how the newly elected president was faced with obsolete fittings and equipment that would have seen the Áras condemned if… Read more »

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Helen McEntee

EU SPECIAL POLICE

Date: January 13, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

IT HAS come to Goldhawk’s attention that the garda’s Emergency Response Unit (ERU) is part of an interesting and little known European Union entity called ATLAS. The ATLAS Network is made up of 38 special units from police forces in the European Union’s 27 member states as well as from countries like Iceland, Norway, Switzerland… Read more »

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Missy Keating

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: January 13, 2022 - The Hot Air Brigade

You know what? I had the best year of my life in 2021. I moved to London, then to Dublin, and back again, [while] single. And took time to just be me, and focus on myself. It was a lot of fun, a hot-girl summer as they say, and me and my friends in London… Read more »

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Jeffrey Donaldson

DONALDSON’S DEADLINES

Date: January 13, 2022 - Northwind

DEADLINES, DEADLINES. Foreign affairs minister Simon Coveney says the end of February must be the deadline for a deal on the Irish protocol, otherwise assembly elections in May will be a referendum on the said protocol. DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson says he wants a deadline – soon. He needs one because he’s desperate. In… Read more »

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Mary Lou McDonald

REPUBLICAN BOWEL MOVEMENT

Date: January 13, 2022 - Last Refuge

THE REACTION from Charlie Flanagan, Michael McGrath and Ged Nash to Sinn Féin president Mary Lou McDonald’s remarks on a “constipated” civil service can be dismissed as self-interested comments from political rivals. But the remarks of most media commentators simply missed the point of Mary Lou’s interview. And it may be that everybody missed the… Read more »

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David McCourt

COMRADE MCCOURT

Date: January 13, 2022 - Last Refuge

IRISH-AMERICAN BILLIONAIRE David McCourt is a master of spin and soft PR, but revelations in December about the murky corporate structure and questionable financial arrangements behind his company National Broadband Ireland (NBI) has left Ireland’s rural broadband project “mired in financial controversy”, as an Irish Times headline put it. Goldhawk was reassured to learn from… Read more »

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John Hume

STATE PAPERS: JOHN BRUTON’S DIPLOMACY

Date: January 13, 2022 - Last Refuge

IN ITS coverage of state papers released after 25 years, the Irish Times treatment of the then taoiseach John Bruton’s stewardship of the peace process, in particular the 1996 breakdown of the IRA ceasefire, omitted to mention its own role at the time. Reporting on… Read more »

Paschal Donohoe

RAIDER OF THE LOST TAX

Date: January 13, 2022 - Fit to Print?

NEW YEAR’S DAY is always a slow news day, but this hardly explains why the Irish Times devoted more than 2,500 words to finance minister Paschal Donohoe allegedly taking on the world’s most powerful nations – and winning – over the global corporate tax agreement. “Not by nature one of life’s gamblers Donohoe weighed the… Read more »

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MATT COOPER V RTE

Date: January 13, 2022 - Fit to Print?

MATT COOPER is a very busy chap, albeit a little less so since he chucked in his Tonight Show gig on Virgin Media One. While he is no longer a ubiquitous presence on our TV screens, the industrious Matt maintains his daily afternoon radio show on Today FM and also pens assorted weekly newspaper columns… Read more »

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Mairead McGuinness

GAS IS ‘GOOD’ FOR YOU

Date: January 13, 2022 - Fowl Emissions

THE CONSERVATIVE International Energy Agency (IEA) created headlines worldwide last May when it effectively signalled the end of the fossil fuel era by stating bluntly that the development of all new gas and oil fields has to stop immediately if the world is to avoid catastrophic climate disruption. While welcoming various ‘net zero’ commitments being… Read more »

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FRANK MITLOEHNER’S CAMEO

Date: January 13, 2022 - Fowl Emissions

THE LIVESTOCK industry has come under sustained fire for its oversized contribution to deforestation, surging methane emissions and for fuelling global food insecurity. Just like the fossil fuel and tobacco industries, it has been hitting back and trying desperately to change the narrative. Its latest effort is an attempt to smear the fast-growing ‘alternative meat’… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: January 13, 2022 - Bog Cuttings

‘Dropped His Trousers’ A 43-year-old man pleaded guilty to charges of public intoxication and engaging in threatening and abusive behaviour towards gardaí in Cork District Court. Sgt John Kelleher said that while on patrol they spotted Levis Djemcheyom Kamegne, of Wellington Road, drinking from a can of beer outside his home. He proceeded to stagger… Read more »

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Small things like these

SMALL THINGS LIKE THESE (CLAIRE KEEGAN)

Date: January 13, 2022 - Books|ReviewsReviews

AT ABOUT 100 pages, this novella is dedicated to those who suffered in Ireland’s mother-and-baby homes and Magdalene laundries. There is a lot packed in, but to what end? The latest work from Keegan (whose 2010 short novel Foster has become a popular text on the Leaving Cert English course) is set in New Ross… Read more »

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Gordon Elliott

ELLIOTT’S CHRISTMAS BONUS

Date: January 13, 2022 - Sport of Kings

WITH SO much racing on before and during the festive period, a huge gamble landed by Gordon Elliott at Ascot just before Christmas went under the radar for most punters. Elliott’s Ardhill was backed into favourite for a competitive looking 16-runner handicap hurdle and made a mockery of his handicap mark, coasting to an effortless… Read more »

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Tom Magnier

COOLMORE’S HORSEPOWER

Date: January 13, 2022 - Sport of Kings

COOLMORE STUD’S Australian wing, which is run by John Magnier’s eldest son Tom, has come up with a pretty high-end bonus scheme to help in the promotion of one of the operation’s up-and-coming stallions, Justify. The deal involves the owner of Justify’s first Group 1 winner being presented with a new Ferrari by Coolmore. Tom… Read more »

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Sarah Lynam

SARAH LYNAM LETS FLY

Date: January 13, 2022 - Sport of Kings

A NEW year initiative has been introduced by Horse Racing Ireland (HRI) that means that a series of races at Dundalk are restricted to jockeys who have not ridden more than 20 winners in the past year. It’s designed to give younger riders and those below the top tier more opportunities to progress and showcase… Read more »

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Mark Fahey

LESS THAN APPEALING

Date: January 13, 2022 - Sport of Kings

THE IRISH Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB) boosted its coffers at the end of 2021 when handing out €6,000 fines to two small-scale trainers, Mark Fahey and Brian McMahon. Both were alleged to have been in breach of the dreaded Rule 212 or the ‘non-triers’ rule after their respective horses Strong Roots and Longhouse Force caught… Read more »

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