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Consuelo O’Connor

JEANNE BAARS’ €5M PILE

Date: December 16, 2021 - High Society

GOLDHAWK WAS interested to see that a Georgian pile on 340 acres in Co Offaly has gone on the market with a hefty €5m price tag. Although the owner is named as Jeanne Baars, in the Irish Times, the property is held though a Dutch-controlled corporate structure. Bellair is located 4km from the village of… Read more »

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Declan McGonagle

DECLAN MCGONAGLE’S NEW SEAT

Date: December 16, 2021 - Behind the Scenes

THERE IS a new face on the board of the Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery, where fresh blood has been in short supply in recent years. The latest so-called trustee is one Declan McGonagle, who has had a mixed record in terms of his involvement with arts and culture-related entities. Most notable was his sudden exit… Read more »

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GALWAY’S CREW HQ

Date: December 16, 2021 - Behind the Scenes

THE FORMER Redemptorist monastery Cluain Mhuire is Galway Mayo Institute of Technology’s (GMIT) campus closest to the centre of Galway. It is due for something of a makeover. The substantial 1930s protected structure, houses the Centre for Creative Arts and Media and has for three decades provided offices for Alan Duggan’s Galway Film Centre, and,… Read more »

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HAUGHEY - GARY MURPHY

HAUGHEY – GARY MURPHY

Date: December 16, 2021 - BooksBooks|ReviewsReviews

READING THE largely glowing reviews in the national press for Gary Murphy’s Haughey, one would be forgiven for failing to realise what an intense disappointment this publication is. “Brilliant”, howled Shane Ross in the Sindo; “Terrific” echoed Matt Cooper in the Business Post. In the Sunday Times, Bertie Ahern gasped, “Impeccably researched … definitive”. Murphy… Read more »

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APRIL IN SPAIN - JOHN BANVILLE

APRIL IN SPAIN – JOHN BANVILLE

Date: December 16, 2021 - BooksBooks|ReviewsReviews

IN HIS latest crime novel, John Banville returns to his moody Dublin state pathologist (known only as Quirke), the hero of several earlier mysteries published under the name Benjamin Black. Having recently dispensed with the pseudonym, it seems that the author no longer makes a distinction between literary and detective fiction. Sadly, this new offering is… Read more »

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Douglas Taylor

DOUG TAYLOR’S NEW STALLION

Date: December 16, 2021 - Sport of Kings

DOUG TAYLOR has not been afraid to put his money where his mouth is when it comes to horseflesh and the MCR group boss is delving deeper into the stallion business following the success of his first stallion gamble, Jet Away. Taylor has purchased Dee Ex Bee, a former Sheikh Mohammed al Maktoum-owned horse that… Read more »

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Bryony Frost

FROSTY TIMES OFF TRACK

Date: December 16, 2021 - Sport of Kings

THE HIGH-profile Bryony Frost/Robbie Dunne episode has opened a can of worms about a deep-set culture in the sport rather than a personal spat between two jockeys. The first week of the case, during which Frost gave her version of events, was predictable enough but as the second week progressed and other riders were called… Read more »

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Tim Husband

LONELY FOR HUSBANDS

Date: December 16, 2021 - Sport of Kings

WHEN LEOPARDSTOWN manager Tim Husbands announced he planned to cap the attendance at the four-day Christmas festival to a healthy 10,000 a day, it must have sounded like very good news for racegoers. It turns out that Husbands had overlooked the upward trajectory of Covid-19 numbers and the frequent hints from Merrion Street that increased… Read more »

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Rachael Blackmore

HALF-TERM SCHOOL REPORT

Date: December 16, 2021 - Sport of Kings

WITH THE jumps season well past the halfway point at this stage, the respective tables for leading jockey and trainer prove noteworthy. Rachael Blackmore hasn’t been short of accolades over the past year, featuring as a prime contender for the BBC’s World Sports Star 2021. An Irish champion jockey title would be the icing on… Read more »

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Jonathan Laredo

WHY YEW GROVE DEAL SHOULD BE REJECTED

Date: December 16, 2021 - Moneybags

IT IS very difficult to make any sense of the behaviour of the three amigos at Yew Grove REIT – Jonathan Laredo, Charlie Peach and Mick Gibbons – who have built up a portfolio of attractive properties worth €168m and also identified opportunities to grow this to €300m. Now, they are selling out at a… Read more »

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Barney O’Hare

BARNEY O’HARE’S BOUNCE

Date: December 16, 2021 - The Hot Water Brigade

IT LOOKS like a case of ‘full house’ for Co Louth-based bookie Barney O’Hare of Bar One Racing fame, with the bingo/entertainment venue into which he has sunk significant dosh turning in a pandemic-beating performance last year. It will be recalled (see The Phoenix 3/12/21) that Barney has a 20% stake in the Let’s Bingo!… Read more »

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Emma-Lucy O'Brien

QUARE COLD IN CARLOW

Date: December 16, 2021 - The Hot Water Brigade

THE LATEST figures for Carlow’s cash-strapped VISUAL arts centre, give little reason for Christmas cheer and the cancellation of this week’s panto means there is nothing to distract the hapless board members. Fans of Goldhawk are familiar with the financial problems at VISUAL, which has struggled since it opened its doors more than a decade… Read more »

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HEAVY GOING FOR HARRINGTON

Date: December 16, 2021 - The Hot Water Brigade

THE LIST of Revenue defaulters published on December 7 included the usual mix of companies who have fallen foul of the taxman. It is not often, however, that Goldhawk spots the same name popping up in two successive quarterly lists. Fans of The Phoenix will be familiar with the adventures of Kilkenny-based Triona Harrington and… Read more »

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Shaun Murphy

SHAUN MURPHY’S IRISH GAME

Date: December 16, 2021 - The Hot Water Brigade

SNOOKER ACE Shaun ‘the Magician’ Murphy has had a rocky enough year and will be looking forward to putting 2021 behind him. Meanwhile, there have been some changes at his Irish company. Former world champion Murphy made headlines last month after his exit from the UK Championship at the hands of 19-year-old amateur Si Jiahui… Read more »

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Simon Coveney

SIMON COVENEY’S CONUNDRUM

Date: December 2, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

HOW LONG more will Minister Simon Coveney’s floundering and dangerous foreign policy agenda in the African continent go unreported in the Irish media? Ireland has had a military presence in Mali since February 2013. The Defence Forces have 20 personnel deployed with the European Union Training Mission (EUTM), which trains and advises the Malian Military… Read more »

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Phil Hogan

BIG PHIL AND VLAD TO MAKE UP?

Date: December 2, 2021 - Last Refuge

THE PROPOSITION that Big Phil Hogan would be amenable to reconciliation with tánaiste and Fine Gael leader Leo Varadkar, if the latter would only call him for a chat, was put forward by Newstalk news presenter Shane Coleman in the Sunday Independent last weekend. The rationale was that Vlad needs Big Phil to shore up… Read more »

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Roderic O'Gorman

PROFILE: RODERIC O’GORMAN

Date: December 2, 2021 - Pillars of Society

RODERIC O’GORMAN is turning into the Green party’s answer to Fianna Fáil’s health minister Stephen Donnelly, with a series of apologies, contradictions and U-turns. The minister for children, disability, equality and integration has faced a barrage of criticism on a number of fronts since he was appointed to the cabinet last year, and his critics… Read more »

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Cathal Crowe

YOUNG BLOOD: CATHAL CROWE

Date: December 2, 2021 - The Young Bloods

WITH FIANNA Fáil paralysed by its alliance with Fine Gael, and uncertainty as to its future, attention is turning to where the new TDs stand, among them Clare’s Cathal Crowe who displaced Timmy Dooley as the sole FF TD is the party’s most republican county. Crowe has been involved in Fianna Fáil politics since he… Read more »

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Vincent Browne

BROWNE BEGGED HAUGHEY FOR CASH

Date: December 2, 2021 - Fit to Print?

SUNDAY INDEPENDENT extracts from the biography, Haughey, by academic Gary Murphy, opened with a passage about how the founder of Magill magazine, Vincent Browne, had written to Squire hockey on the day he became taoiseach in December, 1979. Browne wanted to do an in-depth interview on how Haughey had won the leadership of Fianna Fáil… Read more »

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Regina Doherty

REGINA DOHERTY’S COMEBACK

Date: December 2, 2021 - Last Refuge

THE COMEBACK campaign of former minister Regina Doherty, who lost her Meath East seat at the last general election, has been revving up to full throttle in recent months. But even though she is now leader of the Seanad and leader of Fine Gael there she recently told senators that “I am now representing the constituency… Read more »

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Robert Quirke

ROBERT QUIRKE’S VENTILATORS

Date: December 2, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

MORE THAN 20 months after Covid-19 impacted this country, one of the players who made a killing by importing ventilators is now living in a sunny paradise, where he has moved to count his money. An Irish company, Roqu Energy Ltd, has just been incorporated by 42-year-old Robert Quirke, and it looks set to add… Read more »

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Amanda Pratt

AMANDA PRATT’S NEXT MOVE

Date: December 2, 2021 - High Society

LAST WEEK’S examination of the Avoca operation in the Irish Times was less than flattering for owner Aramark, who purchased the high-profile food and retail business from the Pratt family in 2015 for a reported €64m. The general gist was that it has been downhill for the past six years with exits by assorted senior… Read more »

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John Goodwin

JOHN GOODWIN’S PENTHOUSE

Date: December 2, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

IT WAS not quite the raffle result that John Goodwin expected when he put his expensive Grand Canal penthouse apartment up for grabs, courtesy of a UK-based outfit called Raffall. The Raffall modus operandi is pretty straightforward. The company hosts raffles for people who think that they can make a better return than, for example,… Read more »

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LIFE WITHOUT CHILDREN - RODDY DOYLE

LIFE WITHOUT CHILDREN – RODDY DOYLE

Date: December 2, 2021 - BooksBooks|ReviewsReviews

IN THIS slim short fiction collection, Roddy Doyle has managed to get to market one of the very first fiction efforts to encapsulate (cash in on? – Ed) the pandemic. Was it worth being so quick out the gate? The collection of stories focuses mainly on middle-aged and elderly men coming to terms with a… Read more »

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VOL 39 NO 23

Date: December 2, 2021 -

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THE ‘IT’ IN TRINNERS

Date: December 2, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

IRISH TIMES editor Paul O’Neill was presumably somewhat relieved that a referendum carried out at Trinity College Dublin fell short of having the newspaper officially boycotted by the university. It will be recalled (see The Phoenix 27/8/21) that the student newspaper Trinity News set the cat among the pigeons by cancelling its printing deal with… Read more »

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David Miller

ISRAELI PROPAGANDA BLITZ

Date: December 2, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

FORMER UCD president Hugh Brady is moving from the president’s chair at the University of Bristol to become president of Imperial College London. But Brady leaves behind him an unholy row about alleged antisemitism and counter charges from Palestinian supporters of victimisation of an academic critic of Israel. The Irish dimension to this issue is… Read more »

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Sean Doherty

CHARLIE AND BRITISH INTELLIGENCE

Date: December 2, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

GARY MURPHY’S book Haughey may disappoint some long-standing Phoenix readers as the author barely addresses the Squire’s bruising entanglements with Her Majesty’s spooks. Murphy refers briefly to the book Operation Brogue (1984), which alleged British dirty tricks but was lacking in detail; and a letter from Seán MacBride, which supported the theory about British spooks’… Read more »

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Sean Clancy

IMMORAL IRISH

Date: December 2, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

MANY READERS of The Phoenix will recognise the episodic campaigns for Ireland to formally join up with the incipient EU military machine being constructed and spend billions on serious hardware and weapons of war. Apparently it’s our duty, and traditional Irish neutrality is a cowardly cop-out, as some are now arguing again. The latest push… Read more »

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Charles Haughey

SQUIRE HOCKEY’S BEN DUNNE DOSH

Date: December 2, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

IN THE biography Haughey, Gary Murphy writes that RTÉ’s Prime Time reported on April 17, 1997, that Ben Dunne had given CJ Haughey more than a £IRm over a period of some years and that this was when “Haughey’s name was outed” in connection with the then upcoming McCracken (Dunnes Payments) tribunal. Moran also wrote… Read more »

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Justin Barrett

JUSTIN BARRETT IN TWO MINDS…

Date: December 2, 2021 - Hush Hush

ON SATURDAY, November 27, almost a thousand people protested outside the GPO against Covid-19 restrictions and vaccine passports in probably the biggest gathering of citizens fighting governments’ restrictions in the past 12 months. With the government then looking at renewing some of the restrictions, protests – some violent – were taking place around Europe in… Read more »

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Aimee Connolly

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: December 2, 2021 - The Hot Air Brigade

I am also working on expanding the range with well-thought-through additions that make sense to the brand’s story and ethos. Aimee Connolly, ‘Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year’, on her plans for Sculpted By Aimee, Irish Times We need that hope. We need the joy and giddiness of 400,000 Garth Brooks fans to infect us all…. Read more »

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Paul Givan

JEFFREY VS THE FUNDAMENTALISTS

Date: December 2, 2021 - Northwind

THE STORMONT executive is grinding to a dead stop. Nothing illustrates the Alice in Wonderland stasis better than the Flags, Identity, Culture and Traditions commission (FICT) set up in 2016 after serious rioting in 2013 and 2014, the so-called flags protests. It was hoped FICT would establish a set of enforceable protocols for displaying symbols,… Read more »

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Brendan Howlin

LABOUR’S PROSPECTS

Date: December 2, 2021 - Last Refuge

HOW APPROPRIATE that ‘Austerity junkie’ Brendan Howlin, former public expenditure minister who damaged Labour’s credibility with its working-class base perhaps beyond repair, should have made it onto the Irish Independent’s Political Rich List recently. This may or may not compensate for the legacy that Howlin bequeathed on the party during his last term in government… Read more »

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Conor Dignam

NO DESSERT FOR BARRISTERS

Date: December 2, 2021 - Last Refuge

FURTHER EVIDENCE that throwing money at government party Fine Gael is not only a waste of time but positively counterproductive comes with the latest appointments to the High Court. Goldhawk has drawn attention already to the dozens of barristers that attended an expensive Fine Gael fundraising dinner in Suesey Street restaurant in June 2019 for… Read more »

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SHATTER V MAIL ON SUNDAY

Date: December 2, 2021 - Fit to Print?

ALAN SHATTER has been pursuing the Mail on Sunday and its political writer John Drennan for some time after he delivered a line on the former justice minister that greatly perturbed him and which has led to a High Court writ alleging libel. The commentary that so irked the former politician was published in the… Read more »

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