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David Goodall

‘DIPLOMAT’ DAVID GOODALL

Date: November 4, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

NATIONAL UNIVERSITY of Ireland Press recently published The Making of the Anglo-Irish Agreement of 1985 by British diplomat David Goodall – chief driver on Margaret Thatcher’s British team that negotiated the agreement – with contributions from a host of other worthies. Goodall passed away in 2016 but his long career as a top-flight diplomat-spy is… Read more »

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AINE FLANAGAN’S SAFE BET

Date: November 4, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

THE MOST unusual transaction was belatedly reported in Aaron Rogan’s recently published book, Punters: How Paddy Power Bet Billions and Changed Gambling Forever. The book told how Carlow post office worker Tony O’Reilly, known as ‘Paddy 10’, developed a serious gambling addiction and stole €1.75 million from An Post over a 14-month period. Sentenced to… Read more »

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Jillian Mahon

JILL MAHON’S SUSTAINABILITY

Date: November 4, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

WITH CLIMATE change the topic du jour there was no little interest in the recent appointments to the Climate Change Advisory Council (CCAC), which is chaired by Marie Donnelly, adviser in Brussels to Hume Brophy. Jill Mahon probably is the most interesting of the appointees who made it onto the CCAC last month, given her… Read more »

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Simon Coveney

IRISH-RUSSIAN MILITARY CONFLICT?

Date: November 4, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

THE DEPARTMENT of Foreign Affairs (DFA) website warns Irish citizens to avoid travel to the Central African Republic (CAR) due to its “extremely dangerous security status and … very high threat of terrorist attacks”. That this serious security situation could soon involve Irish soldiers serving with MINUSMA (the UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilisation Mission in Mali)… Read more »

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SINN FÉIN’S SECTION 31

Date: November 4, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

A RACY account of the two most dramatic jail breaks in the history of the state – the 1973 helicopter escape from Mountjoy prison of three IRA commanders and the 1974 mass jailbreak of IRA prisoners from Portlaoise – as described by the man who organised both of them has recently been published. Readers may… Read more »

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Matthew Prince

HOSTING HATE DATA

Date: November 4, 2021 - Hush Hush

THERE HAS been quite the kerfuffle recently over Ireland being the destination of choice for data centres. EirGrid claims that data centres use 11% of the electricity available on the grid increasing to 28% of grid capacity by the end of the decade. By 2025 there will be more than 100 data centres operating in the… Read more »

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Imelda May

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: November 4, 2021 - The Hot Air Brigade

I’m an artist. I’m a creative. An empath. I’m sensitive and most artists are. A lot of people forget that … we undress ourselves in front of everybody. Imelda May, Irish Times, submitted by reader The Irish wedding has changed, changed utterly, an emancipated beauty is born. John Daly, Irish Independent He seeks relief from… Read more »

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Mary Lou McDonald

NORTHERN SINN FÉIN MUST WAIT

Date: November 4, 2021 - Northwind

IT WAS no coincidence that the Monday after the Sinn Féin ard fheis the party’s minister for communities in the north, Deirdre Hargey, published a newspaper article outlining her new housing strategy alongside coverage of the event. As well as allocating millions of pounds, she plans to reinvigorate the north’s single public housing body, the… Read more »

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Willie O’Dea

NIGHTMARE ON MOUNT STREET

Date: November 4, 2021 - Last Refuge

ESTABLISHMENT AND media fright at the latest spooky poll figures for Sinn Féin – its highest ever Red C figure at 33% – obscured another notable poll figure, that of Fianna Fáil at 12% This is just more than a third of SF’s tally and a serious reversal of what had looked like a gradual… Read more »

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Charlie McConalogue

MILITANT IFA BALL BREAKERS

Date: November 4, 2021 - Last Refuge

MILITANT FARMER Conor O’Leary, chairman of the IFA (Irish Farming Association) executive in Cork Central, is an articulate and colourful polemicist when agitating on behalf of his members. But he exceeded expectations when agriculture minister Charlie McConalogue visited Kanturk, Co Cork, last week to explain CAP reform and carbon budgets to fearful farmers. O’Leary has… Read more »

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Alan Shatter

ISRAELI PR MACHINE RULES

Date: November 4, 2021 - Last Refuge

WHAT A curious sequence of events and priorities manifested themselves last week in the abysmal reaction to events concerning Israel and Palestine. On Saturday, October 23, the Irish Times reported that Alan Shatter, former justice minister who lost his Dáil seat some years ago, contrived much high dudgeon at a question to foreign minister Simon… Read more »

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JOHN BURNS’S SIGN-OFF

Date: November 4, 2021 - Fit to Print?

DISAPPOINTED APPLICANT for the post of Irish Sunday Times editor, John Burns, signed off as acting editor last Sunday with an interesting editorial flourish by way of an editorial on tourism in Dublin that was, inexplicably, dripping with sarcasm. Under the headline, “Being seventh is, er, pedestrian”, Burns remarked that Lonely Planet had put Dublin… Read more »

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President Higgins

PARTITION: McALEESE AND HIGGINS

Date: November 4, 2021 - Fit to Print?

IN EFFORTS to re-educate President Higgins and the public for supporting his boycott of the church event marking the centenary of partition, two prominent journalists may or may not have overreached themselves. Writing in the Sunday Independent, the biggest selling newspaper in the country (partitioned or all-Ireland), Sam McBride stated baldly that if the event… Read more »

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Kadri Simson

BIG OIL’S COP-OUT

Date: November 4, 2021 - Fowl Emissions

SPARE A thought for ‘big oil’. Having sponsored COP climate summits down through the years, they have suddenly lost access to this prime vehicle for promoting their green credentials. That it took until 2021 for the proverbial foxes to be precluded from sponsoring the chicken safety conference, so to speak, is a stark illustration of… Read more »

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COP26’S ‘PARTNERS’

Date: November 4, 2021 - Fowl Emissions

“EVERYTHING FEELS very last minute.” This was the verdict on the COP26 summit in a joint letter of complaint sent last May to the event organisers and leaked to the Guardian. Could it be from a coalition of NGOs, highlighting how late we have left it to tackle the climate crisis? No, the complaint was… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: November 4, 2021 - Bog Cuttings

COLOURFUL PAST Listowel District Court heard the case of Hussain Akeel (54), of Viking House, Coffee House Lane, the Quay, Waterford, who was charged with public intoxication and engaging in threatening or abusive behaviour toward gardaí. Garda Inspector John Ryan told the court that gardaí attended a disturbance in a shop on Castle Street, Tralee,… Read more »

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Yasmin Hyde & Maxine Hyde

BIGGING UP BALLYMALOE

Date: November 4, 2021 - High Society

WITH THE hospitality sector under pressure as a result of the pandemic, Darina Allen and the gang at Ballymaloe House were no doubt chuffed at the extensive plug for the business that featured in last week’s edition of the glitzy ‘How To Spend It’ magazine in the Financial Times. While the bottom line is not… Read more »

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Consuelo O’Connor

DERMOT DESMOND’S THEATRICAL PAST

Date: November 4, 2021 - High Society

WHAT A bizarre story in the Sindo last weekend, featuring the uber litigious Dermot Desmond and the estate of renowned writer and critic Ulick O’Connor, who died in 2019. While the cause of any litigation is unclear, the action features in probate office documents associated with O’Connor’s will. The two bolshy characters did take opposite… Read more »

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David Raethorne

DAVID RAETHORNE’S DREAM HOME

Date: November 4, 2021 - High Society

IT WAS a case of déjà vu last week when the Indo property supplement went into raptures over a house on Dundrum’s Sydenham Road that has come on the market with an asking price of €3.75m. The owners turn out to be health tech moneybags David Raethorne and his wife, Sue, who are also the… Read more »

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CALLAN KICKS THE YEARS – RTÉ One

Date: November 4, 2021 - ReviewsReviews|TVTV

WHEN IT comes to entertainment programming, Callan Kicks The Years provides an interesting case study in RTÉ’s seemingly limitless capacity to shoot itself in the foot. Having scored a rare hit with the reboot of The Den 12 months ago, the national broadcaster – amid considerable public interest in a second series – recently released a statement… Read more »

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Michael Wall

THE ABBEY’S CASTING CALL

Date: November 4, 2021 - Behind the Scenes

THE ABBEY Theatre has advertised to fill no less than four vacancies on its depleted board. One of those who might consider throwing in an application is former director, barrister Michael Wall. No doubt, chairwoman Frances Ruane would be glad to have her ally back at the table. It will be recalled (see The Phoenix… Read more »

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Catherine Tate

CATHERINE TATE’S TAX BREAK

Date: November 4, 2021 - Behind the Scenes

ONE OF the more venerable companies to benefit recently from the latest round of the lucrative Section 481 tax break for film and TV producers turns out to be Kieran Corrigan’s three-decades-old Glen Arbor Productions Ltd. Corrigan, of Merlin Films renown, has been making more of a splash of late with his film studio and… Read more »

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Seamus Heffernan

HEFFERNAN’S WHIP HAND

Date: November 4, 2021 - Sport of Kings

SEAMIE HEFFERNAN’S problems with the whip don’t show ending any time soon, with the Ballydoyle No 2 finding himself in hot water again recently with the stewards. Heffernan received a three-week ban last year from the French authorities for overzealousness with the stick and has had anything but a smooth ride this year. The jockey… Read more »

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Michael O'Leary

MICK’S MUNIFICENCE

Date: November 4, 2021 - Sport of Kings

BOLSHY MONEYBAGS Mick O’Leary showed his apparent softer side when he revealed that he had allowed Gordon Elliott to invest in few young point-to-point winners on his behalf earlier in the year. Despite proceeding with a scaled-down version of his huge string of national hunt horses and pledging not to reinvest in the future, O’Leary… Read more »

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MUSICAL CHAIRS AT DOWN ROYAL

Date: November 4, 2021 - Sport of Kings

DOWN ROYAL’S big jumps meeting heralded the return of some of the sports major national hunt heroes, including this year’s Cheltenham Gold Cup winner Minella Indo but there was no shortage of drama in the lead-up to the event. With a lot of focus on the seasonal debut of the Barry Moloney-owned Minella Indo, it… Read more »

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Conor O’Neill

SLOW OUT THE GATE

Date: November 4, 2021 - Sport of Kings

WHEN THE government announced a further relaxation of Covid-related restrictions on October 22, it was expected that racecourses and Horse Racing Ireland (HRI) would be rolling out plenty of incentives to encourage racegoers back through the turnstiles after such a long period of inactivity. This is far from the case. Consumer habits change over time… Read more »

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MALIN CORP’S DISPOSALS BOOST THE COFFERS

Date: November 4, 2021 - Moneybags

THE BOARD of Malin Corp finds itself stuck in a legal spat that could prove expensive, the core issue being a change in control provision in the flotation document. If implemented, this could result in a €22m windfall for the founders, including Kelly Martin and John Given, as a result of the conversion of the… Read more »

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James Menton

PROVIDENCE NEEDS TO FIND THE RIGHT MAN

Date: November 4, 2021 - Moneybags

AFTER ALL the hot air spouted by Providence and its recently departed CEO Alan Lynn about the bizarre Barryroe farm-out deal to a £2 company, Spot-On Energy, the latter’s failure to deliver is hardly a surprise. A changing of the guard and the exploitation of Providence’s giant Barryroe field will be up to the new… Read more »

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NOEL MORAN’S EXPENSIVE STUD

Date: November 4, 2021 - Brief CasesThe Hot Water Brigade

NOEL AND Valerie Moran have had a turbulent 2021, with plenty of media (and Central Bank) attention focused on the trials and tribulations of the Aussie group EML Payments, which purchased the couple’s Prepaid Financial Services operation last year for almost €190m. It was reported recently that EML has already incurred costs and provisions of… Read more »

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Jack Ronan

JACK RONAN TIDIES UP

Date: November 4, 2021 - Brief CasesThe Hot Water Brigade

GOLDHAWK SPOTTED a couple of familiar names filing ‘ceased trading’ notifications – Vita Cortex Holdings Ltd and Vita Five Five Ltd. These were central players in a highly controversial shutdown of the Vita Cortex plant in Cork a decade ago that led to a lengthy sit-in and attracted international media attention for the central player… Read more »

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Jackie Goodall

ISRAEL VERSUS SALLY ROONEY

Date: October 21, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

SALLY ROONEY’S pro-Palestinian boycott gesture has been lambasted by predictable players – the Israeli embassy, former justice minister Alan Shatter and others – but, in an appropriate coincidence, her initiative comes just as an Israeli embassy backed campaign against BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel) has been launched. On October 12 Rooney issued a… Read more »

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Noirin Hegarty

PROFILE: NÓIRÍN HEGARTY

Date: October 21, 2021 - Pillars of Society

THE APPOINTMENT of Nóirín Hegarty as Ireland editor of the Times and Sunday Times Ireland, is seen in media circles as something of a renaissance for the Dubliner given her professional history. It is also viewed as a small correction of the male dominance of media at the highest level. While gender is relevant to her elevation the reality is that Hegarty… Read more »

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László Molnárfi

YOUNG BLOOD: LÁSZLÓ MOLNÁRFI

Date: October 21, 2021 - The Young Bloods

STUDENT ACTIVIST László Molnárfi (20) has captured lightning in a bottle in recent weeks. The second-year Trinity College Dublin student and chair of the activist group Students4Change has spearheaded a protest campaign that has garnered plenty of national media attention and reddened a few faces… Read more »

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THE COBBLESTONE’S NEW TUNE

Date: October 21, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

MUCH HAS been written about the fondness for the Irish traditional music pub the Cobblestone in Smithfield’s North King Street, now the subject of a big hotel planning application. “A drinking pub with a music problem” as it is sometimes referred to, the Cobblestone is a particularly Irish creation. The same cannot be said about… Read more »

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Paschal Donohoe

PASCHAL DONOHOE’S CAREER CURVE

Date: October 21, 2021 - Last Refuge

FINANCE MINISTER Paschal Donohoe is presumed, much like Fine Gael leader Leo Varadkar, to be merely marking time before jumping ship to take a gleaming, corporate job in the European financial sector after the next election. After nearly 15 years in government, neither man would relish years in the wilderness of opposition. But, in Paschal’s… Read more »

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Michael McDowell

McDOWELL EYES UP DÁIL — AGAIN

Date: October 21, 2021 - Last Refuge

AN INTERESTING Irish Times column from Michael McDowell recently dwelled on the former PD leader, AG and justice minister’s obsessive dream of a return to public life of the Progressive Democrats. McDowell warned of the new political dispensation created by the pandemic whereby voters demand recovery programmes and expenditure while caring little about what used… Read more »

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