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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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Davy Tweed

TWEED NON-STORY AND THE ‘IRISH TIMES’

Date: December 2, 2021 - Fit to Print?

THE RECENT death of former Ireland rugby player Davy Tweed did not excite interest on the Irish Times news pages. A brief sports supplement report mentioned his four caps in 1995 plus his Orange Order, DUP and, latterly, TUV political associations. His participation in a nine-month picket of a Roman Catholic Church in Harryville, Ballymena, in 1996-97… Read more »

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Pauline O’Reilly

FOR PEAT’S SAKE, REGINA

Date: December 2, 2021 - Fowl Emissions

FOR AT least the last decade, Fine Gael has made little secret of its disdain for climate and environmental issues. Lately, sensing a shift in the zeitgeist, the Blueshirts have been making some tentative moves to shake off their tag as eco-laggards, since this is now becoming a serious electoral liability, especially among younger voters…. Read more »

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CIARÁN CUFFE’S QUERY

Date: December 2, 2021 - Fowl Emissions

NOBODY DIALS up the instant outrage quite as often or as theatrically as the Irish Farmers Association. The lobby outfit turned its latest fit of pique on Green MEP Ciarán Cuffe, who apparently is trying to “sabotage Irish farmers”. Cuffe’s crime? He recently wrote to financial institutions to ask about carbon lock-in and the risk… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: December 2, 2021 - Bog Cuttings

‘I Am The King’ Letterkenny District Court heard the case of Antonio Meruddu (44), of the Headford Arms, Headford, Co Galway, who was charged with driving with no insurance, having a false licence plate, and for failing to provide information. Judge Raymond Finnegan heard that the defendant was initially pulled over after gardaí noticed his… Read more »

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Anne O’Donoghue

HERITAGE TRUST REFRESH

Date: December 2, 2021 - High Society

THIS WEEK was the closing date for any tweedies interested in joining the board of the underfunded Irish Heritage Trust (IHT). The trust, where Anne O’Donoghue is in situ as chief executive, is currently responsible for three properties, including Fota House, which was the first property that came under the ownership of the IHT more… Read more »

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Mary Keane

NATIONAL GALLERY GLITCH

Date: December 2, 2021 - Behind the Scenes

IT LOOKS like, surprise, surprise, there will be a bunch of empty seats at the National Gallery of Ireland (NGI) board meetings, as the terms of no less than six directors came to an end last month. With former chairman Michael Cush having quietly stepped down a year early at the end of 2020, this… Read more »

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LARRY BASS’S GOOD NEWS

Date: December 2, 2021 - Behind the Scenes

SCREEN IRELAND’S third quarter ‘loans’ for producers popped up online last week and one of the winners is Larry Bass, who exited the RTÉ board after concerns were raised by fellow directors about the fact that his shows were big beneficiaries from the state broadcaster. Happily, there were no such problems during his three years… Read more »

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Angeline Ball

HIDDEN ASSETS – RTÉ ONE

Date: December 2, 2021 - ReviewsTV

FOR WHAT it’s worth, the end credit on RTÉ’s latest ‘local’ drama series Hidden Assets, reads: “Produced by Saffron Moon, Potemkino, and Facet 4, (c) MMXX1 Saffron Moon Ltd/Potemkino Port bvba/Facet 4 Productions (Acceptable Risk 2/Hidden Assets ) Inc.” In the preceding credits, for a supposedly local offering, there is a multitude of public funding… Read more »

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Philip Rothwell

ROTHWELL’S REACTION

Date: December 2, 2021 - Sport of Kings

PHILIP ROTHWELL is certainly making an impression with his recent interviews on Racing TV. The Wicklow trainer delivered an emotional performance, after landing a minor race at Cheltenham’s November meeting, as he fought back the tears when explaining to presenter Lydia Hislop that it had taken him 15 years to get back into the winners’… Read more »

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Ronan McNally

MCNALLY DOES IT AGAIN

Date: December 2, 2021 - Sport of Kings

CONTROVERSIAL TRAINER Ronan McNally got one over on the bookies once again when landing a well-executed gamble with All Class at Punchestown. The mare had also landed a sizable gamble at Navan in March when she won on the flat, having been backed from 100/1 into 9/2 favourite. At that time, she was being trained… Read more »

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Jim Bolger

AFTER THE RAID

Date: December 2, 2021 - Sport of Kings

AS THE dust settles on that raid on a premises near Monasterevin, Co Kildare, the IHRB confirmed that hair and blood tests carried out on horses present at the farm returned negative for “prohibited at all substances”. The statement is not, however, in itself a reassurance that there isn’t a doping problem elsewhere in racing…. Read more »

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Matthew Smith

PAPERWORK PREVARICATION

Date: December 2, 2021 - Sport of Kings

IT APPEARS the IHRB has a significant backlog of cases on its books judging by a recent case that came before the referrals committee of Nick Wachman, Peter Reynolds and Anthony Byrne. The matter dates back more than two years to November 2019, following a routine stable inspection carried out at Meath trainer Matthew Smith’s… Read more »

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Sean Coyle

REAPING THE PROFITS AT ORIGIN ENTERPRISES

Date: December 2, 2021 - Moneybags

TOM O’MAHONY hung up his CEO boots at Origin Enterprises in June 2020 and passed the baton on to Sean Coyle, who arrived at the company in September 2018 as CFO. He inherited an organisation that O’Mahony had refocused on the root crop sector, which is very much du jour. The company has had a difficult… Read more »

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Michael Kelly

FINEOS SHARES SKY HIGH DOWN UNDER

Date: December 2, 2021 - Moneybags

FINEOS IS one of the few Irish so-called unicorns and happens to be quoted on the Australian Stock Exchange. It was founded in 1993 by DCU graduate Mick Kelly and has its head office off East Wall Road in D3. Kelly is still sitting on a 54% stake, with the company now capitalised at just… Read more »

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Marie-Claire Maney

TAXMAN TAKES A BEATING

Date: December 2, 2021 - Brief CasesBriefcases

GOLDHAWK regularly features the Revenue Commissioners in these pages, mostly when some slippery type has been caught bang to rights for evasion. It is rare to see the dreaded taxman on the wrong end of a good old-fashioned kicking but that was the case last month when Tax Appeals Commission (TAC) chair Marie-Claire Maney issued… Read more »

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Barney O’Hare

BARNEY O’HARE BEATS THE ODDS

Date: December 2, 2021 - Brief CasesBriefcases

THE NAME of one of the few independent chains of bookies in the country, Bar One Racing (“where the customer is always No 1”), has been cropping up a lot this year as the owners, Co Louth-based Barney and Tracey O’Hare, have signed a number of big race sponsorship deals. Less high profile is the… Read more »

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SALLY O’BRIEN’S LAST PINT

Date: December 2, 2021 - Brief CasesBriefcases

THE NAME of Sally O’Brien will be familiar to readers of a certain age, especially Harp drinkers, given the way she might look at ye. It is unlikely, though, that former footballing bad boy Joey Barton associates the name with a lager brand. Sally O’Brien’s is also the name of a bar and nightclub on… Read more »

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Neil Francis

CHRIS WHOLEY’S SIN BIN

Date: December 2, 2021 - Brief CasesBriefcases

WHILE FORMER rugby pundit with Mediahuis, Neil Francis, is still maintaining a low profile, the former international will presumably have noted a missed tackle by his business partner in the property game. Franno was earning a tasty wedge boosted from his various media outings until his ‘colourful’ comments about English rugby player Marcus Smith led… Read more »

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Eamonn Rothwell

EAMONN ROTHWELL’S RICHES

Date: December 2, 2021 - Brief CasesBriefcases

ONE OF the wealthiest chief executives in this country has to be Eamonn Rothwell, the boss of Irish Continental Group (ICG), which is behind Irish Ferries – a business that struggled as a result of the lockdowns. The pandemic has, as a result, taken a toll on his private wealth, with the ferry company’s share… Read more »

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CIARA KELLY’S RUDE HEALTH

Date: December 1, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

ONE OF the names on star agent Noel Kelly’s roster of ‘talent’ is doctor-turned broadcaster Ciara Kelly, who has just filed some revealing accounts. Kelly gets about a bit and apart from her high-profile gig on Newstalk – where these days she co-presents the flagship Newstalk Breakfast show with Shane Coleman – she has also… Read more »

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Mary Robinson

MARY ROBINSON’S SACRED COWS

Date: November 18, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

FORMER IRISH president Mary Robinson made headlines around the world for her emotionally charged interview at the Cop26 conference in Glasgow in which, her voice quivering, she slammed world leaders for their half-hearted approach to the climate emergency. “You can’t negotiate with science”, she reminded them. The main target of Robbo’s wrath was Saudi Arabia,… Read more »

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Sheena Horgan

DRINKAWARE’S BAR BILL

Date: November 18, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

AFTER NUMEROUS and lengthy delays, the latest phase of the Public Health (Alcohol) Amendment Bill came into effect last week, notably introducing significant restrictions on advertising in and around sporting events or the sponsoring of events if the aim is to promote an alcohol product or brand. No doubt, this development has been welcomed by… Read more »

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JOE MCHUGH’S STRATEGY

Date: November 18, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

JOE MCHUGH’S threat to resign from Fine Gael – which party made him a minister twice – if the mica protesters don’t get what they want is not idle; nor is it the superficial gesture of a politician that fears his seat is in serious jeopardy. McHugh recognised long ago that unless he responded to… Read more »

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Shane Ross

SHANE ROSS’S BANKING ACCOUNT

Date: November 18, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

LAST WEEKEND, Shane Ross took a pop at those he claimed had escaped the sort of abuse poor old Sean Fitzpatrick got as a result of the banking crash. The former Anglo Irish Bank chairman is, however, somebody about whom Ross himself has expressed wildly erratic opinions. Ross took the opportunity to criticise a few… Read more »

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Bertie Ahern

BERTIE AND THE ‘REAL’ PEACEMAKERS

Date: November 18, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

WHAT A waspish speech Bertie Ahern made when launching former junior foreign minister Conor Lenihan’s biography, Albert Reynolds, Risk Taker for Peace, last week. Apparently seething with indignation, according to reports, Bertie rejected the notion that the 1985 Anglo-Irish Agreement, signed by Fine Gael taoiseach, Sir Garret FitzGerald and British premier Maggie Thatcher was the… Read more »

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Owen Paterson

OWEN PATERSON’S IRISH LEGACY

Date: November 18, 2021 - Northwind

OWEN PATERSON, the former northern secretary, whose defiance when accused by Britain’s parliamentary commissioner of an ‘egregious case of paid advocacy’ on behalf of two northern companies, caused a crisis for Boris Johnson’s government, has also had a malign effect on the north over many years. Paterson, who resigned as an MP to avoid facing… Read more »

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FLANAGAN FEUDS WITH COVENEY

Date: November 18, 2021 - Last Refuge

IT’S GETTING hard to track the number of criticisms that former foreign minister Charlie Flanagan has levelled at his successor Simon Coveney in the past six months or so. Charlie BlackandTanAgain was at it again recently when he had a go at the low number of urgent passport applications allowed by the Department of Foreign… Read more »

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Sinéad Moriarty

FILLING THE ARTS COUNCIL

Date: November 18, 2021 - Behind the Scenes

WITH THE terms about to expire for half a dozen members of the Arts Council, minister Catherine Martin will be preparing to unveil the new faces next month and, in doing so, put her stamp on the agency. While six of the seats to be filled relate to replacements for members whose terms are about… Read more »

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Vogue Williams

VOGUE’S IRISH MILLIONAIRE PARTNER

Date: November 18, 2021 - High Society

VOGUE WILLIAMS is ending the year on a high, announcing that a third baby is on the way for the influencer-broadcaster-entrepreneur-socialite and her loaded hubby, Matthew Spencer. Having been caught up in one of those online storms earlier in 2021 thanks to a high-profile trip to sunny St Barts in the Caribbean, Williams will be… Read more »

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Mikey Sheehy

SANGRIA AT DUNDALK

Date: November 18, 2021 - Sport of Kings

THERE WAS confusion at Dundalk recently after jockey Mikey Sheehy steered home the Joseph O’Brien-trained Sangria to victory. Sheehy, one of the leading apprentice jockeys in the country, had ridden his 65th career winner a few days previously – a tally that reduced from 5lbs to 3lbs his claimed weight allowance. In winning at Dundalk,… Read more »

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