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Katy Hayes

KATY HAYES AND THE WOMEN

Date: January 27, 2022 - Fit to Print?

TIMING IS, as they say, everything. But while most British readers may not have been outraged at last week’s Sunday Times critical tract, “too many Irish plays depict violence against women” – published a mere four days after the murder of Ashling Murphy – Irish women and many men will have been apoplectic at the article in the ST’s… Read more »

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FILM CENSORED

Date: January 27, 2022 - Fit to Print?

FILM-MAKER Teresa Lavina says film festivals and cinemas have been unwilling to screen her documentary ‘Untold Secrets’ centering on a survivor of the Tuam Mother and Baby Home – after receiving legal letters on behalf of the Killilea family of Tuam, Co Galway. This followed its premiere at the Galway Film Fleadh in July of… Read more »

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NOT SO GREEN HYDROGEN

Date: January 27, 2022 - Fowl Emissions

“A WORLD first that would make Australia a global leader,” was how Australian prime minister Scott Morrison described a historic shipment of liquid hydrogen to Japan last week. While this might be good news for Japan, which can count this as a zero-emissions fuel for cars and power plants, it’s a filthy mess for Australia…. Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: January 27, 2022 - Bog Cuttings

‘F**king Muppets’ Two neighbours who pleaded guilty to charges of using abusive language towards gardaí seizing a car at the side of the road were each sentenced to 150 hours of community service in Cork District Court. Sergeant John Kelleher told the court that gardaí were seizing a car parked outside 30 Templeacre Avenue, Gurranabraher,… Read more »

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JONATHAN BEWLEY’S FOUNDATION

Date: January 27, 2022 - High Society

ONE OF the lower-profile charities here is the Bewley Foundation, overseen by Jonathan Bewley, the great grandson of the founder of the Jacob’s biscuit group, William Jacob. Jonathan was probably celebrating with more than tea and bikkies after a stellar year from his Bewley Foundation, pandemic or no. Since his exit from the family’s biscuit… Read more »

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Cyril Camus

BARON RAVELSTOKE’S BRANDY BUDDY

Date: January 27, 2022 - High Society

WITH RESTRICTIONS being lifted globally, it is expected that there will be a post-pandemic boost to the sales of expensive liquor. At least that is what Cyril Camus, the minted head of the famous Camus cognac house in France, is hoping. Certainly, sales of premium brandy would be expected to shift a fair few more… Read more »

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Colm Tóibín

COLM TÓIBÍN GETS THE GIG

Date: January 27, 2022 - Behind the Scenes

THE ANNOUNCEMENT by the Arts Council of scribbler Colm Tóibín as the new Laureate for Irish Fiction is unlikely to surprise too many people given his impressive record as a writer and unbridled ambition. In the end, Tóibín was one of just four writers contacted who confirmed that they would accept the 2022-2024 gig. Goldhawk… Read more »

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GER CONNOLLY’S HEADACHE

Date: January 27, 2022 - Behind the Scenes

THERE WAS a bit of a plot twist for Ger Connolly, director of the Irish Film Classification Office, whose operation has suffered an income drop of a third due to a combination of pandemic-related cinema closures and the rise and rise of streaming, even for new film releases. Next year will be the centenary of… Read more »

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DID YE HEAR MAMMY DIED? - SÉAMAS O’REILLY

DID YE HEAR MAMMY DIED? – SÉAMAS O’REILLY

Date: January 27, 2022 - BooksBooks|ReviewsReviews

THIS AFFECTIONATE childhood account about growing up on the Derry-Donegal border during the 1990s is one of several recent memoirs set during the Troubles in the north. The author is best known as a columnist on parenting for the Observer and for regular pieces in various other newspapers. This effort at a novel tends, however, to… Read more »

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Jim Balfry

JIM BALFRY’S COMEBACK

Date: January 27, 2022 - Sport of Kings

THERE WAS an interesting face in the winners’ enclosure at Punchestown last week. Jim Balfry – the former manager of the controversial ownership syndicate Supreme Racing – appeared in the photograph for winning connections after the Pat Doyle-trained Knockanard Lady made a winning debut in the bumper for owners, the John Battersby Racing Syndicate. It… Read more »

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Craig Suann

SUANN DRUGS REPORT

Date: January 27, 2022 - Sport of Kings

THE ANTI-DOPING protocols of the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB) were given a seal of approval following that comprehensive review undertaken by the oireachtas agriculture committee, published late last year. Despite this thumbs-up, however, the IHRB is paying an independent expert to carry out a similar audit. Retired Australian vet Craig Suann has been tasked… Read more »

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NOT SO APPEALING

Date: January 27, 2022 - Sport of Kings

TWO SIGNIFICANT ‘non-trier’ cases from late in 2021, in which the IHRB dished out a hefty €12,000 in fines, came before the appeals panel last week and there were mixed fortunes for the trainers involved. On balance, though, the panel for each case deemed the race-day stewards were correct in their findings. Clare trainer Brian… Read more »

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Tim Husbands

HUSBANDS’S DRY JANUARY

Date: January 27, 2022 - Sport of Kings

WITH THE Dublin Racing Festival on the horizon, Leopardstown boss Tim Husbands is dealing with the unusual scenario of more or less a full house of punters passing through the turnstiles and the possibility of a distinct lack of horses competing for the prestigious prizes over the two days. After abandoning the prospect of welcoming… Read more »

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Keith McGrane

CORRE ENERGY’S VERY LONG TERM SCHEDULE

Date: January 27, 2022 - Moneybags

ALONG WITH HealthBeacon, another recent arrival on the Dublin Stock Euronext Growth Market is Corre Energy, helping to partly reverse the defections over the past decade from the Irish stock market as a result of takeovers and migration of listings to London. What is surprising is that Corre has been able to tap into significant… Read more »

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Margaret Sweeney

I-RES REIT FINALLY DUMPS COSTLY CONTRACT

Date: January 27, 2022 - Moneybags

IRISH RESIDENTIAL Properties(I-Res) REIT floated in 2014, at which stage Capreit, the Canadian company behind the group, signed itself up to a lucrative management deal whereby it got 3% of total rent income plus 1.5% pa of the total value of the apartments bought, as well as remunerating Capreit for the direct costs incurred. Moneybags pointed… Read more »

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PAUL BOWES’S HOTEL BILLS

Date: January 27, 2022 - Briefcases

AN OLD pal of Goldhawk’s popped up just before Christmas with a circuit court application to appoint an examiner to the company that owns the Kilcoran Lodge hotel in Cahir, Co Tipperary. Given his past record, Goldhawk is confident that the irrepressible Paul Bowes will see his way through this latest challenge. Bowes and fellow… Read more »

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James McCarthy

FLIPDISH’S RED INK

Date: January 27, 2022 - Briefcases

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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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 - Briefcases

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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