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Charles Byrnes

BYRNES BACK WITH A BANG

Date: October 7, 2021 - Sport of Kings

WHAT BETTER way to celebrate a return from a six-month suspension than to land an old-fashioned gamble in a competitive handicap in the home of British flat racing? Saddling just his second runner since taking back the licence from his son, Cathal, Charles Byrnes sent Turnpike Trip over to Newmarket to contest a £40,000 staying… Read more »

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Bertrand Gautier

TRYING TO MAKE SENSE OF GREENCOAT RENEWABLES

Date: October 7, 2021 - Moneybags

WHILE RENEWABLE energy is very much du jour, from a financial point of view these businesses survive courtesy of significant state subsidies, which in Ireland are currently running at €300m pa. Consumers can check out their own Public Service Obligation contribution, which is added to their energy bill. The good news for investors is that… Read more »

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Edmond Scanlon

KERRY GROUP FINALLY GETS ITS STRATEGY RIGHT

Date: October 7, 2021 - Moneybags

AFTER MORE than a decade of Kerry Group advocating the virtues of a twin-tracked strategy – the two divisions of food ingredients and consumer foods – one that Moneybags criticised repeatedly, it is surprising to hear CEO Ed Scanlon referring to the sale in the context of “Kerry’s strategy for the last 30 years [which]… Read more »

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Enda O’Coineen

ENDA O’COINEEN’S STRATEGY

Date: October 7, 2021 - Brief CasesBriefcases

ENDA O’COINEEN has been busy splashing the cash in an effort to build the Business Post Group into a formidable media Goliath, recently spending €7m on polling company Red C. But, Goldhawk spotted that he has also been selling off a few assets, including most recently a historic little pub and holiday home village in… Read more »

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Michael McAteer

THE FEIGHERYS FIND A PATH

Date: October 7, 2021 - Brief CasesBriefcases

CONGRATULATIONS ARE in order to the Feighery family, who have inked a deal to sell their company SIAC Bituminous Products (SIACBP) Ltd to French civil engineering giant Colas. Although the price tag hasn’t been made public, the sale – which has just been given the green light by the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission –… Read more »

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’KIN’ MONEY

Date: October 7, 2021 - Behind the Scenes

WHILE DISENTANGLING the finances of RTÉ‘s latest ‘home-grown’ production, Kin (see The Phoenix 24/9/21) ), a show owned by its Canadian and British co-producers, Goldhawk took a look at the accounts of James Flynn’s Metropolitan Film Productions Ltd (MFP), sister company of Metropolitan Films International Ltd, which is the local end of the Kin production…. Read more »

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Stephen Garvey

GARVEY’S GRUMBLES

Date: October 7, 2021 - Brief CasesBriefcases

LAST MONTH, Glenveagh Homes boss Stephen Garvey thundered to the Irish Times: “If construction is such a profitable industry, why aren’t more people at it?” The paper must have caught Garvey on a bad day as he grumbled that “the cost and viability of delivering a home is much higher than it was 10 or… Read more »

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Heather Humphries

HEATHER WHO?

Date: September 23, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

THERE IS a state of disarray in Fine Gael right now that has not been seen since the electoral thrashing of 2002 and it has led to all manner of recrimination and speculation in the parliamentary party. The most startling is the proposal that a change of leadership, should the need arise, could see Heather… Read more »

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Catherine Martin

PROFILE: CATHERINE MARTIN

Date: September 23, 2021 - Pillars of Society

IN THE summer of last year Green party deputy leader Catherine Martin stood out as the coming force inside the party and was poised to take the leadership. More forceful and more in touch with youthful party radicals than leader Eamon Ryan, Martin nearly took the prize, but Ryan narrowly staved off the pretender and… Read more »

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Karen Koster

YOUNG BLOOD: KAREN KOSTER

Date: September 23, 2021 - The Young Bloods

IN THE wake of the bloodbath that continues to claim victims at Virgin Media Television, Karen Koster’s move from Ireland AM to The Six O’Clock Show suggests that the station is banking on her pulling power to draw in the teatime audience. Ballymount’s answer to Holly Willoughby has long been a favourite of head honchos at the station. Her… Read more »

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Aidan Gillen

THE COST OF ‘KIN’

Date: September 23, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

BACK IN February the RTÉ publicity machine went into one of its occasional paroxysms of activity when TV series Kin (see review p20) was sold by its producers to the American streaming channel AMC. The critics have been pretty kind to the show (which boasts the star power of Aidan Gillen and Ciarán Hinds) since… Read more »

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Lorraine Clifford Lee

CLIFFORD-LEE’S RETALIATION

Date: September 23, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

OIRISH MAIL on Sunday hackette Niamh Walsh got a roasting last week for her snarky column lambasting the sartorial disasters on show at the Fianna Fáil ‘think-in’ at the Slieve Russell hotel in Co Cavan. Goldhawk was, however, surprised at one particular intervention. “Now I fully expect my take on the Think In will open… Read more »

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John Magnier has been thrust into the spotlight thanks to a legal dispute over the 750-acre Barne Estate in Tipperary, while Moya Doherty had a problem with her neighbour.

MAGNIER DETHRONED

Date: September 23, 2021 - Sport of Kings

IN WHAT represents a momentous changing of the guard, 2021 looks like being the first year this century that a Coolmore stallion will not be crowned champion flat sire in Britain and Ireland. For more than 30 years, dating back to 1990 when Sadler’s Wells began his reign as champion and started to line the… Read more »

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DENIS O’BRIEN’S UK RADIOS

Date: September 23, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

WHILE DENIS O’Brien is likely to have made a significant loss on the reported sale for “north of €100m” of Communicorp to Bauer Media Audio earlier this year, the news from across the Irish Sea is not so grim. Chaired by Lucy Gaffney, Communicorp UK is Dinny’s radio group in the UK, which now operates… Read more »

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Deirdre Foley

DEIRDRE FOLEY MOVES ON

Date: September 23, 2021 - Brief CasesBriefcases

SO FAREWELL then Natrium Ltd, a company that was at the centre of the highly fractious purchase, closure and eventual sale to Paddy McKillen Jr’s Press UP group of Dublin’s famous Clerys department store. The face of Natrium was Deirdre Foley who did rather nicely out of the whole episode. While it is hard to… Read more »

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Edna O’Brien

DAME EDNA’S WINDFALL

Date: September 23, 2021 - Behind the Scenes

EARLIER THIS month it was announced that the National Library of Ireland (NLI) had acquired “Edna O’Brien’s Papers (2009-2021)”. The arts and culture minister Catherine Martin issued a press release expressing her delight at the library’s latest addition to its burgeoning archives collection. What was missing from the announcement (or the press release form the… Read more »

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BEAUTIFUL WORLD, WHERE ARE YOU - SALLY ROONEY

BEAUTIFUL WORLD, WHERE ARE YOU – SALLY ROONEY

Date: September 23, 2021 - BooksBooks|ReviewsReviews

WHILE SALLY Rooney’s two previous books, Conversations With Friends and Normal People, weren’t to everybody’s taste, it was impossible to argue with the phenomenal sales figures. The accompanying near-hysterical hype (comparisons with Hemingway and Joyce, “voice of a millennial generation”, etc, etc) has also made her a cult figure. With Rooney’s latest offering, she is… Read more »

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MCGUCKIANS’ MANSION

Date: September 23, 2021 - High Society

THE IRISH TIMES was very coy last week about the ownership of what looks set to be the most expensive house in Ireland. It is left to Goldhawk to shine a little light on the minted family who own 73 Ailesbury Road in Ballsbridge . Fans of The Phoenix with long memories will recall that… Read more »

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David Frost

STORMONT COLLAPSE LOOMS

Date: September 23, 2021 - Northwind

SIR JEFFREY DONALDSON’S threat to pull down Stormont is not as straightforward as people portray it. Yes, it throws a piece of raw meat to DUP voters, but there are several more options on the menu which are being examined by the British government and Sinn Féin alike. Both of them have difficult choices to… Read more »

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VOL 39 NO 19

Date: September 23, 2021 -

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Budget Jack Chambers Nicki Minaj B’Tselem Phil Hogan UCD IRTA DIGI Katy Brown Rory Godson Pallonji Mistry Shark Hanlon Frances Ruane Taste of Dublin Listowel Writers’ Week Paddy Curran Harvey Norman Anton Savage Paul Hourican Enda O’Coineen PfP Red C Poll IFTA Ben Gilroy Luke Comer Sue Spence Fingleton Aubrey McCarthy Matt Cooper Parker Green Danny McConnell Gayle Killilea Maura Derivan Ed Honohan INS Arts Council EDAF Emuse Rosslare Golf Club Mairead Casey Colm O’Rourke Stephen Connolly Peter Aiken John Malone Tom Barry Anthony Halpin Ian Kehoe Kevin Bakhurst Geraldine O’Leary Dennis Horgan RUSI Gareth McAllister Ryevale House Joe Macken RUC Omagh Patrick Connolly Paddy Cosgrave The Ditch Newstalk Fake Tan Fred Logue Ian Paisley Sean O’Riordan Margaret Sweeney Jay Bourke Ellie Kisyombe Francesca McDonagh Ted Cunningham National Space Centre An Irish Goodbye Oscar Robert Quirke Ciara Kelly Executive Women Gathering Doug Taylor Florian Haufe Robbie Henshaw Bill Shipsey Breaking the Silence L’Ecrivain Ronan McNally National Lottery Michael Roche Energy Action Balls.ie Newspapers VAT Abbey Theatre Patricia Madden Irish Banking Culture Board Randox Aoife Gallagher Book Dalai Lama Trinity Trevor White RTÉ Chairperson Shane Houlihan Noel Smyth IKC Bob Geldof Landlord Ireland Neutrality Ukraine

TRENDING AT ALFIE’S

Date: September 23, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

TWITTER LIT up last week with a thread about a former worker in Alfie’s restaurant on Dublin’s South William Street being paid his wages in 5c pieces. It is possible that one of those paying attention to the hullabaloo glance was Noel McMahon, who is very familiar with the hospitality trade. He also offloaded an… Read more »

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Gerry Boyle

WHERE’S THE BEEF?

Date: September 23, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

SPARE A thought for Teagasc director Gerry Boyle. Having for years battled to defend the indefensible expansion of the dairy industry in the teeth of the climate emergency, Boyle, who is due to stand down from the state agricultural research agency this month, now finds himself being pilloried by the very agriculture lobby he has… Read more »

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Mary Irvine

LEGAL LOWER ORDERS

Date: September 23, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

THE FIRST five of the 17 High Court judges recently demanded by High Court president Justice Mary Irvine have been selected for nomination by the cabinet, but the figure that will interest many legal eagles is that all five are senior counsel, ie barristers. There was much talk in the days of former justice minister… Read more »

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Budget Jack Chambers Nicki Minaj B’Tselem Phil Hogan UCD IRTA DIGI Katy Brown Rory Godson Pallonji Mistry Shark Hanlon Frances Ruane Taste of Dublin Listowel Writers’ Week Paddy Curran Harvey Norman Anton Savage Paul Hourican Enda O’Coineen PfP Red C Poll IFTA Ben Gilroy Luke Comer Sue Spence Fingleton Aubrey McCarthy Matt Cooper Parker Green Danny McConnell Gayle Killilea Maura Derivan Ed Honohan INS Arts Council EDAF Emuse Rosslare Golf Club Mairead Casey Colm O’Rourke Stephen Connolly Peter Aiken John Malone Tom Barry Anthony Halpin Ian Kehoe Kevin Bakhurst Geraldine O’Leary Dennis Horgan RUSI Gareth McAllister Ryevale House Joe Macken RUC Omagh Patrick Connolly Paddy Cosgrave The Ditch Newstalk Fake Tan Fred Logue Ian Paisley Sean O’Riordan Margaret Sweeney Jay Bourke Ellie Kisyombe Francesca McDonagh Ted Cunningham National Space Centre An Irish Goodbye Oscar Robert Quirke Ciara Kelly Executive Women Gathering Doug Taylor Florian Haufe Robbie Henshaw Bill Shipsey Breaking the Silence L’Ecrivain Ronan McNally National Lottery Michael Roche Energy Action Balls.ie Newspapers VAT Abbey Theatre Patricia Madden Irish Banking Culture Board Randox Aoife Gallagher Book Dalai Lama Trinity Trevor White RTÉ Chairperson Shane Houlihan Noel Smyth IKC Bob Geldof Landlord Ireland Neutrality Ukraine

HARVEY BOULTER’S ANNUS HORRIBILIS

Date: September 23, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

THIS IS turning into quite the annus horribilis for moneybags and venture capitalist Harvey Boulter, who is being sued in the UK over claims that £64m of investors’ money has disappeared. Poor Harvey has bigger things on his mind these days. Boulter will be known to fans of Goldhawk thanks to his decision to sue… Read more »

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Jack Chambers

NO IRISH WANTED HERE

Date: September 23, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

GOVERNMENT CHIEF WHIP Jack Chambers should take time off from riding shotgun for the government in the Dáil (and Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin in the party) and focus on a central part of his ministerial brief: the Irish language. DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson may abort any movement towards the long-promised Irish Language Act from… Read more »

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Jennifer Whitmore

BIG TECH’S MULTIMILLION SPEND

Date: September 23, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

GOLDHAWK DREW attention recently to the new direction of former Labour TD Michael McCarthy, whose new job is chief lobbyist for Cloud Infrastructure Ireland (CII), which represents three of the biggest tech mega corps, Amazon, Google and Microsoft (see The Phoenix 10/9/21). Appropriately enough, Jennifer Whitmore TD of the Labour party Mark 11, aka the… Read more »

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Ronan Mullen

STAG HUNTS AND HIGH MASS

Date: September 23, 2021 - Hush Hush

WHEN THE referendum to repeal the Eighth Amendment was passed easily in 2018 the ‘God squad’ was left reeling and right-wing Catholic activists have taken a while to regroup. Aontú led by former Sinn Féin TD Peadar Tóibín emerged as a mixem gatherum of frustrated Sinn Féin, Fianna Fáil, SDLP and Independent anti-abortion activists but… Read more »

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Sarah Carey

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: September 23, 2021 - The Hot Air Brigade

I didn’t expect to write about Afghanistan. Geopolitics and military tactics are not my usual stomping ground. Human nature is my field of expertise, the psychology of ‘great men’ my speciality. Sarah Carey, Irish Independent, submitted by reader Fianna Fáil is in a very bad state. We are not the well-organised, clear-thinking party we were…. Read more »

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Kate O’Connell

KATE WRITES FOR HER SUPPER

Date: September 23, 2021 - Last Refuge

WHAT A mature, non-contentious and carefully calibrated article former TD Kate O’Connell wrote for the Sunday Independent last weekend. In a piece that read like a lecture on standards in public life but which avoided, most uncharacteristically, any provocative jibes against Fine Gael leaders and ministers, O’Connell wrote for her supper in a finely honed… Read more »

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Marc MacSharry

MARC EYES MICHEÁL … AND MARION

Date: September 23, 2021 - Last Refuge

MARC MACSHARRY may have resigned the Fianna Fáil whip but he has not lost his penchant for the dramatic soundbite. Expounding on the failings of the FF party under Micheál Martin last week he condemned it with typical understatement as an “undemocratic totalitarian regime rather than that of a democratic socialist republican party of and… Read more »

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Philip Brennan

GREENS’ DEFENCE NON-POLICY

Date: September 23, 2021 - Last Refuge

MYSTERY SURROUNDS the Green party’s position on defence, neutrality and foreign policy despite the deliberations of a foreign policy and security group for most of this year and despite also the party’s once-firm support for neutrality. Efforts by Goldhawk to establish what if any Green party policy on these matters exists has met with blank… Read more »

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Michael D Higgins

MEDIA TAKE ON HIGGINS

Date: September 23, 2021 - Fit to Print?

POPULAR OPINION may be overwhelmingly with Michael D on the event “marking” partition and the state of Northern Ireland. But much of the media in the southern part of ‘partitioned’ Ireland have been doing their level best to push back against the “horrendously atavistic” response of the populace with editorials railing against the president’s decision…. Read more »

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THE ‘SINDO’ AND VLAD

Date: September 23, 2021 - Fit to Print?

THE MOST sensational story Goldhawk has seen for some time – about Dr Maitiú Ó Tuathail and his allegation that he was the subject of attempted blackmail – was published on the front page of the Sunday Independent recently. This concerned his receipt from the then taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, of a confidential document about a… Read more »

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Joanne Hayes

NEW, CARING GARDAÍ

Date: September 23, 2021 - Fit to Print?

IN THE annals of Sunday Independent crime reporting, normally supportive to the point of eclipsing the garda press office, there can hardly have been a more adulatory piece than that penned by Wayne O’Connor about Kerry Baby John, in Cahirciveen last weekend. Introduced thus, “With compassion and reverence, detectives are determined to find Baby John’s… Read more »

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Charlie McConalogue

TRILLIONS WASTED IN CLIMATE ACTION

Date: September 23, 2021 - Fowl Emissions

EARLIER THIS year, the European Court of Auditors reported that, despite spending more than €100bn of EU agriculture funds on climate action projects in the past seven years, “virtually nothing” was achieved in terms of agri-emissions reductions across the EU since 2010. This eye-watering sum is but a small fraction of the at least €500bn-a-year that… Read more »

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MET ÉIREANN’S NEW FORECAST

Date: September 23, 2021 - Fowl Emissions

SOME YEARS back, Met Éireann was regularly in the firing line for its curious reluctance to engage in any way with climate change and its role in fuelling extreme weather events. This included a woeful ‘2050 weather report’ video, where it stated it was “impossible to say” what might happen, as “climate models really are… Read more »

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