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Eamon Ryan

PROFILE: EAMON RYAN

Date: November 4, 2021 - Pillars of Society

EAMON RYAN’S hour has come round at last – or has it? The Green party leader’s decade-long dream of a meaningful climate act materialised last week with publication of carbon budgets from the Climate Change Advisory Council. It has been a long time coming for the climate action minister who has had to contend with… Read more »

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Erin McGregor

YOUNG BLOODS: ERIN MCGREGOR

Date: November 4, 2021 - The Young Bloods

WITH THE launch of her new Feel to Heal jewellery range, Erin McGregor is hoping that the crystal-based baubles will help wearers conjure up positive vibes around the three themes of ‘love’, ‘abundance’ and ‘anxiety’. She swears by the book, The Secret, which encourages readers to believe they can manifest desires through the “law of attraction”. Erin was so… Read more »

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Mary Lou McDonald

MARY LOU MCDONALD’S COALITION MUDGUARD

Date: November 4, 2021 - Last Refuge

POLITICAL CORRESPONDENTS now appear to be in the final stages of grief and are moving from depression towards acceptance that Sinn Féin will almost definitely lead the next government. The question now is who will perform the traditional function of mudguard for the lead coalition party and is a topic of much speculation inside and… 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

O’BRIEN VS ZUCKERBERG

Date: November 4, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

DENIS O’BRIEN has had a busy couple of weeks, selling off a chunk of his Digicel group to the Aussies and also finding time to have a pop at Facebook. Dinny generated plenty of column inches for comparing the social media company to the “creeping authoritarianism” of 1930s Germany. O’Brien is clearly no fan of… Read more »

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Veronica Guerin

VERONICA GUERIN: ‘SINDO’ REVISIONISM

Date: November 4, 2021 - Fit to Print?

THE DEATH last week of John Traynor, a gangland criminal source of Veronica Guerin who was also suspected of fingering her for her killers 25 years ago, gave the Sunday Independent another excuse to cover itself in glory – revisionist glory – given the incomplete account of its shameful behaviour in the matter of Traynor’s… Read more »

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WE DON’T KNOW OURSELVES - FINTAN O’TOOLE

WE DON’T KNOW OURSELVES – FINTAN O’TOOLE

Date: November 4, 2021 - BooksBooks|ReviewsReviews

SAMUEL BECKETT, with whom Fintan O’Toole is compared on this book’s back cover, might conceivably have compressed his era into 57 pages. O’Toole’s occupies 570 and still contains silences, albeit unlike Beckett’s. Eamonn Casey, Larry Goodman, the Catholic Church, child sexual abuse, Fianna Fáil, Charlie Haughey and his Ansbacher accounts are dissected with withering scorn…. Read more »

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DER KAISER AND MR & MRS SMITH

Date: November 4, 2021 - Brief CasesBriefcases

GOLDHAWK WAS impressed by the old-fashioned shoe leather reporting demonstrated by veteran Sindo reporter Liam Collins last week. Collins made his way down to the Probate Office in Smithfield, Dublin 7, to dig through the files associated with the estate of deceased playwright Ulick O’Connor, and found that a solicitor had been appointed to the… 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

STEFANIE PREISSNER’S PROFITS

Date: November 4, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

IT IS increasingly hard to avoid Stefanie Preissner these days (for anybody who might want to), with two separate radio stations opting to feature her dulcet tones last month. It is unclear if the Can’t Cope, Won’t Cope screenwriter, podcaster and columnist will land her own show after the recent outings but, if she does,… Read more »

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Ian Redmond

IAN REDMOND’S DANCE MOVES

Date: November 4, 2021 - Brief CasesBriefcases

ALMOST UBIQUITOUS in the recent media frenzy over the reopening of nightclubs and the government-imposed restrictions was Ian Redmond of the popular Dublin city centre club, Tramline. He quickly became the face of the sector, dancing into the headlines with alarming regularity both in print, online and on the airwaves. Redmond has plenty of other… Read more »

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Matt Dempsey

MATT DEMPSEY GOES GREEN

Date: November 4, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

TIME WAS when Matt Dempsey, former editor of the Irish Farmers Journal and a Kildare farmer himself was the champion of dairy and beef farming and railed against such as An Taisce for its allegedly overzealous climate change campaigning. Now, Matt is reinventing himself and is getting into renewables in a big way. However, there… Read more »

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VOL 39 NO 22

Date: November 4, 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

PHARMACISTS’ STRONG MEDICINE

Date: November 4, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

WITH A Covid-19 vaccine booster campaign on the table following the recommendation from the National Immunisation Audit Committee earlier this week, Dermot Twomey and the top brass in the Irish Pharmacy Union (IPU) will be hoping the good news distracts its restless members from the continued haemorrhaging at a joint venture set up a few… 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

CORRECTION

Date: November 4, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

IN THE Phoenix edition, October 8, 2021, an article entitled ‘LEGAL SAGA NEAR AN END?’ referred to a 15-year-old legal battle between Bernard and Viola Bingham and their former solicitor, Barry Sheehan. At one point the article wrongly stated, “In the Court of Appeal Ms Justice Caroline Costello found that Bingham had lost his action… Read more »

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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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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

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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Brendan Hughes outside Mountjoy

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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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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