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IRISH TIMES PANDEMIC PROFITS

Date: December 16, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

WHILE THE Irish Times only picked up the one gong in the UCD Smurfit Business School journo awards this week, the performance of the company’s execs maybe deserved a couple of medals. Although there has been much gnashing of teeth in media circles about the impact of the pandemic on the sector, it turns out… Read more »

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Gerry Adams

ADAMS HASN’T GONE AWAY YOU KNOW

Date: December 16, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

AFTER RECORD breaking poll ratings the last thing Sinn Féin – or some of the more electorally sensitive members in the leadership – wanted was a row over a grinning Gerry Adams chanting tiocfaidh ár lá and a chorus line of, “They haven’t gone away you know”. Capitulating on the Special Criminal Court and softening… Read more »

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Brianna ‘Thorn’ Skehan

THE GARDAÍ’S VIRTUAL HERO

Date: December 16, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

THEY’RE A fun-loving lot at the Garda Review, publication of the Garda Representative Association (GRA), and the current edition has a full-on front page photo of Brianna ‘Thorn’ Skehan, a member of the virtual Emergency Response Unit (ERU), with several more photos of her inside. ‘Brianna’ is a newly created character in the computer game,… Read more »

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Stephen Rae

EX-INM EDITOR SUES ‘SUNDAY TIMES’ HACK

Date: December 16, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

A SIGNIFICANT issue of press freedom will shortly be determined in the High Court arising from a libel action taken by Stephen Rae, former editor-in-chief of Independent News & Media (INM) before it was taken over by Mediahuis. Rae is suing Mark Tighe and the Sunday Times for a story based on claims by then… Read more »

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Tim Cullinan

FG/GREEN ‘UNITY’

Date: December 16, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

THE CONTINUING decline in Fine Gael’s popularity is beginning to look less like a slump and more like a death spiral. Panic in the ranks of Blueshirts has been evidenced by their floating the idea of three straight years of tax cuts to woo back the middle classes – an odd tactic with government debt… Read more »

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Gökhan Çelik

FLIGHTS OF FANCY IN SHANNON?

Date: December 16, 2021 - Hush Hush

BASED IN Shannon Free Zone business park in Co Clare, A-techSYN (Advanced Technologies with Synergy) provides not only unmanned flights with its drones but, in addition, is engaged in the manufacture of drone parts and software development. With smart, cutting edge technology and research A-techSYN has also profiled itself as producing enhanced facilities for search and… Read more »

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Fintan O'Toole

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: December 16, 2021 - The Hot Air Brigade

Eating simple and ‘natural’ foods was a way of revolting against the hedonistic excesses of capitalist consumption. Vegetarian self-control was a rebuff to the grotsquerie of upper-class gluttony. Fintan O’Toole, Irish Times, submitted by reader As I said, if Ryan wants to get me on and take a weekend off, down the line, I’d be… Read more »

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Deirdre Heenan

UNITED HEALTH SERVICE, ANYONE?

Date: December 16, 2021 - Northwind

THE NORTH’S finance minister, Sinn Féin’s Conor Murphy, has produced a draft budget which increases the healthcare allocation by 10% for three years and cuts all other departments by 2%. Health will receive £7bn each year. Sounds a lot for 1.8 million people, but it’s only up from £6.45bn. Murphy is trying to deal with… Read more »

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Joseph Stalin

LEFT SPLINTER GROUP SPLINTERS

Date: December 16, 2021 - Last Refuge

THE MAINSTAY for decades of the non-republican left in Ireland – north and south – was the Communist Party of Ireland (CPI), but recent years have seen it fall prey to the Trotskyist virus of splits and factionalism. This has resulted in the usual recrimination, expulsions, name-calling and exaggerated claims about each other. For some… Read more »

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Michael D Higgins

‘IRISH TIMES’ Q&A POLL REBOUNDS

Date: December 16, 2021 - Last Refuge

THE IRISH TIMES recently fought valiantly against President Higgins’s refusal to mark the anniversary of partition and also the results of its own poll showing public approval for the gesture at a ratio of four to one. With admirable persistence, the IT tried, last week, to present southern opinion as being cold on the idea… Read more »

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Micheál Martin

FF’S PR BLITZ PAYS OFF

Date: December 16, 2021 - Last Refuge

THE BIGGEST surprise in recent polls is not Sinn Féin’s ongoing surge but the reversal of positions between Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil with the latter overtaking the former after nearly two years in its shadow. There have been polls in the past year or two showing FG at two and even three times FF’s… Read more »

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BROWN SUES LONDON MET AND CPS

Date: December 16, 2021 - Fit to Print?

DANA ROSEMARY Scallon and her brother John Brown are near the final stages of their multiple actions against various media, securing apologies and large sums of money in damages. These actions follow Brown’s 2014 acquittal in a British court on all charges of child abuse (see The Phoenix, 18/6/21). Brown will now direct his attention… Read more »

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Charlie McConalogue

THE MICA FALLOUT …AND THE CASSIDYS

Date: December 16, 2021 - Fit to Print?

A TORTUOUS Irish Times editorial thrashed about recently in search of answers – and suitable targets – to the mica scandal, pointing to how housing minister Darragh O’Brien had acceded to homeowners’ demands to save two government TDs, including agriculture minister Charlie McConalogue; how homeowners still say they are being left short; and how protecting… Read more »

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Eamon Ryan

GREAT GAS

Date: December 16, 2021 - Fowl Emissions

“A SHORT-term fix for that technology gap we have that needs to be plugged right at this point in time,” was how Climate Change Advisory Council chairwoman Marie Donnelly defended the government’s decision to build up to seven new gas-fired power stations to meet Ireland’s soaring electricity demand. Donnelly was answering questions before the oireachtas… Read more »

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JOE DUFFY ‘MAROONED’

Date: December 16, 2021 - Fowl Emissions

“WE ARE now global citizens, in it together,” broadcaster Joe Duffy told the Irish Times in a short interview about his Christmas plans. It sounded like a seasonal message of goodwill and concern for the planet, but the quote used in the headline struck a very different tone: “I am sick of being marooned on… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: December 16, 2021 - Bog Cuttings

‘Useless C**ts’ A teenager who told gardaí on Christmas Day that they were ‘useless cunts’ was convicted of public order offences at a sitting of Drogheda District Court. Judge Eirinn McKiernan heard that gardaí on patrol spotted John Donovan (18), of Scarlet Street, Drogheda, behaving erratically on December 25, 2020. When they approached him, the… Read more »

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Consuelo O’Connor

JEANNE BAARS’ €5M PILE

Date: December 16, 2021 - High Society

GOLDHAWK WAS interested to see that a Georgian pile on 340 acres in Co Offaly has gone on the market with a hefty €5m price tag. Although the owner is named as Jeanne Baars, in the Irish Times, the property is held though a Dutch-controlled corporate structure. Bellair is located 4km from the village of… Read more »

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Declan McGonagle

DECLAN MCGONAGLE’S NEW SEAT

Date: December 16, 2021 - Behind the Scenes

THERE IS a new face on the board of the Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery, where fresh blood has been in short supply in recent years. The latest so-called trustee is one Declan McGonagle, who has had a mixed record in terms of his involvement with arts and culture-related entities. Most notable was his sudden exit… Read more »

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GALWAY’S CREW HQ

Date: December 16, 2021 - Behind the Scenes

THE FORMER Redemptorist monastery Cluain Mhuire is Galway Mayo Institute of Technology’s (GMIT) campus closest to the centre of Galway. It is due for something of a makeover. The substantial 1930s protected structure, houses the Centre for Creative Arts and Media and has for three decades provided offices for Alan Duggan’s Galway Film Centre, and,… Read more »

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HAUGHEY - GARY MURPHY

HAUGHEY – GARY MURPHY

Date: December 16, 2021 - BooksBooks|ReviewsReviews

READING THE largely glowing reviews in the national press for Gary Murphy’s Haughey, one would be forgiven for failing to realise what an intense disappointment this publication is. “Brilliant”, howled Shane Ross in the Sindo; “Terrific” echoed Matt Cooper in the Business Post. In the Sunday Times, Bertie Ahern gasped, “Impeccably researched … definitive”. Murphy… Read more »

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APRIL IN SPAIN - JOHN BANVILLE

APRIL IN SPAIN – JOHN BANVILLE

Date: December 16, 2021 - BooksBooks|ReviewsReviews

IN HIS latest crime novel, John Banville returns to his moody Dublin state pathologist (known only as Quirke), the hero of several earlier mysteries published under the name Benjamin Black. Having recently dispensed with the pseudonym, it seems that the author no longer makes a distinction between literary and detective fiction. Sadly, this new offering is… Read more »

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Douglas Taylor

DOUG TAYLOR’S NEW STALLION

Date: December 16, 2021 - Sport of Kings

DOUG TAYLOR has not been afraid to put his money where his mouth is when it comes to horseflesh and the MCR group boss is delving deeper into the stallion business following the success of his first stallion gamble, Jet Away. Taylor has purchased Dee Ex Bee, a former Sheikh Mohammed al Maktoum-owned horse that… Read more »

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Bryony Frost

FROSTY TIMES OFF TRACK

Date: December 16, 2021 - Sport of Kings

THE HIGH-profile Bryony Frost/Robbie Dunne episode has opened a can of worms about a deep-set culture in the sport rather than a personal spat between two jockeys. The first week of the case, during which Frost gave her version of events, was predictable enough but as the second week progressed and other riders were called… Read more »

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Tim Husband

LONELY FOR HUSBANDS

Date: December 16, 2021 - Sport of Kings

WHEN LEOPARDSTOWN manager Tim Husbands announced he planned to cap the attendance at the four-day Christmas festival to a healthy 10,000 a day, it must have sounded like very good news for racegoers. It turns out that Husbands had overlooked the upward trajectory of Covid-19 numbers and the frequent hints from Merrion Street that increased… Read more »

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Rachael Blackmore

HALF-TERM SCHOOL REPORT

Date: December 16, 2021 - Sport of Kings

WITH THE jumps season well past the halfway point at this stage, the respective tables for leading jockey and trainer prove noteworthy. Rachael Blackmore hasn’t been short of accolades over the past year, featuring as a prime contender for the BBC’s World Sports Star 2021. An Irish champion jockey title would be the icing on… Read more »

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Jonathan Laredo

WHY YEW GROVE DEAL SHOULD BE REJECTED

Date: December 16, 2021 - Moneybags

IT IS very difficult to make any sense of the behaviour of the three amigos at Yew Grove REIT – Jonathan Laredo, Charlie Peach and Mick Gibbons – who have built up a portfolio of attractive properties worth €168m and also identified opportunities to grow this to €300m. Now, they are selling out at a… Read more »

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Barney O’Hare

BARNEY O’HARE’S BOUNCE

Date: December 16, 2021 - Briefcases

IT LOOKS like a case of ‘full house’ for Co Louth-based bookie Barney O’Hare of Bar One Racing fame, with the bingo/entertainment venue into which he has sunk significant dosh turning in a pandemic-beating performance last year. It will be recalled (see The Phoenix 3/12/21) that Barney has a 20% stake in the Let’s Bingo!… Read more »

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Emma-Lucy O'Brien

QUARE COLD IN CARLOW

Date: December 16, 2021 - Briefcases

THE LATEST figures for Carlow’s cash-strapped VISUAL arts centre, give little reason for Christmas cheer and the cancellation of this week’s panto means there is nothing to distract the hapless board members. Fans of Goldhawk are familiar with the financial problems at VISUAL, which has struggled since it opened its doors more than a decade… Read more »

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HEAVY GOING FOR HARRINGTON

Date: December 16, 2021 - Briefcases

THE LIST of Revenue defaulters published on December 7 included the usual mix of companies who have fallen foul of the taxman. It is not often, however, that Goldhawk spots the same name popping up in two successive quarterly lists. Fans of The Phoenix will be familiar with the adventures of Kilkenny-based Triona Harrington and… Read more »

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Shaun Murphy

SHAUN MURPHY’S IRISH GAME

Date: December 16, 2021 - Briefcases

SNOOKER ACE Shaun ‘the Magician’ Murphy has had a rocky enough year and will be looking forward to putting 2021 behind him. Meanwhile, there have been some changes at his Irish company. Former world champion Murphy made headlines last month after his exit from the UK Championship at the hands of 19-year-old amateur Si Jiahui… Read more »

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Simon Coveney

SIMON COVENEY’S CONUNDRUM

Date: December 2, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

HOW LONG more will Minister Simon Coveney’s floundering and dangerous foreign policy agenda in the African continent go unreported in the Irish media? Ireland has had a military presence in Mali since February 2013. The Defence Forces have 20 personnel deployed with the European Union Training Mission (EUTM), which trains and advises the Malian Military… Read more »

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Phil Hogan

BIG PHIL AND VLAD TO MAKE UP?

Date: December 2, 2021 - Last Refuge

THE PROPOSITION that Big Phil Hogan would be amenable to reconciliation with tánaiste and Fine Gael leader Leo Varadkar, if the latter would only call him for a chat, was put forward by Newstalk news presenter Shane Coleman in the Sunday Independent last weekend. The rationale was that Vlad needs Big Phil to shore up… Read more »

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Roderic O'Gorman

PROFILE: RODERIC O’GORMAN

Date: December 2, 2021 - Pillars of Society

RODERIC O’GORMAN is turning into the Green party’s answer to Fianna Fáil’s health minister Stephen Donnelly, with a series of apologies, contradictions and U-turns. The minister for children, disability, equality and integration has faced a barrage of criticism on a number of fronts since he was appointed to the cabinet last year, and his critics… Read more »

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Cathal Crowe

YOUNG BLOOD: CATHAL CROWE

Date: December 2, 2021 - The Young Bloods

WITH FIANNA Fáil paralysed by its alliance with Fine Gael, and uncertainty as to its future, attention is turning to where the new TDs stand, among them Clare’s Cathal Crowe who displaced Timmy Dooley as the sole FF TD is the party’s most republican county. Crowe has been involved in Fianna Fáil politics since he… Read more »

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Vincent Browne

BROWNE BEGGED HAUGHEY FOR CASH

Date: December 2, 2021 - Fit to Print?

SUNDAY INDEPENDENT extracts from the biography, Haughey, by academic Gary Murphy, opened with a passage about how the founder of Magill magazine, Vincent Browne, had written to Squire hockey on the day he became taoiseach in December, 1979. Browne wanted to do an in-depth interview on how Haughey had won the leadership of Fianna Fáil… Read more »

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Regina Doherty

REGINA DOHERTY’S COMEBACK

Date: December 2, 2021 - Last Refuge

THE COMEBACK campaign of former minister Regina Doherty, who lost her Meath East seat at the last general election, has been revving up to full throttle in recent months. But even though she is now leader of the Seanad and leader of Fine Gael there she recently told senators that “I am now representing the constituency… Read more »

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