IssueM Articles

Archives: Articles

articles
Michael O'Leary

MICK’S MUNIFICENCE

Date: November 4, 2021 - Sport of Kings

BOLSHY MONEYBAGS Mick O’Leary showed his apparent softer side when he revealed that he had allowed Gordon Elliott to invest in few young point-to-point winners on his behalf earlier in the year. Despite proceeding with a scaled-down version of his huge string of national hunt horses and pledging not to reinvest in the future, O’Leary… Read more »

To access this content, you must be a Phoenix subscriber.

Get access to The Phoenix online for as low as €1.50 per week. Read all the regular online only Phoenix stories AND receive the packed digital edition every fortnight (25 per year). Great value for so many inside stories!

Subscribe Now! I’m a Subscriber

Ed Dunlop David Dunsdon Sarah Lynam Rebecca May Wayne Hassett Eoin O'Brien Michael Burke Aine O’Connor Ashroe Diamond Thomand O’Mara Peter Keatley Timmy Hyde Coolmore All About Sunday Colin Keane Ronan Whelan JP McManus Jessica Harrington Dundalk Racecourse Paul Hensey Irish National Hunt Horse-racing Doping Paddy Walsh Tom Kelly Suspension

MUSICAL CHAIRS AT DOWN ROYAL

Date: November 4, 2021 - Sport of Kings

DOWN ROYAL’S big jumps meeting heralded the return of some of the sports major national hunt heroes, including this year’s Cheltenham Gold Cup winner Minella Indo but there was no shortage of drama in the lead-up to the event. With a lot of focus on the seasonal debut of the Barry Moloney-owned Minella Indo, it… Read more »

To access this content, you must be a Phoenix subscriber.

Get access to The Phoenix online for as low as €1.50 per week. Read all the regular online only Phoenix stories AND receive the packed digital edition every fortnight (25 per year). Great value for so many inside stories!

Subscribe Now! I’m a Subscriber

Conor O’Neill

SLOW OUT THE GATE

Date: November 4, 2021 - Sport of Kings

WHEN THE government announced a further relaxation of Covid-related restrictions on October 22, it was expected that racecourses and Horse Racing Ireland (HRI) would be rolling out plenty of incentives to encourage racegoers back through the turnstiles after such a long period of inactivity. This is far from the case. Consumer habits change over time… Read more »

To access this content, you must be a Phoenix subscriber.

Get access to The Phoenix online for as low as €1.50 per week. Read all the regular online only Phoenix stories AND receive the packed digital edition every fortnight (25 per year). Great value for so many inside stories!

Subscribe Now! I’m a Subscriber

Darragh Lyons (Photo: Fergal Phillips/Business Post)

MALIN CORP’S DISPOSALS BOOST THE COFFERS

Date: November 4, 2021 - Moneybags

THE BOARD of Malin Corp finds itself stuck in a legal spat that could prove expensive, the core issue being a change in control provision in the flotation document. If implemented, this could result in a €22m windfall for the founders, including Kelly Martin and John Given, as a result of the conversion of the… Read more »

To access this content, you must be a Phoenix subscriber.

Get access to The Phoenix online for as low as €1.50 per week. Read all the regular online only Phoenix stories AND receive the packed digital edition every fortnight (25 per year). Great value for so many inside stories!

Subscribe Now! I’m a Subscriber

James Menton

PROVIDENCE NEEDS TO FIND THE RIGHT MAN

Date: November 4, 2021 - Moneybags

AFTER ALL the hot air spouted by Providence and its recently departed CEO Alan Lynn about the bizarre Barryroe farm-out deal to a £2 company, Spot-On Energy, the latter’s failure to deliver is hardly a surprise. A changing of the guard and the exploitation of Providence’s giant Barryroe field will be up to the new… Read more »

To access this content, you must be a Phoenix subscriber.

Get access to The Phoenix online for as low as €1.50 per week. Read all the regular online only Phoenix stories AND receive the packed digital edition every fortnight (25 per year). Great value for so many inside stories!

Subscribe Now! I’m a Subscriber

WAVF Castleknock Hospitality BAL Susan Bergin Tixserve EOG Fergal Naughton hot-water-brigade def

NOEL MORAN’S EXPENSIVE STUD

Date: November 4, 2021 - Brief CasesBriefcases

NOEL AND Valerie Moran have had a turbulent 2021, with plenty of media (and Central Bank) attention focused on the trials and tribulations of the Aussie group EML Payments, which purchased the couple’s Prepaid Financial Services operation last year for almost €190m. It was reported recently that EML has already incurred costs and provisions of… Read more »

To access this content, you must be a Phoenix subscriber.

Get access to The Phoenix online for as low as €1.50 per week. Read all the regular online only Phoenix stories AND receive the packed digital edition every fortnight (25 per year). Great value for so many inside stories!

Subscribe Now! I’m a Subscriber

Jack Ronan

JACK RONAN TIDIES UP

Date: November 4, 2021 - Brief CasesBriefcases

GOLDHAWK SPOTTED a couple of familiar names filing ‘ceased trading’ notifications – Vita Cortex Holdings Ltd and Vita Five Five Ltd. These were central players in a highly controversial shutdown of the Vita Cortex plant in Cork a decade ago that led to a lengthy sit-in and attracted international media attention for the central player… Read more »

To access this content, you must be a Phoenix subscriber.

Get access to The Phoenix online for as low as €1.50 per week. Read all the regular online only Phoenix stories AND receive the packed digital edition every fortnight (25 per year). Great value for so many inside stories!

Subscribe Now! I’m a Subscriber

Jackie Goodall

ISRAEL VERSUS SALLY ROONEY

Date: October 21, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

SALLY ROONEY’S pro-Palestinian boycott gesture has been lambasted by predictable players – the Israeli embassy, former justice minister Alan Shatter and others – but, in an appropriate coincidence, her initiative comes just as an Israeli embassy backed campaign against BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel) has been launched. On October 12 Rooney issued a… Read more »

To access this content, you must be a Phoenix subscriber.

Get access to The Phoenix online for as low as €1.50 per week. Read all the regular online only Phoenix stories AND receive the packed digital edition every fortnight (25 per year). Great value for so many inside stories!

Subscribe Now! I’m a Subscriber

Noirin Hegarty

PROFILE: NÓIRÍN HEGARTY

Date: October 21, 2021 - Pillars of Society

THE APPOINTMENT of Nóirín Hegarty as Ireland editor of the Times and Sunday Times Ireland, is seen in media circles as something of a renaissance for the Dubliner given her professional history. It is also viewed as a small correction of the male dominance of media at the highest level. While gender is relevant to her elevation the reality is that Hegarty… Read more »

To access this content, you must be a Phoenix subscriber.

Get access to The Phoenix online for as low as €1.50 per week. Read all the regular online only Phoenix stories AND receive the packed digital edition every fortnight (25 per year). Great value for so many inside stories!

Subscribe Now! I’m a Subscriber

László Molnárfi

YOUNG BLOOD: LÁSZLÓ MOLNÁRFI

Date: October 21, 2021 - The Young Bloods

STUDENT ACTIVIST László Molnárfi (20) has captured lightning in a bottle in recent weeks. The second-year Trinity College Dublin student and chair of the activist group Students4Change has spearheaded a protest campaign that has garnered plenty of national media attention and reddened a few faces… Read more »

Cobblestone pub

THE COBBLESTONE’S NEW TUNE

Date: October 21, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

MUCH HAS been written about the fondness for the Irish traditional music pub the Cobblestone in Smithfield’s North King Street, now the subject of a big hotel planning application. “A drinking pub with a music problem” as it is sometimes referred to, the Cobblestone is a particularly Irish creation. The same cannot be said about… Read more »

To access this content, you must be a Phoenix subscriber.

Get access to The Phoenix online for as low as €1.50 per week. Read all the regular online only Phoenix stories AND receive the packed digital edition every fortnight (25 per year). Great value for so many inside stories!

Subscribe Now! I’m a Subscriber

Paschal Donohoe

PASCHAL DONOHOE’S CAREER CURVE

Date: October 21, 2021 - Last Refuge

FINANCE MINISTER Paschal Donohoe is presumed, much like Fine Gael leader Leo Varadkar, to be merely marking time before jumping ship to take a gleaming, corporate job in the European financial sector after the next election. After nearly 15 years in government, neither man would relish years in the wilderness of opposition. But, in Paschal’s… Read more »

To access this content, you must be a Phoenix subscriber.

Get access to The Phoenix online for as low as €1.50 per week. Read all the regular online only Phoenix stories AND receive the packed digital edition every fortnight (25 per year). Great value for so many inside stories!

Subscribe Now! I’m a Subscriber

Michael McDowell

McDOWELL EYES UP DÁIL — AGAIN

Date: October 21, 2021 - Last Refuge

AN INTERESTING Irish Times column from Michael McDowell recently dwelled on the former PD leader, AG and justice minister’s obsessive dream of a return to public life of the Progressive Democrats. McDowell warned of the new political dispensation created by the pandemic whereby voters demand recovery programmes and expenditure while caring little about what used… Read more »

To access this content, you must be a Phoenix subscriber.

Get access to The Phoenix online for as low as €1.50 per week. Read all the regular online only Phoenix stories AND receive the packed digital edition every fortnight (25 per year). Great value for so many inside stories!

Subscribe Now! I’m a Subscriber

Richard Colwell

RICHARD COLWELL’S SMOOTH SAILING

Date: October 21, 2021 - Briefcases

ALTHOUGH HE only recently inked a multimillion-euro deal to offload his polling and market research company Red C, to Enda O’Coineen’s Business Post Group, founder and chief executive Richard Colwell has not let his standards slip. When a takeaway food outlet in Raheny, D5 dallied in delivering an order out to his Howth pile on… Read more »

To access this content, you must be a Phoenix subscriber.

Get access to The Phoenix online for as low as €1.50 per week. Read all the regular online only Phoenix stories AND receive the packed digital edition every fortnight (25 per year). Great value for so many inside stories!

Subscribe Now! I’m a Subscriber

Oliver Callan

OLIVER CALLAN’S BIG MOVE

Date: October 21, 2021 - Briefcases

PITY POOR Oliver Callan, the Monaghan funnyman, who told professional celeb-wrangler Niamh Horan how embarrassed he had been about his perilous financial position. As Horan recounted in the Sindo, “despite being one of Ireland’s best-known impressionists for more than two decades – he says he still wasn’t able to secure a mortgage”. A question about his… Read more »

To access this content, you must be a Phoenix subscriber.

Get access to The Phoenix online for as low as €1.50 per week. Read all the regular online only Phoenix stories AND receive the packed digital edition every fortnight (25 per year). Great value for so many inside stories!

Subscribe Now! I’m a Subscriber

The Magician

THE MAGICIAN – COLM TÓIBÍN

Date: October 21, 2021 - BooksReviews

THIS IS the second time Colm Tóibín has used fiction to imagine his way into the mind of a famous literary figure. His 2004 novel, The Master, portrayed Henry James as an essentially tragic individual and here we have Tomas Mann. This time the result is rather less successful. Many of the author’s central characters… Read more »

To access this content, you must be a Phoenix subscriber.

Get access to The Phoenix online for as low as €1.50 per week. Read all the regular online only Phoenix stories AND receive the packed digital edition every fortnight (25 per year). Great value for so many inside stories!

Subscribe Now! I’m a Subscriber

George and Wendy Magan

OFFLOADING CASTLETOWN COX

Date: October 21, 2021 - High Society

THE SAGA of George Magan – aka Baron Magan of Castletown – has opened its latest chapter with his appeal against a High Court €½m-plus rent arrears judgment secured by the administrators of Castletown Foundation, an offshore trust set up to benefit the two scions of George and Wendy Magan. While the former high-flyer lost… Read more »

To access this content, you must be a Phoenix subscriber.

Get access to The Phoenix online for as low as €1.50 per week. Read all the regular online only Phoenix stories AND receive the packed digital edition every fortnight (25 per year). Great value for so many inside stories!

Subscribe Now! I’m a Subscriber

Mariella Frostrup

ANDREA PIGNATARO’S IRISH EMPIRE

Date: October 21, 2021 - High Society

WELL-KNOWN UK journalist television presenter and critic Mariella Frostrup had a nice break for herself earlier this month when she travelled to the sunny Caribbean paradise of Canouan to pen a glowing account of her stay at Soho Beach House. Given that the island markets itself as the place billionaires go to escape from millionaires,… Read more »

To access this content, you must be a Phoenix subscriber.

Get access to The Phoenix online for as low as €1.50 per week. Read all the regular online only Phoenix stories AND receive the packed digital edition every fortnight (25 per year). Great value for so many inside stories!

Subscribe Now! I’m a Subscriber

Frances Haugen

BIG TECH, BIG PR

Date: October 21, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

AS WHISTLEBLOWER Frances Haugen’s revelations provoked some US politicians into declaring war on Facebook, the tech giants must have taken comfort from the seemingly endless supply of former politicians and public servants willing to lobby on their behalf here in Ireland. Big tech cultivates an image as a bunch of caring bros whose technology makes… Read more »

To access this content, you must be a Phoenix subscriber.

Get access to The Phoenix online for as low as €1.50 per week. Read all the regular online only Phoenix stories AND receive the packed digital edition every fortnight (25 per year). Great value for so many inside stories!

Subscribe Now! I’m a Subscriber

VOL 39 NO 21

Date: October 21, 2021 -

To access this content, you must be a Phoenix subscriber.

Get access to The Phoenix online for as low as €1.50 per week. Read all the regular online only Phoenix stories AND receive the packed digital edition every fortnight (25 per year). Great value for so many inside stories!

Subscribe Now! I’m a Subscriber

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

BUMPY RIDE FOR ROSE HYNES

Date: October 21, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

IT WAS reported at the weekend that the chair of the Irish Aviation Authority (IAA) Rose Hynes criticised former transport minister Shane Ross for questioning the manner in which she was appointed. He was, however, not alone in his concerns. Ross raised questions about serial director Hynes’s latest gig after she was appointed without any… Read more »

To access this content, you must be a Phoenix subscriber.

Get access to The Phoenix online for as low as €1.50 per week. Read all the regular online only Phoenix stories AND receive the packed digital edition every fortnight (25 per year). Great value for so many inside stories!

Subscribe Now! I’m a Subscriber

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

NOEL KELLY’S NEW LOOK

Date: October 21, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

AFTER A turbulent year for ‘agent to the stars’ Noel Kelly’s business, there has been a restructuring of the NK Management group that sees a firm called Noel Kelly Management (Holdings) Ltd now the main operator. There is, unfortunately, no sign of a restructuring of the airwaves to limit the number of his clients hogging… Read more »

To access this content, you must be a Phoenix subscriber.

Get access to The Phoenix online for as low as €1.50 per week. Read all the regular online only Phoenix stories AND receive the packed digital edition every fortnight (25 per year). Great value for so many inside stories!

Subscribe Now! I’m a Subscriber

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

MONICA LEECH’S COSTS

Date: October 21, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

THE COURT of Appeal’s full ruling in the Monica Leech’s challenge to the quantum of legal fees due to her former solicitors has just been published. It looks like the appeal taken by Leech represented quite the gamble, given what turns out to be the relatively small difference between the two sides over the legal… Read more »

To access this content, you must be a Phoenix subscriber.

Get access to The Phoenix online for as low as €1.50 per week. Read all the regular online only Phoenix stories AND receive the packed digital edition every fortnight (25 per year). Great value for so many inside stories!

Subscribe Now! I’m a Subscriber

Jim Miley

GROUCHO MARX’S CLUB

Date: October 21, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

THE HEADS of our new technological universities (TUs) are facing a dilemma worthy of Groucho Marx, who famously said he wouldn’t join any club that would have him as a member. They have to decide which presidential club they would like to join. That is assuming, of course, they will have a choice. We now… Read more »

To access this content, you must be a Phoenix subscriber.

Get access to The Phoenix online for as low as €1.50 per week. Read all the regular online only Phoenix stories AND receive the packed digital edition every fortnight (25 per year). Great value for so many inside stories!

Subscribe Now! I’m a Subscriber

Maura McNally

BAR COUNCIL BAR

Date: October 21, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

IRELAND’S SOLICITORS have yet again had their inferior status confirmed for them by the superior legal eagles – ie barristers – of the Bar Council. It has reaffirmed a ban – in abeyance since early last year – on solicitors and other members of the lower orders from what is known as the ‘Barristers’ Restaurant’… Read more »

To access this content, you must be a Phoenix subscriber.

Get access to The Phoenix online for as low as €1.50 per week. Read all the regular online only Phoenix stories AND receive the packed digital edition every fortnight (25 per year). Great value for so many inside stories!

Subscribe Now! I’m a Subscriber

Fiona O'Leary

GARDA GUARD SSPX RESISTANCE

Date: October 21, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

THE MOST striking aspect of recent revelations about the extremist SSPX Resistance group and its activities in Ireland is not the involvement of Matt Bruton – son of former taoiseach John Bruton. Nor is it the far-right politics of the SSPX Resistance, which is virulently anti-Semitic and is led by a man convicted of Holocaust… Read more »

To access this content, you must be a Phoenix subscriber.

Get access to The Phoenix online for as low as €1.50 per week. Read all the regular online only Phoenix stories AND receive the packed digital edition every fortnight (25 per year). Great value for so many inside stories!

Subscribe Now! I’m a Subscriber

Simon Byrne

SIMON BYRNE AND MI5’S ECONOMIC WAR

Date: October 21, 2021 - Hush Hush

WHEN SIMON BYRNE was appointed head of the PSNI in July 2019 he showed what might be called a lack of empathy for the Peace Process culture in the north. Not a wet week in the job, when referring to republican and loyalist paramilitaries he said, “My message to them is if you carry on… Read more »

To access this content, you must be a Phoenix subscriber.

Get access to The Phoenix online for as low as €1.50 per week. Read all the regular online only Phoenix stories AND receive the packed digital edition every fortnight (25 per year). Great value for so many inside stories!

Subscribe Now! I’m a Subscriber

Larissa Nolan

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: October 21, 2021 - The Hot Air Brigade

Bob Geldof is one of the coolest people ever – a fearless force of nature who makes me proud to be Irish. Larissa Nolan, Irish Independent The return of The Den to our screens was a huge success on RTÉ One. However, there are no plans for a new season at this time. Press release… Read more »

To access this content, you must be a Phoenix subscriber.

Get access to The Phoenix online for as low as €1.50 per week. Read all the regular online only Phoenix stories AND receive the packed digital edition every fortnight (25 per year). Great value for so many inside stories!

Subscribe Now! I’m a Subscriber

David Frost

NORTH ELECTION NEXT MONTH?

Date: October 21, 2021 - Northwind

STORMONT IS in a state of limbo. The executive and the assembly go through the motions, but the critical political action takes place elsewhere: between the UK government and the EU; between the DUP and the UK government. Divided Stormont cannot participate. The outcome of that action will determine whether it can escape its current… Read more »

To access this content, you must be a Phoenix subscriber.

Get access to The Phoenix online for as low as €1.50 per week. Read all the regular online only Phoenix stories AND receive the packed digital edition every fortnight (25 per year). Great value for so many inside stories!

Subscribe Now! I’m a Subscriber

Anthony Coughlan

ANTHONY COUGHLAN’S LATEST BROADSIDE

Date: October 21, 2021 - Last Refuge

THE EU’S most formidable Irish opponent for half a century is Tony Coughlan, associate professor emeritus at TCD and long-time political campaigner. Five years ago he launched a savage attack on SF, normally an ally in successive referendums on the EU, for capitulating to the EU over Brexit and, more recently, he did the same…. Read more »

To access this content, you must be a Phoenix subscriber.

Get access to The Phoenix online for as low as €1.50 per week. Read all the regular online only Phoenix stories AND receive the packed digital edition every fortnight (25 per year). Great value for so many inside stories!

Subscribe Now! I’m a Subscriber

Cathal Crowe

FF: PARTITION ROWS, SEAT BATTLES AND WHAT TO DO WITH MICHEÁL

Date: October 21, 2021 - Last Refuge

THAT LIST of Fianna Fáil TDs noted in the Sunday Times as being opposed to the government sending ministers to mark the centenary of partition includes some who are more concerned with politics south rather than north of the border. But there are two separate motivations at play here. Willie O’Dea is the strongest FF… Read more »

To access this content, you must be a Phoenix subscriber.

Get access to The Phoenix online for as low as €1.50 per week. Read all the regular online only Phoenix stories AND receive the packed digital edition every fortnight (25 per year). Great value for so many inside stories!

Subscribe Now! I’m a Subscriber

Jon Williams

RTÉ’S CHANGEABLE CLIMATE

Date: October 21, 2021 - Fit to Print?

RTÉ’S HEAD of news, Jon Williams, made some “important announcements” to staff recently as he completed a headlong retreat from the station’s previous position of ‘balance’ in its overage of climate change and whether it is even a reality. Science correspondent George Lee will henceforth be known as environment correspondent in a full-time role reporting… Read more »

To access this content, you must be a Phoenix subscriber.

Get access to The Phoenix online for as low as €1.50 per week. Read all the regular online only Phoenix stories AND receive the packed digital edition every fortnight (25 per year). Great value for so many inside stories!

Subscribe Now! I’m a Subscriber

Ivan Yates Nell McCafferty RTÉ Lord Laird Intro Matchmaking NewsBrands Martin McGuinness Dún Laoghaire Pat Leahy Cormac Lucey John Cooney Irish Journalism Awards Steve Aiken Anton Savage John Downing Lucinda Creighton Marina Sologub Eilis O'Hanlon Ian Kehoe Danny McConnell Sindo O'Connor Mediahuis Stephen Collins Book Justine McCarthy Rewriting the Troubles Lynn Ruane Sinn Féin

BARRY WALSH’S REVIEW

Date: October 21, 2021 - Fit to Print?

THE SOMEWHAT severe Sunday Times’ review of Conor Lenihan’s biography of late taoiseach and FF leader Albert Reynolds, entitled Albert Reynolds: Risktaker for Peace, was penned by one Barry Walsh. Walsh derided both the book’s billing as the first complete biography of Reynolds and also the title’s suggestion that it is a study of his role in the peace… Read more »

To access this content, you must be a Phoenix subscriber.

Get access to The Phoenix online for as low as €1.50 per week. Read all the regular online only Phoenix stories AND receive the packed digital edition every fortnight (25 per year). Great value for so many inside stories!

Subscribe Now! I’m a Subscriber

Michael D Higgins

BAD BOY HIGGINS

Date: October 21, 2021 - Fit to Print?

GOOD TO see that more mature voices felt moved last weekend to correct the populist posturing over the commemoration of partition and the creation of Northern Ireland a full month after President Higgins declined to attend it. The country’s bestselling newspaper, the Sunday Independent and what may still be the most influential print title, the Irish Times, wheeled… Read more »

To access this content, you must be a Phoenix subscriber.

Get access to The Phoenix online for as low as €1.50 per week. Read all the regular online only Phoenix stories AND receive the packed digital edition every fortnight (25 per year). Great value for so many inside stories!

Subscribe Now! I’m a Subscriber

Jennifer O'Connell

MEDIA COPS OUT

Date: October 21, 2021 - Fowl Emissions

WITH THE crunch COP 26 global climate conference in Glasgow kicking off at the end of the month, various media organisations have been burnishing their climate credentials ahead of time. As previously reported by Goldhawk, RTÉ has committed to drastically up its game on climate reporting, and both it and the Irish Times undertook the… Read more »

To access this content, you must be a Phoenix subscriber.

Get access to The Phoenix online for as low as €1.50 per week. Read all the regular online only Phoenix stories AND receive the packed digital edition every fortnight (25 per year). Great value for so many inside stories!

Subscribe Now! I’m a Subscriber

Climate Disinformation Coillte Climate Action EU Livestock NDC Claude Etchelamendy Ed Brophy Richard Boyd-Barrett Kish Dale Crammond Frank Mitloehner Shell Greenwashing Meta Data Centres Ireland

FARMING SUPPLEMENTS

Date: October 21, 2021 - Fowl Emissions

WHO WOULD have guessed the Irish Farmers Association would be lobbying for more carbon taxes on road transport and aviation? The lobby group took out an expensive half-page ad in the Sindo recently with a series of graphics insinuating that the real culprits for soaring carbon emissions are transport and aviation. However, the IFA modestly… Read more »

To access this content, you must be a Phoenix subscriber.

Get access to The Phoenix online for as low as €1.50 per week. Read all the regular online only Phoenix stories AND receive the packed digital edition every fortnight (25 per year). Great value for so many inside stories!

Subscribe Now! I’m a Subscriber