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Ronan McNally

RONAN MCNALLY’S ARRANGEMENT

Date: July 15, 2021 - Sport of Kings

TRAINER RONAN McNally, who has hit the headlines on numerous occasions over the past two years, is under investigation by the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB). Now, he has clarified his association with trainer David Dunne, another person of interest to the IHRB. The rumour mill was working overtime after the Dunne-trained pair of All… Read more »

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Donal Murphy

DCC LACKING ENERGY TO PUSH FOR THE BIG TIME

Date: July 15, 2021 - Moneybags

THE CONSERVATIVE approach of the original DCC players Jim Flavin and Tommy Breen are reflected in the current CEO Donal Murphy, who has now been running the show for four years. Not only has he limited the growth of the company (which reported sales of £13bn and operating profits of £823m for the year to… Read more »

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Conor Fennelly

CONOR FENNELLY’S DARK CLOUDS

Date: July 15, 2021 - The Hot Water Brigade

The Decision to wind up “cloud-native, real-time, non-legacy core banking” platform Leveris comes as something of a shock given the bullish noises coming out of the company in recent months. The principal, Conor Fennelly (who gives an address in Singapore), has invested big bucks personally, but there are others who have also been left exposed…. Read more »

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FRANK DINEEN’S GAMBLES

Date: July 15, 2021 - The Hot Water Brigade

A CASINO operation’s gambles with the dreaded taxman have resulted in a judgment against Gold Rush Card Club Ltd (GRCC), the latest in a string of dud hands for that defunct business. It turns out that one of the players in the Cork-headquartered company, Frank Dineen (aka Christopher Francis Dineen) has had fingers in many… Read more »

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AN TAISCE TURNS UP THE HEAT

Date: July 15, 2021 - The Hot Water Brigade

THE LEGAL eagles for An Taisce have written to Monaghan County Council to seek an update on any moves being taken “to ensure the immediate and full remediation of the unauthorised” McQuaid quarry outside Clontibret. It will be recalled (see The Phoenix 12/3/21), that the Supreme Court quashed planning permission that had been granted to… Read more »

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Liam Lynch

LIAM LYNCH’S TURNAROUND

Date: July 15, 2021 - The Hot Water Brigade

THE LATEST accounts for Irish Studio Media Publishing (ISM), the outfit established by New York-based moneybags Liam Lynch, show how significant the magazine sale deal to Enda O’Coineen’s Business Post has been to the company. Earlier this year, documents filed in the Companies Office saw ISM appear on the Business Post share register. ISM had… Read more »

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Jeffrey Donaldson

BONFIRE OF THE UNIONISTS

Date: July 15, 2021 - Northwind

JIM ALLISTER, leader of the hard-line Traditional Unionist Voice (TUV), announced on July 12 (when else?) that he intends to field candidates in all 18 of the north’s constituencies in next year’s assembly elections. Allister’s announcement shows that this year’s annual row about eleventh night bonfires is more than the traditional unionist-nationalist spat. It’s part… Read more »

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Ian Bailey

IAN BAILEY’S STAR WITNESS

Date: July 1, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

THE RE-EMERGENCE in the Sophie Toscan du Plantier murder saga of Marie Farrell – once the garda’s star witness against so-called suspect Ian Bailey and later the star witness in his defence – will not be welcomed by many involved in the investigation. Film maker Jim Sheridan has passed on ‘new’ information from Farrell to… Read more »

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James Geoghegan

FINE GAEL’S CUNNING BYELECTION PLAN

Date: July 1, 2021 - Last Refuge

WHAT A clever ploy Fine Gael came up with in the Dublin Bay South (DBS) byelection (before that Irish Times poll) with minister Simon Harris warning that unless the other two coalition parties, Fianna Fáil and the Greens, unite with FG in a vote transfer partnership, that Sinn Féin will take over the country in… Read more »

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Lynn Boylan

PROFILE: LYNN BOYLAN

Date: July 1, 2021 - Pillars of Society

LYNN BOYLAN’S decision to pick up the gauntlet for Sinn Féin in the Dublin Bay South (DBS) byelection appeared to inject a frisson into what might otherwise have been a fairly tepid contest with Fine Gael’s James Geoghegan walking away with the seat. He still might, given the deep blue political colour of many local… Read more »

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Doireann Garrihy

YOUNG BLOOD: DOIREANN GARRIHY

Date: July 1, 2021 - The Young Bloods

HER SHINY new 2fm breakfast show has been described as “an aural assault of inanity”, (Larissa Nolan, Indo), and her comedy sketches on The Doireann Project were deemed “feeble and repetitive” by the Herald’s Pat Stacey. None of this has prevented RTÉ from embracing Doireann Garrihy as its new golden child. This… Read more »

Louise Lovett

WOMEN’S COUNCIL’S CRITICS

Date: July 1, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

THE NATIONAL Women’s Council of Ireland (NWCI) found itself in the spotlight last month in relation to the endless gender identity debate. Given how much public money the council gets each year, a reference to its funding in the letters pages of the Irish Times will not have been welcomed. The NWCI was criticised on… Read more »

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Veronica Guerin

THE KILLING OF VERONICA GUERIN

Date: July 1, 2021 - Fit to Print?

THE 25TH anniversary of journalist Veronica Guerin’s murder by gangsters was marked, for the first time in the quarter of a century since, by qualified admissions that perhaps the Sunday Independent could have done more to protect her. But still, there was that fall-back excuse that she herself was partly or totally to blame for… Read more »

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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

RÓISÍN INGLE’S TWEETS

Date: July 1, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

LAST MONTH’s ruling against the Carlow Nationalist by the press ombudsman over the paper’s wrong story on the ‘body-shaming’ of girls at Presentation College Carlow left a few red faces at the likes of RTÉ, Newstalk, many of the dailies and, of course, on Twitter. Not all commentators were in a hurry to put their… Read more »

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MIND FULL - DERMOT WHELAN 

MIND FULL – DERMOT WHELAN 

Date: July 1, 2021 - BooksReviews

RADIO PRESENTER turned wellness ‘guru’ Dermot Whelan displayed his impressive marketing skills last month when advising his social media followers to “de-stress your dad!” by giving his buke as a Father’s Day pressie. There is plenty of competition, of course, as bookshop shelves have begun to creak under the weight of mental health-themed books from… Read more »

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Denis Desmond & Caroline Downey

DESMOND’S HIGH NOTES

Date: July 1, 2021 - Behind the Scenes

SINCE THE pandemic kicked in, arts minister Catherine Martin has been handing out grants like snuff at a wake and her latest announcement related to €25m to assist venues and promoters to plan live events. Some of the lucky recipients clearly needed the moolah more than others. Big winners turned out to include Denis Desmond… Read more »

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Tiarnan O’Mahoney

TIARNAN O’MAHONEY’S UPS AND DOWNS

Date: July 1, 2021 - The Hot Water Brigade

A COMPANY called Rebenna Ltd has just ceased trading and the principal here is one Felicity Keane, wife of former Anglo Irish Bank senior suit and Celtic Tiger poster boy, Tiarnan O’Mahoney. The relatively recent history of Enniskerry-based O’Mahoney, who exited Anglo Irish in 2005 having failed to be appointed chief executive, could only be… Read more »

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Hubie de Burgh

HUBIE DE BURGH’S DOWNSIZING

Date: July 1, 2021 - High Society

GOLDHAWK SPOTTED the dissolving of a company called Huma Bloodstock Ltd last month, which was a business set up a couple of decades ago by bloodstock consultant extraordinaire Hubie de Burgh and a pair of loaded Swiss siblings. Also coming to an end is de Burgh’s association with his Oldtown stud in Co Wicklow, now… Read more »

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VOL 39 NO 13

Date: July 1, 2021 -

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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

LEAVING LISSADELL

Date: July 1, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

LAST MONTH, it was reported that the impressively renovated Lissadell pile on leafy Shrewsbury Road in D4 has been sold for a whopping €11m to property developer extraordinaire Pat Crean. The sellers are investment banker Martin Shields and his legal eagle wife, Francesca McWilliams. This is not the first time that Shields has attracted media… Read more »

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Sharon Alston

SHARON ALSTON’S MUSIC NOTES

Date: July 1, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

GOLDHAWK WAS delighted to se that his favourite music festival organiser and vet, Sharon Alston, was one of the lucky recipients of arts minister Catherine Martin’s €25m hand-out last month to the live performance sector. It looks like Sharon could do with all the help she can get. She is the founder of the fledgling… Read more »

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Jeffrey Donaldson

DONALDSON THE ‘MODERATE’

Date: July 1, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

DUP DARLING of RTÉ and the Irish Times, new party leader Jeffrey Donaldson has been presented as the civilised alternative to creationist Edwin Poots and other backwoodsmen in the party. But domestically and globally, Donaldson’s record is anything but moderate. In the north, Donaldson moved from being a protégé of British racist Enoch Powell in… Read more »

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Ned O'Sullivan

IRELAND’S PAST VERSUS FUTURE

Date: July 1, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

ROLE REVERSAL between Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil on the national question has been a feature of politics in recent years but FG’s Leo Varadkar and FF senator Ned O’Sullivan brought it to a new level recently. Last month’s ‘united Ireland’ speech by Vlad has been well publicised but the aggressive rhetoric from Ned at… Read more »

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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

MARY DALY’S LECTURE

Date: July 1, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

PROFESSOR MARY E DALY, one of the members of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes, is already in hot water for declining an invite to address the oireachtas children’s committee. Now she is in trouble with Derek Leinster – a survivor of Bethany Home, the Church of Ireland mother and baby home –… Read more »

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Mary Kenny

THE MARYS’ HOLY WAR

Date: July 1, 2021 - Clerical Errors

IN AN arcane spat for the unofficial title of ‘Defender of the Faith’, Mary Kenny, the conservative Catholic writer has chided Mary McAleese, the darling of liberal Catholics and former president of Ireland, for “lacking in common sense” by calling into question the church’s traditional practice of administering baptism to infants. Delivering the annual St… Read more »

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Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid

€100M DOWN THE SWANEE

Date: July 1, 2021 - Clerical Errors

IT CAN’T be easy to spend €100bn and get absolutely nothing for your money, but the EU’s Common Agriculture Policy (CAP) has pulled it off. That’s how much was squandered from 2014-2020 on funding specifically earmarked to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture. A damning recent report from the European Court of Auditors (ECA) confirmed… Read more »

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Ger Daly

ACCENTURE’S BORDER WARS 

Date: July 1, 2021 - Hush Hush

MORE THAN 80 million people were forced from their homes globally during the year, with almost 35 million of these seeking refuge or asylum in other countries, 42% of them children. In the west we see little of these refugees or asylum seekers, as 86% are forced to seek help in developing countries who already… Read more »

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Ciara Kelly

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: July 1, 2021 - The Hot Air Brigade

That I feel at my most decadent now when I eat cheese. Ciara Kelly on embracing middle age, ‘Life magazine’ Sunday Independent Lineker has developed such a glossy TV persona – Des Lynam’s dream child – it is often overlooked that he harbours the gloomy and mordant spirit of Larkin. Keith Duggan conjures up some… Read more »

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David Frost

ORANGE CARD 2021

Date: July 1, 2021 - Northwind

IT IS an accepted fact that from the earliest days of the Troubles and throughout their duration British security forces, including the RUC, with the knowledge of British governments, colluded with and sometimes directed, loyalist terrorists. The 840-page Da Silva report on the murder of Pat Finucane gives chapter and verse on the sort of… Read more »

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David Stanton

BLUESHIRTS REVOLT

Date: July 1, 2021 - Last Refuge

DISCONTENT AMONG the Fine Gael grassroots at what is described as the control freakery of Leo Varadkar and the party’s career officials has simmered for some years with the usual complaints about the general secretary making the now retired Tom Curran a target for discontented members. But the advent of new general secretary John Carroll… Read more »

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Cllr Nick Killian

MINUTE MEATH MATTERS

Date: July 1, 2021 - Last Refuge

EFFORTS BY nine Meath county councillors to prise from council officials the recordings of their own council deliberations on the county development plan (see The Phoenix, 4/6/21) have been fended off again, with their Freedom of Information request denied recently. The matter was also raised at a recent council meeting where some of those model… Read more »

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Micheál Martin

AN TAISCE ‘TREASON’

Date: July 1, 2021 - Fowl Emissions

“WE WOULD like to acknowledge your important intervention on the matter of the challenge by an Taisce to the planning permission for the proposed cheese plant at Belview, Co Kilkenny,” gushed Glanbia Ireland CEO Jim Bergin and chairman John Murphy in a letter to taoiseach Micheál Martin. The letter, on official Glanbia Ireland letterhead, was sent to the taoiseach on May… Read more »

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Stephen Collins

COLLINS TURNS ON VLAD

Date: July 1, 2021 - Fit to Print?

TÁNAISTE LEO VARADKAR should be concerned at the apparent disillusionment of the IT’s Stephen Collins – with not only FG but its leader. Last February, he was relatively positive as he wrote that Vlad was the most popular party leader; that FG would likely win the next election; FF’s decline was scary and SF was… Read more »

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SINDO’S SF HEADACHE

Date: July 1, 2021 - Fowl Emissions

MEDIATION BETWEEN an aggrieved Derry woman and the Sindo over claims that the newspaper published incorrect assertions about her is due to take place next week as a preliminary to a possible investigation by press ombudsman Peter Feeney. The woman’s Facebook page made comments about the recent upheaval in Derry Sinn Féin involving the standing… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: July 1, 2021 - Bog Cuttings

Hiding Under Duvet Derry Magistrate’s Court heard the case of Paul Carr (29), who was handed a suspended prison sentence and fined for possessing cannabis and for causing criminal damage to electronic tags. A Public Prosecution Service (PPS) representative told the court that a bail check was carried out at Carr’s residence in Rock Mills,… Read more »

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Gerard McNaughten

GERARD’S TILES OF DOSH

Date: July 1, 2021 - High Society

WITH CINEMA owners complaining about the social distancing restrictions hitting their bottom line since reopening last month, it was not surprising to see the Irish Film Centre (IFI) highlighting the impact of the 50-person capacity on the operation’s finances, despite hefty support from the taxpayer. If things get bad maybe the directors could have a… Read more »

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