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Eoin O'Malley

DES O’MALLEY’S CRITICS

Date: September 9, 2021 - Fit to Print?

THERE IS little mystery about the Irish Independent’s choice of one Eoin O’Malley to critique Conor Lenihan’s recently published biography of former taoiseach Albert Reynolds – Albert Reynolds: Risktaker for Peace – or there wouldn’t be if readers had been informed of the reviewer’s lineage. In his review O’Malley appears to be keenly aware of the significance of background… Read more »

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SUNDAY TIMES STRATEGY

Date: September 9, 2021 - Fit to Print?

THERE WAS elation last June among employees and the surrounding community at the Kells print plant when News UK & Ireland – owned by News Corp, publishers of the Sun and the Sunday Times –completed the acquisition of the operation. This appeared to settle the uncertainty surrounding the future of the plant amid interventions by… Read more »

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Stephen Collins

IRISH TIMES SCHISM?

Date: September 9, 2021 - Fit to Print?

INTERESTING TWEETS from Irish Times heavyweight politicos last week indicate that columnist and former political editor Stephen Collins is regarded as too heavy-handed in his repetitive denunciations of Sinn Féin. These followed Stevo’s weekly column headlined, “SF shows contempt for democratic institutions of state” (you can kinda see where he is going here). Collins fulminated… Read more »

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Michael McCarthy

MCCARTHY’S CLOUDY THINKING

Date: September 9, 2021 - Fowl Emissions

DURING HIS only term as a TD for Cork South-West, Labour’s Michael McCarthy was chair of the oireachtas environment committee. When he lost his seat as part of Labour’s mass exodus in 2016, McCarthy declared he was leaving public life, but Goldhawk was relieved to hear he’s still at the coalface of environmental advocacy. This… Read more »

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WES EDENS’S GREENWASHING

Date: September 9, 2021 - Fowl Emissions

AMID ALL the climate doom and gloom, a sunbeam of hope appeared in the southwest recently with news of a project that “will help lead the transition to a zero-carbon future for Ireland”. This is the application to An Bord Pleanála (ABP) for the Shannon Technology and Energy Park (STEP) in north Kerry, a gas-fired… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: September 9, 2021 - Bog Cuttings

‘Orange Bastards’ Derry Magistrates’ Court heard the case of a 47-year-old man with 250 previous convictions whose defence solicitor insists that his record is now beginning to ‘taper off’. Kevin Conaghan, of Glenview Drive, Limavady, appeared before the court on a charge of theft and a separate charge of disorderly conduct. Judge Anne Marshall was… Read more »

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Woodridge Stud

MICHAEL BRESLIN’S STUD FARM

Date: September 9, 2021 - High Society

GOLDHAWK ENJOYED the glowing report in the Indo property supplement last week on the sprawling Woodridge Stud in Dunsany, Co Meath, which has just gone on the market for €2.75m. It turns out that this is the property that has been owned for almost 20 years by New York-based scaffolding moneybags Michael Breslin and his… Read more »

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Consuelo O’Connor

TOM KEANE’S RECEIVERS

Date: September 9, 2021 - High Society

LAST MONTH a receiver was appointed to Stradbally-based Tom Keane’s Killenard Golf Company Ltd (KGC), which was behind the upmarket Killenard hotel and golf course complex in Laois that imploded in spectacular style in 2010. The appointment of John McStay and Jim Luby by Nama is merely the latest receivership of the company, and the… Read more »

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THE ECHO CHAMBER – JOHN BOYNE

Date: September 9, 2021 - BooksReviews

HAVING GENTLY satirised the publishing industry in his 2018 novel, A Ladder to the Sky, John Boyne now casts an eye on the aggressive world of social media and cancel culture. The author has spoken endlessly about the online attention he received after the publication of My Brother’s Name is Jessica in 2019, when he was… Read more »

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Ruth McGowan

‘IT’ ON THE FRINGE

Date: September 9, 2021 - Behind the Scenes

AS FANS of Goldhawk are aware, the organisation known as the Trans Writers Union has called for a boycott of the Irish Times and even organised an online petition. Although 2,000 signatures have been sought, the total has been stuck around 1,300, with familiar names very thin on the ground. The union has had more… Read more »

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NEESON’S GOOD NEWS

Date: September 9, 2021 - Behind the Scenes

SCREEN IRELAND (SI) has finally published details of its funding for this period. Among the winners is a Hollywood ‘co-production’ starring Liam Neeson. Cumulatively, the big winner is Macdara Kelleher’s Wild Atlantic Pictures and Fastnet Films, with the companies picking up three loan commitments in the Irish fiction film category. The Damned (to be directed… Read more »

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Michael Grassick

GRASSICK’S TIMING ISSUE

Date: September 9, 2021 - Sport of Kings

IT WILL be interesting to see what stance Horse Racing Ireland (HRI) takes after the underwhelming lobbying efforts of the Irish Racehorse Trainers’ Association (ITTA) to allow trainers to again make declarations for horses 24 hours before a race. When racing returned after the pandemic kicked off, HRI introduced 48-hour declarations, mostly to facilitate health… Read more »

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Cathal Byrnes

ZEROING IN ON CATHAL BYRNES

Date: September 9, 2021 - Sport of Kings

RACECOURSE STEWARDS appear to be paying particular attention to horses trained by the Byrnes boys these days. Certainly, there was a fuss made recently over the performance of the Cathal Byrnes-trained Wajaaha at Roscommon. Sent to post as the 11/2 second favourite, on the back of a respectable previous effort at Killarney, Wajaaha was very… Read more »

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Pat Foley

WEIGHTY ISSUES

Date: September 9, 2021 - Sport of Kings

FLAT RACING is often decided by fine margins including the weight carried, with a couple of pounds differential often the difference between winning and losing. Some punters, therefore, could have felt aggrieved with a recent result at Gowran Park when the gambled on Yermanthere lost out to the Willie McCreery-trained Mother Country. Trained by Pat… Read more »

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Carl McCann

ONLY DIRECTORS AND KPMG WINNING AT BALMORAL

Date: September 9, 2021 - Moneybags

A LITTLE more than a year ago AIB sold an €850m non-performing commercial loan book to a vulture fund, Cerberus, at a discount of 18%. Carl McCann’s ill-timed property spin-off from Fyffes, Balmoral International Land Holdings (BIL), was caught up in the sell-off and the company that is used by Cerebus to manage this portfolio,… Read more »

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Joe Wylie

AMRYT’S ‘MINI BLOCKBUSTER’ DRUGS SET TO REAP $1BN IN SALES

Date: September 9, 2021 - Moneybags

COMING ON top of the $153m acquisition of Aegerion as recently as September 2019, Amryt Pharma’s current $375m merger with Chiasma represents another major step for the company. As Amryt lost $106m last year, investors will be watching closely to see how CEO Joe Wiley performs and whether he really can deliver on the $1bn… Read more »

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Shane Filan

SHANE FILAN’S FOLLY

Date: September 9, 2021 - Briefcases

A NEW filing in the Companies Office concerns the notice of cessation by a receiver of a company called Shafin Developments Ltd. This company turns out to be the one incorporated in 2004 by Westlife member Shane Filan, who fancied adding property developer to his CV. That move ended in some very high-profile tears. The… Read more »

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Ralph Christians

RALPH CHRISTIANS’S NEW PLOT

Date: September 9, 2021 - Briefcases

A COMPANY called Taylormade Films Ltd has just listed itself for voluntary striking off, which presumably means that a spat over the not insignificant sum of €674,000 has been put to bed. Behind Taylormade is Goldhawk’s favourite German film impresario Ralph Christians, whose Magma European Scripting House (MESH) operation in Galway collapsed in 2012 with… Read more »

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Michael Semple

FIGHTING THE TALIBAN

Date: August 26, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

WHY IS the Irish media invariably in thrall to the British government and its various spooky think tanks when it comes to coverage of foreign affairs? RTE and the Irish Times have both accepted the bona fides of Michael Semple — now a professor at Queen’s University Belfast’s Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and… Read more »

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LIAM SHEEDY’S MATCH TACTICS

Date: August 26, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

IT CAN’T be long before the contenders for the top job in Irish sports administration are under starters orders. The attractive position of chief executive of Sport Ireland (SI) will become available at the end of this year when John Treacy finally retires, after staying the course for 22 years. Could outgoing Tipp hurling manager… Read more »

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Michael McGrath

PROFILE: MICHAEL MCGRATH

Date: August 26, 2021 - Pillars of Society

SINCE 2016 minister for public expenditure and reform, Michael McGrath, has presented as one of the few credible challengers to Micheål Martin’s leadership of Fianna Fail. Coincidentally, the two ‘share’ the Cork South-Central constituency — as well as an intense, mutual antipathy. Right now, McGrath is also facing off against the finance minister, Fine Gael’s… Read more »

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Anne-Marie Tomchak

YOUNG BLOOD: ANNE-MARIE TOMCHAK

Date: August 26, 2021 - The Young Bloods

LIMELIGHT-LOVING Anne-Marie Tomchak pops up in the media these days almost as often as her warbler-turned-TV-presenter cousin, Una Healy, but apart from their culchie backgrounds, the nieces of country singer Declan Nerney also have high-profile gigs in England in common. Former Saturdays’ popstrel Healy is currently making forays into the presenting scene on this side… Read more »

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Paul O’Neill

STUDENTS TARGET THE ‘IRISH TIMES’

Date: August 26, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

THE HEAT is getting turned up under the Irish Times over coverage of the transgender issue, which has already led to Trinity News pulling the plug on its printing deal with the paper and now a boycott call has been made. No doubt the move by the student paper at Trinners took Irish Times editor… Read more »

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Aoife Walsh

AOIFE WALSH’S ‘COLLAB’

Date: August 26, 2021 - High Society

HAVING JUST become a mum, former Miss Ireland and well known influencer Aoife Walsh has plenty on her plate these days. Now she can add a rap on the knuckles from the spoilsports in the Advertising Standards Authority of Ireland (ASAI). It is not yet clear if she will update her followers on the mishap…. Read more »

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Bernie Gallagher

BERNIE GALLAGHER EXTENSIONS

Date: August 26, 2021 - High Society

AFTER LAST year’s pandemic-inspired annus horribilis for Bernie and John Gallagher, there was some good news from the Dublin City Council planners this month when the minted couple got the green light for the redevelopment of the impressive 34 Herbert Park in leafy D4. The news was not all all good, however, and the Gallaghers… Read more »

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Tommy, Laurita and Hector

THE TOMMY, HECTOR & LAURITA PODCAST

Date: August 26, 2021 - Podcasts|Reviews

AS PITCHES go, The Tommy, Hector & Laurita Podcast is as alarming as they come, with listeners invited the join the trio “as they sit around the table in a shed at the bottom of a garden in the West of Ireland and just chat”. As worrying as this sounds, it’s positively appetising compared to… Read more »

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Catherine Martin

CATHERINE MARTIN’S MISSTEPS

Date: August 26, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

THE LAST week has been rough for arts minister Catherine Martin, as she has been portrayed as weak in promising the earth to the live entertainment lobby but failing to deliver and appearing to completely misread the intentions of her government colleagues. It is, however, not her first misstep this year. The ‘minister for good… Read more »

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Colm Wu

COLM WU’S WOES

Date: August 26, 2021 - Briefcases

IT HAS been a bad month for the acquisitive Guoquing Wu (known here as Colm Wu) whose refinancing efforts for the debts of some of his myriad of companies appear to have finally run out of road. Earlier this month, no less than five of Colm Wu’s Dublin property vehicles ended up in receivership, with… Read more »

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Michael Hackman

MICHAEL HACKMAN’S MOVIE PLOT

Date: August 26, 2021 - Briefcases

THE CHANGES have been ringing following the announced sale by Ion Equity moneybags Joe Devine of his Ardmore and Troy Studios business to the multi-billion dollar US real estate and movie conglomerate Hackman Capital Partners (HCP). Given the way the HCP principal, Michael Hackman, has been splashing he cash, it is likely that the backers… Read more »

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Vol 39 No 17

Date: August 26, 2021 -

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ON YER BIKE!

Date: August 26, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

LIQUIDATOR WILLIAM Cuddy, with an address in Little Island, Cork, filed his final winding up documents for Aqua Blue Sport, but there was rather less on show than might have been expected. Monaco-based Corkman Rick Delaney’s Aqua Blue professional cycling team careered off the track despite some early optimism and some pretty big bucks being… Read more »

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Simon Coveney

EU QUANGO RIDES ON

Date: August 26, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

PERHAPS THE most successful hybrid quango in modern Ireland has been the Institute of International and European Affairs (IIEA), founded 30 years ago by the late Brendan Halligan, its first chairperson. Halligan was succeeded as chairman by ex-Labour Party leader, Ruairi Quinn in 2017, an appropriate succession given that as finance minister in 1995, Quinn’s… Read more »

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Michael Nugent

NUGENT GOES GLOBAL

Date: August 26, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

THE FOUNDER and chairperson of Atheist Ireland (AI), Michael Nugent, has become involved in yet another schism in the latest of several internal disputes in various political pressure groups in which he has been active. This time, Nugent’s adversaries are global and he has pitted himself against the leadership of Atheist Alliance International (AAI) whose… Read more »

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Mark Mellett

IS MELLETT ROCKING THE BOAT?

Date: August 26, 2021 - Top Brass

IN RECENT weeks Vice-Admiral Mark Mellett, Chief of Staff (C/S) of the Defence Forces, has given a number of interviews with the national media. That he addressed both pay for members of the Defence Forces and the linked retention crisis is sure to have grabbed the attention of government ministers. Still the C/S is only… Read more »

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Ryan Tubridy

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: August 26, 2021 - The Hot Air Brigade

I always describe The Late Late Show to foreign guests as being the Tardis and I’m just the latest Doctor. Ryan Tubridy, RTÉ.ie, submitted by reader Dogs of honour: Alfie and Nolly, at chef Clodagh McKenna’s nuptials have convinced us that every stylish wedding needs some Very Important Pets. Irish Independent Weekend Magazine, submitted by… Read more »

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BREXIT UNITING IRELAND

Date: August 26, 2021 - Northwind

It turns out there is an upside to Brexit – for some people at least. On 18 August, celebrity economist-cum-pundit David McWilliams tweeted: “Brexit is actually causing the rapid integration of the all-Ireland economy…€800 million increase in intra-Ireland trade since Brexit.” Finding it difficult and time-consuming to import various commodities from Britain, many traders in… Read more »

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