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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: October 21, 2021 - Bog Cuttings

ROLLER RAIL HIDDEN IN TROUSER LEG A man who aggressively swore at gardaí, after being confronted when observed walking out in front of traffic in a drunken state, was handed a three-month prison sentence at Portlaoise District Court. Sgt JJ Kirby told the court that he observed Gavin Swayne (20), of 63 Hillview Drive, Knockmay,… Read more »

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Sally Rooney

LIR’S ROONEY BOUNCE

Date: October 21, 2021 - Behind the Scenes

WHILE NOVELIST Sally Rooney has been generating headlines over her stance on Israel, her influence is also being felt in Trinity College Dublin, where applications to study at its Lir drama academy have rocketed over the past year. Given the impact of the pandemic on Lir’s finances, founder Danielle Ryan will be grateful that the… Read more »

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SUSAN BERGIN’S STRATEGY

Date: October 21, 2021 - Behind the Scenes

WHEN SCREEN Ireland (SI)chair Susan Bergin and chief executive Desiree Finnegan launched the agency’s strategy, ‘Building for a Creative Future 2024’ earlier this month, it was clear that arts minister Catherine Martin would deliver the funding requirement in Budget 2022.  Where else was the dosh going to come from for new strategy initiatives in training… Read more »

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ARRACHT – DIRECTED BY TOM SULLIVAN

Date: October 21, 2021 - MoviesReviews

PERHAPS THE most telling aspect, for purely anglophone audiences of Tom Sullivan’s debut film Arracht, is the translation of the title as béarla – ‘Monster’. It’s a meaning that can shift the understanding of what the film is actually about, broadly famine-era Ireland, say, to something else – a story for which famine-era Ireland happens… Read more »

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Johnny Farrelly

FARRELLY’S LIFETIME BAN

Date: October 21, 2021 - Sport of Kings

DUBLIN NATIVE Johnny Farrelly’s training career in the UK has come to a shuddering halt after the British Horseracing Authority (BHA) served him with a permanent exclusion from the sport. In what is obviously a sensitive case, the BHA’s statement revealed very little detail of Farrelly’s alleged wrongdoing, save for the fact he was deemed… Read more »

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Joseph O'Brien

O’BRIEN’S RATING GAME

Date: October 21, 2021 - Sport of Kings

RACING FANS might imagine that Joseph O’Brien has a few more things to worry about than a 2lb differential in the rating of one of his lesser performing horses but perhaps that’s what has made him so successful. The trainer went to the trouble of appealing a decision by Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB) handicapper… Read more »

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BALLYDOYLE RUES THE RULES

Date: October 21, 2021 - Sport of Kings

FOR SOMEBODY with a reputation for diplomacy, trainer Aidan O’Brien surprisingly used a recent Racing Post interview to get a few things off his chest. O’Brien took aim at the current interference rules and how the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board is managing the situation. Presently, it is accepted that a jockey can bend the rules… Read more »

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Bernard Caldwell

CALDWELL’S CLARION CALL

Date: October 21, 2021 - Sport of Kings

THE HEAD of the Irish Stable Staff Association, Bernard Caldwell, doesn’t pop his head over the parapet too often, but tends to make plenty of noise when he does. It could be argued, however, that he was trying to do the job of Irish Racehorse Trainers Association chief Michael Grassick rather than his own, when… Read more »

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Michael Stanley

CAIRN SHARE PRICE LEAVES ROOM FOR UPSIDE

Date: October 21, 2021 - Moneybags

FROM A standing start in 2015, when Cairn Homes delivered a mere 11 houses, the output figure hit 1,080 in 2019. This was not that much of a task, however, given that Cairn Homes CEO Mick Stanley and his Scottish mentor/partner, Alan McIntosh, had the benefit of a hefty €400m raised since 2015. Subsequently, there… Read more »

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Jonathan Laredo

YEW GROVE’S HIGH-RANKING TENANTS GUARANTEE DIVIDENDS

Date: October 21, 2021 - Moneybags

YEW GROVE REIT came late to the party, only floating off in June 2018 and raising a relatively modest €75m. Significantly, the company did not kick off with a huge internal managers’ bonus scheme but rather is managed straightforwardly by its three executive directors – Jonathan Laredo, Charlie Peach and Mick Gibbons – admittedly with… Read more »

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John O'Meara

JOHN O’MEARA’S PRESCRIPTION

Date: October 21, 2021 - Briefcases

THIS IS turning into an annus horribilis for the hapless pharmacy group owner John O’Meara. He is currently the subject of a fitness to practise inquiry by Joanne Kissane’s Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland (PSI), which is seeking a ban of up to 10 years, and now his business is headed into examinership. The PSI inquiry… Read more »

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Nerano House

PAURIC CALDWELL’S GIBRALTAR CONNECTIONS

Date: October 21, 2021 - Briefcases

ONE OF the most expensive houses to come on the market is recent times is the splendid Nerano House in Dalkey, which carries a price tag of an impressive €7.25m. What is far from clear, however, is who is selling the south Co Dublin pile, which is linked to assorted Gibraltar-based individuals. After the house… Read more »

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Paul Gallagher

MICHEÁL MARTIN’S DOUBLE-JOBBING AG

Date: October 7, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

IT WAS good to finally hear from the taoiseach Micheál Martin on the generous leeway afforded to his attorney general Paul Gallagher in the lucrative, double-jobbing latitude allowed to him. Up until very recently, statements on the matter were from government; from tánaiste Leo Varadkar; and even public expenditure minister Michael McGrath. And last Sunday… Read more »

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‘IRISH TIMES’ HACKS’ COMRADELY REVIEWS

Date: October 7, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

GOOD TO see the Irish Times literary corps dropping the modest posturing and indulging instead in honest-to-God literary praise of each other’s personal outpourings. Last weekend’s Irish Times magazine contained a long – very long – interview conducted by IT columnist Jennifer O’Connell with IT mag columnist Emer McLysaght along with Sarah Breen. The two… Read more »

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Jim Bolger

PROFILE: JIM BOLGER

Date: October 7, 2021 - Pillars of Society

BOLSHY TRAINER Jim Bolger has had a banner year on the racetrack in 2021, courtesy of his Classic winning homebred three-year-old colts Poetic Flare and McSwiney but, off the course, he has had a rougher ride after his whistleblowing efforts failed, so far at least, to unearth any specific wrongdoings in the sport. It is,… Read more »

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Claire Kerrane

YOUNG BLOOD: CLAIRE KERRANE

Date: October 7, 2021 - The Young Bloods

GIVEN THE growing importance of the youth vote in Irish politics, and the opinion poll figures showing Sinn Féin solidly at the top of young voters’ preferences, it is no surprise that the party’s youngest TD, 29-year-old Claire Kerrane, is being increasingly put forward by the party as an official spokesperson on current affairs programmes…. Read more »

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Ivana Bacik

AK47, THE LADY IVANA AND LEFT BATTLES

Date: October 7, 2021 - Last Refuge

IT WILL be interesting to see just how much prominence Labour leader Alan ‘AK47’ Kelly affords the party’s Dublin Bay South byelection victor Ivana Bacik at next month’s party conference. It’s not that Kelly feels personally threatened by The Lady Ivana (not in the short term, anyway) but her Dublin Bay South (DBS) byelection triumph… Read more »

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Simon Coveney

PARTITION ROW: COVENEY GOES AWOL

Date: October 7, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

THE ‘IRISH TIMES’ was chief among those who blamed both sides in the President Higgins partition row for not sorting it out long before it became such a controversial issue. But it appears that foreign minister Simon Coveney had much to do with the ill-preparedness of the official response as well as the confusion of… Read more »

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Tanya Airey

TANYA AIREY’S TRAVEL DISRUPTION

Date: October 7, 2021 - Brief CasesBriefcases

GOLDHAWK’S EYES were watering reading the news reports of travel agent Tanya Airey’s difficult 2020, with her revenues plummeting €23m thanks to the Covid-19 shutdown of the travel industry. Having recorded revenues of €33m in 2019, these collapsed to just on €10m last year, producing a pre-tax loss of more than €360,000 compared with a… Read more »

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Consuelo O’Connor

MARTIN’S MODUS OPERANDI

Date: October 7, 2021 - High Society

IT WAS interesting to see how developer extraordinaire Pat Crean registered the purchase of his Shrewsbury Road pile, Lissadell, on the property price register in May this year. As the Irish Times reported, simply using the Irish language option meant it took a little longer than normal for the €13.25m deal to surface publicly. The… Read more »

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Désirée Fiinegan

DESIREE FINNEGAN’S SCREEN CHALLENGE

Date: October 7, 2021 - Behind the Scenes

GIVEN THE release of the widely praised Rose Plays Julie, on the weekend of September 17 (see review p20), Goldhawk took a gander at how Irish films have been doing at cinemas since they reopened. The omens were not good. Rose Plays Julie – the best of the films by a country mile, only managed… Read more »

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Simon Coveney

WHAT IS OUR FOREIGN POLICY?

Date: October 7, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

AS ‘PHOENIX’ readers will know, Iveagh House mandarins have for years been determined to move away from the traditional Irish policy of neutrality. At first glance there does not seem to be much logic or pattern to the various initiatives that this has led to. However events in Mali in recent weeks might point a… Read more »

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Vol 39 No 20

Date: October 7, 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

BANK OF POPPIES

Date: October 7, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

INTERVIEWED BY the Sindo’s Samantha McCaughren recently, Bank of Ireland CEO Francesca McDonagh emphasised her Irish background with references to her Irish antecedents. It may have been a response to the Irish public’s antipathy to the banks but Francesca spoke of her childhood visits to Ireland for holliers and family occasions. She also outlined her… Read more »

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Caroline Costello

LEGAL SAGA NEAR AN END?

Date: October 7, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

A 15-YEAR-OLD legal conflict between Louth couple Bernard and Viola Bingham and their former solicitor Barry Sheehan began in 2006 and recently reached the Supreme Court. Sheehan, who had previously been found guilty of professional misconduct, was denied the right to raise certain jurisdictional issues over the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT) by the High Court… 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

WE’RE FRACKED

Date: October 7, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

WILL THE government, despite its Green component, capitulate in face of the relentless campaign by energy companies to import fracked gas? When John Mullins, former chair of the Port of Cork Company, argued a year ago for the development of LNG (liquified natural gas), he warned it would be “dangerous” to abandon Shannon LNG as… Read more »

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Keith Andrews

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: October 7, 2021 - The Hot Air Brigade

The short-term view to this crossroads where we have come to in Irish football – and it is a crossroads and has been with what’s gone on in that building in recent years – is that we are on the road to recovery, in the background. Keith Andrews provides clarity on Stephen Kenny’s strategy, Irish… Read more »

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Charlie Flanagan

NO SUCH THING AS A FREE JUDGESHIP

Date: October 7, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

FEARS THAT public exposure of the guest list at a Fine Gael fundraising dinner for legal eagles would undermine rather than enhance their prospects of appointment to the bench have been underlined by five such appointments to the High Court recently. Fianna Fáil friendly advocates eagerly quizzed Law Library colleagues about the identity of ‘guests’… Read more »

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Brian O'Driscoll

WHAT A SPORT AS BOD PLUGS IN ON CLIMATE

Date: October 7, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

AS THE climate emergency starts to get real, it is inspiring to see respected public figures like rugby legend Brian O’Driscoll step up to do their bit to help make a safer future for all. “Everyone has to make an effort”, says BOD. “None of us will ever be perfect, be it our carbon footprint… Read more »

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Sammy Wilson

‘THE WRATH OF GOD’

Date: October 7, 2021 - Northwind

WHY IS the north doing so badly with Covid? It’s not just in comparison with the republic, ranked No 1 in the world by the Bloomberg Covid Resilience list. The north has done badly compared with anywhere else. At times in September and October this year it had the worst infection rate in the world…. Read more »

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Charlie Flanagan

FLANAGAN BIFFS COVENEY — AGAIN

Date: October 7, 2021 - Last Refuge

FINE GAEL ministers and especially Simon ‘Covetous’ Coveney were apoplectic at former foreign minister Charlie Flanagan’s recent remarks criticising the government’s handling of the President Higgins diplomatic controversy over the ‘marking’ of partition. This amounted to the second time in recent weeks that Flanagan has attacked not merely the government but effectively his predecessor as… Read more »

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Paul Gallagher Apple Tax

AG GALLAGHER IN AND OUT OF COURT

Date: October 7, 2021 - Last Refuge

THE CURRENT allegation of a conflict of interest in attorney general Paul Gallagher’s work for a private client is not the first time confusion has been created by his private practice and his government role. In 2003, senior counsel Gallagher acted for various media that were being sued for defamation by Ian Bailey for their… Read more »

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Pauline O’Reilly

CHU’S CHAIR: GREENS LOOK RIGHTWARD

Date: October 7, 2021 - Last Refuge

THREE ISSUES highlighted in the media last week by Green party leader Eamon Ryan and Senator Pauline O’Reilly, among others in the leadership, are being used to try and push party radicals further back, if possible. As Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael proclaim to their members that the Greens have been put in their place… Read more »

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Mandy Johnston

TAKING ‘FLACKS’ IN THE MEDIA

Date: October 7, 2021 - Fit to Print?

NEWSTALK’S ANNOUNCEMENT of Anton Savage and Mandy Johnston as anchor presenters for the station’s current affairs and business programmes says much about new owner, Bauer Media Group. Both flacks have, for years, fought on behalf of government to deny the media answers to their awkward questions (Johnston) or have trained ministers and Fine Gael politicians… Read more »

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Martin O'Hagan

MARTIN O’HAGAN’S KILLING

Date: October 7, 2021 - Fit to Print?

THE CANT surrounding the 2001 UVF murder of Sunday World journalist Martin O’Hagan by the then Independent News & Media heads has been superseded only by those who effectively collaborated in his murder, namely, MI5 who controlled his killers. This view was effectively endorsed by the National Union of Journalists general secretary Michelle Stanistreet on… Read more »

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Brian Leddin

O’DOWD AND LEDDIN’S DATA FREE DEBATE

Date: October 7, 2021 - Fowl Emissions

WHY WASTE good money paying former politicians as lobbyists if serving politicians will make the same case for free? On RTÉ’s Drivetime last week Fine Gael TD Fergus O’Dowd made the intriguing claim that data centres would help Ireland reach our renewable energy targets. Citing an Amazon data centre project in Drogheda, he said: “They’re… Read more »

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