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Mary Robinson

MARY ROBINSON’S SACRED COWS

Date: November 18, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

FORMER IRISH president Mary Robinson made headlines around the world for her emotionally charged interview at the Cop26 conference in Glasgow in which, her voice quivering, she slammed world leaders for their half-hearted approach to the climate emergency. “You can’t negotiate with science”, she reminded them. The main target of Robbo’s wrath was Saudi Arabia,… Read more »

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Sheena Horgan

DRINKAWARE’S BAR BILL

Date: November 18, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

AFTER NUMEROUS and lengthy delays, the latest phase of the Public Health (Alcohol) Amendment Bill came into effect last week, notably introducing significant restrictions on advertising in and around sporting events or the sponsoring of events if the aim is to promote an alcohol product or brand. No doubt, this development has been welcomed by… Read more »

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JOE MCHUGH’S STRATEGY

Date: November 18, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

JOE MCHUGH’S threat to resign from Fine Gael – which party made him a minister twice – if the mica protesters don’t get what they want is not idle; nor is it the superficial gesture of a politician that fears his seat is in serious jeopardy. McHugh recognised long ago that unless he responded to… Read more »

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Shane Ross

SHANE ROSS’S BANKING ACCOUNT

Date: November 18, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

LAST WEEKEND, Shane Ross took a pop at those he claimed had escaped the sort of abuse poor old Sean Fitzpatrick got as a result of the banking crash. The former Anglo Irish Bank chairman is, however, somebody about whom Ross himself has expressed wildly erratic opinions. Ross took the opportunity to criticise a few… Read more »

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Bertie Ahern

BERTIE AND THE ‘REAL’ PEACEMAKERS

Date: November 18, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

WHAT A waspish speech Bertie Ahern made when launching former junior foreign minister Conor Lenihan’s biography, Albert Reynolds, Risk Taker for Peace, last week. Apparently seething with indignation, according to reports, Bertie rejected the notion that the 1985 Anglo-Irish Agreement, signed by Fine Gael taoiseach, Sir Garret FitzGerald and British premier Maggie Thatcher was the… Read more »

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Owen Paterson

OWEN PATERSON’S IRISH LEGACY

Date: November 18, 2021 - Northwind

OWEN PATERSON, the former northern secretary, whose defiance when accused by Britain’s parliamentary commissioner of an ‘egregious case of paid advocacy’ on behalf of two northern companies, caused a crisis for Boris Johnson’s government, has also had a malign effect on the north over many years. Paterson, who resigned as an MP to avoid facing… Read more »

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FLANAGAN FEUDS WITH COVENEY

Date: November 18, 2021 - Last Refuge

IT’S GETTING hard to track the number of criticisms that former foreign minister Charlie Flanagan has levelled at his successor Simon Coveney in the past six months or so. Charlie BlackandTanAgain was at it again recently when he had a go at the low number of urgent passport applications allowed by the Department of Foreign… Read more »

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Sinéad Moriarty

FILLING THE ARTS COUNCIL

Date: November 18, 2021 - Behind the Scenes

WITH THE terms about to expire for half a dozen members of the Arts Council, minister Catherine Martin will be preparing to unveil the new faces next month and, in doing so, put her stamp on the agency. While six of the seats to be filled relate to replacements for members whose terms are about… Read more »

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Vogue Williams

VOGUE’S IRISH MILLIONAIRE PARTNER

Date: November 18, 2021 - High Society

VOGUE WILLIAMS is ending the year on a high, announcing that a third baby is on the way for the influencer-broadcaster-entrepreneur-socialite and her loaded hubby, Matthew Spencer. Having been caught up in one of those online storms earlier in 2021 thanks to a high-profile trip to sunny St Barts in the Caribbean, Williams will be… Read more »

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Mikey Sheehy

SANGRIA AT DUNDALK

Date: November 18, 2021 - Sport of Kings

THERE WAS confusion at Dundalk recently after jockey Mikey Sheehy steered home the Joseph O’Brien-trained Sangria to victory. Sheehy, one of the leading apprentice jockeys in the country, had ridden his 65th career winner a few days previously – a tally that reduced from 5lbs to 3lbs his claimed weight allowance. In winning at Dundalk,… Read more »

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La Cave

LA CAVE’S ‘GNAW MARKS’

Date: November 18, 2021 - Briefcases

THE LONG-established French bistro style restaurant La Cave, off Dublin’s Grafton Street, has a loyal troop of followers and has become something of an institution down the years, thanks to its well-known late night atmosphere and the 350-plus wines on its rather long list. The venue also hosts popular wine tasting evenings at €30 a… Read more »

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ANNUAL 2021

Date: November 18, 2021 -

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Kevin Higgins

UK LABOUR HUNTS DOWN POET HIGGINS

Date: November 18, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

THE BRITISH Labour party, post Jeremy Corbyn, has been in the process of purging left-wing elements from its ranks and even though he is based in Galway, poet and lecturer Kevin Higgins has found that he cannot escape the long arm of its Governance and Legal Unit’s (GLU) investigations team. It is not as if… Read more »

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Lord Mountbatten

BATTLE ROYAL: LORD LOUIS’S DIARIES

Date: November 18, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

THE BRITISH government is engaged in a battle royal to conceal the historical papers of the queen’s uncle and former navy admiral, Lord Louis Mountbatten. Having granted £4m to Southampton University to buy the trove, it remains under lock and key. While it was sealed in 2011 under a mysterious “ministerial direction”, most commentators believe… Read more »

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George Nkencho

GEORGE NKENCHO: GSOC’S HIGH STAKES

Date: November 18, 2021 - Hush Hush

THERE IS a lot riding on the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission’s (Gsoc) investigation into the killing of George Nkencho by a garda officer as his family have questioned not only the actions of the gardaí on the day he was shot but also the way the investigation has been carried out by Gsoc. As a… Read more »

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Miriam O'Callaghan

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: November 18, 2021 - The Hot Air Brigade

Before this week, I hadn’t travelled by ferry for years. But the entire future of our planet is at stake – and we are all being told, constantly, that we have to play our part. So we were of course going to play our part. Miriam O’Callaghan, RTÉ.ie The same Hendrick who looked awfully like… Read more »

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Joe Brolly

THE ‘SINDO’ AND ITS NORTHERN EDITION

Date: November 18, 2021 - Fit to Print?

SUNDAY TIMES scribe John Burns emphasised the dilemma of a southern newspaper – the Sunday Independent’s newly launched northern edition — trying to appeal to both sides of the divide in the north. (The ST has no such identity problem when it comes to deciding whether it is unionist or nationalist). But readers of either… Read more »

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GERRY ADAMS’S ACTIONS

Date: November 18, 2021 - Fit to Print?

CONFUSION SURROUNDS the settlement between Gerry Adams and the Sunday World following the tabloid’s apology for claiming in 2015 that the then Sinn Féin president met former IRA man Kevin McGuigan shortly before he was shot dead. There was no order for costs signifying that an all-in settlement included damages and Adams’s legal costs as… Read more »

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Sinead McSweeney

TWEETS ACROSS THE BORDER 

Date: November 18, 2021 - Fit to Print?

IT’S COMFORTING to learn that the Queen’s Writ has found a means to reach across the border to the republic via Twitter. The courts in Northern Ireland have issued a ban preventing the publication of the name of Soldier F. He is the former 1 Para lance corporal who was facing Bloody Sunday murder charges until recently…. Read more »

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CECELIA’S COMPANIES

Date: November 18, 2021 - Behind the Scenes

SUPER SCRIBBLER Cecelia Ahern is set to make yet more dosh, with Nicole Kidman having signed up to produce a TV series based on the novelist’s 2018 anthology, Roar. In recent times, Cecelia has also been doing some restructuring. In Greenlight Go, her fellow director is hubby David Keoghan, but Ahern controls 99% of the… Read more »

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Hold my drink

HOLD MY DRINK

Date: November 18, 2021 - PodcastsPodcasts|ReviewsReviews

SITTING AS it does among the more serious and polished podcasts of Bauer Media Audio’s radio shows (Newstalk, Today FM, 98FM, etc), Hold My Drink qualifies as a particularly curious beast. Broadcast via GoLoud, the media group’s dedicated app for audio content, the podcast is helmed by two Dublin beauty ‘influencers’, Charleen Murphy and Ellie… Read more »

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Consuelo O’Connor

MAKTOUM FOUNDATION FINANCES

Date: November 18, 2021 - High Society

WITH EX-PREZ Mary Robinson in the spotlight following her COP 26 criticisms, it is interesting to note that the accounts have just been filed for the Al Maktoum Foundation, which built the Islamic Cultural Centre in Clonskeagh. This was officially opened by Robbo back in 1996 along with the chair of the foundation, Mizra Al-Sayegh…. Read more »

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Tom Cooney

GEORGIAN SOCIETY’S PANDEMIC PERFORMANCE

Date: November 18, 2021 - High Society

PLANS ARE being made for the annual Christmas party of the Irish Georgian Society (IGS) in its City Assembly House headquarters on South William Street, D2, on December 4. No doubt, the heritage revellers in attendance will be hoping president David Davies has some stories to tell about offloading his impressive Abbeyleix House in Co… Read more »

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Luke Comer Ban

COMER’S BLOODLINES

Date: November 18, 2021 - Sport of Kings

LUKE COMER’S ambitious breeding and training endeavours have finally borne some low-hanging fruit after his homebred four-year-old colt, Bradesco, won at Dundalk last week.  The victory was significant for Comer in that it represented the first winner for his own stallion, Bashkirov, a 16-year-old son of Galileo who started out life with Aidan O’Brien and… Read more »

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FITZGERALD’S BAD WEEK

Date: November 18, 2021 - Sport of Kings

AINTREE GRAND National sponsor, diagnostics company Randox, has been in the news for the wrong reasons as a result of landing lucrative Covid testing contracts in the UK and its links to disgraced MP Owen Paterson. Founder and MD Peter Fitzgerald, also came under the spotlight last week courtesy of one of his horses, Aghaboy,… Read more »

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David Hyland

HYLAND HOPS INTO SADDLE

Date: November 18, 2021 - Sport of Kings

THE ASSOCIATION of Irish Racehorse Owners (AIRO) held its annual flat awards on the final day of the season at Naas recently, but the event was most notable for the absence of chairman Brian Polly. He has been ill recently but is still listed on the AIRO website as chairing the organisation, but it was… Read more »

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Niall Fortune

NIALL FORTUNE’S ‘DEMISE’

Date: November 18, 2021 - Briefcases

NIALL FORTUNE channelled his inner Mark Twain last week, chortling that “reports of my demise have been greatly exaggerated”. He was referring to a welter of news reports about the various companies in the Eddie Rockets Group, which he controls along with his wife Anne, which has been having a difficult time lately. Several firms in… Read more »

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Adam Mooney

ADAM MOONEY’S FADING TAN

Date: November 18, 2021 - Briefcases

AS PEOPLE are familiar with by now, pandemics don’t treat everyone equally and some business sectors have felt more pain than others. It will not come as too much of a surprise then to hear that the two brothers behind a successful tanning shop business have produced returns that are less than glowing. Adam and… Read more »

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ANNUAL 2021: GOLDHAWK’S AWARDS FOR THE PASSING PARADE 2021

Date: November 18, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

Declan Kelly THE 2021 Crisis Management Award of the Year goes to Dancing Declan Kelly – the former head honcho of Teneo – for his smooth handling of the controversy that surrounded him this summer. Six months ago, Decco was on top of the world, in situ as CEO and chairman of Teneo, the favourite… Read more »

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Micheál Martin

ANNUAL 2021: GOVERNMENT – WHO BELIEVES THE POLLS?

Date: November 18, 2021 - Last Refuge

2021 should have been the year that the somewhat artificial coalition – cobbled together to prevent rather than create a change of government – bedded itself in after nearly a year of the pandemic and the onset of that looming catastrophe, climate change. At home, the housing crisis should by now be something that at… Read more »

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Mary Lou McDonald won’t repeat the ‘too few candidates’ error of the last election, but the issue of potential coalition partners is a tricky one.

ANNUAL 2021: OPPOSITION – MARY LOU FOR TAOISEACH?

Date: November 18, 2021 - Last Refuge

If 2020 was the year of the historic breakthrough for Sinn Féin, when it surpassed all other parties in terms of first preference votes, 2021 saw the party solidify its ambitions to lead the next government. The latest opinion polls show the party 10 points ahead of Fine Gael, its nearest rival, in the south,… Read more »

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Catherine Murphy

ANNUAL 2021: LABOUR/INDEPENDENTS/TROTS – BOUTIQUE LEFT IS UNDER THREAT

Date: November 18, 2021 - Last Refuge

As they strive for re-election, Ireland’s smaller parties and Independents face broadly two sorts of general election: there is the sleepy type of election after which nobody expects much to change; and there is the epic battle between two competing visions for Ireland. The elections of 1981, 1982 and 2011 were battles; the last election… Read more »

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Leo Varadkar, interviewed under caution by gardaí, hasn’t done Fine Gael – the so-called party of probity – any favours.

ANNUAL 2021: PROFILE – IS VARADKAR HEADING FOR BRUSSELS?

Date: November 18, 2021 - Pillars of Society

This Christmas, Matt Barrett might consider giving his partner a special advent calendar so that, every morning when Leo Varadkar awakes, he can tear open a new little window and glory in the thought that he is one day closer to becoming taoiseach again, on December 15, 2022. Cometh the hour, cometh the man …. Read more »

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Eoghan Harris’s demise as Sindo columnist was linked more with the national question than the posting of any alleged bullying, sexist or misogynistic tweets.

ANNUAL 2021: PRINT – MEDIA SANS HARRIS AND O’BRIEN

Date: November 18, 2021 - Fit to Print?

SUNDAY INDEPENDENT trumpet, Eoghan Harris’s public shaming and downfall, together with an improved financial performance at some of Ireland’s leading media businesses, dominated the past year. Meanwhile, billionaire Denis O’Brien has departed the scene after a most bruising experience, personally and financially. In May, star Sindo columnist Harris was unceremoniously axed by editor Alan English… Read more »

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A safe pair of hands, Claire Byrne has continued her steady rise up the media star tree, but has hinted that she may quit the Monday evening TV gig as she’s feeling overworked.

ANNUAL 2021: AIRWAVES – STARS’ AND OWNERS’ EXODUS

Date: November 18, 2021 - Radio

Boardroom shenanigans at RTÉ; the long anticipated exit from the Irish media of Denis O’Brien; Virgin Media TV being fattened up for an imminent sale; and the closure of Eir Sport marked a seismic year of change for Ireland’s broadcasting world. The sale of Communicorp… Read more »

Archbishop Eamon Martin

ANNUAL 2021: CLERICAL ERRORS – PRIMATE VS PRESIDENT

Date: November 18, 2021 - Clerical Errors

Eamon Martin, Catholic Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland, was doing well in 2021 until he fumbled the ball by consenting to an ecumenical service in Armagh’s Protestant cathedral commemorating the creation of Northern Ireland in 1921. This attracted public attention when Michael D Higgins pointedly pre-absented himself from “a political event”. Contrary to… Read more »

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