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IAIN WRIGHT’S AMAZING HOME

Date: July 1, 2021 - High Society

A HOUSE with a rather picturesque setting has been put on the market, complete with Hollywood CV. It is being offloaded for a hefty sum by an asset manager with a side interest in the energy game. Glenasmole Lodge has popped up on the big screen in the past, including an appearance in John Boorman’s… Read more »

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AGENTS OF INFLUENCE - AARON EDWARDS

AGENTS OF INFLUENCE – AARON EDWARDS

Date: July 1, 2021 - BooksReviews

THE BOOK’S front cover singles out the infamous Freddie Scappaticci in glorious technicolour. Everyone else in black and white. He is barely mentioned in this book, though. Readers are left flat where marketing clearly outpunched substance. In this instance it’s so true that you should never judge a book by its cover. Agents of Influence… Read more »

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IFTAS ‘GLITZ AND GLAM’

Date: July 1, 2021 - Behind the Scenes

ÁINE MORIARTY’S annual IFTA gong show will be brought to you by Virgin Media One on July 4, and fronted by Gráinne Seoige (remember her?). Goldhawk can safely predict that little mention will be made of the IFTA companies’ borrowings from Moriarty’s one-woman operation, Irish Film Research Ltd (IFR), which runs the IFTN website. The… Read more »

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Gordon Elliott

AND THE BANNED PLAYED ON

Date: July 1, 2021 - Sport of Kings

EARLIER THIS year the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB) handed out two six-month bans to two high-profile trainers – Charles Byrnes and Gordon Elliott. While such sanctions would be expected to have significant repercussions for those involved, the good news is that little has changed in their day-to-day operations. When Byrnes failed in his appeal… Read more »

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Luke Comer Ban

COMER’S RARE MARE

Date: July 1, 2021 - Sport of Kings

LUKE COMER seems as enthusiastic as ever about the racing game despite his usual lack of success on the track. The gelding, He Knows No Fear, who famously won last year at Leopardstown at odds of 300/1, has been Comer’s only winner so far this year when coming home in front last month again at… Read more »

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John Magnier

MAGNIER’S CONUNDRUM

Date: July 1, 2021 - Sport of Kings

AFTER NEGATIVE press coverage at Sheikh Mohammed al Maktoum’s treatment of his daughter, Sheika Latifa, the headlines were rather more positive following the Irish Derby victory of his Hurricane Lane, registering a rare Epsom/Curragh derby double for the Dubai moneybags’ Godolphin operation and trainer Charlie Appleby. The outcome was all the more impressive as it… Read more »

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Seamus Heffernan

BACK TO SCHOOL FOR SEAMUS HEFFERNAN

Date: July 1, 2021 - Sport of Kings

THIS TIME last year, the hapless Seamie Heffernan landed one of the longest whip bans received by any jockey. The French stewards banned him for 22 days over his use of the stick on the Aidan O’Brien-trained Order Of Australia in the French Derby, but it appears that Heffernan hasn’t fully learnt his lesson from… Read more »

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Sean Corkery

DATALEX’S SURPRISE €25M EQUITY RAISE

Date: July 1, 2021 - Moneybags

WHAT A surprising move Datalex made earlier this month when issuing a fundraiser, a year ahead of what observers would have predicted after a recent reorganisation of its debt situation. The company recorded an underlying loss of $3.7m in 2020 but with no further update on this state of affairs, CEO Sean Corkery pulled the… Read more »

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Carl McCann

CARL MCCANN’S REMARKABLE FRUIT SALAD

Date: July 1, 2021 - Moneybags

CARL MCCANN is about to create a global fruit and vegetable colossus courtesy of his merging of Total Produce and Dole Food Company (DFC) into one giant group with sales of €8bn. The plan involves floating the huge merged entity, Dole plc, on the New York Stock Exchange and at the same time raising between… Read more »

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Barry Napier

BARRY NAPIER’S €1M JUDGMENT

Date: July 1, 2021 - The Hot Water Brigade

SURPRISING TO see the highly respected telecoms entrepreneur Barry Napier finding himself on the end of a judgment from AIB for a cool €1m. The multitalented Napier has made quite an impact in the mobile tech sector but delivered a rather less impressive performance when it came to the business of owning pubs. Enniskerry, Co… Read more »

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FAT CAT FAILINGS

Date: July 1, 2021 - The Hot Water Brigade

WHILE THE name may sound impressive, Fat Cat Property Holdings Ltd (FCP) doesn’t look like it is about to join the ranks of the big boys any time soon judging by accounts just filed. One of the players here turns out to be accountant and former tax inspector Martin Grennell, who operates these days as… Read more »

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Mairead Mulhern

MAIREAD MULHERN’S ‘FANTASIC ADVENTURE’

Date: July 1, 2021 - The Hot Water Brigade

THE LIQUIDATION of Teilifís Mhaigh Eo Teo (TME), the company that was behind the ill-fated Irish TV channel, has finally been completed. Not surprisingly, there was sod all for creditors, notably the hapless UK taxi moneybags John Griffin. Out of total receipts of a mere €400,000, the combined costs of the examinership and liquidation, including… Read more »

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Bob Geldof

GEOFF HOGAN’S HIGH COURT PETITION

Date: July 1, 2021 - The Hot Water Brigade

FANS OF Goldhawk will not have been overly surprised by the decision of Period Door Properties Ltd (PDP) to petition the High Court this week to have an examiner appointed to the Dublin subletting firm. Trouble had been brewing since the pandemic hit but the severity of the problems does seem to have come as… Read more »

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Robert Pitt

INM DATA FRENZY

Date: June 17, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

THE PRIVACY action being taken by former INM editor-in-chief Stephen Rae against Mediahuis Ireland, current owner of the newspaper group, reflects the hothouse atmosphere and intrigue that became rampant in INM in those days. The battle for ascendancy between Denis O’Brien and supporters of the old regime surrounding previous owner Tony O’Reilly was well known…. Read more »

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SARAH KEANE’S BELLY FLOP

Date: June 17, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

WHAT A bad week it was for Sarah Keane, president of the Irish Olympic Federation (IOF) and chief executive of Swim Ireland. After the high-profile reversal by the world swimming federation (FINA) to withdraw an invitation to the Irish relay team, it turns out that Sarah suffered a rather bruising experience in her attempt to… Read more »

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Paul Tweed

PROFILE: PAUL TWEED

Date: June 17, 2021 - Pillars of Society

IS PAUL TWEED “the most powerful man in Hollywood” or is he a small-town solicitor from Bangor who happened to fall into the big time almost by accident, aided in part by what he describes as his “judgment and balls”? In a recent interview with the Business Post he projected himself as being more in… Read more »

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Simeon Burke

YOUNG BLOOD: SIMEON BURKE

Date: June 17, 2021 - The Young Bloods

FAMOUS FOR his right-wing views, use of litigation and interesting family, Simeon Burke is the controversial conservative who claimed to represent “the many, not the mob” in the recent contest for Student Union president of NUI Galway. But if the 104 votes Burke received suggests ‘the many’ are not particularly interested, there are many more… Read more »

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Denis O'Brien

WHO INVITED DENIS?

Date: June 17, 2021 - Fit to Print?

THE FURORE about the invitation extended to Denis O’Brien to attend northern editor Tommie Gorman’s goodbye event saw a flurry of correspondence between the NUJ (National Union of Journalists) and the head of news and current affairs, Jon Williams. But amid the squawking of Montrose luvvies, other concerned hacks and even some politicians, the question… Read more »

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REMEMBERINGS - SINÉAD O’CONNOR

REMEMBERINGS – SINÉAD O’CONNOR

Date: June 17, 2021 - Books|Reviews

AT THE start of this autobiography, Sinéad O’Connor remarks, “I’ve told my story as I remember it and tried to tell it the way I speak”. Never a stranger to controversy, the outspoken singer’s somewhat hazy memories are filled with contradictions. Caught between her inner “vulnerable girl” and the public image of a “Bambi in… Read more »

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THE ABBEY’S DRAMATIC LICENCE

Date: June 17, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

WITH THE director team of Graham McLaren and Neil Murray preparing to exit the Abbey next month, the incoming pair of Caitriona McLaughlin and Mark O’Brien will be interacting with the Frances Ruane-chaired board, where barrister and Irish Georgian Foundation chair Michael Wall is one of the members. The question is, should he be? Wall… Read more »

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Angeline Ball

ANGELINE’S HIDDEN ASSETS

Date: June 17, 2021 - Behind the Scenes

THE PROPOSED new TV series, Hidden Assets, first turned up on Goldhawk’s radar when Screen Ireland dished out €300,000 to production company Saffron Moon at the end of 2019. At that time, the project’s director was Lisa Mulcahy and the writers were Peter McKenna, Morna Regan and Lauren Mackenzie. Saffron Moon is a company jointly… Read more »

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Alan Kelly

LABOUR’S MESSAGE NOT FOR PROLES

Date: June 17, 2021 - Last Refuge

LABOUR LEADER Alan Kelly put on a lot of pressure to have Labour first in the Dublin Bay South (DBS) byelection field with posters, leaflets and other election materials. ‘I want no delays’, he has been barking in that AK47 style. There’s a lot of ‘on the ground’ enthusiasm for Ivana from Labour Youth, Labour… Read more »

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Darragh O'Loughlin

DARRAGH O’LOUGHLIN’S STRONG MEDICINE

Date: June 17, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

THE BELATED opening-up of the pharmacy sector to the administering of Covid-19 vaccines represents some good news for the country’s chemists. It comes, however, against a backdrop of growing discontent among members of Irish Pharmacy Union (IPU), and now the legal eagles have been called into the fray. At the centre of the IPU for… Read more »

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David McWilliams podcast

THE DAVID McWILLIAMS PODCAST

Date: June 17, 2021 - Podcasts|Reviews

THERE IS much talk on The David McWilliams Podcast about disruption, economic innovation etc, but the series itself runs on a decidedly traditional model. With sponsorship from Done Deal – “the number one place for confident car-buying and premium car deals,” McWilliams himself informs us – there are further ads for, variously, Sky, the National Lottery, MG… Read more »

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Eoghan Harris

CONDEMNING EOGHAN HARRIS

Date: June 17, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

EOGHAN HARRIS was condemned from a great height by Cork City councillors who voted unanimously this week to “condemn the use of anonymous twitter accounts to denigrate journalists and … twitter trolls who use such accounts to verbally abuse people on social media in a shameful and cowardly manner”. Harris was not named in the… Read more »

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David Forde

C&C RIGHTS ISSUE IMPOSSIBLE TO JUSTIFY

Date: June 17, 2021 - Moneybags

AFTER A year that saw virtually the whole of the hospitality industry closed down due to Covid-19, C&C has survived despite losses of €121m and net borrowings rising to €362m. Now that the sector has begun to reopen on both sides of the Irish Sea, the company has dumped on its shareholders with the mistimed… Read more »

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VOL 39 NO 12

Date: June 17, 2021 -

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Jennifer Carroll Macneil

POLITICS AND LAW

Date: June 17, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

JENNIFER CARROLL MACNEILL has had enough of the frenzy about political cronyism in the sphere of judicial appointments as she made clear in a Sunday Times guest column recently. The ST described her as a TD; vice-chair of the Oireachtas justice committee; and author of The Politics of Judicial Selection in Ireland. The blurb might… Read more »

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Jilan Wahba Abdalmajid

SONAR’S ‘DIPLOMACY’

Date: June 17, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

A CONTROVERSIAL event at Trinity College Dublin last month resulted in Palestinian ambassador Jilan Wahba Abdalmajid expressing her outrage at the failure to inform her that the Israeli ambassador Ophir Kariv was also taking part. The organiser of the event is an outfit called Sonar Diplomacy. Sonar, which claims to be operating in 27 countries,… Read more »

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Justice Brian Murray

SUPREMELY AMBITIOUS JUDGES

Date: June 17, 2021 - Wigs on the Green

THE ANTICIPATED elevation of Supreme Court judge Donal O’Donnell recently to the post of chief justice received the equally anticipated panegyric from Irish Times legal affairs correspondent, Colm Keena. Now for the jostling and agonised discussions about the next appointment that must be made, as well as an infinitely longer time scale and calculation that… Read more »

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Simon Coveney

SILENCE… AS TROOPS FACE AFRICA DANGER

Date: June 17, 2021 - Wigs on the Green

DESPERATE ATTEMPTS by the government to ingratiate itself with western powers, especially France, has led to the involvement of the Defence Forces in extremely dangerous adventures in the Sahel region of Africa. Foreign minister Simon Coveney and taoiseach, Micheál Martin may claim this policy is supported by the Irish people, but they have not explained… Read more »

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Hildegarde Naughton

FLIGHTS OF FANCY

Date: June 17, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

THE DRAMATIC collapse of Stobart Air in recent days has thrown Ireland’s regional airports into turmoil, with 12 routes immediately suspended. These included Dublin to Kerry and Donegal, as well as Edinburgh, Glasgow and Manchester. It follows the decision in recent weeks by Aer Lingus to permanently close its Shannon base. The Covid pandemic could… Read more »

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Drew Harris

DREW HARRIS AND THE MI5 AGENT

Date: June 17, 2021 - Hush Hush

IN AUGUST 2020, Operation Arbacia, a major MI5 exercise, hit the headlines. It saw 10 people charged with activities linked to the New IRA. The evidence for the charges is based on audio and video recordings of two meetings held in Co Tyrone in February and July 2020. The accusation is that at both meetings,… Read more »

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Bono and The Edge

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: June 17, 2021 - The Hot Air Brigade

We are the people of the open hand/The streets of Dublin to Notre Dame/We’ll build it better than we did before/We are the people we’ve been waiting for. Lyrics of We are the People, the official Euro 2020(2021) anthem, featuring Bono and the Edge, submitted by reader In a rational world, international football – a… Read more »

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Edwin Poots

LOST IN TRANSLATION

Date: June 17, 2021 - Northwind

THE DISPUTE about Acht na Gaeilge goes back 15 years. Sinn Féin believed it had been agreed in the St Andrews Agreement of 2006, the deal which enabled the power-sharing executive to be resurrected in 2007. It discovered it had been sold a pup. The wording in St Andrews allowed the DUP to prevaricate and… Read more »

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Emma Blain

KATE O’CONNELL’S SUCCESSOR?

Date: June 17, 2021 - Last Refuge

UNLESS JAMES GEOGHEGAN totally bombs in the Dublin Bay South byelection, he is most likely to stand for Fine Gael in the general election. But the party will also want a woman to accompany him on the ticket, partly for gender quota reasons and also because this would help to regain its ‘rightful’ second seat… Read more »

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