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James Geoghegan

ANNUAL 2021: WIGS ON THE GREEN – SUPREME JOUST FOR TOP JOB

Date: November 18, 2021 - Wigs on the Green

This year, it seems that we will have to put up with a post-Christmas surge and the more traditional pre-festivities rush of that seemingly never-ending plague. We are, of course, speaking of Covid-19, the biological equivalent of the Special Criminal Court. Unlike the latter, though, the pandemic will eventually leave us, whereas the Gangland Tribunal… Read more »

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ANNUAL 2021: FOREIGN FROLICS – IRELAND: BEST BOY IN THE CLASS – AGAIN

Date: November 18, 2021 - Foreign Frolics

MUCH THE same unresolved issues dominated this year as last with Covid, Brexit, Trump and his successor, the rise of EU militarism and increasing tensions between the west and China. Still, Ireland got its moment in the sun, when the seat won on the UN Security Council gave the taoiseach, Micheál Martin, the chance to… Read more »

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Maura Higgins

ANNUAL 2021: HIGH SOCIETY – FROM INFLUENCERS TO LUXURY LOOS

Date: November 18, 2021 - High Society

SOME THINGS don’t change and this year the rich got richer and there was a notable upsurge in spending on luxury items in Ireland, as all those Covid-19 savings were tapped. What is changing is the make-up of the most high-profile earners in this country, with the list of young influencers in the millionaire category… Read more »

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Catherine Martin

ANNUAL 2021: BEHIND THE SCENES – 2021: MONEY, MONEY, MONEY

Date: November 18, 2021 - Behind the Scenes

THE SECOND year of the pandemic brought its own problems to the arts and culture sectors but money was not one of them. Truckloads of dosh were delivered to the unwieldy Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sports and Media to help compensate for artists and entertainers for the shut-down of the sector. Needless to… Read more »

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Colin Hunt

ANNUAL 2021: MONEYBAGS – WHICH SHARES ARE PRIMED FOR POST-PANDEMIC BOOST?

Date: November 18, 2021 - Moneybags

A S THE panic associated with the global pandemic begins to ease off, investors are hoping that the world will be able to function more or less normally, with relatively open economies and reducing infection rates. Covid-19 has, however, had a major impact on the stock market, which has been an erratic environment, with some sectors… Read more »

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Ger Rabbette deserves the lion’s share of the credit for Uniphar almost doubling its share price in consecutive years, resulting in a valuation of €1.27bn.

ANNUAL 2021: MONEYBAGS – WINNERS AND LOSERS IN 2021

Date: November 18, 2021 - Moneybags

THE STOCK market and share prices over the past two years have been totally dominated by the pandemic and, not surprisingly, some of the best and worst performers appear in the top 10 tables only because of exceptional circumstances WINNERS The best performing share this year has been PetroNeft, which is surprising given that this… Read more »

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Albert Manifold’s decision to lead CRH’s retreat from emerging markets has raised eyebrows – as has his hefty pay package.

ANNUAL 2021: MONEYBAGS – ALBERT MANIFOLD’S U-TURN AT CRH

Date: November 18, 2021 - Moneybags

ALBERT MANIFOLD has been in charge (officially) at CRH since 2014 and has been remarkably well paid during that time. Some investors say he has earned the big bucks but, if that is the case, it is not by setting the stock market alight. The shares are up 25% this year (though this represents a… Read more »

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Declan Kelly

ANNUAL 2021: BRIEF CASES – HIGHS AND LOWS IN 2021

Date: November 18, 2021 - Brief CasesBriefcases

MORE THAN a year and a half of Covid-19 restrictions haven’t triggered the forecast tsunami of commercial collapses and liquidations, but that doesn’t mean it’s been all plain sailing for Ireland’s princes and princesses of industry this year. Take, by way of example, the biggest business deal of the year, the sale of Davy stockbrokers… Read more »

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Michael Collins

MOVING STATUES AND THE BIG FELLA

Date: November 16, 2021 - Last Refuge

AN TAOISEACH Micheál Martin’s enthusiasm for the memory of Michael Collins, in particular his support for the erection of a statue commemorating the centenary of his death next year, is beyond irony given the performance of Fianna Fáil on Cork City Council (CCC) a year ago. Then, FF councillors, led by the taoiseach’s brother, Sean… Read more »

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Graham McLaren

THE ABBEY’S €700,000 DRAMA

Date: November 4, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

WITH THE arrival at the Abbey theatre during the summer of Catríona McLaughlin (artistic director) and Mark O’Brien (executive director), the stage was set for a new era. The manner in which the departure of their predecessors, Graham McLaren and Neil Murray, was handled by… Read more »

Eamon Ryan

PROFILE: EAMON RYAN

Date: November 4, 2021 - Pillars of Society

EAMON RYAN’S hour has come round at last – or has it? The Green party leader’s decade-long dream of a meaningful climate act materialised last week with publication of carbon budgets from the Climate Change Advisory Council. It has been a long time coming for the climate action minister who has had to contend with… Read more »

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Erin McGregor

YOUNG BLOODS: ERIN MCGREGOR

Date: November 4, 2021 - The Young Bloods

WITH THE launch of her new Feel to Heal jewellery range, Erin McGregor is hoping that the crystal-based baubles will help wearers conjure up positive vibes around the three themes of ‘love’, ‘abundance’ and ‘anxiety’. She swears by the book, The Secret, which encourages readers to believe they can manifest desires through the “law of attraction”. Erin was so… Read more »

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Mary Lou McDonald

MARY LOU MCDONALD’S COALITION MUDGUARD

Date: November 4, 2021 - Last Refuge

POLITICAL CORRESPONDENTS now appear to be in the final stages of grief and are moving from depression towards acceptance that Sinn Féin will almost definitely lead the next government. The question now is who will perform the traditional function of mudguard for the lead coalition party and is a topic of much speculation inside and… Read more »

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O’BRIEN VS ZUCKERBERG

Date: November 4, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

DENIS O’BRIEN has had a busy couple of weeks, selling off a chunk of his Digicel group to the Aussies and also finding time to have a pop at Facebook. Dinny generated plenty of column inches for comparing the social media company to the “creeping authoritarianism” of 1930s Germany. O’Brien is clearly no fan of… Read more »

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Veronica Guerin

VERONICA GUERIN: ‘SINDO’ REVISIONISM

Date: November 4, 2021 - Fit to Print?

THE DEATH last week of John Traynor, a gangland criminal source of Veronica Guerin who was also suspected of fingering her for her killers 25 years ago, gave the Sunday Independent another excuse to cover itself in glory – revisionist glory – given the incomplete account of its shameful behaviour in the matter of Traynor’s… Read more »

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WE DON’T KNOW OURSELVES - FINTAN O’TOOLE

WE DON’T KNOW OURSELVES – FINTAN O’TOOLE

Date: November 4, 2021 - BooksBooks|ReviewsReviews

SAMUEL BECKETT, with whom Fintan O’Toole is compared on this book’s back cover, might conceivably have compressed his era into 57 pages. O’Toole’s occupies 570 and still contains silences, albeit unlike Beckett’s. Eamonn Casey, Larry Goodman, the Catholic Church, child sexual abuse, Fianna Fáil, Charlie Haughey and his Ansbacher accounts are dissected with withering scorn…. Read more »

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DER KAISER AND MR & MRS SMITH

Date: November 4, 2021 - Brief CasesBriefcases

GOLDHAWK WAS impressed by the old-fashioned shoe leather reporting demonstrated by veteran Sindo reporter Liam Collins last week. Collins made his way down to the Probate Office in Smithfield, Dublin 7, to dig through the files associated with the estate of deceased playwright Ulick O’Connor, and found that a solicitor had been appointed to the… 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

STEFANIE PREISSNER’S PROFITS

Date: November 4, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

IT IS increasingly hard to avoid Stefanie Preissner these days (for anybody who might want to), with two separate radio stations opting to feature her dulcet tones last month. It is unclear if the Can’t Cope, Won’t Cope screenwriter, podcaster and columnist will land her own show after the recent outings but, if she does,… Read more »

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Ian Redmond

IAN REDMOND’S DANCE MOVES

Date: November 4, 2021 - Brief CasesBriefcases

ALMOST UBIQUITOUS in the recent media frenzy over the reopening of nightclubs and the government-imposed restrictions was Ian Redmond of the popular Dublin city centre club, Tramline. He quickly became the face of the sector, dancing into the headlines with alarming regularity both in print, online and on the airwaves. Redmond has plenty of other… Read more »

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Matt Dempsey

MATT DEMPSEY GOES GREEN

Date: November 4, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

TIME WAS when Matt Dempsey, former editor of the Irish Farmers Journal and a Kildare farmer himself was the champion of dairy and beef farming and railed against such as An Taisce for its allegedly overzealous climate change campaigning. Now, Matt is reinventing himself and is getting into renewables in a big way. However, there… Read more »

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VOL 39 NO 22

Date: November 4, 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

PHARMACISTS’ STRONG MEDICINE

Date: November 4, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

WITH A Covid-19 vaccine booster campaign on the table following the recommendation from the National Immunisation Audit Committee earlier this week, Dermot Twomey and the top brass in the Irish Pharmacy Union (IPU) will be hoping the good news distracts its restless members from the continued haemorrhaging at a joint venture set up a few… 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

CORRECTION

Date: November 4, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

IN THE Phoenix edition, October 8, 2021, an article entitled ‘LEGAL SAGA NEAR AN END?’ referred to a 15-year-old legal battle between Bernard and Viola Bingham and their former solicitor, Barry Sheehan. At one point the article wrongly stated, “In the Court of Appeal Ms Justice Caroline Costello found that Bingham had lost his action… Read more »

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David Goodall

‘DIPLOMAT’ DAVID GOODALL

Date: November 4, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

NATIONAL UNIVERSITY of Ireland Press recently published The Making of the Anglo-Irish Agreement of 1985 by British diplomat David Goodall – chief driver on Margaret Thatcher’s British team that negotiated the agreement – with contributions from a host of other worthies. Goodall passed away in 2016 but his long career as a top-flight diplomat-spy is… Read more »

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AINE FLANAGAN’S SAFE BET

Date: November 4, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

THE MOST unusual transaction was belatedly reported in Aaron Rogan’s recently published book, Punters: How Paddy Power Bet Billions and Changed Gambling Forever. The book told how Carlow post office worker Tony O’Reilly, known as ‘Paddy 10’, developed a serious gambling addiction and stole €1.75 million from An Post over a 14-month period. Sentenced to… Read more »

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Jillian Mahon

JILL MAHON’S SUSTAINABILITY

Date: November 4, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

WITH CLIMATE change the topic du jour there was no little interest in the recent appointments to the Climate Change Advisory Council (CCAC), which is chaired by Marie Donnelly, adviser in Brussels to Hume Brophy. Jill Mahon probably is the most interesting of the appointees who made it onto the CCAC last month, given her… Read more »

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Simon Coveney

IRISH-RUSSIAN MILITARY CONFLICT?

Date: November 4, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

THE DEPARTMENT of Foreign Affairs (DFA) website warns Irish citizens to avoid travel to the Central African Republic (CAR) due to its “extremely dangerous security status and … very high threat of terrorist attacks”. That this serious security situation could soon involve Irish soldiers serving with MINUSMA (the UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilisation Mission in Mali)… Read more »

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Brendan Hughes outside Mountjoy

SINN FÉIN’S SECTION 31

Date: November 4, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

A RACY account of the two most dramatic jail breaks in the history of the state – the 1973 helicopter escape from Mountjoy prison of three IRA commanders and the 1974 mass jailbreak of IRA prisoners from Portlaoise – as described by the man who organised both of them has recently been published. Readers may… Read more »

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Matthew Prince

HOSTING HATE DATA

Date: November 4, 2021 - Hush Hush

THERE HAS been quite the kerfuffle recently over Ireland being the destination of choice for data centres. EirGrid claims that data centres use 11% of the electricity available on the grid increasing to 28% of grid capacity by the end of the decade. By 2025 there will be more than 100 data centres operating in the… Read more »

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Imelda May

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: November 4, 2021 - The Hot Air Brigade

I’m an artist. I’m a creative. An empath. I’m sensitive and most artists are. A lot of people forget that … we undress ourselves in front of everybody. Imelda May, Irish Times, submitted by reader The Irish wedding has changed, changed utterly, an emancipated beauty is born. John Daly, Irish Independent He seeks relief from… Read more »

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Mary Lou McDonald

NORTHERN SINN FÉIN MUST WAIT

Date: November 4, 2021 - Northwind

IT WAS no coincidence that the Monday after the Sinn Féin ard fheis the party’s minister for communities in the north, Deirdre Hargey, published a newspaper article outlining her new housing strategy alongside coverage of the event. As well as allocating millions of pounds, she plans to reinvigorate the north’s single public housing body, the… Read more »

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Willie O’Dea

NIGHTMARE ON MOUNT STREET

Date: November 4, 2021 - Last Refuge

ESTABLISHMENT AND media fright at the latest spooky poll figures for Sinn Féin – its highest ever Red C figure at 33% – obscured another notable poll figure, that of Fianna Fáil at 12% This is just more than a third of SF’s tally and a serious reversal of what had looked like a gradual… Read more »

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Charlie McConalogue

MILITANT IFA BALL BREAKERS

Date: November 4, 2021 - Last Refuge

MILITANT FARMER Conor O’Leary, chairman of the IFA (Irish Farming Association) executive in Cork Central, is an articulate and colourful polemicist when agitating on behalf of his members. But he exceeded expectations when agriculture minister Charlie McConalogue visited Kanturk, Co Cork, last week to explain CAP reform and carbon budgets to fearful farmers. O’Leary has… Read more »

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Alan Shatter

ISRAELI PR MACHINE RULES

Date: November 4, 2021 - Last Refuge

WHAT A curious sequence of events and priorities manifested themselves last week in the abysmal reaction to events concerning Israel and Palestine. On Saturday, October 23, the Irish Times reported that Alan Shatter, former justice minister who lost his Dáil seat some years ago, contrived much high dudgeon at a question to foreign minister Simon… Read more »

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JOHN BURNS’S SIGN-OFF

Date: November 4, 2021 - Fit to Print?

DISAPPOINTED APPLICANT for the post of Irish Sunday Times editor, John Burns, signed off as acting editor last Sunday with an interesting editorial flourish by way of an editorial on tourism in Dublin that was, inexplicably, dripping with sarcasm. Under the headline, “Being seventh is, er, pedestrian”, Burns remarked that Lonely Planet had put Dublin… Read more »

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PARTITION: McALEESE AND HIGGINS

Date: November 4, 2021 - Fit to Print?

IN EFFORTS to re-educate President Higgins and the public for supporting his boycott of the church event marking the centenary of partition, two prominent journalists may or may not have overreached themselves. Writing in the Sunday Independent, the biggest selling newspaper in the country (partitioned or all-Ireland), Sam McBride stated baldly that if the event… Read more »

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