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Sarah Carey

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: September 23, 2021 - The Hot Air Brigade

I didn’t expect to write about Afghanistan. Geopolitics and military tactics are not my usual stomping ground. Human nature is my field of expertise, the psychology of ‘great men’ my speciality. Sarah Carey, Irish Independent, submitted by reader Fianna Fáil is in a very bad state. We are not the well-organised, clear-thinking party we were…. Read more »

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Kate O’Connell

KATE WRITES FOR HER SUPPER

Date: September 23, 2021 - Last Refuge

WHAT A mature, non-contentious and carefully calibrated article former TD Kate O’Connell wrote for the Sunday Independent last weekend. In a piece that read like a lecture on standards in public life but which avoided, most uncharacteristically, any provocative jibes against Fine Gael leaders and ministers, O’Connell wrote for her supper in a finely honed… Read more »

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Marc MacSharry

MARC EYES MICHEÁL … AND MARION

Date: September 23, 2021 - Last Refuge

MARC MACSHARRY may have resigned the Fianna Fáil whip but he has not lost his penchant for the dramatic soundbite. Expounding on the failings of the FF party under Micheál Martin last week he condemned it with typical understatement as an “undemocratic totalitarian regime rather than that of a democratic socialist republican party of and… Read more »

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Philip Brennan

GREENS’ DEFENCE NON-POLICY

Date: September 23, 2021 - Last Refuge

MYSTERY SURROUNDS the Green party’s position on defence, neutrality and foreign policy despite the deliberations of a foreign policy and security group for most of this year and despite also the party’s once-firm support for neutrality. Efforts by Goldhawk to establish what if any Green party policy on these matters exists has met with blank… Read more »

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Michael D Higgins

MEDIA TAKE ON HIGGINS

Date: September 23, 2021 - Fit to Print?

POPULAR OPINION may be overwhelmingly with Michael D on the event “marking” partition and the state of Northern Ireland. But much of the media in the southern part of ‘partitioned’ Ireland have been doing their level best to push back against the “horrendously atavistic” response of the populace with editorials railing against the president’s decision…. Read more »

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THE ‘SINDO’ AND VLAD

Date: September 23, 2021 - Fit to Print?

THE MOST sensational story Goldhawk has seen for some time – about Dr Maitiú Ó Tuathail and his allegation that he was the subject of attempted blackmail – was published on the front page of the Sunday Independent recently. This concerned his receipt from the then taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, of a confidential document about a… Read more »

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Joanne Hayes

NEW, CARING GARDAÍ

Date: September 23, 2021 - Fit to Print?

IN THE annals of Sunday Independent crime reporting, normally supportive to the point of eclipsing the garda press office, there can hardly have been a more adulatory piece than that penned by Wayne O’Connor about Kerry Baby John, in Cahirciveen last weekend. Introduced thus, “With compassion and reverence, detectives are determined to find Baby John’s… Read more »

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Charlie McConalogue

TRILLIONS WASTED IN CLIMATE ACTION

Date: September 23, 2021 - Fowl Emissions

EARLIER THIS year, the European Court of Auditors reported that, despite spending more than €100bn of EU agriculture funds on climate action projects in the past seven years, “virtually nothing” was achieved in terms of agri-emissions reductions across the EU since 2010. This eye-watering sum is but a small fraction of the at least €500bn-a-year that… Read more »

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MET ÉIREANN’S NEW FORECAST

Date: September 23, 2021 - Fowl Emissions

SOME YEARS back, Met Éireann was regularly in the firing line for its curious reluctance to engage in any way with climate change and its role in fuelling extreme weather events. This included a woeful ‘2050 weather report’ video, where it stated it was “impossible to say” what might happen, as “climate models really are… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: September 23, 2021 - Bog Cuttings

‘Gingerbread Man’ A 22-year-old man who appeared before Tralee District Court pleaded guilty to two counts of being abusive and threatening towards gardaí. Judge Joanna Carroll heard that on July 14 this year, the defendant, John O’Shea of 50 Shanakill, Tralee, began yelling at two passing gardaí, calling them ‘dirty bastards’, and saying that they… Read more »

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James Gormley

GORMLEY’S CULTURE COUP

Date: September 23, 2021 - High Society

CONGRATULATIONS TO the wily James Gormley et al at Gormley’s Fine Art on Dublin’s South Frederick Street. The gallery got a welcome shot of publicity for itself courtesy of Culture Night. Presumably, sculptor Patrick O’Reilly was happy too. Every year as Culture Night looms into view, there is the inevitable glut of cultural and artistic… Read more »

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Bonnie Shortall

NOT SO PEACHY FOR BONNIE

Date: September 23, 2021 - High Society

A CREDITORS’ meeting is to be held next week for the winding up of a company called Peachee Collection Ltd. This is the fitness fashion business established by south Co Dublin-based exam expert Bonnie Shortall and her partner, fitness coach extraordinaire Ben Craughwell. It is unclear to what sort of shape the Peachee Collection operation… Read more »

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Clare Dunne

KIN – RTÉ ONE

Date: September 23, 2021 - ReviewsReviews|TV

WITH A recent Broadcasting Authority-commissioned report warning of an “existential crisis” in RTÉ, the cash-strapped national broadcaster’s hyping of gangland drama Kin – including a Late Late Show outing for the cast – betrays its almost palpable desperation for a hit. Unfortunately, Peter McKenna and Ciaran Donnelly’s series looks unlikely to repeat the phenomenal success of Love/Hate that it so… Read more »

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Aidan O'Brien

O’BRIEN’S HEAVY GOING

Date: September 23, 2021 - Sport of Kings

ALTHOUGH VICTORY went his way in the feature event on Champions weekend, when St Mark’s Basilica survived a stewards’ enquiry to win the Irish Champion Stakes, it proved a weekend with more downs than ups for Aidan O’Brien. It could have been even worse if the stewards had turned the tables in the big race… Read more »

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Michael O'Leary

MICKO’S CLEAR-OUT CONTINUES

Date: September 23, 2021 - Sport of Kings

MICK O’LEARY’S annual clearance sale at Goffs UK in Doncaster takes on more significance nowadays, given that he is not restocking his squad with new blood and reduced his string by another 39 horses at the sale recently. Offloading these lesser performing horses netted O’Leary about £1/2m and while it may sound like a decent… Read more »

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Chris Timmons

KEEPING UP WITH CHRIS TIMMONS

Date: September 23, 2021 - Sport of Kings

THE PRACTICE of dual licences, whereby a jockey can also hold a trainer’s permit, is not uncommon. Denis Hogan has been successfully riding his own horses in races now for a number of years and even returned to the saddle after announcing his retirement from riding last year. Some recent instances where some dual operators… Read more »

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Brian Larkin

UNITED OIL AND GAS DRILLING IN CHOPPY WATERS

Date: September 23, 2021 - Moneybags

MUCH LIKE the aircraft leasing industry in Ireland grew out of Tony Ryan’s GPA business, with this country now responsible for the leasing of more aircraft than anywhere else in the world (many of them piloted by former GPA executives) Aidan Heavey’s success in the oil industry up to 2012 has generated a flow of… Read more »

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Gavin Slark

GRAFTON’S SHARE PRICE DISTRACTS FROM INVESTOR DISCONTENT

Date: September 23, 2021 - Moneybags

OVER THE past decade, Grafton CEO Gavin Slark expanded the Grafton model that his predecessor Michael Chadwick had developed. The Chadwick culture had remained deeply ingrained in the group and the former boss (who still holds 9% of the shares) went so far as to call in the legal eagles to try to get the… Read more »

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Don Seidman

CHASING THE YANKEE DOLLAR

Date: September 23, 2021 - Brief CasesBriefcases

CONGRATULATIONS to e-learning gurus Garrett Byrne and Kevin Cronin, who have just wound up their Hawkington Ltd holding company, a year after selling off their business to Don Seidman’s giant LRN Corp, which is controlled by the US private equity fund, Leeds Equity Partners). The Irish boys have scooped a few million euro. Hawkington was… Read more »

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Simon Kelly

KEEPING UP WITH SIMON KELLY

Date: September 23, 2021 - Brief CasesBriefcases

MORE ON Goldhawk’s old friend Simon ‘son of Paddy’ Kelly, whose risk mitigation operation Emex Software, hit a road bump last month. It will be recalled (see The Phoenix 10/9/21) that one of Kelly’s many ventures, Emex Software, found itself on the end of a judgment for €88,000 from recruitment outfit Silverback Staffing Ltd. For… Read more »

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David Nash

DAVID NASH’S EXPENSIVE HEALTHCARE

Date: September 23, 2021 - Brief CasesBriefcases

SERIAL ENTREPRENEUR David Nash (cousin of the soft drinks family that shares the name) has decided to wind up one of his healthcare software companies. Separately, his main interest, Vitro Software, is looking in need of some TLC. Nash who previously worked fro Smurfit Kappa in the US and made a killing from a Philippines… Read more »

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Leo Varadkar

LEO VARADKAR’S AGENDA

Date: September 9, 2021 - Last Refuge

FINE GAEL is not as convulsed with incipient leadership rumours, plots and heaves as is Fianna Fáil, but everybody knows that Leo Varadkar’s grip on power is loosening by the day under pressure of events, blunders and that classic Blueshirt characteristic: entitlement. So what’s on the party’s agenda or the agenda of its big beasts… Read more »

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REVIEWING SALLY ROONEY

Date: September 9, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

THE LONG wait for the new novel from Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You, exposed readers to something of a marketing blitz, although the PR team did opt to limit Rooney to one interview per country, with the result that there was a certain level of frustration in evidence, nowhere more so than the… Read more »

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Michael Nugent

PROFILE: MICHAEL NUGENT

Date: September 9, 2021 - Pillars of Society

RENOWNED ATHEIST Richard Dawkins once described the difficulty his fractious atheist colleagues had in organising themselves as akin to “herding cats”. This characterisation is confirmed by the chair and public face of Atheist Ireland, Michael Nugent, whose campaigning activities over the past 30 years have involved a series of factional battles, often with members of… Read more »

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Rebecca Moynihan

YOUNG BLOOD: REBECCA MOYNIHAN

Date: September 9, 2021 - The Young Bloods

BUOYED BY Ivana Bacik’s comfortable win in the Dublin Bay South byelection, the Labour party is now drawing up its list of key targets for the next general election, with Dublin South Central candidate Senator Rebecca Moynihan to the fore. Unlike most Labour candidates, Moynihan actually comes from the working class, and is well regarded… Read more »

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Date: September 9, 2021 -

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Brigadier Frank Kitson

GARRET, THE SPY AND KITSON’S IRISH WAR

Date: September 9, 2021 - Hush Hush

IN A timely postscript to Cullum Macrae’s The Ballymurphy Massacre programme, author David Burke is about to publish a book on Brigadier Frank Kitson, Kitson’s Irish War: Mastermind of the Dirty War in Ireland. But one of the most interesting aspects of the tome’s coverage of this ‘dirty war’ concerns not Kitson but two gents:… Read more »

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Erin McGregor

IMPERFECTION – BY ERIN AND JUDITH 

Date: September 9, 2021 - PodcastsReviews

WHILE GOLDHAWK is no gastroenterologist, it is incumbent upon him to warn potential listeners about the elevated risk of barfing up their lunch while digesting a new podcast from Erin ‘Conor’s Sister’ McGregor and Judith ‘Life Coach’ McAdam. There are three episodes available of Imperfection by Erin and Judith, which aims to teach listeners how… Read more »

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Gordon Elliott

GORDON ELLIOT’S RETURN

Date: September 9, 2021 - Sport of Kings

THE NAME of Gordon Elliott will make a return to race cards this week after a six-month absence. While the Irish racing community tends to be a forgiving bunch, it is unlikely, however, that Elliott will be provided with a warm welcome in Britain, when he next ventures across the Irish sea with runners. Gauging… Read more »

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Simon Kelly

SIMON KELLY’S STAFFING PROBLEM

Date: September 9, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

ONE OF the more high-profile falls from grace during the property crash was that of Paddy ‘Shrewsbury Road’ Kelly and his son Simon’s sprawling empire. Ten years on, however, Wicklow-based Simon has been bouncing back, with property projects on the go and something called Emex Software, a widely plugged business that deals in mitigating companies’… Read more »

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Lauren Healy

LAUREN HEALY’S METHOD

Date: September 9, 2021 - High Society

FOUR INTERESTING looking houses are emerging on Ranelagh’s Charleston Road, where former Apprentice contestant Jamie Moran is developing four upmarket townhouses using a cast concrete construction technique that involves the ‘manufacture’ of the building offsite before the various sections are assembled onsite. At 3,000 sq ft, the four-storey properties are not small, but neither is… Read more »

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PJ Lynch

JOHN SWAN’S ROTTEN FRUIT BASKET

Date: September 9, 2021 - Briefcases

FANS OF Goldhawk will be familiar with the long-running liquidation of Carlow-based Swan Fruit Ltd, where the principal is John Swan (see The Phoenix 22/2/19). The company went under with a seven-figure deficit but it is being alleged that rather more significant sums are involved and the boys in blue have now got involved, with… Read more »

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GREG KAVANAGH’S WINE BILL

Date: September 9, 2021 - Briefcases

THE ONE and only Greg Kavanagh, Irish property developer extraordinaire, continues to encounter problems with parties who are demanding money from him. In some cases, the sums are most significant but Goldhawk has just come across a judgment registered against a company where Greg is the listed director for a piffling €1,500. Kavanagh rubbed a… Read more »

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PRICKLY ROSES

Date: September 9, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

WITH THE 62nd Rose of Tralee hooley cancelled, it will be 2022 before the successor to Limerick’s Sinéad Flanagan is crowned. Given the financial strains showing in the operation, the cancellation of the five-day festival will hurt but at least there will be no vaccine hiccups for at least another 11 months. Long before the… Read more »

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Declan Kearney

WILL SINN FÉIN PACIFY SHANNON? 

Date: September 9, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

SHANNON AIRPORT has played an important role in the United States logistical network that has facilitated its Afghan war and other conflicts the US has been involved in over the past two decades. What now after Afghanistan? Shannon in US military terminology is a ‘cooperative security location’ or ‘lily pad’. The remote location, the lack… Read more »

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Sean Clancy

ARMY RANGERS’ DISCONTENT

Date: September 9, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

RUMBLINGS IN the ranks of the Army Rangers Wing have not reached mutinous levels but the government would want to avoid any more perceived provocations if it wants to retain harmony in the special forces. The ARW has been in the news recently with its mission to Kabul while the Defence Forces have also received… Read more »

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