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Frances Black

ISRAEL: WHAT NEXT?

Date: June 3, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

LITTLE OR no attention was paid by the media to a widely circulated video of the raising of the Irish flag to the sound of our national anthem – in Ramallah, Palestine – last week. This followed the Dáil motion calling out Israel’s illegal annexation of Palestinian territory. But if Ireland is now being vilified… Read more »

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Heather Humphries

JERUSALEM OR JERUSALEMA?

Date: June 3, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

HORIZON 2020 is an EU scheme to stimulate economic growth as well as create jobs… “to ensure Europe produces world-class science, removes barriers to innovation” and so on. With €8bn to be doled out, many organisations got in the queue and, it seems that if you are able to navigate the application forms, then just… Read more »

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CATHERINE MARTIN’S FILM CREDIT

Date: June 3, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

CONGRATULATIONS TO communications minister Catherine Martin, who successfully shoe-horned herself into the PR blitz around the quarterly dishing out of funds to film and TV companies by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI). She was able to move centre stage thanks to €1.4m that was provided to the BAI for live music events. The minister’s… Read more »

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PADRAIG HIGGINS’S TANGLE

Date: June 3, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

A HAIR salon business part-owned by Cork number cruncher Padraig Higgins has just been wound up but, it turns out, he is also involved in movie business financing. Higgins incorporated his Hansorc hairdressing business in 2013, and the listed directors are Padraig and Hannah Higgins, with the former holding 40% of the shares while the… Read more »

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Date: June 3, 2021 - Letters to the Editor

WP NOT PROVOS Dear Editor, I have been a supporter of the Workers’ Party for 53 years and was a teller at the January 1970 ard fheis when the emerging Provos walked out. I have condemned them ever since, so I resent being tagged as being part of a “Provo” wing. Indeed, those who now… Read more »

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Simon Coveney

THE EU AND AFRICA: BACK TO THE FUTURE

Date: June 3, 2021 - Hush Hush

GIVEN ITS capacity for Orwellian speak, the EU’s unveiling of something called the European Peace Facility (EPF), should make one sit up and pay attention. Finally signed off in March, the EU has committed €5bn to the EPF between 2021 and 2027 to equip and arm military forces, which are not EU members. The project… Read more »

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Kit Kemp

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: June 3, 2021 - The Hot Air Brigade

It is so important when dressing or designing any room to have a chat with it first. Designer Kit Kemp, Irish Examiner, submitted by readers Some of them have been around long enough to remember how they stopped getting greetings from voters in the street during the dark days of the last financial crash. One… Read more »

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Edwin Poots

IS PAISLEYISM DEAD?

Date: June 3, 2021 - Northwind

LENIN SAID “There are decades where nothing happens and there are weeks where decades happen.” The sudden transformative upheaval in the famously uncommunicative and disciplined DUP fits that pattern. As predicted here (see The Phoenix 7/5/21) the Edwin Poots-led insurgency has split the party down the middle. Its MLAs and MPs elected Poots by a… Read more »

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James Geoghegan

GEOGHEGAN’S MEMORY LAPSES

Date: June 3, 2021 - Last Refuge

FINE GAEL’S perfectly modelled candidate in the Dublin Bay South byelection, James Geoghegan, has had the shine taken off him since declaring his intention to succeed resigning housing minister Eoghan Murphy. For a start he offered a rather unconvincing dismissal of his involvement with the right-wing party Renua to the Irish Times recently. The newspaper… Read more »

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Brian Fitzgerald

MEATH MINUTES UNDER LOCK AND KEY

Date: June 3, 2021 - Last Refuge

A STAND-OFF between elected councillors and executive officials in Meath could be heading for an embarrassing public confrontation. Seven Independent councillors, as well as a Labour councillor and one from Aontú have supported a freedom of information request that recordings of all county council meetings held to discuss the county development plan be forwarded to… Read more »

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John Paul Phelan

JOHN PAUL PHELAN’S ANGST

Date: June 3, 2021 - Last Refuge

JOHN PAUL PHELAN certainly has a way with words. His description of Leo Varadkar and Simon Coveney bluffing their way through a Fine Gael parliamentary party meeting last February with long-winded speechifying – “the Fine Gael equivalent to a punishment beating” – had TDs in stitches. More recently, the Irish Independent reported how he attacked… Read more »

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Barra McGrory

DEFAMING THE NORTH’S DPP

Date: June 3, 2021 - Fit to Print?

MANY RTÉ listeners might wonder why the Today With Claire Byrne programme asked a British defence correspondent to ruminate about the recent acquittal of two parachute regiment soldiers accused of murdering Official IRA man Joe McCann in 1972. Certainly there was much head scratching in RTÉ’s legal department following an airing of the programme that in turn produced… Read more »

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SUING THE SUNDAY TIMES

Date: June 3, 2021 - Fit to Print?

FOLLOWING AN incorrect report in the Sunday Times last March that the Smithwick Tribunal had found that a garda sergeant in Dundalk had colluded with the IRA to kill senior RUC officers, Harry Breen and Bob Buchanan, the newspaper published a correction. It stated: “In an article last month, ‘Sinn Fein needs to apologise for… Read more »

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Ger Colleran

‘DAMNING JUDGMENT’ IN KERRY

Date: June 3, 2021 - Fit to Print?

‘KERRY’S EYE’ editor Ger Colleran is not the sort of person to gloat in victory but his reporting of a win at the Press Council – in an appeal against an adverse verdict of Press Ombudsman, Peter Feeney – contained just a hint of satisfaction. Kerry’s Eye reported last October how “All District Courts in… Read more »

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SCREEN IRELAND MOOLAH

Date: June 3, 2021 - Behind the Scenes

SCREEN IRELAND has announced its funding decision for the first quarter of 2021. The loans are the first to be published since the recently appointed chair designate, Susan Bergin, and her new board were announced – although they pre-date their arrival. Two of the outgoing board members, Kate McColgan and Marian Quinn, were reappointed by… Read more »

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Belinda Kieswetter

KIESWETTERS’ STUD FEES

Date: June 3, 2021 - High Society

RACING IS not for the faint-hearted, at least in financial terms, and the relatively new bloodstock business based out of Barnane Stud in Co Tipperary managed to build up losses of just on €2m by the end of 2020, according to the accounts signed off last month. More than €6m has been pumped into the… Read more »

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ALISON’S ORANGERY

Date: June 3, 2021 - High Society

A PLANNING application has been lodged to convert a substantial Ballsbridge property back to residential use. It was lodged in the name of one Alison Quinn – daughter of Lochlann and Brenda Quinn – and her legal eagle partner John Whelan (the couple announced their engagement in Christmas 2019). The three-storey house on the corner… Read more »

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Dr Faith Birol

OIL INDUSTRY SURRENDERS?

Date: June 3, 2021 - Fowl Emissions

FOR DECADES, the International Energy Agency (IEA) has been the de facto voice of the global fossil fuel industry. Just last July, it warned that the resurgence of Covid-19 was “casting a shadow” over the oil industry’s recovery from the pandemicinduced slump in demand. The same organisation has since undergone what may be one of… Read more »

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TIM CULLINAN’S MINIMUM TARGET

Date: June 3, 2021 - Fowl Emissions

THE COMMON Agriculture Policy “is a tumour in the EU’s body politic”. This is the considered view of the distinctly right-of centre Economist magazine, which explained how 20% of the EU’s biggest farms hoover up some 80% of the massive €270bn annual CAP budget. Having had it all their own way for decades, agri groups… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: June 3, 2021 - Bog Cuttings

‘DODGY CIGARETTES’ Kevin Doherty (45) of Fern Park, Derry, pleaded guilty in Derry Magistrates’ Court to the fraudulent evasion of customs duty charges on goods for selling ‘dodgy cigarettes from his mobile phone shop’. According to Doherty’s charge sheet, the off ence involved nearly 7,000 cigarettes and 1.9kg of rolling tobacco. Judge Barney McElholm told… Read more »

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THE RULES OF REVELATION - LISA McINERNEY

THE RULES OF REVELATION – LISA McINERNEY

Date: June 3, 2021 - Books|Reviews

FOLLOWING THE success of The Glorious Heresies (2015) and The Blood Miracles (2017), this is the concluding part of Lisa McInerney’s self-described “unholy trinity”. It all turns out to be a bit predictable. Her two previous novels graphically portrayed Cork’s underworld and drew comparisons with Irvine Welsh’s offbeat fiction. While the frenzied humour and desolate… Read more »

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Ger Lyons

HUNTING LOGO HUNTER

Date: June 3, 2021 - Sport of Kings

RACEHORSES CAN make fools of even the top players in the game – think of Willie Mullins selling subsequent Grade 1 winner Skyace for a mere £600 to John ‘Shark’ Hanlon – and it looks like another top trainer, Ger Lyons, has let a potential superstar slip through his fingers for chump change. Logo Hunter… Read more »

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Kenny Alexander

KENNY’S KEBAB WOES

Date: June 3, 2021 - Sport of Kings

FORMER SENIOR gambling suit Kenny Alexander has become used to seeing his name in the headlines – linked to his star racing mare Honeysuckle (Champion Hurdle winner at Cheltenham) – but he recently made the headlines for more embarrassing reasons. Scottish moneybags Alexander has about a dozen horses in training in Ireland, split between Henry… Read more »

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Valerie Moran

BANKING ON THE MORANS

Date: June 3, 2021 - Sport of Kings

GORDON ELLIOTT and his team at Cullentra House will be crossing their fingers that there will be no loss of racing focus by the yard’s major investors – Noel and Valerie Moran – given the sudden impact on their coffers caused by publicity surrounding an investigation by the Central Bank into certain areas of the… Read more »

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Philip Rothwell

PHILIP ROTHWELL’S BAD DAY

Date: June 3, 2021 - Sport of Kings

WICKLOW TRAINER Philip Rothwell enjoyed his best year for a long time last season, which included training three winners at the Punchestown festival. But, he endured a frustrating day at two different tracks on the same day. Rothwell was on hand at Tipperary to supervise his runners and found himself before the stewards after the… Read more »

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Maurice Healy

GLANTUS BOTTOM LINE HIT BY PUNITIVE INTEREST RATES

Date: June 3, 2021 - Moneybags

SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT companies can prove irresistible to investors, who love nothing more than a ‘platform’ to throw their money at, despite the setbacks experienced by the likes of Datalex. The latest market float is Maurice Healy’s Glantus Holdings plc, a company that operates in the ‘accounts payable’ sector – what old-fashioned accountants would call managing… Read more »

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Emma Lucy O'Brien

VISUAL’S POOR PICTURE

Date: June 3, 2021 - The Hot Water Brigade

THINGS AREN’T looking any better at the VISUAL arts centre in Carlow, where the colour red still dominates the accounts. The good news is that at least a little problem with the dreaded taxman has been sorted and this week the venue reopens. Last year, Carlow County Council had to bail out VISUAL, where the… Read more »

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LUNDIN’S €50M

Date: June 3, 2021 - The Hot Water Brigade

A BLAST from the past with the winding-up of a company called Lundin Mining Ltd. The Lukas Lundin-chaired Canadian mining giant has operations around the globe, from Europe to South America, having most recently acquired mining interests in Brazil. The Irish link comes courtesy of one Tony O’Reilly, who having established Atlantic Resources back in… Read more »

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KING OF THE CASTLE

Date: June 3, 2021 - The Hot Water Brigade

THERE WAS good news for former Wall Street banker Stephen Evans-Freke recently, when a proposed property development near his Co Cork castle got the thumbs down. Evans-Freke, son of Peter Evans-Freke, the 11th Lord Carbery, bought his ancestral home – Castle Freke near Roscarberry in Co Cork – 22 years ago through a British Virgin… Read more »

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Starverse

BIROL NADIR’S PATIENT BACKERS

Date: June 3, 2021 - The Hot Water Brigade

STILL NO sign of Birol Nadir’s long-awaited platform “on which real fans can interact with real stars and engage with others who share their interests and passions!” Meanwhile the losses build up. Happily, however, Darty-based Nadir has plenty of backers scattered around the globe. Eight years after the company was incorporated, it is still something… Read more »

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Thomas Leysen

MEDIAHUIS: ROGER CASEMENT’S NEMESIS

Date: May 20, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

LAST WEEK saw a corporate PR initiative designed to highlight the brand name of Mediahuis, new owners of the now defunct Independent News & Media (INM). In cheery, happy-clappy tones, various employees ‘volunteered’ expressions of delight via a video promotion with their new employer, Belgian… Read more »

David Frost

MARTIN’S ‘FROSTY’ CHEQUERS LUNCH

Date: May 20, 2021 - Northwind

LAST WEEK the taoiseach met Boris Johnson at Chequers. The verdict of the Ballymurphy inquest and the British intention to ditch the Stormont House Agreement on the past were on the agenda. Ostensibly Micheál Martin’s aim was to reset British-Irish relations. However, Britain’s Brexit negotiator, the aggressive, belligerent Lord David Frost – aka ‘Frosty’ –… Read more »

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Susan Kirby

PROFILE: SUSAN KIRBY

Date: May 20, 2021 - Pillars of Society

SUSAN KIRBY is less than six months in the post as chief executive of the film and TV business lobby group Screen Producers Ireland (SPI). This is the role she took on after her predecessor, Elaine Geraghty, moved to head up moneybags Joe Devine’s Ardmore… Read more »

Aoife Moore

YOUNG BLOOD: AOIFE MOORE

Date: May 20, 2021 - The Young Bloods

TALENTED, POPULAR in Dublin media circles and unashamedly a Derry Girl, it’s not at all surprising that the Irish Examiner’s Aoife Moore (30) found herself in former Sunday Independent godhead Eoghan Harris’s cross hairs. The political correspondent is now fighting back with a High Court action against Harris over his once-anonymous campaign. But why did… Read more »

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Lynn Boylan

BOYLAN WON’T BE PRESS-GANGED INTO DUBLIN BAY SOUTH

Date: May 20, 2021 - Last Refuge

MUCH AGONISING in Sinn Féin about its choice of candidate in the Dublin Bay South (DBS) byelection with electoral asset, former MEP Lynn Boylan an obvious candidate who would put up a strong showing. The other two possible candidates are Senator Fintan Warfield and local councillor, Daniel Ceitinn. However, SF has a different plan for… Read more »

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David Moloney

BÓTHAR’S FUNDING ROADBLOCK

Date: May 20, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

THE CHARITY Bóthar has been rarely out of the headlines since the story of the misappropriation of funds first surfaced in the High Court last month. It turns out that there were question marks over aspects of the charity dating back quite some time, at least as far as the civil servants in Iveagh House… Read more »

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