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Simon Coveney

OUR LINE IN TEL AVIV

Date: July 29, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

FOREIGN MINISTER Simon Coveney has ducked and dived when confronted with Israeli depredations against the Palestinians but he appears to have been struck dumb by a speech from our man in Tel Aviv, Ambassador Kyle O’Sullivan. Twice now Coveney has been asked by Sinn Féin foreign affairs spokesman John Brady to say if the ambassador’s… Read more »

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Kilmurry House

JAMES HENNESSY’S SAMURAI WARRIORS

Date: July 29, 2021 - High Society

THERE WAS a glowing write-up in the Business Post last weekend of the impressive Kilmurry House in Co Kilkenny, a mid-18th century pile on 90 acres that has just gone on the market with a price tag of a whopping €8.8m. Goldhawk is happy to reveal that the owner, James Hennessy, an Irish but mostly… 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

NEIL FRANCIS’S TACTICS

Date: July 29, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

NEIL FRANCIS was never slow to dish it out, whether on the pitch or as a pundit, so there was a pretty long queue to put the boot in when his ‘colourful’ comments about English rugby player Marcus Smith emerged this month. Cabinteely-based Franno got roughed up in the media but what might hurt more… Read more »

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Stuart McGoldrick

STUART MCGOLDRICK’S SKI ACCIDENT

Date: July 29, 2021 - Briefcases

THERE WAS bad news for customers of the Dublin Ski Centre in Sandyford this month when the facility announced it was keeping it doors shut. A creditors’ meeting will take place next week, representing the first setback in recent years for Stuart McGoldrick, founder of the high-profile Spectrum health group. Many moons ago, Ampleforth College-educated… Read more »

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Paul Collins

PAUL COLLINS’S LIBEL ACTION

Date: July 29, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

BANDON-BASED businessman Paul Collins has fingers in many pies but his provision of accommodation for asylum seekers has often landed him in the media spotlight for all the wrong reasons. Now he has lodged libel proceedings, a year after events in Cahirciveen, Co Kerry, put him on the front page. Long before Collins opened a… Read more »

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Desmond O’Malley

DES O’MALLEY’S MEDIA FOES

Date: July 29, 2021 - Fit to Print?

IF DES O’MALLEY did not suffer fools gladly he endured certain hacks – those who were not part of the near idolatrous Desocrats fan club – with even less grace. An RTÉ radio producer wrote to O’Malley in an effort to entice him on to the Vincent Browne radio show for the usual cage fighting… Read more »

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VOL39 NO15

Date: July 29, 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

YVONNE DOLAN’S BLENDI BACKERS

Date: July 29, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

AS FANS of Goldhawk are aware, Yvonne Dolan’s award-winning Blendi Snacks business ran out of flavour recently and the company was due to be wound up on July 15. The meeting was, however, stymied at the last minute and will not be heard until next week. Dolan has been a darling of the healthfood sector… 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

TENI’S TIMING

Date: July 29, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

AT LONG last Transgender Equality Network Ireland (TENI) has got around to filing its out-of-date 2019 accounts, which just might smooth the way for further funding. The good news for the lobbying group, chaired by Sara R Phillips, is that TENI has received a nice chunk of moolah from international donors. The accounts that TENI… Read more »

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Frank O'Mara

CHARITY BEGINS ON THE FARM

Date: July 29, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

ONE OF the most intriguing questions awaiting the incoming director of Teagasc, the state agriculture research and training agency, is: what kind of organisation, exactly, is he heading? Prof Frank O’Mara takes over the reins of the organisation, which receives a massive €198m in funding, this September following the retirement of Prof Gerry Boyle. Teagasc… Read more »

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Fiona O'Leary

REBELS IN WEST CORK

Date: July 29, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

A BIZARRE stand-off in west Cork involving the Society of Saint Pius X Resistance. (SSPX Resistance), local campaigner Fiona O’Leary and gardaí is just the latest episode involving religious factionalism in the church globally. Pope Francis has overturned his predecessor Benedict XVI’s legislation Summorum Pontificum, which in 2007 allowed greater use of the pre-Vatican II Latin… Read more »

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Tom Clonan

TCD BYELECTION

Date: July 29, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

THE SUNDAY TIMES has already plugged long-time former Goldman Sachs director Hugo McNeill in the early reckoning for the Seanad’s Trinity College Dublin seat vacant after Ivana Bacik’s election to the Dáil. McNeill has attempted to soften his image as a posh rugger-bugger married to a right-wing politician (Fine Gael TD Jennifer Carroll McNeill). Before… Read more »

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Rupert Murdoch

MURDER, BENT COPS AND DUBLIN MEDIA

Date: July 29, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

COMMENTING ON the latest report that found the London Met guilty of “institutional corruption” in its treatment of the 1987 murder of Daniel Morgan, former home secretary David Blunkett made a qualified allusion to the TV series, Line of Duty. A private investigator, Morgan was murdered with an axe outside a London pub and, six… Read more »

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James Reynolds

RIGHT-WING SCAPEGOAT

Date: July 29, 2021 - Hush Hush

THE RECENT Dublin Bay South (DBS) byelection has damaged the political career of Longford man James Reynolds, founder and deputy leader of the National party along with leader Justin Barrett. Reynolds has spent three decades ploughing a lonely furrow on the far right of the Irish political spectrum. It was a rocky start for the… Read more »

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Diarmuid Gavin

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: July 29, 2021 - The Hot Air Brigade

It was very rock ’n’ roll. I used to go to the Hootenanny with Jools Holland every year and the rock stars thought we were the rock stars. Diarmuid Gavin, Irish Independent, submitted by reader Euporia Crush, a blend of pineapple, grapefruit and ‘sunbeams’, to be served up with ice and a slice of lime;… Read more »

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Roisin Shortall

SOC DEMS LEADERSHIP HEAVE

Date: July 29, 2021 - Last Refuge

LABOUR’S BYELECTION triumph was not the root cause of the current split in the Social Democrats but it was certainly the catalyst to the leadership crisis now being played out in the party. Ideologically, Ivana Bacik could be in either Labour or the Soc Dems (if anything she is closer to the latter), but she… Read more »

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MICHEÁL MARTIN’S TIMELINE

Date: July 29, 2021 - Last Refuge

THAT MIDDLE ground group of Fianna Fáil TDs that has recently formed “to support Martin”, according to a headline in an Irish Times analysis piece last week, is not homogenous. Neither are they all as philosophical about the party leader as sources indicated, with some mildly critical while others named are regarded as life-long loyalists…. Read more »

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Micheál Martin

DAMNED LIES AND MARTIN’S STATS

Date: July 29, 2021 - Last Refuge

MICHEÁL MARTIN’S PR maestro, Paul Clarkson, has been busy and successful in commandeering media exposure for the Fianna Fáil leader in recent months – as his brief entails – and as one handler remarked, recently, “at least people now know that Martin is actually the taoiseach”. Clarkson’s fingerprints could be seen all over two initiatives… Read more »

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Rebecca Moynihan

LABOUR’S SEAT TARGETS?

Date: July 29, 2021 - Last Refuge

IVANA BACIK’S Dublin Bay South byelection triumph has emboldened Labour and there has been much talk of a possible resurgence of the party’s electoral fortunes. It has even identified a raft of constituencies and candidates that will, it hopes, see half a dozen extra Labour seats at the next general election. Sinn Féin leader Mary… Read more »

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Eoghan Harris

‘SINDO’ HIDES HARRIS FROM VIEW

Date: July 29, 2021 - Fit to Print?

SUNDAY INDEPENDENT editor Alan English sacked long-time columnist Eoghan Harris last May because, he said, Harris had written “contemptible” tweets under the pseudonymous Barbara J Pym account. That was explained to readers by the editor who outlined how Harris had been exposed and how such subterfuge could not be countenanced by the newspaper in a… Read more »

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MONICA LEECH’S PARTNER

Date: July 29, 2021 - Fit to Print?

FORMER PR consultant Monica Leech last month suffered an adverse judgment including as yet indeterminate legal costs after she lost her appeal against a High Court taxing master’s ruling that she must pay a €165,000 fee plus other costs to McCann Fitzgerald (MCF). The law firm had represented Leech in a defamation action she took… Read more »

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RTÉ Vacancy

RTÉ’S CHANGEABLE CLIMATE REPORTAGE

Date: July 29, 2021 - Fowl Emissions

IT’S BEEN an unusually bruising time for RTÉ managing director of news Jon Williams, culminating in his online mea culpa this week over the station’s dire performance on climate coverage. “We were wrong not to make clear connection between recent extreme weather events & climate change. Sin of omission & reported in good faith”, read… Read more »

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FARMERS’ “POSITIVE TRENDS”

Date: July 29, 2021 - Fowl Emissions

“IT’S THE way I tell ’em!” The famous Frank Carson catch-cry came to mind when reading various versions of a recent Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) report on water indicators. ‘Almost half of Irish rivers have unsatisfactory water quality levels’ read the IT report. ‘Really urgent action needed to reduce water pollution’ was how NewsTalk reported… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: July 29, 2021 - Bog Cuttings

‘Big Fucking Wages’ Kevin O’Flynn (23) of Glantane, Mallow, Cork, pleaded guilty to engaging in threatening behaviour and public intoxication after an altercation with members of the public and gardaí on Princes Street, Cork. Cork District Court heard that gardaí were called to deal with a man who had been drinking at a premises on… Read more »

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Gerardine Connolly

DÉJÀ VU IN HOWTH

Date: July 29, 2021 - High Society

IT LOOKS like a case of déjà vu on Howth Hill, where a planning row is brewing at the hilltop Heather Cottage, owned by sculptor Patrick O’Reilly (of bronze teddy bears fame) and his wife, legal eagle Gerardine Connolly SC, who is also a board member at Ballet Ireland. Connolly and O’Reilly previously owned a… Read more »

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Consuelo O’Connor

SILENT AT RUSSBOROUGH

Date: July 29, 2021 - High Society

HAVING BOUNCED into the black in recent years, it is not surprising that things took a turn for the worst at Russborough House during the pandemic. The good news is that the endowment fund continues to deliver and the Apollo Foundation has stepped into the breach. In 2019 things were starting to look somewhat rosy… Read more »

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Liz Brennan

LIZ BRENNAN’S BUDGET

Date: July 29, 2021 - Behind the Scenes

PERHAPS THE new chair of Screen Ireland, Susan Bergin, might move to speed up the publishing of its funding decisions. It can take a couple of years to find out what has been going on. In 2019 (see The Phoenix 29/11/19), Goldhawk asked the state film and TV funding agency how much moolah it had… Read more »

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MAUREEN KENNELLY’S EXPANDING COLLECTION

Date: July 29, 2021 - Behind the Scenes

WITH A fair amount of moolah sloshing around the arts world these days, it is not surprising that the Arts Council has announced the addition of yet more works to its collection. At the end of last year, Maureen Kennelly announced that a substantial 82 works had been added at a cost of about €450,000,… Read more »

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POSTER BOYS

Date: July 29, 2021 - MoviesReviews

PUBLIC MONEY, even lots of it, is no guarantee of quality, as Goldhawk has noted in countless reviews of Irish films in recent years. A possible reason for the dearth of quality in such a wide field is that there are simply too many fingers in the development and finance pie, each with a self-interest… Read more »

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Diving for Pearls

DIVING FOR PEARLS – JAMIE O’CONNELL

Date: July 29, 2021 - BooksReviews

THIS DEBUT novel is set about a decade ago, mainly in Dubai, where the dead body of a young Emirati woman, Hiyam Husayin, is found in the city’s marina. The follow-up police investigation has devastating consequences for several people and exposes a clash of cultures based largely around social class and the exploitation of powerless… Read more »

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Philip Rothwell

ROTHWELL’S RANT

Date: July 29, 2021 - Sport of Kings

THE TRAINER Philip Rothwell has been moaning about ground conditions at some Irish tracks and it climaxed for him at Kilbeggan recently when he withdrew all his intended runners after walking the course. The ground was advertised as ‘Good, Good to Yielding’ but was amended to ‘Good’ after the first race. Rothwell, however, was convinced… Read more »

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Stephen Mahon

PISS-TAKE

Date: July 29, 2021 - Sport of Kings

THE CONTROVERSIAL Stephen Mahon continues to attract the wrong kind of attention, while he awaits the outcocme of his appeal for a four-year training ban following a high-profile neglect case. This can’t be easy for fellow trainer, the publicity-shy Pat Kelly. Since having had his licence suspended, Mahon has linked up with fellow Galway based-trainer… Read more »

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Michael Moloney

MOLONEY’S CROWD CONTROL

Date: July 29, 2021 - Sport of Kings

WHILE IT is round two of an essentially spectator-free Galway Festival this week, at least the 2021 event won’t be quite as soulless as last year’s effort, with the 1,000-person capacity giving the majority of owners who wish to attend the chance to do so. As witnessed at the Curragh on Derby day, the addition… Read more »

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John Osborne

JOHN OSBORNE’S HEADACHE

Date: July 29, 2021 - Sport of Kings

WITH HORSERACING keen to keep its nose clean after the PR mauling casued by the Gordon Elliott affair, there was some serious head shaking after the incendiary – and according to many in the sport, lob-sided – Panorama programme last week exposing some of the industry’s dirty deeds relating to the use of abattoirs. … Read more »

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Alan Linn

TOP BRASS WEIGHS DOWN PROVIDENCE SHARE PRICE

Date: July 29, 2021 - Moneybags

THE FAILURE of Spot-On Energy to deliver the non-recourse funding elements of Providence Resources’ development programme, as envisaged in the farm-in programme for its Barryroe licence, inevitably meant there had to be changes. What was not expected was that it would be the non-executive chairman Pat Plunkett who would take the fall rather than the… Read more »

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Cathal Friel

OPEN ORPHAN IDEALLY PLACED TO BENEFIT FROM THE PANDEMIC

Date: July 29, 2021 - Moneybags

CATHAL FRIEL has been making a lot of bold moves as executive chairman of Open Orphan, such as the company’s strategic decision in March 2020 to develop a Covid-19 challenge test model. The aim was to elaborate on the design of a characterisation study to understand how to use the virus for a vaccine and… Read more »

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