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Colm Wu

COLM WU’S WOES

Date: August 26, 2021 - Briefcases

IT HAS been a bad month for the acquisitive Guoquing Wu (known here as Colm Wu) whose refinancing efforts for the debts of some of his myriad of companies appear to have finally run out of road. Earlier this month, no less than five of Colm Wu’s Dublin property vehicles ended up in receivership, with… Read more »

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Michael Hackman

MICHAEL HACKMAN’S MOVIE PLOT

Date: August 26, 2021 - Briefcases

THE CHANGES have been ringing following the announced sale by Ion Equity moneybags Joe Devine of his Ardmore and Troy Studios business to the multi-billion dollar US real estate and movie conglomerate Hackman Capital Partners (HCP). Given the way the HCP principal, Michael Hackman, has been splashing he cash, it is likely that the backers… Read more »

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Vol 39 No 17

Date: August 26, 2021 -

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ON YER BIKE!

Date: August 26, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

LIQUIDATOR WILLIAM Cuddy, with an address in Little Island, Cork, filed his final winding up documents for Aqua Blue Sport, but there was rather less on show than might have been expected. Monaco-based Corkman Rick Delaney’s Aqua Blue professional cycling team careered off the track despite some early optimism and some pretty big bucks being… Read more »

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Simon Coveney

EU QUANGO RIDES ON

Date: August 26, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

PERHAPS THE most successful hybrid quango in modern Ireland has been the Institute of International and European Affairs (IIEA), founded 30 years ago by the late Brendan Halligan, its first chairperson. Halligan was succeeded as chairman by ex-Labour Party leader, Ruairi Quinn in 2017, an appropriate succession given that as finance minister in 1995, Quinn’s… Read more »

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Michael Nugent

NUGENT GOES GLOBAL

Date: August 26, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

THE FOUNDER and chairperson of Atheist Ireland (AI), Michael Nugent, has become involved in yet another schism in the latest of several internal disputes in various political pressure groups in which he has been active. This time, Nugent’s adversaries are global and he has pitted himself against the leadership of Atheist Alliance International (AAI) whose… Read more »

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Mark Mellett

IS MELLETT ROCKING THE BOAT?

Date: August 26, 2021 - Top Brass

IN RECENT weeks Vice-Admiral Mark Mellett, Chief of Staff (C/S) of the Defence Forces, has given a number of interviews with the national media. That he addressed both pay for members of the Defence Forces and the linked retention crisis is sure to have grabbed the attention of government ministers. Still the C/S is only… Read more »

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Ryan Tubridy

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: August 26, 2021 - The Hot Air Brigade

I always describe The Late Late Show to foreign guests as being the Tardis and I’m just the latest Doctor. Ryan Tubridy, RTÉ.ie, submitted by reader Dogs of honour: Alfie and Nolly, at chef Clodagh McKenna’s nuptials have convinced us that every stylish wedding needs some Very Important Pets. Irish Independent Weekend Magazine, submitted by… Read more »

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BREXIT UNITING IRELAND

Date: August 26, 2021 - Northwind

It turns out there is an upside to Brexit – for some people at least. On 18 August, celebrity economist-cum-pundit David McWilliams tweeted: “Brexit is actually causing the rapid integration of the all-Ireland economy…€800 million increase in intra-Ireland trade since Brexit.” Finding it difficult and time-consuming to import various commodities from Britain, many traders in… Read more »

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Micheál Martin

MARTIN’S SHRINKING SUPPORT

Date: August 26, 2021 - Last Refuge

HANDLERS OF An Taoiseach, Fianna Fail leader, Micheál Martin, are busy spreading the suggestion that contender, Jim O’Callaghan, has no bottle. Failure to act on Marc ‘Crazy Horse’ MacSharry’s demand to force Colonel ‘Custer’ Martin into a last stand has been interpreted as an act of cowardice on Jim ‘Sitting Bull’ O’Callaghan’s part. But Martin’s… Read more »

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MARTIN’S DEFT TIMING

Date: August 26, 2021 - Last Refuge

THE PREPARATION of Fianna Fåil’s post mortem on the February 2020 general election, its worst ever election result, is now said to be imminent — yet again. If it is not stillborn again it will be ready for the party’s parliamentary party discussion next month, a year and seven months after the election which would… Read more »

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Heather Humphreys

HEATHER’S 1916 AMNESIA

Date: August 26, 2021 - Last Refuge

IS HEATHER HUMPHREYS trying to start another civil war now that we have begun commemoration of events leading up to the same conflict? Speaking at last Sunday’s Béal na Blåth commemoration of Michael Collins’s death she accused Sinn Féin of going solo during the centenary commemoration of 1916 in a speech that was more than… Read more »

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John Burns

OUR FOREIGN POLICY

Date: August 26, 2021 - Fit to Print?

UNBURDENED BY the presence of a native editor in charge of the Aawrish edition of the Sunday Times — none has been appointed since Frank Fitzgibbon’s exit last October — last weekend’s editorial on Afghanistan addressed readers as if they resided in the English shires. In an editorial headlined, “Now is the time to make… Read more »

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Charlie Flanagan

UNFLAPPABLE FLANAGAN

Date: August 26, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

FORMER MINISTER, Charlie Flanagan, is performing with studied objectivity — as befits the chair of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence — in the demand for answers about the appointment of Katherine ‘Zapper’ Zappone as UN special envoy,. Various committee members, but especially Sinn Fein’s John Brady and the Social Democrats Gary… Read more »

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EOIN Ó BROIN V LABOUR

Date: August 26, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

THE ASSUMPTION for decades has been that Fianna Fail and Fine Gael were responsible for the impotent building controls that have resulted in thousands living in dangerous homes with no redress. Sinn Féin housing guru, Eoin Ó Broin’s new book, Defects, Living with the Legacy of the Celtic Tiger, spreads the blame around a bit… Read more »

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ASSESSING OWEN KEEGAN

Date: August 26, 2021 - Fit to Print?

INCLUSIVE, VARIED opinion is de rigueur (kind of) for respectable media but Dublin City Council ceo, Owen Keegan, provoked an embarrassing divide in the Sunday Independent last weekend. In his Sunday column, Newstalk Breakfast host, Shane Coleman was most exercised at the “Twitter mob” who, he claimed, had accused Keegan of linking those living in… Read more »

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CARTOONISTS CULLED

Date: August 26, 2021 - Fit to Print?

COVID CANCELLED the Rathdrum International Cartoon Festival this year and last (although organisers of the smaller Galway Cartoon Festival intend to go ahead in the first week of October). All in all, it has been a bad year for Irish cartoonists judging by the ‘cancellation’ of two of them in the biggest-selling paper in the… Read more »

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Harold Kingston

FAKE METHANE

Date: August 26, 2021 - Fowl Emissions

The recent publication by the Intergovernmental Panel (IPCC) of its hard-hitting Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) has sent Irish lobbyists into a tailspin of panic, deflection and whataboutery. Leading the charge once again was the Irish Farmers Journal (IFJ), which has worked closely with the IFA for months to assert that methane from livestock was somehow… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: August 26, 2021 - Bog Cuttings

‘Breaking Bad Meets Golden Girls’ A Dublin pensioner who did not expect her cannabis plants to ‘grow so big’ has been acquitted in Dublin Circuit Criminal Court of possessing over 300 grams of cannabis for sale or supply. Defending solicitor James Dwyer, SC asked Judge Pauline Codd whether his client, Evelyn Corrigan (68) of Redwood… Read more »

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Consuelo O’Connor

JULIE SHARP’S BT BOOST

Date: August 26, 2021 - High Society

INTERESTING TO see that high flying HR exec Julie Sharp has been appointed to the board of the Brown Thomas group just as a sales process gets underway. Enniskerry-based Sharp spent almost nine years as head of group HR at Bank of Ireland, only exiting at the end of 2018, shortly after Francesca McDonagh took… Read more »

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Lorelei Harris

EOIN MCVEY’S FULL BOARD

Date: August 26, 2021 - Behind the Scenes

AT LONG last, arts and culture minister Catherine Martin has filled the numerous empty seats on the board of the National Library of Ireland (NLI). With four of the new appointees women, there is now a significant majority of women on the board where just one-third of the directors are men. This may surprise Minister… Read more »

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SLOW AHEAD AT MUSEUM

Date: August 26, 2021 - Behind the Scenes

WHILE CATHERINE Martin has finally filled the board at the National Library, there is less sign of activity at the National Museum of Ireland, where vacancies arose at the start of July following the expiry of the terms of three government appointees, Denise Moroney, Judith McCarthy and Mary Crotty. There are also vacancies on the… Read more »

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A SHOCK – KEITH RIDGWAY

Date: August 26, 2021 - Books|Reviews

LONDON-BASED Irish writer Keith Ridgway’s new book (published nearly a decade after his experimental detective thriller, Hawthorn & Child) continues to break the rules of novel writing – and readers expecting the conventional beginning, middle and end will be disappointed. Instead, there are lots of seemingly mundane events, recurring scenes of gay sex and occasional… Read more »

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Philip Rothwell

ROTHWELL’S HARD GOING

Date: August 26, 2021 - Sport of Kings

TRAINER PHILIP Rothwell has been on something of a crusade all summer to find the perfect ground conditions for his horses — but he fell at the appeals hurdle recently. He previously had a pop at Kilbeggan manager Paddy Dunican after he fwithdrew withdraw his horses before racing due to his claims that the July… Read more »

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Amer Abdulaziz

ABDULAZIZ AT EASE

Date: August 26, 2021 - Sport of Kings

THE ON-GOING involvement in Irish racing of alleged money launderer, Amer Abdulaziz of Phoenix Thoroughreds, came into focus again recently, due to the fact that Ireland is the only racing nation in the world where he is able to run his horses unheeded. A Racing Post article has shaken things up again. While the established… Read more »

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Michael O'Callaghan

O’CALLAGHAN’S RISKY PUNT

Date: August 26, 2021 - Sport of Kings

MANY TRAINERS (Jim Bolger is a notable exception) operate on a business model based on investment into horses in training from third parties delivering revenue through training fees and, ideally, percentages of prize money won by those horses. One man looking to buck that trend is Curragh trainer Michael O’Callaghan, who is putting his money… Read more »

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Paul Murtagh

PAUL MURTAGH’S LAW

Date: August 26, 2021 - Sport of Kings

THE IRISH Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB) introduced new starting procedures in July, following a meeting between the Irish Jockeys Association, the IHRB starters and the IHRB’s registrar, Paul Murtagh. There has been some heavy going since. After last month’s meeting, jockeys were informed of the new procedures and, as a show of faith, all riders… Read more »

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Tomas O'Midheach

FBD’S STRATEGY COULD BACKFIRE AS AXA TARGETS GROWTH

Date: August 26, 2021 - Moneybags

THE ROLE played by the insurance sector during the pandemic has been less than edifying, with businesses denied cover from their business interruption policies. FBD Insurance was one of the most high profile players during this period, fobbing off its business policyholders, notably the approximately 1,000 publicans held on its books. The new CEO, Tomás… Read more »

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David Sturt

PETRONEFT SHAREHOLDERS HOPING THE RIDE CONTINUES

Date: August 26, 2021 - Moneybags

PETRONEFT was heading off the cliff at the beginning of the year, with the shares down to 0.6p. There has been a dramatic improvement this year on the back of the arrival of a new chairman and improved oil flows. What investors will want to know is whether Petroneft can finally deliver on some of… Read more »

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Diane Dodds

KAROL MCELHINNEY’S GOOD NEWS

Date: August 26, 2021 - Briefcases

AT LAST, there has been good news for Donegal moneybags Karol McElhinney, after Donegal County Council granted permission for a luxurious house near Ballybofey, over objections from An Taisce. This year had been not been a good one for McElhinney. In May, then Northern economy minister Diane Dodds reported that a £10m loan from Invest… Read more »

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A TAXING MATTER

Date: August 26, 2021 - Briefcases

DOCUMENTS FILED by Myles Kirby, the liquidator of Hynes Jewellers (Wexford) Ltd, shed a little more light on the scale of liabilities in the company, which appear to have totalled around €1m at the time of the liquidation. The documents show that secured creditors were owed €330,000, which is understood to relate to the Revenue… Read more »

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Leo Varadkar

VARADKAR TO FACE DPP SCRUTINY?

Date: August 12, 2021 - Last Refuge

IT HAS been said that former FF agriculture minister Dara Calleary, was not big enough to be given a free pass for his Golfgate indiscretion but that former taoiseach and current tánaiste Leo Varadkar is too big to be downed over his leaking of a confidential medical document. The trouble is that the legislation –… Read more »

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Paschal Donohoe

PASCHAL DONOHOE’S BANK OF IRELAND BLUNDER

Date: August 12, 2021 - Moneybags

IN ANNOUNCING on June 23 that he was planning to sell the state’s 14% stake in Bank of Ireland (BoI), finance minister Paschal Donohoe appears to have skirted a bit too close to the edge of both inside trading regulations and the rules relating to close period announcements, albeit not to the state’s benefit. The… Read more »

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Katherine Zappone

PROFILE: KATHERINE ZAPPONE

Date: August 12, 2021 - Pillars of Society

FOR YEARS Katherine Zappone was revered by Irish liberals as the most civilised, gender positive politician in 21st century Ireland. But, suddenly she is revealed to be a grasping opportunist who has benefited from her (male) cronies in the last two cabinets. Many in Fine Gael are now wondering just how Zappone managed to wheedle her… Read more »

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James Patrice

YOUNG BLOOD: JAMES PATRICE

Date: August 12, 2021 - The Young Bloods

THE HALLS of Montrose are littered with broadcasters who are either irredeemably anodyne or lamentably past it, but change may be afoot now that influencer-turned-presenter James Patrice looks set to be anointed as RTÉ’s new chosen ‘personality’. Perhaps the national broadcaster is taking note of the pulling power of camp, high-octane and personable presenters across… Read more »

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BARRY WHITE’S LEGAL BILL

Date: August 12, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

IT HAS taken quite a while but the final chapter is being written in the saga of former High Court judge Barry White’s 2015 legal challenge to the state and the Bar Council of Ireland. It has cost him a fair few bob. White caused quite a stir when he sought to return to practising… Read more »

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