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Keith Andrews

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: October 7, 2021 - The Hot Air Brigade

The short-term view to this crossroads where we have come to in Irish football – and it is a crossroads and has been with what’s gone on in that building in recent years – is that we are on the road to recovery, in the background. Keith Andrews provides clarity on Stephen Kenny’s strategy, Irish… Read more »

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Charlie Flanagan

NO SUCH THING AS A FREE JUDGESHIP

Date: October 7, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

FEARS THAT public exposure of the guest list at a Fine Gael fundraising dinner for legal eagles would undermine rather than enhance their prospects of appointment to the bench have been underlined by five such appointments to the High Court recently. Fianna Fáil friendly advocates eagerly quizzed Law Library colleagues about the identity of ‘guests’… Read more »

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Brian O'Driscoll

WHAT A SPORT AS BOD PLUGS IN ON CLIMATE

Date: October 7, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

AS THE climate emergency starts to get real, it is inspiring to see respected public figures like rugby legend Brian O’Driscoll step up to do their bit to help make a safer future for all. “Everyone has to make an effort”, says BOD. “None of us will ever be perfect, be it our carbon footprint… Read more »

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Sammy Wilson

‘THE WRATH OF GOD’

Date: October 7, 2021 - Northwind

WHY IS the north doing so badly with Covid? It’s not just in comparison with the republic, ranked No 1 in the world by the Bloomberg Covid Resilience list. The north has done badly compared with anywhere else. At times in September and October this year it had the worst infection rate in the world…. Read more »

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Charlie Flanagan

FLANAGAN BIFFS COVENEY — AGAIN

Date: October 7, 2021 - Last Refuge

FINE GAEL ministers and especially Simon ‘Covetous’ Coveney were apoplectic at former foreign minister Charlie Flanagan’s recent remarks criticising the government’s handling of the President Higgins diplomatic controversy over the ‘marking’ of partition. This amounted to the second time in recent weeks that Flanagan has attacked not merely the government but effectively his predecessor as… Read more »

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AG GALLAGHER IN AND OUT OF COURT

Date: October 7, 2021 - Last Refuge

THE CURRENT allegation of a conflict of interest in attorney general Paul Gallagher’s work for a private client is not the first time confusion has been created by his private practice and his government role. In 2003, senior counsel Gallagher acted for various media that were being sued for defamation by Ian Bailey for their… Read more »

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Pauline O’Reilly

CHU’S CHAIR: GREENS LOOK RIGHTWARD

Date: October 7, 2021 - Last Refuge

THREE ISSUES highlighted in the media last week by Green party leader Eamon Ryan and Senator Pauline O’Reilly, among others in the leadership, are being used to try and push party radicals further back, if possible. As Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael proclaim to their members that the Greens have been put in their place… Read more »

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Mandy Johnston

TAKING ‘FLACKS’ IN THE MEDIA

Date: October 7, 2021 - Fit to Print?

NEWSTALK’S ANNOUNCEMENT of Anton Savage and Mandy Johnston as anchor presenters for the station’s current affairs and business programmes says much about new owner, Bauer Media Group. Both flacks have, for years, fought on behalf of government to deny the media answers to their awkward questions (Johnston) or have trained ministers and Fine Gael politicians… Read more »

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Martin O'Hagan

MARTIN O’HAGAN’S KILLING

Date: October 7, 2021 - Fit to Print?

THE CANT surrounding the 2001 UVF murder of Sunday World journalist Martin O’Hagan by the then Independent News & Media heads has been superseded only by those who effectively collaborated in his murder, namely, MI5 who controlled his killers. This view was effectively endorsed by the National Union of Journalists general secretary Michelle Stanistreet on… Read more »

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Brian Leddin

O’DOWD AND LEDDIN’S DATA FREE DEBATE

Date: October 7, 2021 - Fowl Emissions

WHY WASTE good money paying former politicians as lobbyists if serving politicians will make the same case for free? On RTÉ’s Drivetime last week Fine Gael TD Fergus O’Dowd made the intriguing claim that data centres would help Ireland reach our renewable energy targets. Citing an Amazon data centre project in Drogheda, he said: “They’re… Read more »

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‘GOOD’ GAS CRISIS

Date: October 7, 2021 - Fowl Emissions

NOT EVERYBODY is worried about energy blackouts – it’s great news for fossil fuels. Not only are Ireland’s coal and oil-burning power plants getting a life extension, new gas-burning plants are popping up like mushrooms and establishment support for LNG import terminals is booming. Displaying the brutal honesty you’d expect from its name, the head of… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: October 7, 2021 - Bog Cuttings

Shouting At Gardaí A Tralee man who called gardaí to an incident in Ballybunion in June 2021 and then told them to “go fuck themselves” after they arrived has been fined €150 at Listowel District Court. Patrick O’Brien (23), of 28 Bruach na hAbhainn, Tralee, had been visiting a friend in Ballybunion when an incident… Read more »

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Tracey Ryan

TRACEY RYAN’S BEAUTY TIPS

Date: October 7, 2021 - High Society

INTERESTING TO see that beauty business entrepreneur Tracey Ryan has stepped down from the board of the big US outfit Codex Beauty Europe. The sale of her organics-based skin care business to the Yanks certainly looks to have been well timed. La Ryan established her natural ingredients-based business, Bia Beauty Skin Care Ltd (subsequently renamed… Read more »

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Gerard McNaughten

GERARD McNAUGHTON CASHES IN

Date: October 7, 2021 - High Society

IT LOOKS like TileStyle moneybags Gerard McNaughton and his siblings are taking a few bob out of the successful bathroom, kitchen and flooring supply business. The McNaughton family have made a fortune out of the successful TileStyle operation founded by patriarch Jim McNaughton. According to company filings, the group underwent a restructuring a couple of… Read more »

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THE PAGES – HUGO HAMILTON

Date: October 7, 2021 - BooksBooks|ReviewsReviews

THE AUTHOR is best known for The Speckled People (2003) in which he recalled his eccentric childhood, growing up in a Dublin suburb with his German mother and Irish father. The inevitable search for belonging that defined Hamilton’s memoir has become central to much of his subsequent fiction. Similar themes of displacement and alienation are… Read more »

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ROSE PLAYS JULIE

Date: October 7, 2021 - MoviesReviews

IT CAN be a thankless job reviewing Irish films, but from time to time one comes along where it is evident the director has a clear idea of exactly what is to be seen and heard. In the case of Rose Plays Julie there are actually two directors, also writers – Christine Molloy and Joe… Read more »

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Donnacha O’Brien

DONNACHA’S DIFFICULT SEASON

Date: October 7, 2021 - Sport of Kings

HAVING MADE an explosive start to his training career last year, the pace has slowed somewhat for Donnacha O’Brien this year. Group 1 winners in France and Ireland last year with Fancy Blue and Shale suggested the young O’Brien was set to follow in the footsteps of his illustrious father, Aidan, and brother, Joseph, but… Read more »

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Eddie Scally

EDDIE SCALLY’S DRAW DEBATE

Date: October 7, 2021 - Sport of Kings

GOWRAN PARK is seen as one of the more progressive and well-run racetracks, with manager Eddie Scally highly regarded. There is, however, some sense of disgruntlement with the flat track there, with some convinced the draw can overly influence a horse’s finishing position. This ‘draw bias’ allegation surfaced at the most recent flat meeting, when… Read more »

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MUST TRY HARDER

Date: October 7, 2021 - Sport of Kings

IT HAS long been whispered that the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board is adept at clamping down on non-trier cases involving small-scale trainers but less enthusiastic when it comes to many of the bigger outfits. Certainly, some of the smaller players might claim to have been hard done by. By way of example, the race day… Read more »

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Charles Byrnes

BYRNES BACK WITH A BANG

Date: October 7, 2021 - Sport of Kings

WHAT BETTER way to celebrate a return from a six-month suspension than to land an old-fashioned gamble in a competitive handicap in the home of British flat racing? Saddling just his second runner since taking back the licence from his son, Cathal, Charles Byrnes sent Turnpike Trip over to Newmarket to contest a £40,000 staying… Read more »

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Bertrand Gautier

TRYING TO MAKE SENSE OF GREENCOAT RENEWABLES

Date: October 7, 2021 - Moneybags

WHILE RENEWABLE energy is very much du jour, from a financial point of view these businesses survive courtesy of significant state subsidies, which in Ireland are currently running at €300m pa. Consumers can check out their own Public Service Obligation contribution, which is added to their energy bill. The good news for investors is that… Read more »

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Edmond Scanlon

KERRY GROUP FINALLY GETS ITS STRATEGY RIGHT

Date: October 7, 2021 - Moneybags

AFTER MORE than a decade of Kerry Group advocating the virtues of a twin-tracked strategy – the two divisions of food ingredients and consumer foods – one that Moneybags criticised repeatedly, it is surprising to hear CEO Ed Scanlon referring to the sale in the context of “Kerry’s strategy for the last 30 years [which]… Read more »

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Enda O’Coineen

ENDA O’COINEEN’S STRATEGY

Date: October 7, 2021 - Brief CasesBriefcases

ENDA O’COINEEN has been busy splashing the cash in an effort to build the Business Post Group into a formidable media Goliath, recently spending €7m on polling company Red C. But, Goldhawk spotted that he has also been selling off a few assets, including most recently a historic little pub and holiday home village in… Read more »

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Michael McAteer

THE FEIGHERYS FIND A PATH

Date: October 7, 2021 - Brief CasesBriefcases

CONGRATULATIONS ARE in order to the Feighery family, who have inked a deal to sell their company SIAC Bituminous Products (SIACBP) Ltd to French civil engineering giant Colas. Although the price tag hasn’t been made public, the sale – which has just been given the green light by the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission –… Read more »

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’KIN’ MONEY

Date: October 7, 2021 - Behind the Scenes

WHILE DISENTANGLING the finances of RTÉ‘s latest ‘home-grown’ production, Kin (see The Phoenix 24/9/21) ), a show owned by its Canadian and British co-producers, Goldhawk took a look at the accounts of James Flynn’s Metropolitan Film Productions Ltd (MFP), sister company of Metropolitan Films International Ltd, which is the local end of the Kin production…. Read more »

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Stephen Garvey

GARVEY’S GRUMBLES

Date: October 7, 2021 - Brief CasesBriefcases

LAST MONTH, Glenveagh Homes boss Stephen Garvey thundered to the Irish Times: “If construction is such a profitable industry, why aren’t more people at it?” The paper must have caught Garvey on a bad day as he grumbled that “the cost and viability of delivering a home is much higher than it was 10 or… Read more »

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Heather Humphries

HEATHER WHO?

Date: September 23, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

THERE IS a state of disarray in Fine Gael right now that has not been seen since the electoral thrashing of 2002 and it has led to all manner of recrimination and speculation in the parliamentary party. The most startling is the proposal that a change of leadership, should the need arise, could see Heather… Read more »

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Catherine Martin

PROFILE: CATHERINE MARTIN

Date: September 23, 2021 - Pillars of Society

IN THE summer of last year Green party deputy leader Catherine Martin stood out as the coming force inside the party and was poised to take the leadership. More forceful and more in touch with youthful party radicals than leader Eamon Ryan, Martin nearly took the prize, but Ryan narrowly staved off the pretender and… Read more »

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Karen Koster

YOUNG BLOOD: KAREN KOSTER

Date: September 23, 2021 - The Young Bloods

IN THE wake of the bloodbath that continues to claim victims at Virgin Media Television, Karen Koster’s move from Ireland AM to The Six O’Clock Show suggests that the station is banking on her pulling power to draw in the teatime audience. Ballymount’s answer to Holly Willoughby has long been a favourite of head honchos at the station. Her… Read more »

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Aidan Gillen

THE COST OF ‘KIN’

Date: September 23, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

BACK IN February the RTÉ publicity machine went into one of its occasional paroxysms of activity when TV series Kin (see review p20) was sold by its producers to the American streaming channel AMC. The critics have been pretty kind to the show (which boasts the star power of Aidan Gillen and Ciarán Hinds) since… Read more »

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Lorraine Clifford Lee

CLIFFORD-LEE’S RETALIATION

Date: September 23, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

OIRISH MAIL on Sunday hackette Niamh Walsh got a roasting last week for her snarky column lambasting the sartorial disasters on show at the Fianna Fáil ‘think-in’ at the Slieve Russell hotel in Co Cavan. Goldhawk was, however, surprised at one particular intervention. “Now I fully expect my take on the Think In will open… Read more »

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MAGNIER DETHRONED

Date: September 23, 2021 - Sport of Kings

IN WHAT represents a momentous changing of the guard, 2021 looks like being the first year this century that a Coolmore stallion will not be crowned champion flat sire in Britain and Ireland. For more than 30 years, dating back to 1990 when Sadler’s Wells began his reign as champion and started to line the… Read more »

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DENIS O’BRIEN’S UK RADIOS

Date: September 23, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

WHILE DENIS O’Brien is likely to have made a significant loss on the reported sale for “north of €100m” of Communicorp to Bauer Media Audio earlier this year, the news from across the Irish Sea is not so grim. Chaired by Lucy Gaffney, Communicorp UK is Dinny’s radio group in the UK, which now operates… Read more »

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Deirdre Foley

DEIRDRE FOLEY MOVES ON

Date: September 23, 2021 - Brief CasesBriefcases

SO FAREWELL then Natrium Ltd, a company that was at the centre of the highly fractious purchase, closure and eventual sale to Paddy McKillen Jr’s Press UP group of Dublin’s famous Clerys department store. The face of Natrium was Deirdre Foley who did rather nicely out of the whole episode. While it is hard to… Read more »

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Edna O’Brien

DAME EDNA’S WINDFALL

Date: September 23, 2021 - Behind the Scenes

EARLIER THIS month it was announced that the National Library of Ireland (NLI) had acquired “Edna O’Brien’s Papers (2009-2021)”. The arts and culture minister Catherine Martin issued a press release expressing her delight at the library’s latest addition to its burgeoning archives collection. What was missing from the announcement (or the press release form the… Read more »

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BEAUTIFUL WORLD, WHERE ARE YOU – SALLY ROONEY

Date: September 23, 2021 - BooksBooks|ReviewsReviews

WHILE SALLY Rooney’s two previous books, Conversations With Friends and Normal People, weren’t to everybody’s taste, it was impossible to argue with the phenomenal sales figures. The accompanying near-hysterical hype (comparisons with Hemingway and Joyce, “voice of a millennial generation”, etc, etc) has also made her a cult figure. With Rooney’s latest offering, she is… Read more »

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