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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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Brian Polly

BRIAN POLLY’S HEAVY GOING

Date: September 9, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

THE ASSOCIATION of Irish Racehorse Owners (AIRO) held its AGM last month (a remote affair) and, not surprisingly perhaps, it has led to calls for a steward’s enquiry. The AGM was not a smooth ride for some and chairman Brian Polly subsequently described the affair as “shambolic”. His particular concern was that although he was… Read more »

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Kieran Corrigan

KIERAN CORRIGAN’S TAX PLOT

Date: September 9, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

FILM FINANCIER, number cruncher, film studio promoter, and film school owner, Kieran Corrigan, will be looking forward to getting students back into his fledgling Irish Film School. Separately, it turns out that two decades on from a High Court ruling, there are still tax-related complications relating to some of his many production ventures. One such… Read more »

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Diarmuid Gavin

GAVIN AND GRETA

Date: September 9, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

IS THERE a word in the English language more grievously misused than ‘sustainable’? The unseemly scramble by major polluters, from oil companies to mining firms and car makers trying to greenwash their operations by making wild claims about sustainability is now going into overdrive. Celebrity endorsement is a favoured method used by corporations of papering… Read more »

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Michael Semple

PAKISTAN SAYS SEMPLE IS MI6

Date: September 9, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

US/BRITISH divisions over strategy in Afghanistan did not begin with President Biden’s precipitous exit from that country and British ‘diplomat’ Michael Semple’s expulsion in December 2007 – ostensibly by the Karzai-US puppet government – was a direct result of such strategic disagreements. The CIA and American military strategists made it clear at the time that… Read more »

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Fintan O'Toole

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: September 9, 2021 - The Hot Air Brigade

She is asking throughout the novel: what does contemporary mean? Is there even such a thing as “now”? Can this present moment express itself in anything other than a free-flowing purposelessness, a slow descent into civilisational collapse? Fintan O’Toole on Sally Rooney’s new novel, Irish Times, submitted by reader She’s wearing a grave expression and… Read more »

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Jeffrey Donaldson

O’NEILL EYES PRIZE AS UNIONISM SPLINTERS

Date: September 9, 2021 - Northwind

UNIONISM IS in turmoil for more reasons than the Brexit-induced Irish Sea border. Protests about the protocol attract all the publicity, but many unionists can’t face the ultimate existential threat of no longer being an electoral majority in the place the British gave to them a century ago. The next assembly election is due in… Read more »

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Richard Boyd Barrett

BUS PLAN (DIS) CONNECTS

Date: September 9, 2021 - Last Refuge

DUBLIN BUS management will have been gratified to learn that the rhetoric from Dublin Bus union leaders about the “gutter based opposition” to the new Bus Connects plan was aimed at some of their own members rather than management. There was no little embarrassment among management and leaders of Siptu and the National Bus and… Read more »

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Albert Reynolds

MICHEÁL MARTIN AND PLAYING BOTH SIDES

Date: September 9, 2021 - Last Refuge

WITH SPECULATION about a Fianna Fáil leadership heave almost a constant since the general election, party TDs as well as contenders would do well to read former minister Conor Lenihan’s biography of Albert Reynolds. Describing the manoeuvrings between Reynolds and his rival for the job of taoiseach and party leader Bertie Ahern in 1992, Lenihan… Read more »

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Arlene Foster

COLLUSION ONCE AGAIN

Date: September 9, 2021 - Last Refuge

IF DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson was cheeky in demanding that the Dublin government investigate alleged collusion between “gardaí and the IRA” during the Troubles, Micheál Martin rolled over and agreed to consider “setting up the necessary processes” to investigate such allegations. Is Martin serious and does he really want to set up another Smithwick-type tribunal… Read more »

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Eoin O'Malley

DES O’MALLEY’S CRITICS

Date: September 9, 2021 - Fit to Print?

THERE IS little mystery about the Irish Independent’s choice of one Eoin O’Malley to critique Conor Lenihan’s recently published biography of former taoiseach Albert Reynolds – Albert Reynolds: Risktaker for Peace – or there wouldn’t be if readers had been informed of the reviewer’s lineage. In his review O’Malley appears to be keenly aware of the significance of background… Read more »

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SUNDAY TIMES STRATEGY

Date: September 9, 2021 - Fit to Print?

THERE WAS elation last June among employees and the surrounding community at the Kells print plant when News UK & Ireland – owned by News Corp, publishers of the Sun and the Sunday Times –completed the acquisition of the operation. This appeared to settle the uncertainty surrounding the future of the plant amid interventions by… Read more »

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Stephen Collins

IRISH TIMES SCHISM?

Date: September 9, 2021 - Fit to Print?

INTERESTING TWEETS from Irish Times heavyweight politicos last week indicate that columnist and former political editor Stephen Collins is regarded as too heavy-handed in his repetitive denunciations of Sinn Féin. These followed Stevo’s weekly column headlined, “SF shows contempt for democratic institutions of state” (you can kinda see where he is going here). Collins fulminated… Read more »

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Michael McCarthy

MCCARTHY’S CLOUDY THINKING

Date: September 9, 2021 - Fowl Emissions

DURING HIS only term as a TD for Cork South-West, Labour’s Michael McCarthy was chair of the oireachtas environment committee. When he lost his seat as part of Labour’s mass exodus in 2016, McCarthy declared he was leaving public life, but Goldhawk was relieved to hear he’s still at the coalface of environmental advocacy. This… Read more »

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WES EDENS’S GREENWASHING

Date: September 9, 2021 - Fowl Emissions

AMID ALL the climate doom and gloom, a sunbeam of hope appeared in the southwest recently with news of a project that “will help lead the transition to a zero-carbon future for Ireland”. This is the application to An Bord Pleanála (ABP) for the Shannon Technology and Energy Park (STEP) in north Kerry, a gas-fired… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: September 9, 2021 - Bog Cuttings

‘Orange Bastards’ Derry Magistrates’ Court heard the case of a 47-year-old man with 250 previous convictions whose defence solicitor insists that his record is now beginning to ‘taper off’. Kevin Conaghan, of Glenview Drive, Limavady, appeared before the court on a charge of theft and a separate charge of disorderly conduct. Judge Anne Marshall was… Read more »

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Woodridge Stud

MICHAEL BRESLIN’S STUD FARM

Date: September 9, 2021 - High Society

GOLDHAWK ENJOYED the glowing report in the Indo property supplement last week on the sprawling Woodridge Stud in Dunsany, Co Meath, which has just gone on the market for €2.75m. It turns out that this is the property that has been owned for almost 20 years by New York-based scaffolding moneybags Michael Breslin and his… Read more »

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Consuelo O’Connor

TOM KEANE’S RECEIVERS

Date: September 9, 2021 - High Society

LAST MONTH a receiver was appointed to Stradbally-based Tom Keane’s Killenard Golf Company Ltd (KGC), which was behind the upmarket Killenard hotel and golf course complex in Laois that imploded in spectacular style in 2010. The appointment of John McStay and Jim Luby by Nama is merely the latest receivership of the company, and the… Read more »

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THE ECHO CHAMBER – JOHN BOYNE

Date: September 9, 2021 - BooksReviews

HAVING GENTLY satirised the publishing industry in his 2018 novel, A Ladder to the Sky, John Boyne now casts an eye on the aggressive world of social media and cancel culture. The author has spoken endlessly about the online attention he received after the publication of My Brother’s Name is Jessica in 2019, when he was… Read more »

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Ruth McGowan

‘IT’ ON THE FRINGE

Date: September 9, 2021 - Behind the Scenes

AS FANS of Goldhawk are aware, the organisation known as the Trans Writers Union has called for a boycott of the Irish Times and even organised an online petition. Although 2,000 signatures have been sought, the total has been stuck around 1,300, with familiar names very thin on the ground. The union has had more… Read more »

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NEESON’S GOOD NEWS

Date: September 9, 2021 - Behind the Scenes

SCREEN IRELAND (SI) has finally published details of its funding for this period. Among the winners is a Hollywood ‘co-production’ starring Liam Neeson. Cumulatively, the big winner is Macdara Kelleher’s Wild Atlantic Pictures and Fastnet Films, with the companies picking up three loan commitments in the Irish fiction film category. The Damned (to be directed… Read more »

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Michael Grassick

GRASSICK’S TIMING ISSUE

Date: September 9, 2021 - Sport of Kings

IT WILL be interesting to see what stance Horse Racing Ireland (HRI) takes after the underwhelming lobbying efforts of the Irish Racehorse Trainers’ Association (ITTA) to allow trainers to again make declarations for horses 24 hours before a race. When racing returned after the pandemic kicked off, HRI introduced 48-hour declarations, mostly to facilitate health… Read more »

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Cathal Byrnes

ZEROING IN ON CATHAL BYRNES

Date: September 9, 2021 - Sport of Kings

RACECOURSE STEWARDS appear to be paying particular attention to horses trained by the Byrnes boys these days. Certainly, there was a fuss made recently over the performance of the Cathal Byrnes-trained Wajaaha at Roscommon. Sent to post as the 11/2 second favourite, on the back of a respectable previous effort at Killarney, Wajaaha was very… Read more »

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Pat Foley

WEIGHTY ISSUES

Date: September 9, 2021 - Sport of Kings

FLAT RACING is often decided by fine margins including the weight carried, with a couple of pounds differential often the difference between winning and losing. Some punters, therefore, could have felt aggrieved with a recent result at Gowran Park when the gambled on Yermanthere lost out to the Willie McCreery-trained Mother Country. Trained by Pat… Read more »

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Carl McCann

ONLY DIRECTORS AND KPMG WINNING AT BALMORAL

Date: September 9, 2021 - Moneybags

A LITTLE more than a year ago AIB sold an €850m non-performing commercial loan book to a vulture fund, Cerberus, at a discount of 18%. Carl McCann’s ill-timed property spin-off from Fyffes, Balmoral International Land Holdings (BIL), was caught up in the sell-off and the company that is used by Cerebus to manage this portfolio,… Read more »

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Joe Wylie

AMRYT’S ‘MINI BLOCKBUSTER’ DRUGS SET TO REAP $1BN IN SALES

Date: September 9, 2021 - Moneybags

COMING ON top of the $153m acquisition of Aegerion as recently as September 2019, Amryt Pharma’s current $375m merger with Chiasma represents another major step for the company. As Amryt lost $106m last year, investors will be watching closely to see how CEO Joe Wiley performs and whether he really can deliver on the $1bn… Read more »

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Shane Filan

SHANE FILAN’S FOLLY

Date: September 9, 2021 - Briefcases

A NEW filing in the Companies Office concerns the notice of cessation by a receiver of a company called Shafin Developments Ltd. This company turns out to be the one incorporated in 2004 by Westlife member Shane Filan, who fancied adding property developer to his CV. That move ended in some very high-profile tears. The… Read more »

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