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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

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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Marcus White

MARCUS WHITE’S LEGAL HEADACHE

Date: July 29, 2021 - Briefcases

THE FOUR Goldmines are beckoning for the irrepressible Marcus White, organiser of the Lisdoonvarna Matchmaking Festival and high-profile operator of a number of hotels in Clare and Donegal. Proceedings have just been lodged against him and some of his firms by other entities in the White tourism empire. This is not the first time White… Read more »

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Leigh Wrafter

JOHN WRAFTER’S WOES

Date: July 29, 2021 - Briefcases

A HIGH Court action has just been launched by the receiver of south Dublin firm WR Land Ltd. This turns out to be one of the interests on Goldhawk’s old friend, John Wrafter. The Wrafter family has had a chequered business history and John, in particular, will be familiar to readers of this magazine. One… Read more »

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Micheál Martin

MICHEÁL BEGINS HIS FIGHTBACK

Date: July 15, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

IT’S A long time since the Irish Times gave such unqualified and partisan backing to a Fianna Fáil leader but it was through that unlikely medium that Micheál Martin struck back this week against his party critics following the disastrous Dublin Bay South byelection. A most polemical editorial biffed leadership contender Jim O’Callaghan with everything… Read more »

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Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

IVANA’S COMRADES OLD AND NEW

Date: July 15, 2021 - Last Refuge

MEMBERS OF the Labour family clasped byelection winner Ivana Bacik to their bosom last week in a heart-warming display of comradeship, with former party leaders Pat Rabbitte and Ruairi Quinn especially anxious to display their devotion to victorious Ivana. But these two former leaders surely can’t believe that members – especially Bacik – will have… Read more »

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John McGuirk

PROFILE: JOHN MCGUIRK

Date: July 15, 2021 - Pillars of Society

THE LOUDEST, most contrarian and controversial political activist in Ireland has to be John McGuirk, editor of Gript, the right-wing website that exists to combat the liberal, secular media and its “headlong rush to the most extreme forms of liberalism”. McGuirk has been a member… Read more »

Philip Ryan

YOUNG BLOOD: PHILIP RYAN

Date: July 15, 2021 - The Young Bloods

PHILIP RYAN is one of the new breed of political correspondents who confronts rather than simply reports on political parties, personalities and issues. This provides a greater sense of political drama, but it can also rebound on the journalist and his newspaper. There was a time when political journalists were a cerebral bunch who gave… Read more »

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Richard Curran

IRELAND’S RICH LIST 2021 – RTÉ ONE

Date: July 15, 2021 - ReviewsTV

IF THE ‘rich list’ is the answer, what on earth is the question? Goldhawk found himself repeatedly wondering this over the course of a scarcely believable two hours, during which Richard Curran salivated over the fortunes of Ireland’s zillionaires. A ‘rich list’ is a bizarre concept, based on mostly guesstimates of bits and pieces of… Read more »

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John Teeling

JOHN TEELING EXPLORING A NEW DIRECTION

Date: July 15, 2021 - Moneybags

THE IRREPRESSIBLE John Teeling is set to take a back seat after decades of rollercoaster adventures, mostly in the oil exploration sector. He has also made quite a few bob in the whiskey business and remains a player but, his appetite for drilling around the globe is clearly no longer there, having just resigned from… Read more »

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Peter Dunn

PETER DUNN’S PAPAL GONG

Date: July 15, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

IT’S NOT every day that a ‘Pro-Ecclesia et Pontifice’ award (PEP) is dished out here but one was accepted last week by Peter Dunn of the Radharc Trust, which manages the archive of Radharc Films. The event didn’t attract any media attention, which is just the way the low-profile Dunn probably likes it. A PEP honours… 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

CATHY DAVEY’S LOVELY CHARITY

Date: July 15, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

CONGRATULATIONS TO songwriter Cathy Davey, whose animal charity is doing better then observers may have expected. Last year, the Irish Times ran a piece headlined, “Animal charity run by Cathy Davey hits the financial buffers over Covid-19”. She set up My Lovely Horse Rescue in 2011 with her pals, Martina and Deborah Kenny. The name… Read more »

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David Davies

ACCOUNTING AT ABBEYLEIX HOUSE

Date: July 15, 2021 - High Society

WITH THE announced sale to Stripe co-founder John Collison of the Abbeyleix House estate in Co Laois, the owner since 1994 David Davies has found someone with deep enough pockets to absorb the running costs and maintain the ancient native woodland. Davies had prepared the ground well for his sale, even commissioning a glossy coffee… Read more »

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Yvonne Dolan

YVONNE DOLAN’S UNHEALTHY VENTURES

Date: July 15, 2021 - Briefcases

A CREDITORS’ meeting has been called for Yvonne Dolan’s Blendi Snacks Ltd, the highly rated health food company set up a couple of years ago, after a similar venture, focused on, er, ‘disrupting’ the smoothie market’, blended its final concoction. Dolan has been a darling of the health food sector and scooped a number of… Read more »

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3914-FP

VOL .39 NO. 14

Date: July 15, 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

GAISFORD ST LAWRENCE’S MANSION

Date: July 15, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

A LETTER from one Julian Gaisford St Lawrence popped up in the Irish Times last week. The address was given as Coolcarrigan in Co Kildare, which is where it turns out he has purchased a rather substantial pile after his exit from Howth Castle (see p18). In late 2019, a 5,200-sq-ft property called Castlesize House… 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

CATHERINE MARTIN’S TEAM TACTICS

Date: July 15, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

FANS OF Goldhawk will be aware that Green party minister Catherine Martin has a tendency to leave boards under her remit full of vacancies for long periods. One of these turns out to be Sport Ireland (SI) and Goldhawk wonders if the subject came up at the pre-Tokyo shindig at the National Sports Campus this… Read more »

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Hazel Chu

HAZEL HOVERS

Date: July 15, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

MANY SEIZED on the elimination of Kate O’Connell by Fine Gael’s leadership and local members to explain the defeat of that party’s candidate, James Geoghegan, in the Dublin Bay South byelection. But the media has been very polite in avoiding serious scrutiny of the far heavier defeat of Green candidate Cllr Claire Byrne, who managed… Read more »

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Grafton College

REHMAN’S RESTRICTION

Date: July 15, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

ONE OF the directors of a private English language college that shut tis doors in 2018 has just been restricted from acting as a director for a period of five years. The Grafton College in Portobello hit the headlines just before Christmas 2018 after teachers occupied the premises in a bid to get paid. They… 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

VIDEO REWIND

Date: July 15, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

T WAS surely only ever a matter of time before Hilco, which specialises in picking up ‘distressed’ investments, pulled the plug on its Xtra-Vision Vending business last month. Hilco’s main man is Paul McGowan, who is a significant shareholder in the operation, which is ultimately owned by the US-registered Hilco Trading LLC. It is perhaps… Read more »

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Osgur Breathnach

SALLINS TRAIN TRIAL REVISITED

Date: July 15, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

THE FAMILY of Osgur Breatnach, wrongly convicted of the 1976 Sallins train robbery, have launched a campaign for a public inquiry into the controversial trial convictions. This has been stimulated partly by new information emerging from the office of the director of public prosecutions that has lain undiscovered since the 1980s. This means that the… Read more »

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Simon Kingston

THE GENTLE BLACK AND TAN

Date: July 15, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

BLINKERED NATIONALISTS have long argued that the West Cork History Festival (aka the West Brit Hist Fest) run by Simon and Victoria Kingston, exists to justify British colonial rule in Ireland. The upcoming 2021 festival agenda and speakers indicates that they may have a point. The festival opens with a dissertation entitled, ‘Let’s Talk about… Read more »

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David McWilliams

DAVID MCWILLIAMS AND ‘GROUND ZERO’

Date: July 15, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

THE FORAYS of pop economist David McWilliams into commentary on agriculture are rare indeed, and from the evidence of his most recent efforts, that’s probably just as well. McWilliams was the star turn at the recent Alltech ONE Ideas Conference, and which included his trademark touchy-feely opening remarks: “We are all in this together, with… Read more »

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Ross Frenett

CYBER WAR COMES TO DUBLIN

Date: July 15, 2021 - Hush Hush

FORMER IRISH soldier Ross Frenett founder of anti-extremist organisation Moonshot, initially based in London, aims to combat all kinds of online harm. But Ross has shown a unique ability to make his way up the greasy pole that is the British military industrial complex and specialises in intel on dissident republican groups. Starting out with… Read more »

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Ronan Keating

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: July 15, 2021 - The Hot Air Brigade

Celebrate these men and their team. They are giants, kings, heroes. Up and on. What a force they will be at the next World Cup. Ronan Keating on England’s Euro 2020 performance, Twitter And now for the next instalment of ‘The Italian Job’. Come on England. Blow the bloody doors off! Declan Ganley, Twitter For… Read more »

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James Geoghegan

FINE GAEL KNEW DEFEAT WAS NIGH

Date: July 15, 2021 - Last Refuge

FINE GAEL handlers – director of elections Simon Harris, Leo Varadkar and others – knew well before the day of the byelection vote that defeat for James Geoghegan was on the cards. How else to construe the painfully embarrassing messages to constituency supporters in the last few days and even minutes before the vote? At… Read more »

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Ivana Bacik

BACIK’S MANY ISSUES

Date: July 15, 2021 - Last Refuge

IVANA BACIK’S brand of south Dublin liberal feminism was more than enough to secure the support of Ireland’s media class ahead of the Dublin Bay South byelection. But she will probably be pleased that nobody tried any dirty tricks by linking her to a campaign she still supports, namely, the protection of prostitutes from exploitation…. Read more »

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Dolores Cahill

RIGHT-WING RETREAT

Date: July 15, 2021 - Last Refuge

IT’S BEEN a bad year for former chairperson of the Irish Freedom Party Dolores Cahill, forced to resign from the party last March for whacky statements about Covid. Cahill stood as an Independent candidate in the Dublin Bay South (DBS) byelection and was barred from the count for refusing to wear a mask in scenes… Read more »

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Una Mullally

BASHING BLUESHIRT BIAS

Date: July 15, 2021 - Fit to Print?

UNA MULLALY is hardly the first Irish Times columnist to take a pop at a government party election candidate, even in the last week of a byelection campaign. But the hysterical, if partly covert, reaction from Fine Gael at her column criticising its Dublin Bay South (DBS) byelection candidate James Geoghegan – ‘Geoghegan fails Fine… Read more »

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