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INTERNMENT WITH TRIAL
Date: April 4, 2024 -
The wall of silence by southern media on the recent acquittal of dissident republicans Colin Duffy and Harry Fitzsimons is in marked contrast to the sensational headlines that many carried at the start of this case back in December 2013. Following a gun attack on a convoy of PSNI Land Rovers Duffy, Fitzsimons and Alex… Read more »
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MONEY TO BURN
Date: April 4, 2024 -
With European and local elections fast approaching, many candidates to the right of Fine Gael are declaring their intention to stand with the Irish Freedom Party (IFP), Ireland First (IF), Independent Ireland, the National Party (NP), Irish People Party and a variety of right-wing independents. And there is no shortage of money swirling about in… Read more »
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THE HOT AIR BRIGADE
Date: April 4, 2024 -
We firmly believe in the unifying power of music, enabling people to transcend differences and foster meaningful conversations. We feel it is our duty to create and uphold this space, with a strong hope that it will inspire greater compassion. Statement from nine Eurovision contestants, including Bambie Thug, explaining their reason for not boycotting the… Read more »
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COLOMBIA 3 MINING PROFITEERS
Date: April 4, 2024 -
“ACTIVIST LUKE Holland has authored this report for Prime Time…” This was the rather odd introduction, read by Sarah McInerney, to an excellent and harrowing report last week from the notorious Cerrejón mine in Colombia. Describing Holland as an activist was apparently RTÉ’s way of distancing itself from this damning exposé of its fellow semi-state,… Read more »
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UNCLE COLM’S CONCERNS
Date: April 4, 2024 -
There’ve been some high-profile interventions in the long-running battle to prevent Canadian firm Dalradian digging up the Sperrin Mountains in Tyrone to mine billions worth of gold. Last year campaigners were outraged to discover, via a freedom of information request, that King Charles’s representative in the county, Robert Scott – aka Lord Lieutenant of Tyrone… Read more »
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IVANA BACIK’S NEW GENERATION
Date: April 4, 2024 -
LABOUR LEADER Ivana Bacik recently deployed her considerable legal and verbal skills to exonerate the party’s local election Ringsend candidate, Carol Reynolds, who had said that Ireland had “too many immigrants” who regarded Ireland as “Treasure Island”. Reynolds had been interviewed for a video by far-right, anti-immigrant campaigner Gavin Pepper, in which they both discussed… Read more »
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KATE O’CONNELL THE DISRUPTER
Date: April 4, 2024 -
THE CLEAR desire of Simon Harris to add Kate O’Connell as a ‘partner’ to councillor James Geoghegan on the Dublin Bay South (DBS) general election ticket is going to upset a number of Fine Gael members and their political calculations. The primary person to be… Read more »
MARTIN TO PROVOKE MORE REFERENDUMS?
Date: April 4, 2024 -
MICHEÁL MARTIN’S move to legislate for the abolition of the triple lock could run into political, constitutional and even EU legislative trouble, judging by statements uttered by Martin himself and intergovernmental declarations made to facilitate a ‘yes’ vote in two EU referendums. The Dáil heard… Read more »
HUGH O’CONNELL’S LONG GOODBYE
Date: April 4, 2024 -
THE EXIT of Hugh O’Connell from Mediahuis, where he was deputy group political editor working for the Sindo and Indo, came at a good time for the Aawrish edition of the Sunday Times, which has poached him (five years after Mediahuis poached him from the then Sunday Business Post). However, relying on the strict terms… Read more »
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TARGETING MARTIN MCGUINNESS
Date: April 4, 2024 -
RECENT SUGGESTIONS from the Sunday Independent and interpretations by others that the BBC Two’s programme, The Secret Army, shows Martin McGuinness was an informer have their origins in the late Sean O’Callaghan’s book, The Informer. There, MI5 informer O’Callaghan, or his handlers, put such words about McGuinness in the mouth of fabled IRA commander Brian… Read more »
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LIBERAL MEDIA DEBATES FAR RIGHT
Date: April 4, 2024 -
APPEASEMENT IS a notion that some media columnists are using and debating right now in the face of a right-wing backlash against so-called ‘woke’ politics and legislation to criminalise hate behaviour. Two pundits that appear to have taken a different stance on how to confront this rush-to-the-right are Irish Times columnist Justine McCarthy and her… Read more »
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SMOCK ALLEY’S BAD REVIEW
Date: April 4, 2024 -
WITH DUBLIN City Council (DCC) preparing to take over Smock Alley Theatre (SAT) in Temple Bar, the board of the linked Gaiety School of Acting next door will be hoping that the planned changes don’t impact on their coffers. Fans of Goldhawk will not be… Read more »
APPEALING BEHAVIOUR
Date: April 4, 2024 -
THE REVELATION last month that the IHRB had been described by consultants in 2021 as “not fit for purpose” was dismissed by the agency on the grounds that the new chief executive, Darragh O’Loughlin, has strengthened governance. Now Darragh O’Loughlin is preparing to fill the brand-new role of head of racing regulation and integrity. Topping… Read more »
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SEAMIE HEFFERNAN DISMOUNTS
Date: April 4, 2024 -
MEYDAN RACECOURSE Dubai was the location on Saturday afternoon where the spotlight really shone on Rebels Romance. Ballydoyle’s champion, Auguste Rodin, who had been so impressive at Dundalk under regular work rider Rachel Richardson, could only look on as Charlie Appleby’s charge showed them all the way home in the Longines Dubai Sheema Classic. Visibly… Read more »
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CORRECTING CHRISTINE DAVIES
Date: April 4, 2024 -
THERE WAS some bad news for the glamorous Christine Jane Davies, owner of the sprawling Ballybla House and estate outside Ashford in Co Wicklow and sister of loaded Irish Georgian Society president David Davies. A recent planning decision means Christine will have to find another way to generate “additional sources of income”. La Davies applied… Read more »
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JOHN MAGNIER’S CEREMONY
Date: April 4, 2024 -
THE ASSOCIATION of Irish Racehorse Owners (AIRO) has just published its annual report for 2023, showing income of €270,000, the majority of which (€169,000) was made up of members’ subscriptions. Nevertheless, the company, which boasts one employee (Regina Byrne) managed to post a loss of €15,000. One of the interesting aspects of AIRO’s spending is… Read more »
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KILLIAN POYNTON’S HIGH NET WORTH CLIENTS
Date: April 4, 2024 -
GREEN BIRD Ltd, a company catering to the needs of so-called “high net worth individuals”, has found itself on the end of a judgment from the dreaded Revenue. Established by Killian Poynton – who hails from the Bewley family – and his Russian wife, it looks like the pandemic scuppered the couple’s big plans, although… Read more »
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MYLES O’GRADY PUTS LID ON BOI SHARE PRICE
Date: April 4, 2024 -
IT WAS pretty eyebrow-raising that when Bank of Ireland (BoI) released its full-year results for 2023, showing pre-provisional and pre-exceptional profits that had almost doubled to €2.4bn, the share price actually fell. This seems ridiculous given that, at the current share price of just on €9.50, the bank is capitalised at only €9.9bn. On top… Read more »
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ARYZTA’S RECOVERY NOW BAKED INTO SHARE PRICE
Date: April 4, 2024 -
A COMPANY that has effectively disappeared off the radar here is Aryzta, which is not surprising given its Swiss quote, but there remains significant Irish interest. Although the group ended up a “shambles”, according to executive chairman Urs Jordi, the good news is that the ship has been steadied and is steaming in the right… Read more »
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NOEL MORAN’S CAR TROUBLE
Date: April 4, 2024 -
THERE WAS a potentially expensive setback in the High Court last month for Noel Moran of Noel Moran Recovery, when his damages claim against a company called Blackstar Management, concerning the towing and storage of vehicles on behalf of An Garda Síochána, was booted down to the Circuit Court. This was on the grounds that… Read more »
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HEAVY GOING FOR FOLEY AND PARKIN
Date: April 4, 2024 -
“WE’RE NEARLY like family and I treat him like a brother,” was a recent remark by the minted founder of Clipper Logistics, Steve Parkin, about his advisor, Joe Foley, owner of Ballyhane Stud in Co Carlow. It has come as quite a surprise then that the boys have suddenly parted ways, ending a near 20-year… Read more »
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CYRIL MURPHY’S NETWORK ERROR
Date: April 4, 2024 -
A MOBILE network data firm marked out as a future star player in the sector, Equiendo Ltd, has just had its connection cut and is to be wound up next week. This is bad news for the taxpayer. Equiendo, which was set up 20 years ago by its controlling shareholder, chairman and CEO, Cyril Murphy… Read more »
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EU ‘WAR ECONOMY’
Date: April 4, 2024 -
LAST OCTOBER The Phoenix quoted an impeccable authority on western political and military strategy – the Economist magazine – which warned that the imminent retreat of the US from the Ukrainian war with Russia would require the EU to fill this military vacuum: “Europe… has committed as much weaponry as America and far more financial… Read more »
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DON’T MENTION THE WAR
Date: March 21, 2024 -
LAST WEEKEND’S article in the Irish Times by novelist Sally Rooney represented one of the relatively few public criticisms of the US’s policy on Israel by a high-profile Irish writer. Coincidentally, in the paper’s Ticket supplement the same day, there was an article by Una… Read more »
PROFILE: MICHAEL MCDOWELL
Date: March 21, 2024 -
MICHAEL McDOWELL was the stand-out personality in the referendums campaign and his elation at the count was visible as ‘no’ activists gathered eagerly around him. The same activists are aware that McDowell’s current agenda is greater than the binning of the constitutional amendments. The former… Read more »
THE YOUNG BLOODS: ROB KENNY
Date: March 21, 2024 -
HAVING GAINED an early profile through the social media site Snapchat, the canny Rob Kenny combines running a PR agency with being a social media influencer in the fashion and lifestyle sphere. The flamboyant 33-year-old is his own best ‘client’ though, as he rarely misses an opportunity to self-promote. Fans of Goldhawk will be aware… Read more »
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RECOGNISING PALESTINE — AGAIN
Date: March 21, 2024 -
WORDS MATTER. Taoiseach Leo Varadkar’s statements criticising Israel’s war on Gaza have helped to muster world opinion against Israeli genocide there. But words should not be a substitute for real action and, despite a decade and more of rhetoric from Fine Gael and more latterly Fianna Fáil in Government, they have used various excuses to… Read more »
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COMRADES STAGG AND PRESIDENT HIGGINS
Date: March 21, 2024 -
THE WHIFF of authentic sincerity marked the tributes of President Michael D Higgins to the recently departed ex-Labour minister Emmet Stagg and the two were definitely close comrades in the murky world of Labour Party power politics in the era of Tricky Dicky Spring. With… Read more »
IN THEIR ELEMENT
Date: March 21, 2024 -
“WE NEED to actually invest in developing our own stories,” declared movie producer Ed Guiney, pointing out that there “just isn’t enough investment in television drama in Ireland” in a Mail on Sunday article headlined, “Strike while our Oscars are hot!” As one half of high-flying Element Pictures, alongside Andrew Lowe, Guiney has been leading… Read more »
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TRINA VARGO’S FAILING FUND
Date: March 21, 2024 -
US-IRELAND Alliance (USIA) president Trina Vargo’s statement last week on the “pausing” of the George J Mitchell Scholarship programme didn’t quite get across the abject failure of her entity to source funding. Trina Vargo is the founder of the USIA and every year manages to generate oodles of publicity courtesy of the annual Oscar Wilde… Read more »
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ROSS LEWIS’S RICH DISH
Date: March 21, 2024 -
AS USUAL, there was plenty of speculation last month ahead of the Michelin restaurant awards that Dublin’s swanky Chapter One might land a third star. That didn’t end up on the menu but the good news for owner Ross Lewis is that he has scooped a rather bigger prize. These days the Parnell Square restaurant… Read more »
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VOL 42 NO 06
Date: March 21, 2024 -
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NORTH HARMONY THREATENED
Date: March 21, 2024 -
THE LOVE-IN between Sinn Féin’s Michelle O’Neill and Jeffrey Donaldson’s puppet deputy first minister, Emma Little-Pengelly, should not fool people into believing that lasting harmony has overtaken the northern assembly and executive. Despite the recent shamrockery in Belfast and Washington, there may be trouble ahead with conflicting trends in northern unionism. Firstly, Traditional Unionist Voice… Read more »
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SUE SPENCE’S SHORTS
Date: March 21, 2024 -
THERE WAS no celebrating at Cheltenham for the well-connected businesswoman Sue Spence, whose Tranquil Sea did not make it on to the turf for the Boodles Juvenile Hurdle despite having been entered. No doubt, Spence had already celebrated plenty, having scooped an estimated €45m for her share of SoftCo – the company she cofounded with… Read more »
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MULLINS’S ROUGH DIAMOND
Date: March 21, 2024 -
While Patrick Mullins’s victory aboard Jasmine De Vaux provided his father, Willie, with his 100th Cheltenham success, his faith in Ashroe Diamond in the Mares Hurdle proved to be misplaced. Before the meeting, a bullish Patrick declared that “no mare had yet beaten her over hurdles”, adding that “I’m counting on Ashroe to prove a… Read more »
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TRIPLE LOCK TO GO?
Date: March 21, 2024 -
IT OCCURRED to Goldhawk on recently reading the Irish Times’s political editor, Pat ‘The Brigadier’ Leahy, that he had contracted gout on some mission abroad, such was the testy, belligerent language he used to describe Irish hypocrisy and blithe indifference to earth-shaking developments afoot. Amid… Read more »
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