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ANNUAL 2023: MONEYBAGS – WINNERS AND LOSERS IN 2023
Date: November 15, 2023 -
THESE ARE pretty uncertain times courtesy of the wars in Ukraine and Gaza, inflation, and interest rates. Different sectors have dealt with the challenges in different ways but it is surprising that the top of both the winners and losers share tables were companies in the health sector. WINNERS TOPPING THE winners table for 2023… Read more »
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ANNUAL 2023: MONEYBAGS – NAMA AND THE HOUSING CRISIS
Date: November 15, 2023 -
AS HOUSING continues to be the domestic political issue of the day, with the Government sweating that it will be the one that effectively decides the next election, it is time to take a serious look at the single most important player in the crisis, the National Assets Management Agency (Nama). Its fingerprints are all… Read more »
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ANNUAL 2023: BRIEF CASES – 2023: A YEAR OF COURT CASES AND SOUR DISHES
Date: November 15, 2023 -
IT’S BEEN a tough end to 2023 for Paddy Cosgrave, who for years has got away with spouting all sorts of nonsense online (dead nurses, anyone?) but had the dreadful misfortune of sending his Web Summit into a spiral over some rather banal truths about Israel’s campaign of brutalising the Palestinian people. But, of course,… Read more »
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‘A EUROPEAN ARMY — GETTING CLOSE’
Date: November 2, 2023 -
A DEAFENING silence from the media and its normally enthusiastic security correspondents surrounds the European Union’s first ever live military exercise – near Cadiz in southern Spain – that included the Irish Defence Forces. The Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence, Micheál Martin, has had much to say about the conflict in Palestine… Read more »
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PROFILE: TERRY PRONE
Date: November 2, 2023 -
THE QUEEN of public relations in Ireland, Terry Prone, has just published a select compilation of events amounting to an autobiography entitled Caution to the Wind — A Memoir. Does this suggest that 74-year-old Terry is nearing retirement or even the winding down of her career, fuelled by a prodigious work rate, as a media… Read more »
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YOUNG BLOOD: CONOR MCGUINNESS
Date: November 2, 2023 -
WITH Sinn Féin continuing to ride high in the opinion polls, the party is now getting down to the serious business of preparing candidates and constituencies for a second TD (even three in some constituencies), with Dungarvan councillor Conor McGuinness high on its list of winnable seats in Waterford. SF TD David Cullinane, who is… Read more »
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SIGHTS SET ON STRASBOURG
Date: November 2, 2023 -
THE FIRST ever female president of the European Court of Human Rights (EHCR), Síofra O’Leary, was the subject of a glowing profile in the Business Post last month, with the paper noting that she has “presided over some of the most historic cases of our time”. What is of rather more interest, at least to… Read more »
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‘DISAPPEARED’ HACK
Date: November 2, 2023 -
THERE WAS much revelry and mutual congratulation at Dublin’s Sugar Club to mark the 50th anniversary of the Sunday Worst in conjunction with Nicola Tallant’s Crime World event. “To celebrate we are looking back over some of the front page stories, scandals with the big… Read more »
COUNT KAZ AND THE REFUGEES
Date: November 2, 2023 -
THE LOW-profile loaded Count Kazimierz ‘Kaz’ Balinski-Jundzill raised his head last week to challenge a plan by the state to house 950 Ukrainians on his Glendalough estate in Co Wicklow for 32 weeks, saying he will deny access to the lands, which he believes to… Read more »
MOORE McDOWELL’S ‘CONFLICT’
Date: November 2, 2023 -
THERE WAS quite a setback last month in the High Court for private hospital entrepreneur Shay Sweeney in his (very) long-running case against health insurer VHI, which has been in train for the best part of a decade. One big factor in the delay was the proposed role in affairs of one Moore McDowell, brainy… Read more »
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JIMMY SAVILE AND TED HEATH
Date: November 2, 2023 -
Steve Coogan has earned plaudits for his unnerving portrayal of the late Jimmy Savile, the notorious BBC celebrity and child sex abuser. The late Ted Heath, the former UK prime minister (1970-74) who died in 2005, was another child sex predator. In 2017 after a… Read more »
ALAN DILLON KEEPS TABS ON TUBS
Date: November 2, 2023 -
THE NEW chairman of the Fine Gael parliamentary party, Alan Dillon, is also leas chathaoirleach of the joint committee on media and a member of the Dáil Public Accounts Committee. One expects, therefore, that he would keep well up to speed on financial developments in… Read more »
EOGHAN HARRIS IS BACK
Date: November 2, 2023 -
DUBLIN UNIONISTS are called to a small room in Buswell’s Hotel on November 8 to discuss ‘Irish Protestant minority experiences’. There, northern unionists and Eoghan Harris, a faithful southern friend, will instruct them on how Protestants never had it so bad. Contributors to Protestant and Irish, the definitive book with a different opinion, have not… Read more »
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VOL 41 NO 22
Date: November 2, 2023 -
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NOT EMUSED
Date: November 2, 2023 -
THE FINAL page has been turned on the story of the multimillion-euro collapse of Irish TV tech outfit Emuse. Liquidator Joseph Walsh has called the final creditors’ meeting for the company, which has featured some familiar faces down the years. Emuse was set up at the end of 1998 by former college lecturer Patrick Rainsford… Read more »
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DEMOCRATIC WEST
Date: November 2, 2023 -
A FAVOURITE argument of Leo Varadkar and Micheál Martin is that the Russians have a stranglehold over Irish foreign policy because they can block any motion on the UN Security Council with their power of veto. The triple requirement for sending Irish troops abroad is… Read more »
MEDIA WAR ERUPTS
Date: November 2, 2023 -
PHOENIX READERS will be familiar with the secession of Belgian multinational Mediahuis – the biggest media group in Ireland by far – from Newsbrands Ireland, the newspaper lobby group that for many years also organised an annual journalism awards contest. Mediahuis Ireland boss Peter Vandermeersch was mightily peed off at the “unfair” treatment meted out… Read more »
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STORMIN’ NORMAN’S HEADLINES
Date: November 2, 2023 -
FAIR PLAY to Stormin’ Norman Crowley – he has the promotion of his Cool Planet brand down to a fine art. The latest example of his ability to generate headlines came in the Sindo last weekend, which ran a piece headlined: “Cool Planet aims to… Read more »
DODGY DUBLIN DECLARATION
Date: November 2, 2023 -
IN OCTOBER 2022 Teagasc, the state agriculture research agency, hosted a conference of meat industry activists. Arising from this, the so-called ‘Dublin Declaration’ was issued. Since then, this one-page declaration has proved an invaluable industry lobbying tool. The conference was opened by minister of state (and beef farmer) Martin Heydon, with European commissioner Mairead McGuinness… Read more »
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PALESTINIAN REPUBLICAN LINKS
Date: November 2, 2023 -
In the last month Irish politicians from Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil, Sinn Féin, the Social Democrats and even Labour have walked a fine line as they condemned the co-ordinated attacks by Palestinian militants on Israel, while at the same time showing solidarity with the population… Read more »
THE HOT AIR BRIGADE
Date: November 2, 2023 -
The resignation this week of Web Summit chief executive Paddy Cosgrave somehow managed to be both startling and utterly predictable at the same time, not unlike Cosgrave himself. He’s always been an energetic creative dynamo with a contrarian bent. Karlin Lillington, Irish Times Bono talks about the cycle of creating, degenerating and regenerating as a… Read more »
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LOMBARD SMITES ZEALOTS
Date: November 2, 2023 -
Environmental “zealots” are putting lives at risk by objecting to flood defences, declared Fine Gael senator Tim Lombard in the wake of the catastrophe that hit Midleton last month. The implication of the Cork man’s Old Testament slur was that the town would have been… Read more »
ZUCKERBERG’S SUNSHINE
Date: November 2, 2023 -
The prospect of our homes, schools, cars and more being powered by the sun’s clean energy is one genuinely feel-good story that should help drive the green transition. Last year Irish-owned company Highfield Energy powered up two huge solar farms in Meath and Wexford, with a combined peak capacity of 276MW. All good so far…. Read more »
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MARTIN’S NON-POLICY ON NORTH
Date: November 2, 2023 -
In 2018 Theresa May appointed Karen Bradley – one of her dimmest politicians – as northern secretary. Apparently, Bradley was the only MP who would voluntarily have tea with the robotic May, who was dreaded among journalists as “the worst lunch in town”. Bradley’s ignorance of the north was staggering and she openly admitted it…. Read more »
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NATO AND ‘IRISH TIMES’ ADULTS
Date: November 2, 2023 -
THERE WERE two types of media reaction to Dame Louise Richardson’s recent report of Micheál Martin’s forum on international security. One was to play it down to virtual non-existence; the other was an angry rant from Irish Times political editor Pat Leahy. Both responses were… Read more »
CLONGOWES WOOD ‘IRREGULARS’
Date: November 2, 2023 -
As the Decade of Centenaries comes to a close there seems to be a bit of unfinished business and even a hint of Civil War recrimination, although mercifully without any gun play. Early last year three former Clongowes Wood College students wrote to then tánaiste… Read more »
ISRAEL’S MEDIA CHAMPIONS
Date: November 2, 2023 -
THE SUNDAY INDEPENDENT’S new columnist, David Quinn, has been regurgitating all the disingenuous clichés about Israel’s critics being anti-Semitic, Hamas using people as human shields and denials that Israel deliberately slaughters civilians. Quinn’s line of attack has continued for two of the last three editions… Read more »
STEPHEN RAE’S SETTLEMENT
Date: November 2, 2023 -
A LONG-RUNNING High Court defamation case taken by the former editor-in-chief of Independent News & Media (INM) titles, Stephen Rae, against then Sunday Times journalist Mark Tighe and RTÉ has been settled. Rae objected to reports that concerned comments about his behaviour in controversial editorial matters by INM chairman Leslie Buckley, Denis O’Brien’s man at… Read more »
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ORLAITH McBRIDE’S ARCHIVES
Date: November 2, 2023 -
INTERESTING TO see that arts and culture minister Catherine Martin found time last week to drop into the €2.4m pa National Archives of Ireland (NAI) premises on Bishop Street in D8. Certainly, she has not found time to make the long-overdue appointment of members to the National Archives Advisory Council (NAAC), defunct since July of… Read more »
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BIENNALE BOO-BOO
Date: November 2, 2023 -
IT LOOKS like the Arts Council and Culture Ireland got a little ahead of themselves earlier this year when they advertised for expressions of interest from architect types to represent Ireland at the Venice 2025 biennale exhibition. The promoters were in such a hurry that the advert could not include an overall theme, which remained… Read more »
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O’LEARY TAKES OFF AGAIN
Date: November 2, 2023 -
THE 2019 claim by Mick O’Leary that he was winding down his huge string of jumps horses and quitting going racing looks a pretty long shot today. While the Ryanair moneybags did move on a lot of his old squad at various horse-in-training sales over the past couple of years, he has also been actively… Read more »
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WHIPPING UP A STORM
Date: November 2, 2023 -
OISIN MURPHY has made more than a decent fist of rebuilding his career after serving a well-documented 14-month ban from riding that he picked up last year. But he could have done even better. A season total to date of over 160 winners and more than £5m in prize money is testament to his return… Read more »
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RACHEL FLYNN’S CHOCOLATE DROP
Date: November 2, 2023 -
In August last year, Hilliard Lombard and David McKernan’s food investment firm, BiaVest, pumped €700,000 into Nobó, the vegan ice cream and chocolate operation set up by former Vogue magazine digital marketing exec Rachel Flynn and hubby Brian Nolan. It looks like this business has yet to hit the sweet spot. Although it was reported… Read more »
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WRITING WAS ON THE WALL FOR HEALTHBEACON
Date: November 2, 2023 -
BACK IN January last year, Moneybags expressed concern about Jim Joyce’s medtech outfit, HealthBeacon, which had just floated off at €5.85 a share (see The Phoenix 14/1/22). Little more than 20 months later the company is in free-fall and its future is very unclear. A lot of small investors have been badly burned in the… Read more »
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BARRYROE OILFIELD SAGA FAR FROM OVER
Date: November 2, 2023 -
BEEF-BARON-turned-oil-explorer Larry Goodman knows a good thing when he sees it. His move to gain control of Barryroe Offshore Exploration (BOE) is clearly based on a belief that the wily billionaire can turn the heat up on the government and waltz way with a very nice profit. The other shareholders have been severely bruised but,… Read more »
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NIALL QUINN’S TACTICS
Date: November 2, 2023 -
CONGRATULATIONS TO former Irish goal-scoring machine Niall Quinn and his missus, Gillian, who have joined the movers and shakers by purchasing a rather large apartment in the K Club development. There has been rather less for Quinny to celebrate on the business front as losses… Read more »
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