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MICEÁL SAMMON’S SCARP SETBACK
Date: October 18, 2023 -
THE LATEST company that has failed to emerge successfully from the erratic Scarp protection process is BTP Construction Ltd, which turns out to feature a couple of high-profile building names who know a thing or two about company collapses. BTP was set up almost five years ago and the founders and directors here were Waterford-based… Read more »
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ANOTHER FRACK UP IN KERRY
Date: October 18, 2023 -
LAST MONTH was a bad one for US giants New Fortress Energy (NFE), with An Bord Pleanála putting the kibosh on its Irish subsidiary’s plan to construct a €650m liquified natural gas (LNG) terminal on the Shannon Estuary near Ballylongford Co Kerry. Another casualty was… Read more »
MORE MEDIA TRANSPARENCY
Date: October 5, 2023 -
THERE IS something piquant about the current fury among the once-pampered literati at the Irish Times, who have for long purveyed ethical attachment to transparency at all significant institutions. This character trait, worn on most of the senior hacks’ sleeves, was especially evident during the recent turmoil that engulfed RTÉ when the moralising from Tara… Read more »
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PROFILE: NÓIRÍN HEGARTY
Date: October 5, 2023 -
THE ANNOUNCEMENT that Nóirín Hegarty is stepping down as Ireland editor of the Times and Sunday Times Ireland after less than two years in the job is not entirely unexpected. Back in October 2021, Hegarty reacted to her appointment by saying that she was “delighted” to get the opportunity at a “very interesting time in… Read more »
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YOUNG BLOOD: BECKY KEALY
Date: October 5, 2023 -
SMALLER PARTIES can be easily crushed by the juggernauts of the major political players but, with the possibilities of government formation so finely balanced, parties such as Aontú are hoping that a breakthrough by Becky Kealy in Cork North West along with sitting TD Peadar… Read more »
McGRATH TAKES LEAD FROM TRUSS
Date: October 5, 2023 -
MICHAEL McGRATH and Liz Truss are not obvious political bed-fellows but the finance minister appears determined to announce similarly discredited policies of cutting income taxes as those championed by the failed British premier. If the various kite-flying leaks to newspapers are to be believed, Fianna Fáil’s Michael McGrath, egged on by Fine Gael ministers, is… Read more »
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FIGHTING TALK
Date: October 5, 2023 -
THE PHENOMENON of members of the Travelling community recording ‘call out’ videos – where they challenge others due to perceived slights, previous confrontations or family feuds – which are then posted online has become very common in recent years. In the last fortnight it appears that the far-right leaders of the National Party from Longford… Read more »
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DANA’S LENGTHY LEGAL SAGA
Date: October 5, 2023 -
THE LENGTHY legal journey that Dana – the singer and former MEP and presidential candidate, aka Rosemary Scallon – has embarked on over defamatory media reports regarding her brother John Brown’s prosecution on child abuse charges (he was cleared of all such charges) is close to and end. But there are one or two scores… Read more »
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JOHN TEELING’S NEW ADVISORS
Date: October 5, 2023 -
JOHN TEELING has been delivering some premium quality profits from his whiskey endeavours for the last two decades but the performance of some of his other companies has been closer to cheap lager. Take Petrel Resources, for example, which delivered a small loss of €164,000 in the six months to end of June this year,… Read more »
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RONAN McNALLY’S TIPS
Date: October 5, 2023 -
WHILE HE may have begun serving an eight-year ban from training, Ronan McNally is obviously keen to maintain an involvement in the sport by setting up a tipping service. Having landed a number of carefully planned gambles over the years, something that ultimately lead to his downfall, McNally has taken to social media to announce… Read more »
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ADMIRAL McDOWELL CLAMBERS ABOARD
Date: October 5, 2023 -
THE ESCALATION of a planning row over an Athlone marina, which began in 2012, has moved from Westmeath County Council to the District Court, Waterways Ireland (WI), the Oireachtas joint committee on public petitions and, lately, the High Court. Now one of the parties, marina owner Michael Barrett, has pressed the nuclear button and hired… Read more »
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SUPERPAT’S BIG SCREEN
Date: October 5, 2023 -
THE EFFORTS of Pat ‘Supermac’s’ McDonagh to bring a bit of New York’s Times Square to Galway’s Eyre Square have fallen flat again. SuperPat has been trying for some time to get permission for a giant video screen mounted on the façade of his restaurant on the famous Galway square. The glitzy video screen measures… Read more »
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VOL 41 NO 20
Date: October 5, 2023 -
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ZOMBIE CHANTS
Date: October 5, 2023 -
THE LATE Dolores O’Riordan is an unlikely icon for Irish rugby fans outside her native Limerick. But needs must in the face of Ooh Ah…, ‘The Fields of Athenry’ and ‘Sean South of Garryowen’. Thus, the recent enthusiasm by some media for the song ‘Zombie’… Read more »
IRELAND CLIMATE LAGGARDS — OR NOT?
Date: October 5, 2023 -
Later this month, a case taken by six Portuguese youths will be heard by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg. The case claims that 32 named states (including Ireland) need to radically ramp up their climate ambition in order to protect the fundamental human rights of today’s young people. Ireland has submitted… Read more »
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CUSSEN’S CUSSED CRITICS
Date: October 5, 2023 -
ONE OF the big beasts in the permanent government, Niall Cussen – his last civil service gig was as chief planning officer in the Department of Housing and Planning when he served minister Alan ‘AK47’ Kelly, among others – was made planning regulator in 2019. Cussen will not have expected the recent resurrection of a… Read more »
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FAR RIGHT DÁIL TANTRUM
Date: October 5, 2023 -
The far-right activists who attended the recent Call to the Dáil protest outside Leinster House were an eclectic bunch. While there were National Party, Irish Freedom Party and Ireland First activists in attendance, most of the 150 or so protestors showed no sign of party… Read more »
MI5’S SERIAL KILLER
Date: October 5, 2023 -
THE PHOENIX reported last May that the BBC was refusing to broadcast The Lost Boys, which has become the documentary du jour, because it linked the disappearance of five boys in Belfast to a paedophile ring employed by MI5 (see edition 6/5/23). A lucky few… Read more »
IRELAND’S DISCREET NATO INVOLVEMENT
Date: October 5, 2023 -
REPMUS IS an annual Nato exercise that takes place in Portugal’s Troia Bay. While there have been many congratulatory media reports about the Irish Naval Service’s recent involvement in the impounding of a cargo ship carry 2.2 tonnes of cocaine, there has been no mention… Read more »
THE HOT AIR BRIGADE
Date: October 5, 2023 -
Like Donald Trump, Mickey is entirely transactional. Joe Brolly on Mickey Joe Harte, Sunday Independent They’re basically the Jedi Knights of the army, really. Independent TD Cathal Berry on the Army Ranger wing operation on MV Matthew, Morning Ireland, RTÉ Radio 1, submitted by reader She makes a Love Island-esque surprise entrance in the first… Read more »
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DATA CENTRES SMOKE AND MIRRORS
Date: October 5, 2023 -
Simon Coveney is the latest big hitter in the data centre PR crusade. He is the keynote speaker at DataCentres Ireland conference in the RDS next month and Goldhawk feels sure he’ll be excellently briefed with industry talking points that portray a sector selflessly innovating Ireland towards sustainable prosperity. We’ve heard about data centres heating… Read more »
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THE TORIES’ LEGACY
Date: October 5, 2023 -
Leo Varadkar says relations with Britain have improved in the last year. What he didn’t say was that is because of the departure of former prime ministers Boris Johnson and Liz Truss, which set a pretty low bar for improvement. Serious strains remain on a… Read more »
SHINNERS AT THE GATE
Date: October 5, 2023 -
THE FIRST line of defence from the Government and its Greek chorus in the media against the increasing likelihood of Sinn Féin coming to power is that the combined poll rating of the Government parties is still greater than that of SF. The second is… Read more »
‘IRISH TIMES’ AND MICHEÁL MARTIN
Date: October 5, 2023 -
THE IRISH TIMES appears to have offered itself as a surrogate platform for internal political and leadership debate in Fianna Fáil given the absence of same inside the once Republican Party. The muttering inside FF for a long time – although not in the presence… Read more »
TÁNAISTE’S LONG WAR
Date: October 5, 2023 -
THE WESTERN-NATO pact driving the Ukraine war with Russia has long been seen as primarily an American initiative. But cracks are appearing in this western front, with signs of weariness in not only the US but also some European countries. Thus, Tánaiste Micheál Martin was… Read more »
POLEMIC ON CHILDCARE PROVIDERS’ ‘STRIKE’
Date: October 5, 2023 -
LONG-TIME socialist, union activist and Siptu researcher Michael Taft can hardly be accused of being soft on the ‘right-of-centre’ FFG-led Government. So given the recent ‘strike’ of some childcare providers demanding extra Government subsidies, Taft’s attack on their rising “profits, dividends and directors’ remunerations” is… Read more »
GARDAÍ ACCUSED OF PRIVACY BREACH
Date: October 5, 2023 -
AN INTRIGUING case that Sinn Féin TD Martin Kenny is taking against not only Mediahuis title the Irish Independent but also An Garda Síochána is one for breach of privacy, not defamation. This is intriguing because it is the gardaí as much as the media that is in the firing line – not for the… Read more »
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“PARTITIONIST” ALISON
Date: October 5, 2023 -
What an unusual angle Alison O’Connor deployed in defending beleaguered Garda Commissioner Drew Harris in her Sunday Times column last weekend headlined, “Garda commissioner Harris’s biggest crime? Being a Protestant”. According to Alison O’Connor, “there is no way there would have been a vote of no confidence in him”, let alone 99% majority support for… Read more »
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MOOLAH IN MONAGHAN
Date: October 5, 2023 -
THE NEWS that the Tyrone Guthrie Centre for artists, which is located in Annaghmakerrig, is to benefit to the tune of €1.5m for a brand-new studio courtesy of the arts department’s Shared Island initiative will come as a major fillip to the Co Monaghan operation and marks quite the welcome for the new incoming resident… Read more »
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RAY GREHAN’S RESULT
Date: October 5, 2023 -
PROPERTY DEVELOPER Ray Grehan has had his fair share of tumbles off the track in his high-profile business career but one of his race horses must have caught him by surprise at the Curragh. Grehan’s Magellan Strait, trained by Joseph O’Brien, went to post the 150/1 rank outsider of the 30-runner field last month for… Read more »
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PETER GLEESON’S PILE
Date: October 5, 2023 -
THE LATEST multimillion-euro pile to come on the market is Melfort on leafy Shrewsbury Road in D4. This turns out to be the humble abode of moneybags Peter Gleeson, who picked it up way back in 1988. This sale looks like a rather better bet than his investment in the gambling software business set up… Read more »
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FEMALE ARTISTS
Date: October 5, 2023 -
THE NATIONAL Gallery of Ireland (NGI) has expanded its collection through the acquisition of Rachel Ruysch’s ‘Vase of Flowers with an Ear of Corn’ (1742) and it should not come as a surprise that the 18th-century artist responsible for the work is a woman. Unlike the case of the far more high-profile purchase of Paul… Read more »
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CHARLIE CULLEN’S SWISS CHRONOGRAPHS
Date: October 5, 2023 -
NO DOUBT Charlie Cullen was delighted with the plug for the Swiss Watch Club in the Sunday Times last month. Unfortunately, the article was published immediately before a judgment was registered against the company for €30,000 by the UK-registered World Shiner (UK) Ltd, a diamond and jewellery wholesaler with offices all over the world. In… Read more »
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SMURFIT KAPPA SHAREHOLDERS FACE UNEASY FUTURE
Date: October 5, 2023 -
FANS OF Moneybags will be aware that he has long highlighted the lack of a trans-Atlantic presence for Smurfit Kappa Group (SKG), a state of affairs that, rather late in the day, CEO Tony Smurfit has finally got around to addressing. As he prepares to turn 60 at the end of this year, the proposed… Read more »
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AMINEX FINALLY READY FOR THE BIG TIME?
Date: October 5, 2023 -
THE REAPPOINTMENT last month of Bob Ambrose as a director of Aminex is a real signal that the potential game-changer well – Chikumbi-1 (CH-1), which had originally been planned for last November – will actually be spudded this autumn. Alongside the 35-km gas pipeline that… Read more »
BÉBHINN FLOOD’S FASHION FAUX PAS
Date: October 5, 2023 -
THIS WEEK sees the creditors’ meeting for a company called The Design House (Bespoke) Ltd, which was incorporated a decade ago by fashion designer/entrepreneur Bébhinn Flood, who was previously shortlisted for Image Businesswoman of the Year. Despite attracting some investment in the early days from her mentor, marketing consultant John Fennell (ex-Penneys), the business is… Read more »
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