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NO SO JOLLY HOCKEY STICKS
Date: September 7, 2023 -
A SPAT has emerged between the residents who live around Newbridge College, one of the more affordable private schools in Ireland, with fees of a mere €4,700 a year. The school plans to build 18-metre-high floodlights for the school’s hockey pitch but has hit something of a snag over the locals’ predictable concerns about bright… Read more »
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JOHN MOORE’S VIRTUAL IMPAIRMENT
Date: September 7, 2023 -
SELF-STYLED “rebel entrepreneur” and “concerned citizen” John Moore, now based in sunny Lisbon in Portugal, has had a bit of a setback with his virtual reality punt, Roomality, according to figures just filed. Moneybags Moore made a killing when he offloaded his 3D4 Medical operation in 2019 to Elsevier for a reported $50m. Given that… Read more »
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CAROLINE DOWNEY’S SHOOTING STAR
Date: August 24, 2023 -
INTERESTING TO see a new constitution filed for the unlimited holding company Ronmall, where promoters extraordinaire Denis Desmond and Caroline Downey stash most of their millions. At the same time, Caroline’s pet pop projects have been generating plenty of hype. The new filing for Ronmall reveals a hike in its share capital to just on… Read more »
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PROFILE: IAN KEHOE
Date: August 24, 2023 -
IN A little under two months the latterly eventful five-year term of Ian Kehoe as a member and deputy chair of the RTÉ board draws to its conclusion. While from the current vantage point it seems unlikely that the co-owner and founder of The Currency… Read more »
YOUNG BLOOD: JENNY KEANE
Date: August 24, 2023 -
“HOLISTIC SEX educator” and tantric yoga instructor Jenny Keane has proven adept at garnering media attention ever since she launched herself on to the sexual health therapy scene during the pandemic. Bringing her shtick on tour should generate more moolah but sales suggest that maybe sex doesn’t always sell. La Keane – who describes herself… Read more »
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IRISH ‘NON-LETHAL’ NEUTRALITY
Date: August 24, 2023 -
SOONER OR later ministers were going to trip themselves up with contradictory and meaningless rhetoric about Irish neutrality being compatible with offering political, financial and military support alongside Nato and the EU in Ukraine. Even the Irish Times, momentarily, had to concede last week that… Read more »
TUBS’S IMMODEST SUCCESSOR
Date: August 24, 2023 -
MOST NEWSPAPERS could not resist listing the contenders to replace Ryan Tubridy in his radio morning slot and most were relatively objective in their assessments. Of the weekend’s Sunday Independent, Irish Independent, Business Post and Sunday Times, the last three all placed Oliver Callan at… Read more »
JOHN MCGUIRK’S AWARDS
Date: August 24, 2023 -
THE DEDICATED hacks of Gript, the conservative news website that says it’s an antidote to “the all-pervasive groupthink that exists across most Irish media platforms”, could be forgiven for celebrations this month. From now on, they will get to compete against those liberal-agenda pushers in the newly designed Irish Journalism Awards, where ex-Indo editor Claire… Read more »
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MULTI-TASKING DARA MURPHY
Date: August 24, 2023 -
NEWS WINGS its way to Goldhawk of the revitalised political and military career in European circles of former Fine Gael minister Dara Murphy, who like many whose talents were unappreciated at home in Ireland has made it big abroad. A begrudging media and jealous political rivals made life difficult for Dara as he took a… Read more »
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LEAVING LISTOWEL WRITERS’ WEEK
Date: August 24, 2023 -
THE FUN and games continue at Listowel Writers’ Week where a new programme director is about to be announced following exit of the first ever professional curator after just one year. He has since claimed to have been hounded out by local resentment of his… Read more »
HANDICAPPING BRENDAN DUKE
Date: August 24, 2023 -
THERE WAS a lot of discussion off the turf last week in relation to the attempted eviction from his Fenway House property in Co Kildare of well-liked trainer Brendan Duke. It turns out that the other runner here has some form of note. Duke managed to secure a temporary injunction against the recent purchasers of… Read more »
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FARRELLY’S PROFILE TAKES OFF
Date: August 24, 2023 -
WHILE MICK O’Leary’s almost comical levels of indignation continue to feature regularly in the media, one person who might be enjoying the pantomime is Fingal County Council boss Ann-Marie Farrelly. Ryanair motormouth O’Leary has been to the fore in criticising the actions of Fingal Co Co in connection with the north runway at Dublin Airport…. Read more »
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VOL. 41 NO. 17
Date: August 24, 2023 -
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EDITING THE JOURNALISM AWARDS
Date: August 24, 2023 -
THE 2023 Irish Journalism Awards are being organised by an amalgamation of NewsBrands Ireland and its new partners in this endeavour, Google News Initiative and the Press Council of Ireland. But the impression of an expanding organisation is a reverse of the reality, which is… Read more »
CAPTAINS AND THE KINGS
Date: August 24, 2023 -
EFFORTS TO create a Houses for Heroes memorial to WWI soldiers in the Dublin suburb of Killester, led by local resident Aaron Crampton, have been stalled by Dublin City Council (DCC), which has demanded a more inclusive memorial that reflects the community and history of the area. The Killester WW1 Memorial Campaign website explains that… Read more »
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HORSING AROUND IN THE FOUR GOLDMINES
Date: August 24, 2023 -
GOLDHAWK HAS spotted an interesting looking High Court action that has been lodged by an outfit called Studbook Development Ireland Ltd (SDI), which operates a studbook for the Irish warmblood breed of sport horses. On the receiving end is the body that manages horse shows around the country and three of its senior officers. The… Read more »
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IRISH FREEDOM PARTY ‘FAKE NEWS’
Date: August 24, 2023 -
PRESS OMBUDSMAN Susan McKay recently ruled on a complaint from Hermann Kelly, leader of the Irish Freedom Party. It was Kelly’s fifth complaint in the last few years. It related to two articles published by Extra.ie that included the claim that “far right demonstrators and members of the Irish Freedom Party (IFP) marched to the… Read more »
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McGURK’S BAR COVER-UP
Date: August 24, 2023 -
WHILE THE British government is holding a judicial inquiry into the Real IRA’s bombing of Omagh – death toll 29 – the McGurk’s bar bomb of 1971, which claimed 15 lives, is being studiously ignored, despite an ongoing campaign by surviving relatives. The official line… Read more »
O’DUFFY LIVES!
Date: August 24, 2023 -
For years one of the most controversial far-right summer schools has been the American Renaissance (AR) conference, organised by the New Century Foundation (NCF). This year one of the eight speakers at the conference was Keith Woods (pseudonym of Keith O’Brien) from Roscommon, a prominent far-right personality online. The NCF, founded in 1990 by Jared… Read more »
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THE HOT AIR BRIGADE
Date: August 24, 2023 -
I seem to have developed a brand online where people think I am a rock of sense. Perhaps it was the straight-talking, factual information I provided during lockdowns about what was or wasn’t allowed. Stefanie Preissner, Life Magazine Hozier is niche and Hozier is utterly mainstream. Hozier is specific and Hozier is broad. Hozier is,… Read more »
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MEDIA TURNS ON BIG AGRI
Date: August 24, 2023 -
After years of coverage ranging from uncritical to downright fawning, there are clear hints that the Irish media’s love affair with agriculture may finally be cooling. In the Business Post, for instance, Daniel Murray ripped into the Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA), accusing it of “misrepresentation of science” around methane and criticising its attacks on the… Read more »
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LIVELY LIVESTOCK
Date: August 24, 2023 -
New research has found that livestock farmers in the EU receive around 1,200 times more public funding than plant-based or cultivated meat groups. “Powerful vested interests exerted their political influence to maintain the system unchanged and to obstruct competition created by technological innovations,” the researchers… Read more »
NOLAN AT THE BBC’S NORTH FACE
Date: August 24, 2023 -
The north’s only shock-jock is in trouble. Stephen Nolan, the BBC’s fifth-highest-paid star at around £400,000, has faced a series of accusations in recent weeks including allegations of bullying, circulating sexually explicit pictures to BBC NI staff and using ‘plants’ in his studio audiences. There are also questions about his production company, Third Street, and… Read more »
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BLUESHIRT LAW LIBRARY REVOLT
Date: August 24, 2023 -
JUNIOR ENTERPRISE minister Neale Richmond will not have been pleased at being described by Fine Gael spin doctors as the person responsible for the cancellation of last October’s Business Breakfast fundraiser (€100 a pop for a full Irish in the Mansion House). Richmond will be… Read more »
SIMON HARRIS’S TACTICS
Date: August 24, 2023 -
IF RESENTFUL Fine Gael colleagues really believe that Simon Harris leaks like a sieve, they should have a word with Mediahuis political hack Philip Ryan. Philip recently got a scoop about the vision of the coming force in Fine Gael, minister Harris. Ryan told Sindo readers in advance – under the headline “Harris stakes claim… Read more »
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SEE NO EVIL, PRINT NO EVIL
Date: August 24, 2023 -
THE COMPLICITY of the media in largely failing to highlight clerical child abuse unless it is perpetrated by Catholic clergy has recently been exposed yet again (see below). This sectarian phenomenon goes back 25 years or so to when clerical abuse was first being publicly exposed. In December 2000 Mary Kenny profiled Castlepollard rector Glenn… Read more »
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DUKE’S HEAVY GOING
Date: August 24, 2023 -
CURRAGH TRAINER Brendan Duke has an ugly battle on his hands to remain in situ in his rented training yard (see p5). The High Court recently granted him a temporary injunction against Peter Keatley and Teresa Kearney, owners of the trainer’s rented premises, Fenway House,… Read more »
COOLMORE’S FAMOUS FIVE
Date: August 24, 2023 -
FOUR YEARS ago, Swiss billionaire Georg von Opel made some seven-figure purchases of prime horseflesh at Irish sales under his thoroughbred investment vehicle, Westerberg. Most of the deals were made in conjunction with Coolmore and von Opel was duly welcomed into the fold by John Magnier. He has significantly strengthened his ties. This was clear… Read more »
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SHARON KEEGAN’S SUPPORTERS
Date: August 24, 2023 -
LAST MONTH Goldhawk’s favourite athleisure wear seller, Sharon Keegan of Peachylean, gave her tuppenceworth on succeeding in business in an online discussion with “global retail expert” Nicole Higgins, aka The Buyer and Retail Coach. Keegan has also secured some more moolah, courtesy of the taxpayer. Not surprisingly, the podcast featured plenty of inspirational titbits from… Read more »
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THE COSTELLOS’ LABOUR LEGACY
Date: August 24, 2023 -
A GLOWING political obituary of former Labour minister Joe Costello was delivered from the appropriate pulpit of the Irish Times last week. The lengthy article covering Costello’s political career of over 50 years managed to avoid any unseemly mention of Labour’s self-destructive role in a… Read more »
SUMMER SELECTION
Date: August 24, 2023 -
ONE SUMMER school the Irish Times won’t be covering is the 33rd Desmond Greaves Summer Weekend School at the Irish Institute, 27 Pearse Street, Dublin 2, from September 1-3. The organisers include indefatigable anti-EU campaigner Anthony Coughlan, and ex-Green Party radical and MEP Patricia McKenna, while the speakers include unrepentant Sinn Féiner and former Dublin… Read more »
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TOM HIGGINS’S COUNTDOWN
Date: August 24, 2023 -
NO DOUBT, after the high-profile launch of Virgin Galactic’s (VG) first ever batch of private space tourists earlier this month, Irish space cadet Tom ‘Psychics Live’ Higgins must be getting excited about his own planned trip, over 18 years after he stumped up the equivalent of $¼m to Richard Branson’s company. But could he run… Read more »
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PETER WHITE’S PROPERTIES
Date: August 24, 2023 -
A VERY lengthy renovation project on leafy Wellington Road in D4 has finally concluded. The impressive pile was most closely associated with businessman and one-time restaurateur Peter White, although it was understood to have been the subject of an off-market sale a couple of years… Read more »
HOSTELWORLD JOURNEYING TOWARDS REAL PROFITABILITY
Date: August 24, 2023 -
THE LATEST results from Hostelworld demonstrate that CEO Gary Morrison has been doing an impressive job getting this online travel booking engine back into action. The latest figures, covering the half year to June 2023, show bookings (despite the ongoing impact of the war in Ukraine) up 57% to €340m and net income up 57%… Read more »
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C&C LEAVES A BAD TASTE IN MARKET’S MOUTH
Date: August 24, 2023 -
THE C&C group is unique in that it is the only Irish-quoted company whose financial year ends on February 28. In the ordinary way this would not be significant but it means that the company’s last trading year before the pandemic lockdown in March 2020 covered a full year and its first year out of… Read more »
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ANNE HERATY’S SAD STOREY
Date: August 24, 2023 -
SOME BAD news for Anne Heraty and hubby Paul Carroll, who got a red light from Dublin City Council (DCC) planning officials when seeking an extra floor on their building at the corner of Haddington Road and Baggot Street in D2. Heraty/Carroll made the planning application through the Tullington Ltd vehicle, which was working on… Read more »
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