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BITTERSWEET WEEK
Date: June 29, 2023 -
IT COMES as a surprise to many racing fans that multiple champion jockey Colin Keane only rode his first Royal Ascot winner last week, when steering home the Jessica Harrington-trained Villanova Queen in the Kensington Palace Handicap. Despite winning several classics and four champion jockey titles, Keane had been nought from 50 rides before this… Read more »
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SHAREHOLDERS CORNERED AT BALMORAL INTERNATIONAL LAND
Date: June 29, 2023 -
FANS OF Moneybags are well aware of his reservations concerning the whole Balmoral International Land Holdings (BILH) operation, where the directors and executives have been doing remarkably well for themselves, despite the (lack of) performance of Carl McCann’s company. Indeed, the latest remuneration figures simply cannot be justified. Meanwhile, the hapless shareholders were presented with… Read more »
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SMOOTHER ROAD AHEAD FOR GREAT WESTERN MINING
Date: June 29, 2023 -
EMMETT O’CONNELL has been working in the Nevada Rockies for the last 20 years looking for gold, uranium and copper. He floated Great Western Mining on the Dublin market just over a decade ago in 2011 and the operation has been seeking to make the tricky and expensive move from pure exploration to actual production…. Read more »
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‘EXTREMELY CONCERNED’ TV PRODUCERS
Date: June 29, 2023 -
AS FANS of Goldhawk are well aware, the Irish TV and movie sector provides rich pickings for the coterie of movers and shakers with the most clout. It was interesting then that Susan Kirby’s Screen Producers Ireland (SPI) got hot and bothered about the heat around Ryan Tubridy. SPI got in touch with its members… Read more »
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COUNTING ‘THE CURRENCY’
Date: June 29, 2023 -
THIS WEEK, the boys from The Currency have been making the news as well as covering it (see p3) but the good news is that the business is making some decent moolah. The founders and principals in The Currency are its editor, Ian Kehoe (former editor of the Business Post), and chief executive Tom Lyons,… Read more »
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DESMOND’S SURGICAL STRIKE
Date: June 29, 2023 -
A LOW-profile tech company called Intumed Ltd was quietly wound up last month. It turns out to have been heavily backed by Dermot Desmond and although there was no red ink at the end, it does not look to have been one of DD’s better punts. Intumed developed a platform aimed at healthcare professionals, in… Read more »
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IVANA’S FEMINIST RECORD
Date: June 29, 2023 -
THE INTERNAL debate about the report on Labour’s near demise currently being held behind closed doors is really a re-run of the now standard argument between Sandymount liberalism á la Ivana Bacik and traditional Old Labour, trade union politics as claimed by previous leader Alan Kelly. But the interesting feature of the recrimination is that… Read more »
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BRIAN COTTER’S SWAN NECK
Date: June 29, 2023 -
MEDIA-FRIENDLY Brian Cotter – who along with sibling James constitute the self-styled ‘Botox Brothers’ – generated yet more publicity last week when featuring prominently in a couple of different cosmetics stories. No doubt, it will lead to more bookings at the brothers’ SISU clinic, where profits are now being generated, albeit not on the scale… Read more »
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IRISH TIMES MARCHES ON
Date: June 28, 2023 -
TIME WAS when the Sunday Independent was the would-be Irish Tory trumpet in the media on foreign and domestic politics (think Eoghan Harris on Israel etc), compared to the left-liberal-peace-loving Irish Times. But in recent years the IT’s rush to embrace western military values and organisations has seen it change places with the Sindo. While… Read more »
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DUNCAN STEWART’S SPEECH
Date: June 28, 2023 -
Kudos to Dublin City Council and lord mayor Caroline Conroy for the decision to bestow the Freedom of the City to environmentalists for the first time. Architect and environmentalist Duncan Stewart and Greta Thunberg were the recipients. Stewart received a rousing reception at the Mansion House, where he delivered a typically feisty off-the-cuff speech in… Read more »
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RONAN MCNALLY’S GOOD NEWS
Date: June 28, 2023 -
THERE WAS some good news for errant trainer Ronan McNally last week, although he still carries a hell of a handicap. The Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB) had sought to rid racing of his presence by banning Ronan McNally from the sport for a whopping 12 years. He was also ordered to stump up a… Read more »
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CURRENCY EXCHANGE
Date: June 28, 2023 -
AS THE RTÉ saga gathered momentum, The Currency business media website has had its fair share of exposure courtesy of RTÉ. Not surprisingly, things have got a little complicated here. The Currency editor Ian Kehoe also happens to sit on the board of RTÉ and is even on the audit and remuneration committee. Given that… Read more »
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RUSSIAN ROULETTE IN THE DÁIL
Date: June 15, 2023 -
AN INTRIGUING EXCHANGE recently occurred in the Dáil between Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and People before Profit TD Paul Murphy, which appeared to demolish much of the pro-Nato propaganda the Government deploys to justify its support for war in Ukraine and the longer-term goal of abandoning… Read more »
PROFILE: PADDY DUNICAN
Date: June 15, 2023 -
THE NAME Paddy Dunican may not ring too many bells outside the horseracing world but events off the turf over the last year have seen him ride into a prominent position, just as the final furlongs beckon in the battle for control of the €325m TV broadcasting rights. Among the silks on view in this… Read more »
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YOUNG BLOOD: LOUISE DUFFY
Date: June 15, 2023 -
WHEN BROADCASTER Louise Duffy took over from Ronan Collins in the midday slot on RTÉ Radio 1, it came as a surprise to many as she had been somewhat off-radar. After eight years at Today FM, Duffy was dropped by the station in the summer… Read more »
SIMON HARRIS’S LEADERSHIP TIMING
Date: June 15, 2023 -
HAS ANYONE noticed that of the two junior ministers now increasingly mentioned as possible Fine Gael leadership rivals to senior minister Simon Harris, both of them – Jennifer Carroll MacNeill and Peter Burke – collaborated with Leo Varadkar (and Martin Heydon) in that income tax… Read more »
UNA HEALY’S TRANSFORMATION
Date: June 15, 2023 -
TV PRESENTER, singer and brand ambassador Una Healy appears to have multiple personalities and her energetic PR campaign has seen her rubbish reports of her ‘throuple’ relationship and state her longing for a monogamous man. In recent years Healy has been pulling in much moolah… Read more »
JENNY KEANE’S SEXUAL REVOLUTION
Date: June 15, 2023 -
SPARE A thought for the assorted boring, traditional sexual health therapists operating in Ireland, who must be a little jealous of the remarkable success of “holistic sex educator Jenny Keane”. She is set to pack in the punters at her roadshows in Vicar Street and elsewhere in September at a cool €96 a ticket. The… Read more »
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CATHERINE MARTIN’S €1.85M GRANT
Date: June 15, 2023 -
ARTS MINISTER Catherine Martin was delighted to bask in the positive publicity surrounding the purchase by the National Gallery of Ireland (NGI) of Paul Cézanne’s tidy little painting, ‘La Vie des Champs’. It will be interesting to see just how much of the final tab… Read more »
NAEEM MANIAR’S FROZEN FOOD
Date: June 15, 2023 -
THE RATHER discreet change of ownership at the Iceland stores has resulted in raised temperatures in the frozen food chain, where the new owner, one Naeem Maniar, has adopted a pretty confrontational approach. Indeed, it hasn’t taken him long to call in the dreaded legal… Read more »
AIB SHAREHOLDERS SET FOR PROFIT BONANZA
Date: June 15, 2023 -
AIB SUPREMO Colin Hunt has had a challenging time since his appointment as CEO in March 2019, trying to keep pace with Bank of Ireland (BoI) during Francesca McDonagh’s reign. Now, however, the shoe is on the other foot and, as a result of rising… Read more »
VOL 41 NO 12
Date: June 15, 2023 -
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UNA MCGURK’S WRIT
Date: June 15, 2023 -
OUTSPOKEN SENIOR counsel Una McGurk has been tweeting about the incoming hate speech legislation but she has also been keeping an eye on the existing laws regulating the media. It will be recalled (see The Phoenix 26/2/21) that McGurk was the focus of significant criticism after speaking at a rally alongside the Irish Freedom Party,… Read more »
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SPOOKY SPEAKERS
Date: June 15, 2023 -
HOW APPROPRIATE that the first speaker to address Micheál Martin’s opening panel at the forum on security policy (see also p11) this month should be Renata Dwan, deputy director of British military think-tank Chatham House (CH), which is stuffed with HMG’s military and intelligence types. Otherwise known as the Royal Institute of International Affairs, CH… Read more »
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NUNAN’S TOUGH TASK
Date: June 15, 2023 -
CHILDREN’S MINISTER Roderic O’Gorman’s choice of Sheila Nunan to lead negotiations with churches on contributions to the long-awaited, miserly Mother & Baby Institutions Payments Scheme is interesting. As usual, Irish Times reporting emphasised Catholic contributions. It failed to note a ministerial press release mentioning the Church of Ireland (CoI). CoI clergy were involved in managing… Read more »
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BAUER’S RADIO INTERFERENCE
Date: June 15, 2023 -
THIS WEEK the High Court will hear deliberations regarding the action initiated by DJ and radio presenter Dave Macardle against his new employers, Bauer Media Audio, owners of Newstalk and a variety of other stations. The German-owned Bauer became a significant presence in the Irish radio market in 2021 when it acquired Denis O’Brien’s Communicorp… Read more »
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GARETH MCALLISTER’S BACKERS
Date: June 15, 2023 -
WITH IT getting harder to avoid tripping over the latest new whiskey distillery to pop up (see p17), it is not surprising to learn that punters are throwing money at the sector and this is clearly the case for a little outfit called Ahascragh Distillers… Read more »
KINCORA WON’T GO AWAY
Date: June 15, 2023 -
THE DECADES-old snake pit that is the former Kincora Boys’ Home in Belfast, where children were abused in blackmail tactics against unionist politicians and loyalists by British spooks, is about to resurface. Two former residents are suing various NI officials for the sex abuse they… Read more »
AI TO SCAN ALL EU PRIVATE MESSAGES?
Date: June 15, 2023 -
AN INCREASINGLY burning issue concerns multinationals and states accessing the public’s personal data. In the last month alone, politicians in Ireland have voiced concern over the use of TikTok on official devices, while Meta Ireland has been taken to task by the Data Protection Commission… Read more »
INTERNATIONAL BRIGADE SWAPS SIDES
Date: June 15, 2023 -
RTÉ HAS certainly avoided any friction with the Government line on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and its coverage of events over the last year has been exemplary for a media highly reliant on effective government subvention. The recent incursions into Belgorod in Russia, by Russian Nazi’s fighting in support of the Ukrainian administration, saw RTÉ… Read more »
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THE HOT AIR BRIGADE
Date: June 15, 2023 -
I think even my harshest critics would say that any role I am given in government, I genuinely try to give it my all. It is my personality. It is how I operate. Simon Harris, Irish Times Something I say a lot is that someday you’ll find someone, and they’re going to find out how… Read more »
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ICE IN LEO VARADKAR’S VEINS
Date: June 15, 2023 -
IN 2019 Leo Varadkar pointed out that climate change had its “benefits” as well as its “downsides”. You know, warmer Irish winters and the like. He was, rightly, pilloried. But there are winners as well as losers. Take the truly ominous report by scientists this… Read more »
SUNAK/DUP DEAL?
Date: June 15, 2023 -
Michelle O’Neill travelled to Washington on June 4, two days before British prime minister Rishi Sunak – but they were on different missions. Sunak was there to be seen to be meeting the US President for the TV news in Britain and to shake hands… Read more »
MURPHY’S SOC DEMS OWN GOALS
Date: June 15, 2023 -
WAS THE blundering performance put in by Catherine Murphy in the Denis O’Brien/Siteserv saga one of the reasons for the change in the Social Democrats leadership and the elevation of Holly Cairns? Murphy’s image has changed from whistleblower against the ogre, O’Brien, to one of… Read more »
SIMON COVENEY’S CONSTITUENCY
Date: June 15, 2023 -
IS SIMON COVENEY trying to emulate British Tory prime minister Harold McMillan’s electoral slogan, “You’ve never had it so good”, in an effort to galvanise Fine Gael as the party slips into demoralisation and leadership speculation? In a recent Irish Examiner interview, Covetous Coveney insisted… Read more »
PACIFISTS SILENCED AT MARTIN’S FORUMS
Date: June 15, 2023 -
INDICATIONS OF the militarist tenor of Tánaiste and foreign affairs minister Micheál Martin’s Forum on International Security were noted in The Phoenix (see edition 24/4/23). Martin announced that the forum is to be chaired by security expert Louise Richardson DBE. He did not spell out… Read more »
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