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VETTING ‘MALE’ REFUGEES AT INCH
Date: June 15, 2023 -
FORMER COMMISSIONER of the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission and ex-RTÉ producer Betty Purcell has made an interesting complaint to RTÉ about the broadcaster’s recent coverage of the protests against asylum seekers in Inch, Co Clare. Purcell complained to the national broadcaster about the… Read more »
JOHN DOWNING & THE BELGIANS
Date: June 15, 2023 -
ERUDITE INDEPENDENT writer John Downing normally gives his newspaper titles a slightly higher tone but what are we to make of Downing’s apparently whimsical column recently about “famous Belgians”? Beginning with indignation about “trite… banal… smart aleck” types who sneer at Belgians, Downing quickly moved on to claim “you could wallpaper a fair-sized room with… Read more »
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CASHING IN ON CHATHAM ST
Date: June 15, 2023 -
GOLDHAWK WAS interested to spy that a company called Dtat Ltd has just been wound up by its owners, who have scooped a fair few bob as a result. It turns out that Dtat is the company behind the high-profile ESL jewellery shop just off… Read more »
EARL OF TYRONE’S TIPPLE
Date: June 15, 2023 -
IT WAS reported last weekend in the Business Post that one Henry de la Poer Beresford, who happens to be the 9th Marquess of Waterford and owner of the impressive Curraghmore House and demesne, has objected to plans for a 35-acre solar farm on lands where he owns “shooting, sporting and killing” rights. Presumably paying… Read more »
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FAT LADY SINGS
Date: June 15, 2023 -
SO FAREWELL then Classical Arts Ireland (CAI), where the curtain has officially come down. CAI, a not-for-profit enterprise established back in 2011, promoted opera, ballet and classical music here, as well as promoting Irish classical arts overseas and live screenings of the best international opera, ballet and orchestral music. Another aim of CAI was to… Read more »
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DAVE MCWILLIAMS’S KYIV COMPANY
Date: June 15, 2023 -
BONO, MARIELLA Frostrup and co will be popping up at the Dalkey Books Festival this weekend, with David McWilliams front and centre as usual. While many of the big-name gigs are sold out (including Tom Hanks) there are still tickets available for less mortals like… Read more »
SLOW START FOR LYONS
Date: June 15, 2023 -
THE IRISH flat season is in full swing and one of the main talking points has been the absence of Ger Lyons-trained horses from the winners’ enclosure. Lyons has established himself as a top-five trainer over the past decade and last season finished third in the trainers’ championship, behind Aidan and Joseph O’Brien, having won… Read more »
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WHELAN’S WHIP WOES
Date: June 15, 2023 -
KILDARE JOCKEY Ronan Whelan has enjoyed a fine start to the flat season but his momentum has been stalled after racking up a 13-day suspension for breaching the whip rules in Ireland and England. Whelan has delivered 15 first places already this year and has forged lucrative relationships with trainers such as Jessica Harrington and… Read more »
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HVIVO LOOKING HEALTHIER THANKS TO PANDEMIC
Date: June 15, 2023 -
WHILE THE effects of the pandemic on businesses are starting to ease, some companies made great leaps forward over the last couple of years. One of these is hVivo (formerly Open Orphan), the Cathal Friel-backed contract research organisation. Despite the high price/earnings rating for the… Read more »
CORMAC LOHAN’S COSTS
Date: June 15, 2023 -
GOLDHAWK’S OLD friend, Athlone legal eagle Cormac Lohan, has suffered yet another setback, this time over a legal costs adjudication relating to the previous winding up of his company by the dreaded taxman. In 2018, the Revenue petitioned the High Court to wind up the solicitors’s consultancy business, Lohan Consulting Ltd, with Aidan Garcia Diaz… Read more »
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SEAWEED COMPANY SINKS
Date: June 15, 2023 -
GOLDHAWK WAS surprised to see that a liquidator (Flavien Kelly) has just been appointed to The Seaweed Company Blue Turtle Ltd, the Irish subsidiary of a giant Dutch firm operating in the investment-friendly world of seaweed cultivation, having developed a 50-acre sea farm off the… Read more »
IAN LUCEY’S GUARANTEES
Date: June 15, 2023 -
HAVING COME pretty close to the edge on a couple of occasions, serial tech investor Ian Lucey’s investment vehicle, Lucey Technology Ltd (LTL), where he is the only listed director, has been wound up by the High Court. The question is whether liquidator Neil Hughes will be able to realise anything like the value attributed… Read more »
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CHRIS WHOLEY’S SETBACKS
Date: June 15, 2023 -
INTERESTING TO see long-established engineering business KC Civil Engineering Ltd (KCCE) on the wrong end of a judgment for €66,000 from suppliers Stakelums Hardware Ltd, although this is not the first such hit in recent times. KCCE owner Chris Wholey is well known to someone… Read more »
The Phoenix 40th Edition
Date: June 1, 2023 -
The 40th edition is packed with interesting and amusing stories from 80’s, 90’s, 2000’s and up to 2020. Also includes regular issue inside. Download the PDF here
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FG LEADERSHIP PARALYSIS
Date: June 1, 2023 -
MANY FINE GAEL TDs and senators want Simon Harris to get a move on and go for the leadership of the party but the new dauphin (following the decline of Simon ‘Covetous’ Coveney’s ambitious designs) is stricken with fearful paralysis. The return to politics of… Read more »
CATCH THE WIND
Date: June 1, 2023 -
While touted by some as Ireland’s green energy moonshot, the backlash against offshore wind energy seems to be gathering pace, long before a single pylon has been installed. Although experts were delighted with the results of the recent auction of 3GW of offshore wind, the Irish Times gave the news a distinctly cool reception, with… Read more »
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‘SEE NO SECTARIANISM …’
Date: June 1, 2023 -
THE IRISH TIMES lasered in on the Government’s scoping inquiry into abuse “at private fee paying schools” recently, but its article had little to say about the most newsworthy aspect of the inquiry – its sectarian terms of reference, namely the exclusion of Protestant-school pupils. When the inquiry was set up in March, academic Niall… Read more »
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MEDIA STRUCK DUMB BY NORTH RESULTS
Date: June 1, 2023 -
The results of May’s council elections in the north confirmed, as expected, SF’s political dominance, which it displayed in last year’s assembly election. The outcome is a political revolution, the significance of which was completely lost on media in the south. Showing its grasp of the northern political scene the day before the elections, the… Read more »
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KEVIN DOYLE’S MISS-HIT
Date: June 1, 2023 -
IT HAS been interesting to follow the progress, or indeed lack thereof, of a horse now named Montecam. Readers may recall that former Irish soccer international-turned-horse-breeder Kevin Doyle bought the brother to then superstar chaser Altior for €155,000 as a foal back in 2019. Doyle viewed the horse as a risky but potentially very rewarding… Read more »
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THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING
Date: June 1, 2023 -
WHEN TÁNAISTE Micheál Martin went on the offensive in relation to The Ditch and it’s exposure of corruption among the political classes, he was careful to do so under Dáil privilege. Martin is no fool and knows that accusing The Ditch of not being “an… Read more »
THE HOME SCAR – KATHLEEN MACMAHON
Date: June 1, 2023 -
FOR MORE than a decade, the fiction of Kathleen MacMahon has centred largely on family members coming together to support one another through various crises. It is the reader who may end up needing a little support, however. The former RTÉ journalist (and granddaughter of short story writer Mary Lavin) got off to flying start… Read more »
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PROMOTING FERGUS CRONIN
Date: June 1, 2023 -
CONGRATULATIONS TO scribbler Fergus Cronin, whose debut collection of short stories, Night Music, has attracted the sort of promotion and exposure usually only afforded to established writers. But then Cronin is no ordinary aspiring fiction writer. He is also the hubby of Arts Council head… Read more »
PETER GAYNOR SELLS UP
Date: June 1, 2023 -
GOLDHAWK WAS interested to see that the spacious Rembrandt House at 1 Longford Terrace in Monkstown is on the market with a tasty €2.5m price tag. This address – with its “breath-taking uninterrupted sea views over Dublin Bay” – was formerly occupied by one Peter Gaynor and the impressive pile would be very familiar to… Read more »
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VOL 41 NO 11
Date: June 1, 2023 -
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RYEVALE HOUSE RESISTANCE
Date: June 1, 2023 -
THERE IS still significant opposition to the decision to use the impressive Ryevale House outside Leixlip, Co Kildare, to provide emergency accommodation for up to 80 refugees. It is, however, not clear if Ronan Mallon’s Coldec Props, which has been most closely associated with the controversy, owns any of the high-profile property. The Georgian mansion… Read more »
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JOE MACKEN’S FORMER PARTNER
Date: June 1, 2023 -
GOLDHAWK’S one-time favourite restaurateur Joe Macken (see Young Blood 6/4/12) was in the news again last week when he took a pop at his former business partner, who turns out to have picked up some heavyweight backers. Hipster Macken has generally tended to get a soft ride from the press and even when it was… Read more »
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MI5 MACHINATIONS
Date: June 1, 2023 -
HIS MAJESTY’S legislation to snuff out Troubles-related legacy cases looks like it will pass into law this year. The probe into the RUC’s failure to act on intelligence and prevent the Real IRA’s bombing of Omagh in August 1998 will, however, proceed. It is a statutory enquiry, an entity that is immune to the new… Read more »
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BEDS BONANZA IN D6
Date: June 1, 2023 -
THE BLOCKADE in Inch and the burnt-out tent village in Dublin city centre have focused attention on the issues surrounding the housing of asylum seekers and those fleeing the war in Ukraine. It has also drawn more attention to the big bucks being generated in… Read more »
HAUGHEY’S GUBU ENEMIES
Date: June 1, 2023 -
Harry McGEE’S new book, The Murderer and the Taoiseach, describes the homicides perpetrated by Malcolm McArthur in 1982. Sensationally, McArthur was arrested while staying at the Dalkey apartment of Charles Haughey’s attorney general, Patrick Connolly. Within days the front page of the Sun was describing Patrick Connolly as “ballet-loving”, while the Daily Star described him… Read more »
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TRIPLE-COCK-UP BY GREENS
Date: June 1, 2023 -
THE BUSINESS POST recently had on its front page a piece about the Green Party’s shift towards abolition of the triple lock – championed by Fianna Fáil leader and Tánaiste Micheál Martin – and the next day a similar report was published in the Irish Times. The chief argument recently deployed against the triple lock… Read more »
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BURYING MOUNTBATTEN
Date: June 1, 2023 -
ANOTHER EXAMPLE of the ‘special relationship’ between the US and Britain is the revelation – covered in the British media but not, for some reason, in the Irish media – that the US authorities ordered the FBI to destroy incriminating documents they held on the… Read more »
KATE HASN’T GONE AWAY, YOU KNOW
Date: June 1, 2023 -
AN AIR of mystery and intrigue surrounds Fine Gael councillor Emma Blain’s step onto the political chess board of Dublin Bay South (DBS) with her nomination for the Pembroke area of Dublin City Council sweeping through the DBS convention last week, facilitated by some of the party elders. This is despite Emma being a councillor… Read more »
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HUGO MACNEILL’S GONG
Date: June 1, 2023 -
THE EXCITED word among the goys in south Dublin rugger clubs is that Hugo MacNeill will shortly receive a measure of compensation for losing last year’s TCD Seanad by-election to former army officer Tom Clonan. This comes, ironically, in the form of an OBE, or Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire…. Read more »
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THE HOT AIR BRIGADE
Date: June 1, 2023 -
Who else can boast that they were invited into Number 10 Downing Street to interview simultaneously then prime minister Tony Blair and the then taoiseach Bertie Ahern, had a stint hosting Celebrity Love Island, ran a race with Prince William for Sports Relief and sang with Johnny Vegas in a spoof version of the boyband… Read more »
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NAH NAH PANA
Date: June 1, 2023 -
THE MEDIA, military and Government mantra is for a serious debate about neutrality. Newspapers and airwaves are full of strident cries to end neutrality and the ‘free ride’ we get from Nato members, so substantial statements from (at least) two peace groups recently should have been most welcome to editors anxious to cover the issue…. Read more »
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‘BUSINESS POST’ REVISES NORTH LINE
Date: June 1, 2023 -
NEWLY MINTED Business Post editor Daniel McConnell clearly felt the need to not only assert a politically pristine editorial line on the north but to attach his name to this line. The Post was founded in 1989 by a quartet of business journalists led by Damien Kiberd, who advanced a constitutional republican position. Kiberd was… Read more »
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