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DEFENDER OF THE FAITH
Date: May 18, 2023 -
THERE WAS much joyous comment in the media – Irish as well as British – at the “inclusive” character of the coronation of King Charles III. This was reflected by the extraordinarily generous and ecumenical gesture by the royal family to allow Sikhs, Buddhists and Jews to participate in the ceremony. Sunday Independent columnist and… Read more »
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LUCINDA’S MESSAGE TO MELONI
Date: May 18, 2023 -
DOES A recent Business Post column by Lucinda Creighton on Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni indicate that EU conservatives are ready to accept the rehabilitation of the far right? Lucinda wrote how the election successes of Meloni and her Brothers of Italy (FDL) party was initially “met with consternation in the press”. Such media reaction… Read more »
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PALE, MALE AND ‘IT’
Date: May 18, 2023 -
It took Irish Times editor Ruadhán Mac Cormaic some 48 hours to explain who, what, where and how the newspaper’s website ran an absurd opinion piece last week, but in his lengthy, hand-wringing non-apology to readers he left out the ‘why’. The piece, ostensibly by a blue-haired Ecuadorean called Adriana Acosta-Cortez, argued that the use… Read more »
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ENVIRONMENTAL ‘EXPERTS’
Date: May 18, 2023 -
Once the favourite punch-bag of environmentalists, the semi-state Bord na Móna (BnaM) has morphed from the bog-destroying climate villain to the squeaky new corporation that is, in its own words, working with nature. BnaM now defines its mission as providing sustainable energy from renewable sources, rehabilitating the peatlands it has destroyed, delivering waste and resource… Read more »
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MILK BILL
Date: May 18, 2023 -
The free-spending National Dairy Council (NDC) – a private, farmer-owned marketing company – has not been seeing eye to eye with the Revenue Commissioners of late. According to its 2021 annual report, the NDC has a “VAT recoverable balance” of over €1.5m and a related “contingent liability” of nearly €680,000. These hefty amounts relate to… Read more »
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YVONNE DEENEY’S DES RES
Date: May 18, 2023 -
IT WAS reported by the Sunday Times earlier this month that Natalia Sutherland – daughter of former Goldman Sachs chairman Peter ‘Suds’ Sutherland – and her hubby, finance suit Paul McEnroe, recently acquired a fabulous mansion in Dartry, D6. This turns out to be the striking Hatherton, located on one acre of “pristine gardens” opposite… Read more »
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SHARON KEEGAN’S FANS
Date: May 18, 2023 -
THERE WAS yet more valuable publicity for Sharon Keegan of the Peachylean athleisure brand last weekend, with the Business Post reporting that she is planning to expand across the Atlantic. Although Keegan has announced this same strategy before, Business Post sponsors Enterprise Ireland (EI) were surely most happy with the latest puff piece Keegan will… Read more »
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MERCURY RISING
Date: May 18, 2023 -
THE PROPERTY section of the Irish Times carried a suitably bloated article last week puffing up the proposed sale of an impressive Victorian pile on Silchester Road in Glenageary. At the bottom of the same page, there appeared a small news article headlined: “Price of Foxrock mansion plunges by 47% as buyers refuse to bite”…. Read more »
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BLACKMORE’S TACTICS
Date: May 18, 2023 -
STAR JOCKEY Rachael Blackmore is clearly the leading lady of Irish racing but she fluffed her lines at Kilbeggan last week. Blackmore was riding the Louise Lyons-trained Lady Rita in a three-mile hurdle and, to many observers as well as racecourse commentator James Griffin, she appeared to misjudge the distance when making what turned out… Read more »
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EDDIE AHERN’S COMEBACK
Date: May 18, 2023 -
EDDIE AHERN, the champion apprentice jockey in Ireland in 1997, who has been banned from riding for the last 10 years, is set to re-apply for his jockey’s licence. Tipperary-born Ahern received his lengthy ban from the British Horseracing Authority back in 2013, when he was found guilty of conspiring to commit a corrupt and… Read more »
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UNDER STARTER’S ORDERS
Date: May 18, 2023 -
BEING A national hunt race starter can be an unenviable position, given that trying to get upwards of 25 adrenaline-fuelled horses and jockeys to line up in a calm and fair manner is far from an easy task. Starters do, however, have significant powers to report jockeys who disobey their instructions, often leading to riders… Read more »
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JESSICA HANDICAPS THE HANDICAPPERS
Date: May 18, 2023 -
IT WAS the handicappers rather than the starters who featured at an appeal hearing last week chaired by barrister Ian Whelan, which resulted in a win for trainer Jessica Harrington. The JP O’Flaherty-owned Striking recorded a comfortable victory in a relatively low-grade handicap at Gowran Park last month, which was good news for the trainer…. Read more »
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FAREWELL
Date: May 18, 2023 -
SO, FAREWELL then The Drama Academy Development Company (DADC) in Trinity College. While a separate company, which is behind the high-profile Lir drama academy, is still very much treading the boards, DADC is being wound up in what is a tidying up exercise. The prime mover behind the establishment of Lir was, of course, moneybags… Read more »
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GLENVEAGH HOMES SHARE PRICE HIDES PROGRESS
Date: May 18, 2023 -
DESPITE THE fact that Stephen Garvey’s Glenveagh Properties only kicked off in October 2017, two years after Cairn Homes, the former has managed to more or less catch up, completing 1,350 homes last year – not too far off the 1,526 built by Cairn. With profits set to rise this year, boosted by investments in… Read more »
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RIO BRAVO
Date: May 18, 2023 -
GOLDHAWK WAS struck by the coverage in the Business Post earlier this month of Paddy Cosgrave’s latest Web Summit (WS) shindig – in Rio no less, the first time the event has been held outside Europe. While WS has previously been loathe to stump up accommodation and travel expenses for speakers at its events, it… Read more »
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SIOBHÁN TIGHE’S LEISURELY LIQUIDATION
Date: May 18, 2023 -
A COMPANY called Coral Leisure Askeaton Ltd has just collapsed into liquidation, which must have come as something of a surprise to followers of Siobhán Tighe’s “leading leisure and energy management and service provider group”, Coral Leisure Ltd (CLL). Clients include public authorities, hotel operators and private leisure facility owners. CLL was incorporated 10 years… Read more »
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PLOT TWIST FOR FILM PRODUCERS
Date: May 18, 2023 -
IRELAND’S ASSORTED movie moguls, still high on this year’s awards season, will have plenty to chew over after reading the Oireachtas budgetary oversight committee’s report on the film tax relief scheme. A claque of the usual worthies – including legal eagle James Hickey, Screen Ireland boss Désirée Finnegan, producer Moe Honan, Screen Producers Ireland head… Read more »
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O’KANE FAMILY’S FORESTS
Date: May 18, 2023 -
ELSEWHERE IN this issue (see p18), Goldhawk takes a look at the sale price changes associated with a valuable Foxrock house owned by the O’Kane family of Mercury Engineering fame. The minted family offloaded the hugely successful Mercury business to its management five years ago for €150m although, given the huge profits being generated since,… Read more »
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DENAMING TCD’S MAKTOUM CENTRE?
Date: May 4, 2023 -
THE HIGH-profile decision of the board in Trinity College to ‘dename’ the Berkeley Library has attracted plenty of attention. Goldhawk wonders why there isn’t the same level of concern being expressed in Trinners about the Al Maktoum Centre for Middle East Studies, funded by a… Read more »
PROFILE: MARY LOU MCDONALD
Date: May 4, 2023 -
THERE WAS a time when the question mark over Mary Lou McDonald was whether she could adequately replace her predecessor, Gerry Adams – a man idolised by most republicans north and south – as Sinn Féin president. She has answered that unequivocally and successfully but, as SF moves from relatively inconsequential weight in the Dáil… Read more »
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YOUNG BLOOD: LOUISE MCSHARRY
Date: May 4, 2023 -
WHILE LOUISE McSharry has a penchant for shoving her oar in on current affairs issues on social media, her recent swipe at RTÉ suggests that she is still miffed at being dropped from her weekend show on 2fm in October 2021. The broadcaster recently waded into the Twitter row that ensued when Eurovision hopefuls Wild… Read more »
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ROBERT WATT’S PERFORMANCE
Date: May 4, 2023 -
Much has been made of the demeanour of Robert Watt, secretary general of the Department of Health, with many Government TDs joining their opposition counterparts in criticising the combative, soccer-loving, 54-year old Dubliner. Described in Leinster House and in print as “dismissive and arrogant”, “overbearing”, “prickly”, “absolutely obnoxious”, “cocky” and more, for his defence of… Read more »
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I-RES REIT ONLY ITSELF TO BLAME FOR REVOLT
Date: May 4, 2023 -
FANS OF Moneybags are very familiar with the criticism in these pages of the remarkably generous management fee arrangements put in place by the assorted listed Irish Reits and it is probably not too surprising that Green Reit, Hibernian Reit and Yew Growth Reit were all flogged off, leaving just I-Res Reit in situ. But… Read more »
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KEVIN MYERS ‘SET UP’
Date: May 4, 2023 -
RIGHT-WING outlet Gript recently interviewed right-wing ex-Sunday Times journalist Kevin Myers about how he got sacked after making a “little joke” about two well-paid, Jewish, women BBC journalists. Myers denied he was being antisemitic when he wrote: “Jews are not generally noted for their insistence on selling their talent for the lowest possible price, which… Read more »
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HAMISH MACAULEY’S FISH SUPPER
Date: May 4, 2023 -
GOLDHAWK THOROUGHLY enjoyed the Oirish Sun’s Punchestown splash on bloodstock agent Hamish Macauley last weekend. He is certainly a chap on the move but the tabloid has put something of a stop to his gallop. The immaculately bred Macauley clearly got caught up in the festivities at his local Punchestown track last week, having grown… Read more »
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LISA MCGOWAN’S BIG PLANS
Date: May 4, 2023 -
LISA McGOWAN, the fashion blogger and influencer, betrayed a touch of frustration in her interview with the Sindo’s gossip queen, Niamh Horan, last weekend. Publicity surrounding McGowan’s near €1m profit at her company, Lisa’s Lust List, seemed to aggrieve her somewhat. Yes, she’s got piles of cash rolling in, she humble-bragged, adding that she’s up… Read more »
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OONAGH BUCKLEY’S APOLOGY
Date: May 4, 2023 -
IT DIDN’T take the interim chair of An Bord Pleanála (ABP) too long to issue an apology to top planning lawyer Fred Logue, after she suggested he was raking it in courtesy of planning objections. Oonagh Buckley, who has plenty on her plate in her new ‘day job’, apologised “unreservedly” for remarks made at the… Read more »
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DAVID SHARKEY’S ‘MAN CAVE’
Date: May 4, 2023 -
GOLDHAWK WAS not surprised to see the Irish Times drooling over a handsome red-brick, modern house on one acre in Foxrock, which is on the market for no less than €8.45m. Waverley, off leafy Westminster Road, was only built in 1999 before the current owners acquired it at the height of the boom in 2005… Read more »
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CATHERINE MARTIN’S SLOW PACE
Date: May 4, 2023 -
WITH SPORT having lost out on increased funding this year, despite all the moolah sloshing around, the good news is that a new chairman has finally been appointed to the board of Sport Ireland (SI). The pattern here, however, is very familiar. Last month, Green Party deputy leader and sports minister Catherine Martin and her… Read more »
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OOKS A DAISY!
Date: May 3, 2023 -
THE ODDLY named Zulleon Ltd has gone into liquidation, despite a share register choc-a-bloc with KPMG heavy hitters, some of who recently scooped millions from the sale of Global Shares plc. Their experience in Zulleon has, however, proved rather more painful. Zulleon was set up nine years ago by toy inventor Noel Donegan and his… Read more »
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TAXING TIMES IN WEXFORD
Date: May 3, 2023 -
THE DREADED taxman has just registered a judgment for €237,000 against a company called Wexpack International Trading Company Ltd, which doesn’t appear to have any directors. Until last year, however, one of those in situ was a name familiar to fans of Goldhawk. Real estate operation Wexpack was incorporated in October 2017, with Co Wexford-based… Read more »
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DUBLIN’S DISASTER MOVIE
Date: May 3, 2023 -
A COMPANY with the unwieldy name of Finance For An Italian Library Of Movies plc (Film) has been placed in receivership, almost 25 years after it was incorporated here as a special-purpose vehicle for an unusual Italian film securitisation deal based on the library of the long-established Cecchi Gori Group (CGG). The company’s better known… Read more »
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MINCON SHAREHOLDERS PREPARE TO MINE PROFITS
Date: May 3, 2023 -
MINCON, which is headquartered in Shannon, has gradually become a worldwide force in designing and producing rock drilling tools for the mining and construction industry, with plants all over the world and sales now running at €170m pa, returning an operating profit last year of just on €20m. The signs are that the shares are… Read more »
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THE CORONER’S DAUGHTER – ANDREW HUGHES
Date: May 3, 2023 -
FIRST PUBLISHED back in 2018, Andrew Hughes’s period thriller, The Coroner’s Daughter is the One Dublin One Book choice for 2023. The author is an archivist and historian whose research inspired his debut novel, The Convictions of John Delahunt, based on a real-life murderer and Dublin Castle informer in the early 1840s. Similar exhaustive –… Read more »
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THEATRE FESTIVAL’S DIVERSITY PLOT
Date: May 3, 2023 -
LAST MONTH, the Dublin Theatre Festival (DTF) issued a call for potential directors. It looks like David Nolan’s board is anxious to avoid the kind of controversy that recently landed the Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons. The DTF circular went out to what looks like the full… Read more »
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MICHAEL O’CALLAGHAN’S MISHAP
Date: May 3, 2023 -
SPARE A thought for Kildare trainer Michael O’Callaghan, who has just moved into his new purpose-built training complex, which cost a fair few bob to construct. O’Callaghan would have had to juggle this investment while also maintaining enough capital to re-invest at the breeze-up sales, where traditionally he does rather well. Having dug deep to… Read more »
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