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OISIN MURPHY’S COMEBACK
Date: February 22, 2023 -
KILLARNEY NATIVE Oisin Murphy made his comeback last week after over a year on the sidelines following a British Horseracing Authority (BHA) ban for failing two alcohol tests and breaching Covid rules (coming home from holiday in Greece and failing to self-isolate for the mandatory period). The jockey made a perfect return to action when… Read more »
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DRAMA FOR THE JUDGES
Date: February 22, 2023 -
SPARE A thought for the judges in the Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards 2022, who have been dragged into the latest culture war as a result of a lack of diversity among the nominated actors. This month the IT devoted over 2,500 words to announcing the lengthy list of nominations for its annual gong fest… Read more »
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JAMES HICKEY’S LEVY LOBBY
Date: February 22, 2023 -
GOLDHAWK’S OLD pal James Hickey was juggling his many former and current hats at last week’s sitting of the Oireachtas culture and arts committee. Fans of Goldhawk will recall that HickeSy was in charge of the media and entertainment law group in Matheson for 19 years and was heavily involved in Anglo Irish Bank’s Section… Read more »
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56 DAYS – CATHERINE RYAN HOWARD
Date: February 22, 2023 -
ALTHOUGH LONG-listed for this year’s lucrative Dublin Literary Award, 56 Days was first published in 2021. It is hard to see what has earned the book its nomination. Set against the backdrop of the 2020 lockdown, the story centres on a couple in their mid-20s who meet in a supermarket queue – apparently by chance…. Read more »
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DCC SHARE PRICE DRIFT PUTS IT INTO PLAY
Date: February 22, 2023 -
IT IS fair to describe DCC boss Donal Murphy as being in a tough spot as he goes through the process of rebranding the company’s totally dominant energy division, now that oil and gas are essentially ‘toxic’ businesses. The real problem for him, however, is that the share price performance means the company can definitely… Read more »
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UNITED OIL & GAS’S SHARES STRUGGLE DESPITE $7M DEAL
Date: February 22, 2023 -
WITH THE sale of its Maria discovery block in the North Sea to Quattro Energy for up to $7m (the latter is in the process of being acquired by Canadian operator Jesmond Capital), Brian Larkin’s United Oil & Gas (UOG) has been more productive than those businesses fronted by other Tullow Oil alumni, such as… Read more »
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PETER MCDONNELL’S ‘EXCLUSION’
Date: February 22, 2023 -
GOLDHAWK WAS interested to see a legal action filed in the High Court last week by Donegal accountant Peter McDonnell against the Association of Chartered Accountants (ACCA), a global representative and regulatory body of 233,000 number crunchers, where Helen Brand has been chief executive since 2008. The legal proceedings follow a protracted disciplinary process that… Read more »
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NEIL FRANCIS’S WINNING PERFORMANCE
Date: February 22, 2023 -
WHILE FORMER Ireland rugby international Neil Francis must still be red-faced after last month’s Sunday Times front-page apology over his ‘story’ on a former Blackrock College classmate, he has not let that get in the way of making a few bob. It will be recalled (see The Phoenix 30/7/21) that, abject apologies apart, Cabinteely-based Franno’s… Read more »
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EUGENE MURTAGH’S PROPERTIES
Date: February 22, 2023 -
“KINGSPAN BILLIONAIRE Eugene Murtagh is deploying more of his family’s fortune in Dublin 2,” the Sunday Times reported last week. Murtagh has, of course, been retired as chair of Kingspan since last year and, according to the ST, he’s been busy in his golden years buying up golden city centre properties, including two Georgian houses… Read more »
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BARRYROE OFFSHORE DEAL IS OFF THE WALL
Date: February 9, 2023 -
CENTRAL TO the current developments at Barryroe Offshore Energy (BOE) (formerly Providence Resources) are the roles of energy minister Eamon Ryan and substantial shareholder Larry Goodman, the latter of whom is taking advantage of the standoff with the minister to gain control of the company and hugely dilute the hapless other existing shareholders. The scene… Read more »
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SPECIAL REPORT: WAR IN UKRAINE
Date: February 9, 2023 -
IS NATO HELPING UKRAINE TO FIGHT RUSSIA OR IS IT USING UKRAINE TO FIGHT RUSSIA? THE BLOC could help end the conflict at any time by addressing issues around its expansion plans. The Western public, like others, is justly appalled by the human suffering and… Read more »
YOUNG BLOODS: KIERAN CUDDIHY
Date: February 9, 2023 -
WHILE RADIO presenter Kieran Cuddihy is known for his strong opinions, it’s hard to shake off the feeling that he sometimes tries hard to be controversial. The Kilkenny native took over as presenter of The Hard Shoulder on Newstalk from firebrand Ivan Yates in August 2020, moving from early mornings on the station to evening… Read more »
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DOUG TAYLOR’S PRIZE MONEY
Date: February 9, 2023 -
IT LOOKS like the champagne corks could be popping soon in Ridgewood House, home of colourful millionaire Doug Taylor. The Sunday Times reported at the weekend that his outsourcing company, MCR Group, has hired advisory firm Clearwater International to explore a sale of all or part of the business. Apparently, the operation could be worth… Read more »
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GREENS DIVIDE ON NEUTRALITY
Date: February 9, 2023 -
THE ONGOING mystery continues surrounding the Green Party’s policy on defence, security and neutrality – for long the most sacred of Green principles – with no announcement from the party nor from its Foreign Policy and Security Group. Garret Patrick Kelly, convenor for this group, told Goldhawk in a letter two years ago (March 2021)… Read more »
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MARY HARNEY’S MANY HATS
Date: February 9, 2023 -
THE INCREASINGLY busy former health minister Mary Harney has popped up as a director of yet another Irish pharma business. She continues to find a way to make her experience in government pay off. Shortly before Christmas, Harney was appointed to the board of a company with the unwieldy name of Biosimilar Collaborations Ireland Ltd… Read more »
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RONAN McNALLY’S ROUGH RIDE
Date: February 9, 2023 -
DISGRACED TRAINER Ronan McNally will be well aware of the name Barney Curley, the renowned gambler who hijacked the only phone line available from Bellewstown Racecourse in 1975 to orchestrate a massive betting coup on a horse called Yellow Sam. That coup has attained almost mythical status and Curley is still revered. Fast-forward 47 years,… Read more »
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BRENDAN GRIFFIN’S EXIT
Date: February 9, 2023 -
LEO VARADKAR may only have himself to blame for the departure from Fine Gael at the next election of the party’s only TD in the five-seat Kerry constituency, the ambitious Brendan Griffin, whose disappointment at not receiving serious preferment before Christmas was profound. The extent of Griffin’s expectation was measured by his belief that he… Read more »
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HUGH WALLACE’S PERSONAL GUARANTEE
Date: February 9, 2023 -
WITH THE popular Home of the Year programme back on RTÉ from Valentine’s Day for its ninth series, there was plenty of love on show at the weekend for judges Hugh Wallace, Amanda Bone and Sara Cosgrove. For example, readers of the Oirish Mail on Sunday heard about the “friendly rivalry” behind the scenes. There… Read more »
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MY FATHER’S HOUSE – JOSEPH O’CONNOR
Date: February 9, 2023 -
SINCE THE success of his 2002 bestseller, Star of the Sea, Joseph O’Connor has settled into writing historical fiction about real Irish people, including JM Synge and Bram Stoker. His latest novel, set during Germany’s occupation of Italy in 1943, is based on the true story of Monsignor Hugh O’Flaherty, Irish envoy to the Vatican,… Read more »
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‘IRISH TIMES’ TICKS OFF ‘SUNDAY TIMES’
Date: February 9, 2023 -
THE TRANSFORMATION of the Irish edition of the Sunday Times from heavyweight editorial to low-brow human-interest stories is a direct result of London’s slash-and-burn policy. Irish editor Nóirín Hegarty can only deal with the cards she has been given but her newspaper had a dreadful new year, with two stories underlining the problems at the… Read more »
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OMAGH REVISITED
Date: February 9, 2023 -
THERE IS a stark difference in how the British government is responding to court orders to carry out inquiries into the Omagh bombing and the assassination of Pat Finucane. The latter was a Belfast solicitor who was murdered by masked UDA assassins in his home in February 1989. NI secretary Chris Heaton-Harris has announced the… Read more »
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MALACHY STEENSON’S EURO PLANS
Date: February 9, 2023 -
WORKING-CLASS Dub hero Malachy Steenson has recently been at more public protests against migrants than the number of political parties he has joined or supported (Workers Party, Irish Republican Socialist Party, Republican Sinn Féin and 32 County Sovereign Movement). He has also begun to grate on the two main far-right parties – the National Party… Read more »
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IRISH NEUTRALITY OVER, SAYS ‘EXPERT’
Date: February 9, 2023 -
THE ASSERTION by Lieutenant General Esa Polkkinen, director general of policy at Finland’s defence ministry, that neutrality is “over” for Ireland and that we should double or treble our defence budget was, of course, published without qualification by the Irish Times last week. The newspaper could have noted that Finland was a neutral, non-aligned country… Read more »
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AND THE AWARD DOESN’T GO TO …
Date: February 9, 2023 -
AMIDST THE hoo-ha about Oscar nominations for five Irish actors, there’s been no talk about whether any of them has been subject to the same limitations imposed on their less-exalted colleagues when signing up for productions. For example, as fans of Goldhawk are aware, the contracts prepared for many Irish performers in Disney’s big budget… Read more »
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FLORIAN HAUFE’S CRIME ACADEMY
Date: February 9, 2023 -
ON VALENTINE’S Day, a creditors’ meeting is to be held to wind up an entity called the Financial Crime Academy Ltd. This was set up here to deliver lectures on fighting corruption and is fronted by a German financial superhero named Florian Haufe. According to the webpage for Florian Haufe, he is “a compliance and… Read more »
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NORMAL PEOPLE
Date: February 9, 2023 -
PEOPLE ROUTINELY accept risks associated with motoring that they would find intolerable in almost any other walk of life, according to new research. These unconscious biases in turn have major impacts on policy, leading to what the researchers describe as, er, “motonormativity”, which, in simple terms, means a huge blind spot when it comes to… Read more »
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TWITTER’S EMERALD ISLE
Date: February 9, 2023 -
POLITICAL AGREEMENT was reached on the Digital Services Act (DSA) by the European Commission after much haggling in April 2022. The legislation aims to guarantee a safer digital space, where the rights of EU citizens are respected. With companies such as Facebook, Google, Apple and Twitter having their European headquarters in Ireland, however, this legislation… Read more »
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THE HOT AIR BRIGADE
Date: February 9, 2023 -
“I’d go absolutely mental sitting in the [Phoenix] Park with nothing to do.” Irish voters may be devastated to learn that the presidency is not a gig that would suit Panti Bliss, Mail on Sunday Zoomers are “radically inclusive”. They’re also curious. Where previous generations defined themselves through traditional stereotypes, Zoomers experiment with different ways… Read more »
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DUP: NO END IN SIGHT
Date: February 9, 2023 -
THE BBC radio show Any Questions was broadcast from Bangor on February 4, with three politicians and a journalist making up the panel. The politicians were Chris Hazzard, Sinn Féin MP for South Down; DUP MLA Emma Little-Pengelly; and Simon Hoare, Conservative chair of the Commons Northern Ireland Committee. Naturally Brexit and the Northern Ireland… Read more »
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EXPENSIVE TDs’ EXPENSES
Date: February 9, 2023 -
THE HASTE with which Government parties and a concerned media seized on Sinn Féin’s election expenses errors to bury the saga of Paschal Donohoe’s embarrassment meant that exchequer funding for political parties came briefly into focus. This will not have been welcomed by many around Leinster House, where there is a virtual omertà concerning the… Read more »
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‘IRISH TIMES’ V IVANA
Date: February 9, 2023 -
LABOUR LEADER Ivana Bacik has been getting out and about recently, mainly in the media, in an effort to drag her party back into political contention. But the Irish Times is singularly unimpressed with the performance of one of its favourite political children and gave the party a good talking to as well as an… Read more »
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RARE SPORT AT THE ‘EXAMINER’
Date: February 9, 2023 -
BORN-AGAIN HACK Ian Mallon, formerly a senior editorial exec with Independent News and Media (INM) and then a public relations pro with the Football Association of Ireland (FAI) and Union of European Football Associations (Uefa), has enjoyed one of the most interesting career curves in Irish journalism. He is currently working for the Irish Examiner… Read more »
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FAR-RIGHT ECO MILITANTS
Date: February 9, 2023 -
“BUILDING RESILIENT communities” is the tagline for Think Local, a one-day conference at the Shearwater Hotel in Ballinasloe later this month that claims to be “Ireland’s first community-led sustainability conference”. It all sounds wholesome and progressive, but a closer look at some of the people involved paints a more troubling picture. Speakers include Cynthia Chung,… Read more »
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ED BROPHY’S LOBBYING
Date: February 9, 2023 -
IT’S SURELY a sign of a very persuasive lobbyist if the person being lobbied ditches their government job and steps through the revolving door to join the lobbyist’s firm. In 2020, in his capacity as chief adviser to then finance minister Paschal Donohoe, Ed Brophy was lobbied by Niamh Gallagher of AWS, Amazon’s data centres… Read more »
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ELLIOTT’S STRATEGY
Date: February 9, 2023 -
MICK O’LEARY’S re-engagement as an owner of national hunt horses has been welcomed by trainers and breeders and, given the significant clear out of many of his older horses over the past two years, the moneybags will be keen to unearth a few high-class youngsters to take him to the big festivals. To this end,… Read more »
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BOLGER’S BIG GUNS
Date: February 9, 2023 -
DESPITE A slowdown in winners and representation in the major races last year, octogenarian handler Jim Bolger has no plans to bow out any time soon, judging by his new crop of two-year-olds for the 2023 flat season. Bolger recently registered names for 42 two-year-olds with Horse Racing Ireland, which gives him some serious ammunition… Read more »
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