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BIODIVERSITY WAKE UP CALLS
Date: December 1, 2022 -
DESPITE REPEATED attempts by vested interests trading on Ireland’s “green” reputation, Ireland’s biodiversity is in fact in freefall. Water pollution, largely as a result of livestock agriculture, is increasing, while two thirds of our native bird species are in decline. According to the Irish Wildlife Trust, Ireland is the world’s most deforested country, with native… Read more »
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SUNDAY TIMES’ TRUMP CARD
Date: December 1, 2022 -
ANOTHER EXCLUSIVE by the Aawrish edition of the Sunday Times on those dastardly Sinn Féin operators reported that the party has “taken a page from Donald Trump’s playbook by offering supporters a wide array of eye-catching political merchandise”. The British newspaper put two journalists on this investigation and their conclusions, explained in some detail, were… Read more »
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‘NAZIS AND NUTTERS’
Date: December 1, 2022 -
MANY WERE non-plussed at muffled media reports of an incident at the Lough Erne Resort in Co Fermanagh a fortnight ago involving the far-right National Party. It’s not the first time the National Party has held its ard fheis in such salubrious surroundings. It had already used the Lough Erne resort in 2018 and 2021,… Read more »
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THE HOT AIR BRIGADE
Date: December 1, 2022 -
How does someone who first shows up as a monumental pain-in-the-arise fundamentalist become someone who can write the greatest ode to love in two thousand years. Bono on writing ‘One’ in his book, Surrender She might be sitting on the bed in her dressing gown, but Varian Barry still manages to look like an image… Read more »
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RISHI SUNAK’S WEAKNESS
Date: December 1, 2022 -
SPEAKING ON November 28 at the lord mayor’s banquet in London’s Guildhall, British prime minister Rishi Sunak explained that his foreign policy towards competitors would not be “grand rhetoric” – a dig at Johnson – but one of “robust pragmatism”, whatever that means. Rishi Sunak’s opponents and detractors among Conservative MPs (and there are many)… Read more »
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‘UNITED’ GREEN PARTY
Date: December 1, 2022 -
THE GREENS put on a show of unity and purpose last Saturday in a convention that was several galaxies distant from traditional gatherings of yesteryear when policy differences were aired and debated with passion. That was then, when such dialogue was a distinction on which the party prided itself. Now the Greens are in coalition… Read more »
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IRELAND JOINS THE COLD WAR NEUTRALITY
Date: December 1, 2022 -
AN ALARMING note recently from one of Goldhawk’s agents in Moscow’s sphere of interest advanced the proposition that the Irish Government is involved in a western plot to effect regime change in Belarus, Russia’s strongest ally in the region. According to the current mission statement of Polish-based Belsat TV, the broadcasting station is “a democratisation… Read more »
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CRAUGHWELL’S FORGOTTEN ARMY
Date: December 1, 2022 -
SENATORS MICHAEL McDowell and Gerard Craughwell issued some aggressive statements about the refusal of Government and the Defence Forces to give official endorsement to last week’s commemoration of National Army soldiers who died in the Civil War. McDowell accused the Government of “tip-toeing around the Civil War in pursuit of an anodyne policy of offering… Read more »
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MEDIA GONGS TO BE SILENCED?
Date: December 1, 2022 -
GOLDHAWK SPECULATED recently that Mediahuis titles might show a marked improvement in the NewsBrands Ireland awards this year compared with their humiliation in 2021 (see The Phoenix 2/11/22). Last year Mediahuis, the biggest national newspaper group in the country, received just one award compared to six each for the Irish Times and its sister title,… Read more »
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LARRY GOODMAN’S OIL STRIKE
Date: December 1, 2022 -
YOU’RE NEVER too old to reinvent yourself. At 85, billionaire beef baron Larry Goodman is starting a new career – as an aspiring oil baron. Earlier this year he bought up 16% of the Sir Tony O’Reilly-founded Providence Resources, after which the company renamed itself Barryroe Offshore Energy. The rebranding may have been an attempt… Read more »
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EU ROUNDS UP RENEWAL
Date: December 1, 2022 -
Imagine if civil servants ignored the outcome of a Dáil vote and implemented a policy measure against the wishes of a majority of TDs. Something like that has happened in Brussels. The licence that allows glyphosate, aka Roundup weedkiller, to be sold in the EU is due to expire this month. When EU states voted… Read more »
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MY NAME IS KASIA
Date: December 1, 2022 -
NO DOUBT Katarzyna ‘Kasia’ Gaborec-McEvoy was delighted with the latest lengthy plug her upmarket handbag company received in the Business Post last month, courtesy of the publisher’s media deal with Enterprise Ireland (EI). Also happy will be some recently arrived shareholders, who include a familiar name. The company, My Name Is Ted Ltd (MNIT), was… Read more »
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PAUL SHEERAN’S PLANS
Date: December 1, 2022 -
THERE’S BEEN plenty of publicity in recent weeks for jeweller Paul Sheeran, who has been expanding on all fronts. Well established in the bling trade, Sheeran has shifted a fair few watches from his high-profile shop on Johnson’s Court off Grafton Street and has recently splashed the cash, in conjunction with half a dozen top… Read more »
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KEVIN O’RYAN’S SCHEDULE
Date: December 1, 2022 -
RACING TV presenter Kevin O’Ryan is known to keep himself busy within the sport, juggling his broadcasting role with acting as a jockeys’ agent, an equine talent scout for Goffs, while also running his own breaking and pre-training yard. It’s little surprise then that O’Ryan can sometimes get distracted by all his commitments and the… Read more »
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MCNALLY HANGING ON
Date: December 1, 2022 -
THE CURIOUS case of trainer Ronan McNally rumbles on, despite reports in recent months that a decision was imminent as to whether he would face any sanctions from the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board. McNally came to the attention of the regulator after a number of his horses landed significant gambles in the past few years… Read more »
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KEVIN DOYLE’S NEW GOAL
Date: December 1, 2022 -
WHEN FORMER Republic of Ireland striker Kevin Doyle paid €155,000 three years ago for a foal that was a half-brother to a then star two-mile chaser, he announced it was an investment that he would hopefully cash in two-and-half years later when offering the horse for re-sale at Goffs as a three-year-old. That plan did… Read more »
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CARRY ON CARLOW
Date: December 1, 2022 -
HAVING LOST out on some money-spinners last year due to the pandemic, the cash-strapped Visual arts centre in Carlow is hoping nothing derails this year’s panto. While the institution (where Emma-Lucy O’Brien is in situ as chief executive) is heavily backed by the Arts Council to the tune of around €210,000 pa, the contemporary arts… Read more »
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BOYD BARRETT’S CAMEO ROLE
Date: December 1, 2022 -
WATCHING THE Oireachtas select committee on finance and public expenditure go through the nuts and bolts of the recently published Finance Bill would be a pretty tedious undertaking were it not for some members’ close interrogation of those assorted tax loopholes that don’t appear in the budget as expenditure because the money is never collected… Read more »
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GREAT WESTERN’S GROWING PROSPECTS
Date: December 1, 2022 -
EMMETT O’CONNELL floated off the tiny Great Western Mining exploration vehicle in Dublin in 2011, which focused on licences he had acquired in the west of the US state of Nevada. While the state is very mining friendly, this is not an easy place to explore – up in the Rockies and impossible during the… Read more »
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GREENCOAT MANAGERS CONTINUE TO REAP THE REWARDS
Date: December 1, 2022 -
GREENCOAT RENEWABLES raised €270m at €1 a share in 2017. It has since gone on to raise over €1bn from investors, most recently €282m in April this year. It is essentially a capital fund that has invested in existing wind farms, initially in Ireland and over the last three years in Germany, France, Sweden, Finland… Read more »
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BILL MCCABE’S LEGAL HEADACHE
Date: December 1, 2022 -
INTERESTING TO see a midland engineering outfit called Aubren Ltd lodging proceedings in the Four Goldmines against the high-profile air purification outfit WellAir Ltd, where the main player is well-known tech investor Bill McCabe. Indeed there are some interesting names on both sides WellAir has been hoovering up funding from an assortment of big international… Read more »
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MARK GALLIGAN’S EMPTY HOUSE
Date: December 1, 2022 -
THE SUMMER of 2020, in the midst of the pandemic, the House of Ireland (HoI) crafts and gifts retail group collapsed into liquidation. The liquidator has now completed his task but the bad news is that, apart from a few bob to cover the winding-up fees, there is nothing in the kitty for the creditors… Read more »
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RESCUING CIARA DONLON
Date: December 1, 2022 -
HAVING WON her fair share of plaudits in recent years, Ciara Donlon – the woman behind Theya Lingerie Ltd, which produces post-surgery underwear from bamboo no less – finds herself in unfamiliar territory, looking to stave off liquidation through the recently introduced Scarp legislation. It is, however, far from clear what kind of state the… Read more »
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MICHAEL HACKMAN’S IRISH SCREENPLAY
Date: December 1, 2022 -
INTERESTING TO see that the first accounts have been filed by Michael Hackman’s Ardmore and Troy Studios Limited, which acquired the two film and TV studios from Joe Devine’s consortium last year. This is only one of the Yank’s Irish interests. Fans of Goldhawk will be aware that Hackman’s group, HCP, has also entered a… Read more »
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EAST WALL’S GANDHI RESURFACES
Date: December 1, 2022 -
AMONG THE speakers, mostly outsiders from the hard right, attempting to mobilise East Wall residents against refugees was a more exotic political personality, locally born Malachy Steenson, aka Gandhi of North Strand. Gandhi has managed to combine a history of diverse political attachments and allies with various campaigns, some of which led to fractious disagreements… Read more »
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IRAN-KINAHAN SCARY STORY
Date: December 1, 2022 -
THE IRISH edition of the Sunday Times has been purged of most long-time, senior staff but crime and security correspondent John Mooney remains in situ. This is either because of editor Nóirín Hegarty’s appetite for spooky stories and tales of cops’n’robbers or because the ST’s London management appreciates the editorial value of Mooney’s sources in… Read more »
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CHAPTER ONE’S NEW CHAPTER
Date: December 1, 2022 -
THE WINDING-UP of a company called Lindley Ltd has just taken place, marking an ‘official’ end to the original Ross Lewis-fronted Chapter One restaurant business, where the name in lights these days is Mickael Viljanen. The good news for Ross is that he still appears to have comfortably the biggest share of the plate. Before… Read more »
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SHEIKH FAHAD’S THOROUGHBREDS
Date: December 1, 2022 -
THERE HAS, not surprisingly, been oodles of coverage over the last month of the Qatar’s sports-washing agenda, which is playing itself out for a global audience courtesy of the World Cup. There is also the well-known and much-debated ownership of the Paris Saint-Germain football club by Qatar Sports Investments. Less high profile, however, is the… Read more »
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ROBERT TYNER’S U-TURN
Date: December 1, 2022 -
ANOTHER TRAINER who had a spot of bother with the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB) earlier this year is Robert Tyner. During the summer the Cork-based trainer announced his intention to quit the business, citing staffing issues and quality of life as the main reasons, although it looks like he will be around for a… Read more »
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GO, HARVEY, GO!
Date: December 1, 2022 -
IN A timely editorial last Saturday, the Irish Times warned: “Indigenous retailers have been effectively strong-armed into holding Black Friday sales by multinationals better equipped to buy in stock specifically for sales… many small and independent Irish retailers cannot afford such luxury but have little choice but to compete. Over 50 per cent of the… Read more »
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GREENS DIVIDE ON CETA
Date: November 17, 2022 -
GREEN PARTY TD Patrick Costello has gone from naive radical to triumphant litigant fighting the EU-Canada trade deal, Ceta, with his successful Supreme Court victory last week. But it is his own party members, or more precisely the Eamon Ryan led leadership, that forms the real opposition to his crusade on the issue. As party… Read more »
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VARADKAR’S BLACK AND BLUE SHIRTS
Date: November 17, 2022 -
RECENT ATTACKS by Leo Varadkar on Sinn Féin have tried to link the party to far-right movements in Europe. At the launch of the Fine Gael think-in in Kilkenny in September, Vlad ventured: “Bear in mind, if Mary Lou became Taoiseach there would only be three potential prime ministers who will be out of the… Read more »
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EAMON MARRAY’S MASK PROTEST
Date: November 17, 2022 -
THERE WERE fun and games in the Dublin County Registrar’s court last week when experienced commercial law barrister Eamon Marray made it pretty damn clear that he wouldn’t be wearing any mask for the call-over. It was not the first time the issue of masks had exercised the highly regarded legal eagle. Rita Considine is… Read more »
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PAUL HOURICAN’S RETURN
Date: November 17, 2022 -
GOLDHAWK’S favourite landlord Paul Hourican is living proof that you can’t keep a good man down. Having been burned by his adventure with Period Door Properties (PDP), the D4-based all-rounder is back in the estate agency game. It will be recalled (see The Phoenix 23/4/21) that Hourican first made an impact when the number of… Read more »
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LAST ‘POST’ GOES SCANDINAVIAN
Date: November 17, 2022 -
REPORTS LAST week that Swedish publishing multinational Bonnier is to take an indeterminate stake in the Business Post may begin to shed light on just who the Post’s investors are, besides owner Enda O’Coineen. When he bought the paper in 2018, O’Coineen gave the impression that he was preparing for a flotation in Sweden. He… Read more »
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MISCOUNTING GENDER QUOTAS
Date: November 17, 2022 -
ELEVATION TO the Fianna Fáil ard comhairle (AC) may not be everyone’s idea of political paradise but it caused a dispute between junior equality and children’s minister Anne Rabbitte and party bosses. The dispute also recently involved former front-bench spokesperson and current party leader in the Seanad, Lisa Chambers. The parliamentary party nominated three women… Read more »
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