Affairs of the Nation

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Affairs of the Nation

SHANE ROSS AND THE JUDICIARY

ALTHOUGH Shane Ross may appear an unlikely champion of the new politics, his stand on the judicial council is fully justified in the interests of the promised transparency and accountability... Read more »

Affairs of the Nation

OWEN SWAINE’S ABUSE OF PROCESS

GOLDHAWK’S OLD pal Galway legal eagle Owen Swaine got quite a kicking from Judge Seamus Noonan last month after the solicitor appealed a negative finding from the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal.... Read more »
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Affairs of the Nation

STUART GILHOOLY’S HARD TACKLES

DUBLIN SOLICITOR Stuart Gilhooly must be a relieved man that the retrial of former footballer Ched Evans – jailed for rape in 2012 – led to a not guilty verdict.... Read more »

Affairs of the Nation

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Affairs of the Nation

PÁDRAIG Ó CÉIDIGH’S HOT SEAT

THE VERY busy Pádraig Ó Céidigh finds himself in the hot seat as the water charges issue returns to the fore. He has been appointed chairman of the Oireachtas committee... Read more »
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Affairs of the Nation

‘UNWITTING VICTIM’ JOHN SPENCER

LAST MONTH’S Court of Appeal victory by Nenagh legal eagle John Spencer over Anglo Irish Bank/IBRC in relation to a 2005 investment scheme represents a damning indictment of the bank’s... Read more »
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Affairs of the Nation

Sorry, Paddy

THE carefully honed Irish edition of the Daily Mail avoids the sort of paddy bashing still purveyed by sections of the British media – including its own British edition. Last... Read more »
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Affairs of the Nation

BATTLE CONTINUES FOR SoS VICTIMS

THE campaign to adequately compensate women who endured the “barbaric” practice of symphysiotomy have endured an onslaught by a most interesting alliance of The Irish Times, the Catholic think tank,... Read more »
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Affairs of the Nation

PAT HICKEY HOME FOR CHRISTMAS

GOLDHAWK’S SPIES in Brazil tell him that the €400,000 bail bond for Pat Hickey has arrived in Rio and is awaiting processing. It looks like the beleaguered temporarily-stepped-aside president of... Read more »
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Affairs of the Nation

Legal eagles’ cost

FRAUD SQUAD inquiries into allegations made by Kenmare solicitor Colm Murphy against Law Society members may or may not come to anything. But the mounting costs of his multiple actions... Read more »

Pillars of Society

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Pillars of Society

Brendan Howlin

LEADER of the smallest Labour Party in its century long existence, Brendan Howlin must now have a keen understanding of the phrase, Be careful... Read more »

The Young Bloods

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The Young Bloods

Niall Breslin

The Irish media is involved in a love affair with Niall Breslin (36) and his music, personal life and television gigs have helped the... Read more »

Fit to Print?

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Fit to Print?

CONOR BRADY SPILLS THE BEANS

A CLASSIC, obfuscating Irish Times editorial last week condemned Sinn Féin’s bill to insert neutrality into the constitution as “tilting at windmills”. The newspaper that has published more articles criticising... Read more »
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Fit to Print?

Forbes no fool

IS RTÉ director general Dee Forbes’s outsourcing of kiddies’ programmes really as cack-handed and insensitive as most seem to believe? Or is Forbes deliberately provoking communications minister Denis Naughten and... Read more »

Fit to Print?

Denis O’Brien award

Sir, For the record, your statement that I wrote the citation for Peter Murtagh’s winning entry in the recent NewsBrands journalism competition is untrue. Yours etc, John Horgan THE PHOENIX... Read more »

Last Refuge

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Last Refuge

BLUESHIRT BAR LOBBY(ISTS)

THERE is more than one Fine Gael faction working against the Alcohol Bill being steered through the Oireachtas by junior health minster Marcella Corcoran Kennedy. Forces within and without the... Read more »
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Last Refuge

TOM CURRAN STAYS PUT

TWO recently announced employment decisions of great import – one agricultural, the other political – have caused no little apprehension at Fine Gaels Mount Street HQ. On the one hand,... Read more »
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Last Refuge

On the button

OUTRIGHT opposition to the recent Dublin City Council budget from People Before Profit’s three councillors as well as a blood and thunder speech from their leader, John Lyons, did not... Read more »
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Last Refuge

LABOUR HANDLERS FLEE TO PRIVATE SECTOR

LABOUR’S 30 or so defeated TDs as well as the 80-plus councillors who lost their seats in 2014 have spent much time venting their outrage on Eamon Gilmore, Joan Burton... Read more »

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Bog Cuttings

Navan Man’s Holiday Habits EARN A CURFEW A NAVAN man has been ordered by a judge to stay off the streets on bank holidays for the next 12 months after... Read more »

Fowl Emissions

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Fowl Emissions

POST TRUMP CLIMATE

THE VICTORY of Donald Trump in the US election is bad news on many fronts with the Republican Party scrambling to make America great again for billionaires, bigots and xenophobes.... Read more »
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Fowl Emissions

CIARÁN CUFFE’S QUERY

NOBODY DIALS up the instant outrage quite as often or as theatrically as the Irish Farmers Association. The lobby outfit turned its latest fit of pique on Green MEP Ciarán... Read more »

Bird's Eye View

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Bird's Eye View

FIANNA FÁIL INVADES THE NORTH

LAST WEEK Arlene Foster and Martin McGuinness issued a joint statement listing all the aspects of administration where they were forging ahead. It was greeted with a raspberry by commentators... Read more »

The Hot Air Brigade

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The Hot Air Brigade

The Hot Air Brigade

“I began a new chapter where I posited that a young man with a six-pack and an even longer appendage might distract me from the clamour of unwelcome thoughts through... Read more »

High Society

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High Society

GREG BRODERICK’S GIFT HORSE

HAVING BEEN the subject of much negative comment when he headed off to Rio to compete (unsuccessfully) in the Olympics on board wonder horse MHS Going Global, showjumper Greg Broderick... Read more »
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High Society

Shane Ryan’s moolah

THERE HAS been much focus in recent months on the high flying activities of Declan Ryan whose airline investments have been generating soaring returns. Meanwhile, younger brother Shane is keeping... Read more »
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High Society

PIPPA O’CONNOR’S PROFITS

IN THE goldfish bowl that is Ireland, celebrity couples are the big thing now with the likes of Rosanna Davison and Wesley Quirke (Wesanna) and Brian O’Driscoll and Amy Huberman... Read more »

Behind the Scenes

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Behind the Scenes

NEW NGI FACES

AFTER A predictable delay, arts minister Heather Humphreys finally got around to appointing new directors of the National Gallery of Ireland (NGI). There have been vacancies at the NGI stretching... Read more »
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Behind the Scenes

LIAM COLLINS TAKING LIBERTIES

IN THE Sindo last weekend, hack Liam Collins used his Zozimus column to put the boot into “the high-minded literati” who criticised publisher Sean O’Keeffe of Liberties Press, highlighting poor... Read more »
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Behind the Scenes

THE LEGAL action by Winfried Hannemacher’s W2 Filmproduktion action against Octagon Films’ Morgan O’Sullivan and James Flynn (see The Phoenix 1/7/16) is due back in the Four Goldmines next week.... Read more »

Sport of Kings

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Sport of Kings

WILDENSTEIN SAVES THE DAY

A LOT of Irish breeders are taking a bit of a hammering at the moment. This was evident at Goffs foal and breeding stock sale when the first few days... Read more »
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Sport of Kings

BOLGER’S STRANGE STRATEGY

JIM BOLGER has generally tended to put his money where his mouth is. His early belief and investment in the stallion prowess of Galileo is the major reason why his... Read more »
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Sport of Kings

NO BRAINER FOR DESMOND

DERMOT DESMOND has never been a prolific owner of racehorses despite his staggering wealth but he seems to be dipping his toe in slightly more these days. Desmond enjoyed some... Read more »
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Sport of Kings

TURF CLUB TASK FORCE DISBANDED

THE TURF Club’s anti-doping task force is no more, having been disbanded following the latest meeting of its 16-strong squad. The task force was chaired by Meta Osborne and the... Read more »

Reviews

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Books

HELL AT THE GATES – JOHN LEE AND DANIEL MCDONNELL (MERCIER)

THIS BOOK is yet another addition to the painfully long list of inside stories on the financial crisis and the near collapse of the banking system. It would have been... Read more »
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Books

THE WONDER – EMMA DONOGHUE (PICADOR)

ALTHOUGH she has mainly written historical fiction, Emma Donoghue is best known for her 2010 novel Room, which sold over a million copies. Donoghue has developed something of a specialty... Read more »
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Reviews

THE IRELAND TRILOGY – PEACOCK THEATRE

IN THE last few years, a changing of the guard has accelerated in Irish theatre. New troupes working away for the last decade are graduating from low-budget shows to main... Read more »

Moneybags

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Moneybags

Bloodstock blues for Goffs

THIS YEAR is the 150th anniversary of Robert J Goff & Co, the Irish bloodstock auctioneer founded in 1866 by the Myerscough family. Having weathered the economic storm, bloodstock sales... Read more »
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Moneybags

Deadline approaching for ‘The Irish Times’

GIVEN THAT the publisher of The Irish Times – The Irish Times Ltd (ITL) – is owned by a trust, it is not allowed to pay out dividends but rather... Read more »

The Hot Water Brigade

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The Hot Water Brigade

Declan Ganley’s month to forget

DECLAN Ganley has had a bad month. In early November, his Rivada Networks technology company was knocked out of the tendering process to build a $7bn mobile network in Mexico... Read more »

The Hot Water Brigade

Tom and Antoinette Darcy’s small victory

COLOURFUL property developer Tom Darcy and his wife Antoinette had a mixed day in the Supreme Court last month. The couple were denied leave to appeal a judgment from the... Read more »
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The Hot Water Brigade

Philip Smyth’s huge losses

SPARE a thought for Goldhawk’s old pal, Foxrock businessman Philip Smyth, whose hotel company Genport Ltd has had a rough time of it. Genport – which trades as the “boutique”... Read more »
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The Hot Water Brigade

Paula Tiernan’s colourful father

CONGRATULATIONS are in order to solicitor Paula Tiernan who had a very positive result recently when the Supreme Court discharged a summary judgment for €1.7m, which had been granted against... Read more »

The Hot Water Brigade

Denis English beats back the vultures

GOLDHAWK spotted an interesting High Court judgment recently, relating to Dalkey businessman Denis English who managed to give US vulture fund Cerberus a bloody nose in court. English bought the... Read more »