The Phoenix

Subscribe Now

  • Home
  • Search the Archives
  • Latest Issue
    • Latest Issue
    • Issue Archive
    • Covers Library
  • Affairs
    • Latest Affairs
    • Affairs of the Nation
      • Fit to Print
      • Last Refuge
      • Fowl Emissions
      • Bird's Eye View
      • Wigs On the Green
      • Foreign Frolics
      • Clerical Errors
      • Beyond the Pale
      • Bog Cuttings
    • Pillars of Society
    • The Young Bloods
    • High Society
    • Behind the Scenes
    • Moneybags
    • The Hot Water Brigade
    • Sport of Kings
    • Fowl Play
    • Reviews
    • Student Life
  • Media
  • Finance
  • High Society
  • Behind the Scenes
  • Racing
  • Business Briefs
  • Humour
    • Euro Election Specials 2019
    • Cartoons
    • Craic & Codology
    • Bog Cuttings
    • The Hot Air Brigade
    • Spot the Difference
  • Sponsored Content
  • Subscribe
  • Sign In
The Phoenix Magazine logo
  • The Phoenix Magazine logo
  • GOT A STORY?
    Email or Call (01) 661 1062

MENUMENU
  • Home
  • Affairs
    • Affairs of the Nation
      • Top Stories
      • Last Refuge
      • Fit to Print
      • Bird's Eye View
      • Pillars of Society
      • The Young Bloods
    • Affairs of the Nation
      • Hush Hush
      • Fowl Emissions
      • Wigs on the Green
      • Foreign Frolics
      • Student Life
      • Beyond the Pale
    • Arts & Entertainment
      • High Society
      • Behind the Scenes
      • Reviews
      • Sport of Kings
      • Fowl Play
      • Bog Cuttings
      • Humour
    • Stocks & Shares
      • Moneybags
      • The Hot Water Brigade
  • Media
  • High Society
  • Scenes
  • Racing
  • Finance
  • Business
  • Archive
    • Covers
  • Sponsored
  • Search
  • Subscribe
  • Sign In

May 31 - June 13, 2019


  • Vol 37 No 11
    Vol 37 No 11
  • IAN BAILEY: ‘L’HEURE DE VÉRITÉ’?
  • PROFILE: DENIS DESMOND
  • YOUNG BLOOD: HUGH O’CONNELL
  • MARIA BAILEY: NOT THE REAL TARGET
  • FRANK AND THERESA McNAMARA’S ADVENTURES
  • SINN FÉIN MELTDOWN
  • JANE’S STRAY HORSES
  • SHARON HORGAN’S LATEST PAYDAY
  • OLGA SHAJAKU’S LATEST VICTORY
  • COVENEY’S MIDDLE EAST CHARADE
  • RICHARD SPENCE’S SALON SETBACK

Don't miss the inside stories...

Subscribe Now

Affairs of the Nation

Lara Marlowe

Affairs of the Nation

IAN BAILEY: ‘L’HEURE DE VÉRITÉ’?

THE WIDESPREAD, public atmosphere of blood lust in France against Ian Bailey, the alleged murderer of Sophie Toscan du Plantier, ratcheted up in the period before Bailey’s Paris trial in... Read more »

Seán Kelly

Affairs of the Nation

GAS MAN KELLY

As Blueshirt MEP Seán Kelly returns to Brussels for a third term, he might want to reconsider his zealous support for Shannon LNG, the enormous gas import terminal in north... Read more »

Saoirse McHugh

Affairs of the Nation

GREEN WAVE OR RIPPLE?

WILL THE green wave translate into more Green TDs? And if Eamon Ryan leads the party into another coalition with a right-wing party, can that bring about the ‘system change’... Read more »

Sponsored Content

Is David Howard one of Ireland’s most influential?

David Howard’s name rarely graces headlines, yet his subtle, profound impact on Ireland’s Health and blockchain spheres cannot be understated. Operating discreetly, his expertise and networking weave a powerful... Read more »

Affairs of the Nation

Mary-Lou McDonald

Affairs of the Nation

SINN FÉIN MELTDOWN

MARY LOU MCDONALD had no forewarning of Sinn Féin’s electoral catastrophe in the opinion polls. Red C had SF consistently around the 13%-14% mark, while other polls put them closer... Read more »

Maria Bailey

Affairs of the Nation

MARIA BAILEY’S DILEMMA

DÚN LAOGHAIRE TD Maria Bailey and Fine Gael have pretty much talked themselves into inevitable suspension of the Dáil deputy, which will lead to a dilemma if the general election... Read more »

Josephine Feehily

Affairs of the Nation

FEEHILY FIGHTS ON

YOU CAN see why An Garda Síochána and the justice department want rid of the Policing Authority – chaired by the formidable Josephine Feehily – which is to be subsumed... Read more »

article-default

Affairs of the Nation

ÁINE MORIARTY’S DELAYED RELEASE

EARLIER THIS year (see The Phoenix, 8/2/19), Goldhawk raised the ghastly spectre of a hiatus in Áine Moriarty and Deirdre Hopkins’s annual red carpet luvviethon, the Irish Film and Television... Read more »

Seamus Mallon

Affairs of the Nation

SEAMUS MALLON VS JOHN HUME

SEAMUS MALLON’S “parallel consent” proposal for a United Ireland – aka a new, super-unionist veto – is the political love child of his fraught relationship with St John Hume. As... Read more »

Pillars of Society

Denis Desmond

Pillars of Society

PROFILE: DENIS DESMOND

WITH THE summer cycle of superstar rock gigs and music festivals set to kick off next month, MCD will be the biggest act by... Read more »


The Young Bloods

Hugh O'Connell

The Young Bloods

YOUNG BLOOD: HUGH O’CONNELL

Like a promising football team that falls short of winning promotion to the top flight, the Sunday Business Post is having its starting line-up... Read more »



Sponsored Content

How to Improve Your Chances of getting a Bank Loan for Your Business

First impressions matter. It is important for SMEs to make the best possible case when applying for credit from financial institutions. Banks assess each business application on a case-by-case... Read more »

Fit to Print?

Tom Lyons

Fit to Print?

PRESS COUNCIL — SECRET INFO

WHAT AN intriguing postscript at the end of last weekend’s Sunday Business Post’s publication of the Press Council’s rejection of its appeal against an adverse ruling. The council had ruled... Read more »

Diageo Dana An Garda Síochána IT Trust No Stone Unturned Irish Times Black Friday Vicky Conway

Fit to Print?

MEDIAHUIS SPANNER IN IT WORKS

THE IRISH TIMES gave the Mediahuis takeover of INM a guarded endorsement, saying the new owners offered a fresh start for the group and that, on paper, it looked like... Read more »

Claire Byrne

Fit to Print?

RTÉ’S POLITICAL PRIORITIES

WHILE RTÉ’S coverage of the election counts was up to its usual high standard, the scheduling of EU election debates – easily the most watchable TV political coverage – was... Read more »

Last Refuge

Maria Bailey

Last Refuge

MARIA BAILEY: NOT THE REAL TARGET

THE FURORE created by Michael McDowell’s attack on Dún Laoghaire TD Maria Bailey and her compo case over that fall from a hotel swing may have masked just who McDowell’s... Read more »

Olivia Buckley

Last Refuge

OLIVIA BUCKLEY VS SHANE ROSS

FIANNA FÁIL’S local election results in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown will have given Micheál Martin much to consider as it has put a question mark over two strong female candidates at the... Read more »

Maria Walsh

Last Refuge

MARIA WALSH’S MILITARISM

IT WAS a close-run thing in the end for Fine Gael EU candidate Maria Walsh in Midlands North West and her gung-ho military-style soundbytes certainly boosted her campaign. But despite... Read more »

Leo Varadkar

Last Refuge

THE NEXT GOVERNMENT

NOW FOR the real election. Both Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil (along with desperate pleas from Labour leader Brendan Howlin) posit the prospects of either big party cobbling together a... Read more »

Hush Hush

Freddie Scappaticci

Hush Hush

STAKEKNIFE INQUIRY COLLAPSE

The underwhelming response to the selection of Simon Byrne as the PSNI’s new chief constable shows that the media missed two bigger stories in relation to the appointment. Firstly, as... Read more »

Robert Nairac

Hush Hush

CAPTAIN NAIRAC’S REPUTATION

THE CAMPAIGN to sanitise the reputation of British Army undercover operative Captain Robert Nairac, shot dead and disappeared by the IRA in 1975, continues. The Irish Times recently reported assurances... Read more »

Bog Cuttings

Bog-Cuttings-Defaul

Bog Cuttings

BOG CUTTINGS

Priest chased by camper van man A PRIEST in Newtownards, Co Down, was forced to flee from an intoxicated man following a “bizarre” attempted attack. CCTV footage shows Fr Roland... Read more »

Fowl Emissions

Marian Finucane

Fowl Emissions

CLIMATE SPEAK

  If rhetoric could reduce emissions, Ireland would by now be a world leader rather than laggard. The ‘green wave’ hype of recent days meant that politicians used to tagging... Read more »

Climate Disinformation Coillte Climate Action EU Livestock NDC Claude Etchelamendy Ed Brophy Richard Boyd-Barrett Kish Dale Crammond Frank Mitloehner Shell Greenwashing Meta Data Centres Ireland

Fowl Emissions

CONOR SKEHAN’S ‘SCIENCE’

While climate denial has become a mug’s game, a new variant has emerged, which is to deny that biodiversity loss and ecological collapse is actually occurring. Architect, former housing agency... Read more »

Bird's Eye View

Naomi Long

Bird's Eye View

REMAINERS 2 — BREXIT 1

AS PREDICTED (see The Phoenix, 17/5/19), if Alliance leader Naomi Long got ahead of SDLP leader Colum Eastwood and/or the UUP’s Danny Kennedy, she would be elected MEP. Secondly, the... Read more »

Foreign Frolics

Simon Coveney

Foreign Frolics

COVENEY’S MIDDLE EAST CHARADE

WHAT A deafening silence there has been from foreign minister Simon Coveney on the Middle East “deal of the century”, produced by Donald Trump’s son-in-law and advisor, Jared Kushner. The... Read more »

The Hot Air Brigade

Maria Bailey

The Hot Air Brigade

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

I grew up on the sideline of a GAA pitch. I play fair, I don’t play offside. Fine Gael TD Maria Bailey on Today with Sean O’Rourke Friday’s elections for... Read more »

High Society

High Society

Kyran McLaughlin

High Society

JANE’S STRAY HORSES

A COMPANY called Animal Security Ltd has been quietly dissolved. The name may not be too familiar to readers, but it previously operated under... Read more »


High Society

Consuelo O’Connor

High Society

BRIAN RANALOW’S INVESTMENT

INTERESTING to see Dublin moneybags and artist Brian Ranalow investing a wedge of cash in Genos Investments Ltd this month. Genos is a big... Read more »


High Society

Frank and Theresa McNamara

High Society

FRANK AND THERESA McNAMARA’S ADVENTURES

THIS WEEK saw the return to court of the proceedings by a culture fund, Apollo Global, against one-time ‘celebrity’ couple Frank and Theresa McNamara, with the Yanks seeking to force... Read more »

Sponsored Content

Dovida’s Live-in Care Service

A compelling alternative to nursing home care, delivered by the most experienced care provider in Ireland   Michael Wright, Director of Growth, Dovida Ireland   Growth in nursing home... Read more »

Behind the Scenes

Sandra Thorpe

Behind the Scenes

SELINA CARTMELL’S OLD SHOWS

NEXT WEEK sees the return to the Gate of the hit show at the northside theatre, Roddy Doyle’s The Snapper. Given it had a near three-month run only a year... Read more »

Susan Bergin Marlowe Mullingar Film Studio RTÉ Self-Employment

Behind the Scenes

PAT MOYLAN’S GRANT

CONGRATULATIONS to former Arts Council chair Pat Moylan who is again to tour her smash hit show, Angela’s Ashes The Musical, two years after it packed the punters in during... Read more »

Sharon Horgan

Behind the Scenes

SHARON HORGAN’S LATEST PAYDAY

AS THE annual Cannes film junket (which featured a rare Irish success) came to a close on Sunday, it coincided with the arrival of Screen Ireland’s first-quarter gravy train. James... Read more »

Sport of Kings

Henry Beeby

Sport of Kings

GOOD NEWS FOR HENRY BEEBY

NOEL HAYES must be one of the luckiest owners in the game and has struck gold again through his Sunday Racing Club with the sale of the two-year-old Sunday Sovereign.... Read more »

Brendan Duke Adrian Murray Mick Bailey

Sport of Kings

CURRAGH GOLD CUP LOSING ITS GLITTER

WITH THREE Group 1 races on the card, the Irish Guineas Festival is of the highest class, but the newly refurbished Curragh is in danger of one of those Group... Read more »

Luke Comer Ban

Sport of Kings

LUKE COMER CASHES IN

MONEYBAGS Luke Comer enjoyed probably his finest moment as a trainer when Raa Atoll pulled off a well-executed plan in winning a Group 2 race in Berlin recently. There are... Read more »

Seamie Heffernan

Sport of Kings

HEFFERNAN’S NOT SO ROUGH RIDE

BALLYDOYLE stalwart Seamie Heffernan is having quite a lean season by his standards, having yet to get to double-figure winners, but there was definitely a case of one result that... Read more »

Moneybags

Moneybags

Carl McCann

Moneybags

TOTAL PRODUCE’S DOLE PROBLEM

INVESTORS IN Total Produce would be forgiven for not getting the full picture from the 2018 annual report. The acquisition of only a 45%... Read more »


Moneybags

Sheikh Mohammad Al Zubair

Moneybags

AMINEX SHARES FAIL TO REFLECT POTENTIAL IN TANZANIA

AMINEX HAS farmed out the development of its gas discovery in Tanzania with a $105m development deal, wherein it is fully carried through to... Read more »


Sponsored Content

ESB’s Ardnacrusha Power Station Reopens for Free Public Tours This Summer

ESB is once again running guided tours at Ardnacrusha Power Station in Co Clare this summer, offering the public a rare opportunity to explore one of Ireland’s most significant... Read more »

Brief Cases

Conor Mallaghan

Brief Cases

CLOCK TICKING FOR CHOCKABLOCK

THE COMPANY that was behind the impressive Carton House estate in Co Kildare – Chockablock Ltd – is to be the subject of a creditors’ meeting next month. The main... Read more »

Olga Shajaku

Brief Cases

OLGA SHAJAKU’S LATEST VICTORY

MORE GOOD news for Goldhawk’s favourite Russian lawyer, Olga Shajaku, who got a good result from the Supreme Court last week, which means her long-running efforts to reverse the awarding... Read more »

Peter Frankhauser

Brief Cases

THOMAS COOK’S HAPLESS INVESTORS

GOLDHAWK was interested to spot that among the casualties in the Thomas Cook Group share meltdown is the pension fund of the Northern Ireland Local Government Office (NILGO), which has... Read more »

Richard Spence

Brief Cases

RICHARD SPENCE’S SALON SETBACK

THINGS HAVE turned ugly for Beautifi, the beauty technology outfit established by Richard Spence a few years ago to ‘revolutionise’ the salon booking experience. While the company had plans to... Read more »

article-default-hot-water

Brief Cases

RED INK AT PINK SANDS

THE REVENUE has registered a judgment against a company called Pink Sands Property Investments Ltd, which has form when it comes to this sort of thing. The Pink Sands name... Read more »

Denis Desmond

Brief Cases

DENIS DESMOND’S INVESTMENTS

IN THIS issue, Goldhawk profiles promoter extraordinaire Denis Desmond, who has quite a varied array of investments. While some are connected to MCD’s area of expertise, DD has also found... Read more »

Sponsored Content

CEA: There is No Such Thing as Director-lite

  THE Corporate Enforcement Authority (CEA) enforces any breach of company law by companies or the directors of a company. Michael Dillon, CEA’s Director of Legal, explains that... Read more »


deAn - non-binary

Popular Stories

  • John Magnier

    MAGNIER’S NEW WORLD

    DISCONTENT WITH Coolmore’s near stranglehold on Irish racing had been a talking ...

  • Dermot Desmond

    DER KAISER’S TRUSTEES

    DERMOT DESMOND’S favourite charity, the Chester Beatty Library (CBL) – where he ...

  • Paul Williams

    GRABBING GRAHAM DWYER

    GOLDHAWK WAS surprised to see that the headline-grabbing new documentary on the ...

  • Lord Bamford and Willie Mullins

    WILLIE MULLINS’ NOBLE AMBITIONS

    PERHAPS THE most eyebrow-raising outcome at Royal Ascot last week was the ...

  • Lansdowne Place

    LANSDOWNE PLACE’S NEW FACES

    CONGRATULATIONS TO former Independent News & Media (INM) head honcho Vincent Crowley ...

  • Tailored Films Screen Ireland Perspectives DCCI Crescine Tarka Russell Lara Hickey Reality Check Sarah McInerney Irish Movies Paul Murray Arts Council Dublin Theatre Festival TWU Macdara Kelleher Richard Boyd Barrett DADC Cillian Murphy Terry McMahon Media Commission Ireland Kerlin Gallery Creative Ireland Section 481 Christine O’Donovan RTÉ Storyland NMI Board Vacancies IASCA Ossie Kilkenny RTÉ Original Programmes

    BEN BARNES’ BROADSIDE

    WHILE THE Arts Council has been getting both barrels recently for rather ...

  • Rhoda Lane-O’Kelly

    IMMA’S HALF DOZEN

    ARTS MINISTER Patrick O’Donovan is seeking applications from worthies looking to fill ...

  • Roman and Chitra Stern

    ROMAN STERN’S EXPENSIVE ADVENTURE

    GOLDHAWK NOTES that number-cruncher Roy Scannell of Moore Ireland has just been ...

  • IHT CHL The Lion in Winter Racing Royalty Le Brocquy City of Troy Fitzwilliam Square AIRO Dermot Smurfit Ballinacarrig Park Club Cosgrave Fitzpatrick Keith Jameson National Gallery Collection Marissa Carter VG Tom Higgins Neil Jordan Laura Bonner Paul Ward Variety Jones Dtat Eathos Sharon Keegan Angela Scanlon Desmond Canouan Bellair Estate Bobby Flay John O’Conor Portrait of Omai Eibhlín Ní Chonghaile Wedding NGI Board Rachel Flynn JP McMahon Ash Quinn Pamela Laird Abdullah Al Naboodah Boundless Ocean

    HYLAND’S GRAVE CONCERN

    THE ASSOCIATION of Irish Racehorse Owners (AIRO) held its recent AGM in ...

  • Ed Dunlop David Dunsdon Sarah Lynam Rebecca May Wayne Hassett Eoin O'Brien Michael Burke Aine O’Connor Ashroe Diamond Thomand O’Mara Peter Keatley Timmy Hyde Coolmore All About Sunday Colin Keane Ronan Whelan JP McManus Jessica Harrington Dundalk Racecourse Paul Hensey Irish National Hunt Horse-racing Doping Paddy Walsh Tom Kelly Suspension

    CURRAGH’S HEAVY GOING

    CURRAGH RACECOURSE head honcho Brian Kavanagh struggled to find some good going ...


Keane - govt housing plan
Matt Percival - game changer

Keyes - lotto

Mark Wood - Menu Phones

Contact Goldhawk


Mark Wood - Social Anxiety

Phoenix Magazine – Ireland's number one best-selling news and current affairs magazine

Contact

The Phoenix Magazine
44 Lower Baggot Street,
Dublin 2,
Ireland.
Tel: + 353 (0)1 661 1062
Fax: +353 (0)1 662 4532

About

Contact Us
About The Phoenix
Privacy Policy
Terms & Conditions

 

Advertising

Contact Advertising Department
Media Pack

ADVERTISE WITH US

Subscribe

Subscribe to the Phoenix
Subscriber Login
Manage Account

Subscribe Now

The Phoenix Magazine 44 Lower Baggot Street, Dublin 2, Ireland. Tel: + 353 (0)1 661 1062 Fax: +353 (0)1 662 4532

All articles and content © 2025 Penfield Enterprises Ltd. Registered in Ireland: IE132179. All Rights Reserved.

We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it.OkNoRead more