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June 28 - July 11, 2019
Affairs of the Nation
FOXY AVERIL POWER
THE MEDIA row between Solidarity’s Ruth Coppinger TD (her bill to ban mink farming goes before the Dáil next week) and fur farmer Redmond O’Hanlon was lively. Ruthie described the... Read more »
‘IRISH TIMES’ RUSSIAN SCARE
THE increasingly hysterical tone of the Anglo-American Russian scare campaign was evident in a story splashed across the front page of the Irish Times this week headlined, “Russians posted ‘fake... Read more »
DONAL KINSELLA’S COSTS
DONAL KINSELLA, former Kenmare Resources deputy chairman, hasn’t been having too much luck in the courts recently. He is best known to the public for that unfortunate naked sleepwalking incident... Read more »
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National Enterprise Hub Offers Easy Access to Government Supports for Businesses
Conor O’Donovan, Head of the National Enterprise Hub & Global Marketing & Communication, Enterprise Ireland. Running a business is challenging, but accessing government supports shouldn’t be. While there is... Read more »
LUPTON’S LOBBYING
ONE OF the first issues seized upon by the media after the Ana Kriégel case was restricting access by children to online material. One commentator doing the rounds last week... Read more »
DUBLIN PRIDE’S PRICE
THIS WEEKEND sees the annual Dublin Pride march organised by Jed Dowling’s Dublin LGBTQ Pride company and it promises to be the most corporate to date. Not everyone is dancing... Read more »
HERMANN KELLY VS SINN FÉIN
His poor performance in May’s European elections is in the rearview mirror but, for bombastic Irexiteer Hermann Kelly, a hangover could be on the way. Kelly is facing the prospect... Read more »
SIMON COVENEY’S OPTICS
THE TÁNAISTE and foreign minister, Simon Coveney, hinted in the Dáil last November that he had an indirect input into the master plan for the Middle East being presented in... Read more »
FG DINNER DONORS
A CERTAIN apprehension spread across the bluer membership of the Law Library this week as they perceived that their civil war enemies were gathering intelligence on who spent €600 (senior... Read more »
AT HOME WITH DAVID DAVIES
THE SQUIRE of Abbey Leix House, David Davies, must have been delighted with the fawning coverage of his decision to put his Co Laois pile and its 1,000 acres on... Read more »
SONYA LENNON’S FASHION SENSE
CLOTHING designer (sorry “fashion guru”) and all round do-gooder Sonya Lennon has been dividing her time between assorted projects, but now one has bitten the dust following her decision to... Read more »
Pillars of Society
PROFILE: ENDA O’COINEEN
EYEBROWS WERE raised last weekend when Enda O’Coineen’s name was linked to a possible acquisition of the RTÉ Guide. But the deal makes sense;... Read more »
The Young Bloods
YOUNG BLOOD: JAMES GEOGHEGAN
Last month’s Dublin City Council elections saw the electoral debut of prodigious Fine Gaeler James Geoghegan (34), who marked the occasion by taking a... Read more »
CEA 2024 Conference: Advancing Corporate Law Enforcement and Compliance
The Corporate Enforcement Authority (CEA) held its 2024 conference on October 17 at The Honorable Society of King’s Inns, Dublin. The event was attended by policymakers, regulatory bodies, and... Read more »
Fit to Print?
HACKS ‘BLOOD’ FEUD
TWO PROMINENT Irish post holders in the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) have become embroiled in the offensive against British Labour Party Palestinian supporters and have targeted an elderly Muslim... Read more »
BANNING THE ‘DAILY MAIL’
HIGH ANXIETY has surrounded coverage by mainstream and social media of the Ana Kriégel murder trial, mostly for good reasons. But reaction to trial judge Justice Paul McDermott’s initial blanket... Read more »
‘INDO’ POLITICAL STAMPEDE
INM group editor Fionnan Sheahan is wrestling with personnel issues at Talbot Towers, where his rambunctious persona clashed with the Indo’s equally assertive personal finance editor Charlie Weston. Simultaneously, INM... Read more »
Last Refuge
VARADKAR TO BAIL OUT BAILEY?
LEO VARADKAR is again exhibiting a recently observed trait of indecision and prevarication, this time in the Maria Bailey ‘compo’ controversy. This characteristic is at odds with the firm, leadership... Read more »
KATE O’CONNELL AND MARIA BAILEY
THE SPECIAL relationship between VBFs Fine Gael TDs Maria Bailey and Kate O’Connell appears to have been challenged due to the unfortunate misunderstanding and media sensationalism generated by Bailey’s compo... Read more »
BRENDAN AND RÓISÍN
STRATEGIC ARGUMENTS inside both the Labour Party and the Labour Party Mark II (aka the Social Democrats) concern not only whether to enter coalition government again – a near-death experience... Read more »
SOC DEMS TARGET EIGHT DÁIL SEATS
THE MEDIA’s new political love objects are the Greens, but the Soc Dems are also feeling some love, as illustrated by a recent Irish Times article on their general election... Read more »
Hush Hush
LYRA McKEE EXPOSÉ
LYRA McKEE’S posthumous book, Angels with Blue Faces, focuses on the November 1981 IRA killing of firebrand Ulster Unionist MP Reverend Robert Bradford, which she implies was linked to the... Read more »
DAVID WALSH NAILED
THE JUDICIARY has finally nailed barrack room lawyer David Walsh, a former haulage contractor who is now serving a fortnight’s jail sentence for contempt originally imposed over three years ago.... Read more »
Bog Cuttings
BOG CUTTINGS
‘NOTHING BETTER THAN SHYSTERS’ THE RECENT election of the new council Cathaoirleach in Leitrim and the appointments to various committees didn’t appear to go down well with one councillor, Des... Read more »
Fowl Emissions
FOOL’S GOLD
Surprisingly, there still seems to be parts of Ireland’s natural environment that have yet to be exploited for monetary gain. But fear not – the government is determined to put a... Read more »
NUDGE, NUDGE
Richard Bruton’s much-hyped climate action plan will “nudge” us to change our behaviour, according to Leo Varadkar. It’s a word that doesn’t quite convey a sense of emergency. Countries at... Read more »
The Hot Air Brigade
THE HOT AIR BRIGADE
But when I started finally reading it… I realised I’d been a Muslim all my life and I didn’t know it. Sinéad O’Connor (aka Shuhada’ Davitt) on studying Islam, Irish... Read more »
High Society
TARKA RUSSELL’S CREDENTIALS
CONGRATULATIONS to young Tarka Russell, a glamorous addition to the board of the Glucksman art gallery in UCC. Having studied art history and now... Read more »
SEAMUS FITZPATRICK’S BUSY SCHEDULE
THESE ARE busy time for moneybags Seamus Fitzpatrick, who is fighting on two fronts. It was reported earlier this month that Fitzpatrick had lobbed... Read more »
YVETTE MONAHAN’S MOOLAH
THERE WAS a creditors’ meeting held in the offices of Outlook Accounts in Tallaght last week, which featured the winding up of a little-known company called Tabellero Ltd. It had... Read more »
A Year of Innovation with NEAT Fusion
As we approach the end of 2024, NEAT Gates celebrates a landmark year of innovation, marked by the success of NEAT Fusion – a cutting-edge, one-piece, easy-install automated gate... Read more »
Behind the Scenes
KEVIN RAFTER’S BAPTISM
LAST WEEK, the new chair of the Arts Council, Kevin Rafter, oversaw his first meeting of the board – a bruising two-day annual session reviewing policy and working through all... Read more »
SCREEN IRELAND’S DISTRIBUTORS
FINANCIAL hand-outs in Screen Ireland’s 2017 annual report will no doubt be of interest to incoming boss Désirée Finnegan, who replaces James Hickey. Distribution support should catch her eye given... Read more »
Sport of Kings
GIGGINSTOWN WHO?
THE FIRST barometer of how the national hunt sales market is to cope with life after Gigginstown House Stud was measured at Henry Beeby’s Goffs Land Rover Sale. And, while... Read more »
KEEPING TABS ON BYRNES
CHARLES BYRNES showed recently that he hadn’t lost the Midas touch when it comes to pulling off a gamble, with his Mr Smith doing the business in a modest flat... Read more »
RONAN WHELAN’S WHIP
THE LATEST high-profile jockey to fall foul of the new whip rules is Ronan Whelan after three consecutive breaches led to a referral to the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board HQ.... Read more »
HANNON’S VACCINE PROBLEM
LEADING UK trainer Richard Hannon felt the full wrath of the stringent Irish passport and vaccination regulations recently. Hannon sent two runners over to a Curragh meeting in June and,... Read more »
Moneybags
NAMA’S 10 TERRIBLE YEARS
NAMA is a complex organisation, but one of its most significant aspects has been its role in the housing crisis that currently exists in... Read more »
TROUBLE BREWING AT KARELIAN DIAMONDS
AT THE age of 86, Dick Conroy is running two mineral exploration companies – Karelian Diamonds and Conroy Gold and Natural Resources. Both of... Read more »
Gold – Uncertainty and Your Business
Have you ever considered holding gold as part of your business’s portfolio? It’s not that surprising if you haven’t, but it’s also not surprising that an increasing number of... Read more »
The Hot Water Brigade
PETER DEVLIN’S ROOMS
INTERESTING to see that No 44 Belgrave Square in Monkstown, south County Dublin, is on the market with a hefty €2.65m price tag. This is the abode of TV presenter... Read more »
MARTIN SHORTT’S ‘CREDIBILITY PROBLEM’
SPARE a thought for Meath auctioneer Martin Shortt, who was recently given short shrift by Judge Seamus Noonan in the High Court. As a result, Danske Bank secured judgment against... Read more »
JOHN FARRELL’S BUSINESS PARTNER
TROUBLE is brewing over the liquidation of one of Dublin restaurateur John Farrell’s operations. Peeved creditors of Super Miss Sue Ltd are unhappy with the company’s choice of liquidator and... Read more »
DEIRDRE FOLEY’S SUMMER SCHEDULE
AS A result of an adjournment last week, property speculator extraordinaire Deirdre Foley will have to wait another couple of weeks to hear the outcome of a potentially significant judicial... Read more »
JASPER COYLE’S TAX BILL
DUBLIN tax accountant Jasper Coyle could do with taking some of his own advice. Goldhawk spotted that the Revenue had recently whacked the Sandymount number cruncher with a hefty €488,000... Read more »
PADDY STACK WHACKED
MORE woe for Royal County builder Paddy Stack and his wife Mary Stack, who have just been slapped with matching judgments for €46,000 by the Revenue. The Kildalkey, Co Meath... Read more »
PEGASUS PEOPLE
AN INTERESTING aspect of the winding up of a company called Taballero Ltd – following on from the securing of a €2.35m judgment by Yvette and John Monahan – is... Read more »
Credit Review: Helping Irish Businesses Secure Credit
Recent economic surveys indicate that Irish SMEs are positive about the future, with more than two-thirds expecting sales to grow. To support their growth, many businesses will seek bank... Read more »
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