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The magazine with the Inside Stories
August 9 - August 22, 2019
Affairs of the Nation
MEDIAHUIS LEGAL DEBUT
THE WEEK in which Mediahuis received High Court approval of its INM takeover also saw a slew of legal problems and potentially huge damages plus legal costs incurred by INM... Read more »
BERNARD BROGAN’S GOALS
WITH MANY Dubs fans hoping that Bernard Brogan will be back in the squad for this weekend’s All Ireland semi-final clash with Mayo, he has also been stirring interest in... Read more »
PAT HICKEY’S MEDAL RUN
IT IS not surprising that the photo of former Olympic Federation of Ireland (OFI) boss Pat Hickey having a chinwag with his good friend, Sport Ireland chairman Kieran Mulvey, set... Read more »
FILM PLOT THICKENS
EARLIER THIS month, the latest episode of the ongoing film and TV union saga played out at a meeting to discuss assorted plot lines, including the increasingly contentious issues of... Read more »
EMILY LOGAN’S APPOINTMENT
IT EMERGED at the weekend that justice minister Charlie Flanagan has stripped away the red tape previously wrapped around the re-appointment of serving commissioners on the Irish Human Rights and... Read more »
MARY HARNEY’S TIMELY EXIT
GOLDHAWK was surprised to spy the appointment of an administrator to the UK-registered parent of Mary O’Brien’s VideoDoc operation. The good news is that Mary Harney got out when the... Read more »
MICHAEL NUGENT’S LUNCH DATE
INTERESTING TO see Atheist Ireland (AI) founder and High Priest Michael Nugent lending his impressive intellectual ballast to yet another unpopular cause. Last week, Nugent sent social media into a... Read more »
BAHRAIN BLAST
The recent executions in Bahrain of three Shi’ite activists were met with opprobrium from human rights groups and civil unrest in the Middle Eastern kingdom. One member of the country’s... Read more »
GALWAY RADICALS
FOLLLOWING THE recent attack on the Galway Maryam Mosque, the president of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Association of Ireland, Dr M A Malik, pointedly remarked that “radicalisation is not only limited... Read more »
HEATHER’S HOUSE
SPARE a thought for Mark Thornburgh, who stumped up over E170,000 to help his sister Heather Perrin – the only Irish judge ever to be jailed – and her hubby... Read more »
SEE THE QUEEN!
Boris Johnson arrived at Stormont on 31 July all bluff, bluster and bonhomie, urging the north’s parties to “seal the deal on power-sharing”. We’re told much has been agreed about... Read more »
Pillars of Society
PROFILE: FEARGAL PURCELL
Feargal Purcell was back in the news last month following an explosive Dáil row over the Climate Emergency Bill. The Fine Gael handler turned... Read more »
Fit to Print?
COLETTE SEXTON’S CONVERSION
SUNDAY BUSINESS POST hack, Colette Sexton, will surely raise the tone and exper- tise of her new colleagues at Edelman which she joined recently. As media & marketing correspondent at... Read more »
IRISH TIMES IMAGE
IN AN unusually unsubtle PR move, the Irish Times announced the editorial promotion of two women the weekend following The Phoenix story about alleged bullying and discrimination against the paper’s... Read more »
SEZ THE MAN FROM THE DAILY MAIL
HOW IRONIC that the Aarish edition of the Sunday Times should pick up on the fake news peddled by the Daily Mail which claimed that Leo Varadkar was put in... Read more »
Last Refuge
JOSEPHA, SHANE, SHAY AND NEALE
SHAY BRENNAN’S win at the Fianna Fáil Dublin Rathdown convention last week is but a small step in the party’s seemingly hopeless quest to take back the seat held by... Read more »
BERNARD MCCABE’S RETURN
MANY OF the dinner ‘guests’ at the recent barristers fund raiser for Fine Gael (see The Phoenix, 28/6/19) would have political as well as professional motivation in forking out €600... Read more »
JOAN BURTON’S LAST STAND
THE SUNDAY INDEPENDENT was kind to former Labour leader, Joan Burton, in its recent front page splash about tens of thousands of pensioners being deprived of thousands of Euro each... Read more »
TIMMY DOOLEY’S DEMISE
TIMMY DOOLEY’S public dressing down by his boss, Micheál Martin, for his unpatriotic remarks on the Taoiseach as he confronted the old foe, represent the final demise of the front... Read more »
Hush Hush
THE SCAPPATICCI MYTH
THE SUNDAY TIMES is cited in a ‘psyops’ complaint lodged at Belfast High Court recently by Belfast Solicitors, Brentnall Legal. The complaint takes the form of an application for a... Read more »
Fowl Emissions
NOT SO CANNEY
Bono and Mary Robinson are among the famous faces wheeled out as part of Ireland’s bid for a seat on the UN Security Council (see The Phoenix 29/7/2018). But Ireland... Read more »
High Society
MAIREAD RONAN’S SCHEDULE
THERE HAS been plenty of showbiz coverage this month of Mairead Ronan’s landing of a prime time radio slot on Today FM. Radio presenting is, however, just one of the... Read more »
WRIGHT FAMILY AT WAR
INTERESTING TO see proceedings lodged in the Four Goldmines by assorted companies associated with the Wright fish dynasty in Howth. The matriarch here is former Aer Lingus air hostess Eileen... Read more »
Behind the Scenes
KEEPING UP WITH JOHN McDONOUGH
INFORMATION is fairly thin on the ground at the Department of Culture when it comes to discussing the filling of the €100,000 pa approx post of Director of the national... Read more »
JOHN HEDIGAN’S REPORT
WITH A new Director soon to head up the National Archives of Ireland, it is to be hoped that whoever does land the five-year contract can encourage the National Archives... Read more »
Sport of Kings
HERE COMES ANOTHER O’BRIEN
AS If Irish trainers hadn’t enough on their plates competing with the might of both Aidan and Joseph O’Brien on a weekly basis, it turns out that a third O’Brien... Read more »
APPEALING BEHAVIOUR
THERE WAS mixed news for jockey MJ O’Connor last month after a couple of run-ins with the stewards resulted in a lengthy riding suspension. While the rider and trainer still... Read more »
Moneybags
Jeremy Masding can’t stop the rot at Permanent TSB
IT IS now over 10 years since the bottom of the crash and over seven years since Jeremy Masding was appointed CEO (2012) of Permanent TSB (PTSB), yet the bank... Read more »
Question marks over Uniphar’s prescription for success
IN RAISING E135m at E1.15 a share by floating on the Dublin Euronext junior Growth market and London’s AIM market, Uniphar has signalled that it plans to break out of... Read more »
The Hot Water Brigade
Sally Ann’s Van
GOLDHAWK was surprised recently to see the name of his old pal Sally Ann Luykx on the back of a van belonging to a Dublin corporate catering outfit called Let’s... Read more »
Paul Joyce’s Big Setback
KILDARE developer Paul Joyce has just had his bell rung by Ulster Bank. The bank recently registered a judgment against the Turnerstown businessman for a hefty €4.2m but it’s far... Read more »
MICHAEL WRIGHT’S NEW BUSINESS PLAN
WHILE ONE of the siblings of the Wright ‘fish family’, Mark Wright, finds himself on the receiving end of High Court proceedings from his mother and sister and various compa-... Read more »
TARGETING THE NUMBER CRUNCHERS
THERE WAS bad news for some number crunchers recently, with the Chartered Accountants of Ireland (CAI) disciplinary and conduct committees registering some hits, one rather more high profile than the... Read more »
Arnaud Gaultier’s fine whines
THERE was more hard cheese for Kildare-based wine importer Arnaud Gaultier in the Four Goldmines recently, where the Frenchman is failing to make any friends among the judiciary. The colourful... Read more »
Corrado Forte’s latest headache
MORE woe for Wexford businessman Corrado Forte, who has just had two tax judgments registered against him for a total of over €92,000. Forte has had a lot on his... Read more »
IT’S CURTAINS FOR US, SAYS ARTS INDUSTRY
NEW PLAN FOR LIVING WITH FIANNA FÁIL
BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLIST REVEALED
JOHN DELANEY’S BOOK REVIEW
‘BREXIT BILL SHAMBLES NOT A SHAMBLES’ – BORIS
