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The Phoenix 40th Edition

The 40th edition is packed with interesting and amusing stories from 80’s, 90’s, 2000’s and up to 2020. Also includes regular issue inside. Download the PDF here To access this... Read more »
Simon Harris

Affairs of the Nation

FG LEADERSHIP PARALYSIS

MANY FINE GAEL TDs and senators want Simon Harris to get a move on and go for the leadership of the party but the new dauphin (following the decline of... Read more »
Budget Jack Chambers Nicki Minaj B’Tselem Phil Hogan UCD IRTA DIGI Katy Brown Rory Godson Pallonji Mistry Shark Hanlon Frances Ruane Taste of Dublin Listowel Writers’ Week Paddy Curran Harvey Norman Anton Savage Paul Hourican Enda O’Coineen PfP Red C Poll IFTA Ben Gilroy Luke Comer Sue Spence Fingleton Aubrey McCarthy Matt Cooper Parker Green Danny McConnell Gayle Killilea Maura Derivan Ed Honohan INS Arts Council EDAF Emuse Rosslare Golf Club Mairead Casey Colm O’Rourke Stephen Connolly Peter Aiken John Malone Tom Barry Anthony Halpin Ian Kehoe Kevin Bakhurst Geraldine O’Leary Dennis Horgan RUSI Gareth McAllister Ryevale House Joe Macken RUC Omagh Patrick Connolly Paddy Cosgrave The Ditch Newstalk Fake Tan Fred Logue Ian Paisley Sean O’Riordan Margaret Sweeney Jay Bourke Ellie Kisyombe Francesca McDonagh Ted Cunningham National Space Centre An Irish Goodbye Oscar Robert Quirke Ciara Kelly Executive Women Gathering Doug Taylor Florian Haufe Robbie Henshaw Bill Shipsey Breaking the Silence L’Ecrivain Ronan McNally National Lottery Michael Roche Energy Action Balls.ie Newspapers VAT Abbey Theatre Patricia Madden Irish Banking Culture Board Randox Aoife Gallagher Book Dalai Lama Trinity Trevor White RTÉ Chairperson Shane Houlihan Noel Smyth IKC Bob Geldof Landlord Ireland Neutrality Ukraine

Affairs of the Nation

RYEVALE HOUSE RESISTANCE

THERE IS still significant opposition to the decision to use the impressive Ryevale House outside Leixlip, Co Kildare, to provide emergency accommodation for up to 80 refugees. It is, however,... Read more »

Affairs of the Nation

Budget Jack Chambers Nicki Minaj B’Tselem Phil Hogan UCD IRTA DIGI Katy Brown Rory Godson Pallonji Mistry Shark Hanlon Frances Ruane Taste of Dublin Listowel Writers’ Week Paddy Curran Harvey Norman Anton Savage Paul Hourican Enda O’Coineen PfP Red C Poll IFTA Ben Gilroy Luke Comer Sue Spence Fingleton Aubrey McCarthy Matt Cooper Parker Green Danny McConnell Gayle Killilea Maura Derivan Ed Honohan INS Arts Council EDAF Emuse Rosslare Golf Club Mairead Casey Colm O’Rourke Stephen Connolly Peter Aiken John Malone Tom Barry Anthony Halpin Ian Kehoe Kevin Bakhurst Geraldine O’Leary Dennis Horgan RUSI Gareth McAllister Ryevale House Joe Macken RUC Omagh Patrick Connolly Paddy Cosgrave The Ditch Newstalk Fake Tan Fred Logue Ian Paisley Sean O’Riordan Margaret Sweeney Jay Bourke Ellie Kisyombe Francesca McDonagh Ted Cunningham National Space Centre An Irish Goodbye Oscar Robert Quirke Ciara Kelly Executive Women Gathering Doug Taylor Florian Haufe Robbie Henshaw Bill Shipsey Breaking the Silence L’Ecrivain Ronan McNally National Lottery Michael Roche Energy Action Balls.ie Newspapers VAT Abbey Theatre Patricia Madden Irish Banking Culture Board Randox Aoife Gallagher Book Dalai Lama Trinity Trevor White RTÉ Chairperson Shane Houlihan Noel Smyth IKC Bob Geldof Landlord Ireland Neutrality Ukraine

Affairs of the Nation

JOE MACKEN’S FORMER PARTNER

GOLDHAWK’S one-time favourite restaurateur Joe Macken (see Young Blood 6/4/12) was in the news again last week when he took a pop at his former business partner, who turns out... Read more »
Budget Jack Chambers Nicki Minaj B’Tselem Phil Hogan UCD IRTA DIGI Katy Brown Rory Godson Pallonji Mistry Shark Hanlon Frances Ruane Taste of Dublin Listowel Writers’ Week Paddy Curran Harvey Norman Anton Savage Paul Hourican Enda O’Coineen PfP Red C Poll IFTA Ben Gilroy Luke Comer Sue Spence Fingleton Aubrey McCarthy Matt Cooper Parker Green Danny McConnell Gayle Killilea Maura Derivan Ed Honohan INS Arts Council EDAF Emuse Rosslare Golf Club Mairead Casey Colm O’Rourke Stephen Connolly Peter Aiken John Malone Tom Barry Anthony Halpin Ian Kehoe Kevin Bakhurst Geraldine O’Leary Dennis Horgan RUSI Gareth McAllister Ryevale House Joe Macken RUC Omagh Patrick Connolly Paddy Cosgrave The Ditch Newstalk Fake Tan Fred Logue Ian Paisley Sean O’Riordan Margaret Sweeney Jay Bourke Ellie Kisyombe Francesca McDonagh Ted Cunningham National Space Centre An Irish Goodbye Oscar Robert Quirke Ciara Kelly Executive Women Gathering Doug Taylor Florian Haufe Robbie Henshaw Bill Shipsey Breaking the Silence L’Ecrivain Ronan McNally National Lottery Michael Roche Energy Action Balls.ie Newspapers VAT Abbey Theatre Patricia Madden Irish Banking Culture Board Randox Aoife Gallagher Book Dalai Lama Trinity Trevor White RTÉ Chairperson Shane Houlihan Noel Smyth IKC Bob Geldof Landlord Ireland Neutrality Ukraine

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MI5 MACHINATIONS

HIS MAJESTY’S legislation to snuff out Troubles-related legacy cases looks like it will pass into law this year. The probe into the RUC’s failure to act on intelligence and prevent... Read more »
Ruairi O'Neill

Affairs of the Nation

BEDS BONANZA IN D6

THE BLOCKADE in Inch and the burnt-out tent village in Dublin city centre have focused attention on the issues surrounding the housing of asylum seekers and those fleeing the war... Read more »
Norman Crowley

Affairs of the Nation

NORMAN’S WISDOM

NORMAN CROWLEY’S fans in the Irish Times gave him another outing in the paper earlier this month, where the ‘energy efficient solutions’ motor mouth boasted about signing a “€50m electric... Read more »
Budget Jack Chambers Nicki Minaj B’Tselem Phil Hogan UCD IRTA DIGI Katy Brown Rory Godson Pallonji Mistry Shark Hanlon Frances Ruane Taste of Dublin Listowel Writers’ Week Paddy Curran Harvey Norman Anton Savage Paul Hourican Enda O’Coineen PfP Red C Poll IFTA Ben Gilroy Luke Comer Sue Spence Fingleton Aubrey McCarthy Matt Cooper Parker Green Danny McConnell Gayle Killilea Maura Derivan Ed Honohan INS Arts Council EDAF Emuse Rosslare Golf Club Mairead Casey Colm O’Rourke Stephen Connolly Peter Aiken John Malone Tom Barry Anthony Halpin Ian Kehoe Kevin Bakhurst Geraldine O’Leary Dennis Horgan RUSI Gareth McAllister Ryevale House Joe Macken RUC Omagh Patrick Connolly Paddy Cosgrave The Ditch Newstalk Fake Tan Fred Logue Ian Paisley Sean O’Riordan Margaret Sweeney Jay Bourke Ellie Kisyombe Francesca McDonagh Ted Cunningham National Space Centre An Irish Goodbye Oscar Robert Quirke Ciara Kelly Executive Women Gathering Doug Taylor Florian Haufe Robbie Henshaw Bill Shipsey Breaking the Silence L’Ecrivain Ronan McNally National Lottery Michael Roche Energy Action Balls.ie Newspapers VAT Abbey Theatre Patricia Madden Irish Banking Culture Board Randox Aoife Gallagher Book Dalai Lama Trinity Trevor White RTÉ Chairperson Shane Houlihan Noel Smyth IKC Bob Geldof Landlord Ireland Neutrality Ukraine

Affairs of the Nation

HAUGHEY’S GUBU ENEMIES

Harry McGEE’S new book, The Murderer and the Taoiseach, describes the homicides perpetrated by Malcolm McArthur in 1982. Sensationally, McArthur was arrested while staying at the Dalkey apartment of Charles... Read more »
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Affairs of the Nation

WHITE EUROPEANS

At the Aviva Stadium last October, defence department secretary general Jacqui McCrum opened proceedings at ‘Building the ecosystem – identifying connections for collaboration in security, defence and dual technologies’. The... Read more »
Chris Horn

Affairs of the Nation

CATCH THE WIND

While touted by some as Ireland’s green energy moonshot, the backlash against offshore wind energy seems to be gathering pace, long before a single pylon has been installed. Although experts... Read more »

Fit to Print?

Niall Meehan Norma Foley

Fit to Print?

‘SEE NO SECTARIANISM …’

THE IRISH TIMES lasered in on the Government’s scoping inquiry into abuse “at private fee paying schools” recently, but its article had little to say about the most newsworthy aspect... Read more »
Ivan Yates Nell McCafferty RTÉ Lord Laird Intro Matchmaking NewsBrands Martin McGuinness Dún Laoghaire Pat Leahy Cormac Lucey John Cooney Irish Journalism Awards Steve Aiken Anton Savage John Downing Lucinda Creighton Marina Sologub Eilis O'Hanlon Ian Kehoe Danny McConnell Sindo O'Connor Mediahuis Stephen Collins Book Justine McCarthy Rewriting the Troubles Lynn Ruane Sinn Féin

Fit to Print?

NAH NAH PANA

THE MEDIA, military and Government mantra is for a serious debate about neutrality. Newspapers and airwaves are full of strident cries to end neutrality and the ‘free ride’ we get... Read more »
Daniel McConnell

Fit to Print?

‘BUSINESS POST’ REVISES NORTH LINE

NEWLY MINTED Business Post editor Daniel McConnell clearly felt the need to not only assert a politically pristine editorial line on the north but to attach his name to this... Read more »

Last Refuge

Brigadier General Philip Brennan

Last Refuge

TRIPLE-COCK-UP BY GREENS

THE BUSINESS POST recently had on its front page a piece about the Green Party’s shift towards abolition of the triple lock – championed by Fianna Fáil leader and Tánaiste... Read more »
Janice Boylan Irish Military Mali Coolock Says No IFP Hermann Kelly Timmy Dooley Aontú Mal O’Hara Fintan O’Toole Josepha Madigan Eoghan Harris Ukraine War Micheál Martin Middle East Philip Ryan Seán Clancy Simon Coveney Hugo MacNeill Mountbatten Neasa Hourigan Green Party Martin NPT Ivana Bacik Independents Limerick Hospital Overcrowding Barry Cowen

Last Refuge

BURYING MOUNTBATTEN

ANOTHER EXAMPLE of the ‘special relationship’ between the US and Britain is the revelation – covered in the British media but not, for some reason, in the Irish media –... Read more »
Emma Blain

Last Refuge

KATE HASN’T GONE AWAY, YOU KNOW

AN AIR of mystery and intrigue surrounds Fine Gael councillor Emma Blain’s step onto the political chess board of Dublin Bay South (DBS) with her nomination for the Pembroke area... Read more »
Janice Boylan Irish Military Mali Coolock Says No IFP Hermann Kelly Timmy Dooley Aontú Mal O’Hara Fintan O’Toole Josepha Madigan Eoghan Harris Ukraine War Micheál Martin Middle East Philip Ryan Seán Clancy Simon Coveney Hugo MacNeill Mountbatten Neasa Hourigan Green Party Martin NPT Ivana Bacik Independents Limerick Hospital Overcrowding Barry Cowen

Last Refuge

HUGO MACNEILL’S GONG

THE EXCITED word among the goys in south Dublin rugger clubs is that Hugo MacNeill will shortly receive a measure of compensation for losing last year’s TCD Seanad by-election to... Read more »

Hush Hush

Forum on International Security CitizenGo Micheal Martin

Hush Hush

THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING

WHEN TÁNAISTE Micheál Martin went on the offensive in relation to The Ditch and it’s exposure of corruption among the political classes, he was careful to do so under Dáil... Read more »

Bog Cuttings

Bog-Cuttings-Defaul

Bog Cuttings

BOG CUTTINGS

LOCKED LEGAL EAGLE Judge James McNulty, presiding over Clonakilty District Court, heard the case of a “fledgling barrister” who was arrested on suspicion of being drunk in charge of a... Read more »

The Hot Air Brigade

Patrick Kielty

The Hot Air Brigade

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Who else can boast that they were invited into Number 10 Downing Street to interview simultaneously then prime minister Tony Blair and the then taoiseach Bertie Ahern, had a stint... Read more »

High Society

High Society

Wayne Kieswetter

High Society

KIESWETTERS HAPPY TO STUMP UP

IT IS a truth universally acknowledged that horseracing is for those with deep pockets. The latest figures from the South African-owned Barnane Stud outside... Read more »

High Society

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

High Society

EATHOS’S EXPANDING WAISTLINE

GOLDHAWK SPIES from his perch that a third upmarket Eathos cafe has opened on the stretch from Lower Baggot Street to Upper Baggot Street.... Read more »

High Society

Peter Gaynor

High Society

PETER GAYNOR SELLS UP

GOLDHAWK WAS interested to see that the spacious Rembrandt House at 1 Longford Terrace in Monkstown is on the market with a tasty €2.5m price tag. This address – with... Read more »

Behind the Scenes

Fergus Cronin

Behind the Scenes

PROMOTING FERGUS CRONIN

CONGRATULATIONS TO scribbler Fergus Cronin, whose debut collection of short stories, Night Music, has attracted the sort of promotion and exposure usually only afforded to established writers. But then Cronin... Read more »

Sport of Kings

Brid Rogers SF

Sport of Kings

MEDIA STRUCK DUMB BY NORTH RESULTS

The results of May’s council elections in the north confirmed, as expected, SF’s political dominance, which it displayed in last year’s assembly election. The outcome is a political revolution, the... Read more »
Kevin Doyle

Sport of Kings

KEVIN DOYLE’S MISS-HIT

IT HAS been interesting to follow the progress, or indeed lack thereof, of a horse now named Montecam. Readers may recall that former Irish soccer international-turned-horse-breeder Kevin Doyle bought the... Read more »
Aidan O'Brien

Sport of Kings

AIDAN O’BRIEN’S HANDICAP

THE DEATH of Galileo two years ago was a seismic day for the international bloodstock industry and it is now becoming apparent just what a pivotal role the former dominant... Read more »
Vina Ardanza Rachael Blackmore

Sport of Kings

TIME FOR A STEWARDS’ INQUIRY?

A FEW weekends ago there were some stewarding decisions that left punters wondering if the acting stewards were watching the same races as everyone else. It is far from the... Read more »

Reviews

Kathleen MacMahon Home Scar

Books

THE HOME SCAR – KATHLEEN MACMAHON

FOR MORE than a decade, the fiction of Kathleen MacMahon has centred largely on family members coming together to support one another through various crises. It is the reader who... Read more »

Moneybags

Moneybags

Michael O'Leary

Moneybags

RYANAIR BOOSTS PROFITS ON FOOT OF HIKED FARES

MONEYBAGS HAS previously queried Mick O’Leary’s near obsession with growing Ryanair’s capacity for the sake of growing it, rather that seeking to optimise returns... Read more »

Moneybags

Tomas O'Midheach

Moneybags

SHAREHOLDERS WELL PLACED DESPITE FBD’S QUIRKS

HAVING FAILED to pay out on business interruption insurance to assorted publicans shut down during the pandemic, the deadline is imminent for the release... Read more »

Briefcases

Tom Higgins

Briefcases

TOM HIGGINS GETS READY TO BLAST OFF

COULD MINTED Tom ‘Psychics Live’ Higgins be about to finally blast off for space, 18 years after he stumped up the equivalent of $¼m to Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic? Way... Read more »
Screen Ireland Katie Holly

Briefcases

MORE MILLIONS FOR MOVIES

ARTS MINISTER Catherine Martin is currently seeking applications from “suitably qualified candidates” for two vacancies on the board of the state film funding agency, Screen Ireland (SI), created by the... Read more »
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Briefcases

FERGAL NAUGHTON’S SALES

GLEN DIMPLEX heir Fergal Naughton and his missus, Rachael, are selling up their Georgian mansion in Howth, Drumleck House – with a cool €8.75m on the price tag. They have... Read more »
Piotr Skoczylas

Briefcases

PIOTR SKOCZYLAS’S SOLICITORS

MALTA-BASED Piotr Skoczylas, the man behind Scotchstone Capital, continues to battle on bravely in his decade-long campaign to secure compensation for the government’s nationalisation of Irish Life and Permanent, in... Read more »