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December 13, 2024 - January 09, 2025
Affairs of the Nation
MARTIN V DPP OFFICIAL
MICHEÁL MARTIN made law and order one of his election issues and, in a calculated move shortly before the election was called, he made a most unusual initiative when sharply... Read more »
LINDA O’SHEA FARREN’S ‘TENACITY’
YOU HAVE to hand it to the ultra-ambitious Linda O’Shea Farren – she keeps bouncing back. A long-time member of the National University of Ireland (NUI) senate and serial election... Read more »
CONOR McGREGOR’S LOAN
WITH FORMER MMA superstar Conor McGregor and businessman Paddy McKillen Jr both generating headlines recently – albeit for very different reasons – it is interesting to find that the two... Read more »
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FG SISTERS IN THE FIRING LINE
A SILENT pall hangs over a deflated and even defeated Fine Gael, which lost the ‘other’ war (apart from the one with Sinn Féin and the opposition), namely that with... Read more »
GOVT HANDLERS GO PRIVATE
The Standards in Public Office Commission (Sipo) has a pragmatic attitude to red tape when it comes to waiving the rules about certain government officials being subject to a one-year... Read more »
COLLISON’S COLLISION
MORE THAN 11 million people have now seen a tweet posted on X last month by Stripe co-founder Patrick Collison that included his photo of the Tel Aviv seafront under... Read more »
MARIAN KEYES’S AMERICAN DREAM
THE MYRIAD of fans of scribbler Marian Keyes had a collective meltdown online last week when RTÉ announced The Walsh Sisters, a six-part drama based on her series of novels... Read more »
FENNELLY’S FIGHT
THE BORING world of number crunchers sometimes throws up a good old yarn and one that has been running for nearly a decade concerns Chartered Accountants of Ireland (CAI) member... Read more »
HIGH-END REACTIONARIES
PROMINENT NATIONAL PARTY (NP) member Keith Woods (pseudonym of Roscommon native Keith O’Brien) likes to position himself at the more cerebral end of the new right. His assessment, however, of... Read more »
BBC SMEARS MARTIN McGUINNESS
THE BBC has launched Stakeknife, a podcast series that looks at the activities of the late Freddie Scappaticci, MI5’s mole in the Provisional IRA. The first episode focused on a... Read more »
Pillars of Society
PROFILE: CIAN O’CALLAGHAN
BEHIND EVERY great leader, there’s a deputy leader and Social Democrats head Holly Cairns was temporarily replaced by her deputy, Cian O’Callaghan, for most... Read more »
The Young Bloods
YOUNG BLOOD: EMMA DORAN
Celebs with a good personal back story will always find refuge in the welcoming arms of the Irish media and this year comedian Emma... Read more »
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 »
Fit to Print?
WHATEVER YOU SAY…
THE RECENTLY released Disney+ film, Say Nothing, has resurrected the usual controversy about Gerry Adams’s alleged involvement in the killing and disappearance of widowed mother of 10 Jean McConville. One... Read more »
DUBLIN’S KRISTALLNACHT
DUBLIN HAS become afflicted by “rising antisemitism”, according to a recent headline and article in the Irish Times. The article focused on a reported attack by three men on a... Read more »
Last Refuge
McENTEE REVIVES LEADERSHIP DREAM
FIANNA FÁIL’s election strategy selected justice minister Helen McEntee as its prime target but the Fine Gael princess focussed on a game plan inside FG during the campaign in an... Read more »
SCHULL-DUGGERY UNDERMINES FREE STATERS
FOR THE second election in a row, Fine Gael has emerged with no seat in Cork South-West (CSW), a notable change of fortune in a constituency that had continuous FG... Read more »
GREEN GLOBAL GLOOM
‘APRÈS-NOUS, le déluge’ summed up the atmosphere at the European Greens convention last weekend in the cavernous Dublin Convention Centre. The poorly attended event was a tragedy for its hosts,... Read more »
MARTIN TO KEEP O’CALLAGHAN CLOSE?
WILL MICHEÁL MARTIN honour his accord and reconciliation with former leadership challenger Jim O’Callaghan or will he welch on a deal that Fianna Fáil members believe has been struck for... Read more »
Northwind
MARTIN’S NEW ALLY
Micheál Martin spoke to the Alliance party conference in Belfast on March 1 as Tánaiste and Minister of Foreign Affairs. It was part of his policy of distancing himself and... Read more »
Hush Hush
RIGHT-WING RECRIMINATION
THE FAILURE of Ireland’s new-right parties and Independents in the general election was always likely to lead to some level of introspection and reorganisation – as well as serious recrimination.... Read more »
Bog Cuttings
BOG CUTTINGS
HOLIDAY DISTURBANCE Listowel District Court heard the case of a 47-year-old man who was arrested for causing a disturbance at Ballybunion Golf Holiday Homes on September 4. Sergeant Stephen O’Brien... Read more »
Fowl Emissions
TREASONOUS AN TAISCE!
Shortly before the election, Independent TD Mattie McGrath introduced a bill in the Dáil aimed at stripping heritage charity An Taisce of its status as a “prescribed authority”. An Taisce... Read more »
The Hot Air Brigade
THE HOT AIR BRIGADE
It’s becoming even clearer that she’s not just the female voice of a generation, but the humane voice of a century. Lena Dunham waxes lyrical about Sally Rooney, Financial Times... Read more »
High Society
ENDA McEVOY’S INDIGESTION
MICHELIN-STAR chef Enda McEvoy has moved to wind up the company that was behind his award-winning Loam restaurant in Galway, which closed a couple... Read more »
JOHN MAGNIER’S ROOSTING BATS
JOHN MAGNIER has been attracting a lot of attention lately and, especially in Co Tipperary, the aggressive acquisition of large tracts of land by... Read more »
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 »
Behind the Scenes
SEÁN O’KEEFFE’S PLOT SPOILER
INTERESTING TO see that the website for the small Irish publisher established by Seán O’Keeffe, Liberties Press, is still up and running, “seeking new work from new and established authors”... Read more »
Sport of Kings
RICH RICCI’S CENTURY
FORMER BARCLAYS moneybags Rich Ricci has had a rollercoaster few weeks on racecourses in different parts of the world and achieved a significant milestone on his travels. Following Vauban’s latest... Read more »
VLADISLAV AIMS HIGH
AGROLEXICA INTERNATIONAL Trading BV – the Dutch agricultural commodity trading entity with interests in Ukraine and owned by Ukrainian Vladislav Pasztirya (see The Phoenix 17/10/24) – was in the racing... Read more »
Moneybags
KERRY GROUP DEAL A BONANZA FOR CO-OP SHAREHOLDERS
AFTER A decade of bickering, Kerry Co-Op Creameries has eventually agreed to a €500m deal to buy the listed Kerry Group’s Irish dairy business.... Read more »
NEW LOOK AT I-RES REIT, SAME OLD PROBLEMS
HAVING SURVIVED the attempted ousting of the board by Jeff Olin’s Vision Capital Corp (VCC) early this year, I-Res Reit nevertheless has a rather... Read more »
Croke Park’s Newest Hospitality Experience
THIS EXCLUSIVE section blends the hospitality experience of Croke Park with a social, shared space, giving you the best of both worlds to enhance your match-day experience. Located in... Read more »
Brief Cases
AUBREY’S ELECTION CAMPAIGN
WITH NOMINATIONS closed for the upcoming university Seanad elections, the battle for the three seats in Trinity College will be more interesting than usual, given the absence from the ballot... Read more »
DAVID ROCK’S HEALTH EMERGENCY
TWO OF David ‘RocDoc’ Rock’s companies are to be wound up next week on foot of liabilities built up. This follows last year’s liquidation of RocDoc Health Check Ltd (RHC),... Read more »
NOEL FRISBY’S FEISTY FOES
WATERFORD DEVELOPER Noel Frisby’s plans to build a three-block development of around 79 apartments at a site on the ring road around Waterford city has hit a bit of a... Read more »
LORETTA DIGNAM’S MENOPAUSE MONEY
LORETTA DIGNAM will have plenty to celebrate this Christmas, having just secured €¼m in funding for her Menopause Hub operation. There are some interesting names among the backers. The menopause... Read more »
Orla Kiely: A Life in Pattern at National Design & Craft Gallery
The highly anticipated Orla Kiely: A Life in Pattern exhibition has arrived at Design & Crafts Council Ireland (DCCI) National Design and Craft Gallery in Kilkenny. Running from February... Read more »
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