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Sport of Kings

JOOSTE’S ONGOING OFFLOADS

July 26, 2018

MARKUS JOOSTE, the South African busted tycoon who was welcomed into the Coolmore fold some years ago, continues to dissolve his bloodstock interests,... Read more »

LAST ORDERS AT THE GOLDEN GRILL

July 26, 2018

BAD news for the northwest as legendary Donegal nightclub and music venue The Grill had a receiver appointed to it recently. Seaconview DAC... Read more »

‘FAKE MOOS’

July 12, 2018

ASTONISHING progress has been achieved by the Irish dairy sector in the last few years in massively increasing production while simultaneously almost flat-lining... Read more »

OLAF TYARANSEN’S LIBEL LETTERS

June 28, 2018

IT WAS interesting to see music journalist Olaf Tyaransen post on his Facebook page recently about being “cast out of several realms that... Read more »

PETER O’BRIEN’S ‘HAPPENINGS’

June 28, 2018

ONE PERSON benefiting from the sweltering summer weather is ‘socially conscious’ entrepreneur Peter O’Brien, who is behind the Happenings event business that has... Read more »

MICHAEL DUFFY’S RDS REWARDS

June 28, 2018

THERE IS the usual backslapping in the latest annual report of the Royal Dublin Society (RDS) where things are looking good – especially... Read more »

HARRY’S NEW GAME

June 28, 2018

HARRY CROSBIE (OBE) has been keeping busy with plans for his own gaff and the Vicar Street venue. He has also been fighting... Read more »

FRANKIE DETTORI’S CONTRACT

June 28, 2018

THERE IS little love lost between Frankie Dettori and his previous employers at Al Shaqab Racing. Dettori was retained by Sheikh Joaan Al... Read more »

AIB WHACKS TOM FURLEY

June 28, 2018

MORE hard cheese for troubled Dublin businessman Tom Furley, who has just been slapped with a hefty €3.5m judgment courtesy of AIB. Castleknock-based... Read more »

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MARY LOU MCDONALD’S STRATEGY

June 13, 2018

SINN FÉIN leader Mary Lou McDonald is causing the Fianna Fáil leadership – and that of Fine Gael – some anxiety with one... Read more »

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EVE HEWSON’S EXCUSES

June 13, 2018

IT SEEMS Bono’s daughter Eve Hewson has inherited her dad’s preternatural talent for annoying people. The Brooklyn-based Dubliner had a bit of an... Read more »

AUSTIN DARRAGH’S WILL

June 13, 2018

NOT SURPSISINGLY, there is plenty of interest in the legal proceedings relating to the will of Austin Darragh, with his two children from... Read more »

TWITTER CALM AT IHRB

June 13, 2018

FOLLOWING the Paul Townend incident at Punchestown, when the jockey threw away an almost certain victory aboard Al Boum Photo, the Irish Horseracing... Read more »

MICHAEL MCMANUS’S JUDGEMENT

June 13, 2018

GOLDHAWK spotted a familiar name that popped up recently in Stubb’s Gazette. Roscommon businessman Michael McManus had a small judgment for €10,000 registered... Read more »

MARTIN’S ABORTIVE REFERENDUM

May 31, 2018

WAS the Fianna Fáil abortion referendum campaign really as disastrous for the party as most pundits have characterised it? Or was it another... Read more »

RÓISÍN SHORTALL

May 31, 2018

IN the last edition of The Phoenix we referred to Róisín Shortall possibly having disagreements with her brother, pro-life activist Brendan Shortall, over... Read more »

ELLIOTT’S SLOW START

May 31, 2018

GORDON ELLIOTT will surely be glad to see the back of May. The trainer has experienced something that must feel rather alien to... Read more »

PADDY STACK’S HARD LOCH

May 31, 2018

SPARE a thought for Royal County builder Paddy Stack who had an expensive day out in the Court of Appeal recently. The trouble... Read more »