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John Magnier has been thrust into the spotlight thanks to a legal dispute over the 750-acre Barne Estate in Tipperary, while Moya Doherty had a problem with her neighbour.

MAGNIER DETHRONED

Date: September 23, 2021 - Sport of Kings

IN WHAT represents a momentous changing of the guard, 2021 looks like being the first year this century that a Coolmore stallion will not be crowned champion flat sire in Britain and Ireland. For more than 30 years, dating back to 1990 when Sadler’s Wells began his reign as champion and started to line the… Read more »

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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

DENIS O’BRIEN’S UK RADIOS

Date: September 23, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

WHILE DENIS O’Brien is likely to have made a significant loss on the reported sale for “north of €100m” of Communicorp to Bauer Media Audio earlier this year, the news from across the Irish Sea is not so grim. Chaired by Lucy Gaffney, Communicorp UK is Dinny’s radio group in the UK, which now operates… Read more »

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Deirdre Foley

DEIRDRE FOLEY MOVES ON

Date: September 23, 2021 - Brief Cases

SO FAREWELL then Natrium Ltd, a company that was at the centre of the highly fractious purchase, closure and eventual sale to Paddy McKillen Jr’s Press UP group of Dublin’s famous Clerys department store. The face of Natrium was Deirdre Foley who did rather nicely out of the whole episode. While it is hard to… Read more »

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Edna O’Brien

DAME EDNA’S WINDFALL

Date: September 23, 2021 - Behind the Scenes

EARLIER THIS month it was announced that the National Library of Ireland (NLI) had acquired “Edna O’Brien’s Papers (2009-2021)”. The arts and culture minister Catherine Martin issued a press release expressing her delight at the library’s latest addition to its burgeoning archives collection. What was missing from the announcement (or the press release form the… Read more »

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BEAUTIFUL WORLD, WHERE ARE YOU - SALLY ROONEY

BEAUTIFUL WORLD, WHERE ARE YOU – SALLY ROONEY

Date: September 23, 2021 - BooksBooks|ReviewsReviews

WHILE SALLY Rooney’s two previous books, Conversations With Friends and Normal People, weren’t to everybody’s taste, it was impossible to argue with the phenomenal sales figures. The accompanying near-hysterical hype (comparisons with Hemingway and Joyce, “voice of a millennial generation”, etc, etc) has also made her a cult figure. With Rooney’s latest offering, she is… Read more »

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MCGUCKIANS’ MANSION

Date: September 23, 2021 - High Society

THE IRISH TIMES was very coy last week about the ownership of what looks set to be the most expensive house in Ireland. It is left to Goldhawk to shine a little light on the minted family who own 73 Ailesbury Road in Ballsbridge . Fans of The Phoenix with long memories will recall that… Read more »

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David Frost

STORMONT COLLAPSE LOOMS

Date: September 23, 2021 - Northwind

SIR JEFFREY DONALDSON’S threat to pull down Stormont is not as straightforward as people portray it. Yes, it throws a piece of raw meat to DUP voters, but there are several more options on the menu which are being examined by the British government and Sinn Féin alike. Both of them have difficult choices to… Read more »

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VOL 39 NO 19

Date: September 23, 2021 -

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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

TRENDING AT ALFIE’S

Date: September 23, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

TWITTER LIT up last week with a thread about a former worker in Alfie’s restaurant on Dublin’s South William Street being paid his wages in 5c pieces. It is possible that one of those paying attention to the hullabaloo glance was Noel McMahon, who is very familiar with the hospitality trade. He also offloaded an… Read more »

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Gerry Boyle

WHERE’S THE BEEF?

Date: September 23, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

SPARE A thought for Teagasc director Gerry Boyle. Having for years battled to defend the indefensible expansion of the dairy industry in the teeth of the climate emergency, Boyle, who is due to stand down from the state agricultural research agency this month, now finds himself being pilloried by the very agriculture lobby he has… Read more »

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Mary Irvine

LEGAL LOWER ORDERS

Date: September 23, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

THE FIRST five of the 17 High Court judges recently demanded by High Court president Justice Mary Irvine have been selected for nomination by the cabinet, but the figure that will interest many legal eagles is that all five are senior counsel, ie barristers. There was much talk in the days of former justice minister… Read more »

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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

HARVEY BOULTER’S ANNUS HORRIBILIS

Date: September 23, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

THIS IS turning into quite the annus horribilis for moneybags and venture capitalist Harvey Boulter, who is being sued in the UK over claims that £64m of investors’ money has disappeared. Poor Harvey has bigger things on his mind these days. Boulter will be known to fans of Goldhawk thanks to his decision to sue… Read more »

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Jack Chambers

NO IRISH WANTED HERE

Date: September 23, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

GOVERNMENT CHIEF WHIP Jack Chambers should take time off from riding shotgun for the government in the Dáil (and Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin in the party) and focus on a central part of his ministerial brief: the Irish language. DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson may abort any movement towards the long-promised Irish Language Act from… Read more »

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Jennifer Whitmore

BIG TECH’S MULTIMILLION SPEND

Date: September 23, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

GOLDHAWK DREW attention recently to the new direction of former Labour TD Michael McCarthy, whose new job is chief lobbyist for Cloud Infrastructure Ireland (CII), which represents three of the biggest tech mega corps, Amazon, Google and Microsoft (see The Phoenix 10/9/21). Appropriately enough, Jennifer Whitmore TD of the Labour party Mark 11, aka the… Read more »

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Ronan Mullen

STAG HUNTS AND HIGH MASS

Date: September 23, 2021 - Hush Hush

WHEN THE referendum to repeal the Eighth Amendment was passed easily in 2018 the ‘God squad’ was left reeling and right-wing Catholic activists have taken a while to regroup. Aontú led by former Sinn Féin TD Peadar Tóibín emerged as a mixem gatherum of frustrated Sinn Féin, Fianna Fáil, SDLP and Independent anti-abortion activists but… Read more »

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Sarah Carey

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: September 23, 2021 - The Hot Air Brigade

I didn’t expect to write about Afghanistan. Geopolitics and military tactics are not my usual stomping ground. Human nature is my field of expertise, the psychology of ‘great men’ my speciality. Sarah Carey, Irish Independent, submitted by reader Fianna Fáil is in a very bad state. We are not the well-organised, clear-thinking party we were…. Read more »

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Kate O’Connell

KATE WRITES FOR HER SUPPER

Date: September 23, 2021 - Last Refuge

WHAT A mature, non-contentious and carefully calibrated article former TD Kate O’Connell wrote for the Sunday Independent last weekend. In a piece that read like a lecture on standards in public life but which avoided, most uncharacteristically, any provocative jibes against Fine Gael leaders and ministers, O’Connell wrote for her supper in a finely honed… Read more »

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Marc MacSharry

MARC EYES MICHEÁL … AND MARION

Date: September 23, 2021 - Last Refuge

MARC MACSHARRY may have resigned the Fianna Fáil whip but he has not lost his penchant for the dramatic soundbite. Expounding on the failings of the FF party under Micheál Martin last week he condemned it with typical understatement as an “undemocratic totalitarian regime rather than that of a democratic socialist republican party of and… Read more »

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Philip Brennan

GREENS’ DEFENCE NON-POLICY

Date: September 23, 2021 - Last Refuge

MYSTERY SURROUNDS the Green party’s position on defence, neutrality and foreign policy despite the deliberations of a foreign policy and security group for most of this year and despite also the party’s once-firm support for neutrality. Efforts by Goldhawk to establish what if any Green party policy on these matters exists has met with blank… Read more »

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Michael D Higgins

MEDIA TAKE ON HIGGINS

Date: September 23, 2021 - Fit to Print?

POPULAR OPINION may be overwhelmingly with Michael D on the event “marking” partition and the state of Northern Ireland. But much of the media in the southern part of ‘partitioned’ Ireland have been doing their level best to push back against the “horrendously atavistic” response of the populace with editorials railing against the president’s decision…. Read more »

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THE ‘SINDO’ AND VLAD

Date: September 23, 2021 - Fit to Print?

THE MOST sensational story Goldhawk has seen for some time – about Dr Maitiú Ó Tuathail and his allegation that he was the subject of attempted blackmail – was published on the front page of the Sunday Independent recently. This concerned his receipt from the then taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, of a confidential document about a… Read more »

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Joanne Hayes

NEW, CARING GARDAÍ

Date: September 23, 2021 - Fit to Print?

IN THE annals of Sunday Independent crime reporting, normally supportive to the point of eclipsing the garda press office, there can hardly have been a more adulatory piece than that penned by Wayne O’Connor about Kerry Baby John, in Cahirciveen last weekend. Introduced thus, “With compassion and reverence, detectives are determined to find Baby John’s… Read more »

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Charlie McConalogue

TRILLIONS WASTED IN CLIMATE ACTION

Date: September 23, 2021 - Fowl Emissions

EARLIER THIS year, the European Court of Auditors reported that, despite spending more than €100bn of EU agriculture funds on climate action projects in the past seven years, “virtually nothing” was achieved in terms of agri-emissions reductions across the EU since 2010. This eye-watering sum is but a small fraction of the at least €500bn-a-year that… Read more »

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MET ÉIREANN’S NEW FORECAST

Date: September 23, 2021 - Fowl Emissions

SOME YEARS back, Met Éireann was regularly in the firing line for its curious reluctance to engage in any way with climate change and its role in fuelling extreme weather events. This included a woeful ‘2050 weather report’ video, where it stated it was “impossible to say” what might happen, as “climate models really are… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: September 23, 2021 - Bog Cuttings

‘Gingerbread Man’ A 22-year-old man who appeared before Tralee District Court pleaded guilty to two counts of being abusive and threatening towards gardaí. Judge Joanna Carroll heard that on July 14 this year, the defendant, John O’Shea of 50 Shanakill, Tralee, began yelling at two passing gardaí, calling them ‘dirty bastards’, and saying that they… Read more »

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James Gormley

GORMLEY’S CULTURE COUP

Date: September 23, 2021 - High Society

CONGRATULATIONS TO the wily James Gormley et al at Gormley’s Fine Art on Dublin’s South Frederick Street. The gallery got a welcome shot of publicity for itself courtesy of Culture Night. Presumably, sculptor Patrick O’Reilly was happy too. Every year as Culture Night looms into view, there is the inevitable glut of cultural and artistic… Read more »

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Bonnie Shortall

NOT SO PEACHY FOR BONNIE

Date: September 23, 2021 - High Society

A CREDITORS’ meeting is to be held next week for the winding up of a company called Peachee Collection Ltd. This is the fitness fashion business established by south Co Dublin-based exam expert Bonnie Shortall and her partner, fitness coach extraordinaire Ben Craughwell. It is unclear to what sort of shape the Peachee Collection operation… Read more »

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Clare Dunne

KIN – RTÉ ONE

Date: September 23, 2021 - ReviewsReviews|TV

WITH A recent Broadcasting Authority-commissioned report warning of an “existential crisis” in RTÉ, the cash-strapped national broadcaster’s hyping of gangland drama Kin – including a Late Late Show outing for the cast – betrays its almost palpable desperation for a hit. Unfortunately, Peter McKenna and Ciaran Donnelly’s series looks unlikely to repeat the phenomenal success of Love/Hate that it so… Read more »

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Aidan O'Brien

O’BRIEN’S HEAVY GOING

Date: September 23, 2021 - Sport of Kings

ALTHOUGH VICTORY went his way in the feature event on Champions weekend, when St Mark’s Basilica survived a stewards’ enquiry to win the Irish Champion Stakes, it proved a weekend with more downs than ups for Aidan O’Brien. It could have been even worse if the stewards had turned the tables in the big race… Read more »

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Michael O'Leary

MICKO’S CLEAR-OUT CONTINUES

Date: September 23, 2021 - Sport of Kings

MICK O’LEARY’S annual clearance sale at Goffs UK in Doncaster takes on more significance nowadays, given that he is not restocking his squad with new blood and reduced his string by another 39 horses at the sale recently. Offloading these lesser performing horses netted O’Leary about £1/2m and while it may sound like a decent… Read more »

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Chris Timmons

KEEPING UP WITH CHRIS TIMMONS

Date: September 23, 2021 - Sport of Kings

THE PRACTICE of dual licences, whereby a jockey can also hold a trainer’s permit, is not uncommon. Denis Hogan has been successfully riding his own horses in races now for a number of years and even returned to the saddle after announcing his retirement from riding last year. Some recent instances where some dual operators… Read more »

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Brian Larkin

UNITED OIL AND GAS DRILLING IN CHOPPY WATERS

Date: September 23, 2021 - Moneybags

MUCH LIKE the aircraft leasing industry in Ireland grew out of Tony Ryan’s GPA business, with this country now responsible for the leasing of more aircraft than anywhere else in the world (many of them piloted by former GPA executives) Aidan Heavey’s success in the oil industry up to 2012 has generated a flow of… Read more »

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Gavin Slark

GRAFTON’S SHARE PRICE DISTRACTS FROM INVESTOR DISCONTENT

Date: September 23, 2021 - Moneybags

OVER THE past decade, Grafton CEO Gavin Slark expanded the Grafton model that his predecessor Michael Chadwick had developed. The Chadwick culture had remained deeply ingrained in the group and the former boss (who still holds 9% of the shares) went so far as to call in the legal eagles to try to get the… Read more »

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Don Seidman

CHASING THE YANKEE DOLLAR

Date: September 23, 2021 - Brief Cases

CONGRATULATIONS to e-learning gurus Garrett Byrne and Kevin Cronin, who have just wound up their Hawkington Ltd holding company, a year after selling off their business to Don Seidman’s giant LRN Corp, which is controlled by the US private equity fund, Leeds Equity Partners). The Irish boys have scooped a few million euro. Hawkington was… Read more »

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Simon Kelly

KEEPING UP WITH SIMON KELLY

Date: September 23, 2021 - Brief Cases

MORE ON Goldhawk’s old friend Simon ‘son of Paddy’ Kelly, whose risk mitigation operation Emex Software, hit a road bump last month. It will be recalled (see The Phoenix 10/9/21) that one of Kelly’s many ventures, Emex Software, found itself on the end of a judgment for €88,000 from recruitment outfit Silverback Staffing Ltd. For… Read more »

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David Nash

DAVID NASH’S EXPENSIVE HEALTHCARE

Date: September 23, 2021 - Brief Cases

SERIAL ENTREPRENEUR David Nash (cousin of the soft drinks family that shares the name) has decided to wind up one of his healthcare software companies. Separately, his main interest, Vitro Software, is looking in need of some TLC. Nash who previously worked fro Smurfit Kappa in the US and made a killing from a Philippines… Read more »

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