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‘IT’ HOT AIR

Date: May 1, 2025 - Fowl Emissions

While there is no future in fossil gas, the outlook is equally bleak for biomethane, a highly problematic gas that increasingly looks like a solution in search of a subsidy. One US study found that to create $68 of biogas from cow’s manure cost nearly $300. Goldhawk was surprised to see a recent Irish Times… Read more »

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Paul Givan

NO POPERY IN LISBURN

Date: May 1, 2025 - Northwind

Easter Monday is traditionally the date of the first big loyalist parade in the north. This year it was the Apprentice Boys of Derry (ABOD), which may not be familiar to people in the south. First, none of them are boys. The ABOD was formed to commemorate the apprentices who closed the gates of Derry… Read more »

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Colm Burke

BLUESHIRTS CORK CIVIL WAR

Date: May 1, 2025 - Last Refuge

THERE IS a lot more than has been reported to that cross-party letter about the underfunding of the tenant-in-situ scheme, which was sent to the prematurely beleaguered housing minister, James Browne, last week and signed by various Cork City TDs and councillors. The row is essentially about the underfunding of the scheme that allows councils… Read more »

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Micheal McDowell

McDOWELL SAYS NO TO PRESIDENCY

Date: May 1, 2025 - Last Refuge

MICHAEL McDOWELL was pretty defiant when it was put to him in March that, with Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael each intent on going it alone in the presidential election, there would be no dual-party backing for him in the contest. At the same time, FG decided it would not be adopting McDowell as its… Read more »

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Paschal Donohoe

DONOHOE FOR EUROGROUP JOB?

Date: May 1, 2025 - Last Refuge

GROUP THINK in the media Greek chorus of the Irish financial establishment is that finance minister Paschal Donohoe only has to turn up in July to retain the splendid title of Eurogroup president. There are murmurings about the arcane, secretive voting procedures involved and rumours that impertinent continentals such as Spain’s finance minister, Carlos Cuerpo,… Read more »

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Leo Varadkar

VARADKAR V MARTIN

Date: May 1, 2025 - Last Refuge

FOR TAOISEACH and Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin to be battling with former taoiseach and Fine Gael leader Leo Varadkar over a united Ireland – with Martin preaching FG’s traditional line on the north and Vlad sounding like Squire Hockey – is intriguing. But the latest round between the two saw Vlad launch a polemic… Read more »

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Black and Tans

DISAPPEARANCE OF THE DISAPPEARED STORY

Date: May 1, 2025 - Fit to Print?

WHATEVER HAPPENED to the crusade that began in January, when the Sunday Times launched its Forgotten Graves campaign to grant a proper burial to those killed and dumped in shallow graves in the conflict a century ago? John Mooney declared that the ST, MI5’s favourite newspaper, was “calling for the Irish government to recover these… Read more »

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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

THE LATE LATE SHOW

Date: May 1, 2025 - Fit to Print?

AN APPARENTLY non-descript and rather short story, informing Irish Times readers that Denis O’Brien had received nearly €6m for his Moriarty Tribunal legal costs, appeared on the bottom of page three of the newspaper of record last Friday. It stated: “Two separate sources have confirmed that the State Claims Agency paid €5.8m to Mr O’Brien… Read more »

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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

NO TO ‘IRISH TIMES’!

Date: May 1, 2025 - Fit to Print?

A DISAPPOINTED Irish Times was recently compelled to report that voters favoured retention of neutrality by over 2:1 but the good news for the paper’s Redmondites came with the same poll showing voters favoured rejection of the triple lock by 47% to 37%. Given the framing of the IT’s questions in the poll, undertaken by… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: May 1, 2025 - Bog Cuttings

BAILING OUT Cork District Court heard the case of a man accused of carrying a knife, engaging in threatening and abusive behaviour, and refusing to give his name to gardaí. He then proceeded to shout at the judge during his hearing. A garda testified that Niall O’Brien (54) of Cove Street, Cork, was arrested for… Read more »

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Denis Desmond

DENIS DESMOND’S MUSIC NOTES

Date: May 1, 2025 - Behind the Scenes

THERE HAS been yet more fine-tuning of the corporate set up at LN-Gaiety Holdings, the utterly dominant concert and music venue joint venture between Denis and Caroline Desmond’s Gaiety Investments and US giants Live Nation. The latest accounts filed for UK-registered LN-Gaiety Holdings reveal a profit in 2023 of £32.7m, which was down from £37.4m… Read more »

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Rebecca Curtis

REBECCA’S FAIRYTALE

Date: May 1, 2025 - Sport of Kings

HAITI COULEURS, trained by Rebecca Curtis, showed his rivals a clean pair of heels when running away with Ireland’s richest national hunt race, the €½m Boylesports Irish Grand National, under UK champion jump jockey Sean Bowen. The result was especially sweet for the rider after Cheltenham disappointment and also for the winner’s trainer. Having been… Read more »

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WILLIE’S WIN

Date: May 1, 2025 - Sport of Kings

EVEN THOUGH Dan Skelton had led Willie Mullins going into the final day of the UK National Hunt Championship at Sandown, there was a sense of inevitability about the final outcome, even when things did not start smoothly for the Closutton team. The horsebox carrying half of Mullins’s Sandown runners suffered an early morning malfunction… Read more »

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Patrick Doran

PATRICK DORAN’S SUPPORT

Date: May 1, 2025 - High Society

IT IS slow ahead on Shrewsbury Road in D4, where aircraft leasing moneybags Aengus Kelly and his wife, Deirdre O’Malley, are looking to build a “super-home” by combining Nos 5 and 7. The next-door neighbours, however, are keeping very quiet despite the concerns expressed by planners. The council raised a number of issues when seeking… Read more »

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D6 DENIZENS

Date: May 1, 2025 - High Society

IT WAS reported by the Sindo that “the well-heeled denizens of Palmerston Road in Dublin 6” would be raising a toast on foot of news that one of the piles on the salubrious thoroughfare had been put up for sale with a guide price of €2.86m and was snapped up for an impressive €3.3m. In… Read more »

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Pembrokestown House

OFFLOADING PEMBROKESTOWN HOUSE

Date: May 1, 2025 - High Society

WITH A price tag of just on €3m, following a “remarkable renovation”, including a “showstopping swimming pool”, the impressive early 19th-century Pembrokestown House outside Butlerstown, Co Waterford, has arrived on the market. The 4,700 sq ft Regency villa turns out to be owned by legal eagle Michelle Beatty and her ophthalmologist hubby, Stephen, who were… Read more »

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Dalton Philips

DALTON PHILIPS’S AUDACIOUS TAKEOVER BID

Date: May 1, 2025 - Moneybags

GREENCORE’S AGREED £1.2bn takeover of the Icelandic-founded British Bakkavor convenience food company has a certain air of déjà vu. The company previously spent almost $1bn expanding into the US, only to sell out two years later in 2018 for the same price. Following the US retreat, current CEO Dalton Philips is doubling down on the… Read more »

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Gene Murtagh

KINGSPAN’S MYSTERIOUS SETBACKS

Date: May 1, 2025 - Moneybags

THE FINAL report on the Grenfell Tower disaster was published by Martin Moore-Bick last September. While Kingspan was only a bit player, it has continued to suffer reputational damage when the tragedy features in the media. Moreover, there will be quarterly reports on the implementation of the inquiry’s 46 recommendations. But it is far from clear… Read more »

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Ballinacurra House Des McGahan

DES MCGAHAN’S DES RES

Date: May 1, 2025 - Brief Cases

A YEAR on from Goldhawk’s last look at the impressive Ballinacurra House outside Kinsale – where one Michael Jackson previously enjoyed a sojourn – the property is finally set to be sold, with an online auction to take place later this month. Last year, the Georgian pile on 23 acres (and including a coach house,… Read more »

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Greg Alken

ALKEN BROTHERS‘ WHINE LIST

Date: May 1, 2025 - Brief Cases

THE HAPLESS wine-importing Alken brothers, Anthony and Greg, found one of their companies on the wrong end of a winding-up petition from the dreaded Revenue this week but it was struck out. This, however, doesn’t look like an escape for the siblings from their troubles, as the withdrawal of the petition coincides with separate ongoing… Read more »

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John McKeown

FASHION VICTIMS

Date: May 1, 2025 - Brief Cases

LOUTH BROTHERS John and Michael McKeown have come to the end of the road with their trendy men’s fashion business after their big plans ended in the bargain bin. Two years ago, John and Michael were rather fashionable and their casual menswear clothing operation, Carpe Omnia (Latin for ‘seize everything’), was attracting positive attention in… Read more »

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Ciara Donlon

CIARA DONLON’S EXIT

Date: May 1, 2025 - Brief Cases

THEYA LINGERIE, which produced post-surgery underwear from bamboo no less, has now been dissolved but the name lives on in the form of Theya Healthcare Ltd. The original company founder, Ciara Donlon, also popped up as a director in the new venture, although it turns out that she has stepped down as a director here…. Read more »

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Gabriel Makhlouf

CENTRAL BANK GENOCIDE CHARGE?

Date: April 17, 2025 - Affairs of the Nation

THAT THE Central Bank of Ireland (CBI), of all European banks, might face criminal charges over its enabling of the multi-billion sale of Israeli bonds used to support the genocidal war on Gaza says a lot about the Irish Government’s ‘talk-not-walk’ attitude to the beleaguered Palestinians. The Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) has presented a… Read more »

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James Browne

PROFILE: JAMES BROWNE

Date: April 17, 2025 - Pillars of Society

The appointment of James Browne as housing minister surprised many people, including the new minister himself. His performance since then in this most daunting of ministerial positions has been anything but stellar. His defenders say he is an independent-minded politician but other Fianna Fáil members believe he is Taoiseach Micheál Martin’s creature and is being… Read more »

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Michael Roche

YOUNG BLOOD: MICHAEL ROCHE

Date: April 17, 2025 - The Young Bloods

UCD STUDENTS’ UNION (UCDSU) has a new president, Wexford native Michael Roche. He succeeds Miranda Bauer, whose family political background included the likes of Tristán Bauer, former Argentine culture minister (until President Javier Milei axed the department). Despite her ministerial connections, Bauer’s presidency failed to excite and this year UCDSU has not lived up to… Read more »

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Bertie Ahern

BERTIE’S ÁRAS BID

Date: April 17, 2025 - Affairs of the Nation

BERTIE AHERN is fretting at vacillating Taoiseach and Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin’s failure to make up his mind about whether the party will support the former taoiseach’s burning ambition to run for the presidency. But Bertie is about to play a wild card that could swing it one way or the other. On the… Read more »

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Eoin McGee

EOIN McGEE’S ‘MATERIAL UNCERTAINTY’

Date: April 17, 2025 - Affairs of the Nation

CELEBRITY FINANCE expert Eoin McGee has been signed up by Mediahuis as a personal finance columnist and will apparently be writing for the so-called ‘Indo Money hub’, which, in case you didn’t know, “is a new dedicated hub for financial advice”. Maybe Eoin could do with taking some of his own advice. Mediahuis Ireland editor-in-chief… Read more »

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Madeleine Delaney

BLINDNESS CHARITY BLINDSIDED

Date: April 17, 2025 - Affairs of the Nation

IT IS strange to see so little media coverage of the appointment by Charities Regulator Madeleine Delaney of inspectors to two blindness charities, the biggest of which by far is the Vision Ireland (VI) group, formerly the National Council for the Blind of Ireland. This operation boasted income of €30m in 2023 but that could… Read more »

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Rob Heneghan

ICY DEFROSTED

Date: April 17, 2025 - Affairs of the Nation

A STEWARDS inquiry may be in order for outspoken online racing pundit Gearoid Norris (aka Icy), who has just found himself ‘unplugged’ from his X and Facebook soapboxes. Coincidentally, the suspension of his @icyestretro account followed a day after his airing of a “trilogy of articles” examining the Pro Sports Advice (PSA) tipping service. While… Read more »

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Karl Brophy

BROPHY’S TIMES

Date: April 17, 2025 - Affairs of the Nation

THE IRISH TIMES has found it difficult to keep up with the chequered but successful CV of Karl Brophy, CEO of Red Flag Global, which was sold to New York-based Ankura Consulting Group for €45m circa in February. That nice little earner was treated with the respect it deserved by IT business editor Ciarán Hancock,… Read more »

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Michael Lowry

MICHAEL LOWRY’S POLITICAL CHUMS

Date: April 17, 2025 - Last Refuge

MICHAEL ‘NO MATES’ LOWRY is more isolated (outside the company of Micheál Martin and Simon Harris, that is) than many have realised and political schizophrenic TD Barry Heneghan is not the only soulmate that recently came within Lowry’s orbit before fleeing in great haste. Barry would need his mentor, former minister Finian McGrath, to walk… Read more »

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KARL WHELAN’S GOOGLE GRUB

Date: April 17, 2025 - High Society

IT IS full steam ahead at the brash Boland’s Mill development in Dublin’s south docklands, acquired by Google for a reported €300m. Interestingly, it turns out the tech giant is also providing some funding for at least one of the extracurricular offerings to be available onsite in the coming weeks. It was reported last month… Read more »

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Emma Maye

EMMA MAYE’S MANSION

Date: April 17, 2025 - High Society

GOLDHAWK NOTES that Weavers Hall, a “New England style” mansion off Westminster Road in Foxrock, has come on the market with an asking price of over €7m. Although described by Sherry Fitzgerald as “a most impressive modern, detached home of distinction”, it is not so long since plans were drawn up to knock the whole… Read more »

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VOL. 43 NO. 08

Date: April 17, 2025 -

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NEW FACES ON CHI BOARD

Date: April 17, 2025 - Affairs of the Nation

THE TIMING wasn’t great for the two new directors who have just been appointed to the board of Children’s Health Ireland (CHI). They arrived exactly as the brown stuff was hitting the fan over the scoliosis scandal and opposition TDs were scenting blood. The CHI board had already suffered a couple of recent health scares… Read more »

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LUCINDA CREIGHTON’S PROFITS

Date: April 17, 2025 - Affairs of the Nation

IT WAS reported in March that a couple of Irish Blueshirt adversaries have been generating significant revenue in their consultancy (ie lobbying) businesses in Brussels. Filings with the EU transparency register show that Phil Hogan’s Triton Advisory had declared income of over €1m from clients such as Ardagh and Vodafone. Lucinda Creighton’s Vulcan Consulting, which… Read more »

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