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Jason Morris

POINT-LESS

Date: February 25, 2021 - Sport of Kings

RECENTLY, Horse Racing Ireland came under fire over the lack of opportunities for lower grade flat horses at Dundalk and the backlog of these horses with nowhere to compete. After enough noise from trainers, Jason Morris and his race planning team added some extra fixtures to cater for that particular segment and it has certainly… Read more »

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Keri Brion

AMERICAN SIGH

Date: February 25, 2021 - Sport of Kings

THE EXPERIMENT of American trainer Keri Brion in basing a handful of horses in Ireland this year, while the US jumps season continues its hiatus, has proved a frustrating ordeal. A series of weather-related abandonments when Brion had her stable star, Winston C, ready to rock, while annoying, was out of anyone’s control. An incident… Read more »

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Alan Linn

PROVIDENCE SHAREHOLDERS PREPARE FOR BOND BOOST

Date: February 25, 2021 - Moneybags

IT WAS reported in the Business Post recently that Providence Resources’ farm-out partner, SpotOn Energy, had approached the Irish exploration company about a potential merger. This was not too surprising as Providence’s chairman, Pat Plunkett, and CEO Alan Linn had previously outsourced the job of finding farm-in partners to SpotOn rather than doing it themselves…. Read more »

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Michael O'Callaghan

MICHAEL O’CALLAGHAN’S PLANNING FENCE

Date: February 25, 2021 - Brief Cases

MICHAEL O’CALLAGHAN, the tyro horseracing trainer known for his ability to spot a bargain, has found himself on heavy ground over efforts to build a house and a new training facility on the Kildare-Wicklow border. O’Callaghan was renting his premises at Crotanstown in the heart of the Curragh, before buying land in Dunlavin and applying… Read more »

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Brian Comer

THE COMERS’ COURT OF KINGS

Date: February 25, 2021 - Brief Cases

A FALL at the final hurdle for the horse-mad brothers, Brian and Luke Comer, as their bid to turn some holiday apartments into permanent residences in Killarney were scuppered by locals. The Comers own three blocks of apartments on the grounds of the Hotel Killarney and, given that the backside has fallen out of the… Read more »

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Rick Larkin

THE LARKINS’ TAXING TIMES

Date: February 25, 2021 - Brief Cases

THE ACCOUNTS just filed for Vieira Ltd don’t make for pleasant reading for Goldhawk’s old pal Rick Larkin. The figures reveal that in 2019, Vieira – where Rick is joined as director by his older brother, Michael Larkin – dropped a whopping €8m courtesy of an “exceptional item”, and ended up in the red to… Read more »

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AL MAKTOUM’S FOUNDATION

Date: February 25, 2021 - Brief Cases

WITH FORMER president Mary Robinson in the spotlight thanks to the BBC’s programme featuring her controversial visit to Dubai, it is interesting to note that the accounts have just been filed for the Al Maktoum Foundation, which built the Islamic Cultural Centre in Clonskeagh, one of the biggest Sunni mosques in Europe. Back in 1996,… Read more »

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Tapaas Chakravarti

BUNGLE BOOK IN GALWAY

Date: February 25, 2021 - Brief Cases

FANS OF Goldhawk will be interested to see that the receivership of the Irish end of a multi-million-euro Indian animation outfit, associated with international TV shows such as Jungle Book, Peter Pan and Robin Hood, has ended in a legal spat. There are very big bucks at stake, with the receiver seeking to make the… Read more »

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Micheál Martin

MARTIN’S MEA CULPA

Date: February 11, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

THE MOST extraordinary dual admission by Taoiseach Micheál Martin last Sunday appears to have been completely overlooked by the political correspondents and even senior members of Fianna Fáil. Martin told the Mail on Sunday that he accepted responsibility for the confidence & supply (C&S) deal with Fine Gael and acknowledged that it had led to… Read more »

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Bertie Ahern

BERTIE’S LONG GAME

Date: February 11, 2021 - Last Refuge

THE MEDIA focus, as well as that of Micheál Martin, was fixed on the number of rebel TDs that attended one or more Zoom meetings addressed by Bertie Ahern recently. Some of these events are organised by the ‘Cosmhuintir’ group, composed of rank and file Fianna Fáil members opposed to coalition with Fine Gael. But is it… Read more »

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Dermot Farrell

PROFILE: DERMOT FARRELL

Date: February 11, 2021 - Pillars of Society

THE NEW Archbishop of Dublin, Dermot Farrell, presents as an archaic culchie compared with his predecessor, the urbane liberal, Diarmuid Martin. This characterisation would be wide of the mark. Farrell is actually a progressive technocrat attached to traditional Marian devotionalism, who intends to restructure a diocese that is haemorrhaging money and clerics. Standing on the high altar of… Read more »

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Hazel Chu

YOUNG BLOODS: HAZEL CHU

Date: February 11, 2021 - The Young Bloods

WITH THE Green Party falling back in the opinion polls from the high points of the 2019 and 2020 local and general elections – when it had its highest number of representatives elected – many party activists must be wondering if the surge is over… Read more »

Tony Holohan

FRAZIER V ALI

Date: February 11, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

SECRETARY GENERAL of the Taoiseach’s department, heavy-hitting Martin Fraser, may be the Joe Frazier of government mandarins but chief medical officer Tony Holohan is his Muhammad Ali nemesis. The Covid-19 spotlight on Leo Varadkar v. Holohan last October was only a qualifier for the main event which all along has been Martin Frazier v. Tony… Read more »

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Davy Fitzgerald

DAVY’S TOUGHEST TEAM – RTÉ ONE

Date: February 11, 2021 - ReviewsTV

IN ADDITION to being one of the most high-profile sports managers in the country, the past seven years have seen Davy Fitzgerald develop an unlikely parallel career as TV impresario. Having co-created the reality hit Ireland’s Fittest Family – currently on its eighth series – the Wexford hurling boss has now unveiled yet another challenge for the… Read more »

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Ulick McEvaddy

ULICK McEVADDY’S RED FLAG

Date: February 11, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

INTERESTING To see one Ulick McEvaddy pop up as a director of China International Aviation Leasing Services Ltd (CIALS), the company at the centre of the high-profile detention by the Chinese authorities of Irish aviation leasing suit Richard O’Halloran. Dublin 4-based McEvaddy is a well-known figure in aviation circles via operations like Omega Air where… Read more »

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Nick Ashmore

NICK ASHMORE’S SUCCESSOR

Date: February 11, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

THE SEARCH is on to find a new chief executive at the Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland (SBCI), the little known agency that has doled out a whopping €1.7 billion of taxpayers’ money to lenders. The new person in the hot seat, however, should be advised that the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) is taking an… Read more »

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Judy Woodworth

JUDY WOODWORTH’S APOLLO MISSION

Date: February 11, 2021 - Brief Cases

THE LEGAL action lodged last year by Wicklow farmer David Egar against the Alfred Beit Foundation (ABF) is winding its way slowly through the system. But, while ABF chair Judy Woodworth and her board were successful in their application for an interlocutory injunction last month, the legal costs associated with the overall process will be… Read more »

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Ruby Walsh

DENIS EGAN’S HEADACHE

Date: February 11, 2021 - Sport of Kings

THERE HAS been a full agenda for the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB) in recent times. In addition to dealing with a high-profile appeal from Charles Byrnes among other issues, head honcho Denis Egan has also had to figure out how to deal with a situation involving one of his own employees. A farcical start… Read more »

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CARI’S JUDGMENT

Date: February 11, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

GOLDHAWK WAS surprised to see Fingal County Council registering a judgment for a paltry €6,100 against Cari’s Closet Ltd, which has been the main trading company for red carpet designer, Instagram influencer and fashionista Lisa Duffy. This is not her first spot of bother, however. Duffy is one of the new breed of fashion business… Read more »

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Vol. 39 No. 03

Date: February 11, 2021 -

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TENI’S PRESCRIPTION

Date: February 11, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

THE IRISH College of General Practitioners (ICGP) found itself under the spotlight last week after having to withdraw its online guide for doctors treating transgender patients. The issue focuses attention on the role of Transgender Equality Network Ireland (TENI), which provided advice to the medics and is referenced numerous times in the guide. TENI is… Read more »

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Stephen Lovegrove

BREXIT INTEL

Date: February 11, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

THE SURPRISE last-minute switch in the appointment of a new national intelligence adviser in the UK has bigger implications than the fact that Brexit negotiator and ‘hawk’ David Frost was removed from the post just as he was about to take his seat. The role has instead been given to the far more diplomatic Stephen… Read more »

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FARMERS’ FUMING

Date: February 11, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

WHILE most lobbyists at least pay lip service to caring about climate action, the Irish Farmers Association has no such compunctions. At its recent conference, the IFA claimed that farmers were facing a 30% cut in basic EU handouts. The dastardly plot by Brussels mandarins involves redeploying about a third of CAP support for farmers… Read more »

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George Bermingham

HOUSTON, WE HAVE A PROBLEM

Date: February 11, 2021 - Wigs on the Green

A DECADE-LONG legal offensive by barrister Eugenie Houston against members of the Bar Council, the Professional Practices Committee (PPC), the Professional Conduct Tribunal (the tribunal) and the barristers Appeals Board over her alleged treatment at their hands has finally been seen off. The legal saga was… Read more »

Niall Mellon

MELLON LOLLY

Date: February 11, 2021 - Wigs on the Green

NO DOUBT, like other charities, the fundraising activities of the Mellon Township Trust operation, set up by Niall Mellon many moons ago, have been banjaxed by the pandemic. Happily though, Nialler has just managed to satisfy an old Revenue judgment that had been registered in his own name. Former Celtic Tiger poster boy Mellon, who… Read more »

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Daniel McClean

DISSIDENTS TRICKED?

Date: February 11, 2021 - Hush Hush

THE RECENT, highly professional execution in Belfast of Daniel McClean, a former member of the so-called Óglaigh na hÉireann (ONH) dissident group, is being presented as a ‘purge’ by ONH itself. PSNI briefings, though, have added fuel to the fire by suggesting that the victim was preparing to take out ONH figures before they got… Read more »

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SPY COPS

Date: February 11, 2021 - Hush Hush

The so called Spy Cops bill currently being debated in Britain’s parliament gives agents being handled by UK covert forces the right to murder in certain circumstances. This ‘Covert Human Intelligence Sources’ (CHIS) legislation seeks to drive a coach and horses through human rights safeguards by giving official sanction to covert state agencies to commit… Read more »

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Tanya Sweeney

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: February 11, 2021 - The Hot Air Brigade

Take note, Stephen Donnelly: the ‘thumbs-up’ emoji is the most passive-aggressive of all. Tanya Sweeney, Irish Times When O’Connell swept into his Irish forwards coaching job just weeks ago it was wearing his player-warrior super hero suit: a leader, a captain, figuratively and physically substantial. Johnny Watterson and Gavin Cummiskey, Irish Times That’s where I… Read more »

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Arlene Foster

DUP PANICS

Date: February 11, 2021 - Northwind

CRISES IN the north never come one at a time. Just as it seemed that the crisis at the ports of Larne and Belfast that divided unionists and nationalists was being resolved a much bigger crisis in policing loomed, with both sides taking up predictably sharply opposing positions. As it turns out, the ‘threats’ to… Read more »

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Willie O'Dea

MARTIN’S CRITICS

Date: February 11, 2021 - Last Refuge

WILY WILLIE O’Dea used his Sunday Independent platform recently to have a go – ostensibly at the Green Party – for obstructing the road through Moyross in his Limerick city constituency backyard. Deriding the Greens’ attitude, O’Dea said caustically that Green Party leader Eamon Ryan “says he doesn’t like roads!”. However, as O’Dea developed his… Read more »

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Eugene McCartan

EUGENE MCCARTAN’S COMRADES

Date: February 11, 2021 - Last Refuge

DISSENT IN the Communist Party of Ireland (CPI) has seen factions from Belfast and Cork focus their dissent on the perennial figure of Eugene McCartan who has been general secretary of the party for more than 10 years. Eugene – aka ‘the Georgian’ – and his supporters at the CPI’s Essex Street HQ are accused… Read more »

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Gerry Horkan

FIANNA FÁIL’S CUNNING PLAN

Date: February 11, 2021 - Last Refuge

WITH 13 Fianna Fáil Seanad hopefuls vying for the nomination to replace Sinn Féin’s Elisha McCallion on the Industrial and Commercial Panel (Fine Gael has already chosen Limerick ex-senator Maria Byrne for the Agricultural Panel), the real battle is between aspirants from Dublin Rathdown and Dublin Mid-West. This is because these are the only two… Read more »

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Dee Forbes

RTÉ’S DAMNING STATISTICS

Date: February 11, 2021 - Fit to Print?

AS GOLDHAWK predicted, much revisionist accountancy speak has been heard from RTÉ management as it demands the latest round of cuts from its benighted staff – not all of whom are on bloated, six-figure salaries (as in the top 10 of broadcast celebs). But while… Read more »

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MARK PAUL’S POLEMIC

Date: February 11, 2021 - Fit to Print?

A PLEA for a raft of state subsidies to prevent newspapers being wiped out by ‘big tech’ was made to the Future of Media Commission by the Irish Times and then reported in newspaper last week. 24 hours later it was promptly torn apart by its contrarian, rather right-of-centre journalist, Mark Paul – again in… Read more »

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John Burns

LOYAL SUNDAY TIMES

Date: February 11, 2021 - Fit to Print?

THE AAWRISH edition of the Sunday Times editorialised with sweet reason last weekend about how the north was working its way through the NI protocol until the EU “crassly” threatened to trigger article 16 of the protocol, causing mayhem. It argued that the DUP had been spooked by a poor opinion poll and “low-level shape… Read more »

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Marie Donnelly

CLIMATE COUNCIL CHANGES

Date: February 11, 2021 - Fowl Emissions

SWEEPING CHANGES at the Climate Change Advisory Council (CCAC) bode well for future climate action, especially with far fewer economists being involved. In Ireland as elsewhere, economists are deferred to like few other professional groups, with the underlying assumption being that they, uniquely, bring reason and scientific rigour to their analysis. Hence the fact that… Read more »

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