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Ross Desmond

DERMO’S SQUAD DEPTH

Date: December 16, 2020 - Brief Cases

IT’S BEEN a tough period for fans of Celtic FC lately, resulting in a brighter spotlight being shone on the Kaiser, Dermot Desmond, and his sons – in particular young Ross Desmond. Celtic has been struggling against the auld enemy, Rangers, putting their bid for 10 Scottish league titles in a row in peril. The… Read more »

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IPA Directory

DEADLY DIARY

Date: December 16, 2020 - Brief Cases

THIS IS the time of year when Goldhawk gets his claws on the Institute of Public Administration’s indispensable annual Directory, jammed full of useful information about a whopping 9,000 public and private sector bodies. The 2021 edition contains the usual information, statistics and contact details for local councillors, civil service departments and state bodies, including… Read more »

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Simon Coveney

PREPARING FOR EU ARMY

Date: December 16, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

THE CHOREOGRAPHY towards the creation of an enhanced EU defence and security apparatus (one is not to call it an army; that would be alarmist) has culminated in a planned reform of the Defence Forces. Strip away the Orwellian language that always surrounds the drive by Irish Europhiles towards EU militarism and the two barely… Read more »

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Judge Peter Smithwick

ANOTHER IRA TRIBUNAL?

Date: December 16, 2020 - Hush Hush

The Irish state’s ‘stab in the back’ collusion with the IRA is an old unionist hobby horse that should have been put up in the attic once political discourse had matured post peace process. However, with Arlene Foster’s recent demand for a new inquiry into a mythical Irish state/IRA conspiracy, it is clear that the… Read more »

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Anne Heraty

ANNE HERATY’S PANDEMIC BONUS

Date: December 3, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

ANNE HERATY has been celebrating her personal €90m pay day from the takeover of CPL Resources by Outsourcing Inc. Presumably, the Japanese are most impressed with her recruitment company’s Covid-19 bounce. The grip that CPL has on providing contract staff to the likes of the HSE has resulted in a nice boost to the bottom… Read more »

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CHARLIE FLANAGAN’S TROUBLES TROUBLE

Date: December 3, 2020 - Hush Hush

Unionist psyops victim Eugene Reavey was recently vindicated in the UK parliament and former justice minister Charlie Flanagan was quick to join in the applause. But it is Charlie ‘BlackandTanagain’ who now faces questions regarding his judgement on Troubles issues. In a commons debate on the spook-sponsored murder of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane, Labour MP… Read more »

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Tom Arnold

PROFILE: TOM ARNOLD

Date: December 3, 2020 - Pillars of Society

THE JUNE 2020 Programme for Government (PfG) commits to publishing a new national 10-year strategy for the food industry within six months that will follow the existing Foodwise 2025. The Department of Agriculture has tasked the industry-led Agri-food 2030 Committee, chaired by economist Tom Arnold, to deliver it. The report is due for publication and public consultation while… Read more »

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Vicki Notaro

YOUNG BLOODS: VICKI NOTARO

Date: December 3, 2020 - The Young Bloods

WITH HER salty language and strong social media presence, Tallaght ‘hun’ Vicki Notaro is busy breathing new life into VIP Publishing. Taking the reins as MD during the summer of 2019, the 34 year old looks after the day-to-day running of the company, leaving owner Michael O’Doherty free to concentrate on his legal eagle career…. Read more »

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Ryan Tubridy

THE LATE LATE TOY SHOW – RTÉ ONE

Date: December 3, 2020 - ReviewsTV

FOR MOST of the past year, broadcasters have been desperately looking for inventive ways of filling the schedules – and cheering people up. Predictably, last weekend’s Late Late Toy Show repeatedly promised a pandemic-free bubble that would guarantee some virtual escape from lockdown. Ryan Tubridy had been hyping the show for months and the waterworks… Read more »

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Colm O'Gorman

COLM O’GORMAN’S SUBSCRIBERS

Date: December 3, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

COLM O’GORMAN, executive director of Amnesty International Ireland (AII), dragged the human rights organisation further into the highly emotive trans-gender debate last week when he tweeted that he was “proud” to sign a letter published in the Irish monthly publication Gay Community News that called for “pseudo feminists” to be denied airtime, asking the “media… Read more »

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Rupert Murdoch

MARTIN’S SPIN DOCTOR

Date: December 3, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

THE NEW government press secretary and former editor of the Irish Sun, Paul Clarkson, is not the first Rupert Murdoch executive to seduce a Fianna Fáil leader and taoiseach, as readers of News of the World will know. Has Micheál Martin decided, like Bertie Ahern when he was taoiseach, that a relationship with News UK,… Read more »

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Moya Doherty

RTÉ’S CHEAP SEATS

Date: December 3, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

WITH THE Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sports and the Gaeltacht having advertised for expressions of interest in the four existing vacancies on the board of RTÉ, the bad news is that there appears to be no moolah on offer. The joint committee is responsible for appointing four of the broadcaster’s directors and in… Read more »

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Mohsen Fakhrizadeh

GARDA MOSSAD LINK

Date: December 3, 2020 -

Israel’s assassination of Iran’s top nuclear scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, means it was a particularly bad time for An Garda Síochána to join forces with Israel’s covert policing units, but that is what has happened. The Garda has linked with Israel’s Ministry of Internal Security (MIS) in the EU’s Roxanne Project, which seeks to “unmask criminal… Read more »

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VOL 38 NO 23

Date: December 3, 2020 -

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Frank Clarke

SEPARATION OF POWERS AND CRONIES

Date: December 3, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

THE MUCH-vaunted separation of powers between government ministers and the judiciary works along the following lines: the party or parties in power appoint their party associates to the bench, which is not a breach of the separation of powers principle. However, pointing out these political links in public debate is apparently a gross violation of… Read more »

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SLOWLY DOES IT AT JAAB

Date: December 3, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

THERE HAS been a lot of focus on the Judicial Appointments Advisory Board (JAAB) since the Séamus Woulfe story blew up. One issue that has been overlooked, however, is the fact that, while the JAAB has been busy helping to appoint judges, there has been a board vacancy for no less than three-and-a-half years. JAAB’s… Read more »

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Kate McGrew

A TALE OF TWO REPORTS

Date: December 3, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

LAST MONTH the Irish Times reported on a review of the impact of anti-prostitution legislation enacted in 2017. The report, from UCD’s Sexual Exploitation Research Programme, turns out to have remarkably different conclusions to a similar review across the border. The editorial in the Irish Times, headlined “Signs of a Cultural Shift”, referred to the… Read more »

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Charlie Flanagan

FLANAGAN’S ‘TROUBLES’

Date: December 3, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

PERHAPS UNNERVED by media coverage of his courageous effort to rehabilitate the gentle Black and Tans, Charlie ‘BlackandTanagain’ Flanagan reacted negatively to recent coverage he received from Mail on Sunday journalist John Lee. But neither Lee nor the Mail received any solidarity from their colleagues at the Sunday Independent when they came under enemy fire…. Read more »

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William Matchett

RUC AND FAKE NEWS

Date: December 3, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

ONE EXPECTS the pro-unionist Belfast News Letter to publish vigorous denials by former RUC Special Branch officer William Matchett that RUC/loyalist collusion was a pervasive reality. But Matchett is described by the News Letter and others as an adjunct fellow at the Edward M Kennedy Institute for Conflict Prevention (sic), Maynooth University, Ireland. Two days… Read more »

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Keith Barry

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: December 3, 2020 - The Hot Air Brigade

What I had started to do with online corporates, I had started to talk about “massive action”… I started talking publicly about how I was going to get on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. I didn’t know how but I was going to get on through massive action… Ultimately it took 96 emails and 44 phone… Read more »

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Arlene Foster

‘SHARED’ DISEASE

Date: December 3, 2020 - Northwind

While Leo the Lip has been causing dissension in the disjointed coalition with his solo runs and ad-libs, it seems he has managed to unite the equally divided northern executive, although perhaps not in the way he might have wanted. On November 25 he was reported to have told the Fine Gael parliamentary party that… Read more »

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Pippa Hackett

THE MOO CREW

Date: December 3, 2020 - Fowl Emissions

GIVE ME a child until seven and I will give you the man. That old Jesuit slogan has been clearly taken to heart by the embattled agri-industrial sector, as it desperately attempts to do everything (except reduce pollution or emissions) to repair its battered reputation. Since implementing the actual reforms necessary for sustainability is off… Read more »

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DAVID MCMANUS’S CV

Date: December 3, 2020 - Fowl Emissions

Growing anger over the nearly €20m in government funding for the embattled greyhound industry spilled over recently on to RTÉ’s Claire Byrne Live show, where Soc Dem TD Holly Cairns clashed with baby-faced FG councillor David McManus. While McManus crashed and burned in the debate, even the presenter was puzzled as to why he was… Read more »

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Jim O'Callaghan

POLLS: REBELS PAUSE

Date: December 3, 2020 - Last Refuge

A GLIMMER of hope for Fianna Fáil and its leader, An Taoiseach Micheál Martin, came with weekend polls showing the party up one point (to 12%) and three points (to 17%) in Red C and Ireland Thinks polls respectively. However, Fine Gael and Sinn Féin still dominate in each poll and FF’s Dublin support of… Read more »

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Martin Kenny

SINN FÉIN MEMBERS SUSPENDED

Date: December 3, 2020 - Last Refuge

SINN FÉIN has just got tough with recalcitrant members in Leitrim, suspending two of them for breaching party policy on the direct provision issue. Most, but not all, SF members in Leitrim cheered on their local TD, justice spokesperson Martin Kenny, as he recently lambasted the government and justice minister Helen McEntee in the Dáil… Read more »

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Frank O'Rourke

O’ROURKE FIGHTS FOR GOOD NAME

Date: December 3, 2020 - Last Refuge

BATTLING EX-TD Frank O’Rourke is taking on Facebook and Twitter in the High Court and, if the Kildare North Fianna Fáil politician’s record is anything to go by, the court action will create attention-seeking headlines. O’Rourke is demanding that the two social media platforms provide details enabling him to identify those posters who, he claims,… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: December 3, 2020 - Bog Cuttings

Out Of His Depth Bantry District Court heard the case of a man who tried to escape gardaí by jumping into Bantry Bay before having to be rescued as he wasn’t a good swimmer. Danilo Jose (28) of 14 The Borough, Douglas, was arrested in Bantry after gardaí noticed a strong smell of cannabis coming… Read more »

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Peter Hart

REAL SURRENDER

Date: December 3, 2020 - Fit to Print?

It has not been a good two weeks for those still fighting the War of Independence, seeking a different result. Eoghan Harris’s Sunday Independent column shed copious tears for British intelligence officers shot on Michael Collin’s order on Sunday November 21, 1920. No such concern for those dispatched at random by Crown forces in Croke… Read more »

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POETRY SURPRISE

Date: December 3, 2020 - Fit to Print?

DUBLIN LIBERALS at the Irish Times appear to have liberated their new charges at the Waterford News & Star, previously owned by Irish Examiner owners Landmark before the IT took over in 2018. For just the second time, the newspaper has brought out a standalone Christmas publication, Festive Star, reviving a tradition that began in… Read more »

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Queen Victoria

BAH HUMBUG!

Date: December 3, 2020 - Fit to Print?

HACKS as well as Bob Cratchit and other staff at the Irish Daily Star were overcome with gratitude at the recent munificence bestowed upon them by the new owners, Reach. The British publisher owns the Mirror titles and the Daily Express in Britain as well as the Irish Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror, Sunday People, RSVP… Read more »

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Robert O'Byrne

ROBERT O’BYRNE’S GEORGIAN DOC

Date: December 3, 2020 - High Society

THE COVER of the 2020 review from the Irish Georgian Society (IGS) features an Anthony Palliser painting of the society’s founder Desmond Guinness, who died last August. Not surprisingly, the publication features a lengthy tribute to Guinness, with contributions from the likes of former An Taisce chair Consuelo O’Connor, property/environment hack Frank McDonald and former… Read more »

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Johnnie Cooke

JOHNNIE COOKE’S COSTLY DISH

Date: December 3, 2020 - High Society

IT LOOKS like the latest recipe tried out by ‘celebrity chef’ Johnnie Cooke has failed to hit the spot and his company is now off the menu. This is bad news for the creditors and also investors, who include one Fiona Nagle (once better known as Mrs Breifne O’Brien) and tech millionaire Jim Mountjoy. After… Read more »

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Lisa McInerney

GLORIOUS HANDOUTS

Date: December 3, 2020 - Behind the Scenes

THE FILM and TV funding agency Screen Ireland (SI), still rolling with three board vacancies since the start of the year, has announced its latest round of funding for the luvvies. MVG Film & TV Ltd, which was set up in February by former SI production executive Rory Gilmartin, picked up a couple of development… Read more »

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EOIN MURPHY’S NEW HAT

Date: December 3, 2020 - Behind the Scenes

NEXT WEEK, Sunday World showbiz hack Eoin Murphy will join education minister Norma Foley’s team of advisors. Film director Lenny Abrahamson may be glad to see him move from the entertainment beat after a recent story on the tabloid’s website linked him to a Bono biopic. Murphy will bring a new sensibility to Foley’s press… Read more »

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Emmet Mullins

PAUL BYRNE’S BIG PLANS

Date: December 3, 2020 - Sport of Kings

IN JULY, when The Shunter made his debut for trainer Emmet Mullins at Tipperary after an unproductive spell for his previous trainer, it was a well-publicised and costly outing that culminated in a €6,000 fine for Mullins under the non-trier rule. But things have looked rather better since for the handler and owner, Paul Byrne…. Read more »

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RACECOURSE BLUES

Date: December 3, 2020 - Sport of Kings

THE NEWS that British racecourses can welcome back not just owners but also limited crowds with immediate effect is in stark contrast to the prognosis from Association of Irish Racecourses chief Paddy Walsh. Walsh told the Racing Post that crowds are unlikely to be seen on courses in Ireland in the first half of 2021…. Read more »

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