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Rose McHugh

ROSE McHUGH’S GOOD NEWS

Date: July 2, 2020 - Behind the Scenes

ON HER way out the door of the Department of Culture, Josepha Madigan dished out €102,000 to the Crawford Art Gallery in Cork. It is the latest piece of good news for the Rose McHugh-chaired national cultural institution. The money is linked to two proposed exhibitions for the Decade of Centenaries programme, including one around… Read more »

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Leo Varadkar

VARADKAR’S SENATE CHOICES

Date: July 2, 2020 - Last Refuge

WHAT IS it about former taoiseach Leo Varadkar’s general election running mates in Dublin West that sees them a) bombing in elections and b) entering the subsequent Seanad? His four latest Fine Gael choices for the taoiseach’s 11 Seanad nominees include three that are sensible from a strategic viewpoint in a future general election, but… Read more »

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Jed Dowling

JED DOWLING’S HEADACHE

Date: July 2, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

WHILE SOME party-poopers will have been happy enough that the overblown Dublin Pride Festival was relegated to virtual status last week, the company behind the annual jamboree – Jed Dowling’s Dublin LGBTQ Pride Company – will be more concerned with any hit to the financial bottom line given the steps that have been taken to… Read more »

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Vol 38 No 13

Date: July 2, 2020 -

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MARY IRVINE’S AGENDA

Date: July 2, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

THERE WAS a sense of a new wind blowing through the personal injuries (PI) neighbourhood of the legal world when Mary Irvine got the nod to be the new president of the High Court. Much of her experience as a barrister was in PI cases, mainly defending medical negligence actions, and observers believe she will… Read more »

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Maria Walsh

BLUESHIRTS’ MILITARY BLUSTER

Date: July 2, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

ONE OF the more bizarre responses to the American police killing of George Floyd recently was a statement from Fine Gael’s five MEPs. Deirdre Clune, Frances Fitzgerald, Sean Kelly, Máiréad McGuinness and Maria Walsh asked the EU’s High Representative on Foreign Affairs, Josep Borrell, to establish if any EU arms exports have been used against… Read more »

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Geraldine Bryne Nason

THE MOUSE THAT ROARS

Date: July 2, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

Leo Varadkar, foreign minister Simon Coveney and diplomats like our ambassador to the UN Geraldine Byrne Nason made much of our commitment to disarmament and to the Middle East (code for Palestinians) in our latest, successful bid for membership of the UN Security Council (UNSC). But that was ages ago, since when Ireland has become… Read more »

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Hildegarde Naughton

PATSY O’BRIEN’S PREDICAMENT

Date: July 2, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

FACED WITH new national responsibilities, super junior minister Hildegarde Naughton will be anxious to see a local party issue resolved speedily given that it involves a long-time party councillor in Mayo and a former member of her own Galway West staff. Patsy O’Brien, a Fine Gael councillor since 2004 and a party member since 1978,… Read more »

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Eoghan Murphy

EOGHAN MURPHY’S REHABILITATION

Date: July 2, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

EOGHAN MURPHY’S Gethsemane is at an end, but it looks like he will have to wait a little longer than three days before his resurrection take place. Murphy knows that his close ally, Vlad, cannot put him in cabinet and that even a junior ministry would create problems in the febrile media atmosphere of the… Read more »

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MORGAN O’SULLIVAN’S HAPPY ENDING

Date: July 2, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

THIS WEEK’S settlement of the long-running (ie expensive) legal spat between German movie producer Winni Hammacher and his fellow shareholders in Octagon Films – James Flynn and Morgan O’Sullivan – could be an expensive one for the two Irish boys behind hits such as Vikings, Love/Hate and Peaky Blinders. The two film industry veterans (51%… Read more »

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Anthony Coughlan

COUGHLAN’S PALS

Date: July 2, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

BURSTING WITH pride, TCD Professor Emeritus Anthony Coughlan has circulated widely the news of his life honorary membership of the Campaign for an Independent Britain (CIB), awarded to him by British/English anti-EU nationalists recently. Coughlan has been the primary intellectual inspiration behind successive anti-EU referendums in Ireland and has also been involved in republican and… Read more »

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Charlie Flanagan

WILLIE FRAZER’S RECORD

Date: July 2, 2020 - Hush Hush

Charlie Flanagan’s final act as justice minister last week was to warn the Dáil of the continued threat from republican paramilitary organisations in advance of TDs approving the renewal of the Special Criminal Court. Flanagan may also have noted last week that the Victims & Survivors Service (VSS) in the north briefed journalists that its… Read more »

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DERMO’S HOUSING ANXIETY

Date: July 2, 2020 - Hush Hush

‘THE KAISER’, Dermot Desmond, and his missus, Pat Desmond, are certainly exhibiting high anxiety about the housing crisis, as it affects the nation as well as their own little neck of the woods in Ailsebury Road, D4. Mrs Desmond joined with neighbours Chris Comerford and John Gleeson in lodging an objection to the government’s fast-track… Read more »

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Gina London

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: July 2, 2020 - The Hot Air Brigade

You may still be wet and rainy, but Ireland, you’re buff now. You’re hot. Gina London on Ireland getting a UN Security Council seat, Sunday Independent, submitted by reader I’m a big believer in democracy. Micheál Martin won’t shirk from unpopular opinions, RTÉ News, submitted by reader Actress Eve Hewson’s career may be teetering on… Read more »

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Clare Bailey

ALLIANCE ON BIKES

Date: July 2, 2020 - Northwind

It has surprised a lot of people that the first all-Ireland party to be in government in Dublin is the Green Party rather than, as many expected, Sinn Féin. Until last week, the media in the south switched from attacking SF to obsess on the tussles between Eamon Ryan and Catherine Martin: talks or no… Read more »

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Eamon Ryan

RYAN VS MARTIN

Date: July 2, 2020 - Fowl Emissions

It seems oddly appropriate that, as the heated internal debates within the Green Party on entering coalition approached boiling point, a wave of extreme heat was sweeping through the Arctic Circle, bringing temperatures in the region to almost 40ºC. Bearing in mind that the hottest temperature ever recorded on the island of Ireland was 33.3ºC,… Read more »

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Micheál Martin

WHAT WILL O’CALLAGHAN DO?

Date: July 2, 2020 - Last Refuge

THE EXCLUSION of Jim O’Callaghan from cabinet was hardly unexpected – at least not to Phoenix readers (see edition 22/5/20) – and, by the same token, neither was the appointment of another barrister, Paul Gallagher SC, as attorney general. But O’Callaghan’s absence from the top table is an indication that Micheál Martin is prepared to… Read more »

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BARRY COWEN AND THE FARMERS

Date: July 2, 2020 - Fowl Emissions

While few in environmental circles will have mourned the departure of Michael Creed from the agriculture ministry, the appointment of Offaly TD and former greyhound stadium manager Barry Cowen to the role puts down the clearest possible marker that the cosseted agri-industry remains ‘off limits’. Cowen immediately thundered his defence of the high-emissions and highly… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: July 2, 2020 - Bog Cuttings

WHERE’S Wally? Derry Crown Court heard the case of a shoplifter accused of stealing an adult fancy-dress costume from a Party Warehouse shop in Derry. Mary Donegan, 33, of Carnhill, Derry, visited the shop, telling a member of staff she was looking for a costume for her son. CCTV then recorded Donegan removing a Where’s… Read more »

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IRISH TIMES GENDER ISSUES

Date: July 2, 2020 - Fit to Print?

THOSE STROPPY Irish Times women haven’t gone away, you know. A report from IT women journalists alleging all manner of sexist, “macho” behaviour by management at the most politically correct entity in the civilised world caused a furore last August (see The Phoenix 23/8/19). A committee involving all sides – management, union, male, female –… Read more »

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Peter Vandermeesch

DUTCH MASTER SALES

Date: July 2, 2020 - Fit to Print?

MEDIAHUIS’s INM publisher in Ireland, Peter Vandermeersch, has been quoted as having scant respect for INM’s digital strategy (“incredibly, there was none”) and not much for its print titles either, according to a recent interview with Adworld magazine (see The Phoenix 19/6/20). But after nine months in charge and this year’s Covid-19 pandemic, Peter was… Read more »

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Michael Ring

MAYO MOTIONS

Date: July 2, 2020 - Last Refuge

MAYO Fine Gael voted against the government formation deal and so did Kerry Blueshirts, but what has provoked widespread anger in the party is not just the actual deal (strenuously opposed by Mayo’s outgoing minister, Michael Ring), but also the voting process. That the lowly Blueshirt foot soldiers, who tread the byways and boreens at… Read more »

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Consuelo O’Connor

EVA MARIA’S MOYGLARE MOVE

Date: July 2, 2020 - High Society

THE SWISS billionaire owner of Moyglare Stud in Co Kildare – Eva Maria Bucher-Haefner (daughter of the founder, Walter Haefner) – has been busy lately with her holding group Moyreal AG. Her latest investment is with a Swiss business called Oases Holdings (where she has also joined the board), which specialises in designing residential facilities… Read more »

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Richard Martin

CHANGES AT THE GLUCKSMAN GALLERY

Date: July 2, 2020 - High Society

THE BOARD of the Glucksman Gallery in University College Cork (UCC) has been beefed up by the arrival of heavyweight legal eagle Richard Martin. And there have also been other changes courtesy of a new constitution. Richard Martin is the managing partner of Ronan Daly Jermyn and specialises in entertainment and media law. He is… Read more »

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Linda and Dan Kiely

SISU’S BEAUTIFUL MOVE

Date: July 2, 2020 - High Society

WITH HAIRDRESSERS, beauty salons etc open again for business, there will be plenty booking in for their facial treatments, including those über popular Botox injections. Not all beauty clinics have been closed until this week, however, and eyebrows were raised (by those who could move them) when some operations opened their doors early last month…. Read more »

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SARAH DILLON’S WRAPPED HANDOUTS

Date: July 2, 2020 - Behind the Scenes

FANS OF GOLDHAWK will be familiar with the workings of the Western Region Audiovisual Producer’s (Wrap) Fund, headed up by Sarah Dillon. It is a development and production scheme floated by local authorities in Clare, Donegal, Galway, Mayo, Roscommon and Sligo, with support and backing from Galway Film Centre, the Western Development Commission and Udárás… Read more »

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Alan Linn

PROVIDENCE RESOURCES’ STRANGE DEAL WITH SPOTON ENERGY

Date: July 2, 2020 - Moneybags

TONY O’REILLY Jnr has had an eventful career and the end came last December with Providence share price sitting at 5c, having peaked at €7 back in 2012. Not too unexpectedly, O’Reilly Jnr resigned from his €470,000 pa job, but managed to walk away from the cash-strapped company with a €954,000 payoff. Now, it looks… Read more »

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David Atkins

PERFECT STORM HAMMERS HAMMERSON SHAREHOLDERS

Date: July 2, 2020 - Moneybags

HAMMERSON PLC (owner of Dundrum Town Centre) is the most significant retail property investor in this country. However, CEO David Atkins stepped down last month and the board is undergoing dramatic changes as the company finds itself in a perfect storm. The shareholders have seen the share price collapse and they will be particularly concerned… Read more »

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Luke Comer Ban

LUKE COMER’S FORM BOOK

Date: July 2, 2020 - Sport of Kings

LUKE COMER doesn’t appeal as a candidate for champion trainer this season if the exploits of his early season runners are anything to go by. He may yet have a tilt at the Irish St Leger though. Comer unleashed a number of last autumn’s expensive purchases in the opening few weeks of the season, but… Read more »

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FAMILIAR SOUNDTRACK AT THE CURRAGH

Date: July 2, 2020 - Sport of Kings

THE IRISH Derby weekend at the Curragh took place alongside a now familiar soundtrack, akin to Heuston Station, as the wind whistled through the E80m grandstand causing a screech of alarming decibels. The design issue that causes the eerie whine came to light last year soon after the grand opening and racegoers assumed it would… Read more »

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Sheila O'Riordan and Nina Gillett

KEY COLLECTIONS LOCKED OUT

Date: July 2, 2020 - Brief Cases

WITH THE pandemic causing havoc in the tourism sector, it is perhaps not surprising that some businesses are suffering coronavirus-related side effects. Nevertheless, the winding up last week of short-term let operator Key Collections comes as a bit of a shock. The company behind Key Collections is Roomyield Hospitality Ltd, which was set up by… Read more »

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Rick Delaney

LISA DELANEY’S JARRING EXPERIENCE

Date: July 2, 2020 - Brief Cases

GOLDHAWK spied a couple of companies being readied for striking off by the Companies Office. They turned out to be linked to Monaco-based Corkman Rick Delaney, whose Aqua Blue Sport professional cycling team recently careered off the track, despite some pretty big bucks having been pumped in (see The Phoenix 5/6/20). Delaney’s Aqua Blue Sport… Read more »

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DANNY KENNY’S LOW BAR

Date: July 2, 2020 - Brief Cases

A COMPANY called Midnight Entertainment Ltd is to be wound up at the end of this week. The owner here turns out to be an interesting chap by the name of Danny Kenny, with an address in Knocknacarra Park, Galway. He has had his fair share of adventures. Midnight Entertainment found itself in a spot… Read more »

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Lorraine Clifford-Lee

BALANCING CLIFFORD-LEE

Date: July 2, 2020 - Last Refuge

AN TAOISEACH Micheál Martin gave expression to his modern, inclusive new world last weekend with the appointment of Traveller activist Eileen Flynn to the Seanad. And just to underline his commitment to racial equality (as between racism and anti-racism), he also listed Fianna Fáil ex-senator Lorraine Clifford-Lee as another of the 11 nominees to the… Read more »

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Catherine Martin

GREEN PARTY HEAVE

Date: June 18, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

PREVIOUS FORECASTS about the Green Party’s leadership contest were that Catherine Martin would win if party members rejected the government deal, while Eamon Ryan would survive if the deal was accepted. But a lot has changed recently and Martin could be on course to win the leadership, regardless of the vote on the deal, having… Read more »

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John O'Donoghue

JOHN O’DONOGHUE’S LIBEL CASE

Date: June 18, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

A RE-RUN of the 2009 public debate about the excessive expenses claims of the then Ceann Comhairle and former minister, John O’Donoghue, is due for a re-run in the Circuit Court in Killarney shortly. O’Donoghue took serious exception to a story in Kerry’s Eye about his planned re-entry to local and national politics headlined, “The… Read more »

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