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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: August 9, 2018 - Bog Cuttings

Pigs and pepper spray A CAVAN man, who was pepper-sprayed by gardaí after he verbally abused them outside his home, avoided jail time before a recent sitting of Virginia District Court. Caolain Smith (21) from 59A Swiftbrook Glen, Virginia, was charged with engaging in abusive behaviour. Inspector Valerie Gahan told the court that gardaí were… Read more »

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Miriam O’Callaghan

KEEPING UP WITH MIRIAM

Date: August 9, 2018 - High Society

THERE WAS plenty for fans of Miriam O’Callaghan to savour in last weekend’s Sindo, which featured a fawning interview with the broadcaster by hack Sarah Caden and a page three news story on a planning row involving Miriam’s neighbours in Dublin 6. The paper’s so-called “annual interview” with Miriam left readers in no doubt that… Read more »

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Consuelo O’Connor

DOMINIC WEST’S ‘EXCLUSIVE RENTAL’

Date: August 9, 2018 - High Society

ALTHOUGH THE impressive Glin Castle attracted plenty of attention when it and the surrounding 400-acre estate were placed on the market in 2016 with a hefty €6.5m price tag, most of those who visited the pile were just curious, maybe hoping for a glimpse of TV star Dominic West and his missus, Catherine FitzGerald, (daughter… Read more »

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Denis O'Brien

DINNY’S SECOND CHANCE

Date: August 9, 2018 - High Society

GOLDHAWK spotted a planning notice for some works to be carried out at Ballynahinch Castle estate, where Denis O’Brien is now the owner of the upmarket hotel. He will be hoping things go more smoothly with this proposal for a derelict national monument on an island near the hotel. Meanwhile, Dinny has continued to pour… Read more »

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Eugene Downes

EUGENE DOWNES’S FESTIVAL RATING

Date: August 9, 2018 - Behind the Scenes

WITH THE Kilkenny Arts Festival (KAF) kicking off this week, it is interesting to note that the Arts Council (slightly) reduced its grant to the beano in 2018. This followed a reversal of fortunes last year when it dropped into the red after an expensive programme that failed to entice sufficient punters. The director of… Read more »

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Christine Molloy

SCREEN IRELAND’S HAPPY AUDIENCE

Date: August 9, 2018 - Behind the Scenes

ANNIE DOONA’S Screen Ireland (previously the Irish Film Board) recently released its second-quarter funding decisions, with just over €5.5m of public lolly divvied out to the successful applicants in the form of distribution, development and production funding. There were also seven producers who received unquantified provisional offers of funding support. However, some details are harder… Read more »

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Nick Bradley

NICK BRADLEY’S BAD BATCH

Date: August 9, 2018 - Sport of Kings

GORDON ELLIOTT’S first venture into training two year olds last year was a successful one, especially when the bunch assembled by syndicate specialist Nick Bradley and Elliott’s trusted lieutenant Mouse O’Ryan included Beckford, who was sold for many multiples of his purchase price to Maurice Regan’s Newtown Anner Stud. Things are not looking nearly so… Read more »

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Charles Byrnes

CHARLES BYRNES’S GALWAY GLOOM

Date: August 9, 2018 - Sport of Kings

CHARLES BYRNES is a trainer the bookies fear when the money is down, but the shrewd Limerick man found the going tough at Galway, where the battle began in the second race on day one with Viking Horde. The gelding has been sent off favourite on his last four starts and, after landing a nice… Read more »

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TOUGH GOING FOR O’BRIEN

Date: August 9, 2018 - Sport of Kings

TRAINER EXTRAORDINAIRE Aidan O’Brien is unaccustomed to a downturn in the form of his expensive string, but the Ballydoyle maestro has recently had to exercise patience with his steeds as a low-grade virus has seen a number of them perform well-below expectations. The first signs all was not well was when hot favourite Magic Wand… Read more »

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Willie Mullins

WILLIE MULLINS’S STRATEGY

Date: August 9, 2018 - Sport of Kings

IT WAS a beano of a week for Willie Mullins in Galway, winning the feature race on three of the first four days, and only missing out on the Galway Plate thanks to Gordon Elliott’s shock winner Clarcam. However, had Mullins landed the €270,000 Plate pot with his runner-up, Patrick’s Park, there would have been… Read more »

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Bob Etchingham

APPLEGREEN NEEDS TO MOVE INTO FAST LANE

Date: August 9, 2018 - Moneybags

THE BIG acquisition of a majority stake in UK motorway service operator Welcome Break is transformative for Applegreen. However, predictably the deal has been approached in a conservative nature that has limited the upside. With DCC coming up on the inside lane, Bob Etchingham and his team need to start pulling off more big deals,… Read more »

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Kirill Golovanov

OVOCA’S BIZARRE SWITCH OFFERS HUGE UPSIDE POTENTIAL

Date: August 9, 2018 - Moneybags

IT IS clearly very odd that a company that has long traded in the natural resources sector has, overnight, turned itself into a pharmaceutical operation. This exact transformation took place on Friday July 27 at an EGM, without even a whimper from the Irish Stock Exchange head honchos. Instead, essentially, of exploring for gold in… Read more »

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SULLIVAN’S ALE-ING BREWERY

Date: August 9, 2018 - Brief Cases

IT’S BEEN a year since a confident Alan Quane, chief executive of Sullivan’s Craft Brewery (1702) Ltd, assuredly told thejournal.ie’s business section, fora.ie, that the company’s sales were well ahead of expectation, even in the crowded Irish craft beer market. However, recently filed accounts show that it hasn’t been all beer and skittles at the… Read more »

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GEORGINA APPELBE’S JUDGMENT

Date: August 9, 2018 - Brief Cases

MORE woe for the Appelbe family of West Cork. A subsidiary of Howard Stanley Marks’s Oaktree Capital has just registered a judgment for a stomach-churning €3.5m against Georgina Appelbe, wife of legal eagle and troubled developer Fergus Appelbe. Appelbe will be familiar to fans of Goldhawk for his various scraps with the likes of AIB,… Read more »

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STRIKING OFF IMELDA LEAHY

Date: August 9, 2018 - Brief Cases

INTERESTING to see that hapless Carlow legal eagle Imelda Leahy has been struck off the Roll of Solicitors for taking €174,000 from a dead client’s account. Fans of Goldhawk will be familiar with the troubled solicitor’s various scraps over the years. In 2012, the Solicitors Disciplinary Committee found Leahy guilty of misconduct for telling Ulster… Read more »

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Roly Saul

SOUR TASTE AT ROLY SAUL’S

Date: August 9, 2018 - Brief Cases

SPARE a thought for Roly Saul who has just closed the doors of his Dundrum bistro and called in the liquidator after a decade in business. Saul is best known for his association in the 1990s with his eponymous Dublin 4 restaurant but he cashed out of that in 2000, eventually settling in beside the… Read more »

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DENIS BEGLEY’S BANKING BLUES

Date: August 9, 2018 - Brief Cases

SPARE a thought for Westmeath auctioneer Denis Begley, who was slapped with a judgment for €181,000 by ACC Bank recently. Begley, the principal at DNG Begley estate agents in Athlone, has had a few scrapes with the banks over the years, mostly related to his development company, Nimello Ltd. Begley and builder Damien Shine set… Read more »

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Philip Martin

PHILIP MARTIN’S PROBLEM KID

Date: August 9, 2018 - Brief Cases

RECENT results haven’t exactly been muy bueno for “born-again Mexican” Philip Martin’s Blanco Nino Ltd. Readers will recall that Martin’s company manufactures “authentic” South American food in, er, Clonmel, Co Tipperary and, in particular, claims to make “Europe’s most awesome corn tortillas” (see The Phoenix 24/2/17). Blanco Nino, which means ‘white kid’, hit the headlines… Read more »

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DUNDALK BUSINESSMEN BOWL A SPARE

Date: August 9, 2018 - Brief Cases

CONGRATULATIONS (of sorts) are in order to the consortium of Louth businessmen who own the 2-acre Dundalk Sportsbowl complex on Racecourse Road. Accounts filed recently by the vehicle behind the former bowling alley and arcade reveal that it finally returned a profit in 2017, albeit a meagre one of €20,000. The venue closed down a… Read more »

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NIALL MELLON LATEST TAX BILL

Date: August 9, 2018 - Brief Cases

IT’S BEEN a long summer for Niall Mellon, who has just had a second tax judgment registered against him in the space of two weeks. Mellon – best known for his charitable house-building efforts in South Africa – has been slapped with a €23,000 judgment, shortly after the Revenue registered one against him for e195,000…. Read more »

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Gavin Duffy

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: August 9, 2018 - The Hot Air Brigade

There are approximately 700,000 people around the country who are involved in rural pursuits – hunting, shooting, fishing – who are involved in farming etc and they know me. They know my track record and I think they will be supporting me. Presidential hopeful Gavin Duffy on RTÉ’s Morning Ireland, submitted by reader Wild, feral… Read more »

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CARB’S PUBLISHING POLICY

Date: August 9, 2018 - Brief Cases

DUBLIN accountant Sean Whelan hasn’t done his sums. The dreaded taxman has just registered a judgment for €32,000 against him, which could see Whelan fall foul of the Chartered Accountants Regulatory Board (CARB), the disciplinary arm of Chartered Accountants Ireland. Whelan Dowling Associates, his Santry-based firm, has already been slapped on the wrist by CARB… Read more »

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SALLYANN LUYKX’S COURT DATE

Date: August 8, 2018 - Brief Cases

GOLDHAWK’s old pals Huibrecht and Sallyann Luykx have managed to get on the wrong side of the Revenue yet again. Readers will recall that the Belgian-born businessman and his wife were restricted from acting as company directors for five years in the High Court last summer on foot of their conduct at Windsor Corporate Catering… Read more »

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BONO: IRELAND’S SECRET WEAPON

Date: July 26, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

THE embarrassing gimmick of a Bono concert in New York to support Ireland’s bid for a United Nations Security Council seat must have had diplomats from Canada and Norway, Ireland’s rivals for the two available seats, rocking in the aisles even if they were not at the concert. There are other signs of desperation at… Read more »

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Gemma O’Doherty

ICONIC HACK GEMMA O’DOHERTY

Date: July 26, 2018 - Fit to Print?

GEMMA O’DOHERTY has become a media icon for some and she is regularly referred to as one of Ireland’s foremost investigative journalists. Or, as she explains on her website: “Gemma O’Doherty is a multi-award winning journalist whose work has shone a light on some of the darkest corners of Irish life.” Unfortunately, so zealous is… Read more »

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Shane Ross

PROFILE: SHANE ROSS

Date: July 26, 2018 - Pillars of Society

WILL Fianna Fáil be provoked into a general election by Leo Varadkar? If not, will Fine Gael go to the country without a contrived FF pretext? Such intense electoral speculation has ignored another possible scenario whereby Shane Ross’s Independent Alliance could either be forced into pulling the plug or used as an excuse to call… Read more »

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Laura Kennedy

YOUNG BLOOD: LAURA KENNEDY

Date: July 26, 2018 - The Young Bloods

SOCIAL MEDIA buzzed last week with the news that Irish Times philosopher princess Laura Kennedy had interviewed Canadian psychologist and transatlantic self-promoter extraordinaire Jordan Peterson for the weekend edition of the IT. In the past few years, Kennedy’s outpourings on philosophy, grief and fish finger sandwiches have made her arguably the paper of record’s most… Read more »

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David Hall

DAVID HALL’S PRESIDENTIAL AMBITIONS

Date: July 26, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

INTERESTING to see the name of David Hall thrown into the presidential election ring. The high profile mortgage activist appears to have already kick-started his campaign, with the rhetoric turned up to 11. He must be wondering, however, if he can afford to move to the Phoenix Park given how much moolah the people’s champion… Read more »

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Sean Gallagher

SEAN GALLAGHER’S COMEBACK

Date: July 26, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

HAVING gone through the seven stages of grief at the presidency being snatched from him via RTÉ’S Tweetgate in 2011 – anger at RTÉ, suing RTÉ, damages and apology from RTÉ and so on – Sean Gallagher has arrived at the seventh stage, finding a way forward, and is poised for a second crack at… Read more »

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JOHN ARKINS’S ADVERSARIES

Date: July 26, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

A NEWS report of a contretemps involving John Arkins of the Irish Film Workers Association (IFWA) at Ardmore Studios last week no doubt reflects the fallout from the union’s appearance (along with the British-based GMB union) before the Oireachtas culture committee in February. Things got… Read more »

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NIALL MELLON’S TAX BILL

Date: July 26, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

SPARE A thought for philanthropist and one time Celtic Tiger poster boy Niall Mellon, who has just managed to fall foul of the Revenue. These days, Mellon is pretty much off the radar and Goldhawk was surprised to spy his name among the list of those targeted by the taxman. In the past, Nialler was… Read more »

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Dr Michael Smurfit

MICHAEL SMURFIT’S BEDSIDE MEDIA

Date: July 26, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

THE LAST fortnight has seen Michael Smurfit’s name bandied about in the High Court where he faced demands for him to be sub-poenaed in the case that has heard a former K Club manager allege he was threatened at Punchestown Races. Justice Anthony Barr last week accepted a medical certificate from Smurfit’s doctor in Monaco… Read more »

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Angela Farrell

ANGELA FARRELL’S ‘VICTORIAN TIME WARP’

Date: July 26, 2018 - Brief Cases

SIGHS of relief were practically audible from Blackhall Place last April when bankrupt former solicitor Angela Farrell’s application to be reinstated to the Roll of Solicitors was struck out. High Court president Judge Peter Kelly’s recently published judgment is full of colourful detail on the proceedings. Fans of Goldhawk will recall hapless legal eagle Farrell… Read more »

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Vol 36 No 15

Date: July 26, 2018 -

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MILITANT BLUESHIRTS

Date: July 26, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

MICHEÁL MARTIN knows well that if he does refuse Leo Varadkar’s latest offer – a two-year free pass for Fine Gael – then Vlad may decide to call an election seeking a mandate for “a stable government as we face into Brexit turmoil”. And he knows that not every FG minister has the appetite for… Read more »

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Ciara 'Jo' Hanlon

LIMERICK STUDENTS DITCH ‘UNION’

Date: July 26, 2018 - Student Life

THOSE most sensible student politicians at the University of Limerick have decided to rebrand their union (ULSU) in a bid to increase engagement. A spectacular row has ensued with scholars, current and former, taking to social media to lambast the decision. After a group of business students took the union’s temperature with surveys in 2016,… Read more »

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