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JACKIE LAVIN’S WARRIOR ACTIONS

Date: June 13, 2018 - Hush Hush

SPARE A thought for Jackie Lavin and Bill Cullen whose long-running battle with the dreaded bankers has been taking its toll. The latest development is the calling of a creditors’ meeting next week for something called Warrior Actions Ltd, a company 100% owned by Lavin. Warrior Actions turns out to own the business name Bill… Read more »

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Wissam Al Mana and Janet Jackson

MR JANET JACKSON’S IRISH INTERESTS

Date: June 13, 2018 - High Society

IT WAS reported earlier this month that marketing company iZest, set up by Jennifer Taaffe, had scooped a €1m investment from a Qatari moneybags named Wissam Al Mana. This is not the first time Al Mana has popped up as an investor here but of more interest to some will surely be his eventful marriage… Read more »

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Ruairí Quinn

RUAIRÍ QUINN’S BUSY TIMETABLE

Date: June 13, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

THE COUNTDOWN is in full swing for the imminent opening of Barry O’Callaghan’s hugely expensive Nord Anglia International School in Leopardstown in September. Accounts just filed for the UK holding company show that, as part of a restructuring, the conglomerate that will operate the upmarket establishment incorporated a vehicle in the the Cayman Islands offshore… Read more »

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Crystal Li

OLGA SHAJAKU V CRYSTAL LI

Date: June 13, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

AFTER REPEATED visits to the courts, determined Russian lawyer Olga Shajaku has finally won out, with the Court of Appeal ruling that a lucrative translation contract awarded to Shajaku’s competitor, Crystal Li, should be binned. Crystal Li has been one of the more high profile entrepreneurs in the Irish Chinese community and in 2016 won… Read more »

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ANNE MARIE WATERS’S NEW PARTY

Date: June 13, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

FAR RIGHT political activist Anne Marie Waters – she hails from Stoneybatter, Dublin – has formed a new ultra-right party entitled For Britain and is standing in the Lewisham East by-election this week. Waters has been in several parties, mostly right wing, but her virulent Islamophobia saw her deselected as a UKIP election candidate in… Read more »

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Luke Comer

LUKE COMER GETTING CLOSER

Date: June 13, 2018 - Sport of Kings

THE QUEST by Luke Comer to train a winner continues, though it seems he is getting closer to his Holy Grail and it wouldn’t be a major surprise to see one of his nags pass the post in front sometime soon. This time last year, Comer was embroiled in negotiations with the Irish Horseracing Regulatory… Read more »

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Vol 36 No 12

Date: June 13, 2018 -

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Shane Ross

ROSS AMBUSHED BY JUDGE’S CALL

Date: June 13, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

SHANE ROSS told RTÉ through gritted teeth last week that he had no problems with the sudden appointment of four new judges, as his Judicial Appointments Bill would soon be passed into law. But the irony of how the appointments were made will not have escaped Ross or the judiciary’s cheerleaders in Fine Gael. Given… Read more »

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JENNI TIMONY’S MENTORING

Date: June 13, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

CONGRATULATIONS to Jenni Timony who is busy putting her experience to work for the benefit of Ireland’s next generation of entrepreneurs. She certainly knows what not to do. Jenni is described as the interim programme manager of the New Frontiers programme in Sligo IT. New Frontiers is an initiative of Enterprise Ireland (EI), delivered through… Read more »

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AIB V TONY O’REILLY

Date: June 13, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

FANS OF Goldhawk will not have been too surprised by AIB’s move this week to get its hands on Tony O’Reilly’s stake in Dromoland Castle. It will be recalled (see The Phoenix 18/5/18) that Gavin O’Reilly, son of the Tony O’Beanz, quietly stepped down from the board of Dromoland Castle Holdings Ltd, the company behind… Read more »

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Paddy Prendergast

PRENDERGAST’S RANKING WOES

Date: June 13, 2018 - Student Life

ON THE SURFACE at least, Trinity College provost Paddy Prendergast has suffered a PR defeat. The release of the 2019 QS World University Rankings has seen Trinity drop to 104th place globally from 88th, leaving Ireland bereft of top 100 third-level institution. Towards the beginning of Prendergast’s tenure in 2012, the college was ranked 67th… Read more »

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Drew Harris

MI5 LINK MAN FOR GARDA TOP JOB?

Date: June 13, 2018 - Hush Hush

WHAT A curious appointment as new garda commissioner PSNI Deputy Chief Constable Drew Harris (OBE) would make. This is especially so given the concerns voiced by security sources about entrusting intelligence secrets to a policeman from a non-Irish state. Northern newspapers have reported that Harris is “favourite” (Irish News) to take the garda top job…. Read more »

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Date: June 13, 2018 - Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, Just revisiting your cover of May 18th re those ‘Gaza Holiday Snaps’; and checking the blowback in your Letters slot for June 1st from serial digital hasbara-hairtrigger Tony Allwright, and his buddy David Hall. To paraphrase that great Jewish poet and songwriter, Paul Simon, ..still a man sees what he wants to see,… Read more »

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Colum Kenny

PROF KENNY’S EVIDENCE REFUTED

Date: June 13, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

ACADEMIC and writer Professor Colum Kenny has got himself into a spot of bother at the Charleton Tribunal inquiring into an alleged smear campaign against Sgt Maurice McCabe by senior gardaí. Kenny has polemicised publicly against journalists who will not divulge confidential sources in circumstances such as the McCabe affair where alleged smears were passed… Read more »

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Bláthnaid Ní Chofaigh

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: June 13, 2018 - The Hot Air Brigade

I went into the world as I am and the world decided that this outspoken vivacious woman did not fit it. Bláthnaid Ní Chofaigh, RTÉ.ie, Submitted by reader I wasn’t familiar with the work of Anthony Bourdain, but many of you are sad and that makes me sad too. I’m sorry for your loss. Tweet… Read more »

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Peter Robinson

PETER ROBINSON’S BORDER POLL HERESY

Date: June 13, 2018 - Bird's Eye View

QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY Belfast has made former DUP leader and First Minister Peter Robinson an honorary professor of peace studies despite an open letter of protest to the vice-chancellor from 37 academics. They complained about Robinson’s remarks in support of his estranged wife’s homophobia and his public defence of a pastor charged with preaching a sermon… Read more »

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Bertie Ahern

BERTIE AHERN – THE LOST LEADER

Date: June 13, 2018 - Last Refuge

BERTIE AHERN has become a totemic figure in dissident Fianna Fáil circles discontented with Micheál Martin’s leadership and Meath West TD Shane Cassells appears to be one of the former Taoiseach’s biggest fans. Bertie was guest speaker at a FF celebration of the 20th anniversary of the peace process in Athboy recently with the 350… Read more »

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MARY LOU MCDONALD’S STRATEGY

Date: June 13, 2018 - Last Refuge

SINN FÉIN leader Mary Lou McDonald is causing the Fianna Fáil leadership – and that of Fine Gael – some anxiety with one FF frontbencher describing her long-term coalition negotiating strategy as masterful. By posturing as the essence of sweet reason and as willing to talk to either of the two main (reactionary and beastly)… Read more »

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Alan Kelly

SAVING LABOUR FROM ALAN KELLY

Date: June 13, 2018 - Last Refuge

IS former Labour leader Pat Rabbitte trying to stimulate a debate on impending regime change in the party with his provocative column in the Sunday Business Post recently? Rabbitte’s ostensible message was that Labour should move from Sandymount liberalism to working class issues, a message Labour’s last four leaders – Rabbitte, Ruairí Quinn, Eamon Gilmore… Read more »

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Alison O’Reilly

MAIL IN THE BOX

Date: June 13, 2018 - Fit to Print?

THE tongue lashing delivered to group editor of the Irish Daily and Irish Sunday Mail titles, Sebastian Hamilton, by Supreme Court judge Peter Charleton, has not been done justice in media reports from the Disclosures Tribunal. But Mail owners, Associated Newspapers, will certainly have clocked the lecture its editor received as will its journalist Alison… Read more »

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EVE HEWSON’S EXCUSES

Date: June 13, 2018 - Fit to Print?

IT SEEMS Bono’s daughter Eve Hewson has inherited her dad’s preternatural talent for annoying people. The Brooklyn-based Dubliner had a bit of an Instagram incident recently, managing to stoke the ire of feminists and another up-and-coming starlet, Jameela Jamil, all in one go. In an Insta post last week, Jamil took issue with the casting… Read more »

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Michael Creed

BUSINESS IS BUSINESS

Date: June 13, 2018 - Fit to Print?

BUSINESS people’s bible the Sunday Business Post stuck it to the drinks industry recently in a devastating critique of the “well-funded lobbyists” that have delayed for many years the Public Health (Alcohol) Bill. Political editor Michael Brennan excoriated the drinks lobby for interfering with the nation’s “political system and, indeed with the nation’s health”, advising… Read more »

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Denis Naughten

WHERE’S THE BEEF?

Date: June 13, 2018 - Fowl Emissions

FOR YEARS, whiny environmental types have been warning repeatedly that the Irish state is treating its legally binding international obligations to cut our carbon emissions as a bit of a joke. This in turn has prompted indignant responses from politicians and their civil servants to the effect that this was grossly unfair and that, given… Read more »

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BORD BIA’S VEGETARIAN MENU

Date: June 13, 2018 - Fowl Emissions

IRELAND HAS the lowest percentage of its agricultural land producing vegetables in the entire EU, at barely 1%. As a result, we are a net importer of much of the produce that would grow perfectly well in Irish soils. The situation is almost as bad for organic farming, which accounts for just 1.7% of Irish… Read more »

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Bog Cuttings

BOG CUTTINGS

Date: June 13, 2018 - Bog Cuttings

Curtains for Dunnes STORES thief A 25-YEAR-OLD Navan man showed arrogance and impertinence by stealing goods to the value of €250 from Dunnes Stores in Navan, Judge Cormac Dunne told Trim District Court. Michael Reilly, of Boyne View, Johnstown, Navan entered the shop, walked around briefly then left. He returned with a woman who selected… Read more »

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Consuelo O’Connor

AUSTIN DARRAGH’S WILL

Date: June 13, 2018 - High Society

NOT SURPSISINGLY, there is plenty of interest in the legal proceedings relating to the will of Austin Darragh, with his two children from his first marriage – David and Adrienne – having lodged proceedings against the famous pharmacologist’s second wife and widow, Anna Darragh. Goldhawk was surprised to see the name of Angus McDonnell popping… Read more »

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Victoria Browne

ZONING IN ON CASTLETOWN HOUSE

Date: June 13, 2018 - High Society

WHILE THE National Gallery of Ireland topped the list of free visitor attractions in the Republic last year, No 2 was the impressive 18th century Castletown House in Co Kildare, birthplace of Arthur Guinness. “Ireland’s finest stately home” got some more good news courtesy of the High Court last month, when an order by Junior… Read more »

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Eamon Dunphy

THE STAND WITH EAMON DUNPHY

Date: June 13, 2018 - PodcastsReviews

WHILE RADIO struggles to hold its place in today’s interconnected world, Ireland’s podcast space is increasingly crowded with pundits battling for listeners. In the past 18 months, Eamon Dunphy’s popular twice-weekly podcast has been mainly of interviews with a variety of commentators on the hot sporting and political topics of the day. As ever, listeners… Read more »

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The Bread Winner

THE BREAD WINNER – DIRECTED BY NORA TWOMEY

Date: June 13, 2018 - MoviesReviews

ANIMATION production is the great, but relatively unsung success of the otherwise opaque film and television business In Ireland. With animation production it is possible to accurately count the numbers employed, the duration of their employment and returns to the taxpayer in VAT and income tax. The origins of the indigenous animation business go back… Read more »

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Skin Deep

SKIN DEEP – LIZ NUGENT (PENGUIN IRELAND)

Date: June 13, 2018 - BooksReviews

“I WONDERED when rigor mortis would set in, or if it already had.” So begins Liz Nugent’s new novel – which focuses on the obsessive behaviour of a particularly unpleasant central character. The Dublin author’s first two books, Unravelling Oliver and Lying in Wait, explored dark and twisted aspects of human behaviour – a format… Read more »

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Sarah Glennie

SARAH GLENNIE’S SUCCESSOR?

Date: June 13, 2018 - Behind the Scenes

THE BOARD of IMMA, chaired by David Harvey, will be relieved to have finally advertised the post of gallery director. It has only taken a year. Not surprisingly, moolah is high on the agenda, with the job description focusing heavily on the fundraising skills of potential candidates, who have two weeks to submit their applications… Read more »

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Penelope Kenny

PENELOPE KENNY’S CONTACTS

Date: June 13, 2018 - Behind the Scenes

AMONG THOSE IMMA board members keeping a close eye on the director recruitment process is Penelope Kenny, appointed in 2015 along with Dermod Dwyer and Mary Apied. Kenny is described as a corporate governance expert, specialising in arts organisations. She set up an operation called Arts Governance – among its clients are state bodies –… Read more »

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Nora Twomey

IRISH MOVIES MISS THEIR TARGET

Date: June 13, 2018 - Behind the Scenes

ON MAY 25 Oscar-nominated The Breadwinner (see Reviews) was released in Ireland and the UK. Produced by Cartoon Saloon in Kilkenny and directed by Nora Twomey, the film took €90,400 from 75 cinemas on its opening weekend, averaging €1,200 a cinema. Of the total, €15,000 came from the 36 cinemas in the Republic – or… Read more »

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Merchant Navy

MAGNIER’S MERCHANT BANKER

Date: June 13, 2018 - Sport of Kings

JOHN MAGNIER and his investors have never been shy to take a major punt on a horse and it will be interesting to see how their gamble on Australian sprinter Merchant Navy fares. Magnier and his cronies are believed to have spent A$30m to buy the horse after he won the appropriately sponsored Coolmore Stud… Read more »

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TWITTER CALM AT IHRB

Date: June 13, 2018 - Sport of Kings

FOLLOWING the Paul Townend incident at Punchestown, when the jockey threw away an almost certain victory aboard Al Boum Photo, the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB) is under fire, but the wheels are turning slowly. The main complaint relates to the absence of transparency and the wait until the following day to release a more… Read more »

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Saeed Bin Suroor

BIN SUROOR’S BAD BATCH

Date: June 13, 2018 - Sport of Kings

THIS YEAR’S Epsom Derby was a much needed triumph for Sheikh Mohammed al Maktoum’s global racing entity Godolphin. While morale within the camp will have been boosted by Masar’s victory, it probably didn’t extend to Saeed Bin Suroor, who for so long has been the main Godolphin trainer. Bin Suroor has been usurped in no… Read more »

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