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VARADKAR’S PR

Date: May 17, 2018 - Fit to Print?

“SHAMBOLIC: blame shifts to Varadkar”, was the arresting, not to say provocative, headline on the front page of last Saturday’s Irish Independent over an article on the cervical cancer scandal So provocative that somebody at Independent House decided it was unfit for public consumption on the Indo’s website. The article had also said that after… Read more »

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Derek Mooney

BOG STANDARD RTÉ PROGRAMME

Date: May 17, 2018 - Fowl Emissions

“THIS IS the story of Ireland’s best kept secret.” So RTÉ’s Derek Mooney began Turf Life – A Day on the Bog. This statement was true in more ways than the presenter might have imagined. The programme, broadcast on May 4, was sponsored by Bord na Móna, Ireland’s chief bog destroying enterprise. Due to what… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: May 17, 2018 - Bog Cuttings

‘ONLY MEDICATING THE PEOPLE OF DERRY’ A MAN already serving a “substantial” prison sentence has been fined for having the Class B drug cannabis. Jamie Mullan (21) of Braehead Road, Derry, admitted having the drug on March 1 last year. A search warrant was issued as police believed the defendant was involved in the “supply… Read more »

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WEDDING DATE

Date: May 17, 2018 - High Society

WITH MEDIA interest in the Meghan Markle and Prince Harry wedding nearing fever pitch, plenty of filler articles on the “wedding season” have popped up, including one in The Irish Times last week entitled “So, what’s on the wedding list?” One who gave her tuppenceworth was wedding organiser (everyone needs one apparently) Tara Fay, who… Read more »

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Chryss O’Reilly

EXITING DROMOLAND CASTLE

Date: May 17, 2018 -

INTERESTING to see that California-based Gavin O’Reilly, former boss at Independent News and Media, has just resigned from the board of Dromoland Castle Holdings Ltd, the company behind the eponymous Co Clare hotel. Having been in situ since 1995 as a representative of his dad, Tony O’Reilly – who was a significant investor in Dromoland… Read more »

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Maeve Fitzgerald and Lorcan Cranitch

ON RAFTERY’S HILL – ABBEY THEATRE

Date: May 17, 2018 - ReviewsTheatre

AT LAST, here’s Marina Carr. As Irish theatres obsess over gender imbalance in the industry following Waking the Feminists, it’s surprising the moody midlands playwright hasn’t cropped up sooner. Her last major production was at the Abbey three years ago, before the Waking the Feminists furore. With an ever rising volume of output focusing on… Read more »

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HEARTLAND – PATRICK McCABE (NEW ISLAND)

Date: May 17, 2018 - BooksReviews

SINCE THE success of The Butcher Boy in 1992, Patrick McCabe has pioneered a distinctive literary genre. His claustrophobic narratives – usually about the demise of small-town Ireland – have inhabited their own eccentrically imagined world. The latest novel is another dark tale of murder and mayhem set in a remote part of the Irish… Read more »

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Hugh Wallace

THE GREAT HOUSE REVIVAL – RTÉ 1

Date: May 17, 2018 - ReviewsTV

IRELAND’S enduring love affair with home ownership is unlikely to end anytime soon – particularly as so many property porn programmes continue to hog the national broadcaster’s schedules. With Home of the Year ending last month (followed by a celeb version) and Dermot Bannon momentarily off the screens, RTÉ has come up with yet another… Read more »

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CREDIT WHERE (TAX) CREDIT IS DUE

Date: May 17, 2018 - Behind the Scenes

WHILE THE Joint Oireachtas culture committee prepares its report on the film industry following recent hearings, Goldhawk asked the Revenue for some facts. The Section 481 tax gravy train for the film and TV industry allows non-Irish and non-EU resident actors’ fees to be considered eligible spend, provided that film withholding tax (FWT) of 20%… Read more »

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Selina Cartmell

SELINA CARTMELL’S CONDITIONS

Date: May 17, 2018 - Behind the Scenes

WITH THE Gate Theatre landing an extra €100,000 in funding from the Arts Council it looks like 2018 is shaping up to be a good year for director Selina Cartmell. However, one condition attached represents a new departure for the Merrion Square Mafia. The extra €100,000 for Cartmell et al follows on from the Arts… Read more »

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Richard FitzGerald

DID HRI JUMP TOO EARLY?

Date: May 17, 2018 - Sport of Kings

THE CONTROVERSIAL media rights deal that saw Horse Racing Ireland (HRI) hand over the keys to Irish racing to Satellite Information Services (SIS) took another twist recently when the At The Races (ATR) channel announced it would be changing its name to Sky Sports Racing. The media rights deal gives the broadcasting contract to Racing… Read more »

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HERE COME THE GIRLS

Date: May 17, 2018 - Sport of Kings

THE PAST 10 years have been a golden era for female jockeys. Having proved their worth against the boys and earned the right to be known as jockeys as opposed to lady jockeys, the focus now is on the scrapping of the award for Leading Lady Rider. While the recent retirement of the household names… Read more »

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Alan Fleming

ALAN FLEMING’S LOADED NEW OWNERS

Date: May 17, 2018 - Sport of Kings

CURRAGH TRAINER Alan Fleming is generally more associated with his national hunt string, being more or less a private trainer for Barry Connell. The handler may have landed himself an unlikely new client, however, in the shape of Phoenix Thoroughbreds. The free-spending outfit that claims to be the first regulated fund for investing in bloodstock… Read more »

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Mick Stanley

CLEANING UP INSIDE CAIRN HOMES

Date: May 17, 2018 - Moneybags

CLEARLY Mick Stanley and his Scottish finance mentor and supporter, Alan McIntosh, have done an impressive job in building a sizeable Irish house-building operation from nothing in 2015. They did this on the back of raising a whopping €720m from British and US financial institutions eager to tap into the property recovery. But these backers… Read more »

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Philip O’Quigley

FALCON’S FRACKING GAMBLE DOWN UNDER

Date: May 17, 2018 - Moneybags

SUPPORTERS of the highly controversial oil and gas extraction technique of hydraulic fracking got a boost recently courtesy of an Australian government-commissioned report. It concluded: “Not only could the risk associated with an on-shore shale gas fracturing be minimised to an acceptable level, in some instances, they can be avoided altogether.” In particular, the report… Read more »

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CHECKING OUT AT THE PLAZA

Date: May 17, 2018 - Brief Cases

TOUGH times at Phelan Hotels Ltd (PHL) where the liquidator is set to check in. The company behind the Plaza Hotel in Tallaght has declared itself insolvent ahead of a creditors’ meeting scheduled for next week. Readers will recall that the entity – co-owned by Blackrock businessman John Raymond Phelan and Martin Phelan, head of… Read more »

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ANTHONY FITZPATRICK’S ‘NEEDLESS’ INTERVENTION

Date: May 17, 2018 - Brief Cases

IT LOOKS like one of Anthony Fitzpatrick’s liquidation sagas has come to an end. In April, Goldhawk’s old pal Fitzpatrick had a bad result in the Court of Appeal, which dealt with his removal – at the Revenue’s behest – as liquidator to a company called Star Elm Frames Ltd. Readers will recall that in… Read more »

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Ross Maguire

ROSS MAGUIRE’S NEW BEGINNING

Date: May 17, 2018 - Brief Cases

THE ORIGINAL company behind barrister Ross Maguire’s debt campaign advice service is listed for striking off the Companies Register. Maguire became chief executive of New Beginning Advisors in 2015, bringing his partner, fellow barrister Sarah O’Connell, on board as a director. While New Beginning Advisors is a company limited by guarantee – ie without any… Read more »

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John Declan Flanagan

TAXMAN WHACKS CLARE BUSINESSMEN

Date: May 17, 2018 - Brief Cases

A COUPLE of Co Clare businessmen have landed on the wrong side of the taxman. Doolin developer and hotelier John Declan Flanagan was slapped with a small €26,000 tax judgment just a year after he was hit for close to €65,000 by the Revenue. Goldhawk’s old pal Flanagan has had a rough ride in recent… Read more »

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Paddy McKillen Jnr

PADDY MCKILLEN’S MOUNT MERRION BATTLES

Date: May 17, 2018 - Brief Cases

THE UBIQUITOUS Paddy McKillen Jr just can’t catch a break in Mount Merrion. No sooner had Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown Council granted permission for his company, Tomose Ltd, to demolish Kiely’s Pub and replace it with apartments and a boozer, than an appeal was lodged with An Bord Pleanála that will further delay the scheme. Fans of… Read more »

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Jim Wallace

JIM WALLACE’S FASHION JUDGMENT

Date: May 17, 2018 - Brief Cases

SPARE a thought for Wexford master tailor Jim Wallace, who has just been slapped with a €470,000 judgment courtesy of KBC Bank. Wallace, cousin of Independent TD Mick Wallace, is the managing director of Acorn Fashions in the Whitemill Industrial Estate near Wexford Town. The tailoring operation specialises in corporate workwear, uniforms and military garb… Read more »

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‘NO’ VICTIMS

Date: May 17, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

GOLDHAWK spotted a familiar face at a recent press conference for the No campaign. Last week, after Facebook announced it would be banning all foreign ads related to the referendum debate, the two main No campaigns – the Life Institute’s Save the 8th and the Pro Life Campaign’s LoveBoth – held a joint presser to… Read more »

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Laura Kennedy

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: May 17, 2018 - The Hot Air Brigade

The idea of ignorant knuckle-draggers deciding what others have the right to see immersed me in a miasma of irritation and despair, so I went for a walk in north central Dublin near where I live. Laura Kennedy on the tearing down of Yes campaign referendum posters, Irish Times Mr Mallon said that the banking… Read more »

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John McGuinness

MICHEÁL MARTIN V JOHN McGUINNESS

Date: May 17, 2018 - Last Refuge

FIANNA FÁIL became embroiled yet again in theological and legalistic arguments about going all out against the government last week, this time over demands for the government to sack HSE boss Tony O’Brien. Partly because of Martin’s usual timidity and partly because it was Sinn Féin that tried to move a Dáil amendment to fire… Read more »

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DERMOT DESMOND V THE PHOENIX

Date: May 17, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

DATA Protection Commissioner Helen Dixon has rejected Dermot Desmond’s complaint that The Phoenix breached his privacy by publishing a photograph of him at a funeral in April 2015. Desmond’s solicitors made four complaints under Section 2 of the Data Protection Acts 1988 and 2003; one complaint under Section 6 and a further complaint that “the… Read more »

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Simon Coveney

ISRAEL DIPLOMACY

Date: May 17, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

TÁNAISTE Simon Coveney’s dressing down of the Israeli ambassador for the latest massacre of Palestinians and his demand for a UN investigation is welcome. It reflects Irish sentiment towards the barbarous treatment of the Palestinians. But surely it is now time for the government to implement its stated intention – in the Programme for a… Read more »

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Roisin Shortall

ROISIN SHORTALL’S JOURNEY

Date: May 17, 2018 - Last Refuge

BEING the most politically correct party on the planet, it behoves the Social Democrats to be at the coalface of the repeal the 8th campaign and also in favour of the most liberal legislative proposals, including the 12 weeks abortion on request measure. But joint leader Catherine Murphy had to do a job on her… Read more »

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Denis Naughten

DENIS NAUGHTEN

Date: May 17, 2018 - Pillars of Society

INDEPENDENT TD and Minister Denis Naughten, once seen as a Fine Gael leadership contender, was fortunate to survive the backlash that followed his private chat with a PR executive whose firm works for INM. But the repeal referendum has seen the minister flounder on two counts and he could ship even more political damage during… Read more »

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Boni Odoemene

BONI ODOEMENE

Date: May 17, 2018 - The Young Bloods

THE OUTGOING president of DIT’s student union, Boni Odoemene (23), is one of the most controversial figures to climb the greasy poll of student politics in recent times. The opinionated Dubliner has managed to inspire and alienate constituents in equal measure while developing an increasingly stormy relationship with the Union of Students in Ireland (USI)… Read more »

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NATHALIE DAURIAC’S COURT DATE

Date: May 17, 2018 - High Society

AT THE start of this month, a ruling was issued following a High Court battle in London that has grabbed the attention of the super rich. The protagonists were John Caudwell – who scooped £1.2bn back in 2006 from the sale of his mobile phone retailer Phones4u – and Nathalie Dauriac-Stoebe, the glamorous banker who… Read more »

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Josepha Madigan

JOSEPHA MADIGAN’S AMERICAN DREAM

Date: May 17, 2018 - Behind the Scenes

THE MANNER in which the Irish government funds the long delayed $62m Irish Arts Centre project in New York continues to raise questions. And it is far from clear if the latest grant is the last one. Earlier this year, Sinn Féin’s Peadar Tóibín had queried Culture Minister Josepha Madigan on funding requests to the… Read more »

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Lorcán O'Maoileannaigh

GALWAY STUDENTS’ LANDLORD BLUES

Date: May 17, 2018 - Student Life

INTERESTING times at NUI Galway where protests have followed sudden rent increases at private student accommodation. After similar protests in DCU recently, the NUIG union staged a street protest last week to register its ire at the €1,000 annual price hikes at the Cúirt na Coiribe student village on the Headford Road. Residents received notice… Read more »

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John Magnier and Derrick Smith

JOHN MAGNIER’S TRIPLE CROWN TARGET

Date: May 17, 2018 - Sport of Kings

WHILE OUT of luck in Churchill Downs when a quagmire of a track played its part in Mendelssohn finishing dead last in the Kentucky Derby, the Coolmore team had more reason to cheer when Saxon Warrior blitzed his rivals in the 2000 Guineas at Newmarket on the same day. For John Magnier, Derrick Smith and… Read more »

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Ali Ryan

ALI RYAN’S €1M REBUFF

Date: May 17, 2018 - Brief Cases

GOLDHAWK was surprised to read that Goss.ie ‘girlboss’ Ali Ryan has turned down a seven-figure deal for her entertainment and showbiz news brand. Fans of Goldhawk will recall that the Sunday Business Post reported last December that Irish-American investor Liam Lynch was in talks to buy the site (see The Phoenix 12/1/18). Tucked away on… Read more »

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Mary Lou McDonald

TÁNAISTE MARY LOU?

Date: May 3, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

POST general election speculation has centred on whether Fianna Fáil can overtake Fine Gael (unlikely), but the real question is whether either party is able to do a deal with Sinn Féin. There is compelling evidence from a variety of different polls to show that any other coalition is mathematically unlikely, if not impossible. Both… Read more »

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Paddy Jackson

AFTER PADDY JACKSON AT ULSTER

Date: May 3, 2018 - Fowl Play

DESPITE THE successful stage management by the IRFU of the “joint Ulster Rugby and IRFU” Jackson/Olding contract review, Ulster Rugby’s grim tide has been flowing back down the M1 and washing up in Dublin, where out-halves happen to be relatively abundant. Following the players’ acquittal on March 28 and the revoking of the contracts of… Read more »

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