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Tony O'Reilly Jnr

Providence shareholders holding out for a bonanza

Date: April 19, 2018 - Moneybags

AFTER 37 years of failures at Atlantic/Providence Resources, the company has signed a farm-out and financing deal with the Chinese group, Apex – a consortium made up of the drilling subsidiary of the Chinese oil major, CNOOC, and JIC Capital, an offshoot of the state-owned China Investment Corp. There is a long way to go… Read more »

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Liam and Siobhan Sugrue

Liam Sugrue’s bad timing

Date: April 19, 2018 - Brief Cases

SPARE a thought for Kerry builder Liam Sugrue whose construction outfit has gone to the wall. Three of Sugrue’s companies collapsed earlier this month and a quick glance at the accounts reveals his main business was swimming in red ink. Conor Payne and Barry Donohue were appointed joint liquidators to Farnes Construction Ltd and the… Read more »

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Niall Wiseman

Niall Wiseman’s faulty Towers

Date: April 19, 2018 - Brief Cases

A LOUTH development company called Towerpoint Properties Ltd faces a winding up petition in the High Court next week courtesy of the dreaded taxman. The outfit turns out to be owned by Dundalk businessman Niall Wiseman, one of the three founders of the Insomnia coffee chain. Wiseman is best known for his time with Redcoral… Read more »

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Cantec’s troubled history

Date: April 19, 2018 - Brief Cases

MORE on Click.ie, the Dublin tech retailer that collapsed in early April leaving customers empty handed. The company behind Click.ie is Cantec Office Solutions Ltd (COS), one of two related companies set up by Goldhawk’s old pal, hapless Co Meath businessman Maurice Muldoon. In 1996, Muldoon set up computer and IT retailer Cantec North-East Ltd… Read more »

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Derek Madden’s late filing

Date: April 19, 2018 - Brief Cases

GOLDHAWK spotted an interesting little bioenergy company called Prime Energy Power Ltd, where the liquidator has just been called in after it ran out of moolah. The directors here are listed as Galway native Derek Madden and Finnish businessman Rainer Haggblom, an associate of moneybags paper mogul Dermot Smurfit, who at one stage had a… Read more »

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Heavey Exit

Heavey Exit

Date: April 19, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

FANS OF Goldhawk will not have been too surprised by news this week that one Dorothy Thompson CBE has been appointed chair of the quoted exploration company Tullow Oil – at one stage worth a whopping €15bn on the stock market but today down to just €3.5bn. Last year, Goldhawk asked what on earth was… Read more »

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Pat Crean and Greg Kavanagh

Greg Kavanagh and Pat Crean’s agreement

Date: April 19, 2018 - Brief Cases

THE honeymoon is well and truly over for Greg Kavanagh and Pat Crean, the duo behind New Generation Homes. After cashing out of New Generation at the end of 2016 in a deal reportedly worth €150m, Kavanagh is now suing firms linked to his former business partner Crean for over E10m in the High Court… Read more »

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Lisa Lynch

Taxing matters

Date: April 19, 2018 - Brief Cases

A COUPLE of familiar names popped up recently with tax judgments registered against them. Earlier this month, the Revenue slapped Wicklow businessman Stan O’Reilly Jr – best known as the operator of C&D Recycling – with a hefty €470,000 judgment. O’Reilly made the headlines a few years ago when Wicklow Council brought planning enforcement proceedings… Read more »

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Dom Carney’s court dates

Date: April 19, 2018 - Brief Cases

SPARE a thought for brother and sister duo Dom and Niamh Carney who had a tough day in the Supreme Court recently. The Cork entrepreneurs were denied leave to appeal a Circuit Court injunction that restrained Dom Carney from entering properties at the Westview apartments on Washington Street in Cork city centre. The Carneys are… Read more »

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Olga’s cases

Olga’s cases

Date: April 19, 2018 - Hush Hush

GOLDHAWK’S favourite Russian lawyer, Olga Shajaku, popped up in the news last weekend when her client found himself accused of owing a fellow Russkie €1m. Olga knows a thing or two herself about seven-figure bills. Shajaku’s MS Solicitors represented Sergey Tarutin – editor of Ireland’s Russian-language newspaper Nasha Gazeta – when he was sued in… Read more »

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Vincent Browne

Haughey’s money

Date: April 19, 2018 - Last Refuge

THE progress of Vincent Browne’s long awaited biog of Charles Haughey has seen the veteran hack appeal recently for information from the public on the former Taoiseach. Goldhawk’s contribution to this quest is a reminder of Browne’s own interaction with Squire Hockey. Back in 1977 when Browne was earning his reputation as a fearless journalist… Read more »

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Brendan and Denis

Date: April 19, 2018 - Fit to Print?

AN INM editorial executive who has thrived despite offering Denis O’Brien perhaps the greatest single provocation is Sindo journalist Brendan O’Connor. In the heat of battle before the fall of the House of Castlemartin O’Connor, fighting alongside Harris against the O’Brien takeover, actually implied that Denis was “corrupt” (see The Phoenix, 6/4/18 and passim). O’Connor… Read more »

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Agri-bucks

Date: April 19, 2018 - Fowl Emissions

WITH the average family farm income in 2016 at a dismal €24,000, and with two in three beef farmers only solvent thanks to CAP transfers from the EU taxpayer, you might think there wasn’t a bob to be made in the sector. Happily, nothing could be further from the truth. As a recent Irish Farmers… Read more »

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Opera Company’s new cast member

Opera Company’s new cast member

Date: April 19, 2018 - High Society

ANOTHER NEW name has been added to the cast of the recently incorporated Irish National Opera company (INO), formed by the merger of Opera Theatre Company and Wide Open Opera. After a lengthy hiatus, during which the Arts Council sought to cobble together a new opera company to take on a national role (with Wexford… Read more »

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Ian Bailey

IAN BAILEY: CHAPTER 84

Date: April 19, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

IAN BAILEY’S hearing in the Court of Appeal this week was the first of several staging posts along the way as he continues to fight off those who would see him charged – at home in the past or in France in the future – with the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier over 21… Read more »

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John Magnier

JOHN MAGNIER’S KENTUCKY CHANCES

Date: April 19, 2018 - Sport of Kings

DESPITE HIS glut of accolades and achievements on the turf, Saturday, May 5 in Churchill Downs could see Aidan O’Brien and John Magnier raise the bar further when they saddle Mendelssohn in the Kentucky Derby. The $3m yearling – a leading candidate for the Run For The Roses following an 18-length thrashing of his rivals… Read more »

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Alison Spittle

ALISON SPITTLE’S CULCHIE CLUB – RTÉ2

Date: April 19, 2018 - ReviewsTV

ALISON SPITTLE’S one-off documentary tried to discover the meaning of being a modern-day culchie. Over a very long hour, we learned little enough. London-born Spittle grew up in Co Westmeath and seems to have become RTÉ’s flavour of the month. Known mainly for her sitcom Nowhere Fast, Spittle’s search for identity started with a lunchtime… Read more »

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Leslie Buckley

FEAR AND LOATHING AT INM

Date: April 5, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

THE Irish Independent innocently wondered this week about how it was “unclear” why deputy editor of the Sunday Independent, Brendan O’Connor, should be one of the four journalists named among the “persons of interest” allegedly targeted by Leslie Buckley’s IT experts. As Denis O’Brien circled the O’Reilly family before he eventually took them out and… Read more »

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Barry Andrews

Profile: Barry Andrews

Date: April 5, 2018 - Pillars of Society

IF Fianna Fáil has a royal family it is the extended Andrews clan and former minister Barry Andrews was once seen as its crown prince. However, Barry, the leading member of the dynasty’s third generation, crashed out of politics at the 2011 general election and transferred to the nether world of foreign aid and foreign… Read more »

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Killian Foley-Walsh

Young Blood: Killian Foley-Walsh

Date: April 5, 2018 - The Young Bloods

FINE GAEL’s cosmopolitan leaders must have spat out their morning lattes when they heard the news that pro-life conservative Killian Foley-Walsh (23) had been elected president of Young Fine Gael (YFG). The baby-faced Blueshirt, who loves to court controversy, considers himself a right-wing rebel in a party that internal critics think is going soft on… Read more »

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Jamie Heaslip

The Chronicles of Jamie Heaslip

Date: April 5, 2018 - Fowl Play

Former Irish Rugby captain Jamie Heaslip must have been delighted with the send-off he got at the Aviva last weekend at Leinster’s Champions Cup quarter-final. The retired rugger bugger can also be happy with his first contribution to a new website called The Sports Chronicle (TSC), which was a hit with fans and even earned… Read more »

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Simon Coveney

Reds under the bed

Date: April 5, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

FOREIGN minister Simon Coveney’s statement justifying the expulsion of a Russian diplomat does not bear scrutiny and indicates a subservience to British foreign policy matched only by the EU’s tactic of humouring the same quarters. Coveney actually concedes, “It is true that we are not in a position to independently verify the United Kingdom’s assessment… Read more »

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Triona Mullane

INM’s sub-committee

Date: April 5, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

AN AWFUL lot has been written about the extraordinary events that are alleged to have unfolded at Independent News and Media (INM) in October 2014 but little has been said about the make-up of the committee that was actually running the company at the time, which turns out to have a less than independent hue…. Read more »

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Vol.36 No.07

Vol.36 No.07

Date: April 5, 2018 -

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Wilbur Ross

DCU students’ landlord blues

Date: April 5, 2018 - Student Life

THE student union (SU) in DCU has caught the protest bug and is fighting back against rent increases at accommodation centres. Stark price hikes at the Shanowen Hall and Shanowen Square facilities in Santry have incensed students who might not yet be aware of an interesting link between the apartments and Donald Trump. Trinity students… Read more »

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Omar Hassanein

BLAZERS GET DOUBLE-TEAMED

Date: April 5, 2018 - Fowl Play

SOME WRINKLES to the IRFU’s annus mirabilis have begun to appear with the official arrival in Dublin of the players’ organisation, International Rugby Players (IRP). This brings the increasingly bolshy stars a little too close to the local blazers for comfort. At the same time that the union enjoys the afterglow of its third ever… Read more »

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Diathi O'Ceallaigh

MORE EVIDENCE OF COLLUSION

Date: April 5, 2018 - Hush Hush

THE significance of a secret paper confirming collusion between British security and Loyalist murder squads, part of the government’s raft of state paper released under the 30 year disclosure rule was completely missed by the media and Troubles ‘experts’. This hush-hush document on the state of play within loyalism in the run-up to the November… Read more »

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Louise O'Neill

The Hot Air Brigade

Date: April 5, 2018 - The Hot Air Brigade

I didn’t have access to my usual methods of stress relief either, I couldn’t make it to Inchydoney gym, I couldn’t get to the city to see my therapist, my sunrise yoga classes were cancelled. Louise O’Neill on being rendered housebound by the Beast from the East prior to a book launch. Irish Examiner, Submitted… Read more »

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Lisa Chambers

MARTIN’S DECK CHAIRS

Date: April 5, 2018 - Last Refuge

MICHEÁL MARTIN’S last throw of the dice in the gambling den of electoral politics now approaching end game has as much to do with internal pressures as Fine Gael and Leo Varadkar’s current ascendancy. Yes, Darragh O’Brien as housing spokesperson would be more abrasive with minister Eoghan Murphy and Stephen Donnelly will be a handful… Read more »

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BACK TO THE FUTURE

Date: April 5, 2018 - Bird's Eye View

SINN FÉIN have been shocked and dismayed by the proposals of the north’s Boundary Commission for new constituencies published in January. The party says the proposals are an obvious gerrymander to favour the DUP. Mary Lou McDonald and Michelle O’Neill have said they will raise the new plans and their consequences directly with British prime… Read more »

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Justin McAleese

JUSTIN McALEESE FALTERS

Date: April 5, 2018 - Last Refuge

THE prospects of Justin McAleese taking a seat for Fianna Fáil in the lush pastures of Dublin Rathdown have been talked up a lot but if former president Mary McAleese’s son does not get his act together he may not even get through convention. Justin has been at two party meetings in the area and… Read more »

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Joan Burton

Going for a Burton

Date: April 5, 2018 - Last Refuge

LABOUR’S last leader, Joan Burton, faces a last ditch stand in Dublin West where Sinn Féin councillor Paul Donnelly is eyeing up her seat. But Burton’s local organisation is moribund and she herself has been invisible on the ground at local meetings. To make up for this, Burton has been issuing glossy brochures which itemise… Read more »

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Natasha Murtagh

O’BRIEN CRIES ETHICAL FOUL

Date: April 5, 2018 - Fit to Print?

DENIS O’BRIEN and his spin doctor James Morrissey are engaged in an artful stratagem against The Irish Times by implying that its correspondent Peter Murtagh has a vested interest in his coverage of O’Brien’s legal feud with PR firm, Red Flag. Former TD Colm Keaveney also wrote to the IT making similar arguments in a… Read more »

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Frank Fitzgibbon

RUSSIAN MEDIA GAS

Date: April 5, 2018 - Fit to Print?

THE Irish media got right onside with HMG in deciding that the Ruskies carried out a nerve gas attack on two Russians in Salisbury a month ago. Some of the coverage was reminiscent of 1950s anti-communist hysteria in America. Irish Independent columnist Dan O’Brien warned last week that President Putin “could try to knock out… Read more »

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MI5 Man tied up

Date: April 5, 2018 - Fit to Print?

SINDO columnist Ruth Dud Edwards recently penned a touching eulogy to her long-time pal, MI5 and special branch IRA informer, Sean O’Callaghan, following a memorial service to him in London. Ruth expressed her admiration and affection for her close friend as British military gents, Britain’s security minister and Unionist politicians paid homage to O’Callaghan. Some… Read more »

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David Attenborough

PLASTIC PADDIES

Date: April 5, 2018 - Fowl Emissions

THE dutiful consumers of Ireland are being enlisted as (polite) eco-warriors for one day this month in the escalating global war against plastic. Such is the public mood of disgust at the exponential growth of plastic packaging and at reports of plastic-filled islands, dolphins, fish and seabirds, they shouldn’t need much incitement to take part… Read more »

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