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Justin McAleese’s mentor

Date: April 5, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

BEING progressive on one issue is no guarantee of a broader political enlightenment. Mary McAleese’s son Justin, who came to prominence as a campaigner for same-sex marriage, has declared his interest in standing for FF in the Dáil constituency of Dublin-Rathdown. It may be too soon to judge Justin’s politics, but judging by the emphasis… Read more »

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Bog Cuttings

Bog Cuttings

Date: April 5, 2018 - Bog Cuttings

Defendant’s rubbish claim A LETTERKENNY woman who took her neighbour’s camping gear claimed she thought it was rubbish. Maria Siataru appeared in court charged with taking the items from Amy Malowke at her apartment at Riverside View, Letterkenny. Letterkenny District Court heard Ms Malowke was heading away for the weekend and packed two tents, a… Read more »

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Dylan McGrath

DYLAN McGRATH’S SHARE OF THE ACTION

Date: April 5, 2018 - High Society

ONE TIME “bad boy of haute cuisine”, former Masterchef presenter Dylan McGrath, is preparing to open his latest venture, this time in Ballsbridge at the high profile Comer brothers’ One Lansdowne development. As a result, he has come out of hibernation to share his recipe for success but it is unclear how much moolah the… Read more »

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ALMOST LOVE - LOUISE O’NEILL (RIVERRUN)

ALMOST LOVE – LOUISE O’NEILL (RIVERRUN)

Date: April 5, 2018 - BooksReviews

FOLLOWING THE success of her two Young Adult novels, Only Ever Yours and the hugely hyped Asking For It, Co Cork writer Louise O’Neill’s latest book – which also explores gender issues – comes with yet more fanfare, this time aimed at an older market. The story follows an unfulfilling relationship between a 24-year-old teacher… Read more »

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Aisling O’Neill and Isobel Mahon

BOOM? – GAIETY THEATRE

Date: April 5, 2018 - ReviewsTheatre

THE CELTIC Tiger should still give Irish playwrights plenty to write about. The depths of personal consumption and bad taste may be overly familiar. But most writing in recent years has focused on the psychological aftermath of the recession, or caricatures like Ross O’Carroll Kelly, rather than the preceding over-inflated sense of self-esteem – hubris,… Read more »

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Hugh Bonneville

COUNTDOWN TO CALVARY – RTÉ One

Date: April 5, 2018 - ReviewsTV

ON EASTER Sunday, RTÉ broadcast an impressive documentary focusing on the final six days of the life of Jesus Christ. Fronted by actor Hugh Bonneville, the show maybe surprised viewers expecting something either bluntly critical of Christian beliefs or a cartoon version of the Passion. Made with European partners ARTE and American Public Television (APT),… Read more »

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‘Appalling waste’

Date: April 5, 2018 - Behind the Scenes

LAST MONTH, Minister for Culture Josepha Madigan was in the Dáil outlining the manner in which the huge Project Ireland 2014 cultural spend would be managed. The shadow of the Galway arthouse cinema debacle loomed large. The total spend on cultural infrastructure allocated in the capital plan over the next ten years is €725m. Of… Read more »

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Heather Humphreys

HEATHER HUMPHREYS’S €7M PLOT SPOILER

Date: April 5, 2018 - Behind the Scenes

ON THE last Dáil sitting day before Easter, March 29, the five members present cut lonely figures and, despite questions on the matter, there was no light shone on the taxpayers’ significant interest in Ardmore film studios. Questions were raised by Richard Boyd Barrett (People Before Profit) and Pat Casey (Fianna Fáil) on the recent… Read more »

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Success Days

KEN CONDON SEEKS WINX CHINKS

Date: April 5, 2018 - Sport of Kings

WITH ALL that ‘will she or won’t she’ speculation surrounding Australian superstar Winx’s potential Royal Ascot challenge now over and done, it’s good to see an Irish player taking the fight to the mighty mare in her own back garden. Now that Winx is staying Down Under, Curragh trainer Ken Condon has stepped forward to… Read more »

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Paul Nolan

PAUL NOLAN’S COMEBACK

Date: April 5, 2018 - Sport of Kings

TWO FORMER leading lights of the Irish jumps scene – Bryan Cooper and Paul Nolan – have joined forces and are beginning to help each other return to the fray. Cooper’s woes over the last 12 months have been well aired but Nolan has also seen his training fortunes wane to such an extent that… Read more »

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Denis Egan

Handicapping tyro trainers

Date: April 5, 2018 - Sport of Kings

AT A time when the number of active Irish trainers is reducing, it is ironic that the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB) has cancelled its spring trainers’ course, after only two applications were received. The two would-be trainers will now have to wait until the next scheduled course in the autumn to find out if… Read more »

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Gordon Elliott

DÉJA VU FOR MULLINS AND ELLIOTT

Date: April 5, 2018 - Sport of Kings

THIS TIME last year Gordon Elliott and Willie Mullins were locked in a duel for the champion Irish jumps trainer’s title and this time around things aren’t any different. Before Easter Monday’s centrepiece at Fairyhouse, the Boylesports Irish Grand National, Elliott held an advantage of over €½m over his chief rival Elliott’s Irish Grand National… Read more »

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Mark Sutton

Smurfit Kappa board wrong to reject €9bn bid

Date: April 5, 2018 - Moneybags

HAVING HAD its €8.6bn bid for Smurfit Kappa rejected, International Paper’s Mark Sutton tried to engage with the Irish company’s chairman Liam O’Mahony and CEO Tony Smurfit to no avail. On Monday last week (March 26) Sutton came back with what he thought would be a knock-out €9bn bid, valuing the Irish group’s shares at… Read more »

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Paul McDade

Tullow board needs to bite the bullet on Heavey

Date: April 5, 2018 - Moneybags

AIDAN HEAVEY retired as Tullow Oil CEO last year on April 26 2017, after 31 years in situ. But, instead of leaving the field as recommended by the Stock Exchange code of governance, he replaced the then chairman, Simon Thompson, and was installed as chair for the next two years, based partly on his “broad… Read more »

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Ryco Book seeks protection

Ryco Book seeks protection

Date: April 5, 2018 - Brief Cases

BRAY-based Ryco Book Protection Services Ltd has had to go to the Circuit Court to seek protection from its creditors. Ryco, where Dublin accountant Alan Torpey is listed as a director, had Dessie Morrow of Baker Tilly appointed as interim examiner and there could be headaches for the creditors. Established in 1993, Ryco produces protective… Read more »

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Alan Hynes

Alan Hynes’s lucky break

Date: April 5, 2018 - Brief Cases

CONGRATULATIONS to Goldhawk’s old pal, long-suffering former accountant Alan Hynes, who recorded a rare win in the Four Goldmines last month. The Wexford-based number cruncher – best known for his association with the disastrous property vehicle, Tuskar Asset Management – got an order quashing a decision of the Chartered Accountants Regulatory Board (CARB). Tuskar collapsed… Read more »

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Nicholas O’Connor

End of the line for Nicholas O’Connor

Date: April 5, 2018 - Brief Cases

CHARTERED Accountants Ireland (CAI) has finally run out of patience with Goldhawk’s old pal Nicholas O’Connor. The troubled Wexford number cruncher has been excluded from membership of CAI after numerous infractions over the last couple of years. CAI is remaining tight-lipped about the specifics of O’Connor’s latest infraction but Goldhawk understands that it relates to… Read more »

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Ben Gilroy

Ben Gilroy’s ‘interference’

Date: April 5, 2018 - Brief Cases

GOLDHAWK spotted a High Court judgment recently relating to an interesting case involving Monaghan businessman Seamus McQuaid and Direct Democracy founder Ben Gilroy. McQuaid has been involved in a scrap with AIB since 2016 and anti-eviction activist Gilroy was named a co-defendant in the case for interfering with the bank’s attempts to recover the dosh… Read more »

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Carly Bailey

Carla Bailey’s Bankruptcy

Date: April 5, 2018 - Brief Cases

SPARE a thought for vice chairperson of the Social Democrats Carly Bailey who has just been declared bankrupt in the High Court. Bailey, former mature students officer of Trinity College’s Student Union, has had a tough time of it since being forced to sell her home in 2013 and has been vocal about her experiences… Read more »

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Shane Corry

Shane Corry’s bad publicity

Date: April 5, 2018 - Brief Cases

INTERESTING to see that Creative Nation MCN Ltd, the digital talent agency and multi-channel network (MCN) behind the popular YouTube channel Facts is in the process of being sold. Happily absent from recent reports is the fact that people claiming to be creditors of the company – founded by then 17-year-old Irish wunderkind Shane Corry… Read more »

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Ray Foley

Red ink at RedFM

Date: April 5, 2018 - Brief Cases

CONGRATULATIONS are in order to Cork radio station RedFM, which was celebrating a few major wins after the JNLR figures were released recently. Things are also looking up for Siteridge Ltd, the company behind the broadcaster, which reported profits for the second year in a row in its most recent accounts – but there’s still… Read more »

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Olga Shajaku’s business rival

Date: April 5, 2018 - Brief Cases

Goldhawk reports that an action involving the state and legal eagle Olga Shajaku’s Word Perfect Translation Services company is about to kick off in the High Court. One of Shajaku’s competitors is Chinese businesswoman Len Wan ‘Crystal’ Li’s Translation.ie, which was awarded public contracts to provide translation services to the Legal Aid Board and the… Read more »

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Selina Cartmell

SELINA CARTMELL’S NEW TEAM

Date: April 5, 2018 - Behind the Scenes

ATHOUGH there has been lots of talk of transparency at the Gate Theatre (“I will not waver in our search for trust and transparency” director Selina Cartmell told the theatre awards audience in February), there is less of a commitment to explaining what is going on at executive level in the theatre, where there have… Read more »

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Olga Shajaku

Olga Shajaku v Crystal Li

Date: April 5, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

WHILE THE expulsion of a Russian diplomat here created waves, another Russki known to fans of Goldhawk – legal eagle Olga Shajaku – has been stirring things up in the High Court, where a long-running legal action contesting the state’s awarding of contracts is set to kick off later this month. One person with an… Read more »

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Stormy Daniel’s ride

Date: April 5, 2018 - High Society

FOR A man who likes to keep a low profile, Wicklow event horse dealer Richard Sheahan sure knows how to pick the owners. In an interview in the Indo a couple of years ago it was reported that Sheane “readily admits he has never been one for the spotlight; he let’s his horses do the… Read more »

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Dargle Lodge

FIONA FITZPATRICK’S “COLONIAL LIFE”

Date: April 5, 2018 - High Society

THERE was plenty of gushing prose to be found in last week’s Irish Times’s property write-up for the Dargle Lodge estate in Enniskerry, Co Wicklow, which offers would-be purchasers the chance to “live the colonial life”. Nowhere in the puff piece was there any mention of the name of the owner, however, who turns out… Read more »

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Kate O'Connell

Kate O’Connell’S Choir Girls

Date: April 5, 2018 - Last Refuge

KATE O’CONNELL, Simon ‘Covetous’ Coveney’s altar girl in the Fine Gael leadership contest, famously described Leo Varadkar’s supporters as “choir boys singing for their supper”. But the sororal Kate is intensely ambitious for her own political sisters, Mary and Theresa Newman, whom she has been promoting and canvassing for in an effort to create her… Read more »

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Edward Burke’s CV

Date: April 4, 2018 - Hush Hush

A good example of crisis bringing opportunity was The Irish Times publication of Dr Edward Burke’s polemic in favour of Ireland expelling a Russian diplomat and also deriding Irish neutrality as “virtuous”. The academic was described as “an assistant professor in international relations at the University of Nottingham and previously was a lecturer in strategic… Read more »

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AIB’s Irish Times fans

Date: March 22, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

DISREGARDING the vulgar populism so prevalent these days, The Irish Times has registered its appreciation of the sterling achievements of AIB chiefs. The paper’s business pages have AIB’s top two bosses shortlisted for gongs, top cat Bernard Byrne for its Business Person of the Year and money supremo Mark Bourke nominated as the year’s top… Read more »

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Kevin Keane

Trinity students pile on the pressure

Date: March 22, 2018 - Student Life

GOLDHAWK predicted that Trinners provost Paddy Prendergast and the College Board would have a scrap on their hands over supplemental exam fee increases – and that’s exactly what they got. The dust is beginning to settle on an exhausting week for bolshie students who managed to bring the college to the negotiating table by occupying… Read more »

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Mary Devins

ANIMUS IN COURT

Date: March 22, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

THE legal actions being taken against giant multinational Volkswagen by Ballyhaunis solicitor Evan O’Dwyer on behalf of a dozen or so clients in the District Court in the west took a left turn recently and ended up in the High Court for judicial review. There, O’Dwyer was the subject of some criticism by Ms Justice… Read more »

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Bono

The Hot Air Brigade

Date: March 22, 2018 - The Hot Air Brigade

Makes me unutterably proud… our country entrusted to three wise men and their 21st century leader. Letter from Bono to Taoiseach Leo Varadkar. The three wise men referred to are Simon Coveney, Paschal Donohoe and Martin Fraser, EXTRA.ie I may be from the east but I am not a beast. European Council president Donald Tusk… Read more »

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Karen Bradley

LONDON SAYS NO!

Date: March 22, 2018 - Bird's Eye View

WE LEARNT at least three things in the last fortnight. First, contrary to what most observers believed Sinn Féin really did want to get an executive in the north up and running. Second, contrary to what most observers believed the DUP leadership does not want to get an executive in the north up and running…. Read more »

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Catherine Noone

CATHERINE NOONE’S DÁIL AMBITION

Date: March 22, 2018 - Last Refuge

FINE GAEL Senator Catherine Noone is preparing to parachute into Dublin South-West (DSW) as a candidate at the next general election and her prospects are not as remote as might appear at first sight. Noone stood as the classic token female candidate with Taoiseach Leo Varadkar in Dublin West at the last election, facilitating FG’s… Read more »

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Brendan Howlin

Brendan Howlin’s bland buddies

Date: March 22, 2018 - Last Refuge

LIMPING Labour leader Brendan Howlin appeared this week at a public meeting organised by his party on the topic of Brexit. He was joined on the panel by two political figures with whom the former public expenditure minister has a lot in common – current shadow Northern Ireland secretary Labour MP Owen Smith and ex-SDLP… Read more »

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Joe McHugh

MINISTER McHUGH’S ADVISER SUED

Date: March 22, 2018 - Fit to Print?

GREG HARKIN, special adviser to government chief whip and Junior Minister Joe McHugh, has been hunted around Government Buildings, Dublin bars and restaurants and his home base in Donegal by a law agent attempting, unsuccessfully, to serve a summons on him from John Brown. Brown is the brother of singer and former presidential candidate Dana,… Read more »

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