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Niamh Patten

NIAMH PATTEN’S VALENTINE’S OFFER

Date: February 8, 2018 - High Society

READERS OF The Irish Times were presented with an offer last week to buy the “perfect Valentine’s gift for her”. The offer featured a luxury jewellery set from New Romantic Jewellery, which turns out to be the company established by one Niamh Patten – whose… Read more »

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Markus Jooste’s expensive colts

Date: February 8, 2018 - High Society

THE DISGRACED South African moneybags Markus Jooste continues to liquidate his vast string of thoroughbreds, with four select mares that he owned in partnership with the Coolmore gang going under the hammer at Tattersalls in Newmarket last week. On the face of it, the 1.77 million guineas the quartet yielded seemed a pretty good result…. Read more »

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Prince Charles and Paul Smithwick

PAUL SMITHWICK’S NEW INVESTOR

Date: February 8, 2018 - High Society

THE ARRIVAL to the O’Sullivan Craft Brewery (1702) shareholder register of Irish Stock Exchange chairman Padraic O’Connor is a vote of confidence for Prince Charles’s favourite brewer the company’s founder Paul Smithwick OBE. The fledgling Kilkenny beer business – where young Dan Smithwick is also a director – has certainly been building up an impressive… Read more »

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Tony O'Reilly Jr.

O’Reilly digs deep

Date: February 8, 2018 - Fowl Emissions

YOU HAVE to feel sorry for those intrepid oil and gas explorers under constant siege from scientists and campaigners. Oil prices are low – partly thanks to the divestment movement. The Paris climate agreement means most of the world’s known reserves must be left in the ground, making them “stranded assets”. Here in Ireland, last… Read more »

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Paddy Power’s gas terminal

Date: February 8, 2018 - Fowl Emissions

EU countries can burn gas for just nine more years before exhausting their share of the earth’s carbon budget to keep global warming below 2 degrees. So says a recent report from the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research. Somebody should tell Paddy Power, the Tralee man trying to build a humongous Liquefied Natural Gas… Read more »

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Sive -Tommy Tiernan

SIVE – GAIETY THEATRE

Date: February 8, 2018 - ReviewsTheatre

AMONG theatre companies, even the most sure-footed occasionally misstep. Druid is no exception. The Galway troupe rehabilitated the work of John B Keane over the last few decades, bringing it from amateur halls onto main stages. This helped pave the way for more modern writers. It’s hard not to watch the oppressive female relationship at… Read more »

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Blindboy Boatclub

THE BLINDBOY PODCAST – BLINDBOY BOATCLUB

Date: February 8, 2018 - PodcastsReviews

LISTENING TO The Blindboy Podcast is akin to stepping on a bus with no knowledge of where you’ll be disgorged. Blindboy turns out to be a driver who can navigate the terrain with relatively little difficulty. An impressive 16 weeks at the top of the podcast charts confirms the popularity of Blindboy’s offering, with 160,000… Read more »

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Earlie King & The Kid In Yellow

THE EARLIE KING & THE KID IN YELLOW – DANNY DENTON (GRANTA)

Date: February 8, 2018 - BooksReviews

LITERARY dystopias have become commonplace in recent times. But what distinguishes this ambitious debut novel is Denton’s anarchic language – a propulsive blend of past, present and imagined future. For his nightmare vision of society, the Cork writer has turned to climate change fiction (“cli-fi”). Although the book is genre crossing (tragic love story, crime… Read more »

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Blake Lively

BLAKE NOT SO LIVELY

Date: February 8, 2018 - Behind the Scenes

IN LATE January, the film trade paper, The Hollywood Reporter, burst the bubble for Irish film technicians wishing a speedy recovery to star Blake Lively after a pre-Christmas injury halted Dublin filming on a big budget spy movie, The Rhythm Section. According to the report, workers on the film – presumably including senior Irish crew… Read more »

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Yeats masterpiece

Date: February 8, 2018 - Behind the Scenes

GOLDHAWK was pleased to see the painting John Butler Yeats, Self Portrait, New York (see The Phoenix 25/8/17) has remained here despite the decision of WB Yeats’s grandchildren – Caitríona, Siobhán and Padraig – to offload a large archive of material (the so-called Yeats Family Collection at auction in Sotheby’s last September. While the family… Read more »

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Garech de Brun

GARECH DE BRUN’S SOUR NOTE

Date: February 8, 2018 - Behind the Scenes

THERE HAS been some non musical activity at the struggling Claddagh Records – the traditional Irish music company chaired by founder Garech de Brún – with longtime secretary Jane Bolton resigning but only after she forced the Companies Office to register her exit. Claddagh Records was set up in the 1960s by de Brún and… Read more »

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James Bowen

HARD GOING AT GOWRAN

Date: February 8, 2018 - Sport of Kings

UK-BASED teenage prodigy James Bowen didn’t cover himself in glory on his first trip to Ireland as a fully fledged jockey at Gowran Park recently. Bowen was drafted in to ride one of the six Gordon Elliott-trained runners in the Thyestes Chase last month but his mount, Out Sam, which finished sixth, returned with whip… Read more »

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Brian Kavanagh

KAVANAGH’S PR EXERCISE

Date: February 8, 2018 - Sport of Kings

THE CHIEF executive of Horse Racing Ireland, Brian Kavanagh, took the opportunity to build some bridges recently when he made mollifying comments on the government’s backing of the sport of kings. Kavanagh must have been cringing at HRI’s awards ceremony last December when outgoing chairman Joe Keeling took a swipe at the government over both… Read more »

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Sheikh Joann Al Thani

AL SHAQAB’S NEXT MOVE?

Date: February 8, 2018 - Sport of Kings

FRANKIE DETTORI has had his wings clipped slightly by his retained stable, Al Shaqab Racing. The Qatari outfit’s major reduction in their UK-based string has seen Dettori’s previous six-figure retainer halved. Dettori probably won’t be too fazed by the news given he can rely on the powerful John Gosden stable for rides and the 47-year-old’s… Read more »

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Leslie Buckley

INM post-Buckley offers real value

Date: February 8, 2018 - Moneybags

THE REMARKABLE amount of controversy surrounding the Independent News & Media group (INM) – where chairman Leslie Buckley steps down next month – has had a not unsurprising knock-on on the share price, resulting in the market now valuing the whole media group at around €150m. With €90m net cash in the company, the shares… Read more »

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Anne Heraty

Anne Heraty’s cash pile

Date: February 8, 2018 - Moneybags

CPL is a hugely successful business model that dominates Ireland’s recruitment agency sector. It is run by Paul Carroll and his wife, Anne Heraty, who have developed their company from a tiny base to a near €500m turnover business today. But a company that could have achieved worldwide scale has remained essentially parochial because the… Read more »

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Tyrone McKillen (right) and friends

Tyrone McKillen’s LA estate

Date: February 8, 2018 - Brief Cases

A TOP-END Los Angeles housing development with links to Irishman Tyrone McKillen has been catapulted into the US spotlight thanks to an investigation into a potential $1bn Ponzi scheme. McKillen’s Plus Development company was to manage the redevelopment of the historic Owlwood Estate – which hit the market last year for a whopping $180m –… Read more »

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Niall Hade’s unholy row

Date: February 8, 2018 - Brief Cases

GOLDHAWK’s old pals the Hade family popped up again recently with Brian Hade having just been slapped with a judgment by the dreaded taxman. Meanwhile, his brother Niall Hade and sister-in-law Joyce Hade had a recent setback in the Four Goldmines in their long-running battle with the bank. The Hades are the offspring of entrepreneurial… Read more »

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Sharon Clancy’s Bloodstone blues

Date: February 8, 2018 - Brief Cases

SPARE a thought for Sharon Clancy, wife of low profile Cavan property developer Martin Clancy, who has just had a hefty €2m judgment registered against her by KBC Bank. The Clancys are well known figures in Blacklion, Co Cavan, which has the dubious honour of having the highest percentage (over 44%) of vacant dwellings in… Read more »

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Finian Brannigan’s tax cert

Date: February 8, 2018 - Brief Cases

SPARE a thought for Drogheda solicitor Finian Brannigan who has just been declared bankrupt in the High Court. Readers with good memories will remember Brannigan for his stint as a Louth county councillor in the 2000s – but the legal eagle has had his share of tax woes in recent years. The lawyer, who practises… Read more »

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Ray Egan

Ray Egan’s troubled trades

Date: February 8, 2018 - Brief Cases

A DUBLIN company called Digital Motor (DM) Ltd has had a provisional liquidator appointed to it on foot of a High Court petition by an Isle of Man entity. Since 2015, DM – where the only listed director is David Kelly – has traded as Car Buyers Guide, the trade magazine and website associated with… Read more »

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Sean Doyle

Taxing matters

Date: February 8, 2018 - Brief Cases

A FEW familiar faces popped up the wrong side of the taxman recently. Sean Doyle Entertainments Ltd, the company behind Gorey boozers Paddy Blues Bar and Oscar’s, was slapped with a €40,000 judgment by the Revenue last month. The principal here is Sean Doyle, a former shareholder in the Thomas Read group and well-known Wexford… Read more »

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Mary Harney

Mary Harney’s healthy outlook

Date: February 8, 2018 - Brief Cases

MORE good news for former Tánaiste Mary Harney whose career in the private sector is really taking off. Fans of Goldhawk will recall that former health minister Harney has found a new calling in the world of healthcare, pharmaceuticals and technology and that she’s involved in a plethora of companies in those sectors (see The… Read more »

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Pete Smyth

Who will buy the Business Post?

Date: January 25, 2018 - Fit to Print?

CONOR KILLEEN, owner of The Sunday Business Post, will have been disappointed that the Irish Times interest in the newspaper did not result in any offer, but some interesting bidders are still circling with intent. The most colourful of these is Irish-American moneybags, Kenneth Dean Peterson, chief executive of Columbia Ventures Corporation (CVC), a private… Read more »

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Mary Lou McDonald

Profile: Mary Lou McDonald

Date: January 25, 2018 - Pillars of Society

CORONATIONS, as the British establishment knows well, require a carefully staged build-up to a climactic occasion and a strong message about a new era. Thanks to MP Barry McElduff’s crass clowning, Mary Lou McDonald’s investiture as Sinn Féin president has been blighted just weeks beforehand sending out the message that there is no difference between… Read more »

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John Connors

Young Blood: John Connors

Date: January 25, 2018 - The Young Bloods

THERE’S nothing typical about Irish Film and Television Academy (IFTA) awards nominee John Connors (28). By force of his charm and talent, the outspoken activist, actor and writer has managed to become something of a darling of the Irish media, which over the years has had few scruples about giving space to anti-Traveller racism. But… Read more »

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Mary Harney

MARY HARNEY’S PRESCRIPTION

Date: January 25, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

FORMER health minister Mary Harney will need to update her sprawling personal website following her appointment as chancellor of University of Limerick. But where does she find the time for all her endeavours given her significant (and presumably lucrative) commitment to working with the pharmaceutical private sector? Harney’s website highlights her as a woman of… Read more »

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Vol.36 No.02

Date: January 25, 2018 -

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Frances Fitzgerald

DUBLIN: CAPITAL OF CYBERCRIME

Date: January 25, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

RECENT REVELATIONS of computer hacking and surveillance at Independent News and Media (INM) are not the only strong hints that the dark arts have been practised in Irish media circles. Though hardly mentioned here, an out-of-court settlement in the UK late last year between News International and former British army Force Research Unit (FRU) soldier… Read more »

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Matt Carthy

SINN FÉIN FACTIONS

Date: January 25, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

WITH Mary Lou McDonald still to be formally endorsed by an ard fheis and Gerry Adams barely out the door, the factionalising inside Sinn Féin has already begun. MEP Matt Carthy’s abortive challenge to northern SF leader Michelle O’Neill as vice-president indicates that factions in the party will flourish under Mary Lou and gather around… Read more »

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Justice Mary Laffoy

‘EXPERTS’ TO GUIDE REFERENDUM VOTERS

Date: January 25, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

IT CAME as a surprise to most people that the Citizens’ Assembly brought forward to this month its deliberations on The Manner in Which Referenda are Held. It had been due to discuss this in May as the last topic on its agenda, but assembly chair Judge Mary Laffoy suggested on September 30 last that… Read more »

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Kevin Keane

Kevin Keane’s ‘COURTESY’ Meeting

Date: January 25, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

MORE on the boycott by UCD and Trinity students of direct provision centre operator Aramark. Fans of Goldhawk will recall that students on both campuses are trying to force their colleges to decline a renewal of food services contracts with the US company, which also operates three controversial reception centres for asylum seekers in Athlone,… Read more »

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Justin McAleese

McALEESE DYNASTY ON THE CARDS?

Date: January 25, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

THE two wings – polar opposites – of Fianna Fáil have both kept a beady eye on gay campaigner Justin McAleese, son of ex-President Mary McAleese and her hubby, ex-Senator Martin McAleese. Bertie Ahern’s old guard in Dublin Central, anxious to find a candidate, any candidate, to stop Mary Fitzpatrick from taking the Dáil nomination… Read more »

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Dolores O'Ríordan

The Hot Air Brigade

Date: January 25, 2018 - The Hot Air Brigade

Rest In Peace, Dolores O’Riordan. She and the Cranberries were so overtly pro-peace and her voice unapologetically Irish. Just a month and a half after she first sang Zombie, the IRA declared a ceasefire. Maybe not a coincidence. Tweet, since deleted, by American venture capitalist Chris Sacca Bono stood in the line-up too. We don’t… Read more »

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Karen Bradley

NORTHERN TALKS CHARADE

Date: January 25, 2018 - Bird's Eye View

THE NORTH has a new secretary of state, Karen Bradley (47), an accountant first elected in 2010. Bradley is precisely the type of mouse-like creature British prime minister Theresa May likes to rely on to do her bidding. She is out of exactly the same mouse hole as her already forgotten predecessor. She served, as… Read more »

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Mattie McGrath

MATTIE McGRATH’S LEGION OF THE REARGUARD

Date: January 25, 2018 - Last Refuge

FRESH from his mischief making at the Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment, Mattie McGrath is now creating discord in Fianna Fáil following Micheál Martin’s mould-breaking (party breaking?) statement on abortion. Mattie has been tic-tacking with those FF TDs like Bobby Aylward who are aghast at Martin’s conversion to the right to choose position and… Read more »

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