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Emmett O'Neill

Emmet O’Neill’s boardroom moves

Date: January 25, 2018 - Brief Cases

MORE manoeuvres at Niall Harbison’s media company, LD Lovin Dublin Ltd, where Denis O’Brien’s nephew Emmet O’Neill has just joined the board. Meanwhile, Lovin has filed its accounts for 2016 and they reveal the state it was in when O’Neill upped his stake in the operation to around 40% a few years ago. Documents filed… Read more »

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Dr Patrick Treacy

Taxman’s tough medicine

Date: January 25, 2018 - Brief Cases

GOLDHAWK spotted some familiar names that have popped up in Stubbs Gazette since the start of the year. Dr Naveed Khawaja, a consultant obstetrician at Portiuncula Hospital in Galway was slapped with a tax judgment for €325,000 at the start of January, just €30,000 of which has been paid off. Fans of Goldhawk will recall… Read more »

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Bernard McNamara

McNamara’s Donabate development

Date: January 25, 2018 - Brief Cases

CONGRATULATIONS to Bernard McNamara who was given the green light late last year to build his first residential development since the crash. McNamara got permission for a residential development in Donabate in north Co Dublin but now a former property company of McNamara’s involved in a project in that neck of the woods called Lochranza… Read more »

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Peter Gaynor and Clodagh McKenna

Peter Gaynor changes Residence

Date: January 25, 2018 - High Society

ALTHOUGH IT is hard to be surprised at any acquisition by Paddy McKillen jnr’s rapidly expanding Press Up group of restaurants and clubs, the addition of Residence on St Stephen’s Green came out of the blue. Only last year the ownership of the troubled operation was transferred by Olivia Gaynor-Long to her brother Peter Gaynor… Read more »

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Paschal Taggart’s shares

Date: January 25, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

STOCK MARKET observers will be aware of the rather dramatic fall in the share price of the airline booking software engine, Datalex, over the last six months, where the price is down over 25%. This has been the subject of much speculation, with The Irish Times reporting that a “sloppy seller” (someone drip-feeding shares into… Read more »

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Lynn Scarff

LYNN SCARFF’S INSIDE TRACK

Date: January 25, 2018 - Behind the Scenes

CONGRATULATIONS to Lynn Scarff who has landed the €120,000 per annum job of director of the National Museum of Ireland. Currently in situ as director of Trinity College’s Science Gallery, she takes over at the troubled national cultural institution from Raghnall Ó Floinn in May. It is clear, however, that Scarff knows that she is… Read more »

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Dirk van der Flier

DIRK VAN DER FLIER’S PRAYERS

Date: January 25, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

WHILE LEINSTER rugby star Josh van der Flier has been drafted in to Joe Schmidt’s Irish squad for the upcoming Six Nations tournament, his dad – the exotically named Dirk van der Flier – has pulled out of the team at the very well-funded Christian evangelical charity, World Charitable Foundation of Ireland (WCFI), where he… Read more »

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Michael O'Leary

Mick O’Leary’s negotiators

Date: January 25, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

MICHAEL O’LEARY’S brave new world in which ‘combinations’ are now recognised has led to Ryanair seeking to recruit industrial relations managers. Its recent advert posted on the US recruitment agency website, Indeed.com, said that as “Ryanair announced that it will recognise Trade Unions”, the company wants to hire expert negotiators. The advert emphasised that such… Read more »

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Brendan McAtamney

UDG’s bewildering accounts

Date: January 25, 2018 - Moneybags

IT IS difficult to understand the most recent results from UDG Healthcare plc (originally known as United Drug) where chief executive Brendan McAtamney has been in situ since 2016. Restatement of profits from preceding years has made the figures almost impenetrable but the bottom line is that UDG is not doing nearly as well as… Read more »

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Anne Harris

BUGGERS AT INM

Date: January 11, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

WHAT is it about the repetitive hacking and surveillance in and around Independent News & Media (INM)? INM chairman Leslie Buckley has told the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement (ODCE) that Trusted Data Solutions (TDS) were tasked with accessing INM’s internal systems as part of a “cost-reduction exercise”. The ODCE has made further… Read more »

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Miriam O’Callaghan

Taking on Michael Twee

Date: January 11, 2018 - Last Refuge

THERE will be a presidential contest, regardless of current incumbent Michael D Higgins’ agenda, and Fianna Fáil will face unbearable pressure from its members to run a candidate. Independent senator Gerard Craughwell knows well that local councillors enjoy wielding what little power and influence allowed to them and the attainment of nominations from four county… Read more »

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Catherine Noone

Profile: FG’s Catherine Noone

Date: January 11, 2018 - Pillars of Society

CURRENTLY feted as a modern day Countess Markievicz for her performance chairing the Oireachtas Committee on the eighth amendment, Senator Catherine Noone has come a long way since the days when she was a social butterfly on the fringes of Fine Gael. She is also… Read more »

Ali Ryan

Young Blood: Ali ‘Goss.ie’ Ryan

Date: January 11, 2018 - The Young Bloods

With the news that Irish-American investor Liam Lynch is looking to acquire her entertainment and lifestyle website, Alexandra ‘Ali’ Ryan (28) and The Goss.ie are the talk of the Irish media sewing circle. In just six years, Ryan has set herself up as a leading voice in showbiz journalism, making some powerful friends along the… Read more »

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Olga Shajaku

Olga Shajaku’s interesting friend

Date: January 11, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

IT WAS interesting to see Bertie Ahern and other familiar faces pop up on a trade mission to Moscow and St Petersburg in November. The Russians are anxious to promote economic ties with Ireland and their woman in Dublin is legal eagle and entrepreneur Olga Shajaku, who has links to at least one former senior… Read more »

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Dermot Desmond’s new house

Date: January 11, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

JUST HOW many houses can Dermot Desmond buy in Dublin 4? Dermo originally lived on leafy Ailesbury Road and today no 89 is the address given by his wife, Pat Desmond. She may not be too happy living in the impressive pile, however, since the Council granted permission to next-door neighbour Karen Reihill for a… Read more »

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Sgt Maurice McCabe

Michael Clifford’s book

Date: January 11, 2018 - Fit to Print?

A strange silence surrounds the release last September of Irish Examiner hack Mick Clifford’s book, A Force for Justice: The Maurice McCabe Story. The resignation of Garda commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan came just four days before the book’s release and was followed weeks later by the resignation of justice minister Frances Fitzgerald. These were just the… Read more »

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Bill Shipsey

BILL SHIPSEY’S PRODUCTIONS

Date: January 11, 2018 - Behind the Scenes

TOP BARRISTER Bill Shipsey avoided some embarrassment last month when his Art for Amnesty (AfA) vehicle was taken off the Companies Office strike-off list thanks to some last-minute filings. Meanwhile the legal eagle has plenty of artistic projects to keep him busy. Shipsey has been the driving force behind AfA for the 15 years of… Read more »

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Steven Schwarzman’s scholarships

Date: January 11, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

ONE person who will be delighted with the US Republicans’ new tax plan is CEO of private equity giant Blackstone Steve Schwarzman, who enjoys a warm relationship with Irish third-level institutions. Trump promised to close a controversial capital gains loophole but, happily for the commander-in-chief’s good buddy Stevo, the loophole remains open in the new… Read more »

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Vol.36 No.1

Date: January 11, 2018 -

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Charles Haughey

MI5/UVF HAUGHEY MURDER PLOT

Date: January 11, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

Why would a notorious loyalist killer gang like the UVF write to then Taoiseach Charlie Haughey in 1987 informing him of an MI5 plot to kill him two years previously rather than gleefully carry out this spectacular? After all, the newly released UVF letter from the National Archive reveals how this political assassination was handed… Read more »

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Judge Peter Kelly

BEADES VEXES HIGH COURT PRESIDENT

Date: January 11, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

FOUR COURTS rules introduced last year to curtail lay litigants have not prevented barrack room lawyer extraordinaire, Jerry Beades, from continuing to challenge judge Peter Kelly’s appointment as President of the High Court two years ago. Beades has clashed with Kelly and other judges repeatedly in the Commercial Court in recent years, arguing that the… Read more »

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Eoghan Harris

REWRITING THE TROUBLES

Date: January 11, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

THE revisionist Ultras of last year’s West Cork History Festival (smart-ass Republicans have dubbed it the West Brit Festival) have received predictable praise from the Sindo’s Eoghan Harris for their analysis of the Tan War as sectarian. Specifically they argue that the IRA killed Protestants in County Cork because of their religion and the prime… Read more »

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Peter Sutherland

Suds’ Critics

Date: January 11, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

IN THE midst of all the breast-beating and hair-pulling following the death of ‘Sir’ Peter Sutherland, one former Fine Gael tánaiste went against the grain – or at least her Twitter account did. In the hours after his death, the great and the good took to social media to say their piece about the recently… Read more »

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RTÉ Houses

Date: January 11, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

DUBLIN CITY chief executive Owen Keegan hit out at the decision of RTÉ to offload a large part of its Montrose site to private developers without insisting on a significant social housing element, above the minimum 10% that will be offered to the Council (at top dollar prices). But, why didn’t the Government get the… Read more »

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Ruairí Quinn

CRYING HALT TO EUROMANIACS

Date: January 11, 2018 - Affairs of the Nation

THERE’S no better man than former Labour minister Ruairí Quinn when it comes to squeezing serious amounts of taxpayers’ money from government departments for his favourite hobby horse, the Institute of International and European Affairs (IIEA). However, Quinn’s latest demand for €750,000 (for starters) has been rebuffed by the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA), whose… Read more »

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Bono

The Hot Air Brigade

Date: January 11, 2018 - The Hot Air Brigade

The person who wrote best about love in the Christian era was Paul of Tarsus, who became Saint Paul. He was a tough fucker. Bono interviewed by Jann Wenner for Rolling Stone, as republished in Hot Press, Submitted by reader The Magazine (The Dubliner) weathered eight years and while known for its controversial content –… Read more »

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Theresa May

NEVER IN A POLITICAL LIFETIME

Date: January 11, 2018 - Bird's Eye View

HERE WE go again. You could write the script. The new northern secretary invites the parties to Stormont. Desultory talks ensue. An artificial deadline – the end of February for departmental budgets – is imposed. The parties ignore the deadline. The talks run into the sand. Why is this happening and why has it been… Read more »

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Eoghan Murphy

NIMBY: NOT IN MURPHY’S BACK YARD

Date: January 11, 2018 - Last Refuge

FRESH from the PR blunder of Conor Skehan’s reappointment as chair of the Housing Agency, the minister for housing, Eoghan ‘Tory Boy’ Murphy, has revealed a set of priorities that will further enrage the homeless and those engaged in combatting it with his attack on the Local Property Tax (LPT). In Murphy’s world, there are… Read more »

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James Collins

MICHAEL NOONAN’S LEGACY

Date: January 11, 2018 - Last Refuge

DESPITE Fine Gael’s national poll lead, Fianna Fáil apparatchiks claim that polls on the ground in various constituencies show seat gains for the party all around the country. An interesting case in point is Limerick City and surrounding constituencies. Former finance minister Michael Noonan’s retirement will see party colleague Kieran O’Donnell replace him and return… Read more »

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Barry Cowen

MARTIN TO PULL PLUG?

Date: January 11, 2018 - Last Refuge

THE chances of an early election have been dismissed by all and sundry in the media/political bubble, but the debate inside Fianna Fáil still rages with one faction arguing that an early election is still the best option. And by early, they mean before the June recess. The demoralisation inside FF at the continuing lead… Read more »

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Sean Gallagher

Miriam’s Fans

Date: January 11, 2018 - Fit to Print?

FAILED presidential candidate Seán Gallagher’s six-figure sum in compensation for the ‘Tweetgate’ incident on RTÉ’s 2011 Presidential debate programme shows what a small world the media/political bubble really is. The O’Callaghan clan was conspicuous in the matter, with Fianna Fáil frontbencher Jim O’Callaghan being the successful senior counsel representing Gallagher. This followed a review co-authored… Read more »

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dystopian visions

Date: January 11, 2018 - Fit to Print?

PERCEIVED wisdom among whining liberals – you know the type – is that the root cause of Garda scandals is more cultural than structural. A warning from the Garda Review’s regular columnist, Tom Prendeville, in its latest edition of the mag, organ of the Garda Representative Association, gives a flavour of this culture clash. Prendeville… Read more »

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Jim Daly

COASTING TO DISASTER

Date: January 11, 2018 - Fowl Emissions

AT 1km long, Donald Trump’s Irish wall doesn’t enjoy quite as much global infamy as his Mexican wall. However, Clare County Council’s decision on December 21 to grant permission to the Trump Doonbeg golf resort to build a 38,000-tonne wall to keep out the raging sea did provoke a storm of outrage from environmentalists. The… Read more »

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Bog Cuttings

Bog Cuttings

Date: January 11, 2018 - Bog Cuttings

“I Think I Killed your Mother” A YOUNG Kerrywoman who suffered post traumatic stress disorder after being told her mother had been killed has been awarded €27,750 at Tralee District Court. Aislinn O’Rourke, Ballyconry, Lisselton brought a civil action against her uncle-in-law, Tony Hussey, and Kimok Developer Ltd claiming distress following the 2012 incident. O’Rourke… Read more »

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Patrick Annesley

Patrick Annesley’s “gift”

Date: January 11, 2018 - High Society

INTERESTING TO read an interview in The Irish Times at the end of last month with the UK-bound Patrick Annesley. It was noted that the Squire of Annes Grove demesne in north Cork “has offered his library of horticultural books, photographs and records to the Office of Public Works (OPW) when he and [his wife]… Read more »

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Ingrid & Markus Jooste

Magnier and Jooste

Date: January 11, 2018 - High Society

THE DRAMATIC fall from grace of South African billionaire Markus Jooste should come as no surprise to fans of Goldhawk, who were previously made aware of the moneybags’s tax troubles (see The Phoenix 26/2/16). Of interest now, however, is the fate of various horses trained at Ballydoyle and owned in conjunction with the Coolmore personalities…. Read more »

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