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Sam Allardyce

Big Sam’s Irish team

Date: November 30, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

A STRUGGLING company called Pulse Fusion F6 was tackled by the taxman last month, almost leaving some footballing suits with egg on their faces. The low profile firm is the brainchild of number cruncher and former chairman of Bray Wanderers football club Denis O’Connor and, surprisingly, one F6 shareholder turns out to be the man… Read more »

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Suzanne Jackson

Suzanne Jackson’s €1m blog

Date: November 30, 2017 - Hush Hush

‘BEAUTY AND lifestyle’ blogger Suzanne ‘So Sue Me’ Jackson is really starting to clean up with her online activities but not everything is proving fashionable. Jackson continues to generate headlines and, most recently, it was widely reported she had set her sights on a slot on Dancing With The Stars. Given that she has over… Read more »

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Anne Anderson

Anne Anderson’s new role

Date: November 30, 2017 - High Society

THERE have been some comings and goings at Druid Theatre in Galway. The good news is that the new star act could generate a fair few dollars for Gary Hynes’s outfit. Author and self promoter extraordinaire Colm Tóibín has stepped down from the Druid board after two and half years, during which time he wrote… Read more »

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FUNNY BUSINESS - ALAN SHATTER (POOLBEG)

FUNNY BUSINESS – ALAN SHATTER (POOLBEG)

Date: November 30, 2017 - BooksReviews

IT’S EASY to mock Alan Shatter and it’s very hard to like him. This book could well be regarded as his effort to change these two things. On the first he fails. The Alan Partridge cover, the tepid title, the godawful world’s worst cocktail party anecdotes – they all contribute to making it easier to… Read more »

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PATRICK LENAGHAN’S RIVER CASINO

Date: November 30, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

SOME BAD news for Goldhawk’s old pal, hotelier Patrick Lenaghan, who’s been through the wars in the past decade. His name will be familiar to readers over his assorted business spats with the likes of Philip Smyth (see The Phoenix 26/2/10) and there was also a high profile run-in with CAB. Last month Lenaghan, originally… Read more »

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Annual 2017

Annual 2017

Date: November 16, 2017 -

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Michael Colgan and Orlaith McBride

ORLAITH MCBRIDE’S FRIEND

Date: November 16, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

SPARE a thought for Orlaith McBride who, as director of the Arts Council, has been asked to comment frequently on Michael Colgan and the Gate Theatre. The problem for McBride is that she is a good pal of Colgan’s but has nevertheless found herself recruited into the growing army of critics in recent weeks. McBride… Read more »

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Christy Dignam

Aslan Audio

Date: November 16, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

An audio recording of showbiz hack Ken Sweeney’s interview with Aslan’s Christy Dignam will form the centrepiece of a High Court libel action taken by Sweeney against Today FM. Sweeney, showbiz editor of the Irish Sun, interviewed the singer for a story he wrote during which the band’s frontman was reported to have had a… Read more »

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Nord Anglia Education

School Fees

Date: November 16, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

A COMPANY called Nord Anglia Education (Ireland) Ltd has just been incorporated in Dublin ahead of the planned opening of Barry “Riverdeep” O’Callaghan’s super expensive international private school in Leopardstown next year. The 800-pupil school will charge a hefty €24,000 per year for second-level students and the operation is to be run by Nord Anglia… Read more »

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Noeline Blackwell

NOELINE BLACKWELL’S WINDFALL

Date: November 16, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

GOOD NEWS for chief executive Noeline Blackwell and her team at the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre (DRCC). With funding for charitable bodies generally tight on the ground these days, the centre has just got a major boost courtesy of a supporter’s cool €1m donation. To put this windfall in context, the last DRCC annual report… Read more »

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Catherine Yore

Come back Catherine

Date: November 16, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

MEATH WEST’S Catherine Yore has not been welcomed by everyone in the local party. Yore was voted hottest candidate in the 2011 general election in a disgracefully sexist poll undertaken by Ladbrokes and is a former RTÉ’s You’re A Star talent show contestant. But while the school teacher topped the poll in the 2009 local… Read more »

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Bob Geldof

The Hot Air Brigade

Date: November 16, 2017 - The Hot Air Brigade

Her association with our city shames us all and we should have no truck with it, even by default. We honoured her, now she appals and shames us. Sir Bob Geldof, Knight of the British Empire, gives back his Freedom of Dublin City in protest at Aung San Suu Kyi In my view, Songs of… Read more »

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Mary Mitchell O'Connor

MARY MITCHELL O’CONNOR’S GENDER GAFFE

Date: November 16, 2017 - Last Refuge

FIANNA FÁIL and The Sunday Times rained on Mary Mitchell-O’Connor’s parade recently with allegations that she was backsliding on her pledge to introduce gender quotas in third level institutions. The day before the higher education minister was due to announce a task force on the issue FF education spokesman Thomas Byrne criticised her failure to… Read more »

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Ryan Moore on Mendelssohn

COOLMORE PUNT PAYS OFF

Date: November 16, 2017 - Sport of Kings

LAST YEAR when MV Magnier signed the buyers docket at $3m for a yearling at Keeneland, that figure must have looked on the high side when the colt, subsequently named Mendelssohn, trailed in last behind stablemate Seahenge in a Group 2 race at Doncaster during the summer. Things have changed since. While he redeemed himself… Read more »

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Luke Comer Ban

ANOTHER SHOPPING SPREE FOR COMER?

Date: November 16, 2017 - Sport of Kings

WITH THE Goffs Foal and Breeding Stock sale looming large, it will be interesting to see if Luke Comer plays as active a role as he has done in previous years. Comer bought almost 70 broodmares at the sale last year and now that he has added another stud farm to his portfolio in the… Read more »

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Ruby Walsh

RUBY’S WEXFORD WOBBLE

Date: November 16, 2017 - Sport of Kings

RUBY WALSH found himself in the unusual position recently of being the subject of a running and riding inquiry when the stewards looked into his handling of the Willie Mullins-trained Itsonlyrocknroll at Wexford. The horse had won a bumper on his previous outing but was weak enough in the market and having opened at 7/4… Read more »

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Stephen Rae

NON-INDEPENDENT AWARDS

Date: November 16, 2017 - Fit to Print?

GROUP editor-in-chief of Independent News & Media (INM) titles Stephen Rae had a face like thunder at the Newsbrands Ireland Journalism Awards 2017 in the Mansion House recently. Not only did The Irish Times easily outstrip the rest of the media with seven awards but the Irish Independent took just three by comparison. Next day… Read more »

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George and Wendy Magan

GEORGE MAGAN’S TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS

Date: November 16, 2017 - High Society

LATER THIS week, an interesting case will be heard in the High Court. It concerns a Tory peer and one of Ireland’s most spectacular properties. But this is not the only legal spat involving the man who restored the property, George Magan – aka Baron Magan of Castletown – who has even been unceremoniously dragged… Read more »

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Catherine Day

THE CHESTER BEATTY’S NEW CHAIR

Date: November 16, 2017 - Behind the Scenes

AFTER ALMOST 20 years in the chair and a total of 26 years as a director since he was first appointed in January 1991, TP Hardiman has stepped down from the board of the Chester Beatty Library.The new chair is former European Commission secretary general Catherine Day, although Heather Humphreys will be expected to make… Read more »

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MORE MILLIONS FOR BAM

Date: November 16, 2017 - Behind the Scenes

INTERESTING to see a €1m allocation in the Department of Culture Budget Estimates for the troubled Cork Event Centre project. This latest allocation suggests the increasingly expensive looking 6,000-seat venue will be going ahead in some form, although there are still question marks hanging over it. The plan to develop a venue for assorted entertainment… Read more »

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Kevin Sheahan

Kevin Sheahan’s China crisis

Date: November 16, 2017 - Brief Cases

SPARE a thought for Limerick Fianna Fáil (FF) county councillor Kevin Sheahan who just had a judgment for u1m registered against him by Danske Bank. Sheahan, a councillor for the Askeaton-Adare municipal district, is a colourful character with the distinction of being elected first chairman of the amalgamated Limerick City and County Council in 2014…. Read more »

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Paddy Mckillen Jr

Paddy McKillen Jr’s Union blues

Date: November 16, 2017 - Brief Cases

PADDY McKillen Jr will be delighted with the glowing reviews his revamped Stella Cinema in Rathmines has received since opening its doors last month. Elsewhere, things aren’t as rosy for McKillen and his Press Up Entertainments business partner Matt Ryan at their company Tomose Ltd. McKillen and Ryan bought Kiely’s Pub in Mount Merrion in… Read more »

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Taxman Cometh

Date: November 16, 2017 - Brief Cases

THE High Court has ordered the liquidation of two Kilkenny printers, Colour World Print Ltd and Koverto Envelopes Ireland Ltd, both owned by Kilkenny businessman Walter Lanigan and his wife Francesca Lanigan on foot of an unpaid tax bill. Koverto and Colour World, based in the Purcellsinch Industrial Estate in Kilkenny, have been in difficulty… Read more »

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Soundstore

Niall Crowley’s not-so sound investment

Date: November 16, 2017 - Brief Cases

A COMPANY in Cork called Tranio Investments Ltd just filed an interesting set of accounts. Tranio is the outfit behind Soundstore, an electronics and computer retailer based in Bishopstown and where Fianna Fáil MEP Brian Crowley’s brother, Niall Crowley, is listed as a director and shareholder. Niall Crowley popped up in the news earlier this… Read more »

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Gary McGann

Gary McGann

Date: November 16, 2017 - Moneybags

GARY McGANN retired as Smurfit Kappa group chief executive just over two years ago aged 65 and duly to took on a number of lucrative non-executive directorships. Most significantly, he became chairman of Paddy Power Betfair and Aryzta – currently two of the most controversial Irish quoted companies. As a result, McGann finds himself in… Read more »

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John Halligan

HALLIGAN’S NORTH KOREAN LINKS

Date: November 16, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

DESPITE saturation media coverage and general bafflement at John Halligan’s proposed mission to North Korea little attention has been paid to the close links between Pyongyang and the Independent TD’s comrades, past and present in the Workers’ Party (WP). In particular, Halligan has maintained the most fraternal relationship with ex-WP president Sean Garland. For many… Read more »

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Paddy Cosgrave

PADDY COSGRAVE’S TALES FROM THE CRYPT

Date: November 16, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

SERIAL attention-seeker Paddy Cosgrave has a knack for pushing his luck. So it comes as little surprise that Goldhawk’s old pal has had to issue a grovelling apology to the Portuguese people after an ill-conceived stunt during his Lisbon Tech Summit last weekend. Taking to Twitter on Saturday evening, Cosgrave wrote: “Dear Portugal, I apologise…. Read more »

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Simon Coveney

LEO’S LITTLE HELPERS

Date: November 16, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

LEO VARADKAR and his handler, Brian Murphy, had to make some delicate decisions on how to utilise the deputy leader and defeated contestant for the leadership, Simon Coveney, at last weekend’s Fine Gael conference. MC for the session leading up to Vlad’s keynote speech was Josepha Madigan, the same TD who seconded Varadkar as Taoiseach… Read more »

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Aodhan O'Riordain

THE ‘INSPIRATION’ OF AODHAIN Ó RÍORDÁIN

Date: November 16, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

“INSPIRED by an impassioned speech made in the Seanad by Aodhán Ó Ríordáin…” So begins an online video describing the dramatic emergence of the Irish Stand, a “grassroots movement” devoted to protecting immigrants in the age of Trump. Having kicked off in New York last March as an angry alternative to the city’s St Patrick’s… Read more »

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Theresa May

GERRY ADAMS DOESN’T GIVE A PIP

Date: November 16, 2017 - Bird's Eye View

SINN FÉIN is quite content with the way the Stormont talks ended. In fact in some ways it’s lucky for the party they ended when they did. Formally the end came when northern secretary James Brokenshire introduced legislation in Westminster to strike a budget for 2017-18, not as the Irish Times editorialised last week for… Read more »

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Brendan Howlin

LABOUR PULLS THE HOUSE DOWN

Date: November 16, 2017 - Last Refuge

ALAN KELLY’S warning shot over his party leader Brendan Howlin’s head – AK47 recently gave Howlin less than six months to shape up or else – came just a week after Labour produced a burlesque performance in the Dáil on the burning issue of the housing crisis. Independent socialist TD Seamus Healy moved a private… Read more »

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RICCI COMES OUT AHEAD

Date: November 16, 2017 - Sport of Kings

THE MELBOURNE Cup proved an impressive showcase for Irish racing, with the first three home in Australia’s most iconic race trained here. The flamboyant Rich Ricci, who had two runners in the race, was ultimately well rewarded for his bold tactic of sending three of his horses to compete in Melbourne’s spring carnival after a… Read more »

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Fionnan Sheahan

INDO FIGHTS LIBEL ‘HORROR STORY’

Date: November 16, 2017 - Fit to Print?

WITH characteristic bombast and bereft of any sense of irony Independent News & Media (INM) titles recently reported “A major public debate on freedom of speech and the pressing need to reform Ireland’s draconian defamation laws”. Roping in Trinity College and “leading US Ivy League” Columbia University, INM organised the event at Trinity last week… Read more »

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Neil Hughes

NEIL HUGHES’S NICE PAD

Date: November 16, 2017 - High Society

ONE OF the most impressive Co Dublin properties to come on the market for a while is Emsworth in Kinsealy. The owner is looking for €7.5m which, even allowing for the truckloads of lolly he spent restoring the house and gardens, would result in a nice profit. Given that the owner turns out to be… Read more »

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Ed Guiney

RED ROCKS IN THE SUNSET

Date: November 16, 2017 - Behind the Scenes

THERE REMAINS some confusion over the fate of Andrew Lowe and Ed Guiney’s TV3 Garda station soap, Red Rock. A fortnight after TV3 put the Element Pictures show into an on-screen hiatus, it returned to production for two season-end specials for the third series. And now it’s in the money. As production began on October… Read more »

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Farrell’s Food

Date: November 14, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

WHAT A surprise to see one of achingly trendy Dublin restaurateur John Farrell’s eateries on the wrong end of a judgment for a paltry €10,000. Farrell is the brains behind the likes of in vogue Tex-Mex restaurant and cocktail bar 777 on South Great George’s Street, Dillinger’s and The Butcher’s Grill in Ranelagh and, most… Read more »

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