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HALAWA: THE FRENCH CONNECTION

Date: November 2, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

FOLLOWING Ibrahim Halawa’s release from a Cairo prison last week the government’s Strategic Communications Unit (SCU) and Iveagh House diplomats carried out a self congratulatory blitz on the media that contrasted sharply with the softly, softly attitude to Egyptian President Fatah al-Sisi in the last four years and more. As it happened, it was the… Read more »

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John Concannon

JOHN CONCANNON STRIKES BACK

Date: November 2, 2017 - Fit to Print?

MICHEÁL MARTIN has been accused of making too much of Leo Varadkar’s Strategic Communications Unit (SCU) as a €5m propaganda machine for Fine Gael in government. Even Martin’s internal party critics have alleged that the public does not care about the issue. But SCU head John Concannon appears stung by the criticism and went on… Read more »

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Hayden's Hotel

Hotel hangover for the Creaven brothers

Date: November 2, 2017 - Brief Cases

HARD luck to Galway hoteliers John and Joseph Creaven who were landed with matching tax judgments for €100,000 last month. The pair owned the well-known Hayden’s Hotel in Ballinasloe with their brother Gabriel Creaven until they shut up shop last year with the loss of 40 jobs. Established in 1945, the 60-bedroom hotel was owned… Read more »

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Paul Stenson

Paul Stenson’s mixed results

Date: November 2, 2017 - Brief Cases

THE company behind thin-skinned social media personality Paul Stenson’s Charleville Lodge hotel in Dublin 7 has just filed a revealing set of accounts. Stenson is the manager of the popular White Moose Café in the Charleville Lodge, which he has controversially promoted on social media over the last few years by threatening to shoot vegans… Read more »

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Ian Lucey

Ian Lucey’s latest row

Date: November 2, 2017 - Brief Cases

INTERESTING to see that Blackrock businessman Ian Lucey’s Lucey Technology Ltd has been hit with another judgment by a creditor. Lucey Technology is the serial entrepreneur’s investment company, which funds fledgling start-ups and where Irish rugby star Jamie Heaslip was a director until last year. A Dublin-based accountancy firm called Anne Brady McQuillans DFK is… Read more »

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Hammond Lane Metal

Hammond Lane’s metal fatigue

Date: November 2, 2017 - Brief Cases

HAMMOND Lane Metal Company Ltd (HLM), the Dublin-based subsidiary of metal-recycling operation Clearway Disposal, is having its mettle tested. The company filed its annual accounts recently and the details will trouble HLM’s owners, the Murphy family from Armagh. including Brian Murphy and Tracey Murphy, who are both listed as directors. Fans of Goldhawk will recall… Read more »

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Bryan Wixted’s medical problem

Date: November 2, 2017 - Brief Cases

SPARE a thought for Bryan Wixted whose DMC Medical Ltd is facing a winding up petition in the High Court courtesy of a creditor, Deal Partners Logistics Ltd. DMC is a medical device manufacturing operation headquartered in Shannon with offices in California and China and with Limerick man Wixted at the helm as managing director…. Read more »

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Willie Mullins

ELLIOTT OUTPACES MULLINS

Date: November 2, 2017 - Sport of Kings

WILLIE MULLINS is going through a rare quiet spell at the moment and his chief rival, Gordon Elliott, is certainly taking full advantage of the champion trainer’s (presumably) brief slump. Over a 10-day period in October, Mullins sent out just one of 20 runners while in contrast Elliott cleaned up – saddling 12 winners from… Read more »

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Gene Murtagh

Kingspan’s share price at highrise levels

Date: November 2, 2017 - Moneybags

THE GRENFELL apartment block disaster in London earlier this year highlighted the importance of building facades from a safety point of view. Some Kingspan insulation material was used in the earlier Grenfell refurbishment but the company has pointed out that the installation was not carried out in accordance with Kingspan’s own specs nor was the… Read more »

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Eimear Mulhern

Profits at Goffs galloping ahead

Date: November 2, 2017 - Moneybags

EIMEAR MULHERN – the late Charlie Haughey’s daughter and wife of the late John Mulhern – has been chair of Goffs for over a decade. Her chief executive is Henry Beeby and the pair have managed some rough periods when the company teetered in the middle of the worst period of the crash but was… Read more »

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Jay Bourke

Jay Bourke’s latest judgment

Date: November 2, 2017 - Brief Cases

HARD luck to Goldhawk’s old pal Jay Bourke who has just had a hefty judgment registered against him by the taxman. It comes hot on the heels of a recent High Court order disqualifying him from acting as a company director for seven years arising out of his conduct at Shebeen Shic Ltd, the outfit… Read more »

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Niall Harbison Now

Niall Harbison’s Manchester moves

Date: November 2, 2017 - Brief Cases

CONGRATULATIONS to Goldhawk’s old pal Niall Harbison whose Lovin media group is continuing its social media expansion. Harbo’s lifestyle outfit is in the process of setting up franchises in far-flung places like New York and Saudi Arabia but Lovin, with new managing director Trevor Daly at the helm, has been making moves closer to home… Read more »

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Selina-Cartmell

Selina Cartmell’s Good News

Date: November 2, 2017 - Behind the Scenes

WITH the Gate Theatre’s new director, Selina Cartmell, now well ensconced in her office, the good news is that the financial picture looks rosy. Certainly, her predecessor Michael Colgan has been criticised on various fronts, including his enormous remuneration at one stage, but he knew how to make the numbers stack up. As a result,… Read more »

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HANDOUT TIME AT THE IRISH FILM BOARD

Date: November 2, 2017 - Behind the Scenes

WHILE THE global film business focuses on Harvey Weinstein’s unmasking, it was business as usual at Annie Doona’s Irish Film Board (IFB) where the third quarter of 2017 favours have been dispensed to the lucky few. Oddly, the IFB is still offering board members funding from its own coffers. While the niceties are, of course,… Read more »

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Brendan Duke

BRENDAN DUKE’S BAD NEWS

Date: November 2, 2017 - Sport of Kings

AFTER a few turbulent years, things had been going swimmingly in recent months for Curragh trainer Brendan Duke but all of sudden he finds himself on the backfoot. Duke benefits from the patronage of his former boss, Jim Bolger, and he trained the very smart Bolger homebred Warm The Voice to win three times during… Read more »

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Rory Nolan

POSTCARDS FROM THE LEDGE – GAIETY THEATRE

Date: November 2, 2017 - ReviewsTheatre

WHEN THE curtain rises on the latest Ross O’Carroll Kelly play, the ‘Ledge’ stands in front of a tiny derelict house, and describes it in estate agents’ fluffy marketing-speak: a perfect opportunity for the DIY enthusiast, etc. Ross may be famously thick, but he’s also a salesman who knows how to oversell a cheap product… Read more »

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Jackie Tyrrell - Warriors Code

THE WARRIOR’S CODE – JACKIE TYRRELL  (TRINITY MIRROR)

Date: November 2, 2017 - BooksReviews

JACKIE TYRRELL is selfish. That’s not Goldhawk’s assessment, it’s Tyrrell’s own. On no fewer than 12 occasions in his new autobiography does he make this assertion, and it’s hard not to agree with him. Part of that is the relentless physical and emotional toil of life as an intercounty hurler, but part of it –… Read more »

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Bog Cuttings

Bog Cuttings

Date: November 2, 2017 - Bog Cuttings

Rat-arsed chef GETS INTO hot water A DRUNK chef jumped into a Galway canal to rescue his pet rat which had escaped from his pocket. Gardaí called to the scene found Dawid Szerner (39), with former addresses in Lurgan Park, Renmore, and the Fairgreen Hostel, back on dry land but soaking wet and very intoxicated…. Read more »

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Victoria Browne

CROWDING OUT CASTLETOWN HOUSE

Date: November 2, 2017 - High Society

THESE ARE anxious times at the impressive 18th century Castletown House in Co Kildare, birthplace of Arthur Guinness. A proposed controversial large scale property development, linked to a planned new town centre, looks set to have a negative effect on the surrounds of the famous house. Two previous plans submitted by the Durkan family of… Read more »

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AnneMarie and Aidan O'Brien

AIDAN O’BRIEN’S NEXT RECORD

Date: November 2, 2017 - High Society

THERE WAS, not surprisingly, acres of copy churned out praising the impressive feat achieved by racehorse trainer Aidan O’Brien last weekend when he broke the world record for the number of Group One winners saddled in a single season, courtesy of Saxon Warrior at Doncaster. With that record under his belt, O’Brien may now be… Read more »

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Frank Fitzgibbon

Master’s Voice

Date: November 2, 2017 - Fit to Print?

EVERY now and then London bosses at The Sunday Times like to remind readers and journalists of its Awrish edition just who is in charge. In the midst of the fundamental threat to the Irish economy posed by Brexit and with the government (Irish, that is) nervously clinging to the EU nurse for fear of… Read more »

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Denis Naughten

UNCONSTITUTIONAL CLIMATE

Date: November 2, 2017 - Fowl Emissions

WHEN ALL else fails, take them to court. Yet again, it falls to the poorly supported, barely solvent environmental NGO sector to try to force the state to do its grudging bare legal minimum on climate. Cork-based Friends of the Irish Environment (FIE) has taken legal action against the government for its failure to take… Read more »

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Michael McDowell

MICHAEL McDOWELL GIRDS HIS LOINS

Date: November 2, 2017 - Last Refuge

SEANAD leader, Fine Gael’s Jerry Buttimer, was quick to point out to the House that Michael McDowell had recently circulated a full colour brochure in the Dublin Bay South (DBS) constituency. The arresting literature was also circulated to TDs and senators in Leinster House but McDowell’s target market is Dublin Bay South and the brochure’s… Read more »

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Letters to the Editor

Date: November 2, 2017 - Last Refuge

Dear Editor In your edition (20th October) you suggested that I have “flitted around the Left, including Sinn Féin, in recent years but always settled back into the Labour camp”. As SIPTU president, I have sought to build a constructive relationship with Sinn Féin and others, and still do so. However, no-one could doubt my… Read more »

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Micheál Martin

Little Confidence

Date: November 2, 2017 - Last Refuge

MICHEÁL MARTIN and the Fianna Fáil leadership have become increasingly anxious to reassure Fine Gael ministers that the party will adhere to the confidence and supply accord for years to come. So much so that front bench members have been making soothing noises in private tête-à-tête with ministers. As reported (see The Phoenix, 20/10/17), there… Read more »

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Denis O'Brien

DENIS O’BRIEN TO THE ‘RESCUE’

Date: November 2, 2017 - Fit to Print?

TWO Sundays ago, Sunday Independent hack Liam Collins suggested that Independent News & Media’s new chief executive, Michael Doorly, should bid for the Irish Examiner. There is no way a humble hack like Collins would have penned this comment without having good intelligence on the wishes of his employers, Denis O’Brien and his boardroom man,… Read more »

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James Brokenshire

GROUNDHOG DEADLINES

Date: November 2, 2017 - Bird's Eye View

TO NO ONE’S surprise the DUP and Sinn Féin sailed through northern secretary James Brokenshire’s sixth “deadline” last Monday night. Many people thought Brokenshire’s predecessor Theresa Villiers – sacked after the 2015 British general election – was the most clueless bloodless and ineffectual northern secretary since Merlyn Rees in 1974. Now Brokenshire’s performance makes her… Read more »

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Michael Ring

VARADKAR WHIPS RINGER INTO LINE

Date: November 2, 2017 - Last Refuge

HAVING finally made it into cabinet as rural affairs minister, Michael Ring has become disillusioned to the point of rebellion against his new leader and Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar. Reports have spoken of Ringer’s post budget outburst against the Taoiseach before stunned cabinet members recently but only a few senior Fine Gael ministers were aware that… Read more »

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TERRY LEYDEN’S DYNASTY BID

Date: November 2, 2017 - Last Refuge

SENATOR Terry Leyden (aka El Tel) is busy master minding what he describes as the saving of the single Fianna Fáil seat – held by Eugene Murphy TD – in three-seat Roscommon-Galway via nomination of his daughter Orla Leyden for the general election. Leyden’s master plan has even included a kindly mention in The Irish… Read more »

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Paul Cummins

STUDIO SEQUELS

Date: November 2, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

AFTER BUYING the defunct Galway Airport at Carnmore in June 2014, Galway city and county councils sought views, commissioned reports and generally agonised over what to do with the place. The one option that wouldn’t go away was to turn the hangars into a “creative hub”, this being the default response of local authorities anxious… Read more »

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Maura Derrane

The Hot Air Brigade

Date: November 2, 2017 - The Hot Air Brigade

We were uncouth; we were like wild beasts. We didn’t know how to pose for a photo, we were only there at events for the free booze. You’re judged now on appearance rather than personality. Maura Derrane on her ‘wild days’ at TnaG, Sunday Independent I invited a distinguished professor of literature to dinner last… Read more »

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Judge Frank Clarke

SUPREME COURT GALA PERFORMANCE

Date: November 2, 2017 - Wigs on the Green

CHIEF JUSTICE Frank Clarke and most of his peers turned in an impressively choreographed performance for the cameras last week in the historic first-ever televised sitting of the courts. M’luds filed into the courtroom and took their seats in an informal manner that belied the usual pomp and reverence surrounding their every move in the… Read more »

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Kerry’s Hack

Date: November 2, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

GER COLLERAN has been editor and managing director of the Irish Daily Star and was at various times tipped to be editor of the Sunday Independent, Irish Independent and the Sunday Business Post. Now he has taken a job as editor of Kerry’s Eye in Tralee with the imminent retirement of current editor Colin Lacey…. Read more »

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Vol. 35 No. 22

Date: November 2, 2017 -

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Emily Logan

Profile: Emily Logan

Date: November 2, 2017 - Pillars of Society

CHIEF Commissioner of the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (IHREC) Emily Logan recently made the most forthright statement on abortion at the Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment. Adopting a basic right to choose position the commission has for the first time put itself on a potential collision course with government and Fine Gael…. Read more »

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Stefanie Preissner

Young Blood: Stefanie Preissner

Date: November 2, 2017 - The Young Bloods

WRITER Stefanie Preissner (29) is everywhere these days. The Cork woman is having a moment after the success of her RTÉ series Can’t Cope, Won’t Cope, leading to numerous public appearances and even her own book deal. But she’s still getting used to life as a Montrose star. Preissner, whose father is German, was born… Read more »

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