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CONVERSATIONS WITH FRIENDS – SALLY ROONEY (FABER & FABER)

Date: July 13, 2017 - BooksReviews

DEBUT NOVELIST Sally Rooney creates a portrait of modern young women in this slow-moving tale centring around two university students, Frances and Bobbi, inseparable since their teens. Narrated entirely from Frances’s viewpoint, her quietly observant, cool detachment is in sharp contrast to her friend’s brash self-confidence. The pair are part of “the spoken word scene… Read more »

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VISUAL’S NATIONAL AMBITIONS

Date: July 13, 2017 - Behind the Scenes

EARLIER THIS month, the Indo’s Creative Ireland summer series paid a visit to Carlow’s expensive Visual Centre for Contemporary Art (VISUAL), where chief executive Ann Mulrooney revealed that a drive for national cultural institution status was well under way. This may come as a surprise to observers given the venue’s troubled history. The Indo article… Read more »

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Judicial Archivists

Date: July 13, 2017 - Behind the Scenes

AFTER A lengthy delay, arts minister Heather Humphreys has finally got around to appointing new members to the National Archives Advisory Council (NAAC). Not surprisingly perhaps, she has decided to stick yet another judge in the chair. The good news is that while there is no remuneration for the chairman, as is the case with… Read more »

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Ed Guiney

ED GUINEY’S LATEST BARGAIN BUY

Date: July 13, 2017 - Behind the Scenes

PERHAPS IT is no surprise that Andrew Lowe and Ed Guiney’s Element Pictures is behind the latest cinematic clean-up operation. It turns out that the two boys are taking the Cinemobile mobile cinema off liquidator George Maloney’s hands, in a move that follows on from Element’s interventions at the Lighthouse Cinema and, more recently, the… Read more »

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John Magnier

JOHN MAGNIER’S TACTICS

Date: July 13, 2017 - Sport of Kings

MUCH HAS been written of the Curragh this year and the hullaballoo over the board’s decision to run the Irish Derby and day two of Irish Champion’s weekend on a building site. But at least John Magnier seems happy. No doubt the decision has made for a particularly awkward period for chief executive Derek McGrath… Read more »

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COLIN KEANE’S CHANCES

Date: July 13, 2017 - Sport of Kings

LOOKING AHEAD from the flat season’s mid-point, it looks as if there could be a surprise in store at the end of the year, when the champions are crowned. At the season’s outset, Pat Smullen was a long odds-on shot to maintain his grip on the jockey’s championship but he has a major challenge ahead… Read more »

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James Lambe

Lambe’s Loss

Date: July 13, 2017 - Sport of Kings

DUNGANNON trainer James Lambe is back in the courts. The handler found himself in a spot of financial bother back in 2015, having lost a Supreme Court appeal that challenged the Bowler Hats’ authority to enforce the rules of racing. This resulted in him and his former jockey, Eddie O’Connell, being landed with costs of… Read more »

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Luke Comer Ban

LUKE COMER’S TRAINER

Date: July 13, 2017 - Sport of Kings

IT WILL be interesting to follow the latest instalment in the Luke Comer training saga, the story that just keeps on giving. Comer has recently employed Jim Gorman as his private trainer in a bid to salvage his training licence, which remains suspended following further inspections from the Turf Club. Earlier this month, the referrals… Read more »

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Tougher times ahead for Dalata in UK

Date: July 13, 2017 - Moneybags

IN 2007, Pat McCann set up Dalata Hotels with the backing of Davy stockbrokers and Shane Reihill. Thanks principally to the timing, this proved disastrous with the market writing off the entire E50m raised. But happily for McCann, he managed – again with Davys’ help – to raise new equity of €265m in March 2014… Read more »

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Kennedy Wilson’s Irish bonanza

Date: July 13, 2017 - Moneybags

ONE OF the lesser known real estate investment trusts (Reits) that have invaded Ireland is the London Stock Exchange listed Kennedy Wilson Europe Real Estate (KWE). This is the brainchild of Bill McMorrow, a US property developer who started out in 1988 and has built up Kennedy Wilson Holdings into a $20bn worldwide property operation…. Read more »

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Dervla Kenny’s objections

Date: July 13, 2017 - Brief Cases

A CERTAIN former Taoiseach’s family are at the centre of planning row that’s been on the boil in Mayo. After facing opposition from neighbours, Veitch McCombs and his wife Catherine McCombs have been refused permission by Mayo County Council for a seven-house estate at Ballyvary – between Castlebar and Swinford – and have now appealed… Read more »

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Philo Marley’s Costa Rican Bond

Date: July 13, 2017 - Brief Cases

GREAT to see Goldhawk’s old pal, student accommodation developer Philip “Philo” Marley, back in the news again. It was reported last weekend that a judgment for €1m had been registered against him in Ireland by his old financiers at Maven Capital Partners and it was unusual to see Philo try to call it a “mutual… Read more »

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More issues for Martin Allen

More issues for Martin Allen

Date: July 13, 2017 - Brief Cases

GOLDHAWK’s old pal Martin Allen popped up again recently after a run-in with the taxman. The Meath businessman, who still has 18 months of a 12 -year disqualification order to serve, was landed with a tax judgment for €39,000 at the end of June. Goldhawk aficionados will recall Allen’s stint as publisher of the Big… Read more »

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The not-so sweet life of Roberto Pons

Date: July 13, 2017 - Brief Cases

NOT for the first time well-regarded Italian chef Roberto Pons recently fell foul of the Revenue. The chef, who trained at the Lausanne Palace Hotel in Switzerland and once upon a time managed the restaurant in the Shelbourne, was landed with a judgment for €50,000 late last month. Pons owned and operated the Il Ristorante… Read more »

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Couple’s crèche landing

Date: July 13, 2017 - Brief Cases

SPARE a thought for Castleknock crèche operators Mary Hale and her husband John Hale who were landed with a hefty judgment for €2m just last week. The couple – who own the Magic Years Crèche and Montessori School in Carpenterstown – were hit with the judgment in the High Court by a vulture fund called… Read more »

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Paddy McKeown’s ‘mere assertion’

Date: July 13, 2017 - Brief Cases

SPARE a thought for two Cork City landlords who had a tough time of it in the High Court recently courtesy of AIB. Earlier this summer, Judge Caroline Costello granted leave for the bank to enter judgment against Paddy McKeown and his wife Adelaide McCarthy for u1.5m and u1.4m respectively. Former Irish Navy officer McKeown… Read more »

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Maureen Coyne’s good day in court

Date: July 13, 2017 - Brief Cases

GOLDHAWK spotted an intriguing judgment recently involving a Mullingar woman who had a good day in the High Court at the expense of Danske Bank. Maureen Coyne took a case seeking damages against Danske after the High Court had granted summary judgment in favour of the bank for €137,000 against her and her husband, Raymond… Read more »

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PetMania’s Money

Date: July 13, 2017 - Brief Cases

PATRICIA Ingle was back in the news last week after securing E3m in the High Court to cover her medical bills. Ingle was left brain damaged in 2008 when she contracted a rare disease from a parrot while working at PetMania in Kilkenny and she sued the pet shop in 2010 before the HSE settled… Read more »

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Invincible Profit

Date: July 12, 2017 - Wigs on the Green

THERE IS an interesting figure buried in the 2016 accounts, filed this week by the Irish National Stud (INS), revealing the huge income generated for the lucky owners of wonder stallion, Invincible Spirit. Things are looking up for the INS, now chaired by former RDS president Matt Dempsey, who is having a rather easier ride… Read more »

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Vol.35 No.13

Date: June 29, 2017 -

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Jim O'Callaghan

FF JUDICIAL BLUNDER

Date: June 29, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

A RAFT of ‘eminent’ figures made fools of themselves in the furore over the government’s Judicial Appointments Commission Bill in the past week, chief among them being justice minister Charlie Flanagan. But Fianna Fáil’s justice spokesperson, Jim O’Callaghan, has inflicted serious damage on his own party, by diverting attention from the government as Fine Gael… Read more »

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DINNY’S SWORN ENEMY NO. 1

Date: June 29, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

THERE HAVE been changes on the share register of Red Flag Consulting – Karl Brophy’s consultancy outfit that is locked in an expensive legal battle with Denis O’Brien. The good news for the new shareholders is that Red Flag’s profitability does not appear to have been hit by the high profile legal spat. Until this… Read more »

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CARROLL MacNEILL’S POLITICAL PEDIGREE

Date: June 29, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

BARRISTER and author Jennifer Carroll MacNeill has been popping up a lot recently as a media commentator, with her latest outing in The Irish Times this week focusing on the subject of judicial independence. When it comes to the political independence, however, the former solicitor would hardly qualify. Earlier this month, Jennifer popped up in… Read more »

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Maura King

KING TAKES ON BAR COUNCIL

Date: June 29, 2017 - Wigs on the Green

BANE of the legal establishment Maura King BL has launched her latest offensive against the Law Library bigwigs by standing in elections to the Council of the Bar of Ireland. And she has delivered an election message unprecedented in its critical and strident tone. King has been locked in combat with the Bar Council since… Read more »

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LITIGIOUS LEGAL EAGLES

Date: June 29, 2017 - Wigs on the Green

JUNIOR vice-president of the Law Society James Cahill was a driving force behind the society’s volte face on Shane Ross’s judicial appointments bill which they decided to support – to assert solicitors’ rights against snooty barristers in the Law Library. But Cahill is also fighting another legal battle of sorts against his own organisation, specifically… Read more »

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DPP Study Law Society file

Date: June 29, 2017 - Wigs on the Green

WHAT on earth is happening in the Law Society? Quite apart from the internal battle between it and its junior vice-president James Cahill (above), it is also dealing with several inquiries by the Fraud Squad into allegations of perjury and other malpractice. A file on Fraud Squad investigations into two Law Society individuals is with… Read more »

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ATTORNEY GENERAL’S BACKYARD

Date: June 29, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

NEW Attorney General Seamus Woulfe has a rich legal and political background, having worked at the Beef Tribunal for then Labour TD Pat Rabbitte; acted for Fine Gael in its disastrous High Court action against party member, ex-junior minister John Perry, and served as Bar Council vice-chair. But perhaps the AG’s biggest test in recent… Read more »

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Jed Dowling

CORPORATE CASH BOOST FOR PRIDE COFFERS

Date: June 29, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

GOLDHAWK was interested to see a reference in The Irish Times to a decision by Grant Thornton accountants to send over 100 members of staff to join a beaming Leo Varadkar on the Dublin Pride parade, which took place last weekend. The move reflects an increasing corporatisation of the gay pride movement here, with businesses… Read more »

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CHRISTOPHER SINGH’S FIRE HAZARD

Date: June 29, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

IN THE wake of the Grenfell Tower disaster, fire safety issues have jumped to the top of the agenda and it was no surprise to see the High Court moving to have a Dublin northside Dublin property vacated on the grounds that it poses a fire risk. The owner of 24 Mountjoy Square East, D1,… Read more »

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Denis and Rupert

Date: June 29, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

WHAT A strange gathering of characters ended up in the Shelbourne Hotel earlier this month paying homage to Rupert Murdoch who had been over to mark the launch of the Oirish edition of The Times newspaper. He was accompanied by Rebekah Brooks and was joined for the lunch by a sort of rent-a-crowd of Irish… Read more »

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The Hot Air Brigade

Date: June 29, 2017 - The Hot Air Brigade

The flat white is the coffee order du jour that places Miriam firmly in the now. She has the air and flair of a millennial … Sarah Caden interviews Miriam O’Callaghan, Sunday Independent Life, Submitted by reader Rebel: John Deasy is the James Dean of Fine Gael. Caption from John Lee article on the Fine… Read more »

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MOVING CLOSER TO DOOM

Date: June 29, 2017 - Foreign Frolics

by BRIAN CLOUGHLEY THE Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has warned that the likelihood of a nuclear war is closer than since 1953. As the bulletin explains, in 1947 it devised the Doomsday Clock “using the imagery of apocalypse (midnight) and the contemporary idiom of nuclear explosion (countdown to… Read more »

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WHY SINN FÉIN WILL JOIN EXECUTIVE

Date: June 29, 2017 - Bird's Eye View

SIMON COVENEY certainly got thrown in at the deep end in Belfast. His first response to the astonishingly brazen deal between the DUP and Conservative Party was limited and incoherent. He said: “I note that the agreement provides for DUP support for British government legislation on Brexit. An enhanced Northern Ireland voice articulating an agreed… Read more »

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LEO VARADKAR’S DISAPPOINTED FANS

Date: June 29, 2017 - Last Refuge

THE biggest blunderer among those involved in the 2010 heave against Enda Kenny was Kieran O’Donnell who, having been made finance spokesman by Kenny to replace rebel leader Richard Bruton, declared for Bruton just two days later. Now another outspoken dissident, John Deasy, finds himself in a similar situation having been left out of Varadkar’s… Read more »

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CORK’S FOREIGN MINISTERS

Date: June 29, 2017 - Last Refuge

THE axing of Dara Murphy, junior foreign minister for European affairs, is seen as the price he paid for supporting fellow Corkonian Simon Coveney against the new Taoiseach in the leadership contest. But there is more to it than that. Last October then foreign minister Charlie Flanagan comprehensively ruled out a special Brexit minister on… Read more »

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Vlad v. Martin

Date: June 29, 2017 - Last Refuge

TÁNAISTE Frances Fitzgerald’s outrage at Micheál Martin’s criticism of Máire Whelan in the Dáil debate last week indicates the high regard the former justice minister has always had for the ex-Attorney General. Well, recently anyway. Fitzgerald interrupted Martin 11 times during the debate – “a disgrace … now you play the woman … withdraw” –… Read more »

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