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Gavin McDonagh

Gavin McDonagh’s Ranelagh ‘Brioche’

Date: August 25, 2017 - Brief Cases

Gavin McDonagh IT’S been a tough 2017 for Dublin restaurants of all stripes, with the likes of Nick Munier’s up-market Avenue and Barry Sheehan’s trendy Aussie BBQ collapsing suddenly into liquidation earlier this year. The latest establishment to close down is chef/patron Gavin McDonagh’s Brioche, where the liquidator has just been called in. With stints… Read more »

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Sean Fitzmaurice

‘North County Leader’ stops the presses

Date: August 25, 2017 - Brief Cases

Sean Fitzmaurice SPARE a thought for Dublin free-sheet the North County Leader, which is set to become the latest local newspaper to shut up shop with the loss of 15 jobs. The company behind the Leader, Else Newspapers Ltd, will hold a creditors meeting at the end of the month to appoint Cormac Mohan as… Read more »

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More troubles for Anthony Fitzpatrick

More troubles for Anthony Fitzpatrick

Date: August 25, 2017 - Brief Cases

Sean Ryan MORE trouble for Limerick accountant Anthony J Fitzpatrick’s appeal against the High Court’s decision to remove him as liquidator of Star Elm Frames Ltd. The Revenue was in front of the President of the Court of Appeal, Seán Ryan, last month seeking leave to add new evidence to the case, which it claims… Read more »

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Charles Gallagher

Abbey shareholders miss out on property boom

Date: August 24, 2017 - Moneybags

Charles Gallagher AS FANS of Moneybags are well aware, Charlie Gallagher has run the Abbey house building group before, and especially during, the crash in his very own conservative style – one that also seems to muddy the water between Gallagher family interests and those of the other ‘outside’ shareholders. The has led, as is… Read more »

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Patrick Anderson

The other Irish gold rush – Dalradian

Date: August 24, 2017 - Moneybags

Patrick Anderson WHILE THERE has been significant media interest in the boardroom upheavals at Conroy Gold and Natural Resources, there is an even more interesting gold play further north, in the Sperrin Mountains, where Dalradian Resources is moving forward to develop a much larger gold source than any Conroy has so far found. Dalradian has… Read more »

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Conor O'Dwyer

Conor O’Dwyer’s Comeback

Date: August 24, 2017 - Sport of Kings

Conor O’Dwyer CONOR O’DWYER’S training career is clearly experiencing a renaissance this summer as the Curragh-based handler enjoys the most productive spell of his career in several years. O’Dwyer has trained eight winners so far this year, four on the flat and four over jumps – a total that supercedes the combined number of winners… Read more »

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Joseph O'Brien

O’Brien Jnr Targets Title

Date: August 24, 2017 - Sport of Kings

Joseph O’Brien LAST YEAR’S race for the title of champion jumps trainer proved riveting and went down to the very last day of the season, when Willie Mullins staged a remarkable comeback to wrestle the accolade from the grips of Gordon Elliott. The two trainers dominated the Irish jumps scene, with the pair winning almost… Read more »

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NIck Bradley

Beckford’s Near Miss

Date: August 24, 2017 - Sport of Kings

GORDON ELLIOTT and his team came agonisingly close to gaining a brilliant Group 1 win at the Curragh recently, when Beckford just failed to get to grips with the Aidan O’Brien-trained Sioux Nation in the Phoenix Stakes. While it was O’Brien’s 16th win in the race, victory for Beckford would have provided a juicy bonus… Read more »

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Hannah Kiely

Open Call at Galway 2020

Date: August 24, 2017 - Behind the Scenes

Hannah Kiely Capital of Culture operation has just appointed Chris Baldwin as its creative director and many other important positions have now been filled. However, there is still no sign of some overdue board appointments, despite an ‘open call’ five months ago. Described in The Irish Times as “a citizen of Europe,” Baldwin is more… Read more »

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Chester Beatty Library

Chester Beatty Vacancies

Date: August 24, 2017 - Behind the Scenes

IT IS not only Galway 2020 that is short on directors. Over at the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin, there are currently two vacancies on the board, both of which are in the gift of the Minister. The seat held by former National Library of Ireland (NLI) director Pat Donlon has been vacant since November… Read more »

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Annie Doona

Film Board’s Woman Problem

Date: August 24, 2017 - Arts & Entertainment

THE RELEASE by the Irish Film Board (IFB) of its latest round of handouts (sorry, loans) has come rather late in the day and includes a health warning noting “these funding decisions reflect offers of funding only. Some of these offers may expire and thus will not be drawn down”. Moreover, given recent pronouncements, there… Read more »

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Blathnaid Ni Chofaigh

The Mooney Show

Date: August 24, 2017 - RadioReviews

DEREK MOONEY and Bláthnaid Ní Chofaigh are natural born fillers. All broadcasting involves a degree of waffle but both of these second-string RTÉ stalwarts are especially gifted. Given the vast tracts of empty airspace opened up by the annual retreat of Montrose’s heavy-hitters to their holiday homes, it’s surprising that the yappy pair haven’t featured… Read more »

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Love in Row27

Love in Row 27

Date: August 24, 2017 - BooksReviews

Eithne Shorthall – (Corvus) THIS DEBUT novel by the arts correspondent with the Sunday Times centres around Cora Hendricks, a Heathrow check-in attendant who likes to play matchmaker with unsuspecting travellers. Presuming that most single passengers are desperately lovelorn, Cora selects potential couples and seats them side by side in row 27 to see if… Read more »

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Rachel Wyse

GAA Coverage

Date: August 24, 2017 - ReviewsTV

RTÉ v SKY SPORTS FOLLOWING Waterford’s epic win over Kilkenny in the hurling championship in July, RTÉ pundit Michael Duignan indulged in a vintage piece of grandstanding on The Sunday Game the following night, melodramatically announcing that his father had been unable to watch the match at home due to it being shown exclusively on… Read more »

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Jonty Evans

Jonty Evans Jumps Clear

Date: August 24, 2017 - High Society

Jonty EvansONE OF the more sporting sports stories in recent times featured show jumper Jonty Evans and his highly rated horse, which rather than being sold off to some loaded Yank will remain in Ireland thanks to a most impressive public fundraising exercise. As involvement in the expensive world of show jumping usually requires deep… Read more »

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Fionnuala and Anthony Brabazon

Lady Ardee’s Groove

Date: August 24, 2017 - High Society

Fionnuala and Anthony Brabazon LAST WEEKEND’S Groove Festival in Killruddery estate in Bray, Co Wicklow, proved a popular event and represented the latest financial success at the seat of Lord Meath, a title currently held by Jack Brabazon. However, the brains behind the operation these days is his daughter-in-law, Fionnuala Brabazon, Lady Ardee. This year’s… Read more »

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Lorena and Allen Krause

Killua Castle’s Mexican Millionaire

Date: August 24, 2017 - High Society

Lorena and Allen Krause AN INTERESTING report in the Indo last week referred to the presence in Ireland at an event last month of the former King of Spain, Juan Carlos I, who abdicated in 2014. He featured in a video taken by one of… Read more »

Jennifer Whitmore

Jennifer Whitmore

Date: August 24, 2017 - The Young Bloods

Can Greystones councillor Jennifer Whitmore give the flagging Social Democrats a revival boost by defying the odds and taking a seat for the party in a general election that is getting ever closer? Opinion polls aren’t very encouraging for the Social Democrats, who find themselves hovering between 1% and 2%, despite their pretensions to be… Read more »

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Bog Cuttings

Bog Cuttings

Date: August 24, 2017 - Bog Cuttings

Black Pudding thief jailed A MAN who punched a garda in the face during an investigation into thefts from cars has been jailed for nine months. Enda McGowan was approached by gardaí as he rummaged through cars in Letterkenny. As Garda Emmet Brady approached McGowan, he lashed out and struck the garda as he was… Read more »

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Sean Kelly

Fracking : The Irish Way

Date: August 24, 2017 - Fowl Emissions

Seán Kelly For Irish problems there are Irish solutions. Women travel abroad for abortions. Neutral Ireland refuels US warplanes at Shannon Airport. And now fracking joins the proud tradition. Last month, just two weeks after President Michael D Higgins signed into law Ireland’s historic ban on fracking, the Port of Cork signed a deal to… Read more »

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Josepha Madigan

Josepha Madigan TD

Date: August 24, 2017 - Pillars of Society

Josepha Madigan JOSEPHA MADIGAN TD is one of Leo Varadkar’s vamps, politically speaking of course, ticking all the right (and right-wing) boxes on tax cuts and the like. Equally important is that, unlike other Blueshirt women in South Dublin and elsewhere, she backed Varadkar in the leadership contest. Although her loyalty was not rewarded with… Read more »

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Jonathan Hoare: Keyboard Warrior

Date: August 24, 2017 - Fit to Print?

INTERESTING to see Jonathan Hoare, special advisor to Minister for Agriculture Michael Creed, has deleted all but two tweets from his personal Twitter account, perhaps before anyone in the mainstream media could get hold of them. Hoare has been pruning his old social media output for some time, but thankfully Goldhawk has managed to retrieve… Read more »

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Frank Fitzgibbon

After Myers at the ST

Date: August 24, 2017 - Fit to Print?

Frank Fitzgibbon A loud if delicate calm has descended on The Sunday Times newsroom since the Kevin Myers anti-semitic affair, reflecting the mute editorial approach taken in the newspaper to its readers. The uneasy calm and the failure so far of London head office to take action will come as a relief to Irish edition… Read more »

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Sarah Carey

Newstalk Mad Men

Date: August 24, 2017 - Fit to Print?

Sarah Carey THE take-over of Newstalk’s Drive programme by Ivan Yates, means that Drive presenter Sarah McInerney’s future is unclear, as is that of co-presenter Chris Donoghue. But what of the mysterious absence from the airwaves of that other Sarah, Blueshirt princess and Denis O’Brien handmaiden, Carey? People passing Newstalk’s Marconi House HQ recently witnessed… Read more »

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Brendan Howlin

‘Young, Vibrant’ Labour Party

Date: August 24, 2017 - Last Refuge

Brendan Howlin LIKE Enda Kenny in 2002 and Micheál Martin in 2011, Brendan Howlin is trying to revive Labour after a disastrous election by bringing forward new, fresh candidates. But some people haven’t gone away. In June, a party press release stated, “Labour is selecting young, vibrant candidates to contest the next General Election”. And… Read more »

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Gerard Craughwell

Craughwell’s ‘Allies’

Date: August 24, 2017 - Last Refuge

Gerard Craughwell SENATOR Gerard Craughwell’s tilt at the Áras is a little quixotic despite, or perhaps because of, his dalliance with four political groupings as well as other interesting organisations in the past. Fianna Fáil backed Craughwell during the Fine Gael Senate by-election fiasco three years ago when they nominated John McNulty in a stroke… Read more »

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Shane Ross

Judicial Bluster

Date: August 24, 2017 - Last Refuge

Shane Ross HOW well The Irish Times knew to request – under the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act – a copy of that letter from the judiciary to the Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, opposing the Judicial Appointments Bill. M’Luds have received unstinting support from the IT in their opposition to Shane Ross’s bill. Editorials and legal… Read more »

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Micheál Martin

FF Confidence and Supply Cabinet

Date: August 24, 2017 - Last Refuge

Micheál Martin THE ongoing and agonising debates about possible permutations to form the next coalition government are all predicated on the notion that the current confidence and supply arrangement will be replaced; especially if Fianna Fáil is the largest party. But a wicked and whispered thought has entered into consideration on the FF front bench,… Read more »

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Danny Morrison

SF: Reluctant to Re-Enter Assembly

Date: August 24, 2017 - Bird's Eye View

Danny Morrison SPEAKING at Féile an Phobail in west Belfast a fortnight ago, Danny Morrison, Sinn Féin’s most successful ever spin doctor said, “I think we’re at a crux here now and I don’t think there’s going to be an assembly or an executive. It’s going to be impossible to put it back again, I… Read more »

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Dermot Bannon

The Hot Air Brigade

Date: August 24, 2017 - The Hot Air Brigade

Dermot Bannon The aim of the project is to reach out and become embedded in the landscape, but more importantly, finally create a home, a refuge that shrinks and wraps around them like a blanket from their hectic lives outside of its walls. Dermot Bannon on redesigning Daniel & Majella O’Donnell’s House, Irish Independent, Submitted… Read more »

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Mary Robinson

Green Light for Robbo’s Shrine?

Date: August 24, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

Mary Robinson NEXT MONTH could well see the go-ahead given by Mayo County Council for the multi-million euro Mary Robinson Centre (MRC) in Ballina, albeit in a slightly slimmed down version compared to the original grandiose project based around Robbo’s archive. Mayo Co Co chief executive Peter Hynes is anxious to set the wheels in… Read more »

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Pat Carey

Hanging Out Pat Carey

Date: August 24, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

Pat Carey THE smearing of garda whistleblower Maurice McCabe has resulted in Judge Peter Charleton’s Commission of Investigation into the alleged behaviour of gardaí and journalists, among others. At the same time, McCabe – wrongly described, but not named, in media reports as being investigated over child abuse allegations – has been completely and publicly… Read more »

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Courts

‘Vexatious’ Lay Litigants

Date: August 24, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

The High Court THE legal establishment will be pleased with the crack down on lay or non-legal advisers who have become a feature in the Four Goldmines in assisting home owners and others defending repossession cases against the banks. The new rules state that the courts “may refuse to permit” lay advisers to assist litigants…… Read more »

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Trina Vargo

Trina Vargo’s Hard Lesson

Date: August 24, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

Trina Vargo TRINA VARGO, the bolshy founder and face of the US-Ireland Alliance (USIA), was throwing her weight around last week in light of new estimates of the number of illegal Irish immigrants in America. However, she has other things on her mind, notably a financial crisis at the Irish government-backed George Mitchell Scholarship Fund,… Read more »

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Leslie Buckley

Leslie Buckley’s Big Day

Date: August 24, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

Leslie Buckley THIS WEEK’S annual general meeting of Independent News & Media (INM) should be a sell-out affair but, unlike the McGregor-Mayweather bout, there is unlikely to be too much blood on the floor. Chairman Leslie Buckley will, nevertheless, emerge badly bruised should chief executive Robert Pitt vote against his chairman’s re-election. Due to the… Read more »

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John Butler Yeats On The Block

Date: August 24, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

John Butler Yeats WHAT AN inglorious fate for the self-portrait of John Butler Yeats, which he himself called his masterpiece, than to be dumped for sale in a London auction house as part of Sotheby’s upcoming sale of the so-called ‘Yeats Family Collection’. JBY worked on this portrait – on and off – from 1911… Read more »

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