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ENDA KENNY’S NEXT MOVE

Date: June 29, 2017 - Last Refuge

LEO VARADKAR’S parliamentary coup has resulted in competing demands from not just ambitious TDs but also senators and others looking for Dáil nominations and an interesting situation is developing in his predecessor Enda Kenny’s Mayo constituency. Enda’s Castlebar neighbour and longtime lieutenant, Senator Paddy Burke, has for long regarded himself as the ex-Taoiseach’s successor in… Read more »

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BEEB MAN KICKS ASS IN RTÉ

Date: June 29, 2017 - Fit to Print?

BBC legend John Simpson once remarked that while RTÉ’s new managing director of news and current affairs, Scouser Jon Williams, was a top journalist and foreign editor, he was not very popular with some BBC journalists as he “was capable of tremendous, titanic rages”. Several senior journalists at Montrose have since discovered that Simpson was… Read more »

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O’BRIEN V KEAVENEY

Date: June 29, 2017 - Fit to Print?

DENIS O’Brien’s brief, Michael Cush SC, told the Court of Appeal last week that former Fianna Fáil TD Colm Keaveney’s Dáil speech criticising O’Brien in 2015 had not included any proposed changes by PR firm Red Flag Consulting. But this flatly contradicts what Cush said on behalf of his client in October 2015 when arguing… Read more »

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Indo savages Varadkar

Date: June 29, 2017 - Fit to Print?

THERE is a distinct polarisation between The Irish Times and Irish Independent on new Taoiseach Leo Varadkar with the Indo attacking him while the IT defended him last week over Máire Whelan’s Court of Appeal appointment. Following last week’s Dáil spat between Micheál Martin and Varadkar, the IT gave saturation coverage to Chief Justice Susan… Read more »

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Dee Forbes

Date: June 29, 2017 - Pillars of Society

THAT RTÉ should scoop €107.5m for its Montrose land bank and yet still be in financial straits says it all about the apparently insuperable problem of sustaining a public service broadcast station. Having sold off the family silver which provided the security for its €50m… Read more »

CLIMATE FRIENDLY LEO VARADKAR?

Date: June 29, 2017 - Fowl Emissions

WITHIN hours of receiving his seal of office from Michael D Higgins, our new Taoiseach took the very deliberate step of publicly distancing himself from Enda Kenny’s (abysmal) record on climate change. During his maiden speech on June 14, Leo Varadkar told the Dáil he was “determined the government should show new ambition when it… Read more »

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Bog Cuttings

Date: June 29, 2017 - Bog Cuttings

Mooning on The Mall A CASTLEBAR man has been sentenced to 18 months in prison after baring his backside to gardaí in the foyer of the District Court. In February, Terry McDonagh, Moneen Road, Castlebar, had to be removed from a sitting of Castlebar District Court because he was using his phone to record proceedings,… Read more »

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Ciarán Garrett

Date: June 29, 2017 - The Young Bloods

CIARÁN GARRETT (26) represents a new generation of Labour Party personalities, seemingly untouched by the party’s recent history. A former chair of Labour Youth, Garrett is considered by the inner circles to be one of the young leading lights and a potential future Dáil candidate in Dublin Central for a party that is desperate to… Read more »

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PETER GAYNOR’S GOOD DEAL

Date: June 29, 2017 - High Society

IT LOOKS like the hapless Olivia Gaynor Long has taken a serious bath in the Residence private members club at 41 St Stephen’s Green. Certainly, the evidence is that the club’s new owner, Olivia’s younger brother, Peter Gaynor, has got himself a pretty good deal. Monaco-based Olivia – who is married to tech moneybags Brian… Read more »

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PETER WHITE’S NEW NEIGHBOURS

Date: June 29, 2017 - High Society

AN IMPOSING late Georgian style house on the corner of Wellington Road and Elgin Road in the heart of Ballsbridge has just gone on the market with a €3.75m asking price. The owners of 16 Wellington Road turn out to be moneybags Peter White, who scooped a fortune from the sale of a property portfolio… Read more »

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JODIE RONAN’S NUPTIALS

Date: June 29, 2017 - High Society

NO SURPRISE to see the Sindo gushing about the wedding of Jodie Ronan – daughter of developer Johnny Ronan and Mary Ronan – to John Savage who, like his bride, is very much part of Johnny’s property team. The 32-year-old Jodie Ronan is chief operating officer of the Ronan Group Real Estate (RGRE) operation, where… Read more »

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SARAH GLENNIE’S BIG PAY HIKE

Date: June 29, 2017 - Behind the Scenes

THE NEW director of the National College of Art and Design (NCAD) is Sarah Glennie, director of IMMA. Her decision to exit Kilmainham comes as something of a surprise given the absence of any sign of a move to advertise the position in the run-up to the end of her five-year IMMA contract in April… Read more »

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SEAN RAINBIRD’s contract

Date: June 29, 2017 - Behind the Scenes

WHILE NCAD has been able to announced that it has a new director, there is still no word from the National Gallery of Ireland (NGI) about its own director. With the gallery on the end of gushing media attention (including this week’s 90-minute promo on RTÉ 1) thanks to its completed refurbishment programme and the… Read more »

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UNION BATTLES ON FILM SITES

Date: June 29, 2017 - Behind the Scenes

THERE HAS been an upping of the ante in the increasingly strained relations between film and TV producers and the union that represent the various categories of workers on often very expensive productions. A new player has now emerged on screen. Negotiating rights are highly prized in the film world and it was to the… Read more »

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RIVIERA – SKY ATLANTIC

Date: June 29, 2017 - ReviewsTV

THE NEW Sky Atlantic 10-part crime drama comes with impressive credentials. Created by Oscar winner Neil Jordan (who co-writes the first two episodes with John Banville), it’s based on an “original” idea by former U2 manager Paul McGuinness. Unfortunately, there is little that is “original or riveting about the mega-budget series, populated with morally dubious… Read more »

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THE INHERITANCE – ALLY BUNBURY (POOLBEG)

Date: June 29, 2017 - BooksReviews

OVER RECENT weeks months, the first-time author (and wife of historian-about-town Turtle Bunbury) has been receiving no shortage of publicity for her romantic novel. Set largely in upmarket public relations circles, the story spans London, Paris, Scotland and Ireland, usually mixing the world of privilege with glitzy Hollywood-style glamour. Anna Rose is a young Irish… Read more »

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JUMPING THE QUEUE

Date: June 29, 2017 - Sport of Kings

THE RACE planning division of Horse Racing Ireland (HRI) has been under fire from some of Ireland’s leading flat trainers. Ger Lyons, Jim Bolger and Kevin Prendergast have joined together in their criticism of the current racing calendar, which they believe is too heavily weighted towards jump racing at this time of year. Lyons is… Read more »

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FRAN BERRY’S TOUGH TASK

Date: June 29, 2017 - Sport of Kings

IRISH JOCKEY Fran Berry faces an uphill challenge to reinvigorate his riding career with news that his brief tenure as stable jockey to trainer Ralph Beckett is coming to an end. It is little over a year since Berry and his family uprooted from Ireland to take up what looked like a good opportunity to… Read more »

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Philip Reynolds’s Roster

Date: June 29, 2017 - Sport of Kings

CHELTENHAM Festival winning owner Philip Reynolds has consolidated his roster of trainers with Curragh trainer Eddie Harty the major victim of the streamlining process. Harty has run four horses in the now very familiar Reynolds silks in the last year without success but these horses have subsequently been redistributed to Gordon Elliott and Galway-based Pat… Read more »

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VICHAI’S DEEP POCKETS

Date: June 29, 2017 - Sport of Kings

GOFFS hosted international racing’s plutocrats at The Orangery in Kensington Palace on the eve of Royal Ascot last week, when the firm offered around 20 horses for sale, many with Royal Ascot engagements, throughout the week. While turnover fell by just over £1m from last year, the catalogue had been pared back, with less than… Read more »

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AIB‘s IPO flies despite serious question marks

Date: June 29, 2017 - Moneybags

GIVEN THAT the whole Irish and London financial establishment got its nose in the trough to benefit from the U50m in fees associated with the E3bn IPO sell-off of 25% of AIB’s equity, the share offering was always going to fly. But a thorough reading of the IPO shows poor recent loan growth and provisions… Read more »

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Nama and the housing crisis

Date: June 29, 2017 - Moneybags

THE LATEST annual report for Nama refers to fanciful “profit” targets when the reality is that the bad bank is set to lose €39bn (or almost double that if actual interest rates are taken into account). The true scandal, however, is the way Nama – headed by former chairman of the Revenue Commissioners Frank Daly… Read more »

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More heat for Houlihan Cushnahan

Date: June 29, 2017 - Brief Cases

MORE on Houlihan Cushnahan, the embattled Dublin accountancy firm facing into strong headwinds on the legal front. Goldhawk spotted another interesting company that has lodged High Court proceedings against the Glasthule number crunchers in recent years and more details are beginning to emerge about the scheme allegedly used by the firm to help reduce its… Read more »

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Paddy Cosgrave’s corruption crusade

Date: June 29, 2017 - Brief Cases

GREAT to see Goldhawk’s old pal Paddy Cosgrave is back in town after taking his ball and going to Portugal a few years ago (see The Phoenix 09/10/15). Early last month, the Web Summit guru announced he would be returning to Dublin to host a new conference called MoneyConf next summer, the prospect of which… Read more »

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Law Society’s Cork crackdown

Date: June 29, 2017 - Brief Cases

TWO Co Cork legal eagles, Kieran Quill and Daniel Murphy, have been struck off the Roll of Solicitors after being found guilty of professional misconduct at their practices. Youghal solicitor Quill, who traded as J Hodnett & Son, was struck off in the High Court following a raft of findings against him by the Law… Read more »

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Daniel Coleman’s ‘procedural mishaps’

Daniel Coleman’s ‘procedural mishaps’

Date: June 29, 2017 - Brief Cases

GOLDHAWK’s old pal, hapless solicitor Daniel Coleman, is back in the Four Goldmines to contest the 2011 High Court order that struck him off the Roll of Solicitors. The Mayo legal eagle has just been in the Supreme Court and this row with the Law Society involving plenty of litigation on both sides, looks set… Read more »

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Familiar names on tax defaulters list

Date: June 29, 2017 - Brief Cases

GOLDHAWK spotted a couple of old acquaintances on the Revenue’s latest list of tax defaulters. Hapless barrister-turned-property developer Michael Stimpson made the list published earlier this week after being hit with a tax bill for close to E190,000 following a Revenue audit that uncovered under-declared income tax and VAT. London-based Stimpson began practising law in… Read more »

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Insight’s tax troubles

Date: June 29, 2017 - Brief Cases

INTERESTING to see Bellane Ltd, the entity behind south Dublin PR outfit Insight Consultants, named on the tax defaulters list earlier this week. The Sandyford operation was hit with a tax bill of u33,000 after a Revenue audit uncovered under-declared VAT. The company is owned by Michael Parker and regular readers will recall its association… Read more »

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Closing Credits for Picture Palace

Date: June 29, 2017 - Behind the Scenes

A LIQUIDATOR is to be appointed to Lelia Doolan’s Solas Galway Picture Palace Ltd next week, the firm behind that super expensive bijou art house cinema project. Eight years after Michael D Higgins turned the sod, it is still a building site but completion works are at least under way since Andrew Lowe and Ed… Read more »

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Vol35 No12

Vol.35 No.12

Date: June 15, 2017 -

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Vol35 No12

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Date: June 15, 2017 -

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Simon Coveney

COVENEY HASN’T GONE AWAY

Date: June 15, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

IS THERE a prime minister in the western world who has become head of their party after losing a leadership vote among its members – in Leo Varadkar’s case by a crushing margin of nearly two to one? The new Taoiseach won 35% of the Fine Gael members’ vote as against Simon Coveney’s 65%, but… Read more »

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BANKING ON THE QATARI MOOLAH

Date: June 15, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

THE TUMULT in the Middle East – where Qatar finds itself isolated economically and diplomatically by a strategy fronted by Saudi Arabia and including smaller Arab and Muslims states such as the United Arab Emirates – is being closely watched by assorted players in Ireland. Should the campaign continue, the Irish racehorse industry in particular… Read more »

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BILL McCABE’S EXCLUSIVE CLUB

Date: June 15, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

MONEYBAGS Bill McCabe’s experiment with the pampering of high-flyers saw him invest big bucks into the Oyster Circle club but now the company has finally been wound up, after a long slow demise. The super exclusive Oyster Circle “luxury destination club” was incorporated in 2006 and, at the time, The Irish Times referred to the… Read more »

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NEW IRISH BILDERBERGERS

Date: June 15, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

THE shadowy Bilderberg Conference, at which the most wealthy and powerful transatlantic decision-makers gather to discuss mutual interests, convened in Chantilly, Virginia, for its annual meeting recently and there appears to be a changing of the Irish guard among its members. Michael O’Leary has attended in the past and he was there again this year… Read more »

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EDWARD BURKE’S CREDENTIALS

Date: June 15, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

LAST WEEK, after the deadly London attack, Irish Times readers were treated to an opinion piece by Edward Burke on the Irish state’s “overburdened” security services. He should know what he’s talking about. Burke’s article was strong on criticism of the Irish set-up, urging the government to follow the UK model by establishing a completely… Read more »

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