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Leo Varadkar

Leo Varadkar’s Foreign Strategy

Date: August 24, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

Leo Varadkar LEO VARADKAR’S intention to double Ireland’s international presence is only one part of the Taoiseach’s plan to involve Ireland in global geo-politics. The other foreign policy aim is to effectively scrap Ireland’s already diminished status as a neutral country as evidenced by Varadkar’s response to the EU Council’s declaration of “enhanced co-operation” on… Read more »

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Date: August 24, 2017 -

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Kevin Myers

They’re all against Myers… now

Date: August 10, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

Kevin Myers THERE are multiple ironies in the reaction to Kevin Myers’s self immolation, not the least being that his offending article – like all copy for The Sunday Times Irish edition – was vetted in the ST’s London head office before the editorial coolies in Dublin were allowed to publish it. ST Irish journalists… Read more »

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Breon Corcoran

Breon Corcoran’s next move?

Date: August 10, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

Breon Corcoran THE NEWS that Breon Corcoran is exiting Paddy Power-Beftair has shocked the market and pushed the shares down. But in truth, the company’s shares have been on the slide for over a year as fans of Goldhawk were warned in 2016. Back in May 2016, Goldhawk noted that the overpriced shares had only… Read more »

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Date: August 10, 2017 -

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Ed Walsh

ED WALSH BIFFS BIFFO

Date: August 10, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

Ed Walsh ED WALSH, former University of Limerick (UL) president, indulged in a spot of score settling with the return of his honorary doctorate to NUI in protest at the same honour being bestowed on ex-Taoiseach Brian Cowen recently. Down the years Walsh has suffered more than a few indignities as he struggled to assert… Read more »

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Thornhill

DOCTOR In THE HOUSE

Date: August 10, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

Thornhill THINGS haven’t gone so well for US import Dr Gerald Stephens who late last month lost an appeal against a 2015 High Court order for specific performance of a loan agreement. Retired doctor Stephens is based in Mayo and he’s been embroiled in a scrap with ACC Bank since 2008 over a mansion he… Read more »

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Lucinda Creighton

LUCINDA’S LUCRATIVE GIG

Date: August 10, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

Lucinda Creighton LUCINDA CREIGHTON hasn’t gone away you know. In her latest guise as an EU consultant, the former Fine Gael Minister of State for European Affairs has popped up as some class of an adviser to the current FG Minister of State for European Affairs Helen McEntee. This will do Lucinda’s profile with her… Read more »

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Eddie Sheehy

WICKLOW COUNCIL’S ‘DISASTER FOR ALL’

Date: August 10, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

Eddie Sheehy LITIGIOUS and financial exhaustion seems likely to see Wicklow County Council hoist the white flag following a High Court finding in favour of Cllr Tommy Cullen and ex-councillor Barry Nevin who had sued the local authority and its ex-manager, Eddie Sheehy, for libel. The two councillors each received an order for just €20,000… Read more »

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Finian McGrath

LEO AND FINIAN LOVE-IN

Date: August 10, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

Finian McGrath FINIAN McGRATH’S paean of praise this week for his new Taoiseach Leo Varadkar was not delivered without motive and the super junior minster is shrewder than many of his critics realise. Vlad is “sound as a pound” and “Leo’s intellect makes a big difference at cabinet”, he told the Irish Examiner on Monday…. Read more »

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Neutrality Ban

Date: August 10, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

PRESIDENT of the Institute of International and European Affairs (IIEA), Brendan Halligan, was recently given space in The Irish Times for yet another article idemanding that Ireland end its neutrality. Halligan regurgitated one of the great moans of Irish armchair generals, namely that discussion of EU defence is “off limits” and neutrality is a “matter… Read more »

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Aine Lawlor

The Hot Air Brigade

Date: August 10, 2017 - The Hot Air Brigade

Aine Lawlor I think Morning Ireland has a soul – a heathen soul- but a noble soul and I think it’s his. Áine Lawlor on Cathal Mac Coille’s retirement, Irish Independent, Submitted by reader I am the author of my own misery, I am the master of my soul, the author of my own misfortune…. Read more »

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Bonfire

BONFIRES TO BE BANNED

Date: August 10, 2017 - Bird's Eye View

SINN FÉIN has moved to exploit a gaping hole that loyalists have left open in the north’s culture wars. For years 11th night bonfires have been growing bigger, some teetering over 30m high. Belfast districts, in particular, compete to see whose can be highest, some dangerously so. Last year one giant pyre in the Shankill… Read more »

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Nicolas Maduro

VENEZUELA: THE US WANTS ITS COUNTRY BACK

Date: August 10, 2017 - Foreign Frolics

Nicolas Maduro WHAT IS taking place in Venezuela is an attempt at counterrevolution. Washington wants “its” country back, which is why it is providing both overt and covert support to an opposition determined to return the country to its previous status as a wholly owned subsidiary of the United States. What needs to be emphasised… Read more »

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Martin Fraser

VARADKAR’S WELL OILED PR MACHINE

Date: August 10, 2017 - Last Refuge

Martin Fraser THE “strategic communications unit” to be created at the heart of government has an Orwellian ring to it and there is little doubt it will serve as part of Leo Varadkar’s plan for a revamped Fine Gael election campaign. But it also indicates the further centralisation of government, a process begun by Enda… Read more »

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Stephen Donnelly

FF BORDER ROW

Date: August 10, 2017 - Last Refuge

Stephen Donnelly THE ROW between Leo Varadkar and the DUP over the border and Brexit is polite compared to the clash between Fianna Fáil’s Brexit spokesperson, Stephen Donnelly, and the party’s foreign affairs spokesperson, Darragh O’Brien. Straight after Varadkar’s recent “no-border” comments aimed at the Brits Donnelly gave unstinting support to Vlad’s hard line, even… Read more »

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Byrne Dynasty

Date: August 10, 2017 - Last Refuge

GOLDHAWK noted the resentment among Fianna Fáil frontbenchers at the perceived media favouritism enjoyed by Meath East TD Thomas Byrne via his frat boy friendship with communications director Pat McParland at Trinners (see The Phoenix, 24/7/17). Such jealousy has been sharpened by developments in party circles in Louth where another member of the Byrne famille… Read more »

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Gerry Adams

GERRY ADAMS’S LONG GOODBYE

Date: August 10, 2017 - Last Refuge

Gerry Adams THAT Mary Lou McDonald and not El Presidente Gerry Adams delivered Sinn Féin’s coalition message to Fianna Fáil last week can be read in two ways. One is that Mary Lou is being prepared for her coronation as leader when Adams steps down shortly; the other is that Adams prefers his lieutenants to… Read more »

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Claire Byrne

RTÉ WAGE SLAVES

Date: August 10, 2017 - Fit to Print?

Claire Byrne DESPITE rampant speculation about Bryan “Dobbo” Dobson moving to Morning Ireland, RTÉ’S head of news and current affairs, the no-nonsense Jon Williams, is fixated on changing TV news. In particular, Williams wants to revitalise the 6.01 News programme and his dream team is Claire Byrne and, well, almost anyone else will do. Talk… Read more »

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Susan Denham

WORST LIBEL LEGACY

Date: August 10, 2017 - Fit to Print?

Susan Denham THAT profit warning from INM issued in late July and which referred to extra costs arising from “legacy libel awards” referred to two particular cases that were settled recently. One was a 17-year libel action by Sligo man Martin McDonagh against the Sunday World, which had incorrectly described him as a “Traveller drug… Read more »

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Kevin Myers

Myers’ Fans

Date: August 10, 2017 - Fit to Print?

Kevin Myers THE only consolation for The Sunday Times on the weekend of its now ejected columnist Kevin Myers’s anti-Semitic implosion was that Irish sales of the newspaper went up by over 5,000. This was because news of Myers’s transgression and sacking spread like wildfire on TV and radio but because it had been taken… Read more »

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Luke Comer Ban

Billionaire property tycoon Luke Comer and his horseracing handicap

Date: August 10, 2017 - Pillars of Society

Luke Comer THE PROPERTY boom is again making some people very rich, none more so than Luke Comer and his younger brother, Brian, who moved their Galway plastering operation to the UK in the 1980s before making their first fortune as developers. Since returning to Ireland, the brothers have caused quite a stir as a… Read more »

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Shane Ross

ROSS TO ELECTRIFY TRANSPORT?

Date: August 10, 2017 - Fowl Emissions

Shane Ross IS THERE any part of the environmental agenda that Ireland doesn’t have to be dragged kicking and screaming into, to achieve even the grudging bare minimum? Take electric cars (EVs). Back in 2008 the FF/Green administration set a national target of having 10% of private cars electric by 2020. At that time, EVs… Read more »

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Bog Cuttings

Bog Cuttings

Date: August 10, 2017 - Bog Cuttings

‘How long is life?’ A BOYLE man charged with threatening or insulting behaviour was given the benefit of the Probation Act at Carrick-on-Shannon District Court. Kevin Beirne, Patrick Street, Boyle told the court: “I was giving a bit of guff but not much at all.” Giving evidence, a garda told the court that he had… Read more »

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Solar Bones

SOLAR BONES – MIKE McCORMACK (CANONGATE)

Date: August 10, 2017 - BooksReviews

LONGLISTED LAST month for the 2017 Man Booker Prize (along with Sebastian Barry’s Days Without End), Mike McCormack’s experimental novel tells the story of Marcus Conway, a civil engineer in his early 50s. On All Souls’ Day, 2008, he is alone in the kitchen of his home in Louisburgh, Co Mayo (“a bordered realm of… Read more »

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Siobhan Cullen

CRESTFALL – PEACOCK THEATRE

Date: August 10, 2017 - ReviewsTheatre

Siobhan Cullen YOU CAN’T accuse the Abbey’s new directors of being cautious. It takes nerve to stage the most vulgar, violent and crudely poetic play from the contemporary Irish canon in the heart of summer. This time around, Mark O’Rowe’s Mad Max-style dystopian drama hasn’t prompted the walkouts that marred its 2003 debut at the… Read more »

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Ken Early

KEN EARLY POLITICAL PODCAST – SECOND CAPTAINS WORLD SERVICE

Date: August 10, 2017 - PodcastsReviews

Ken Early WHEN THE Second Captains sports team left The Irish Times stable of podcasts to strike out with their own Second Captains World Service platform of podcasts, the need to diversify was clear. Of the three presenters, Ken Early was the obvious choice to host a new podcast. On sport, Early is as likely… Read more »

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Harry Crosbie

HARRY’S PLAY

Date: August 10, 2017 - Behind the Scenes

Harry Crosbie THE PACE is picking up for Harry Crosbie’s proposed People’s Theatre in Dublin’s docklands. Presumably, the running of the operation will prove more orthodox than his other entertainment venture Crosbie has had his share of setbacks and popped up recently in the headlines courtesy of a high profile stand-off with Nama that saw… Read more »

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Joe Osborne

OSBORNE MAKES HIS MARK

Date: August 10, 2017 - Sport of Kings

Joe Osborne JOE OSBORNE has wasted little time in making his presence felt in his new role as chief executive of Sheikh Mohammed al Maktoum’s global racing and breeding empire, Godolphin. Osborne stepped into the position after the ousting of John Ferguson following his breakdown in relations with Saeed Bin Suroor, one of Sheikh Mohammed’s… Read more »

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Ruby Walsh

CHOOSY RUBY

Date: August 10, 2017 - Sport of Kings

Ruby Walsh JOCKEY EXTRAORDINAIRE Ruby Walsh has become highly selective when choosing his mounts these days and it may be a hint that the multiple champion is beginning to think of life beyond the saddle. In comparison to his peers, such as Davy Russell, Paul Townend and Andrew Lynch, Walsh has recently opted for a… Read more »

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Brian Kavanagh

Legal Jockeying

Date: August 10, 2017 - Sport of Kings

Brian Kavanagh INTERESTING to see proceedings being lodged in the High Court by one Andrew Thornton against Fairyhouse racecourse and its owner, Brian Kavanagh’s Horse Racing Ireland (HRI). It is not clear at this stage who these proceedings relate to and neither side was prepared to spill the beans when contacted by Goldhawk. However, the… Read more »

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Roger Brookhouse

JUSTICE FOR BROOKHOUSE

Date: August 10, 2017 - Sport of Kings

Roger Brookhouse WHEN UK-based owner Roger Brookhouse lodged an appeal with the Turf Club over its decision to void the race in Killarney last month won by his Stars Over The Sea, Denis Egan and the Bowler Hats dusted off the rule book and realised they had crossed their own line with their action. For… Read more »

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Donal Murphy

DCC’s rocket-fuelled share rating

Date: August 10, 2017 - Moneybags

Donal Murphy WITH DCC’s Tommy Breen standing down – despite being only 58 – the new chief executive is Donal Murphy, who has spent 10 years running the company’s totally dominant fuel distribution business. He is inheriting a group that has benefited from favourable conditions in recent years, so there will be serious demands on… Read more »

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Mike Donoghue

Ormonde Mining’s low valuation

Date: August 10, 2017 - Moneybags

Mike Donoghue ORMONDE MINING chairman Mike Donoghue has very sensibly delayed the development of his tungsten mine in Salamanca, Western Spain. The initial plan was to have the mine up and running this autumn but looking at the underlying trend in tungsten prices – which bottomed out in January 2016 – Donoghue and his chief… Read more »

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Eoin Bara

Contract woes for Eoin Bara

Date: August 10, 2017 - Brief Cases

Eoin Bara SPARE a thought for gin distiller and serial entrepreneur Eoin Bara (his full surname is Baratizadeh) whose tech consultancy has just collapsed into liquidation. Bara has been the subject of numerous write-ups in the press over the last year after he set up a distillery in his native Tullamore where he manufactures his… Read more »

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Ferdi Roberts

Ferdi Roberts’s Gamercon fiasco

Date: August 10, 2017 - Brief Cases

Ferdi Roberts THERE was bad news for promoter Ferdi Roberts recently when his company Gamercon Ltd collapsed into liquidation in late July. Gamercon is the company behind the event of the same name, which took place back in March in Dublin’s Convention Centre and left thousands of disappointed nerds out in the rain. Roberts was… Read more »

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