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Brendan Rohan’s business pal

Date: June 15, 2017 - Brief Cases

MORE on bolshy hotelier Brendan Rohan who, much to the chagrin of locals, has vowed to keep the Union Jack flying over his premises. The former Irish army officer owns the Dunfanaghy Holiday Village at Corcreggan Mill in Donegal and has been thrust into the spotlight in the last couple of weeks after becoming embroiled… Read more »

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Brian Lee’s Healthy Profits

Date: June 15, 2017 - Brief Cases

CONGRATULATIONS are in order to Dublin entrepreneur and part-time mixed martial artist Brian Lee whose salad bar company is looking very healthy indeed. Freshly Chopped Ltd, the company behind three Dublin branches of Lee and his business partner Andy Chen’s Chopped restaurants, reported accumulated profits of €400,000 at the end of last year in accounts… Read more »

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Vol.35 No.11

Date: June 2, 2017 -

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THE BUCK STOPS NOWHERE

Date: June 2, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

IF Leo Varadkar is half as smart as his supporters make out, he will stamp his authority on the new administration by immediately making an example of at least one high roller in this benighted state. The jails are full of robbers, drug peddlers and abusers, burglars, shop lifters and other working class miscreants, even… Read more »

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DCC SUES PHILIP McGLADE

Date: June 2, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

HIGH COURT proceedings have just been initiated by Temple Bar Cultural Trust (now controlled by Dublin City Council) against a couple of familiar names on the Dublin scene – the under-fire Jay Bourke and the McGlade family, who have been making big bucks in the nightclub and beauty businesses. The litigation relates to the former… Read more »

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JOHN MORIARTY’S SWIMMING LESSON

Date: June 2, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

SPARE A thought for John Moriarty, Kieran Ruttledge and Liam Bohan, the principals in Dublin Waterworld Ltd (DWL) who, Goldhawk can reveal, have just had a €30m claim for damages against the state rejected by the High Court. The three Kerrymen have been fighting assorted legal battles over a decade as a result of building… Read more »

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DECLAN KELLY GOES REPUBLICAN (US)

Date: June 2, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

TENEO principal, Declan Kelly, would have been anything but embarrassed at allegations in recent years that he provided his multinational clients with access to the White House. That’s what Teneo’s clients pay for, after all. But when Donald Trump won the presidential election the Clintons, Bill and Hillary, became yesterday’s people – as did Declan…. Read more »

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EDITORIAL INDEPENDENCE AT COI GAZETTE

Date: June 2, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

CHURCH of Ireland Gazette editor, Canon Ian Ellis, has just retired and he leaves behind a legacy that puts The Irish Times to shame in the fundamental area of child protection. A prominently placed letter from Bethany Survivors spokesperson, Derek Leinster, in the Gazette’s current edition lists a catalogue of neglect and cover-up by “Protestant… Read more »

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BILDERBERGER’S BOY IN IRELAND

Date: June 2, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

THE shadowy Bilderberg Group, that elite assembly of bankers, industrialists, politicians and military bosses is currently holding its 2017 conference in Chantilly, Virginia under the chairmanship of Henri de Castries, the long term CEO of AXA Insurance. The Bilderbergers have been credited, among other things, of spotting and then promoting future western leaders. Bill Clinton… Read more »

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SIMON COVENEY’S FORMER FRIENDS

Date: June 2, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

RIGHT up to the last hours of the Fine Gael leadership contest Simon Coveney’s team persuaded themselves that ‘defeat-jaws-victory-snatch’ was on the cards. Their calculation was that the 21 declared supporters plus three undeclared cabinet members – Enda Kenny, Michael Noonan and Michael Creed – and MEP Sean Kelly would bring them up to 25…. Read more »

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Who Is Declan Kearney?

Date: June 2, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

THE Sunday Independent’s public act of contrition and apology to a “Mr Declan Kearney” last weekend admitted that their assertion about him in an article on 19/2/17 being “a one-time senior figure in the IRA” was wholly without any basis or foundation”. So who is ‘Mr Declan Kearney’? Antrim-based Kearney has been chairman of SF… Read more »

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The Hot Air Brigade

Date: June 2, 2017 - The Hot Air Brigade

I was in the jacks at about 2.30am and two lads, who were leaning up against the urinal, started giving me a lecture on remortgaging and second homes. David McWilliams on the moment in 2004 when he knew the housing bubble would burst, Sunday Independent, Submitted by reader Because I was always the kid at… Read more »

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UUP TO SUFFER IN NI ELECTION

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

All elections in the north are polarising but none more than British general elections using the sudden death first-past-the-post voting system. The results of these elections confront the southern media with the truth that the ‘middle ground’ they extol is Hy Brasil, the mythical land in the north-east that you can see once every seven… Read more »

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DR VARADKAR’S DILEMMA

Date: June 2, 2017 - Last Refuge

LEO Varadkar has received favourable commentary for his work ethic in his chosen profession of medicine in early life – “a young man who gave over his life to medicine” said the Sunday Independent. And The Irish Times described him as a “hard worker”, reporting how “almost everyone remembers his capacity for work”, and quoting… Read more »

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FRANCES FITZGERALD’S FINESSE

Date: June 2, 2017 - Last Refuge

TÁNAISTE and justice minister, Frances Fitzgerald, has degenerated from being a potential Fine Gael leader and Taoiseach to a minister fighting for her political life within a matter of months. But will her shameless support for Leo Varadkar be enough to save Fitzgerald’s senior position as justice minster or even her cabinet seat? Fitzgerald’s opportunist… Read more »

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Simon’s Tactics

Date: June 2, 2017 - Last Refuge

SIMON COVENEY was congratulated for his plucky and gentlemanly fight back against Leo Varadkar’s Conor McGregor type assault in the first days of the leadership campaign. But Simon’s side was not above fighting dirty and signs of desperation were evident in James ‘Bottler’ Reilly’s speech in Cavan last week. Reports of his speech in The… Read more »

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Leo’s Headache

Date: June 2, 2017 - Last Refuge

LEO VARADKAR’S troika in the South-East of Kilkenny TD, John Paul Phelan, Wexford junior defence minister, Paul Kehoe and his constituency rival, Michael D’Arcy TD, gives the new leader a real cabinet headache. These three were in the front line of Varadkar’s storm troopers as they over-ran Simon Coveney’s forces in the first day or… Read more »

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martin baulks at action on vulture funds

Date: June 2, 2017 - Last Refuge

Micheál Martin appears to have developed a Hamlet complex. The conservatism and fear of a premature election that has seized the party over the last few months has paralysed Fianna Fáil and currently they are unable to decide whether to move a bill confronting vulture funds and their seizure of distressed homes mortgages. Last February,… Read more »

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COVENEY’S INDO CHOIR GIRLS

Date: June 2, 2017 - Fit to Print?

THE Irish Independent made a desperate attempt to rally support for its favoured Fine Gael contender Simon Coveney last Saturday while also lauding Simon’s siren Kate O’Connell, one of just two Dublin-based, female TDs on the Corkman’s team. The Indo published four photos of O’Connell and several articles on her in the weekend edition and… Read more »

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Harris’s Pendulum Swings Again

Date: June 2, 2017 - Fit to Print?

THE straight-talking, no-nonsense Eoghan Harris told Sindo readers and Newstalk’s Ivan Yates recently that if he were a Fine Gael member he would vote for Leo Varadkar as leader. This, Bertie Ahern’s former Senate choice explained, was because he was no “ fence-sitter”. Harris may believe that being a political revisionist allows him to ignore… Read more »

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Israeli Intervention?

Date: June 2, 2017 - Fit to Print?

THE Irish Times appears to be the target of a cyber attack from Israeli supporters as a concerted attempt has been made to reverse its poll on support or not for Dublin City Council’s flying of the Palestinian flag above City Hall. After councillors voted to fly the flag on May 8, the IT’s poll… Read more »

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Leslie Buckley

Date: June 2, 2017 - Pillars of Society

THESE ARE testing times for the chairman of Independent News and Media (INM), Leslie Buckley, trusted lieutenant and boardroom representative of the group’s biggest shareholder, Denis O’Brien. Unusually for the chairman of a listed company, Buckley (a one-time tax exile it turns out) has been beset by corporate governance issues in recent months and finds… Read more »

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VICTIMISED CLIMATE DENIERS

Date: June 2, 2017 - Fowl Emissions

FROM the moment Claire Byrne uttered her sulky opening question – “Climate change: should anyone dare to debate the fundamentals?” – it was clear this would be RTÉ at its underdog-championing best: giving a platform to a victimised minority (climate contrarians) battling the tyranny of scientific fact. RTÉ television is a serial offender when it… Read more »

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Bog Cuttings

Date: June 2, 2017 - Bog Cuttings

‘Your shirt is too pink’ Kerry county councillors have voted in favour of a motion calling for a dress code to be introduced for TDs and county councillors. Fine Gael councillor Pat McCarthy tabled the motion after listening to three tourists in Dublin who were “shocked and appalled” by how some deputies were dressed. Independent… Read more »

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Cllr John Lyons

Date: June 2, 2017 - The Young Bloods

ODDS on an early general election have shortened with the advent of a new Fine Gael leader and Leo Varadkar has already outlined part of his electoral strategy, namely, target Sinn Féin and the hard left. Once insignificant and confined to college debating societies, the organised far left now has six TDs (not including such… Read more »

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THE TAN WAR

Date: June 2, 2017 - High Society

LAST WEEK, the Oirish Mail on Sunday highlighted a move by make-up/lifestyle blogger and cosmetics phenomenon, Suzanne Jackson “into Marissa’s patch” – claiming that the launch of a new tanning brand “will pitch [Jackson] against award-winning tan queen” Marissa Carter. As fans of Goldhawk will be aware, Marissa Carter, the woman behind the popular Cocoa… Read more »

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JAMIE to cut the FAT

Date: June 2, 2017 - High Society

THESE ARE unhealthy times for Jamie Myerscough, grandson of the late Vincent O’Brien (whose daughter Jane is married to former auctioneer Philip Myerscough of Colbinstown Stud). While Jamie has generated endless publicity for his chain of gyms – thanks to working at one stage with former fatty Robbie Williams as well as golfer Darren Clarke… Read more »

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BAD DREAMS IN CASTLE DURROW

Date: June 2, 2017 - High Society

THE OWNERS of Castle Durrow outside Abbeyleix – Peter and Shelly Stokes – will have been delighted with the puff piece in the Sunday Times last weekend highlighting their adventures in the “dream hotel”. Happily, there was no mention of a few headaches on the horizon. The couple met back in 1992 and a bowled-over… Read more »

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SKINTOWN – CIARÁN McMENAMIN (DOUBLEDAY)

Date: June 2, 2017 - BooksReviews

THIS DEBUT novel touches on well-trodden aspects of yoof culture, with themes of male friendship and the prospect of redemption running the length of the book. Occasionally echoing Irvine Welsh and Rob Doyle’s frenzied narratives, McMenamin structures the plot around several extended sequences that take place mostly in Enniskillen. The story focuses on 18-year-old Vincent… Read more »

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ITHACA – ALAN McMONAGLE (PICADOR)

Date: June 2, 2017 - BooksReviews

THE DEBUT novel from Galway-based Alan McMonagle is set in the summer of 2019 in an unnamed Irish Midlands town “miles from anywhere, and built inside a hole made out of bog”. With so much recession fiction already doing the rounds, it’s a well-worn dystopian setting (“ghost estates, empty spaces, idle offices, unfinished apartments, the… Read more »

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IN VIEW – DIRECTED BY CIARAN CREAGH

Date: June 2, 2017 - MoviesReviews

WHEN IT comes to film pitches, a story about a suicidal Garda officer is not exactly Pirates Of The Caribbean. It is much to the credit of the writer-director of In View, Ciaran Creagh, then, that he has produced such a compelling and powerful piece of work. Indeed, the movie is virtually anomalous among Irish… Read more »

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NO PIZZA FOR SELINA CARTMELL

Date: June 2, 2017 - Behind the Scenes

AS SHE gets started as the new director at the Gate Theatre, Selina Cartmell seems intent on doing all she can to break with the Michael Colgan-stamped past. In recent years, the theatre hasn’t run programmes at all, instead announcing each show shortly before it opened. Cartmell instead launched a seven-show series – for one… Read more »

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STILL ON THE HUNT

Date: June 2, 2017 - Behind the Scenes

STILL NO sign of white smoke at the Hunt Museum in Limerick, where the former Director, Hugh Maguire, exited exactly one year ago. Maybe the arrival of a new director on the Hunt board might encourage some activity from the other directors and the high profile chairman, John Moran, former secretary general at the Department… Read more »

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MICHAEL O’KEEFFE’S €5M

Date: June 2, 2017 - Behind the Scenes

THERE WAS good news for assorted producers last month when Michael O’Keefe’s Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) dished out over €5m in grants to the independent TV luvvies under its Sound & Vision programme. Fans of Amy Huberman will be delighted but there was bad news for the Mary Black fan club. Among the handful… Read more »

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ENGLISH LESSON

Date: June 2, 2017 - Sport of Kings

UP AND COMING young Dublin trainer, Damien English, has carved out a well-earned reputation for buying cheap cast-offs from other trainers and developing them into winning machines. But he must be thinking of the one that got away. The trio of Tribal Path, Geological and Blues Breaker were picked up by English at different horse-in-training… Read more »

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MOOLAH FOR McCARTAN

Date: June 2, 2017 - Sport of Kings

JIM McCARTAN has been having a stellar season at the breeze up sales (see The Phoenix 5/5/17) and he landed another almighty touch in France a couple of weeks ago. McCartan had bought another yearling at Keeneland in Lexington last year in partnership with fellow breeze up supreme, Willie Brown, for only $15,000. The colt… Read more »

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