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Patrick Crowley’s litany of woe

Patrick Crowley’s litany of woe

Date: August 10, 2017 - Brief Cases

Giovanni Di Stefano CONGRATULATIONS to solicitors Cathal O’Donovan and Patrick Crowley, formerly of O’Donovan Solicitors in Dublin, who had a decent day in the High Court recently. AIB had tried to secure summary judgment against the two boys for €217,000 but they managed to convince Judge Robert Eagar to bring the matter to a full… Read more »

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Eddie Hobbs

Farewell to Brendan Investments

Date: August 10, 2017 - Brief Cases

Eddie Hobbs IT’S the end of an era as Brendan Investments Pan European Property (BIPEP) was finally put into liquidation last month. The company – where Vincent Regan and Hugh O’Neill are listed as directors and where once upon-a-time celebrity economist Eddie Hobbs was a non-executive director – owes €11.4m to investors and a quick… Read more »

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Declan Doyle’s director’s loans

Date: August 10, 2017 - Brief Cases

AN INTRIGUING little company called Comlee Ltd is facing a winding up petition courtesy of the taxman. Comlee is a small business consultancy outfit based in St Margaret’s in north Co Dublin but a quick look at the company’s CRO filings reveals it might have some big problems on its hands. The directors and co-owners… Read more »

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Charlie Hopkins

Charlie Hopkins’s headache

Date: August 10, 2017 - Brief Cases

Charlie Hopkins AN INTERESTING front page apology was published by the Roscommon Herald last month, the week after an article on a company that had run a social services centre and provided meals on wheels from the town of Keadue. The founder and long-time chair of the operation is former Fine Gael mayor of Roscommon… Read more »

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Give me the Pip

Date: August 10, 2017 - Brief Cases

AN INTRIGUING company called Galvanic Ltd has just applied to the High Court to appoint an examiner. The outfit makes a device called The Pip, which measures stress levels by tracking changes in “electrodermal activity” through the pores on a user’s fingertips. Directors here include John Ingram and David Ingram and accounts filed by the… Read more »

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Ellen Coyne

Times hackette Ellen Coyne

Date: August 10, 2017 - The Young Bloods

Ellen Coyne FEMINIST journalist Ellen Coyne (26) has been steadily building her own brand for the last few years. A senior reporter at the Times Ireland Edition (TIE) covering politics and social affairs, Coyne is becoming the standout talent at the fledgling publication, which is desperate to set itself apart from the established competition, particularly… Read more »

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Michael Wall

MICHAEL WALL’S ABBEY CREDENTIALS

Date: August 10, 2017 - High Society

Michael Wall THE RECENT overdue appointments to the board of the Abbey Theatre include barrister-cum-architect Michael Wall, who has a number of strings to his bow. Wall has been appointed following the long delay in installing Frances Ruane as the new chair of the Abbey, a process that needed to be completed to enable other… Read more »

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Lisselan House

David Blackburn’s property problem

Date: August 10, 2017 - High Society

Lisselan House THERE HAVE been few more startling property price drops than that associated with the magnificent Lissellan House and estate outside Clonakilty in Co Cork. Back in 2014, the turreted French chateau style property on 315 acres – owned by retired British motor dealer David Blackburn – was briefly placed on the market with… Read more »

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Brittany Mason and Steven Patach

Brittany Mason in Trump’s footsteps

Date: August 10, 2017 - High Society

Brittany Mason and Steven Patach READERS OF last weekend’s Sindo were treated to an article featuring the glamorous new promoter of Miss Universe Ireland competition – model and former Miss Universe finalist Brittany Mason. The statuesque blonde, who is revamping the whole project, was eager to knock on the head any suggestions that the beauty… Read more »

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Rose McHugh

Rose McHugh at the Crawford

Date: August 10, 2017 - Behind the Scenes

Rose McHugh WHILE THERE is still no sign of an advert seeking a successor to Peter Murray as director of the Crawford Art Gallery in Cork, the new chair, Rose McHugh, is preparing to seek a regrading of the position to encourage applicants who might be put off by the €75,000 approx annual stipend. McHugh… Read more »

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Mel Gibson

Mel Gibson vs Macdara Kelleher

Date: August 10, 2017 - Behind the Scenes

Mel Gibson ON JULY 31, some showbiz legal eagles in Los Angeles filed a lengthy series of claims on behalf of Hollywood star Mel Gibson and his production and distribution company, Icon. Assorted defendants include Nicolas Chartier of Voltage Pictures – and Christchurch Productions DAC, which turns out to be a little-known Irish company. The… Read more »

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Vol 35 No 15

Date: July 27, 2017 -

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Paul Kehoe

OPERATION SOPHISTRY AND NEUTRALITY

Date: July 27, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

Paul Kehoe AS cynical political manoeuvres go, the government’s co-option of Ireland’s defence forces into Operation Sophia – touchingly named after a baby born on a German frigate in the Mediterranean in 2015 – is gold standard. The plight of refugees in the Mediterranean and photographs of dead children have had a profound effect on… Read more »

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Susan Denham

A heads up

Date: July 27, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

Susan Denham Retiring Chief Justice Susan Denham has called for new guidelines to be considered to regulate social media during trials. For more on the outgoing chief justice see Pillar of Society. You can also read about social media, contempt and the Jobstown trial in our Young Blood profile of Solidarity press officer Dave Murphy.

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Trina Vargo

TRINA VARGO’S VENGANCE

Date: July 27, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

Trina Vargo “MY EXPERIENCES with the Irish Film Board (IFB) are kind of like James Comey’s experiences with President Trump – I’ve learned to take notes in the meetings, or as soon as I walk out the door, because I can expect alternative facts to follow.” Thus does the bolshy Trina Vargo of the US-Ireland… Read more »

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Dermot-Desmond

Plutocrats’ Pow-Wow

Date: July 27, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

Dermot Desmond MORE ON that strange plutocrats’ pow-wow at Dublin’s Shelbourne Hotel last month, when Rupert Murdoch was in town for the launch of the Irish edition of The Times newspaper. There was much scratching of the heads in D2 over the make-up of the group of mostly heavy-hitters who turned up to pay homage… Read more »

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Maura King

Paul McGarry v Maura King

Date: July 27, 2017 - Wigs on the Green

Maura King THE poll topping performance of dissident barrister Maura King who argued for greater transparency and accountability in recent elections to the Bar Council saw the Good Ol’ Boys strike back in double quick time with a long, detailed message to its 2,000 plus members. This rapid response enabled council chairman Paul McGarry and… Read more »

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Denis O'Brien

WILL DINNY GO FOR BROKE?

Date: July 27, 2017 - Wigs on the Green

Denis O’Brien NEXT MONTH’S annual general meeting of Independent News and Media (INM) will be a bumpy affair and awkward questions will be unavoidable on issues such as that bid to buy Newstalk, the investigation of the company by the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement and the relationship between the company’s chief executive,… Read more »

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Ruairi Quinn

QUINN NOW HEADS EURO QUANGO

Date: July 27, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

Ruairi Quinn CHAIRMAN of the Institute of International and European Affairs (IIEA), Brendan Halligan (81), has moved aside and has been bestowed with the more honorific title of president of an entity that has brought the securing of dole-outs from the state to a high art form. And the man that has replaced him as… Read more »

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Lisa Chambers

FF’s Friendly Faces

Date: July 27, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

Lisa Chambers THERE have been silly season rumblings against FF’s communications director, Pat McParland. A particular grievance is the selection by McParland, guided by the real boss, Deirdre Gillane, of front benchers for media outings. The repetitive selection of new Mayo TD, Lisa Chambers and the less photogenic Meath East TD, Thomas Byrne, has caused… Read more »

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Colm Toibin

The Hot Air Brigade

Date: July 27, 2017 - The Hot Air Brigade

Colm Toibin The page is not a mirror. It is blank when I start to write, but it contains a version of the world when I finish. It is there for others to be inspired by. Slowly then, a sentence or set of sentences that have their own integrity, their own sense of balance, their… Read more »

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Donald Trump

THE STORY BEHIND THE JERUSALEM ATTACK

Date: July 27, 2017 - Foreign Frolics

Donald Trump By Ramzy Baroud Al-Aqsa is believed to be the second mosque ever to be built, the first being Masjid al-Haram in Mecca. The Holy Quran mentions it as the place from which Prophet Mohammed ascended to heaven, journeying from Mecca to Jerusalem. For Palestinians, Muslims and Christians alike, the Mosque took on a new… Read more »

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GOVE’S DUP LOVE-IN

Date: July 27, 2017 - Bird's Eye View

Michael Gove THE visit of Michael Gove, Britain’s controversial Environment Secretary, to one of the north’s premier agricultural shows at Antrim was for some people akin to letting a fox loose among the prize poultry. When Theresa May disinterred Gove’s political career and re-appointed him to the Cabinet after her disastrous election, environmentalists protested. Some… Read more »

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Marcella Corcoran Kennedy

BIPARTISAN DRINKS PARTIES

Date: July 27, 2017 - Last Refuge

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy THE alacrity with which Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil voted through a bill allowing pubs to open on Good Fridays contrasts with the interminable obstruction that has seen the Public Health (Alcohol) Bill postponed indefinitely. Leo Varadkar’s equivalent of the Queen’s speech on being installed as Taoiseach last month included a pledge… Read more »

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Noel Rock

VARADKAR’S DISAPPOINTED FANS

Date: July 27, 2017 - Last Refuge

Noel Rock FURTHER signs of mutinous discontent among the ranks of those who fought not wisely but too well in support of Leo Varadkar’s seizure of the Fine Gael leadership have surfaced following earlier signs of disaffection from the same quarter. TDs Alan Farrell and Pat Deering, both passed over in Vlad’s appointment of new… Read more »

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Colm Keaveney’s Return

Date: July 27, 2017 - Last Refuge

FIANNA FÁIL’S Galway East TD Anne Rabbitte felt a slight chill when party leader Micheál Martin told Galway Bay FM last week that former TD Colm Keaveney would be on the party ticket at the next general election. A former Labour Party chairman, Keaveney joined… Read more »

Stephen Donnelly

STEPHEN DONNELLY IRKS FF INSIDERS

Date: July 27, 2017 - Last Refuge

Stephen Donnelly STEPHEN DONNELLY, who recently joined Fianna Fáil and was appointed the party’s Brexit spokesman, is experiencing a rather mixed welcome. A waspish line in Miriam Lord’s Irish Times column recently suggested he could become FF’s version of George Lee. The resurrection of Donnelly’s former critique of FF – a party characterised by “jobs… Read more »

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Paul Williams

PAUL WILLIAMS IN THE BOX

Date: July 27, 2017 - Fit to Print?

Paul Williams THE Sunday Independent’s extensive feature on Paul Williams’ evidence to the Charleton Tribunal described how the ”pre-eminent crime journalist of his time … gave as good as he got with no side drawing blood after he faced five senior counsel over several hours”. But the Sindo article omitted various pieces of evidence that… Read more »

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Brendan O'Connor

Brendan O’Connor for TV3?

Date: July 27, 2017 - Fit to Print?

Brendan O’Connor THE personalities mentioned as successor to Vincent Browne’s TV3 programme have ranged from Ivan Yates to Matt Cooper and the venerable David Davin Power. But TV3 heads Bill Malone and Aoife Stokes have been negotiating with Sunday Independent and RTÉ host on The Saturday Night Show, Brendan O’Connor, to take over the show… Read more »

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TRIBUNAL WITNESSES

Date: July 27, 2017 - Fit to Print?

TRIBUNAL chairman Mr Justice Charleton made a most significant statement about the motivation of witnesses when it was suggested by Paul Williams’ barrister Rossa Fanning that former Irish Independent journalist Gemma O’Doherty “may have an axe to grind with Independent Newspapers”. O’Doherty wrote to the tribunal to say that Williams had the garda file on… Read more »

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Emmanuel Macron

VARADKAR IS NO MACRON

Date: July 27, 2017 - Fowl Emissions

Emmanuel Macron A “fundamental societal transformation”. With these words, on the first page of his Government’s (very) long-awaited National Mitigation Plan (NMP) on climate change, published last week (July 19), Leo Varadkar rallied the nation to begin the long march out of the fossil fuel quagmire and into the promised land of post-carbon. Now, as… Read more »

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Bog Cuttings

Bog Cuttings

Date: July 27, 2017 - Bog Cuttings

‘Silly lady’ drenches little girl A 63-YEAR-OLD Ratoath woman pleaded guilty to assault in Trim District Court after drenching her neighbour’s three-year-old daughter with a garden hose. Karen Beattie of Somerville, Ratoath, denied the offence but eventually entered a guilty plea. The child’s father, Anthony McLoughlin, told the court that he was inside the house… Read more »

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THE BLOOD MIRACLES – LISA McINERNEY (JOHN MURRAY)

Date: July 27, 2017 - BooksReviews

THE FOLLOW-UP to Lisa McInerney’s award-winning 2015 debut, The Glorious Heresies, returns to the adventurous life of Ryan Cusack. The 20-year-old “mid-ladder dealer” is now struggling to maintain his uneasy position as one of Cork’s hard men. Ryan has issues. His mental health is unstable and his relationship with on-off girlfriend Karine is faltering. Most… Read more »

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PILGRIMAGE – DIRECTED BY BRENDAN MULDOWNEY

Date: July 27, 2017 - MoviesReviews

THE MEDIEVAL thriller Pilgrimageí opens with a scene that could be read as a metaphor for the cinemagoer who frequents Irish films, as a man is hauled out into the wild and pelted with stones while he begs for mercy. Fast-forward a few centuries and the rock that killed the sainted figure is being readied… Read more »

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Theo Cullinane

BLACK HOLE BY THE LEE

Date: July 27, 2017 - Behind the Scenes

Theo Cullinane WHAT ON earth is going on at the proposed Cork Event Centre? The construction company charged with the delivering the 6,000-seat venue, BAM (where Theo Cullinane is chief executive), has failed to progress the project five years after planning permission was obtained and the cost to the taxpayer now looks set to almost… Read more »

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Rose Mchugh

ROSE MCHUGH’S PRIORITIES

Date: July 27, 2017 - Behind the Scenes

Rose Mchugh THE NEW chair of the Crawford Art Gallery, accountant Rose McHugh, has plenty on her plate in Cork where the retirement of Peter Murray has left a gaping hole. McHugh is chair of the listed Origin Enterprises and also on the board of XiuLan hotels, the Chinese group that owns the Fota Island… Read more »

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