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Denis Hogan

HOGAN’S WISHFUL WINNINGS

Date: July 27, 2017 - Sport of Kings

Denis Hogan THE APPEALS and Referrals division of the Turf Club has had a busy month as the robustness of rule 212 has been tested recently by trainer Denis Hogan. The Tipperary man appealed a 42-day ban dished out to his horse Meadow Cross at Down Royal in June, on the basis that he was… Read more »

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RONNIE WOODS’S NEXT HIT?

Date: July 27, 2017 - Sport of Kings

ALL ROADS lead to Ballybrit this week as the seven-day bonanza for the Galway Races. It will be interesting to see how Dermot Weld and Tony Martin fare on the training front. Both are Galway specialists, with Weld the undoubted supremo, although he did get bested as leading trainer last year by Willie Mullins. Also… Read more »

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Henry de Bromhead

DRAMA AT KILLARNEY

Date: July 27, 2017 - Sport of Kings

Henry de Bromhead KILLARNEY’S summer festival provided its share of drama, with the penultimate race declared void after Stars Over The Sea was deemed to have been allowed a headstart over his rivals. The Henry de Bromhead-trained horse was proving reluctant to line up with the remainder of the field and, having eventually consented to… Read more »

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Caravaggio

EVEREST TOO STEEP FOR ‘CARAVAGGIO’?

Date: July 27, 2017 - Sport of Kings

Caravaggio JOHN MAGNIER has gone on public record over Coolmore’s great white hope, Caravaggio, potentially serving as a much needed breeding outcross to the harem of blue-blooded Galileo mares the farm has accumulated over the past decade. This is now likely to temper upcoming race choices. Having been hailed by Aidan O’Brien as the fastest… Read more »

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Bob Etchingham

Applegreen fuels share price growth

Date: July 27, 2017 - Moneybags

Bob Etchingham EVEN THOUGH Applegreen floated off in July 2015, raising e95m in fresh equity, it is still unclear what happened in December 2013 when the joint special liquidators of IBRC, Kieran Wallace and Eamonn Richardson, decided to allow holders of 12 specific IBRC loans to bid directly to buy out these loans from the… Read more »

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Paul Stenson

Paul Stenson’s bad reviews

Date: July 27, 2017 - Brief Cases

Paul Stenson THIN-SKINNED restaurant proprietor Paul Stenson is generating plenty of publicity of the wrong sort for his café in Phibsboro, D7, after becoming embroiled in an online spat with a customer who, er, gave his restaurant a negative review. A quick look at his company accounts may provide clues as to why he’s so… Read more »

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Leo Sherlock’s libel woes

Date: July 27, 2017 - Brief Cases

Leo Sherlock GREAT to see Goldhawk’s old pal Leo Sherlock back in the news after his two copyright rows were settled in Ardee District Court earlier this month. But the Louth man’s legal troubles are far from over with a High Court defamation case coming down the tracks that could put a stop to his… Read more »

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Huibrecht Luykx’s “lifestyle”

Huibrecht Luykx’s “lifestyle”

Date: July 27, 2017 - Brief Cases

PJ Lynch SPARE a thought for Goldhawk’s old pals Belgian-Irish businessman Huibrecht Luykx and his wife Sally Ann Luykx who have been restricted in the High Court from acting as company directors for five years. The restriction order arose from their behaviour at a company called Windsor Corporate Catering, which was wound up in 2013… Read more »

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Jay Bourke

Jay Bourke’s Shebeen hangover

Date: July 27, 2017 - Brief Cases

Jay Bourke DUBLIN restaurateur Jay Bourke had a bad day in the High Court courtesy of Judge Robert Haughton. Bourke was disqualified from acting as a company director for eight years with one year suspended arising out of his behaviour at the storied Shebeen Chic Ltd in an action brought by liquidator PJ Lynch, who… Read more »

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Paddy Holohan’s “Staffing issue”

Date: July 27, 2017 - Brief Cases

Paddy Holohan (Left) CONGRATULATIONS to former Dublin UFC fighter Paddy Holohan, who is opening up his brand new Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) gym, SBG Dublin 24, next week. Fans will be delighted that ‘the Hooligan’ is back in action after announcing his early retirement from the sport last year but his pals at his old… Read more »

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Niall Sullivan’s failure to file

Date: July 27, 2017 - Brief Cases

SPARE a thought for retired accountant Niall Sullivan who was fined €4,000 and ordered to pay €3,500 in costs by the disciplinary tribunal of Chartered Accountants Ireland (CAI). UK-based Sullivan did not attend his hearing in Chartered Accountants House on Dublin’s Pearse Street where two formal allegations were levelled against him. Sullivan, who started his… Read more »

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Burnt BBQ

Date: July 27, 2017 - Brief Cases

Aussie BBQ BAD news for fans of the trendy Aussie BBQ restaurant on South Richmond Street in D2 where the High Court has appointed Miles Kirby as liquidator on foot of a petition by the Revenue. Regular readers will recall that Rathmond Ireland Ltd — the company behind the restaurant, owned by South Dublin businessman… Read more »

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Susan Denham

PROFILE: SUSAN DENHAM

Date: July 27, 2017 - Pillars of Society

Susan Denham AS SHE heads into bucolic retirement, Chief Justice Sue Denham will have ample time to enjoy the “horses and gardens” she once told an international Who’s Who were her favourite hobbies. Ever so modestly, she made it known she didn’t want the usual gushing tributes from unctuous underlings on her last day in the… Read more »

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Kieran Mulvey

KIERAN MULVEY’S FANCY FOOTWORK

Date: July 27, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

Kieran Mulvey A RULING by the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) that the Irish governing body for tennis – Tennis Ireland (TI) – discriminated against an applicant for the post of chief executive on the grounds of age is not only embarrassing for the tennis blazers but also might prove uncomfortable for the chairman of Sport… Read more »

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Dave Murphy

Young Blood: Dave Murphy

Date: July 27, 2017 - The Young Bloods

Dave Murphy SOLIDARITY press officer Dave Murphy (34) is the most dangerous man in Ireland, or so the Dublin media would have you believe. The Tallaght native has attracted opprobrium from the most respectable elements of the press after his widespread coverage on social media of the Jobstown trial, producing and posting daily videos online… Read more »

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Claire Loftus

THE CASE AGAINST DPP CLAIRE LOFTUS

Date: July 27, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

Claire Loftus SPARE A thought for the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Claire Loftus, who finds herself targeted publicly in a way her predecessors never were. Just over half way through her ten-year contract, the first female DPP has been having an annus horribilis and now Leo Varadkar has stuck the knife in. The most… Read more »

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Pat O'Sullivan

The battle for Conroy Gold

Date: July 27, 2017 - Moneybags

Pat O’Sullivan IT IS an unusual scenario to have an ex-professor of physiology running a gold mining company, especially given that Dick Conroy is now 84 years old. More predictable is that his shareholders in Conroy Gold and Natural Resources (Conroy GNR) are frustrated at the promise of a gold mine in Clontibret, Co Monaghan… Read more »

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Kate Hyde

KATE HYDE’S HAPPY PARTNERS

Date: July 27, 2017 - High Society

Kate Hyde CONGRAULATIONS to Kate Hyde, the woman behind the high profile henparty.ie brand, who was the first Irish businesswoman to be invited to Dell’s global Women’s Entrepreneur Network summit in sunny California. Having made a name for herself on RTÉ’s Dragons’ Den, Kate has attracted oodles of publicity ever since. But the real smart… Read more »

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David and Sabena Power

Dave Power’s Curragh bet

Date: July 27, 2017 - High Society

David and Sabena Power INTERESTING to see money-bags bookmaker David Power, who holds a valuable stake in the Paddy Power Betfair group, deciding to pump some loose change into the big Curragh redevelopment project. He obviously sees this as a good bet. David Power continues to operate his own on-course betting pitch these days and… Read more »

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Domhnal Slattery

Dómhnal Slattery’s des res

Date: July 27, 2017 - High Society

Domhnal Slattery THESE ARE busy times for aviation millionaire Dómhnal Slattery of Avolon aircraft leasing. The moneybags is preparing to move into Ouragh, the Shrewsbury Road pile previously occupied by Sean Dunne and Gayle Killela, which Slattery has picked up for an impressive €5.6m. Meanwhile, the high-flyer is facing some turbulence thanks to difficulties in… Read more »

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Miriam Allen

GENDER DISCRIMINATION IN THE IFB

Date: July 27, 2017 - Behind the Scenes

Miriam Allen IT WAS announced last week that Annie Doona’s Irish Film Board (IFB) is introducing assorted funding schemes that can be accessed only by women. But it turns out that when it comes to gobbling up the taxpayer-funded handouts (sorry, loans), female players are often far from the back of the queue at the… Read more »

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All sizzle, no steak at the Gate

Date: July 27, 2017 - ReviewsTheatre

FEW SHOWS in Irish theatre have prompted as much anticipation as Gatsby at the Gate. The story of the 1920s millionaire playboy in New York, whose wealth and generous decadence are eventually too good to be true – which can also be said of this all-style no-substance production. It’s not that anticipation wasn’t warranted. Selina… Read more »

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Vol. 35 No. 14

Date: July 13, 2017 -

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VARADKAR AND THE ATTORNEYS GENERAL

Date: July 13, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

THE unhealthy politicisation of the office of attorney general has been a hallmark of Fine Gael in government since 2011. And Leo Varadkar has barely been in power a wet week before he has carried on this process by dragging his new AG, Seamus Woulfe, into the political controversy over his remarks about garda evidence… Read more »

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TROUBLE BREWING

Date: July 13, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

HOW EMBARRASSING that the auditors of the company behind a state-backed craft brewery have found that it had contravened assorted Companies Act regulations when preparing the 2015 accounts. This is the brewery operation into which the former head of C&C Ireland, Michael Merrins, has invested €100,000 and is in situ as chairman. Bluebay Ireland, the… Read more »

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PATRICK O’SULLIVAN V RICHARD CONROY

Date: July 13, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

NEXT MONTH well known exploration entrepreneur Richard Conroy, executive chairman of Conroy Gold and Natural Resources, will go head to head with a little known investor, Patrick O’Sullivan, who has managed to build up a 28% stake in the listed vehicle and now wants to shake up what he sees as an underperforming company with… Read more »

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SCHOOL TRIP TO THE HIGH COURT

Date: July 13, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

THE PHONEY war is over in Deansgrange south County Dublin, where the initial salvos over the proposed sale by the Christian Brothers of school playing fields at Clonkeen College have resulted in the almost inevitable lodging of High Court proceedings. “Significant legal costs for all parties” are now forecast. As has been widely reported, earlier… Read more »

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NO ASYLUM FOR KENNY GROUP

Date: July 13, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

IT WAS reported in the Sunday Times last weekend that an accommodation centre for asylum seekers in Limerick was closed as a result of fire safety issues. What was not revealed is that the company behind the centre (which has a capacity to house up to 90 asylum seekers) is a well known west of… Read more »

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Eoghan Harris

WEST BRIT HISTORY FEST

Date: July 13, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

ASSEMBLING Roy Foster, Eoghan Harris, Kevin Myers, Ruth Dudley Edwards and various academic and media fellow travellers in the same room to discuss the War of Independence sounds like a humorous two fingers to the government’s Decade of Centenaries. Already the West Cork History Festival has been dubbed the West Brit History Festival by a… Read more »

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Kenny Libel Win

Date: July 13, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

HOWLS of indignation from Newstalk rang around the media following a front page “exclusive” in the Irish Sun whose headline claimed, “Kenny Facing Radio Axe”, in December 2015. The radio station lodged a High Court writ against Murdoch’s red top and the day after the Sun splash Denis O’Brien’s Irish Independent published a pointed article… Read more »

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Maura King

KING OF THE BAR COUNCIL

Date: July 13, 2017 - Wigs on the Green

CONGRATS to rebel barrister Maura King whose vociferous critique of the Good ’Ol Boys that run the Bar Council saw her top the poll in recent elections to the council with a message demanding that the council “regain the respect of the Bar and the public”. Maura was elected on the first count with 273… Read more »

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The Hot Air Brigade

Date: July 13, 2017 - The Hot Air Brigade

Who knows really, but yesterday, amid all the excitement of Canadian Prime Minister (and all-round dreamboat) Justin Trudeau’s State visit to Ireland, our very own Leo Varadkar became a certified “Sock-star” (badum-tish!) Kirsty Blake Knox, Irish Independent Leo Varadkar is a serious guy. He shouldn’t be afraid of being a serious guy. Brendan O’Connor, Sunday… Read more »

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ALAN FARRELL BUCKS THE TREND

Date: July 13, 2017 - Last Refuge

LEO VARADKAR’S promise of future promotion for the disappointed ones has not assuaged the ire of various unrewarded Fine Gael backbenchers. Immediate threats of rebellion over a government bill were not anticipated within the first weeks of Vlad’s government and yet two of the most militant anti-Kenny rebels behind his long march to power have… Read more »

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AK47 FACING SQUEEZE IN TIPP

Date: July 13, 2017 - Last Refuge

LABOUR leader Brendan Howlin has earmarked Drogheda as the venue for the party’s next think-in to assist Senator Ged Nash’s bid to retain his Louth Dáil seat. But if the Labour leader is seriously concerned about retaining as well as regaining party seats he should pay a visit to Tipperary. The constituency commission has brought… Read more »

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Brian Hayes Home?

Date: July 13, 2017 - Last Refuge

IS the architect of Fine Gael’s 2016 general election debacle, MEP Brian Hayes, about to return to domestic politics? Reports that the party’s 2016 director of elections intends to return to the Dáil have circulated for some time (see The Phoenix, 12/2/16) with Hayes targeting Dublin Bay North (DBN) on the presumption that Richard Bruton… Read more »

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O’CALLAGHAN EMASCULATING MARTIN

Date: July 13, 2017 - Last Refuge

MICHEÁL MARTIN’S Cardinal Richelieu, justice spokesperson Jim O’Callaghan, is coming under serious fire in Fianna Fáil as someone who is leading the party astray and Martin with him. Martin’s recent attack on Leo Varadkar over garda evidence in the Jobstown trial has, yet again, placed the party to the right of a right wing government… Read more »

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