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Tom Higgins’s Art Collection

Date: June 15, 2017 - High Society

WOULD-BE space cadet and former Irish Psychics Live phoneline operator Tom Higgins has reinvented himself in recent years as a art dealer of sorts. This has yet to pay off, while the race to space race remains very much on terra firma. Higgins and his wife, Therese Dunne, have long since quit operating premium-rate phonelines,… Read more »

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THE TAXMAN COMETH TO FILM LUVVIES

Date: June 15, 2017 - Behind the Scenes

THE REVENUE Commissioner has just published this year’s first quarter list of beneficiaries of the Section 481 tax wheeze beneficiaries. Although termed a tax credit scheme, it is, as fans of Goldhawk are aware, merely a list of cheque recipients of unspecified amounts within broad ranges. But it looks like things are getting a little… Read more »

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ELLIOTT’S NEW GAME

Date: June 15, 2017 - Sport of Kings

NOT CONTENT with equalling the record for the number of jumps winners trained in a season, Gordon Elliott has set his sights on the flat trainers’ division. The Meath maestro recently trained his 1,000th winner since starting out just over a decade ago and he has made quite a start with the first batch of… Read more »

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AL THANI’S HYDROGEN PROBLEM

Date: June 15, 2017 - Sport of Kings

WHEN SHEIKH Fahad Al Thani forked out the sale-topping sum of 2.5m guineas for a Galileo yearling half-brother to Epsom Derby winner Authorized at Tattersalls in 2012 he would have been forgiven for dreaming of future derby success and a lucrative stallion career with the handsome colt. Fast-forward five years and the horse, subsequently named… Read more »

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BOLGER’S BARK

Date: June 15, 2017 - Sport of Kings

JIM BOLGER has never been a man to mince his words and he didn’t hold back recently when describing Pat Smullen’s performance in the saddle as a “disgraceful bit of riding”. The world class Smullen was aboard Rehana for the Aga Khan in the Irish 1000 Guineas at the Curragh when, in the race’s early… Read more »

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HEAVY GOING AT GODOLPHIN

Date: June 15, 2017 - Sport of Kings

THE GODOLPHIN racing and breeding operation of Sheikh Mohammed Al Maktoum has been playing second fiddle to John Magnier’s Coolmore and Ballydoyle enterprises for the past decade and it appears Godolphin won’t be challenging for supremacy anytime soon, judging by the disarray it finds itself in. John Ferguson resigned as chief executive last week after… Read more »

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Some clean up at Cairn Homes

Date: June 15, 2017 - Moneybags

CAIRN HOMES has pulled off quite a coup by landing the coveted RTÉ site in Dublin 4. This is good news for Mick and Kevin Stanley and their Scottish mentor, Alan McIntosh, who are already set to share in a €50m payout this year on top of a €23m bonus scooped last year. Moreover, this… Read more »

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Ryan ensures super growth rating for ABF

Date: June 15, 2017 - Moneybags

IT IS hard to overstate the scale of the legacy Arthur Ryan created with the Penneys/Primark retailing phenomenon that started life in Dublin’s Mary Street. While running the successful retail operation inside the giant Associated British Foods (ABF) group, Ryan didn’t need to push himself into the public eye and famously never gave an interview… Read more »

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More medical trouble for Houlihan Cushnahan

More medical trouble for Houlihan Cushnahan

Date: June 15, 2017 - Brief Cases

INTERESTING to see Dublin accountancy firm Houlihan Cushnahan facing down the barrel of a “class action-type” lawsuit from over 20 medical consultants. The medics allege the Glasthule firm was professionally negligent when it gave them advice on income tax that led to them being slapped with penalties costing millions of euro, but just who are… Read more »

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Scruffy’s set for the scrap heap?

Date: June 15, 2017 - Brief Cases

LIAM Collins had a rather nostalgic article in the Sindo last weekend about once-popular Dublin 2 pub Scruffy Murphy’s, which could be demolished to make way for an “aparthotel”. Happily absent from the piece was any mention of the man behind the proposed development or the tale of woe which led last year to the… Read more »

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Eddie Hobbs’s troubled Treatdrop

Date: June 15, 2017 - Brief Cases

SPARE a thought for celebrity economist Eddie Hobbs who is so far having a year to forget with his former property company Brendan Investments making headlines for all the wrong reasons. And things don’t look much better for one of his other ventures, an e-commerce outfit called Treatdrop Ltd, where Hobbs is the largest shareholder…. Read more »

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George Elliott’s troubled waters

Date: June 15, 2017 - Brief Cases

BAD news from De Braam Mineral Water Company Ltd, an interesting Co Meath operation that finally got around to filing six years of back-dated accounts with the Companies Office recently. The company’s largest shareholder is south Dublin businessman George Elliott who was sitting on accumulated losses of u2m at the end of 2015 with the… Read more »

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Andy Sweeney’s bank woes

Date: June 15, 2017 - Brief Cases

SPARE a thought for Malahide businessman Andy Sweeney who has just had an eye-watering judgment for u3.3m registered against him by AIB in his latest scrap with the bank. Sweeney is listed as a director of two companies – Eldermade Ltd and Eldermade 4 Ltd – both of which AIB has put into receivership in… Read more »

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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

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

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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Eoghan Harris

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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