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Paul Ferriter’s tax troubles

Date: May 3, 2017 - Brief Cases

IT’S been a good year professionally for Dublin sculptor Paul Ferriter whose statue of champion jockey AP McCoy was unveiled at February’s Cheltenham Festival. But there have been a few headaches for him along the way with his landlord trying to evict him and the wretched Revenue chasing him down for a measly €17,000. The… Read more »

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Taxman knocks for Nick Munier

Date: May 3, 2017 - Brief Cases

SPARE a thought for former Masterchef Ireland judge and maître d’hôtel extraordinaire Nick Munier who unexpectedly shut the doors of his Dublin restaurant Avenue last month after just two years in business. No reason has yet been given for the sudden decision to cease trading but it seems Munier – best known for his stint… Read more »

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Cardinal runs the rule over Genesis

Date: May 3, 2017 - Brief Cases

SPARE a thought for former McInerney Homes chief Barry O’Connor whose Genesis Homes property vehicle has just had a receiver appointed to it by Cardinal Capital. The receivership has thrown into uncertainty the future of a high-end housing estate in Mungret called Slí na Manach. The Limerick Leader reported last week that the Slí na… Read more »

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Hugh Scully’s Pressing Matters

Date: May 3, 2017 - Brief Cases

THE Sunday Business Post was kind enough to feature a plug recently for Dublin entrepreneur Hugh Scully who is planning to set up a press in Glasnevin to print vinyl records for the first time in Ireland since 1992. The business is called Dublin Vinyl and Scully is hoping to attract private investors and avail… Read more »

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Massive losses at Motorway Security

Massive losses at Motorway Security

Date: May 3, 2017 - Brief Cases

THE directors of a company called Motorway Security Ltd had the book thrown at them in the High Court recently by Judge Robert Haughton. Abrash Khan and Kaleem Sheikh were disqualified from acting as company directors following massive misappropriation of company funds, according to the liquidator. The two boys traded from 2007 until September 2013… Read more »

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Heating up at Gaelectric

Date: May 3, 2017 - Brief Cases

THE temperature has been turned up at renewable energy group Gaelelectric, which has reduced its board from nine to four members, possibly in an effort to stanch its massive losses. Chief executive Barry Gavin, brother of Dublin football manager Jim Gavin, has stepped down from the board just seven months after taking up the top… Read more »

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TAKING ON WILLIE MULLINS

Date: May 3, 2017 - Sport of Kings

THE Punchestown Festival coincided with the culmination of the epic battle for the champion jumps trainer award between young pretender (and eventual runner-up) Gordon Elliott and perennial champion Willie Mullins, and it looks like the former will face an even tougher task next season. Elliott now begins the quest all over again to dethrone the… Read more »

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Vol. 33 No.21

Date: April 20, 2017 -

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Vol. 33 No.22

Date: April 20, 2017 -

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Vol. 33 No. 23

Date: April 20, 2017 -

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Vol.33 No.24

Date: April 20, 2017 -

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Vol. 35 No. 08

Date: April 19, 2017 -

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UK ELECTION: THE NORTH

Date: April 19, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

IN THE WORDS of SDLP leader Colum Eastwood the British prime minister’s announcement of a general election on June 8 “shows the disdain she holds for Northern Ireland and the attempts to restore power-sharing government”. Britain’s northern secretary is currently rushing through legislation to enable rates to be collected in the north and was due… Read more »

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STRIKING OFF MRS BROWN

Date: April 19, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

SURPRISING TO see comedian Brendan O’Carroll’s Boc-Pix company listed for striking off by the Companies Office, given that it is the Irish production partner in the smutty millionaire’s latest juggernaut TV show, All Round to Mrs Brown’s. O’Carroll’s critic-proof TV programmes have made the mostly Florida-based Dub a multimillionaire and the new chat show format… Read more »

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INM HUNT FOR SECOND WHISTLEBLOWER

Date: April 19, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

THAT Independent News & Media chief executive Robert Pitt should make a protected disclosure to the corporate police, the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement, is obviously of concern to the INM board. But news of a “second top INM executive” (as the Irish Independent put it) crying foul to the ODCE will have… Read more »

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DECLAN GANLEY’S BAD DAY IN COURT

Date: April 19, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

THERE WERE some significant developments recently in the long-running defamation case taken by controversial Galway businessman Declan Ganley against RTÉ in relation to its 2008 Prime Time programme, Citizen Ganley. Orders were made by Judge Max Barrett and the hapless Ganley got something of a reality check. Among the allegations being made by Decco in… Read more »

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BID CAMPAIGN GETS NASTY

Date: April 19, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

WITH A plebiscite due in June/July on the renewal or otherwise of the mandate of the Dublin City Centre Bid Company (BID) – an organisation whose purpose is “to enable Dublin city centre to compete with other towns and cities” – the campaign is getting heated and legal missives are coming thick and fast. Certainly,… Read more »

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Alas Poor Mrs Yorrick

Date: April 19, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

COURT of Appeal Judge Alan Mahon recently reaffirmed a jail sentence for contempt against barrack room barrister David Walsh for his persistent attempts to speak in the Waterford Circuit Court on behalf of his sister who faced repossession of her home (see The Phoenix, 7/4/17). Mahon exhibited a well of clemency a week later, however,… Read more »

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Nial Ring’s Judgment

Date: April 19, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

HIGH PROFILE independent Dublin city councillor and businessman Nial Ring suffered a setback last month when Investec Bank registered a hefty €468,000 judgment against him. Ring, who comfortably retained his Inner City North seat in the 2014 local elections, has seen his name recognition boosted by extensive media coverage of the Kinahan-Hutch gang feud, much… Read more »

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LEGAL EAGLES’ FACTION FIGHTS

Date: April 19, 2017 - Wigs on the Green

BAR Council chairman Paul McGarry took the unprecedented step recently of posting on the Law Library notice board a rather censorious open letter to Master of the High Court Ed Honohan. The master had rearranged the list of High Court motions because of a backlog but had arranged “randomly and arbitrarily” for some of these… Read more »

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The Hot Air Brigade

Date: April 19, 2017 - The Hot Air Brigade

This is female power. How can we have the Eighth Amendment when we have this in our culture? Look at how she’s baring her teeth. Visual artist Jesse Jones views a sheela-na-gig statue, as reported by Gemma Tipton, Irish Times I felt the dullness of that distant past reach out and fold itself around my… Read more »

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Northern Ireland First Minister Arlene Foster

SNAP ELECTION IN THE NORTH

Date: April 19, 2017 - Bird's Eye View

THERESA MAY’S snap election call may or may not mean a second Assembly election will be held simultaneously with the Westminster poll. Either way, the northern impasse remains gridlocked. It boils down to this. Either you believe what Sinn Féin leaders have been saying about a new northern administration or you don’t. Regularly since January… Read more »

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Brendan Halligan

HALLIGAN’S QUANGO NETS €1M

Date: April 19, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

THE LATEST accounts for the Institute of International and European Affairs (IIEA) show its income for 2015 rose by 22.3% to €881,593 and with a community employment grant rose to over a million euro (€1,069,130), a rise of 16.4%. But the IIEA has continually refused to divulge the amount of taxpayers’ money it gets from… Read more »

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Keith Mahon’s Followers

Date: April 19, 2017 - Affairs of the Nation

CONGRATULATIONS to Keith Mahon of The Taste.ie who has been named most influential food and drink journo on Twitter by Murray Communications. But a quick look at Mahon’s list of 122,000 followers shows quite a few appear to be fake “bot” accounts. While he has a lot of flesh and blood fans, many have no… Read more »

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WILL AG SURVIVE NEW FG LEADERSHIP?

Date: April 19, 2017 - Last Refuge

AN INTERESTING sequence of stories following the recent Fennelly Report indicates that Alan Shatter is now being used to pressure Enda Kenny to resign forthwith. The former justice minister told the Sunday Independent last weekend that Kenny had “no moral compass” and was misusing his power. And while not naming them, he pointedly accused Simon… Read more »

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Brendan Howlin’s Headache

Date: April 19, 2017 - Last Refuge

RTÉ coverage of Labour leader Brendan Howlin’s conference speech this weekend will help sustain the illusion that the party is still a player in Irish politics. Labour’s goal has always been to transform the two-and-a-half party system into three with itself as one of those big boys. Unfortunately, three big parties now exist but Sinn… Read more »

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Squeezing John McGuinness

Date: April 19, 2017 - Last Refuge

IT’S hard to keep John McGuinness down, as Micheál Martin knows only too well. Motor Mouth McGuinness, as loyal frontbenchers call him, was last year dropped from the front bench and denied re-nomination to his former starring role as chair of the PAC by Martin. Now, he faces a squeeze in his Carlow-Kilkenny constituency where… Read more »

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BIFFO’S BROTHER V MICHEÁL MARTIN

Date: April 19, 2017 - Last Refuge

IT’S BEEN a bad week or so for Fianna Fáil and inside the party the choice of scapegoats for the water charges gyrations and eventual capitulation is evenly divided. There are those who blame Barry Cowen and others who say he was merely carrying out Micheál Martin’s orders. When it is put to party frontbenchers… Read more »

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Paul O'Neill

IRISH TIMES’ LAST CHANCE SALOON

Date: April 19, 2017 - Fit to Print?

EXITING Irish Times editor Kevin O’Sullivan has expressed excitement at his new role as environment, agriculture and science editor but he put up quite a fight to retain his editorial position in recent months. O’Sullivan had come under pressure from the board of The Irish Times Ltd (ITL), with chairman Dan Flinter to the fore,… Read more »

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Reviewing Desmond Traynor

Date: April 19, 2017 - Fit to Print?

IF Irish Times critic and literary diva Eileen Battersby was treated with kid gloves by the Sunday Independent, her own critic, Sindo reviewer Desmond Traynor was terminated with extreme editorial prejudice by the newspaper. The Sindo commissioned a review by Traynor of Battersby’s oeuvre, Teethmarks On My Tongue, but it was spiked as Traynor’s criticism… Read more »

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VICTORIA WHITE’S TSUNAMI

Date: April 19, 2017 - Fit to Print?

IRISH EXAMINER columnist Victoria White last week stuck it to those Harry Houdinis in Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil whom she charged with trying to wriggle out of international commitments under the EU water charges directive. Victoria accused the two parties of a deal that “steals from future generations of Irish people” and that their… Read more »

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DID ASSAD REALLY USE SARIN?

Date: April 19, 2017 - Foreign Frolics

by Paul Gottinger ALMOST IMMEDIATELY after video of the alleged chemical weapons attack in Idlib hit Western media, Syrian president Bashar al-Assad was declared guilty by US news networks and political commentators. The front page of the New York Times on April 5 showed a heartbreaking image of a child wounded in the alleged chemical… Read more »

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Paddy Prendergast

Date: April 19, 2017 - Pillars of Society

EXACTLY 100 years after John Pentland Mahaffy, the much-celebrated provost of Trinity College, distinguished himself by suppressing the college’s Gaelic Society (over its plans to celebrate the centenary of Thomas Davis’s birth), today’s provost Paddy Prendergast (50) concluded it was time to change the image, or was it the brand, of TCD. He wanted to… Read more »

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IFA LOSES RAG

Date: April 19, 2017 - Fowl Emissions

ARE THE wheels starting to come off Ireland’s most formidable lobbying machine? The IFA’s attack on Fianna Fáil last month for failing to roll over and support its demands on the Heritage Bill was notable for the virulence of the language used. “Fianna Fáil has now effectively done a u-turn and pandered to the Greens,”… Read more »

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Bog Cuttings

Bog Cuttings

Date: April 19, 2017 - Bog Cuttings

Urinating man claimed he was Enda Kenny A WESTPORT man who urinated in the direction of gardaí while claiming he was Enda Kenny was given the benefit of the Probation Act. Inspector Gary Walsh said that on January 4, 2014 gardaí were in Mill Street Car Park at 3.30am when they saw Geoffrey King (40)… Read more »

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