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Ed Guiney

CREDITS NOT ROLLING FOR SOLAS PROJECT

Date: September 7, 2016 - Behind the Scenes

GOLDHAWK IS beginning to wonder if only the 30-year archive rule will shed light on the dealings around the overspend on Galway’s Picture Palace cinema, now assigned on a bargain lease arrangement to Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe’s Element Films. Promoted as far back as 2002 by Lelia Doolan’s Solas group of Galway film buffs,… Read more »

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Davy Russell

CULLOTY AND RUSSELL RIDE AGAIN

Date: September 7, 2016 - Sport of Kings

AT LAST, jockey Davy Russell and trainer Jim Culloty have sorted out their differences. The pair famously teamed up to land the Cheltenham Gold Cup with Lord Windermere in 2014 but following the horse’s tame display in the 2015 Gold Cup under a sympathetic Russell ride, Culloty fired the Youghal man, saying he wouldn’t be… Read more »

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Sally-Ann Grassick

GRASSICK GETS THE NOD

Date: September 7, 2016 - Sport of Kings

CONGRATULATIONS are due to Sally-Ann Grassick who has been selected to join the ITV racing team which takes over the terrestrial coverage of British racing from Channel 4 next January. The Kildare native has been based primarily in France for some years, where she gained experience working for French racing channel Equidia, while more recently… Read more »

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POT LUCK for Henry De BROMHEAD

Date: September 7, 2016 - Sport of Kings

IT WILL be recalled (see The Phoenix 3/6/16) that Alan and Ann Potts have severed ties with their original trainer, Henry De Bromhead. The horses have now been fully dispersed. The last 13 Potts horses were removed from De Bromhead’s care recently and distributed between Jessica Harrington, Colm Murphy, Jim Dreaper and Mouse Morris. These… Read more »

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DAVID WACHMAN’S RETIREMENT

DAVID WACHMAN’S RETIREMENT

Date: September 7, 2016 - Sport of Kings

SO, WHAT next for David Wachman? After 20 years as a trainer, the 45-year-old has obviously decided there is more to life and plans to hand in his trainer’s licence at the end of this season. Wachman, who is married to John Magnier’s daughter, Katie, certainly won’t be on the breadline but eyebrows have been… Read more »

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Mike Donoghue

Ormonde Mining’s heavy metal fatigue

Date: September 7, 2016 - Moneybags

ORMONDE MINING is an unusual entity, particularly in the resource sector. Its business is developing a tungsten mine in western Spain, a process carrying significant risks, yet the risk has been significantly mitigated by a $100m funding arrangement put in place a year ago. All the factors are now more or less in place to… Read more »

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Sean McLoughlin

Millionaire McLoughlin’s Eye for Profits

Date: September 7, 2016 - Brief Cases

CONGRATULATIONS are in order to Irish YouTube sensation Sean McLoughlin, who made it into a recent Irish Times list of the “22 twenty-somethings” who are set to take the world by storm. The piece by Una Mullally entitled, “Ireland: The Next Generation”, listed online video game pundit McLoughlin – better known to his fans as… Read more »

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John G O’Donnell

Tipp solicitor’s noble clientele

Date: September 7, 2016 - Brief Cases

GOLDHAWK spotted a tax judgment registered against a very interesting Tipperary solicitor recently. John G O’Donnell, of O’Donnell Solicitors in Tipperary Town, had the judgment for u19,000 registered against him by the Revenue. O’Donnell, who is the firm’s principal, is remembered as the former solicitor for Goldhawk’s old pal, Terence MacCarthy, the fake chieftain of… Read more »

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MARIE GORMAN

MARIE GORMAN

Date: September 7, 2016 - Brief Cases

A LIMERICK fashion company called Claraffa Ltd had a judgment registered against it last week by South Dublin County Council. The company operates the Little Chancers women’s clothes shop at the Crescent Shopping Centre in Limerick but the judgment for €42,000 in unpaid rates related to the company’s Dublin operation, based at the Liffey Valley… Read more »

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Limerick liquidator’s court battles

Date: September 7, 2016 - Brief Cases

GOLDHAWK spotted an interesting judgment in the Court of Appeal recently related to Limerick accountant Anthony J Fitzpatrick. He was voluntarily appointed liquidator to a door and window manufacturing company, Star Elm Frames (SEF) Ltd, formerly owned by Cork businessman Willie Murphy before it went into examinership in 2013 and then liquidation earlier this year…. Read more »

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Ronan O’Gara misses touch

Date: September 7, 2016 - Brief Cases

CONGRATULATIONS are in order for Irish rugby ace Ronan O’Gara who, along with his wife Jessica, was named sport and style ambassador for the Longines Champions Weekend at the Curragh this month. Ronan and the glamorous Jessica were interviewed by the Sunday Independent’s Niamh Horan recently, and the former Munster out-half cut a fine dash… Read more »

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Ken McMoreland

Another bad day for Ken McMoreland

Date: September 7, 2016 - Brief Cases

GOLDHAWK’s old pal, Sligo accountant Ken McMoreland had a miserable day in the High Court recently, courtesy of Judge Miriam O’Regan. In the latest episode of the continuing saga of Foresthaze Developments Ltd, the court granted summary judgment for an eye-watering u6m against McMoreland in favour of AIB. It will be recalled that Fianna Fáil… Read more »

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Marie Gorman’s costs

Date: September 7, 2016 - Brief Cases

MORE on Marie Gorman, wife of Roscommon agricultural consultant Pauraic Larkin. It will be recalled that Eugene McCarthy, appointed liquidator to Pauraic Larkin & Associates Ltd, successfully applied to have Larkin restricted from acting as a company director in the High Court last month (see The Phoenix 26/08/16). McCarthy sought to restrict Gorman as well… Read more »

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Charlie Gallagher

Cheap Abbey shares stuck in bargain basement

Date: September 7, 2016 - Moneybags

THE WAY Charlie Gallagher runs the Abbey house building operation is a poor reflection on Deirdre Somers’s regulation team at the Irish Stock Exchange. The ESM-listed company has all the hallmarks of a private Gallagher family business, thanks to an overwhelming 75% majority controlling shareholding, with minority outside shareholders given short shrift. Moreover, private Gallagher… Read more »

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Vol. 34 No. 17

Date: September 4, 2016 -

Vol. 34 No. 17 August 26 – September 8, 2016

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Temple Garner

Odessa Club soldiers on

Date: August 24, 2016 - Brief Cases

IT’S BEEN a tough couple of years for popular Dublin bar and restaurant Odessa Club with the company that operates the venue, Odessa Club and Restaurant Ltd, taking on a new owner after emerging from examinership last summer. Restaurant impresario Temple Garner took over the running of the boozer last June from Eoin Foyle and… Read more »

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Michael Doody’s tax woes

Date: August 24, 2016 - Brief Cases

CORK legal eagle Michael Doody has had yet another judgment registered against him by the Revenue, his seventh since 2012. The judgment against Michael, who is the principal at the well-known Doody’s Solicitors firm on South Mall in Cork City, was for €37,000 owed to the taxman. It will be recalled that in 2012, Doody… Read more »

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Stephen Evans-Freke

Stephen Evans-Freke’s castle battle

Date: August 24, 2016 - Brief Cases

CONGRATULATIONS to Stephen Evans-Freke who had a great day in the High Court before Judge David Keane ahead of the summer recess. Moneybags businessman, Evans-Freke – son of Peter Evans-Freke, the 11th Lord Carbery – was granted an injunction barring a property restorer from transferring her wealth out of the country. It’s the second “Mareva… Read more »

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Ian Lucey

Offside with Jamie Heaslip

Date: August 24, 2016 - Brief Cases

A DUBLIN company called Lucey Technology Ltd (LTL) has had a judgment for unpaid services registered against it by a consultancy outfit. Blackrock businessman Ian Lucey is the largest shareholder at LTL, an investment company that funds fledgling tech companies and where moneybags rugby star and serial entrepreneur Jamie Heaslip is in situ as a… Read more »

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Marie Gorman’s rub of the green

Marie Gorman’s rub of the green

Date: August 24, 2016 - Brief Cases

GOLDHAWK spotted an interesting judgment recently, related to Roscommon agricultural consultant Pauraic Larkin and his wife, Marie Gorman. Larkin owned a company called Pauraic Larkin & Associates Ltd, which provided tree and hedging services to farmers, until it collapsed into liquidation in 2012. Liquidator Eugene McMahon of Mazars sought a restriction order in the High… Read more »

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John Sheehan

John Sheehan’s strike off

Date: August 24, 2016 - Brief Cases

THERE was more bad news for Goldhawk’s old pal, Cork property developer and ex-security industry mogul John Sheehan, when receiver Michael McAteer of Grant Thornton was appointed to his company, ODS Developments Ltd (ODSD), earlier this month. Sheehan had applied for voluntary strike off of the company back in May, but now McAteer has filed… Read more »

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Muldoon’s clean sweep puts FBD on course

Date: August 24, 2016 - Moneybags

FIONA MULDOON has really shaken up the FBD Holdings insurance group. It had previously struggled to expand away from its farmer customer base, setting up its own online cut-price insurance vehicle, No Nonsense.ie, to compete with aggressive players like Quinn Insurance while the group’s investment in hotels and land speculation in Spain were ill-suited to… Read more »

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Mick Carvill survives Kenmare restructuring

Date: August 24, 2016 - Moneybags

MICK CARVILL has not had a good record and possibly the most imprudent move he ever made was to decide in 2010, at the bottom of a brutal recession, to up the ante and lash out $350m to increase Kenmare Resources’ big bet on its heavy sands mining project in Mozambique, by increasing production capacity… Read more »

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Sheila Lavery

LAVERY’S CLOSE CALL

Date: August 24, 2016 - Sport of Kings

SUMMERHILL, County Meath trainer Sheila Lavery had a close call recently when she almost fell victim to a scam. Lavery was contacted by some individuals, believed to be from India, who claimed to be representing well known multi millionaire horse owner Vijay Mallya who was, allegedly, interested in investing in some high end yearlings at… Read more »

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MORE MONEY FOR POWERS

Date: August 24, 2016 - Sport of Kings

THE EUROPEAN yearling sales season kicked off in glamorous Deauville at Arqana in France earlier this month and Irish eyes were certainly smiling, based on the prices some Irish vendors received. The Power family, synonymous with that ace sprinter Sole Power hit another home run when their sole offering, a filly, was bought by the… Read more »

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WAGS’ MELBOURNE DREAM

Date: August 24, 2016 - Sport of Kings

THE SUCCESS of the Ruby Walsh-ridden Clondaw Warrior in the E300,000 Galway Hurdle last month sparked some joyous scenes. This was not surprising given that Walsh’s wife, Gillian, is part-owner of the horse along with three of her pals, Áine Casey, Aisling Gannon and former Horse Racing Ireland PR queen, Tamso Doyle. The Warrior has… Read more »

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DERMOT WELD

ME TARAZANI, YOU EXPLAIN

Date: August 24, 2016 - Sport of Kings

DERMOT WELD usually ends the Galway festival week of racing as the top trainer, but the honour this year was claimed by Willie Mullins, who had far fewer runners than Weld but ended up just pipping the Curragh trainer with his winners on the last day of the meeting (see The Phoenix 12/8/2016). Weld did… Read more »

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BARBARA GALAVAN’S ‘KEY ASKS’

Date: August 24, 2016 - Behind the Scenes

THERE WAS a time when Barbara Galavan’s lobby group Screen Producers Ireland (SPI), claimed over 200 members – film and television outfits that refer to themselves as “independent” companies but, given their dependency on the public coffers, “dependent” might be a better adjective. Not that SPI’s 11 board members, including Naoise Barry (Pinewood), Larry Bass… Read more »

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Anne Clarke’s opera award

Date: August 24, 2016 - Behind the Scenes

CONGRATULATIONS to theatre producer Anne Clarke who goes from success to success. The Arts Council has now greenlighted a huge €½m grant from its opera project fund for a new opera, marking out her company as one of the most successful currently operating in Ireland. Landmark Productions, the operation owned by the widely feted Clarke,… Read more »

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Darryl Downey

DARRYL DOWNEY’S SAD SONG

Date: August 24, 2016 - Behind the Scenes

WITH Electric Picnic set to kick off next month the festival season proper draws to a close. Meanwhile, the fall-out continues from the last-minute cancellation of a music festival in Killarney, Co Kerry, last summer by promoter Darryl Downey – brother of Caroline Downey and brother-in-law of MCD’s Denis Desmond – according to accounts just… Read more »

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OBSERVE THE SONS OF ULSTER ... - ABBEY THEATRE

OBSERVE THE SONS OF ULSTER … – ABBEY THEATRE

Date: August 24, 2016 - Reviews

IN HIS decade-long tenure as director of the National Theatre, Fiach MacConghail has made a point of presenting diverse voices and points of view. Despite its widely noted tendency towards male writers, his Waking the Nation programme – supposedly examining the legacy of the Easter Rising – has proved true to form. So, to close… Read more »

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WILD QUIET - ROISÍN O’DONNELL (NEW ISLAND)

WILD QUIET – ROISÍN O’DONNELL (NEW ISLAND)

Date: August 24, 2016 - Reviews

THIS MUCH PRAISED debut short story collection by Dublin-based Roisín O’Donnell is the latest to tap into the experiences of Ireland’s multi-racial society. While the collection fails to live up to the hype, it does deliver some striking stories. O’Donnell’s family roots are in Derry, the setting for the surreal opening story, Ebenezer’s Memories, one… Read more »

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VIVA – DIRECTED BY PADDY BREATHNACH

Date: August 24, 2016 - Reviews

THE LATEST feature from Irish director Paddy Breathnach is a set in a world of preening exhibitionists. And no, it’s a not a documentary about Leinster House, even if one scene – a punch-up between a group of drag queens – has uncomfortable echoes of the recent leadership ructions in Fine Gael. Rather, Viva focuses… Read more »

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Peter and Kerri Cullen

CULLEN’S CANDY IS DANDY

Date: August 24, 2016 - High Society

THE FRONT page of the Sunday Times property supplement last weekend featured a Killiney pile owned by former candy czar Peter Cullen and his wife, Kerri, who are “downsizing” to a brand new house in Dalkey. There were plenty of plugs for the property in the article but not too much about the moolah made… Read more »

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Christian Stokes

CHRISTIAN STOKES’S HIGH FLYERS

Date: August 24, 2016 - High Society

A NEW private jet hire service has arrived in Ireland and got a nice plug in the Indo earlier this month. However, there was no mention of the man on the ground here who is seeking out moneybags to sign up as members of this rather exclusive club – Christian Stokes, formerly of Residence Private… Read more »

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Theresa Marnane

THERESA’S FRENCH FROLICS

Date: August 24, 2016 - High Society

WHILE THE sport of kings is dominated here by Aidan O’Brien and the Coolmore operation, there are rich pickings to be had for wily horse owners overseas, notably in France, where the prize pots are famously substantial. It turns out that the name of an Irishwoman, Theresa Marnane, is currently featuring on the list of… Read more »

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