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GeraldineKarlsson

GERALDINE KARLSSON’S HIGH NOTES

Date: January 13, 2016 - High Society

AS PREDICTED by Goldhawk (see The Phoenix 18/12/15), the finances at Wexford Festival Opera (WFO) are taking on the proportions of a tragedy. Maybe it is time to ask Geraldine Karlsson for a bail-out? Earlier this month, the Arts Council announced that its grant aid to Wexford for this year will be €1.42m, which represents… Read more »

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JohnMagnier

SHUTTING THE STABLE DOOR

Date: January 13, 2016 - High Society

WHILE THERE has been good news for Coolmore Stud Down Under (see p23), John Magnier et al continue to expend considerable energy ensuring that what they consider to be bad news closer to home remains off limits. It will be recalled (see The Phoenix 18/12/15) that Will Jones, a former employee of Coolmore, has written… Read more »

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COALITION SECRETS AND LIES

Date: December 17, 2015 - Affairs of the Nation

THE four main political parties are lying through their teeth about their coalition options or non-options and the post-election scramble for power will prove it. But for sheer Machiavellian bluster Fianna Fáil’s Micheál Martin takes the prize. Fine Gael’s director of elections, Brian Hayes, came over like Conor McGregor this week, lacerating FF for being… Read more »

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Cormac Dunne

JUDGE CORMAC DUNNE’S COSTS

Date: December 17, 2015 - Affairs of the Nation

JUDGE CORMAC Dunne has had his fair share of scrapes, but the good news is that at least he doesn’t have to pay the legal costs associated with a High Court Judicial Review of one of his decisions. The case related to a fall-out between barrister and Joycean scholar Brendan Kilty and auctioneers, Campion Property…. Read more »

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Michael O’Leary

MICK O’LEARY’S OIL BILL

Date: December 17, 2015 - Affairs of the Nation

HOW IRONIC it was to see Mick O’Leary popping up at the annual Dublin Chamber of Commerce Christmas lunch last week claiming that Ryanair will be cutting fares in response to the plummeting oil price. This is the same man who has overseen a drastic oil hedging policy that is costing Ryanair hundreds of millions… Read more »

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Leo Varadkar

RUNNING RINGS AROUND DRINK BILL

Date: December 17, 2015 - Affairs of the Nation

ARE Fine Gael and sport minister Paschal Donohoe having a laugh with the minister’s recent statement that he was handing over responsibility for submissions on the anti-drinks legislation to his junior, Michael Ring? Donohoe said his wife had once worked for Diageo and so Ring would instead take over consideration of the legislation. Reports are… Read more »

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Ann Reihill

ANN REIHILL’S REDUCED IMAGE

Date: December 17, 2015 - Affairs of the Nation

ALMOST FORTY years after the magazine first appeared, these are interesting times at Image Publications. There has been a complex restructuring of the shareholders at the magazine publishing house that has led to a major dilution in the stake held by long-time director Ann Reihill. In 2011, Dalkey-based moneybags Robert Power took over as the… Read more »

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Alan Kelly

ALAN KELLY’S PARIS EMISSIONS

Date: December 17, 2015 - Affairs of the Nation

“CRAZY” and “frankly not sane” were among the words used by Alan Kelly in Paris last week in relation to Ireland’s beef sector in the context of climate change. Anyone unfamiliar with the surreal world in which our farming and agri-food lobby exerts an iron grip on the Government might assume that an environment minister… Read more »

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Aoife Walsh

The Hot Air Brigade

Date: December 17, 2015 - The Hot Air Brigade

Aoife Walsh and her new beau Gary must really be getting serious, mustn’t they? They jetted to New York for a pre-Christmas romantic break last Tuesday morning. Were they buying something over there? A ring, perchance? I’ll tell you next week. Barry Egan reports on former Miss Ireland Aoife Walsh, Sunday Independent The idea of… Read more »

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John F Kennedy

DONALD TRUMP: THE POLITICS OF HATE

Date: December 17, 2015 - Foreign Frolics

By Robert Fantina AS the three-ring circus known as the US presidential campaign plods along towards its inevitable conclusion, wherein we will all ‘meet the new boss, same as the old boss’, the world is being subjected to the bizarre phenomenon of an oddly-coiffed billionaire entertainer soaring in the polls. Never one to pander to… Read more »

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Jimmy Deenihan

JIMMY DEENIHAN’S GENDER AGENDA

Date: December 17, 2015 - Last Refuge

THAT damned gender quota being imposed on the Good Ol’ Boys in Fine Gael has led to internal convulsions among candidates and one of the few party ministers that has had the, er, testes to try and impose a solution has been junior minister for the diaspora, Jimmy Deenihan. Jimmy came up with a most… Read more »

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Noel McCarthy

Noel McCarthy’s Skills

Date: December 17, 2015 - Last Refuge

YOU have to hand it to political chameleon Cllr Noel McCarthy in Cork East whose recent electoral journey has been chronicled in The Phoenix lately (see edition, 4/12/15). But news of McCarthy’s latest powers of negotiation indicate that he will prove especially formidable at the general election, where he has joined siting TDs David Stanton… Read more »

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Joan Burton

LABOUR SPLIT OVER FINE GAEL

Date: December 17, 2015 - Last Refuge

REMARKS from various Labour backbenchers about the dangers of returning to the grizzly embrace of Fine Gael unless Labour return with at least 15 seats (unlikely) has not attracted the attention it deserves, although Enda Kenny et al will certainly have taken note and with some alarm. However, the TDs quoted were mainly those who… Read more »

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Derek Wilford

IRISH TIMES ETHICAL WAR EFFORT

Date: December 17, 2015 - Fit to Print?

WITH the recent arrest and questioning about Bloody Sunday of a former British paratrooper in the North and more to follow, The Irish Times responded with a reassuring article about the “ethos” of the parachute regiment and how they were the ‘wrong regiment in the wrong place’ that day. The author, ex-Royal Irish Regiment Captain… Read more »

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Garda Vs Sunday Times

Date: December 17, 2015 - Fit to Print?

YET another fraught libel action facing The Sunday Times that involves arguments about subversive accusations is that of a former female garda who claims she has been seriously defamed by the newspaper. The garda alleges that the newspaper identified her, falsely, as a source for the Continuity IRA (CIRA). According to an article in September… Read more »

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Amal Clooney

KEVIN MYERS’S “LEGAL AUXILIARIES”

Date: December 17, 2015 - Fit to Print?

THE torture case being take to the European Court of Human Rights against the British Government by the ‘hooded men’ – backed by the Irish Government – has led to an interesting spin off. Sunday Times columnist Kevin Myers thundered against the European legal action a year ago, but in doing so provoked a libel… Read more »

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Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan

‘MING’ FLANAGAN’S FACEBOOK POST

Date: December 17, 2015 - Affairs of the Nation

COMBATIVE MEP Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan is no slouch when it comes to a legal row and lodged High Court proceedings against The Irish Times in September over an interview given by Fine Gael TD for Roscommon-South Leitrim, Frank Feighan, in which the latter politician claims to have been defamed. But it hasn’t all been one-way… Read more »

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Bog Cuttings

Date: December 17, 2015 - Bog Cuttings

MAN TELLS JUDGE HE WILL ‘BRING HIM TO JUSTICE’ A 53-YEAR-OLD man, charged with carrying a knife and being drunk and a danger, told a district court judge that he would bring him to justice. Judge Leo Malone put the case against Billy Murphy of no fixed address to the end of the list in… Read more »

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Sonia Rogers

SONIA ROGERS’S TRIPLE WHAMMY

Date: December 17, 2015 - High Society

THERE WAS good news for Sonia Rogers and her boys at the Tattersalls December Foal Sale recently, when they managed to shift three nags in the space of ten minutes for an impressive 850,000gns. Former Turf Club steward Rogers is the face of the Airlie Stud group, headquartered at Grangewilliam, outside Maynooth in Co Kildare,… Read more »

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Shane Ryan

THE RYANS HAVE ARRIVED

Date: December 17, 2015 - High Society

INTERESTING to see that Shane Ryan is the mystery buyer of the former French consulate on leafy Ailesbury Road in D4. When the mansion on one acre was sold for a reported €4.5m in late 2013, the owner was not identified (and oddly there is still no record of the sale on the Property Price… Read more »

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COOLMORE’S CENSORS

Date: December 17, 2015 - High Society

MORE ON the book that Squire John Magnier wants banned. Solicitors for Coolmore Stud have been contacting book stores warning them that legal action will be taken if they continue to sell copies of The Black Horse Inside Coolmore. It will be recalled (see The Phoenix 4/12/15) that William Jones, a former employee of Coolmore,… Read more »

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David Agler

WEXFORD OPERA’S STRAINED FINANCES

Date: December 17, 2015 - Behind the Scenes

STILL NO sign of the overdue March 2015 accounts for Wexford Festival Trust, the organisation behind the annual Wexford Festival Opera (WFO). Given the financial strains in the David Davies-chaired operation, this may not come as a surprise, but Goldhawk is aware that all is not well in the sunny south east. While WFO has… Read more »

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RACHEL LYSAGHT’S FILM PLOT

Date: December 17, 2015 - Behind the Scenes

THE ABBEY (off-stage) farce – starring Fiach Mac Conghail as the director who forgot to include women playwrights in the National Theatre’s 1916 centenary programme – has put gender centre stage in the arts, with acres of column inches devoted to the subject. The Abbey row also reignited similar gender representation concerns in the Irish… Read more »

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Dominic Stevens

DOMINIC STEVENS’S ‘EXTRAORDINARY HOUSES’

Date: December 17, 2015 - Behind the Scenes

CURRENTLY running at the Mermaid arts centre in Bray, Co Wicklow is an exhibition entitled ‘Works by Nature and Man’ by trendy architect Dominic Stevens. However, his back catalogue may not be all it’s cracked up to be. Stevens has acquired a decent array of awards, residencies and publications. A shortlist includes the Arts Council’s… Read more »

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BEATLEBONE – KEVIN BARRY (CANONGATE)

Date: December 17, 2015 - Books

  SET IN the spring of 1978, Kevin Barry’s second novel imagines John Lennon retreating to his lonely Irish island in the hope of reviving his talent for song-writing. The fictional Lennon’s plan is to spend three days alone on Dorinish in Clew Bay, where he will “scream his lungs out and find inner peace”…. Read more »

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Caoimhe O’Malley

YOU NEVER CAN TELL – ABBEY THEATRE

Date: December 17, 2015 - Theatre

  WHEN IT comes to drinking, one obstreperous character in this George Bernard Shaw play stands out, with his preference for whiskey and seltzer. It’s bubbly, with a bitter edge, occasionally sweetened with a lump of sugar to keep it fizzing. The Abbey programme tries to claim the beverage as a metaphor for the show:… Read more »

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Padraig McManus

SADDLING UP FOR CURRAGH TOP JOB

Date: December 17, 2015 - Sport of Kings

ADVERTS have appeared for the position of chief executive of Curragh Racecourse Ltd, the private company set up with the assistance of Minister for Agriculture Simon Coveney to manage the Curragh Racecourse. The line-up for what should be an open race should prove interesting, although the smart money will be backing the horse with closest… Read more »

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Alayna Cullen

FAUGHEEN FORCED TO SHARE AWARD

Date: December 17, 2015 - Sport of Kings

THE ANNUAL Horse Racing Ireland (HRI) awards were dished out at Leopardstown last week, with junior minister Tom Hayes in attendance at the ceremony, which featured ex-FG minister-tuned broadcaster, Ivan Yates, as Master Of Ceremonies. The former bookmaker took the opportunity to get some racing tips from Willie Mullins, winner of the National Hunt Award,… Read more »

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STABLESTAFF UNDER SCRUTINY

Date: December 17, 2015 - Sport of Kings

THE Irish Stablestaff Association (ISA), which represents the interests of staff working in the thoroughbred racing industry, is currently reviewing its policy as to who can be elected onto its board. This pre-emptive action follows inquiries from William Jones, who has written a book entitled The Black Horse Inside Coolmore, about working inside the John… Read more »

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Martin Ferris

TURF CLUB GRABS CONCESSIONS

Date: December 17, 2015 - Sport of Kings

SINN FÉIN spokesman on Agriculture Martin Ferris was successful in his amendment to remove a contentious clause in Simon Coveney’s Horse Racing Ireland Act 2015, which passed through the Agricultural Committee stage last week. All the action during the two-hour session was centered around pages 15 and 16 of the Bill, which referred to the… Read more »

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Tom Keane

Tom Keane’s Many Battles

Date: December 17, 2015 - Brief Cases

MORE to report on the adventures of Tom Keane, the principal of BKRM accountants in north Dublin (see The Phoenix 23/10/15). Keane is currently facing four separate disciplinary inquiries by the Certified Public Accountants Ireland (CPAI), where he previously served as president. In October this year, Keane failed in a legal challenge to halt one… Read more »

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Eoin Ó Cofaigh

Eoin Ó Cofaigh’s Report

Date: December 17, 2015 - Brief Cases

THE RESIDENTS of an apartment development known as Riverwalk Court in Ratoath, Co Meath, face an uncertain future after Meath County Council (MCC) issued a draft report outlining a number of serious fire safety defects with their apartments. While the identity of the developer of the apartment building – Michael Ryan, of Saltan Properties –… Read more »

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John Gallagher’s Troubles

Date: December 17, 2015 - Brief Cases

THESE are nervous times for businessman John Gallagher, the founder of the private clinic, Charter Medical Group (CMG) in Smithfield, where his previous business associate was property developer Paddy Kelly. Gallagher has been involved in medical imaging for many years and one of his ill-fated companies in this business was an outfit called Photologic Ltd,… Read more »

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Áine Feeney McTigue Struck Off

Date: December 17, 2015 - Brief Cases

MORE TO REPORT on Galway-based legal eagle, Áine Feeney McTigue, who was suspended from practising as a solicitor in September over an alleged deficit of more than €500,000 in her firm’s client account (see The Phoenix 25/9/15). Feeney was struck off the Roll of Solicitors by the High Court’s Judge Paul McDermott at a court… Read more »

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Striking Off Robert Sweeney

Date: December 17, 2015 - Brief Cases

LETTERKENNY-BASED legal eagle Robert Sweeney was struck off the Roll of Solicitors last month by the President of the High Court for a string of misdeeds which resulted in of over 200 complaints made against him, largely from lenders who complained about his failure to comply with undertakings. Sweeney also landed in trouble over his… Read more »

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Philip Marley

Philip Marley’s “Sham” Lease

Date: December 17, 2015 - Brief Cases

NOT much has been heard lately from Goldhawk’s old pal, colourful property developer Philip Marley, although that may be about to change, as a company the businessman is involved with is currently being sued in the High Court. The row concerns Aldborough House on Portland Row in north Dublin city, which was previously owned by… Read more »

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