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Michael Heffernan

MICHAEL HEFFERNAN’S NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS

Date: January 12, 2023 - High Society

THERE HAVE been some changes in the business portfolio of Michael Heffernan, son of Dunnes Stores boss Margaret, with the businessman having checked out of his hotel group. Meanwhile, his fashion interests remain very much on trend. The annual return filed just before Christmas for H&H Hotels Collection covers the year to April 17, 2022,… Read more »

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Jacky Flavin Tehan

JACKY TEHAN’S PROMOTION

Date: January 12, 2023 - High Society

THERE HAVE been some changes at the Roche family’s investment company, where Jacky Flavin Tehan has moved into the hot seat. Flavin Tehan is the daughter of Mary and DCC founder Jim Flavin and indeed her hubby, Paddy Tehan, is a senior suit in the DCC group. Jacky’s own background is in accountancy, having worked… Read more »

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JOHN MAGNIER’S MASTERPIECE

Date: January 12, 2023 - High Society

IN JUST eight weeks an export ban will expire on the famous Sir Joshua Reynolds masterpiece, Portrait of Omai, which has been the subject of intense debate across the Irish Sea as the National Portrait Gallery (NPG) has sought to keep it in the country. John Magnier, the squire of Coolmore, famously picked up the… Read more »

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VOL 41 NO 01

Date: January 12, 2023 -

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Budget Jack Chambers Nicki Minaj B’Tselem Phil Hogan UCD IRTA DIGI Katy Brown Rory Godson Pallonji Mistry Shark Hanlon Frances Ruane Taste of Dublin Listowel Writers’ Week Paddy Curran Harvey Norman Anton Savage Paul Hourican Enda O’Coineen PfP Red C Poll IFTA Ben Gilroy Luke Comer Sue Spence Fingleton Aubrey McCarthy Matt Cooper Parker Green Danny McConnell Gayle Killilea Maura Derivan Ed Honohan INS Arts Council EDAF Emuse Rosslare Golf Club Mairead Casey Colm O’Rourke Stephen Connolly Peter Aiken John Malone Tom Barry Anthony Halpin Ian Kehoe Kevin Bakhurst Geraldine O’Leary Dennis Horgan RUSI Gareth McAllister Ryevale House Joe Macken RUC Omagh Patrick Connolly Paddy Cosgrave The Ditch Newstalk Fake Tan Fred Logue Ian Paisley Sean O’Riordan Margaret Sweeney Jay Bourke Ellie Kisyombe Francesca McDonagh Ted Cunningham National Space Centre An Irish Goodbye Oscar Robert Quirke Ciara Kelly Executive Women Gathering Doug Taylor Florian Haufe Robbie Henshaw Bill Shipsey Breaking the Silence L’Ecrivain Ronan McNally National Lottery Michael Roche Energy Action Balls.ie Newspapers VAT Abbey Theatre Patricia Madden Irish Banking Culture Board Randox Aoife Gallagher Book Dalai Lama Trinity Trevor White RTÉ Chairperson Shane Houlihan Noel Smyth IKC Bob Geldof Landlord Ireland Neutrality Ukraine

STILL STANDING AND SHOUTING

Date: January 12, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

NEARLY 40 years ago to the day – January 7, 1983 – The Phoenix rose from the ashes of a previous media venture and it is still standing. Buffeted by legal threats from the rich and the crooked and opprobrium from the ‘responsible’ media; squeezed by mega media platforms and ongoing hostility from most (if… Read more »

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Budget Jack Chambers Nicki Minaj B’Tselem Phil Hogan UCD IRTA DIGI Katy Brown Rory Godson Pallonji Mistry Shark Hanlon Frances Ruane Taste of Dublin Listowel Writers’ Week Paddy Curran Harvey Norman Anton Savage Paul Hourican Enda O’Coineen PfP Red C Poll IFTA Ben Gilroy Luke Comer Sue Spence Fingleton Aubrey McCarthy Matt Cooper Parker Green Danny McConnell Gayle Killilea Maura Derivan Ed Honohan INS Arts Council EDAF Emuse Rosslare Golf Club Mairead Casey Colm O’Rourke Stephen Connolly Peter Aiken John Malone Tom Barry Anthony Halpin Ian Kehoe Kevin Bakhurst Geraldine O’Leary Dennis Horgan RUSI Gareth McAllister Ryevale House Joe Macken RUC Omagh Patrick Connolly Paddy Cosgrave The Ditch Newstalk Fake Tan Fred Logue Ian Paisley Sean O’Riordan Margaret Sweeney Jay Bourke Ellie Kisyombe Francesca McDonagh Ted Cunningham National Space Centre An Irish Goodbye Oscar Robert Quirke Ciara Kelly Executive Women Gathering Doug Taylor Florian Haufe Robbie Henshaw Bill Shipsey Breaking the Silence L’Ecrivain Ronan McNally National Lottery Michael Roche Energy Action Balls.ie Newspapers VAT Abbey Theatre Patricia Madden Irish Banking Culture Board Randox Aoife Gallagher Book Dalai Lama Trinity Trevor White RTÉ Chairperson Shane Houlihan Noel Smyth IKC Bob Geldof Landlord Ireland Neutrality Ukraine

BLUESHIRT PLAYBOOK

Date: January 12, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

SOME AGEING Fine Gael members have been muttering about Irish Times anti-American liberals who blame the antics of Brazilian ex-president Jair Bolsonaro’s fascist fans on the precedent created by Donald Trump’s rabble storming Capitol Hill. The FG Good Ol’ Boys are quite put out as they claim their antecedents in the Blueshirts should receive the… Read more »

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Paul Kimmage

O’LEARY PULLS NO PUNCHES

Date: January 12, 2023 - Sport of Kings

PAUL KIMMAGE began 2023 by reminding his Sindo readers on New Year’s Day that he hasn’t given up when it comes to exposing a doping culture in the Irish racing industry. This is despite having failed to land a killer blow courtesy of his series of incendiary articles last year. After dishing out a hefty… Read more »

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Budget Jack Chambers Nicki Minaj B’Tselem Phil Hogan UCD IRTA DIGI Katy Brown Rory Godson Pallonji Mistry Shark Hanlon Frances Ruane Taste of Dublin Listowel Writers’ Week Paddy Curran Harvey Norman Anton Savage Paul Hourican Enda O’Coineen PfP Red C Poll IFTA Ben Gilroy Luke Comer Sue Spence Fingleton Aubrey McCarthy Matt Cooper Parker Green Danny McConnell Gayle Killilea Maura Derivan Ed Honohan INS Arts Council EDAF Emuse Rosslare Golf Club Mairead Casey Colm O’Rourke Stephen Connolly Peter Aiken John Malone Tom Barry Anthony Halpin Ian Kehoe Kevin Bakhurst Geraldine O’Leary Dennis Horgan RUSI Gareth McAllister Ryevale House Joe Macken RUC Omagh Patrick Connolly Paddy Cosgrave The Ditch Newstalk Fake Tan Fred Logue Ian Paisley Sean O’Riordan Margaret Sweeney Jay Bourke Ellie Kisyombe Francesca McDonagh Ted Cunningham National Space Centre An Irish Goodbye Oscar Robert Quirke Ciara Kelly Executive Women Gathering Doug Taylor Florian Haufe Robbie Henshaw Bill Shipsey Breaking the Silence L’Ecrivain Ronan McNally National Lottery Michael Roche Energy Action Balls.ie Newspapers VAT Abbey Theatre Patricia Madden Irish Banking Culture Board Randox Aoife Gallagher Book Dalai Lama Trinity Trevor White RTÉ Chairperson Shane Houlihan Noel Smyth IKC Bob Geldof Landlord Ireland Neutrality Ukraine

GARDAÍ’S GOOD TIMING

Date: January 12, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

JUST BEFORE Christmas there was a high-profile conference, called ‘Breaking the Silence’, held in Dublin focusing on issues to do with the sex trade, trafficking and sexual violence. It was presumably entirely coincidental that, in the run-up to the event, the boys in blue got busy raiding the apartments of sex workers. No doubt the… Read more »

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Prince Harry RICHARD KEMP

HARRY’S GAME OF CHESS

Date: January 12, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

RICHARD KEMP, a former commander of British armed forces in Afghanistan and ex-chair of the Cobra Intelligence Group – co-ordinating MI5 and MI6 and answerable only to the British cabinet – was wheeled out to attack Buck House traitor Prince Harry last week. Kemp used the occasion to advertise his own security credentials and spoke… Read more »

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Gerard O’Neill

TURN AROUND FOR LEGAL EAGLE

Date: January 12, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

LIMERICK SOLICITOR Gerard O’Neill will have been pleased at the fight back he successfully mounted against press statements issued by the Irish Small and Medium Enterprises Association (Isme) following a High Court case presided over by Judge Michael Twomey in 2019. At that time, Judge Twomey threw out the personal injury actions of O’Neill’s two… Read more »

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Irish Media Ukraine Simon Coveney

IRISH ARMS TO ISRAEL

Date: January 12, 2023 - Hush Hush

THE CONTROL of Exports Act was passed in 2008 to ensure that Ireland would finally be in compliance with the provisions of the European Union’s Council Common Position, which was agreed in June 2003. This provided for controls around the export of goods and technology to certain military end users. The act requires that each… Read more »

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Una Mullally

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: January 12, 2023 - The Hot Air Brigade

In these places, character must be erased lest it tell a story. A sense of place must be rinsed until what emerges from the white walls is what Kyle Chayka labelled “AirSpace” – “a profusion of symbols of comfort and quality” – the triumph of the generic, the homogenous. Una Mullally on new-build studio apartment… Read more »

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Jeffrey Donaldson

DONALDSON’S BIG CALL

Date: January 12, 2023 - Northwind

DUP LEADER Jeffrey Donaldson has a big call to make in a couple of months as the EU and UK move inexorably towards a deal on the Northern Ireland Protocol. Since early 2021 Donaldson – egged on by loyalist bloggers and wary of the electoral threat of Jim Allister’s extremist TUV party – has adopted… Read more »

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Leo Varadkar

A TAOISEACH ONCE AGAIN

Date: January 12, 2023 - Last Refuge

ONE PRESUMES that former taoiseach, now Tánaiste, Micheál Martin, was not entirely gulled by the remarks of Leo Varadkar, then his second-in-command, to the Fine Gael ard fheis in November when he praised Martin to the rafters. In fact, Martin may have felt a shudder down his spine at Vlad describing him as a “good”… Read more »

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Kieran O'Donnell

ARISE LAZARUS O’DONNELL

Date: January 12, 2023 - Last Refuge

THE PROMOTION of long-time Fine Gael backbench TD Kieran O’Donnell to the post of junior minister for local government and planning was described by the Irish Times as not widely anticipated. However, one source said it was for recognition of “many years of hard work”. That’s one way of putting it for a man whose… Read more »

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Sinn Féin RTÉ Brendan Griffin

BRENDAN GRIFFIN’S AMBITIONS

Date: January 12, 2023 - Last Refuge

FINE GAEL TD and former junior sports minister Brendan Griffin walked off the pitch in what looked like a sulk as he was offered a junior ministerial post that was apparently beneath him just before Christmas. Griffin in fact cited family reasons for refusing the offer but his Kerry colleague, Independent TD Michael Healy-Rae, taunted… Read more »

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James Lawless Junior Minister

MARTIN’S PAYROLL VOTE CAPPED

Date: January 12, 2023 - Last Refuge

THE WEEKS leading up to the most uneventful ministerial reshuffle in memory saw repeated references to a possible expansion of junior ministers by two. In the event, no such ministerial additions were made. Why was this kite-flying exercise carried out and why was it rejected? The ostensible reason for the proposal was the need to… Read more »

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Eoin Ó Murchú Richard Pine

‘IRISH TIMES’ CRITICS

Date: January 12, 2023 - Fit to Print?

“SPECIAL CONSIDERATION shall be given to the reasonable representation of minority interests and divergent views,” according to the “principles of the Irish Times”. However, with political debate nowadays tainted by populists and extremists (ie those who disagree with the IT’s right-of-centre liberalism), the paper of reference cannot allow just anybody to sully its opinion columns… Read more »

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MEDIAHUIS RETREAT

Date: January 12, 2023 - Fit to Print?

EFFORTS BY Mediahuis, publishers of Independent titles and others north and south, to colonise the Sunday market in the north via the Sunday Independent have failed and the Belgians have fallen back to Dublin. This follows a previous and similarly unsuccessful effort to seize the northern Sunday market some years ago when the then neo-unionist… Read more »

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Eliza Manningham-Buller-2 Nicholas Blanford

RTÉ’S MILITARY ‘EXPERTS’

Date: January 12, 2023 - Fit to Print?

TWO DAYS after Christmas RTÉ’s Morning Ireland interviewed the Atlantic Council’s Nicholas Blanford, an expert on the Middle East. Listeners were told that the council was a “US think-tank” and Nicholas Blanford spoke about the detention of an alleged suspect in the recent fatal shooting of Private Seán Rooney in Lebanon. The “US think-tank” is… Read more »

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Deirdre Grant

BRIGHT RED FLAGS

Date: January 12, 2023 - Fowl Emissions

GOLDHAWK WAS browsing the lobbying register during the Christmas break and was intrigued to see that a board member of Oxfam Ireland has been lobbying minister Eamon Ryan on behalf of a power-generation company. Deirdre Grant, a former special adviser to ministers Ruairí Quinn and Ged Nash, was seeking to “create better understanding of challenges… Read more »

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NOTEWORTHY EMISSIONS

Date: January 12, 2023 - Fowl Emissions

AN INVESTIGATION by the excellent Noteworthy website has revealed that data centres’ on-site carbon emissions are 35 times higher than a decade ago. This is about to get much worse. Last year regulators finally imposed some restrictions on how much these vampires can suck from the electricity grid but data centres are circumventing this by… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: January 12, 2023 - Bog Cuttings

GOING NOWHERE TULLAMORE DISTRICT Court heard the case of Derek Wyer (47), who was arrested following an altercation with gardaí outside the Bride House pub in the early morning of March 20, 2022. Garda Andrew Barron gave evidence that the defendant, of Ballykilmurray, Tullamore, was spotted being escorted from the premises by security staff and,… Read more »

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Desiree Finnegan

DÉSIRÉE’S IN-TRAY

Date: January 12, 2023 - Behind the Scenes

THERE IS no sign of a plot twist at Screen Ireland (SI) when it comes to publishing its annual reports. Successive head honchos, including current chief executive Désirée Finnegan, have presided over a release schedule that they clearly believe is building suspense. At the time of writing, the most recent accounts available are for the… Read more »

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CATHERINE MARTIN’S UNJUST TRANSITION

Date: January 12, 2023 - Behind the Scenes

WITH THE Arts Council planning to significantly expand its scale, maybe one of the new hires could keep an eye on the activities of Creative Ireland, the slush fund established within the arts department a few years ago. Shortly before Christmas, arts minister Catherine Martin and Green Party leader Eamon Ryan launched a €3m fund… Read more »

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Tom Rudd

LIMERICK’S MYSTERIOUS CROWDS

Date: January 12, 2023 - Sport of Kings

FORMER JUMP jockey Tom Rudd took over as the manager of Limerick racecourse late last year amid hopes that the track would see some continuity among the senior management after a turbulent few years. Former manager Patrick O’Callaghan vacated the role in autumn 2021 and was succeeded by Emma White, who had relocated from a… Read more »

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AMO KEEPS OPTIONS OPEN

Date: January 12, 2023 - Sport of Kings

ONE MAJOR flat owner who likes to keep his trainers guessing is Kia Joorabchian of Amo Racing. The football club investor and tech entrepreneur upped his spending again last year, including buying the Michael O’Callaghan-trained Crypto Force for £900,000 at the Goffs London sale during the summer, and now has upwards of 100 horses in… Read more »

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Luke Comer Ban

COMERS’ CHRISTMAS PLAN

Date: January 12, 2023 - Sport of Kings

EIGHT YEARS after the Comer brothers, Luke and Brian, acquired the Kilternan sports and leisure complex in south Co Dublin for €7m – 96% less than the €171m spent on the site by the late Hugh O’Regan – a planning application has been submitted to help regularise development that has taken place at the so-called… Read more »

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An enemy of the crown

AN ENEMY OF THE CROWN – DAVID BURKE, MERCIER

Date: January 12, 2023 - BooksBooks|ReviewsReviews

DAVID BURKE’S An Enemy of the Crown provides essential reading on British disinformation and smears, bringing readers up to speed on what is sometimes referred to as the ‘seamier side’ of the conflict in the north. The term implies that sleaze was peripheral to the hostilities and mainstream political activities. In fact, it is central… Read more »

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Martin Davis

MOLTEN VENTURES INVESTMENTS EXPOSED TO THE DAYLIGHT

Date: January 12, 2023 - Moneybags

IT IS far from obvious just what has gone wrong at Molten Ventures, the investment fund previously known as Draper Esprit. What is clear, however, is that on foot of certain fundraising exercises a number of the company’s investments are awfully less valuable than shareholders may have suspected. This has been bad news for the… Read more »

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Seamus Keating

CAN FD TECHNOLOGIES DELIVER ITS SECOND ACT?

Date: January 12, 2023 - Moneybags

NEWRY WOULD not be known to most people for its prominence in the high-finance technology sector, courtesy of Brian Colon, who developed what is the world’s biggest financial derivatives software house in his home town. From nothing, Conlon managed to grow a phenomenally successful business resulting in the first Newry ‘unicorn’, with his First Derivative… Read more »

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JOHN MAGNIER’S BEDROOMS

Date: January 12, 2023 - Brief Cases

WHILE MONEYBAGS John Magnier has tended to be seen as something of a deity in south Co Tipperary, where he has been splashing the cash for decades, the locals in part of the county also have a particular soft spot for the Rock of Cashel. While the businessman has attracted plenty of praise for his… Read more »

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Will Prendergast

WILL PRENDERGAST’S PREDICTIONS

Date: January 12, 2023 - Brief Cases

AFTER TWO years in situ as a director on Advisable.com, venture capitalist and member of the Society of Kauffman Fellows Will Prendergast has stepped down from the board. Having recently divined that the investment market is in a tricky spot at the moment, he may be taking time out to plan for the next chapter…. Read more »

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Rick Earley

RICK EARLEY’S LATEST SETBACK

Date: January 12, 2023 - Brief Cases

A LOW-PROFILE Co Longford company called Profill Ltd was wound up immediately before Christmas. Having started life as a mattress manufacturer in Tralee with a different name and under different ownership, Profill ended up going into liquidation having managed to build up millions of euro in losses. The main player here is Dún Laoghaire-based Rick… Read more »

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DESMOND BOUNCES BACK

Date: January 12, 2023 - Brief Cases

ACCOUNTS HAVE just been filed by LN-Gaiety Holdings Ltd (LNGH), the joint venture between loaded concert promoter Denis Desmond and the Live Nation behemoth. It is clear that, post-pandemic, business is well and truly back on track. LNGH is owned by the London-headquartered Live Nation and Desmond’s Dublin-registered Gaiety Investments Unlimited, where the other director… Read more »

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Windhoist Ireland Uniti Bhalla

WINDHOIST HOISTED

Date: January 12, 2023 - Brief Cases

THE WEEK before Christmas, a business involved in providing services to wind farms – Windhoist Ireland Ltd (WIL) – was wound up by the High Court on foot of a petition from the directors, following the liquidation of its UK-registered parent company. It turns out that the collapse came as quite a shock to all… Read more »

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