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Kieran Cuddihy

YOUNG BLOODS: KIERAN CUDDIHY

Date: February 9, 2023 - The Young Bloods

WHILE RADIO presenter Kieran Cuddihy is known for his strong opinions, it’s hard to shake off the feeling that he sometimes tries hard to be controversial. The Kilkenny native took over as presenter of The Hard Shoulder on Newstalk from firebrand Ivan Yates in August 2020, moving from early mornings on the station to evening… Read more »

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DOUG TAYLOR’S PRIZE MONEY

Date: February 9, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

IT LOOKS like the champagne corks could be popping soon in Ridgewood House, home of colourful millionaire Doug Taylor. The Sunday Times reported at the weekend that his outsourcing company, MCR Group, has hired advisory firm Clearwater International to explore a sale of all or part of the business. Apparently, the operation could be worth… Read more »

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Garret Patrick Kelly Eamon Ryan is hoping that the Green party will benefit from the ‘climate emergency’ being at the top of the global political agenda, but closer to home he has his work cut out trying to make headway on domestic bread-and-butter issues.

GREENS DIVIDE ON NEUTRALITY

Date: February 9, 2023 - Last Refuge

THE ONGOING mystery continues surrounding the Green Party’s policy on defence, security and neutrality – for long the most sacred of Green principles – with no announcement from the party nor from its Foreign Policy and Security Group. Garret Patrick Kelly, convenor for this group, told Goldhawk in a letter two years ago (March 2021)… Read more »

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Mary Harney

MARY HARNEY’S MANY HATS

Date: February 9, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

THE INCREASINGLY busy former health minister Mary Harney has popped up as a director of yet another Irish pharma business. She continues to find a way to make her experience in government pay off. Shortly before Christmas, Harney was appointed to the board of a company with the unwieldy name of Biosimilar Collaborations Ireland Ltd… Read more »

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Ronan McNally Ithaka Horse

RONAN McNALLY’S ROUGH RIDE

Date: February 9, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

DISGRACED TRAINER Ronan McNally will be well aware of the name Barney Curley, the renowned gambler who hijacked the only phone line available from Bellewstown Racecourse in 1975 to orchestrate a massive betting coup on a horse called Yellow Sam. That coup has attained almost mythical status and Curley is still revered. Fast-forward 47 years,… Read more »

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Sinn Féin RTÉ Brendan Griffin

BRENDAN GRIFFIN’S EXIT

Date: February 9, 2023 - Last Refuge

LEO VARADKAR may only have himself to blame for the departure from Fine Gael at the next election of the party’s only TD in the five-seat Kerry constituency, the ambitious Brendan Griffin, whose disappointment at not receiving serious preferment before Christmas was profound. The extent of Griffin’s expectation was measured by his belief that he… Read more »

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Hugh Wallace

HUGH WALLACE’S PERSONAL GUARANTEE

Date: February 9, 2023 - Brief Cases

WITH THE popular Home of the Year programme back on RTÉ from Valentine’s Day for its ninth series, there was plenty of love on show at the weekend for judges Hugh Wallace, Amanda Bone and Sara Cosgrove. For example, readers of the Oirish Mail on Sunday heard about the “friendly rivalry” behind the scenes. There… Read more »

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MY FATHER’S HOUSE - JOSEPH O’CONNOR

MY FATHER’S HOUSE – JOSEPH O’CONNOR

Date: February 9, 2023 - Books|ReviewsReviews

SINCE THE success of his 2002 bestseller, Star of the Sea, Joseph O’Connor has settled into writing historical fiction about real Irish people, including JM Synge and Bram Stoker. His latest novel, set during Germany’s occupation of Italy in 1943, is based on the true story of Monsignor Hugh O’Flaherty, Irish envoy to the Vatican,… Read more »

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Hadageo Ltd Neil Francis

‘IRISH TIMES’ TICKS OFF ‘SUNDAY TIMES’

Date: February 9, 2023 - Fit to Print?

THE TRANSFORMATION of the Irish edition of the Sunday Times from heavyweight editorial to low-brow human-interest stories is a direct result of London’s slash-and-burn policy. Irish editor Nóirín Hegarty can only deal with the cards she has been given but her newspaper had a dreadful new year, with two stories underlining the problems at the… Read more »

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Pat Finucane Chris Heaton Harris

OMAGH REVISITED

Date: February 9, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

THERE IS a stark difference in how the British government is responding to court orders to carry out inquiries into the Omagh bombing and the assassination of Pat Finucane. The latter was a Belfast solicitor who was murdered by masked UDA assassins in his home in February 1989. NI secretary Chris Heaton-Harris has announced the… Read more »

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Malachy Steenson

MALACHY STEENSON’S EURO PLANS

Date: February 9, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

WORKING-CLASS Dub hero Malachy Steenson has recently been at more public protests against migrants than the number of political parties he has joined or supported (Workers Party, Irish Republican Socialist Party, Republican Sinn Féin and 32 County Sovereign Movement). He has also begun to grate on the two main far-right parties – the National Party… Read more »

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Esa Pulkkinen

IRISH NEUTRALITY OVER, SAYS ‘EXPERT’

Date: February 9, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

THE ASSERTION by Lieutenant General Esa Polkkinen, director general of policy at Finland’s defence ministry, that neutrality is “over” for Ireland and that we should double or treble our defence budget was, of course, published without qualification by the Irish Times last week. The newspaper could have noted that Finland was a neutral, non-aligned country… Read more »

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Gerry O'Brien

AND THE AWARD DOESN’T GO TO …

Date: February 9, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

AMIDST THE hoo-ha about Oscar nominations for five Irish actors, there’s been no talk about whether any of them has been subject to the same limitations imposed on their less-exalted colleagues when signing up for productions. For example, as fans of Goldhawk are aware, the contracts prepared for many Irish performers in Disney’s big budget… Read more »

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FLORIAN HAUFE’S CRIME ACADEMY

Date: February 9, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

ON VALENTINE’S Day, a creditors’ meeting is to be held to wind up an entity called the Financial Crime Academy Ltd. This was set up here to deliver lectures on fighting corruption and is fronted by a German financial superhero named Florian Haufe. According to the webpage for Florian Haufe, he is “a compliance and… Read more »

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Liz O'Donnell

NORMAL PEOPLE

Date: February 9, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

PEOPLE ROUTINELY accept risks associated with motoring that they would find intolerable in almost any other walk of life, according to new research. These unconscious biases in turn have major impacts on policy, leading to what the researchers describe as, er, “motonormativity”, which, in simple terms, means a huge blind spot when it comes to… Read more »

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Digital Services Act Elon Musk

TWITTER’S EMERALD ISLE

Date: February 9, 2023 - Hush Hush

POLITICAL AGREEMENT was reached on the Digital Services Act (DSA) by the European Commission after much haggling in April 2022. The legislation aims to guarantee a safer digital space, where the rights of EU citizens are respected. With companies such as Facebook, Google, Apple and Twitter having their European headquarters in Ireland, however, this legislation… Read more »

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Panti Bliss

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: February 9, 2023 - The Hot Air Brigade

“I’d go absolutely mental sitting in the [Phoenix] Park with nothing to do.” Irish voters may be devastated to learn that the presidency is not a gig that would suit Panti Bliss, Mail on Sunday Zoomers are “radically inclusive”. They’re also curious. Where previous generations defined themselves through traditional stereotypes, Zoomers experiment with different ways… Read more »

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Chris Hoare Emma Little-Pengelly

DUP: NO END IN SIGHT

Date: February 9, 2023 - Northwind

THE BBC radio show Any Questions was broadcast from Bangor on February 4, with three politicians and a journalist making up the panel. The politicians were Chris Hazzard, Sinn Féin MP for South Down; DUP MLA Emma Little-Pengelly; and Simon Hoare, Conservative chair of the Commons Northern Ireland Committee. Naturally Brexit and the Northern Ireland… Read more »

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Election Expenses Ray McAdam

EXPENSIVE TDs’ EXPENSES

Date: February 9, 2023 - Last Refuge

THE HASTE with which Government parties and a concerned media seized on Sinn Féin’s election expenses errors to bury the saga of Paschal Donohoe’s embarrassment meant that exchequer funding for political parties came briefly into focus. This will not have been welcomed by many around Leinster House, where there is a virtual omertà concerning the… Read more »

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‘IRISH TIMES’ V IVANA

Date: February 9, 2023 - Last Refuge

LABOUR LEADER Ivana Bacik has been getting out and about recently, mainly in the media, in an effort to drag her party back into political contention. But the Irish Times is singularly unimpressed with the performance of one of its favourite political children and gave the party a good talking to as well as an… Read more »

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Ian Mallon

RARE SPORT AT THE ‘EXAMINER’

Date: February 9, 2023 - Fit to Print?

BORN-AGAIN HACK Ian Mallon, formerly a senior editorial exec with Independent News and Media (INM) and then a public relations pro with the Football Association of Ireland (FAI) and Union of European Football Associations (Uefa), has enjoyed one of the most interesting career curves in Irish journalism. He is currently working for the Irish Examiner… Read more »

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Think Local Jana Lunden

FAR-RIGHT ECO MILITANTS

Date: February 9, 2023 - Fowl Emissions

“BUILDING RESILIENT communities” is the tagline for Think Local, a one-day conference at the Shearwater Hotel in Ballinasloe later this month that claims to be “Ireland’s first community-led sustainability conference”. It all sounds wholesome and progressive, but a closer look at some of the people involved paints a more troubling picture. Speakers include Cynthia Chung,… Read more »

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ED BROPHY’S LOBBYING

Date: February 9, 2023 - Fowl Emissions

IT’S SURELY a sign of a very persuasive lobbyist if the person being lobbied ditches their government job and steps through the revolving door to join the lobbyist’s firm. In 2020, in his capacity as chief adviser to then finance minister Paschal Donohoe, Ed Brophy was lobbied by Niamh Gallagher of AWS, Amazon’s data centres… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: February 9, 2023 - Bog Cuttings

‘WIDE AND HAIRY’ A MEATH man appeared before Cork District Court charged with public intoxication and engaging in threatening and abusive behaviour, following an altercation with gardaí outside Blarney Woollen Mills hotel. Gardaí received a call in the early hours from the hotel’s night porter complaining of a resident acting abusively and demanding alcohol. When… Read more »

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Gordon Elliot

ELLIOTT’S STRATEGY

Date: February 9, 2023 - Sport of Kings

MICK O’LEARY’S re-engagement as an owner of national hunt horses has been welcomed by trainers and breeders and, given the significant clear out of many of his older horses over the past two years, the moneybags will be keen to unearth a few high-class youngsters to take him to the big festivals. To this end,… Read more »

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Jim Bolger

BOLGER’S BIG GUNS

Date: February 9, 2023 - Sport of Kings

DESPITE A slowdown in winners and representation in the major races last year, octogenarian handler Jim Bolger has no plans to bow out any time soon, judging by his new crop of two-year-olds for the 2023 flat season. Bolger recently registered names for 42 two-year-olds with Horse Racing Ireland, which gives him some serious ammunition… Read more »

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Cheltenham Whip Rules

WHIPPING UP A STORM

Date: February 9, 2023 - Sport of Kings

FEBRUARY 13 sees the introduction across the Irish Sea of new, more stringent rules regarding the use of the whip. Given Cheltenham is set to take place four weeks after this, the impact of the move by the British Horseracing Authority will be closely watched. Jockeys have already kicked up over the new rules, which… Read more »

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John Reddington

REDDINGTON’S RIDE

Date: February 9, 2023 - Sport of Kings

LONDON-BASED Irish property developer-turned amateur jockey John Reddington has become well known in recent years for his particular style in the saddle when riding his own horses. The enthusiastic 50-something-year-old taught his younger, professional colleagues something of a lesson when winning a race in enterprising fashion in Newcastle last week. Having utilised his chopper to… Read more »

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CATHERINE KEANE’S €7.5M PILE

Date: February 9, 2023 - High Society

ONE OF the most expensive houses to come on the market lately is Lonsdale on leafy Temple Road in Dartry. This is an area of the capital that would have been most familiar to property magnate Matt Keane, who made a mint out of acquiring and developing a substantial number of properties in the Dublin… Read more »

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NATIONAL GALLERY’S NEW FACES

Date: February 9, 2023 - High Society

GOLDHAWK HAD been getting curious about whether arts and culture minister Catherine Martin was ever going to get around to appointing the four new directors to the board of the National Gallery of Ireland (NGI). Happily, after he bunged in a query about the status of the appointment process, it was announced that the seats… Read more »

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David Harvey Sinéad O'Sullivan

DAVID HARVEY’S FULL SQUAD

Date: February 9, 2023 - Behind the Scenes

ARTS MINISTER Catherine Martin has a tendency to take her time to fill board vacancies but the good news is that she has finally managed to fill four seats at IMMA. Remarkably, three of these have existed for two years! In late 2020, Martin reappointed chairman David Harvey, Dermod Dwyer and Mary Apied, while Eva… Read more »

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UPLIFT LETDOWN

Date: February 9, 2023 - Behind the Scenes

APPOINTMENTS TO the forthcoming Media Commission, two Dáil committee hearings, and related media policy reports and press releases all jostled for public attention in mid January. Some items fell through the cracks. On January 18, media minister Catherine Martin announced a “new action plan” to implement the Future of Media Commission recommendations, while the joint… Read more »

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George Weston

PENNYS OWNER ABF UNDERRATED BY THE MARKET

Date: February 9, 2023 - Moneybags

THE WESTON family, George Weston in particular, pulled off quite the coup when they sold off their Selfridges/Brown Thomas/Arnotts department store group for £4bn last year. These operations were acquired not because they are really big earners but rather as trophy assets. The remaining retail business in the Associated British Foods (ABF) group, based around… Read more »

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Loretta Dignam

LORETTA DIGNAM’S HEALTHY OUTLOOK

Date: February 9, 2023 - Brief Cases

IT HAS been a mixed few weeks for Loretta Dignam’s Menopause Hub, which announced the opening of its first clinic in Cork at the end of 2022 but then had to make a settlement in the Four Goldmines. Dignam was ahead of the curve when it comes to tackling the attitudes to menopause, particularly in… Read more »

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ANNE ROSSI’S LIQUIDATION

Date: February 9, 2023 - Brief Cases

DUBLIN BEAUTICIAN Anne Rossi came a cropper in Dublin District Court this month as a result of an action taken by the Health Products Regulatory Authority (HPRA). This was not her only setback, however. Rossi, who runs the Anne Rossi Clinic at Vernon Avenue in Clontarf, north Co Dublin, was prosecuted by the HPRA for… Read more »

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Orla Feely Crane Foundation

CRANE POWER

Date: February 9, 2023 - Brief Cases

STILL NO sign of the €5m being dished out to some lucky grant manager on behalf of a body called the Crane Foundation. The name may not ring too many bells but that is because it was better known as the National Digital Research Centre (NDRC) for the 14 years it managed that operation, which… Read more »

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