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Irish Judges Dubai

DUBAI JUDGES: WHO KNEW AND WHEN?

Date: August 11, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

SABINA HIGGINS’S public spat may have helped to obscure not so much the appointment of heavyweight Irish judges Frank Clarke and Peter Kelly to the feudal state of Dubai’s financial court, but the silent acquiescence of senior Government politicians and senior legal dignitaries. But another question also remains: who in Government gave former chief justice… Read more »

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John Burns Irish Newspaper Archives Problems

PROFILE: JOHN BURNS

Date: August 11, 2022 - Pillars of Society

THE CLEAR OUT of Sunday Times journalists leaves the Irish edition of that august institution in the last-chance saloon under the tutelage of current editor Nóirín Hegarty. She follows several determined editors of the Irish edition who struggled to placate their London-based masters in Rupert Murdoch’s empire, yet one of the few constants through their… Read more »

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Darren O'Rourke

YOUNG BLOODS: DARREN O’ROURKE

Date: August 11, 2022 - The Young Bloods

WITH OPINION polls showing Sinn Féin knocking on the door of government, attention is turning to who its ministers might be and how they will confront the difficult challenges of office. High on the list of contenders is 40-year-old Darren O’Rourke, Sinn Féin TD for Meath East. O’Rourke was also in the news recently as… Read more »

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James Menton Providence Share Price

HAS GOODMAN GOT HIS TIMING RIGHT IN PROVIDENCE?

Date: August 11, 2022 - Moneybags

THE MUSICAL chairs continue at Providence Resources, with the latest face popping up being beef baron Larry Goodman, who now holds a 16.1% stake. His most recent buy-in was the 8.2% stake held by big UK investment group M&G, which clearly got tired of the procession of drilling and funding failures. It sold out the… Read more »

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Archbishop Eamon Martin

BISHOPS CENSORED!

Date: August 11, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

THE NORTHERN Ireland Equality Commission is mulling over a request for “advice” from an unusual quarter – the Catholic Primate of All Ireland, Archbishop Eamon Martin. It follows the refusal of the Belfast Telegraph to publish an advert from northern bishops ahead of the Assembly elections in May unless they made changes to the text… Read more »

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Caroline Campbell New NGI Director

NEW WOMAN AT THE GALLERY

Date: August 11, 2022 - High Society

AT LONG last the National Gallery of Ireland (NGI) has got around to appointing its new €130,000 pa director. It is perhaps not surprising that the board has gone with a woman. The incumbent for the last decade, and counting, has been Sean Rainbird, who arrived in Dublin in 2012 fresh from his role as… Read more »

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What's Hozier Doing Now

HOZIER’S HITS

Date: August 11, 2022 - Brief Cases

THE FOG-HORN voiced Hozier – formerly known as Andrew Hozier-Byrne, until he was championed and molded by music supremos Caroline Downey and Denis Desmond – has weathered the pandemic and the ban on live music better than most performers, but he’s also taken a few canny accounting decisions, new financial statements show. Being the bard… Read more »

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Sabina Higgins

SABINA HIGGINS’S CRITICS

Date: August 11, 2022 - Last Refuge

WHAT AN interesting group of politicians vied with each other to stick it to Sabina Higgins over her outrageous suggestion that negotiations for peace should replace the Russian invasion and war in Ukraine. While some pundits noted that most of these critics (five out of six) were undistinguished senators looking for attention, they may have… Read more »

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Eva Orsmond

ALL ABOUT EVA

Date: August 11, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

HEALTH GURU Eva Orsmond (previously of Operation Transformation fame) was back on RTÉ this week with the second series on her attempt to open a “health hotel” in sunny Portugal. As usual, Eva ensured oodles of pre-publicity courtesy of assorted interviews, including one in her fanzine, the Sindo, which devoted a chunk of page 5… Read more »

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Robert O'Byrne Left Without a Handkerchief

LAFFAN V O’BYRNE

Date: August 11, 2022 - High Society

PRESUMABLY THE tweedies in the Irish Georgian Society (IGS) were suitably entertained by a scathing review in the Sunday Times of Robert O’Byrne’s book on the burning of Irish country houses, Left Without a Handkerchief. Having earlier been given top marks by the Irish Times, the author may have been shocked by the merciless dissection… Read more »

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Frances Ruane

FRANCES RUANE’S SHORT RUN

Date: August 11, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

AS GOLDHAWK predicted (see The Phoenix 17/6/22), former economist Frances Ruane has been given just a two-year extension to her initial five-year term as chair of the Abbey Theatre. Generally, the practice when a minister opts to reappoint a candidate to a state board, it is for a full term. Indeed, Ruane’s predecessor, Brian McMahon,… Read more »

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VOL 40 NO 16

Date: August 11, 2022 -

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FRANC’S UKRAINIAN BONUS

Date: August 11, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

GOLDHAWK’S favourite wedding planner, Peter Kelly, aka ‘Franc’, has been doing rather better out of the State coffers this year than was the case for his wedding operation during the pandemic. The Ukraine invasion has provided a surprise silver lining. The former Say Yes to the Dress presenter made his name as a self-styled “creator… Read more »

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Morgan O'Sullivan

MORGAN O’SULLIVAN’S CAST

Date: August 11, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

THERE HAS been an immediate reaction from the Irish Film Workers Association (IFWA) to a piece in the Sunday Times on disputes at the Vikings: Valhalla and Kin productions, which had highlighted the differences between Siptu and John Arkins’s group. The isolated IFWA condemned “in the strongest possible terms” the angle taken by the ST… Read more »

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Alexander Stubb Fake News Ireland

CHECKING THE FACT CHECKERS

Date: August 11, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

‘FACT CHECKING’ has become a virtuous activity of liberal and not-so-liberal agencies (in the West) fighting “misinformation” (in the East) and one of the chief protagonists against this ‘fake news’ in Ireland is The Journal. TheJournal.ie’s Good Information Project is, it says, co-funded by Journal Media and a grant from the European Parliament. But the… Read more »

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Green Gas Production Eamon Ryan

GREAT GREEN GAS WARS CONTINUE

Date: August 11, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

AS IRELAND struggles to decarbonise its energy system in line with ambitious 2030 targets and in light of the deteriorating international energy landscape, a veritable scramble to move toward “clean” green gas production is now under way. The Government recently announced plans to produce significant quantities of methane from farm-based anaerobic digesters (ADs). These units… Read more »

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Boris Johnson Lebedev

MI6, BORIS AND THE LEBEDEVS

Date: August 11, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

Once upon a time, Britain’s Independent newspaper was owned by Sir Tony O’Reilly, Thatcher’s favourite Irishman. Then it was a platform to question the veracity of British intelligence whistleblowers such as Fred Holroyd and Colin Wallace, who were making damaging revelations about MI5/6 transgressions in Ireland. The Independent eventually went into decline and was purchased… Read more »

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Simon Coveney Syria

PEACE IN COVENEY’S TIME?

Date: August 11, 2022 - Hush Hush

DESPITE CHAMPIONING armament for the Irish Defence Forces, foreign minister Simon Coveney has been central to a strategy of appeasement by the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) in relation to the Idlib Governorate in north-western Syria. The province is ruled by Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), an Islamic fundamentalist coalition that was once allied to Al… Read more »

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Áine Moriarty

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: August 11, 2022 - The Hot Air Brigade

You have to watch this film to really appreciate it. Áine Moriarty, chief executive of IFTA on An Cailín Ciúin, Morning Ireland What matters is that Ó Broin handled the cookery slot with Aisling Larkin with the quiet authority of the gourmet that he is. Declan Lynch comments on Eoin Ó Broin’s presenting skills on… Read more »

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Liz Truss Northern Ireland

LIZ TRUSS: THE DUP’S NEW FRIEND

Date: August 11, 2022 - Northwind

LIZ TRUSS looks certain to be the next British prime minister on September 6. Rishi Sunak has reduced her lead a bit after Truss scored a couple of own goals and ate her words, but tax and benefits are not the main issues for many Conservative party members, the only people entitled to vote. For… Read more »

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Michael Higgins Labour

DOGS THAT DIDN’T BARK

Date: August 11, 2022 - Last Refuge

WHERE WERE the radical opposition parties when the Government let slip the dogs of war from among their favourite media servants against Sabina Higgins – if only to try and put her husband, Michael D, in his place? The silence from Sinn Féin, the Social Democrats and even Labour – to which Michael Higgins gave… Read more »

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Norma Foley Leaving Cert

NORMA FOLEY’S SCHOOL RUN

Date: August 11, 2022 - Last Refuge

While Government party leaders and whips worked frenetically to fend off a no-confidence vote just before the Dáil broke for its summer recess, some backbench TDs found more amusing ways to pass the time, such as trawling through the long list of Parliamentary Questions to ministers and their departments for entertaining answers. The pick of… Read more »

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Micheál Martin Allies

MARTIN’S LOYAL MINISTERS

Date: August 11, 2022 - Last Refuge

WHAT A curious story the Irish Mail on Sunday published last weekend, headlined “Martin’s loyalists hit back at rebels” and spread over the front page and two pages inside the paper. The story, marked “exclusive”, said that three of Fianna Fáil’s ministers had given a “significant boost to the Taoiseach” by backing him to continue… Read more »

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Sabina Higgins Yuriy Filatov

MEDIA TAKES ON HIGGINS — AND LOSES

Date: August 11, 2022 - Fit to Print?

THE IRISH TIMES got out of jail a fortnight ago courtesy of Russian ambassador Yuriy Filatov, who opportunistically embraced Sabina Higgins’s letter to the newspaper criticising its failure to advocate for peace and negotiation in Ukraine. Without the ambassador’s undiplomatic intervention, the scenario might well have been that of the once liberal, peaceful paper of… Read more »

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CATCHING UP WITH HENRY MCDONALD

Date: August 11, 2022 - Fit to Print?

IT WILL be interesting to see just what the book released this week – Rewriting the Troubles: Ireland/Algeria – says about the Workers’ Party and some former members and journalists, such as Henry McDonald. The book is being published by Greenisland Press, a project of former Sinn Féin spokesman and writer Danny Morrison, in conjunction… Read more »

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Kevin Myers Anti-Semitism

KEVIN MYERS’S ‘SCUM’

Date: August 11, 2022 - Fit to Print?

IN ALL the analysis of the crisis at the Sunday Times Irish edition, perhaps the most poignant was an article arguing that what really happened was the Murdoch-owned operation never recovered from the damage done by the “ruthless and unjustified dismissal” in 2017 of its then star columnist, Kevin Myers. The remarkable, 1,600-word piece, written… Read more »

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SF’S HAZZARD WARNING

Date: August 11, 2022 - Fowl Emissions

“If I had a De Lorean, I’d go back in time and ban sheep and sitka spruce.” The would-be time traveller is south Down Sinn Féin MP Chris Hazzard, who delivered some truth bombs at an event in Belfast that may have had his southern SF brethren running for cover. Hazzard, a vegetarian, also said… Read more »

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Frank Mitloehner Irish Farmers’ Association Emissions

JUST BECAUSE YOU’RE PARANOID…

Date: August 11, 2022 - Fowl Emissions

DID YOU know that attempts at regulating agriculture pollution are really part of a sinister globalist plot being co-ordinated by communists under the guise of protecting the environment and tackling climate change? It turns out that the whole “sustainability” narrative is “a tool to gain control over food, agriculture and people”. And the vehicle for… Read more »

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Bog-Cuttings-Defaul

BOG CUTTINGS

Date: August 11, 2022 - Bog Cuttings

‘I’LL DO WHAT I WANT’ JARED SHERLOCK (19) of 40 Clonmich Wood, Tullamore, appeared before Tullamore District Court to plead guilty to engaging in threatening, abusive or insulting behaviour toward gardaí on May 20 last. Sergeant James O’Sullivan told the court that gardaí received a call in the early hours on the date in question… Read more »

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Consuelo O’Connor

CONSUELO’S REIGN

Date: August 11, 2022 - High Society

SO IT’S farewell then to Consuelo O’Connor, who has just officially stepped down from the board of the Beit Foundation, a whopping 46 years after she was first appointed a trustee of the entity that controls Russborough House. Long-time Ballsbridge denizen Consuelo (sister of former Dublin lord mayor Carmencita Hederman) had long been An Taisce’s… Read more »

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Bernard Caldwell ISSA AGM

CALDWELL’S HEAVY GOING

Date: August 11, 2022 - Sport of Kings

WITH THE Irish Stable Staff Association (ISSA) having generated headlines last month by delaying racing at Kilbeggan racecourse due to a protest over the failure to provide free bottles of water to stable staff, it is interesting to note that the association itself has been the subject of calls for a stewards’ inquiry over a… Read more »

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TOM KELLY’S SECOND CHANCE

Date: August 11, 2022 - Sport of Kings

HERE WAS good news for jockey Tom Joseph Kelly last month when his appeal against a further three years of suspension proved successful. Kelly had ridden five winners before testing positive for the cocaine metabolite benzoylecgonine at Killarney. As a result, Kelly was handed a hefty four-year suspension from riding in December last year (backdated… Read more »

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Rose McHugh Crawford Art Gallery

ROSE McHUGH’S THREE SEATS

Date: August 11, 2022 - Behind the Scenes

LAST WEEK was the closing date for receipt of expressions of interest in (unremunerated) vacancies on the Rose McHugh-chaired board of the Crawford Art Gallery in Cork, with three seats to be filled by arts minister Catherine Martin. The seats are to be filled in part as a result of the expiration of the terms… Read more »

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Susan Bergin Marlowe Mullingar Film Studio RTÉ Self-Employment

CASTING GROUCH

Date: August 11, 2022 - Behind the Scenes

INTERESTED PARTIES are running the abacus over the spat between RTÉ and its non-staff contractors on the one hand and Revenue and the Department of Social Protection on the other since the “bogus self-employment” issue became a high-profile plot across the film and TV business a few years ago. The costs could start mounting up…. Read more »

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Louise O'Neill New Book

IDOL – LOUISE O’NEILL

Date: August 11, 2022 - BooksBooks|ReviewsReviews

SINCE HER 2018 adult fiction debut Almost Love, novelist Louise O’Neill has focused on writing about topical feminist themes (and more recently in her media columns) – particularly exploitative obsessive relationships, consent and victim-blaming, and her new book is no different. Her stories are usually centred around flawed and unlikable protagonists and there is more… Read more »

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Emer Reynolds Director

JOYRIDE – DIRECTOR: EMER REYNOLDS

Date: August 11, 2022 - MoviesReviews

IT’S A year since Goldhawk reviewed first-time writer/director Dave Minogue’s Poster Boys, an odd-couple road movie made on the hoof without the benefit of public funding and released in 12 cinemas: “Minogue has shown what can be achieved with a small fraction of the money regularly doled out to most films backed by Screen Ireland…… Read more »

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