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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: May 5, 2022 - Bog Cuttings

‘HOW MANY JUDGES I KNOW’ DONAGH CALLANAN (52) of Toames West, Macroom, Cork, appeared before Cork District Court in relation to an incident in February 2022. Gda Thomas McKenna told the court that he was on patrol on Oliver Plunkett Street when he was approached by a woman who said she had been hassled by… Read more »

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IRISH TIMES CHOICES

Date: May 5, 2022 - High Society

THE INCREASINGLY eclectic selection of personalities for the obituary page of the Irish Times saw a thousand words devoted last month to one Mary Taylor Walton Curley (who she? – Ed), who died in Manhattan in March at the grand old age of 97. It is a constant challenge on Tara Street to find enough… Read more »

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Ossie Kilkenny

SELLING SLEVOIR HOUSE

Date: May 5, 2022 - High Society

A CO Tipperary pile is on the market with a hefty asking price. It has had some interesting previous owners, some of whom came unstuck. The sprawling Slevoir House in Terryglass, once owned – but quickly sold on by the Squire of Ballyfin House, Fred Krehbiel – has a price tag of just on €3m,… Read more »

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NONE OF THIS IS SERIOUS – CATHERINE PRASIFKA

Date: May 5, 2022 - BooksBooks|ReviewsReviews

THE POST-PANDEMIC fiction sub-genre (aka ‘Trinlit’) continues to grow, with this debut novel about the impact of social media on young people’s lives. It was always likely that Catherine Prasifka would be compared to her famous sister-in-law, Sally Rooney – particularly since Prasifka has been doing the rounds of late making sure everybody knows that… Read more »

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Paula Malcomson

REDEMPTION – VIRGIN MEDIA ONE

Date: May 5, 2022 - ReviewsReviews|TVTV

WITH INTERNATIONAL co-productions trending during the streaming boom, TV producers are having to devise ever-more-elaborate ways for police officers to enter different jurisdictions. The ham-fisted way this aspect is handled in Redemption, Virgin Media’s new crime drama, does much to highlight what’s wrong with its creaking script. Scouse detective Colette Cunningham (Paula Malcomson) has relocated from… Read more »

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DÉSIRÉE FINNEGAN’S CARBON CALCULATOR

Date: May 5, 2022 - Behind the Scenes

DÉSIRÉE FINNEGAN’S Screen Ireland is developing something of an addiction to policy papers. Earlier this year, it told Goldhawk that its report on the “cultural dividend” generated by the film and TV tax incentive (Section 481) was due in March, but it has yet to appear. Instead, SI has put together a new “sustainability plan”… Read more »

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THIRTY-FIRST TIME LUCKY

Date: May 5, 2022 - Sport of Kings

WHEN THE Ado McGuinness-trained Lariat won a low-grade handicap at Bellewstown recently, it was the horse’s first victory in a two-year period during which Lariat has been at the centre of a significant court case. Formerly trained in England by Andrew Balding, the gelding was bought two-and-a-half years ago at Tattersalls in Newmarket for 90,000gns… Read more »

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John ‘Shark’ Hanlon

SHARK ATTACK

Date: May 5, 2022 - Sport of Kings

KILKENNY TRAINER John ‘Shark’ Hanlon has already achieved the remarkable feat by winning a Grade 1 race with a Willie Mullins-trained cast-off when £600 purchase Skyace won at Fairyhouse last year. The Shark struck another blow for bargain hunters last month when Hewick landed the £150,000 Bet365 Gold Cup at Sandown on the last day… Read more »

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MULLINS RIDES ON

Date: May 5, 2022 - Sport of Kings

PUNCHESTOWN CLEARLY hasn’t lost its appeal from a social point of view, with more than 40,000 racegoers cramming the enclosures last Friday and owners and trainers still craving a winner at the national hunt season finale. Circumstances outside of punters’ control are having a negative effect on the racing action, however. In case anybody needed… Read more »

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Sheikh Mohammed al Maktoum

MAGNIER VS MAKTOUM

Date: May 5, 2022 - Sport of Kings

LAST WEEKEND’S Guineas Festival at Newmarket signalled the return in force of the European flat season and judged on the brilliant one-two in the 2000 Guineas for the Charlie Appleby-trained and Godolphin-owned pair, Coroebus and Native Trail, the rivalry between Coolmore and Godolphin has just been cranked up a level. In truth, there hadn’t been… Read more »

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Eamonn Crowley

CROWLEY PUSHING PTSB BUT SHARES LOOK PRICEY

Date: May 5, 2022 - Moneybags

UNDER THE leadership of Francesca McDonagh, Bank of Ireland (BoI) has seen its share of the Irish mortgage market shrink from 25% to 20%. At Permanent TSB (PTSB), where Eamonn Crowley has been in situ as CEO since July 2020, it has significantly outperformed BoI, lending just on €2bn last year, a 45% increase on… Read more »

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Michael Carvill

KENMARE RESOURCES FINDS ITSELF IN A SWEET SPOT

Date: May 5, 2022 - Moneybags

LAST YEAR (see The Phoenix 7/5/21), Moneybags noted that investors in heavy sands mine operator Kenmare Resources would be “happy to sit tight for the next 12 months awaiting the impressive returns set to be delivered to shareholders this year”. This has indeed proved the case but it looks like Kenmare is only getting going in… Read more »

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John Moore

JOHN MOORE’S PORTUGUESE ADVENTURE

Date: May 5, 2022 - Brief Cases

INTERESTING to see that colourful entrepreneur John Moore has switched address from D4 to Lisbon. It is not clear if the change of surrounding is tax-driven on foot of the huge windfall from a recent sale, or just a desire for a better tan. The move was noted in filings for one of his vehicles,… Read more »

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MORE LOVE LOST

Date: May 5, 2022 - Brief Cases

THIS WEEK’S liquidation of Blackpool Developments represents the second significant setback for Cork merchant prince Clayton Love and Neill Love and Sarah Cronin, in the space of a year. The appointment of Aidan Heffernan as liquidator mirrors his installation as liquidator of another of the Love family’s businesses. Blackpool Developments was behind Cork’s biggest retail… Read more »

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ZELENSKIY’S OFFSHORE LINKS

Date: April 20, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

THERE HAS, unsurprisingly, been plenty of media coverage of the main players in the Ukrainian war, with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy the recipient of lavish praise for his tactics against the Ruskies. One area that the normally curious hacks have opted to ignore is the hero president’s links to offshore companies, as revealed in the explosive… Read more »

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Peter Burke

PROFILE: PETER BURKE

Date: April 20, 2022 - Pillars of Society

LEO VARADKAR clawed back 2% in his own personal ratings and, more importantly, saw the same increase for Fine Gael in the latest Irish Times/Ipsos poll. But is this a temporary lull or a real reversal of the negative polling trend against the party and its leader? Either way, various aspirant leaders continue to circle… Read more »

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Nathan Adams and Donal Óg Cusack

YOUNG BLOOD: NATHAN ADAMS

Date: April 20, 2022 - The Young Bloods

ENTREPRENEUR AND celebrity squeeze Nathan Adams is quite the man about town around Cork, organising launches, lashing out new enterprises, and hanging out with social media influencers. With titles like CEO and MD already under his belt as well as four companies and four brands, the 26-year-old boyfriend of former Cork goalkeeper Dónal Óg Cusack… Read more »

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Miriam O'Callaghan

FACEBOOK FACES UP TO MIRIAM

Date: April 20, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

CELEB SOLICITOR Paul Tweed was a natural as Murrium O’Callaghan’s brief in her case against Facebook for “malicious falsehood, defamation, various breaches of constitutional rights, and unlawful appropriation of personality” (phew). And Tweed issued a ringing statement on her behalf welcoming resolution of the proceedings which had terminated the fake ads on Facebook. The false… Read more »

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Patrick and John Collison

BURSTING THE COLLISONS’ BUBBLE

Date: April 20, 2022 - Brief Cases

IRISH BUSINESS hacks predictably lapped up the news that John and Patrick Collison, the tousle-headed tech tyros, are now worth a whopping $9.5bn each, according to the Billionaires List compiled by American business bible Forbes. In the Irish Times, Laura Slattery breathlessly reported that “most of the surge in Irish billionaire wealth relates to the… Read more »

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Noelle O'Connor

NOELLE O’CONNOR’S GLOW

Date: April 20, 2022 - High Society

THIS MONTH is the first in which online and e-commerce sales of fake tanning (sorry, self-tanning) products are subject to new EU regulations limiting the level of the chemical dehydroxyacetone (DHA) to a maximum of 10%. Some players in the seriously lucrative market have adapted better than others. The DHA carbon sugar is the ingredient… Read more »

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TREVOR’S TONIC

Date: April 20, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

GOLDHAWK IS delighted to report that accounts just made available reveal that the Little Museum of Dublin has been sailing through the pandemic, and the salary of its director Trevor White remained in rude health despite the precipitous fall-off in visitors in 2020. It is hardly surprising that 2020 should have seen income plummet at… Read more »

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Vol. 40 No 08

Date: April 20, 2022 -

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John Kilraine

JOHN KILRAINE: RTÉ’S MAN IN LONDON

Date: April 20, 2022 - Fit to Print?

LONG-TIME RTÉ Dublin correspondent John Kilraine is switching capital cities to become the station’s London corr, a logical step in one sense in that he was born there, although he has spent most of his life in Ireland. However, there were a few baffled responses from some broadcasters and admirers of other candidates at Kilraine’s… Read more »

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Gordon Elliott

GORDON ELLIOTT’S TV SNUB

Date: April 20, 2022 - Sport of Kings

WHEN GORDON ELLIOTT trained a Grade 1 double at Aintree recently, with JP McManus’s Three Strip Life and Sire Du Berlais, there were a lot of raised eyebrows over the fact that Elliott was not interviewed by ITV Racing after either of the wins. The fact that Elliott spoke to Racing TV presenters after each… Read more »

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JAY BOURKE’S PR

Date: April 20, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

IT HAS been hard to avoid disqualified restaurateur and publican Jay Bourke, whose media campaign in recent weeks has seen him feature prominently in the news bemoaning the determination of creditors to get their pound of flash. Jayo has been rambling on about all the bastards who have done for him, most notably vulture funds… Read more »

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Jim O'Callaghan

MARTIN TRUCE WITH O’CALLAGHAN?

Date: April 20, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

ONE OF the intriguing choices Micheál Martin will get to make when he retires as taoiseach in December is who to appoint as justice minister. The deal with Fine Gael is that incoming taoiseach, Leo Varadkar will choose ‘his’ attorney general and that Fianna Fáil gets its (wo)man in justice. So who will it be?… Read more »

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RTÉ’S LOST DECADE

Date: April 20, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

“FUTURE GENERATIONS will judge us by how we deal with climate change”, presenter Fran McNulty solemnly intoned when opening RTÉ’s Prime Time climate special last week. The ‘us’ McNulty referred to might well have been RTÉ itself, given the national broadcaster’s dismal performance on this crunch issue. According to co-presenter Miriam O’Callaghan: “We all know… Read more »

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Simon Coveney

MALI AND SIMON COVENEY’S ‘SHOCK’

Date: April 20, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

HIDDEN AWAY at the bottom of page 4 in the Irish Times recently was a short article about how the Irish Defence Forces had ceased training the Malian military after verified reports of a massacre of 300 Malian civilians by their own army. The news report also said that Irish soldiers would instead train the… Read more »

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Brian Polly

RACEHORSE OWNERS UNSADDLE CHAIRMAN

Date: April 20, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

THIS WEEK sees the second annual general meeting in a few months of the Association of Irish Racehorse Owners (Airo), the representative organisation for bloodstock owners that has been characterised in recent years by some very rough riding and calls for a stewards inquiry by its own chairman Brian Polly. A late withdrawal from the… Read more »

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Lyra McKee

DISSIDENT GROUPS’ EASTER TREAT

Date: April 20, 2022 - Hush Hush

APART FROM Sinn Féin there are others that lay claim to the tradition of Irish republicanism and they haven’t gone away either, you know. Easter has for decades allowed observers of the Irish republican scene to get a measure of the relative strengths of the various organisations. The relative weakness of the likes of Éirígí,… Read more »

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Imelda May

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: April 20, 2022 - The Hot Air Brigade

I’m an empath and I feel things so strongly sometimes that I have to work hard to turn it off, you know? And I feel everything all the time. Like where people are telling me a story, I’ll absorb it, you know, whatever they’re feeling. Imelda May, Irish Independent, submitted by reader Why we should… Read more »

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Jeffrey Donaldson

CLIFF EDGE FOR JEFFREY AND JIM

Date: April 20, 2022 - Northwind

UNIONISM IS deeply divided, not only between parties but within parties. On the face of it, the divide seems to be about the response to the protocol which keeps the north in the EU single market and customs union. The DUP and TUV have been speaking at anti-protocol rallies in unionist towns across the north… Read more »

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Tony Holohan

‘I COME TO BURY NOT TO PRAISE TONY’

Date: April 20, 2022 - Last Refuge

CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER (CMO) Tony Holohan was effectively buried by Micheál Martin when he ‘paused’ (shafted) his sweet deal at Trinity College Dublin. The taoiseach followed up with the obligatory but measured expression of gratitude to the “CMO Tony Holohan for his outstanding service to the Irish people, and for his leadership … in particular… Read more »

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GALWAY BAY FM BLUES

Date: April 20, 2022 - Last Refuge

STAFF AT Galway Bay FM and local members of Fine Gael will be hoping that things settle down following turmoil at the station in the past year or so. In February the ‘shock’ announcement was made over the airwaves that Katie Finnegan, producer and sometimes acting host on the flagship morning programme, Galway Talks, was… Read more »

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Cian O'Callaghan

CIAN O’CALLAGHAN V AODHÁN Ó RÍORDÁIN

Date: April 20, 2022 - Last Refuge

NEW LABOUR leader Ivana Bacik’s dead cat bounce has not deterred Labour handlers from predicting seat gains that will double their complement of seven TDs at the next general election. But Labour will be fortunate to hang on to their seven seats and, on a bad day, could return with just three or four TDs…. Read more »

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Michael D Higgins

MICHAEL D HIGGINS’S NEUTRALITY WARNING TO GOVERNMENT

Date: April 20, 2022 - Last Refuge

MESSRS MARTIN, Varadkar and Ryan cannot say they were not warned should there be open confrontation between them and President Higgins over neutrality and the government’s rush to arms. In the past fortnight, as ministers and media ratcheted up the cold war rhetoric, Higgins made clear his unrestrained championing of neutrality as well as his… Read more »

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