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July 26 - August 8, 2024
Affairs of the Nation
MARTIN’S POLITICAL CELIBACY
WHAT A waspish reaction Tánaiste and Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin gave to the report from the Joint Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement last week. The... Read more »
TIGER WOODS AND JP
WITH ANTICIPATION already building in Limerick ahead of the 2027 Ryder Cup, set to take place at Adare Manor, one Tiger Woods managed to raise a few eyebrows last week.... Read more »
ROBERT QUIRKE’S BATTLES
ENSCONCED AS he is these days in sunny Malta, Westmeath businessman Robert Quirke continues to make waves back home. A judgement has just been registered against one of his companies,... Read more »
DUBAI’S LEGAL STANDARDS REVISITED
OUTRAGED HOWLS at the medieval treatment of Boyle woman Tori Towey in Dubai did not encompass any indignant statements from judicial quarters. This is a little disappointing given the atrocious... Read more »
ARCHBISHOP FARRELL FOR THE HIGH COURT
IT IS heartening to know that the Irish Catholic Church’s approach to misbehaviour among its ranks has changed from the time when protecting the institution of the church – at... Read more »
THE ABBEY’S DARK TIMES
WITH HAPLESS chairwoman Frances Ruane stepping down from her starring role at the Abbey Theatre this weekend after seven years, the focus now turns to her successor. The position may... Read more »
ROBBO’S STARRING ROLE
LAST WEEK’S Galway Film Fleadh featured the international premiere of Mrs Robinson, Aoife Kelleher’s Screen Ireland-backed story of the one and only Mary Robinson, who is now 80. Not surprisingly,... Read more »
BARKING AT HEATHER HUMPHREYS
IT WAS inevitable that when Heather Humphreys moved to introduce a ban on American Bully dogs, there would be a reaction from the dog charities, rescue bodies and other animal... Read more »
FRED HOLROYD’S ORWELLIAN TRAUMA
OPERATION DENTON has recently interviewed Fred Holroyd as part of its investigation into the 1974 Dublin-Monaghan (D-M) bombings, perpetrated by the notorious Glenanne gang. Holroyd served as a Military Intelligence... Read more »
MERCIFUL TORY MERCER
KEIR STARMER’S pledge to repeal the controversial Legacy Act, opposed by all political parties in the north, must come as a blow to former Tory Minister of State for Veterans’... Read more »
Fit to Print?
‘MY CHURCH, RIGHT OR WRONG’
Last December, The Irish Times published a statement from the Church of Ireland in a report by Arthur Beesley saying that it “neither owned nor operated” mother and baby institutions. Griffith College media... Read more »
IT’S NOT CRICKET
ONE OF the most enduring lines peddled by post peace process British securocrats, and enthusiastically relayed by the UK and Dublin media’s security ‘experts’, is that British intelligence forced the... Read more »
Bog Cuttings
BOG CUTTINGS
ROWDY PARTNER KILLARNEY DISTRICT Court heard the case of a 29-year-old man from Texas, who was arrested for driving while intoxicated and several public order offences. In the early hours... Read more »
Fowl Emissions
MARTIN: SUCK IT UP
AI is coming for us and there’s nothing we can do to stop it. That was the message delivered by Micheál Martin in Ennis this month as he talked tough... Read more »
ON YER BIKE!
In the recent European election campaign, Fine Gael’s Regina Doherty was ridiculed over her Trumpian claim that the Green Party had turned Dublin “into a spaghetti junction of cycle lanes... Read more »
High Society
DENISE PHILLIPS’ CROWN PRINCE
CONGRATULATIONS TO “award-winning hair professional” and social media fan Denise Phillips (aka Denise McLean), who has been named as a finalist in the EY Entrepreneur of the Year Ireland awards... Read more »
BILL DURKAN’S GUINEAS
THERE WAS a lot of moolah being splashed about earlier this month in Newmarket and centre stage was moneybags Bill Durkan of Durkan New Homes, who admitted he had to... Read more »
ROBBIE DOLAN’S EXTRAVAGANT VILLA
A FEW weeks after first going on the market with a hefty €4.5m price tag, the opulent 8,500 sq ft Villa Barton in the K Club complex, Co Kildare, got... Read more »
Behind the Scenes
INO’S HIGH NOTES
OPERA FANS are excited by the news that Irish National Opera (INO), which is chaired by former top legal eagle Jennifer Caldwell, is to stage its first ever Wagner work,... Read more »
RALPHIE RETURNS
GOLDHAWK WASN’T too surprised to see his favourite film producer, Ralph Christians, turn up in the trade press ahead of Miriam Allen’s Galway Film Fleadh. Despite his Magma operation having... Read more »
Moneybags
TURBULENCE TO CONTINUE FOR DATALEX SHAREHOLDERS
IN SOME rather honest observations, the recently arrived CEO at Datalex, Jonathan Rockett, confirmed in his first annual report review that the agreement signed last year with LATAM Airlines “will... Read more »
WHAT NEXT FOR OVOCA BIO INVESTORS?
IN A surprise move after the failure of the clinical trials for Ovoca Bio’s Orenetide drug, the CEO, Kirill Golovanov, resigned last week. More surprising, perhaps. was the decision of... Read more »
The Hot Water Brigade
SECURITY CONCERNS
FOLLOWING THE move by the dreaded taxman to wind up GZ Professional Security Ltd (GZPS), Aiden Murphy of Crowe is now in situ as liquidator. Surprisingly, controversial company founder Gezim... Read more »
SHARON BYRNE’S BIG BET
THE LATEST accounts for the Irish Bookmakers’ Association (IBA) – the gambling lobby entity chaired by Sharon Byrne – provide an update on the heavy going associated with the running... Read more »
AKO AMIRI’S HAIR CUT
A LITTLE over a year on from the collapse of the Just For Men Ltd (JFM) barbers and male grooming chain in Cork, the liquidator has submitted his report, which... Read more »
MUM’S THE WORD
ACCOUNTS WERE filed last week for Associated Newspapers (Ireland) Ltd, the company behind the Oirish Daily Mail and assorted publications it has snapped up here, such as Business Plus magazine.... Read more »
JOE FOLEY V STEVE PARKIN
AS PREDICTED by Goldhawk (see The Phoenix 5/4/24), the legal eagles have galloped on the track in the row between Ballyhane stallion master Joe Foley, and his minted former client,... Read more »
SHOCK AS PROTESTORS DON’T SET FIRE TO ANYTHING
BIDEN URGES MCILROY TO STEP BACK
JENNIFER CARROLL MACNEILL’S RADICAL MILITARY PLANS
TRUMP SENDS BEST WISHES TO HALLGRIMSSON
THAT SOUTHGATE RESIGNATION STATEMENT