January 26 - February 8, 2018 Archives

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Who will buy the Business Post?

January 25, 2018

CONOR KILLEEN, owner of The Sunday Business Post, will have been disappointed that the Irish Times interest in the newspaper did not result... Read more »

Profile: Mary Lou McDonald

January 25, 2018

CORONATIONS, as the British establishment knows well, require a carefully staged build-up to a climactic occasion and a strong message about a new... Read more »

Young Blood: John Connors

January 25, 2018

THERE’S nothing typical about Irish Film and Television Academy (IFTA) awards nominee John Connors (28). By force of his charm and talent, the... Read more »

MARY HARNEY’S PRESCRIPTION

January 25, 2018

FORMER health minister Mary Harney will need to update her sprawling personal website following her appointment as chancellor of University of Limerick. But... Read more »

Vol.36 No.02

January 25, 2018

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DUBLIN: CAPITAL OF CYBERCRIME

January 25, 2018

RECENT REVELATIONS of computer hacking and surveillance at Independent News and Media (INM) are not the only strong hints that the dark arts... Read more »

SINN FÉIN FACTIONS

January 25, 2018

WITH Mary Lou McDonald still to be formally endorsed by an ard fheis and Gerry Adams barely out the door, the factionalising inside... Read more »

‘EXPERTS’ TO GUIDE REFERENDUM VOTERS

January 25, 2018

IT CAME as a surprise to most people that the Citizens’ Assembly brought forward to this month its deliberations on The Manner in... Read more »

Kevin Keane’s ‘COURTESY’ Meeting

January 25, 2018

MORE on the boycott by UCD and Trinity students of direct provision centre operator Aramark. Fans of Goldhawk will recall that students on... Read more »

McALEESE DYNASTY ON THE CARDS?

January 25, 2018

THE two wings – polar opposites – of Fianna Fáil have both kept a beady eye on gay campaigner Justin McAleese, son of... Read more »

MATTIE McGRATH’S LEGION OF THE REARGUARD

January 25, 2018

FRESH from his mischief making at the Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment, Mattie McGrath is now creating discord in Fianna Fáil following... Read more »

LEO THE PROVO

January 25, 2018

SURPRISINGLY little comment followed the sharply contrasting responses in the Dáil from Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin to blundering... Read more »

The Hot Air Brigade

January 25, 2018

Rest In Peace, Dolores O’Riordan. She and the Cranberries were so overtly pro-peace and her voice unapologetically Irish. Just a month and a... Read more »

NORTHERN TALKS CHARADE

January 25, 2018

THE NORTH has a new secretary of state, Karen Bradley (47), an accountant first elected in 2010. Bradley is precisely the type of... Read more »

Israeli Embassy

January 25, 2018

THE withdrawal of the Israeli Embassy from Dublin indicates just how ineffective the government’s softly-softly diplomacy on recognition of the Palestinian state has... Read more »

SAVING PASCHAL DONOHOE

January 25, 2018

THE recent nomination of Mary Fitzpatrick as sole Fianna Fáil candidate in Dublin Central at the next general election marked the final rout... Read more »

Ryan Airbrushed

January 25, 2018

MEANDERING back to the rare and rarefied auld times is a favourite device of Sindo columnist Zozimus aka Liam Collins, who recently devoted... Read more »

The Sheriff

January 25, 2018

Independent News & Media (INM) titles fulminated last week about the treatment of Joanne Hayes and how she so richly deserved apologies from... Read more »

CLIMATE: IT’S GOOD NEWS WEEK!

January 25, 2018

WHEN IT comes to addressing climate change, the twin buzzwords are mitigation and adaptation. Mitigation means doing what the science demands to slow... Read more »

Horsey Hubbies

January 25, 2018

INTERESTING TO see that the directors of a company called Hollymount Bloodstock Ltd have decided to wind up their operation, which has a... Read more »

DAVID RAETHORNE’S WHISKEY DRINKERS

January 25, 2018

THE AMBITIOUS project being undertaken in Sligo by low-profile serial investor David Raethorne got a big boost the week before Christmas when just... Read more »

THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI – DIRECTED BY MARTIN McDONAGH

January 25, 2018

MARTIN McDONAGH’S Three Billboards… arrives in Ireland garlanded with four Golden Globes (best drama, screenplay, actress, supporting actor) and, at time of writing,... Read more »

SPRING SEASON SCHEDULE – TV3

January 25, 2018

DAMP SQUIB would be a polite description for the launch earlier this month of TV3’s spring schedule. Coming so soon after the Ballymount... Read more »

BLOOD TIDE – CLAIRE McGOWAN (HEADLINE)

January 25, 2018

THIS IS the fifth book in Claire McGowan’s “Ulster noir” series which sees Northern Irish forensic psychologist Paula Maguire investigating the disappearance of... Read more »

Arts Chiefs

January 25, 2018

THE APPOINTMENT of Lynn Scarff as director of the National Museum of Ireland continues the trend in recent years of women holding the... Read more »

IFTA’S CASTING GROUCH

January 25, 2018

THE LIST of nominations for this year’s Irish Film and Television Academy (IFTA) awards (part 1 – film and TV drama) resulted in... Read more »

DONNACHA O’BRIEN’S HEAVY GOING

January 25, 2018

IT WOULD appear jockey Donnacha O’Brien is beginning to lose his battle with the scales if a steward’s inquiry at Dundalk recently is... Read more »

MULLINS RUNNING OUT OF TRACK

January 25, 2018

WILLIE MULLINS finds himself in a tricky situation at the moment regarding the defence of his Irish trainer’s title. With the upcoming Dublin... Read more »

FOGGY STYLE

January 25, 2018

IT APPEARED fairly straightforward that when Devine Star got lost in the fog at Clonmel a few weeks back, resulting in her rivals... Read more »

HUGHIE MORRISON’S SOFT HANDLING

January 25, 2018

HORSERACING’S ongoing efforts to portray the sport’s clean image and to maintain a zero tolerance policy on the use of steroids has hit... Read more »

Datalex investors experience serious turbulence

January 25, 2018
WHEN THE airline booking engine Datalex was last featured in Moneybags (see The Phoenix 21/4/17) – with the shares standing at €3.75 – this... Read more »

Bog Cuttings

January 25, 2018

The Man from Monte Carlow A GLOBETROTTING thriller with Carlow at its heart is the latest work by Carlow author Ray Keane. The... Read more »

Rupert Murdoch’s radio signal

January 25, 2018

FANS OF Goldhawk will not have been surprised to read last week that Rebekah Brooks had confirmed the interest of her boss, Rupert... Read more »

Thomas Ryan’s ‘acrimonious’ scrap

January 25, 2018

MORE details are emerging from Quesada Developments Ltd where an examiner was appointed last autumn after a toxic bust-up between the directors. After... Read more »

Darryl Kavanagh’s tumbledown Shack

January 25, 2018

MORE on the sudden closure of the Seafood Shack restaurant in Cardiff, Wales last month where Waterford businessman Darryl Kavanagh has popped up.... Read more »

More Pembroke problems for Peter Conlon

January 25, 2018

IT’S BEEN a tough start to 2018 for Geneva-based charity tech guru Peter Conlon after the High Court ordered the liquidation of one... Read more »

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