March 23 - April 5, 2018 Archives - The Phoenix Magazine

AFFAIRS OF THE NATION

AIB’s Irish Times fans

March 22, 2018

DISREGARDING the vulgar populism so prevalent these days, The Irish Times has registered its appreciation of the sterling achievements of AIB chiefs. The... Read more »

Trinity students pile on the pressure

March 22, 2018

GOLDHAWK predicted that Trinners provost Paddy Prendergast and the College Board would have a scrap on their hands over supplemental exam fee increases... Read more »

ANIMUS IN COURT

March 22, 2018

THE legal actions being taken against giant multinational Volkswagen by Ballyhaunis solicitor Evan O’Dwyer on behalf of a dozen or so clients in... Read more »

The Hot Air Brigade

March 22, 2018

Makes me unutterably proud… our country entrusted to three wise men and their 21st century leader. Letter from Bono to Taoiseach Leo Varadkar.... Read more »

LONDON SAYS NO!

March 22, 2018

WE LEARNT at least three things in the last fortnight. First, contrary to what most observers believed Sinn Féin really did want to... Read more »

CATHERINE NOONE’S DÁIL AMBITION

March 22, 2018

FINE GAEL Senator Catherine Noone is preparing to parachute into Dublin South-West (DSW) as a candidate at the next general election and her... Read more »

Brendan Howlin’s bland buddies

March 22, 2018

LIMPING Labour leader Brendan Howlin appeared this week at a public meeting organised by his party on the topic of Brexit. He was... Read more »

MINISTER McHUGH’S ADVISER SUED

March 22, 2018

GREG HARKIN, special adviser to government chief whip and Junior Minister Joe McHugh, has been hunted around Government Buildings, Dublin bars and restaurants... Read more »

Barry Egan’s salad days

March 22, 2018

WOW! What a wild boy Barry Egan was back in the 1980s when, as he explained recently to breathless Sindo readers, he cavorted... Read more »

ABORTED INDO STORY

March 22, 2018

THE Irish and Sunday Independent have been running a campaign against their bitter rivals in The Sunday Times and its new title, The... Read more »

LEO’S WINDY ‘JOKE’

March 22, 2018

There was much to cringe over in Taoiseach Leo Varadkar’s lame attempt to curry favour with US president Donald Trump during his Paddy’s... Read more »

Bog Cuttings

March 22, 2018

chip shop row lands GAA star in the soup A GAA star attacked an elderly man with his own walking stick after a... Read more »

NEW LOOK HERITAGE TRUST

March 22, 2018

THE POSITION of chief executive of the Irish Heritage Trust (IHT) is about to be filled following an advertising process. It will be... Read more »

THE UNMANAGEABLE SISTERS – ABBEY THEATRE

March 22, 2018

WITH INTENSE public pressure to ensure that women are sufficiently represented on stage, what easier way for theatre managers (like the Abbey’s co-director... Read more »

Judy Woolworth’s “public confidence”

March 22, 2018

NO DOUBT Judy Woodworth and the board of the Alfred Beit Foundation were delighted with the big spread on Russborough House in The... Read more »

BELINDA STRUDWICK’S BIG BILLS

March 22, 2018

THE RACING of thoroughbred horses is a notoriously expensive game that only the wealthy can afford to play. One such moneybags is English... Read more »

THE LODGERS – DIRECTED BY BRIAN O’MALLEY

March 22, 2018

CLEARLY, going to the cinema to see an Irish film is often a risk. Much as you hope for the best there is... Read more »

THE HOARDER – JESS KIDD (CANONGATE)

March 22, 2018

THE LONDON-based Irish author Jess Kidd published her well-received first novel, Himself, in 2016. Her follow-up is narrated by Mayo-born Maud Drennan, who... Read more »

ARTS COUNCIL RESIGNATIONS

March 22, 2018

IT IS starting to look like being a member of the Arts Council is a hazardous affair. Artist Brian Maguire has just stepped... Read more »

FILM BOARD’S FEMALES

March 22, 2018

NOW THAT Annie Doona’s Irish Film Board (IFB) has a recruitment campaign under way for a production and development coordinator, maybe the agency... Read more »

HUNT MUSEUM’S HUNT is OVER

March 22, 2018

THE LONG vacant position of director and chief executive of the Hunt Museum has gone to a woman – Jill Cousin – who... Read more »

KERRI RADCLIFFE’S SUDDEN EXIT

March 22, 2018

READERS WILL recall (see The Phoenix 9/3/18) that Goldhawk was impressed by the size of the wedge chucked about by bloodstock agent Kerri... Read more »

GER LYONS LETS LOOSE

March 22, 2018

DUNDALK RACECOURSE hosted the most valuable race held at the track recently but the €75,000 Patton Stakes – part of a new European... Read more »

CHELTENHAM’S MELON FLAVOUR

March 22, 2018

WHILE TRAINER Gordon Elliott will always be the golden boy as far as Mick O’Leary is concerned, Davy Russell and Henry De Bromhead... Read more »

PETER BRANT JOINS THE COOLMORE BOYS

March 22, 2018

THE FALL from grace of South African tycoon Marcus Jooste left a gap in the market for an investor to join the Coolmore... Read more »

McDonagh needs to close gap on AIB

March 22, 2018

IT IS still surprising that the most prudent of Irish banks – Bank of Ireland – went into overdrive during the frenzied lending... Read more »

Kenmare now set for takeover approach

March 22, 2018
TWO YEARS ago, Mick Carvill was facing oblivion in Kenmare Resources having lost $200m over the preceding 24 months and leaving the company in... Read more »

Tony Gannon’s Cerberus setback

March 22, 2018

INTERESTING to see Goldhawk’s old pal low-key Lucan businessman Tony Gannon popping up again recently in the Four Goldmines. The developer – who... Read more »

Cork carpenters’ bad luck

March 22, 2018

AN UNLUCKY Cork carpentry outfit was slapped with a hefty judgment by the dreaded taxman recently. Carrigaline Carpentry Services Ltd, controlled by brothers... Read more »

Liam Mulvaney’s latest setback

March 22, 2018

DUBLIN developer Liam Mulvaney’s annus horribilis continues. After being sent to the slammer for 10 days last month for contempt of court, Ulster... Read more »

More turbulence for windfarm investors

March 22, 2018

THERE’S trouble brewing for the directors of windfarm operators Sunflower Design, now that one group of disgruntled backers has lost patience with the... Read more »

Athlone solicitor Cormac Lohan’s secret recording

March 22, 2018

MORE woe for solicitor Cormac Lohan who has had a stressful first quarter of 2018. Not only has the Athlone legal eagle been... Read more »

Chay Bowes misses the target

March 22, 2018

HARD to luck to Dublin businessman Chay Bowes whose outdoor gear outlet and gun shop suddenly closed its doors earlier this year. Creditors... Read more »

MATT CARTHY: SF’S NEW CROWN PRINCE

March 22, 2018

THE retirement at the next election of long serving Sinn Féin TD, Caoímhghin Ó Caoláin – as weighty and formidable as Mary Lou... Read more »

Patrick Elliott’s mixed results

March 22, 2018

CAVAN builders James Elliott Construction Ltd (JEC), one of the companies at the centre of a long-running scrap over pyrite-contaminated concrete, has just... Read more »

Fine Gael MEPs DEMAND HUGE DEFENCE SPEND

March 22, 2018

THE four Fine Gael MEPs demanding an end to Irish neutrality and massive defence spending have repeatedly protested – like the lady that... Read more »