May 31 - June 13, 2019 Archives - The Phoenix Magazine

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IAN BAILEY: ‘L’HEURE DE VÉRITÉ’?

May 29, 2019

THE WIDESPREAD, public atmosphere of blood lust in France against Ian Bailey, the alleged murderer of Sophie Toscan du Plantier, ratcheted up in... Read more »

PROFILE: DENIS DESMOND

May 29, 2019

WITH THE summer cycle of superstar rock gigs and music festivals set to kick off next month, MCD will be the biggest act... Read more »

YOUNG BLOOD: HUGH O’CONNELL

May 29, 2019

Like a promising football team that falls short of winning promotion to the top flight, the Sunday Business Post is having its starting... Read more »

MARIA BAILEY: NOT THE REAL TARGET

May 29, 2019

THE FURORE created by Michael McDowell’s attack on Dún Laoghaire TD Maria Bailey and her compo case over that fall from a hotel... Read more »

FRANK AND THERESA McNAMARA’S ADVENTURES

May 29, 2019

THIS WEEK saw the return to court of the proceedings by a culture fund, Apollo Global, against one-time ‘celebrity’ couple Frank and Theresa... Read more »

SINN FÉIN MELTDOWN

May 29, 2019

MARY LOU MCDONALD had no forewarning of Sinn Féin’s electoral catastrophe in the opinion polls. Red C had SF consistently around the 13%-14%... Read more »

JANE’S STRAY HORSES

May 29, 2019

A COMPANY called Animal Security Ltd has been quietly dissolved. The name may not be too familiar to readers, but it previously operated... Read more »

SHARON HORGAN’S LATEST PAYDAY

May 29, 2019

AS THE annual Cannes film junket (which featured a rare Irish success) came to a close on Sunday, it coincided with the arrival... Read more »

OLGA SHAJAKU’S LATEST VICTORY

May 29, 2019

MORE GOOD news for Goldhawk’s favourite Russian lawyer, Olga Shajaku, who got a good result from the Supreme Court last week, which means... Read more »

Vol 37 No 11

May 29, 2019

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GAS MAN KELLY

May 29, 2019

As Blueshirt MEP Seán Kelly returns to Brussels for a third term, he might want to reconsider his zealous support for Shannon LNG,... Read more »

GREEN WAVE OR RIPPLE?

May 29, 2019

WILL THE green wave translate into more Green TDs? And if Eamon Ryan leads the party into another coalition with a right-wing party,... Read more »

ÁINE MORIARTY’S DELAYED RELEASE

May 29, 2019

EARLIER THIS year (see The Phoenix, 8/2/19), Goldhawk raised the ghastly spectre of a hiatus in Áine Moriarty and Deirdre Hopkins’s annual red... Read more »

STAKEKNIFE INQUIRY COLLAPSE

May 29, 2019

The underwhelming response to the selection of Simon Byrne as the PSNI’s new chief constable shows that the media missed two bigger stories... Read more »

MARIA BAILEY’S DILEMMA

May 29, 2019

DÚN LAOGHAIRE TD Maria Bailey and Fine Gael have pretty much talked themselves into inevitable suspension of the Dáil deputy, which will lead... Read more »

FEEHILY FIGHTS ON

May 29, 2019

YOU CAN see why An Garda Síochána and the justice department want rid of the Policing Authority – chaired by the formidable Josephine... Read more »

CAPTAIN NAIRAC’S REPUTATION

May 29, 2019

THE CAMPAIGN to sanitise the reputation of British Army undercover operative Captain Robert Nairac, shot dead and disappeared by the IRA in 1975,... Read more »

COVENEY’S MIDDLE EAST CHARADE

May 29, 2019

WHAT A deafening silence there has been from foreign minister Simon Coveney on the Middle East “deal of the century”, produced by Donald... Read more »

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

May 29, 2019

I grew up on the sideline of a GAA pitch. I play fair, I don’t play offside. Fine Gael TD Maria Bailey on... Read more »

REMAINERS 2 — BREXIT 1

May 29, 2019

AS PREDICTED (see The Phoenix, 17/5/19), if Alliance leader Naomi Long got ahead of SDLP leader Colum Eastwood and/or the UUP’s Danny Kennedy,... Read more »

SEAMUS MALLON VS JOHN HUME

May 29, 2019

SEAMUS MALLON’S “parallel consent” proposal for a United Ireland – aka a new, super-unionist veto – is the political love child of his... Read more »

OLIVIA BUCKLEY VS SHANE ROSS

May 29, 2019

FIANNA FÁIL’S local election results in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown will have given Micheál Martin much to consider as it has put a question mark... Read more »

MARIA WALSH’S MILITARISM

May 29, 2019

IT WAS a close-run thing in the end for Fine Gael EU candidate Maria Walsh in Midlands North West and her gung-ho military-style... Read more »

THE NEXT GOVERNMENT

May 29, 2019

NOW FOR the real election. Both Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil (along with desperate pleas from Labour leader Brendan Howlin) posit the prospects... Read more »

PRESS COUNCIL — SECRET INFO

May 29, 2019

WHAT AN intriguing postscript at the end of last weekend’s Sunday Business Post’s publication of the Press Council’s rejection of its appeal against... Read more »

MEDIAHUIS SPANNER IN IT WORKS

May 29, 2019

THE IRISH TIMES gave the Mediahuis takeover of INM a guarded endorsement, saying the new owners offered a fresh start for the group... Read more »

RTÉ’S POLITICAL PRIORITIES

May 29, 2019

WHILE RTÉ’S coverage of the election counts was up to its usual high standard, the scheduling of EU election debates – easily the... Read more »

CONOR SKEHAN’S ‘SCIENCE’

May 29, 2019

While climate denial has become a mug’s game, a new variant has emerged, which is to deny that biodiversity loss and ecological collapse... Read more »

BOG CUTTINGS

May 29, 2019

Priest chased by camper van man A PRIEST in Newtownards, Co Down, was forced to flee from an intoxicated man following a “bizarre”... Read more »

CLIMATE SPEAK

May 29, 2019

If rhetoric could reduce emissions, Ireland would by now be a world leader rather than laggard. The ‘green wave’ hype of recent... Read more »

BRIAN RANALOW’S INVESTMENT

May 29, 2019

INTERESTING to see Dublin moneybags and artist Brian Ranalow investing a wedge of cash in Genos Investments Ltd this month. Genos is a... Read more »

GOOD NEWS FOR HENRY BEEBY

May 29, 2019

NOEL HAYES must be one of the luckiest owners in the game and has struck gold again through his Sunday Racing Club with... Read more »

CURRAGH GOLD CUP LOSING ITS GLITTER

May 29, 2019

WITH THREE Group 1 races on the card, the Irish Guineas Festival is of the highest class, but the newly refurbished Curragh is... Read more »

LUKE COMER CASHES IN

May 29, 2019

MONEYBAGS Luke Comer enjoyed probably his finest moment as a trainer when Raa Atoll pulled off a well-executed plan in winning a Group... Read more »

HEFFERNAN’S NOT SO ROUGH RIDE

May 29, 2019

BALLYDOYLE stalwart Seamie Heffernan is having quite a lean season by his standards, having yet to get to double-figure winners, but there was... Read more »

SELINA CARTMELL’S OLD SHOWS

May 29, 2019

NEXT WEEK sees the return to the Gate of the hit show at the northside theatre, Roddy Doyle’s The Snapper. Given it had... Read more »

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