March 13 - March 26, 2020 Archives - The Phoenix Magazine

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MARTIN AGAINST THE WALL

March 12, 2020

MICHEÁL MARTIN may have thought he had performed the U-turn of the millennium – the Fianna Fáil leader opened the door to Sinn... Read more »

DESMOND TO SOLVE HOUSING CRISIS

March 12, 2020

BILLIONAIRE FINANCIER Dermot Desmond offered his solution to the housing crisis last weekend, in a 4,400-plus word address to the nation, facilitated by... Read more »

PROFILE: ROY BARRETT

March 12, 2020

THESE ARE interesting times for the FAI and Goodbody Stockbrokers, where the common factor is Roy Barrett. Without any previous involvement in Irish... Read more »

YOUNG BLOOD – MARIE SHERLOCK

March 12, 2020

ALTHOUGH THE Labour Party’s general election result fell short of its own expectations and proved disappointing, the impending Seanad race will likely bear... Read more »

SHEIKH MOHAMMED’S KIDNAP CONUNDRUM

March 12, 2020

GIVEN THE influence of the Dubai ruling Al Maktoum family here, the silence to date of the authorities on the explosive court ruling... Read more »

HUGO MACNEILL AND THE ‘VAMPIRE SQUID’

March 12, 2020

FOLLOWING THE recent election of Fine Gael’s Jennifer Carroll MacNeill, her hubby, Hugo MacNeill, is seeking to land a seat in the Seanad... Read more »

MAUREEN KENNELLY’S TOP JOB

March 12, 2020

THE APPOINTMENT of Maureen Kennelly as director of the Arts Council – to succeed Orlaith McBride, who was in situ for nine years... Read more »

BANKING ON BLACKMORE

March 12, 2020

THIS TIME last year, Rachael Blackmore was being tipped to make her Cheltenham Festival breakthrough. She duly delivered in style, booting home two... Read more »

LABOUR CONTEST: AK47 VS PC 2020

March 12, 2020

LABOUR’S LEADERSHIP election – Guns vs Roses – is already over bar the counting; Alan Kelly is home and dry and the only... Read more »

LEGAL MAUL

March 12, 2020

EX-IRELAND rugby legend and captain Rory Best may have to shortly tog out for an off-field scrummage of far greater significance – legally... Read more »

HISTORY LESSON

March 12, 2020

CONGRATULATIONS TO the Ireland Institute for Historical & Cultural Studies (IIHCS), which now boasts an historically good balance sheet. The institute – located... Read more »

Vol 38 No 05

March 12, 2020

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NIALL QUINN’S LOADED PAL

March 12, 2020

WHILE THE FAI focuses on trying to qualify for Euro 2020 in play-off games in empty stadiums in Bratislava and (hopefully) either Belfast... Read more »

THE ‘BURKEAN’ BUNCO

March 12, 2020

IT HAS emerged that an online activist group purporting to be exposing far-right and fascist activity on third-level campuses in Ireland, Irish Students... Read more »

COVID-19: FF ARD FHEIS 20/21

March 12, 2020

JUST ONE of Micheál Martin’s problems in securing a coalition deal is the requirement in Fianna Fáil party rules for a special ard... Read more »

‘LET’S GET BREXIT DONE’

March 12, 2020

GARDA COMMISSIONER Drew Harris drew fire from Sinn Féin over his IRA army council statement and he made another, em, forthright statement last... Read more »

FRANCES RUANE’S NEW FACES

March 12, 2020

AFTER AN unusually long hiatus, the Abbey Theatre has finally got around to filling four vacancies on its board that have lain vacant... Read more »

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE 3805

March 12, 2020

You’re listening to Radio Luxembourg and the improbable microstate lowers down the golden thread and I grabbed hold of it. Bob Geldof reminisces... Read more »

MAKING A HASH OF CASH FOR ASH

March 12, 2020

Three weeks ago, a Stormont committee gave the officials in charge of communications and executive support a grilling. Chris Stewart, director of executive... Read more »

GREEN POWER PLAY

March 12, 2020

TWO PUTATIVE Green Party dynasties had their wings clipped during and after the general election and party leader Eamon Ryan showed that he... Read more »

COVENEY RETREATS

March 12, 2020

DESPITE SIMMERING anger at grassroots level following Fine Gael’s electoral panning, the parliamentary party is unlikely to see a leadership challenge from Simon... Read more »

EOGHAN MURPHY’S NEW PARTNER

March 12, 2020

HOUSING MINISTER Eoghan Murphy TD’s replacement of Kate O’Connell as his new Fine Gael ‘partner’ in Dublin Bay South (DBS) is likely to... Read more »

IMPRESSING OUR GREEN CREDENTIALS ON THE ROYALS

March 12, 2020

No celebrity visit to Ireland would be complete without the now-mandatory photo op involving a pint of Guinness. And so it was when... Read more »

BOG CUTTINGS 3805

March 12, 2020

‘The Fuck Word’ Gavin Tierney (43) of The Park, Grange Rath, Drogheda pleaded not guilty to using threatening, abusive or insulting behaviour with... Read more »

SISI’S SUPPORT

March 12, 2020

A THUNDERING Irish Times editorial marking the recent death of the Egyptian “dictator”, President Hosni Mubarak, sympathised with the Egyptians who had lived... Read more »

JOURNALIST STALKED

March 12, 2020

THE “abominable” stalking of Irish News security correspondent Allison Morris, whose life and that of her family was rendered unbearable for three years,... Read more »

WECKLER’S COMMISSION OMISSION

March 12, 2020

Adrian Weckler, top tech correspondent and gadget-obsessive at the Indo, has written at length about the impending Data Protection Commission (DPC) fines on... Read more »

THE DESMONDS IN DUBLIN 4

March 12, 2020

NOT SURPRISINGLY, billionaire Dermot Desmond’s cunning plan to fix the housing problem attracted plenty of attention, including a fawning interview on Radio 1... Read more »

DOMHNAL SLATTERY’S AWARD

March 12, 2020

AVIATION moneybags Domhnal Slattery of the Avolon leasing group must have been delighted with the Glucksman Award for Leadership that he picked up... Read more »

MARK O’NEILL’S NEW TAX BILL

March 12, 2020

IT LOOKS like artist Mark O’Neill has been just a little careless, given that he has ended up on the list of tax... Read more »

DOUG TAYLOR’S JET SET

March 12, 2020

DUBLIN SUIT Douglas Taylor enjoyed five minutes of fame 10 years ago when he orchestrated a well-executed gamble on his horse, D Four... Read more »

CROSSED WIRES FOR DENIS HOGAN

March 12, 2020

THE ACTIONS of senior management at the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB) – where chief executive Denis Egan calls the shots – are... Read more »

HRI FOLLOWS THE MONEY

March 12, 2020

THE five-year strategic plan up to 2024 was recently launched by Horse Racing Ireland (HRI) and it contained no real surprises. The development... Read more »

SACCONE’S BILL

March 12, 2020

SOME BAD news for Margaret Saccone, mother of American-Irish mummy YouTube blogger Anna Saccone. Margaret, whose listed address is in Rochestown in Co... Read more »

APEIROGON – COLUM McCANN (BLOOMSBURY)

March 12, 2020

BEST KNOWN for his hugely successful Let the Great World Spin, Colum McCann’s inventive fiction ranges widely and is generally international in scope.... Read more »

CULTURE NIGHT RECORDS

March 12, 2020

LAST WEEK, the Irish Heart Foundation kicked up over the alleged failure of certain public officials to keep records of meetings with lobbyists... Read more »

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