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LEO’S LINE
Date: May 29, 2025 -
THE NEW political editor of the Irish and Sunday Independent, Mary Regan is a most accomplished journalist as her work at RTÉ, the Irish Examiner and Business Post proves. So her startling failure to even mention the most significant current initiative by far of former taoiseach Leo Varadkar, in her analysis of his current trajectory,… Read more »
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SPOOKY SWISS CLUB DE BERNE
Date: May 29, 2025 -
IRELAND MAY not be able to conduct immigration security screening – necessary for the implementation of the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum – according to a Government report. This is because we are denied access to a “key European security data base” as we are not a member of the Schengen area of Europe… Read more »
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JIMMY FENNELLY’S FINALE
Date: May 29, 2025 -
TENACIOUS ACCOUNTANT Jimmy Fennelly will feel he balanced the books somewhat at last week’s AGM of the Chartered Accountants of Ireland (CAI), with whom he has been having a long-running battle (see The Phoenix 13/12/24). While the world of number crunchers is a boring one at the best of times, Fennelly’s stand-off with the profession’s… Read more »
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KINCORA SECRETS STILL TUMBLING OUT
Date: May 29, 2025 -
Sir Anthony Hart’s derided 2017 report into the Kincora abuse scandal was meant to quash interest in the story but served only to fuel a spate of reports in The Phoenix and Village, The Lost Boys documentary and a book on Lord Louis Mountbatten’s complicity by Andrew Lownie. The latest rebuttal is a book by… Read more »
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RIGHT-WING ULTRAS
Date: May 29, 2025 -
THAT SIX members of the National Party’s (NP) anti-Barrett faction travelled to Milan, Italy, for the recent Remigration Summit indicates how far the party’s brand of hardline ethnonationalism is from the right-wing populism espoused by most of Ireland’s anti-immigration movement. The conference was organised principally by Austria’s Martin Sellner and Dries Van Langenhove from Belgium,… Read more »
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FREEDOM OF HATE SPEECH
Date: May 29, 2025 -
When the European Commission issued a statement in early May outlining the sanctions Ireland will face for failing to implement legislation criminalising hate speech, the response of some ‘centre-right’ politicians and supporters was predictable. Last September the then justice minister Helen McEntee had effectively kicked the can down the road on the implementation of the… Read more »
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THE HOT AIR BRIGADE
Date: May 29, 2025 -
I took that medal on behalf of all those people who don’t get medals – the activists, the people who are getting killed now in Gaza. Bono on his much-criticised acceptance of the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Joe Biden, RTÉ Radio 1 We’ve been going through so much hysterical climate catastrophism for the last… Read more »
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GREAT GAS
Date: May 29, 2025 -
It must be a head-spinning time to work for Gas Networks Ireland (GNI), the semi-state company responsible for operating Ireland’s fossil gas grid. On the one hand, the Government announced in March that GNI would own a controversial new liquid natural gas (LNG) terminal in Kerry – an abrupt about-face on previous government policy that… Read more »
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WATERED DOWN
Date: May 29, 2025 -
Today 33 Irish rivers are classified as “heavily modified water bodies” (HMWBs), meaning they are of minimal ecological value and so don’t need to be counted against our EU targets on improving the ecological quality of our waterways. New Government plans will see an almost 15-fold increase, to 466, in the number of declared HMWBs…. Read more »
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NORTH HOUSING CRISIS: DÉJÀ VU
Date: May 29, 2025 -
There are about 13,000 people on the waiting list for social housing in Belfast. Those on the list are overwhelmingly concentrated in north and west Belfast and they are overwhelmingly nationalist. There are obvious reasons for this. North and west Belfast have more concentrations of poverty and deprivation than elsewhere, with people unable to buy… Read more »
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STAR-STUDDED ÁRAS HOPEFULS
Date: May 29, 2025 -
THE LATEST Fianna Fáil no-hoper for the FF presidential nomination whose name is being floated (this time by the aspirant herself, not party handlers) is former minister Mary Hanafin. On paper Mary’s political career was stellar, including as it did her appointment by Micheál Martin as party deputy leader for a few weeks in 2011… Read more »
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TOOLE’S TRACK RECORD
Date: May 29, 2025 -
THE LONE TD that remained sitting next to Michael Lowry, ‘chairman’ of the Regional Independent Group (RIG) – after Barry Heneghan had abandoned him – was Gillian Toole, Independent TD in Meath East, according to a recent report. This may be because Gillian is made of sterner stuff than Barry. Like Lowry, Toole was a… Read more »
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INSECURE SECURITY COMMITTEE (CH. II)
Date: May 29, 2025 -
READERS WILL remember that there was consternation at the Dáil reform committee meeting to organise draft orders of reference for Oireachtas committees when Government members realised that the newly expanded defence committee now bore the more hazardous title of “defence and national security” (see The Phoenix 16/5/25). This, along with the appointment of Sinn Féin’s… Read more »
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RTÉ BLANKS GAZA PROTESTS
Date: May 29, 2025 -
THE ANGUISH of RTÉ luvvies over a private firm being hired to produce an advert for RTÉ News in a simulated newsroom – ‘fake news,’ they cried – is nothing compared to how most viewers would feel if they knew how RTÉ News really works. A good example is RTÉ’s refusal to broadcast the recent… Read more »
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GAZA REVISITED
Date: May 29, 2025 -
IT’S HARD to single out the most brazen U-turn on Gaza by those who might now be anxious about having endorsed – by word or even silence – the Government’s failure to translate words into action in the face of Israeli carnage. But Sunday Times columnist Alison O’Connor’s belated lament last weekend – headlined: “World… Read more »
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THE BIG GIG
Date: May 29, 2025 -
AN ADVERT for one of the more prestigious jobs in the arts sector has just been posted by the National Concert Hall (NCH) on its website. It turns out that the well-regarded institution is seeking applications for the role of chief executive, the position held since 2021 by Robert Read. Given the massive redevelopment project… Read more »
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TONY MULLINS’S MEMORIES
Date: May 29, 2025 -
EARLIER THIS month, Tony Mullins – brother of Willie – failed to overturn a Workplace Relations Commission award of a chunky €86,000 made to Yasir Ali, a former stable hand at the trainer’s Watree Stud in Co Kilkenny. Probably the most eyebrow-raising evidence from Mullins was that he did not recall if he had attended… Read more »
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TED WALSH’S WOES
Date: May 29, 2025 -
Ted Walsh – the trainer, pundit and patriarch of the Walsh family of racing TV presenters – was back in hot water with the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB) stewards earlier this month. Following the running of the TC Cullen Memorial Novice Steeplechase at Wexford, the race-day stewards enquired into the running and riding of… Read more »
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IMAGE’S TAX DEAL
Date: May 29, 2025 -
THE MCDONNELL sisters, Jane and Sarah, had an outing in The Currency last week, where they got to plug their latest venture, Design Week Dublin. Not surprisingly, there were also mentions of times gone by, including a lengthy stint at Image magazine. The latter business has just filed its figures for 2024, which reveal a… Read more »
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TOM HIGGINS’S FLIGHT PLAN
Date: May 29, 2025 -
IN THE wake of the high-profile ‘gals in space’ media stunt by Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin, it is interesting to note that the market has recently taken a shine to Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic (VG) space flight operation, where Goldhawk’s old pal, Tom ‘Psychics Live’ Higgins stumped up €¼m almost 20 years to book a… Read more »
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UNDERPOWERED GREENCOAT RENEWABLES RIPE FOR PICKING
Date: May 29, 2025 -
IT IS difficult to know what Paul O’Donnell and Bertrand Gautier – the so-called investment managers in Schroders Greencoat Capital who run Greencoat Renewables for a juicy fee – are up to. They are earning a very handsome fee not linked to performance, while the company’s share price has been plummeting. For investors, matters are… Read more »
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JUST WHY IS THE BOARD TRYING TO SELL DALATA?
Date: May 29, 2025 -
IT REMAINS difficult to know who is pushing to have Dalata Hotels Group bought out. AS CEO, Dermot Crowley is clearly front and centre but, given his stated strategy, a sell-off would be hard for him to stomach. Also, it is very hard to justify the excuse being put forward by the company for the… Read more »
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DEREK MADDEN’S PRIME PROBLEM
Date: May 29, 2025 -
FANS OF Goldhawk with long memories will recall an interesting little bioenergy company called Prime Energy Power Ltd (PEP), where Nicholas O’Dwyer of Grant Thornton was installed as liquidator after it ran out of moolah (see The Phoenix 20/4/2018). The principal player here, Derek Madden, has now been restricted for five years under Section 150… Read more »
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BIG NOISE MATT GLEESON
Date: May 29, 2025 -
A COMPANY called Blackberry Hearing Ltd has just had a charge registered against it by non-bank lender InvoiceFair Ltd, which now trades as FinanceFair. This follows on foot of a most upbeat outing in the Sunday Times by Blackberry boss and pal of Denis O’Brien, Matt Gleeson. The ST article made it clear that Blackberry… Read more »
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‘IMAGE’ MAKEOVER
Date: May 29, 2025 -
ELSEWHERE IN this issue, Goldhawk notes the agreement between Image Publications Ltd (IPL) and the Revenue in relation to repayment of warehoused pandemic-period taxes (see p18). It is also worth noting that the publisher has been steadily reducing its significant accumulated deficit. These days IPL is owned by a holding company called Zernicke Ltd, which… Read more »
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NO BAFTA FOR KINCORA FILM
Date: May 15, 2025 -
The BBC has just secured a prestigious Bafta (British Academy Film and Television Arts) award for Clive Myrie’s Caribbean Adventure made by Alleycats of Derry and directed by Des Henderson. The series dwells on the culture of the Caribbean and also its history of slave sugar production…. Read more »
PROFILE: RUADHÁN MAC CORMAIC
Date: May 15, 2025 -
THE PRESS COUNCIL’S recent confirmation of a Press Ombudsman’s decision underlines the Irish Times’s one-sided coverage of clerical child abuse. An IT article last September inaccurately reported that the 2009 Ryan Report on residential child abuse was exclusively “about” Catholic institutions. This bias has resulted in a virtual IT blackout of reportage on the abuse… Read more »
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YOUNG BLOOD: EOGHAN KENNY
Date: May 15, 2025 -
WHILE THE Labour Party nearly doubled its Dáil representation in 2024 with only a marginal increase in the percentage of votes it received in the 2020 general election, the big question is whether its new TDs, such as Cork North Central’s Eoghan Kenny, can hold on and repeat the trick next time out. Kenny was… Read more »
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WINDING DOWN LAND-HOARDER NAMA
Date: May 15, 2025 -
AFTER THE furore surrounding the mooted appointment of Nama CEO Brendan McDonagh as the head of the Government’s new housing activation office, the focus can now turn to his performance as head of the agency. Nama is currently in wind-down mode and, despite many claims made by it and on its behalf, the truth is… Read more »
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EASTWOOD ROUNDS ON TAOISEACH
Date: May 15, 2025 -
At the end of April Colum Eastwood, MP for Foyle and former leader of the SDLP, had an article published in the Irish Times that is a scathing criticism of what he called “southern establishment views”. He said those views on “partition, the nature of reconciliation and the need to finally wage war on want,… Read more »
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LYRA’S COMFORT ZONE
Date: May 15, 2025 -
CAROLINE DOWNEY must be delighted with the latest outing for the singer-songwriter she manages, Lyra, who continues to benefit from a remarkably high profile despite her relative lack of music success. Of course, being represented by the co-owner (with Denis Desmond) of music venue and promotion behemoths MCD presumably does help when it comes to… Read more »
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BERTIE BANGS ON ÁRAS DOOR
Date: May 15, 2025 -
MUCH MEDIA attention was given – as intended – to a rather self-serving organisation, which is entitled the InterAction Council. It is composed of former world leaders and has been co-chaired since 2016 by none other than one of our own, ex-taoiseach and former leader of Fianna Fáil Bertie Ahern. The council was founded in… Read more »
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TRUMP’S PLOT(S) SPOILER
Date: May 15, 2025 -
WITH ARTS minister Patrick O’Donovan having just reappointed four directors of Screen Ireland (SI), including chairman Ray Harman, at least the state film funding agency has a full complement at a time when the sector is faced with Donald Trump’s 100% tariffs on non-American movie and TV productions. Of most immediate concern to the SI… Read more »
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DUBLIN PRIDE’S PREDICAMENT
Date: May 15, 2025 -
SINN FÉIN has been carrying out a damage limitation exercise after comments by health spokesman David Cullinane saw Trans and Intersex Pride Dublin ban the party from its annual march in July. The good news is that there is no such move by the larger Dublin LGBTQ+ Pride march next month, although the organisers must… Read more »
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MAGNIER ON THE ROPES
Date: May 15, 2025 -
IF LEINSTER’S European semi-final exit to Northampton was a bona fide sporting shock, the drubbing handed out to John Magnier and the gang at Coolmore was also a bruising affair. There will surely be an inquest. In the opening classic of the season, the Betfred 2,000 Guineas, Sheikh Mohammad al Maktoum’s Godolphin fielded Ruling Court,… Read more »
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VOL 43 NO 10
Date: May 15, 2025 -
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