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RTÉ’S LATEST HOT SEAT
Date: May 15, 2025 -
WITH THE Oireachtas committees finally in place, certain state board vacancies can now be filled. One place they could start is RTÉ, which is facing its latest scandal with an underpowered board in place. Kevin Bakhurst et al have confirmed that RTÉ wrote off €3.6m on its partly failed IT system. This is the kind… Read more »
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AFTER COMISKEY
Date: May 15, 2025 -
SENIOR CLERICS such as Bishop Brendan Comiskey could hardly complain about being targeted for covering up child abuse by priests in their diocese but the platitudes of politicians and others in authority in this field are hard to endure. Before Comiskey resigned in 2002, senior government politicians had resisted the efforts of victims’ parents and… Read more »
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DEMPSEY’S ACADEMIC DISCOURSE
Date: May 15, 2025 -
Back in June 2010, UCD conferred one of its highest accolades, an honorary Doctor of Science, on Irish Farmers Journal (IFJ) editor Matt Dempsey. Thanks to his leadership, the journal “has a unique strength in that it makes available to farmers and other readers the most up-to-date interpretation of scientific research”, the UCD citation read…. Read more »
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THE MANN WHO KEPT HIS BALLS INTACT
Date: May 15, 2025 -
Notorious ex-SAS officer and soldier of fortune Simon Mann has died. In 2004 he led a failed plot to topple President Teodoro Obiang of oil-rich Equatorial Guinea. Baroness Thatcher and her son, Sir Mark, invested $300,000 in the doomed venture. Born in 1952, Mann went to Eton from where he progressed to Sandhurst and joined… Read more »
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LEFT V RIGHT MARCHES
Date: May 15, 2025 -
In the weeks that followed the recent large anti-immigration protest in Dublin, right-wing activists have tried to tap into that energy by calling a series of local demonstrations. This has created a dilemma for Sinn Féin and other groups in how to appropriately respond. In Dublin TDs Paul Donnelly and Louise O’Reilly as well as… Read more »
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FAR-RIGHT COUPS
Date: May 15, 2025 -
THAT LARGE anti-immigrant march in Dublin recently masked upheavals and faction fighting among new-right corporals jostling for ascendancy. Two casualties appear to be Justin Barrett – still claiming to be leader of the National Party (NP) and also head of Clann Éireann – and Hermann Kelly, president of the Irish Freedom Party (IFP) until its… Read more »
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THE HOT AIR BRIGADE
Date: May 15, 2025 -
They should follow the masters, who are U2. Bono goes on, he talks about Palestine. He does it in peace. He’s pro-Palestine, that’s his opinion, Bono, God bless him, but he does it in such a way that it doesn’t incite violence from a crowd. Sharon Osbourne’s advice for Kneecap, Piers Morgan Uncensored Kneecap have… Read more »
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GOLD MINE PROJECT FOYLED AGAIN
Date: May 15, 2025 -
In a saga of government department hypocrisy that Strabane man Brian O’Nolan (aka Myles na gCopaleen) may have considered perfect fodder for his Cruiskeen Lawn column, the Sinn Féin-led Northern Ireland Department of Infrastructure (DfI) has reluctantly admitted that environmental issues must indeed be viewed on an all-Ireland basis. This has always been the case… Read more »
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‘INSECURE’ OIREACHTAS COMMITTEE
Date: May 15, 2025 -
THERE WAS consternation among certain members of the Dáil reform committee when it met to ratify the draft Orders of Reference and Establishment of Committees Report. A one-line footnote in the report nearly derailed the whole long-awaited process of creating Oireachtas committees, provoking a fraught and nervous debate. The only footnote in the report said: “National… Read more »
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HAS BACIK BACKED OFF LEFT UNITY?
Date: May 15, 2025 -
THE GROWING movement pushing for broad left unity among the opposition received two signals last week at a large rally to retain the triple lock that involved most, but not all, the left political parties and like-minded individuals. Firstly and positively was the attendance of Sinn Féin and a considered speech from its leader, Mary… Read more »
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LOW-COST MEDIA FREEDOM
Date: May 15, 2025 -
UNSURPRISINGLY, THERE has been little or no media coverage of the pay-outs to media organisations recently from the Government or, rather, the taxpayers’ largely unknowing munificence so generously enabled by the Government. Sums amounting to €5.7m have been dished out to a struggling media across… Read more »
CLARE DALY V ‘SUNDAY TIMES’
Date: May 15, 2025 -
GOLDHAWK PREDICTED as far back as 2022 that then MEP Clare Daly would come for those sections of the media that had, as she saw it, set out to politically target herself and partner Mick Wallace, also an MEP at the time. This was because Daly in particular had been an especially powerful advocate of… Read more »
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FUNDING GREAT BRITISH NEWS
Date: May 15, 2025 -
IRISH TAXPAYERS will be equally happy – in the spirit of our shared island and its history – to learn that the Government’s media largesse has spread to the north. DUP communications minister Gordon Lyons last month “unlocked” extra funding for the Ulster-Scots Agency, an entity that claims parity for Ulster-Scots with Irish as a… Read more »
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PATRICK O’DONOVAN’S HEADACHE
Date: May 15, 2025 -
ANYONE SURPRISED at Donald Trump’s threat of a 100% tariff on films produced in “foreign lands” must not have been paying attention. But there are some players who have more to lose than others. The reaction of Susan Kirby’s Screen Producers Ireland has been largely mute, noting “the potential scope and impact” but “awaiting the… Read more »
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PIANO BLUES
Date: May 15, 2025 -
THE 13TH Dublin International Piano Competition (DIPC) takes place this week in the Royal Irish Academy of Music, with the final showdown at the National Concert Hall on Friday May 16. Apart from musical notes, those of a financial kind will also be on the minds of the directors. The board is chaired by Clonskeagh… Read more »
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McGARVEY’S MOVE
Date: May 15, 2025 -
JODY McGARVEY signed off on his riding career with a third place aboard the well-supported Willie Mullins-trained beaten favourite Mirazur West in Punchestown’s Frontline Security Handicap Chase. Predictably, his final ride was for his main patron, JP McManus, for whom he had three Grade 1 successes. The record books will show McGarvey’s last winner to… Read more »
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McDOWELL’S TIKTOK TRIUMPH
Date: May 15, 2025 -
BELFAST-BASED cosmetics czar Brendan McDowell (who landed the Entrepreneur of the Year award at Ali Ryan’s Gossies bash in the RDS last year) continues to make millions in the competitive cosmetics sector. It turns out that TikTok is one of his secret weapons. Bren managed… Read more »
TOM KENNEDY’S YOGA STUDIO
Date: May 15, 2025 -
AN IMPRESSIVE six-bedroom pile in D14 that has gone on the market with a chunky €4m price tag turns out to be owned by one Tom Kennedy – co-founder of Hostelworld many moons ago – who generated headlines last month courtesy of an ambitious €190m winter sports arena proposed for south County Dublin. His sprawling… Read more »
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LAURA MAGEE’S ‘THOROUGHBRED EXPERIENCES’
Date: May 15, 2025 -
WHILE MINISTERS Peter Burke (enterprise and trade) and Martin Heydon (agriculture and food) were no doubt entertained on Punchestown’s Gold Cup day, they also took the time to officially launch Horse Country (see The Phoenix 9/8/24) – a racehorse tourism initiative that offers common-or-garden racing fans the chance to experience the big time by purchasing… Read more »
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WHY IT’S TIME TO CHOP UP GLANBIA
Date: May 15, 2025 -
ACTIVIST INVESTOR Clearway Capital is correct in its view that Glanbia should be broken up into its three component parts. Tirlán Co-Op, which is still the dominant shareholder, should be dictating the direction of the group but doesn’t see itself having that role, leaving the running to Clearway boss Gianluca Ferrari, who believes the shares… Read more »
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CHOPHOUSE CHOPPED
Date: May 15, 2025 -
EIGHT MONTHS after Kevin and Jillian Arundel (née Mulcahy) pulled down the shutters on their high-profile gastropub in Ballsbridge, The Chophouse, they have wound up the company behind their second operation, The Chophouse Sandymount. The original operation on Shelbourne Road, D4, generated quite the media buzz a few years back when celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain… Read more »
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BRIAN MOONEY’S GOLF SWING
Date: May 15, 2025 -
THIS MONTH is the deadline for creditors to submit any claims concerning an interesting company called Golphysics Ltd, which was set up by engineering whizz Brian Mooney to exploit some significant patents he had filed for gizmos that help improve your golf swing. Alas, the expensive-looking project has been bunkered. Dún Laoghaire-based Mooney’s various patents… Read more »
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BRONAGH CONLON’S HANGOVER
Date: May 15, 2025 -
THE DREADED taxman has registered a judgment in the High Court for €124,000 against Bronagh Conlon’s Listoke Distillery operation in Co Louth, which had been operating until recently as both an award-winning distillery and a “gin school”. Listoke Distillery Ltd has been the subject of previous outings to the Four Goldmines and in 2020 there… Read more »
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BERNIE’S BAD NEWS
Date: May 15, 2025 -
SINCE GOLDHAWK revealed (see The Phoenix 9/1/25) that a number of companies established by boom-time builder Bernard McNamara were to be wound up, things have continued to go downhill fast for the one-time high-flyer, who appears to be running out of companies. Bernie was one of the biggest casualties of the property crash, having been… Read more »
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‘IRISH TIMES’ LOSES SECTARIAN DEBATE
Date: May 1, 2025 -
Last week the Irish Times lost a Press Council appeal against a Press Ombudsman’s decision. It is, for the paper, a disastrous outcome and vindicates The Phoenix’s criticism of the Irish Times’s failure to detail sexual abuse of Protestant children. The successful complainant, Dr Niall… Read more »
PROFILE: LIZ KEARNEY
Date: May 1, 2025 -
THERE WAS a time when the incoming editor of the biggest-selling newspaper in the country would already be known to many in the public via print or broadcasting media but the newly appointed Sunday Independent editor, Liz Kearney, is unknown to even many working journalists. Outgoing editor Alan English is a hard act to follow… Read more »
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YOUNG BLOOD: EOIN HAYES
Date: May 1, 2025 -
ALAS, ALL political careers end in failure but minister Eoin Hayes has turned Enoch Powell’s old adage on its head and begins his political career with failure. In a state of suspense, however, Hayes is hanging in there with hopes of becoming a Social Democrats TD again. Before the series of events that resulted in… Read more »
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BUCK HOUSE COVER-UP
Date: May 1, 2025 -
PRINCE ANDREW became a severe embarrassment to Buckingham Palace after sordid details of his sexual exploitation of Virginia Giuffre (neé Roberts) emerged in 2018. Giuffre has just taken her own life in Australia, aged 41. She was trafficked to the duke by Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell when she was 17. Giuffre was commanded to… Read more »
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CONOR McGREGOR’S PALS
Date: May 1, 2025 -
DESPITE THE rallying effect that Conor McGregor is having on the new-right scene and his close association with Donald Trump and Tucker Carlson, he is not admired by everyone on the right. Gript editor John McGuirk has not only resisted the gravitational forces of wealth and celebrity that keep the rabble gathered around McGregor in… Read more »
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BRENDAN McDONAGH’S RECORD
Date: May 1, 2025 -
THERE WAS no explanation forthcoming from the housing department to Goldhawk’s query about any plan to advertise – or rather not advertise – the lucrative role of head of the new Housing Activation Office, currently earmarked for the boss of Nama, Brendan McDonagh. Maybe he is simply the best man for the job but the… Read more »
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TOM McFEELY’S RECEIVER
Date: May 1, 2025 -
IN RECENT times, not an awful lot has been heard here about former IRA hunger striker turned boom-time property developer turned bankrupt Tom McFeely but that could be about to change. The erstwhile Ailesbury Road denizen has spent much of his time across the Irish Sea in the last couple of years but a defunct… Read more »
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NOEL KELLY’S PET PROJECT
Date: May 1, 2025 -
WHATEVER HAPPENED to Petfix Club, the expensive website set up by some familiar faces to give “affordable trustworthy and high quality online veterinary and wellness advice” to pet owners. The name most closely associated with the venture was celebrity vet and ISPCA chairman Peter ‘Pete the Vet’ Wedderburn, although another big player turns out to… Read more »
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VOL 43 NO 09
Date: May 1, 2025 -
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BRENDAN MULLIN’S JUDGMENT
Date: May 1, 2025 -
A JUDGMENT has just been registered against Dublin builders John G Burns Ltd (trading as Burns Construction) for €35,000. The plaintiff here is one Brendan Mullin, with an address in Donnybrook, D4, but these days he is more likely to be found in Shelton Abbey open prison in Co Wicklow. Mullin, a former Irish and… Read more »
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ROCKET SCIENCE
Date: May 1, 2025 -
THE MEDIA’S alarmingly war-like recruitment officers for Irish military involvement in western armies often resort to sarcasm at what they describe as the paranoid fantasies of Ireland’s pacifist and pro-neutrality activists. These are routinely dismissed as examples of ‘the boy who cried wolf’ and their exaggerated claims about Irish neutrality being undermined with every foreign… Read more »
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NOT SINCE THE BLUESHIRTS…
Date: May 1, 2025 -
As anti-immigration protesters gathered at the Garden of Remembrance on Saturday April 26, it was clear from early on that this was going to be the biggest march that Ireland’s new right-wing networks have organised to date, with the hype around Conor McGregor a large factor. Close to 10,000 marched. But the fact that many… Read more »
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