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Date: May 1, 2025 -
GIVEN KNEECAP’S recent troubles with British police and media, along with Taoiseach Micheál Martin and Tory party leader Kemi Badenoch, it will be interesting to see how film maker Sam Mendes, currently preparing to make films about each of The Beatles, handles the radical politics… Read more »
RACING UNCERTAINTY
Date: May 1, 2025 -
NOT SURPRISINGLY, there has been plenty of comment on the €300,000 winning bet placed with Ladbrokes by stable lad Dylan Phelan, for which he has yet to be paid a cent. Interestingly though, whatever the final outcome may be (the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board is carrying out its own inquiry) it is hard to see… Read more »
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VIRTUAL WAR BUT REAL MONEY
Date: May 1, 2025 -
When VRAI Simulation recently launched its new office in Orlando, Florida, it hyped up the significance of the move with copious references to its clients and partners in the western military world. VRAI has developed a niche for itself in Ireland’s technology sector, specialising in producing virtual reality content that is used in training simulators… Read more »
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THE HOT AIR BRIGADE
Date: May 1, 2025 -
What was most extraordinary about him was how the words seemed to enter him. Viscerally. Quietly. It struck me that I had never seen words being accepted in the same way. Colum McCann on Pope Francis, Irish Independent You should be a cardinal, if not the Pope…We’re still rooting for you. Miriam O’Callaghan to Sr… Read more »
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CLIMATE NEUTRALITY ‘WISHFUL THINKING’
Date: May 1, 2025 -
When it comes to Ireland’s energy transition, “wishful thinking needs to be replaced by the realities of engineering, finance and project delivery”. So said the Irish Academy of Engineering (IAE) in a recent report on Ireland’s efforts to be climate neutral by 2050. In short, it can’t be done, says the IAE so, instead, they… Read more »
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‘IT’ HOT AIR
Date: May 1, 2025 -
While there is no future in fossil gas, the outlook is equally bleak for biomethane, a highly problematic gas that increasingly looks like a solution in search of a subsidy. One US study found that to create $68 of biogas from cow’s manure cost nearly $300. Goldhawk was surprised to see a recent Irish Times… Read more »
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NO POPERY IN LISBURN
Date: May 1, 2025 -
Easter Monday is traditionally the date of the first big loyalist parade in the north. This year it was the Apprentice Boys of Derry (ABOD), which may not be familiar to people in the south. First, none of them are boys. The ABOD was formed to commemorate the apprentices who closed the gates of Derry… Read more »
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BLUESHIRTS CORK CIVIL WAR
Date: May 1, 2025 -
THERE IS a lot more than has been reported to that cross-party letter about the underfunding of the tenant-in-situ scheme, which was sent to the prematurely beleaguered housing minister, James Browne, last week and signed by various Cork City TDs and councillors. The row is essentially about the underfunding of the scheme that allows councils… Read more »
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McDOWELL SAYS NO TO PRESIDENCY
Date: May 1, 2025 -
MICHAEL McDOWELL was pretty defiant when it was put to him in March that, with Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael each intent on going it alone in the presidential election, there would be no dual-party backing for him in the contest. At the same time, FG decided it would not be adopting McDowell as its… Read more »
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DONOHOE FOR EUROGROUP JOB?
Date: May 1, 2025 -
GROUP THINK in the media Greek chorus of the Irish financial establishment is that finance minister Paschal Donohoe only has to turn up in July to retain the splendid title of Eurogroup president. There are murmurings about the arcane, secretive voting procedures involved and rumours that impertinent continentals such as Spain’s finance minister, Carlos Cuerpo,… Read more »
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VARADKAR V MARTIN
Date: May 1, 2025 -
FOR TAOISEACH and Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin to be battling with former taoiseach and Fine Gael leader Leo Varadkar over a united Ireland – with Martin preaching FG’s traditional line on the north and Vlad sounding like Squire Hockey – is intriguing. But the latest round between the two saw Vlad launch a polemic… Read more »
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DISAPPEARANCE OF THE DISAPPEARED STORY
Date: May 1, 2025 -
WHATEVER HAPPENED to the crusade that began in January, when the Sunday Times launched its Forgotten Graves campaign to grant a proper burial to those killed and dumped in shallow graves in the conflict a century ago? John Mooney declared that the ST, MI5’s favourite newspaper, was “calling for the Irish government to recover these… Read more »
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THE LATE LATE SHOW
Date: May 1, 2025 -
AN APPARENTLY non-descript and rather short story, informing Irish Times readers that Denis O’Brien had received nearly €6m for his Moriarty Tribunal legal costs, appeared on the bottom of page three of the newspaper of record last Friday. It stated: “Two separate sources have confirmed that the State Claims Agency paid €5.8m to Mr O’Brien… Read more »
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NO TO ‘IRISH TIMES’!
Date: May 1, 2025 -
A DISAPPOINTED Irish Times was recently compelled to report that voters favoured retention of neutrality by over 2:1 but the good news for the paper’s Redmondites came with the same poll showing voters favoured rejection of the triple lock by 47% to 37%. Given the framing of the IT’s questions in the poll, undertaken by… Read more »
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DENIS DESMOND’S MUSIC NOTES
Date: May 1, 2025 -
THERE HAS been yet more fine-tuning of the corporate set up at LN-Gaiety Holdings, the utterly dominant concert and music venue joint venture between Denis and Caroline Desmond’s Gaiety Investments and US giants Live Nation. The latest accounts filed for UK-registered LN-Gaiety Holdings reveal a profit in 2023 of £32.7m, which was down from £37.4m… Read more »
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REBECCA’S FAIRYTALE
Date: May 1, 2025 -
HAITI COULEURS, trained by Rebecca Curtis, showed his rivals a clean pair of heels when running away with Ireland’s richest national hunt race, the €½m Boylesports Irish Grand National, under UK champion jump jockey Sean Bowen. The result was especially sweet for the rider after Cheltenham disappointment and also for the winner’s trainer. Having been… Read more »
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WILLIE’S WIN
Date: May 1, 2025 -
EVEN THOUGH Dan Skelton had led Willie Mullins going into the final day of the UK National Hunt Championship at Sandown, there was a sense of inevitability about the final outcome, even when things did not start smoothly for the Closutton team. The horsebox carrying half of Mullins’s Sandown runners suffered an early morning malfunction… Read more »
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PATRICK DORAN’S SUPPORT
Date: May 1, 2025 -
IT IS slow ahead on Shrewsbury Road in D4, where aircraft leasing moneybags Aengus Kelly and his wife, Deirdre O’Malley, are looking to build a “super-home” by combining Nos 5 and 7. The next-door neighbours, however, are keeping very quiet despite the concerns expressed by planners. The council raised a number of issues when seeking… Read more »
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D6 DENIZENS
Date: May 1, 2025 -
IT WAS reported by the Sindo that “the well-heeled denizens of Palmerston Road in Dublin 6” would be raising a toast on foot of news that one of the piles on the salubrious thoroughfare had been put up for sale with a guide price of €2.86m and was snapped up for an impressive €3.3m. In… Read more »
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OFFLOADING PEMBROKESTOWN HOUSE
Date: May 1, 2025 -
WITH A price tag of just on €3m, following a “remarkable renovation”, including a “showstopping swimming pool”, the impressive early 19th-century Pembrokestown House outside Butlerstown, Co Waterford, has arrived on the market. The 4,700 sq ft Regency villa turns out to be owned by legal eagle Michelle Beatty and her ophthalmologist hubby, Stephen, who were… Read more »
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DALTON PHILIPS’S AUDACIOUS TAKEOVER BID
Date: May 1, 2025 -
GREENCORE’S AGREED £1.2bn takeover of the Icelandic-founded British Bakkavor convenience food company has a certain air of déjà vu. The company previously spent almost $1bn expanding into the US, only to sell out two years later in 2018 for the same price. Following the US retreat, current CEO Dalton Philips is doubling down on the… Read more »
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KINGSPAN’S MYSTERIOUS SETBACKS
Date: May 1, 2025 -
THE FINAL report on the Grenfell Tower disaster was published by Martin Moore-Bick last September. While Kingspan was only a bit player, it has continued to suffer reputational damage when the tragedy features in the media. Moreover, there will be quarterly reports on the implementation of the inquiry’s 46 recommendations. But it is far from clear… Read more »
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DES MCGAHAN’S DES RES
Date: May 1, 2025 -
A YEAR on from Goldhawk’s last look at the impressive Ballinacurra House outside Kinsale – where one Michael Jackson previously enjoyed a sojourn – the property is finally set to be sold, with an online auction to take place later this month. Last year, the Georgian pile on 23 acres (and including a coach house,… Read more »
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ALKEN BROTHERS‘ WHINE LIST
Date: May 1, 2025 -
THE HAPLESS wine-importing Alken brothers, Anthony and Greg, found one of their companies on the wrong end of a winding-up petition from the dreaded Revenue this week but it was struck out. This, however, doesn’t look like an escape for the siblings from their troubles, as the withdrawal of the petition coincides with separate ongoing… Read more »
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FASHION VICTIMS
Date: May 1, 2025 -
LOUTH BROTHERS John and Michael McKeown have come to the end of the road with their trendy men’s fashion business after their big plans ended in the bargain bin. Two years ago, John and Michael were rather fashionable and their casual menswear clothing operation, Carpe Omnia (Latin for ‘seize everything’), was attracting positive attention in… Read more »
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CIARA DONLON’S EXIT
Date: May 1, 2025 -
THEYA LINGERIE, which produced post-surgery underwear from bamboo no less, has now been dissolved but the name lives on in the form of Theya Healthcare Ltd. The original company founder, Ciara Donlon, also popped up as a director in the new venture, although it turns out that she has stepped down as a director here…. Read more »
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CENTRAL BANK GENOCIDE CHARGE?
Date: April 17, 2025 -
THAT THE Central Bank of Ireland (CBI), of all European banks, might face criminal charges over its enabling of the multi-billion sale of Israeli bonds used to support the genocidal war on Gaza says a lot about the Irish Government’s ‘talk-not-walk’ attitude to the beleaguered Palestinians. The Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) has presented a… Read more »
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PROFILE: JAMES BROWNE
Date: April 17, 2025 -
The appointment of James Browne as housing minister surprised many people, including the new minister himself. His performance since then in this most daunting of ministerial positions has been anything but stellar. His defenders say he is an independent-minded politician but other Fianna Fáil members believe he is Taoiseach Micheál Martin’s creature and is being… Read more »
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YOUNG BLOOD: MICHAEL ROCHE
Date: April 17, 2025 -
UCD STUDENTS’ UNION (UCDSU) has a new president, Wexford native Michael Roche. He succeeds Miranda Bauer, whose family political background included the likes of Tristán Bauer, former Argentine culture minister (until President Javier Milei axed the department). Despite her ministerial connections, Bauer’s presidency failed to excite and this year UCDSU has not lived up to… Read more »
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BERTIE’S ÁRAS BID
Date: April 17, 2025 -
BERTIE AHERN is fretting at vacillating Taoiseach and Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin’s failure to make up his mind about whether the party will support the former taoiseach’s burning ambition to run for the presidency. But Bertie is about to play a wild card that could swing it one way or the other. On the… Read more »
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EOIN McGEE’S ‘MATERIAL UNCERTAINTY’
Date: April 17, 2025 -
CELEBRITY FINANCE expert Eoin McGee has been signed up by Mediahuis as a personal finance columnist and will apparently be writing for the so-called ‘Indo Money hub’, which, in case you didn’t know, “is a new dedicated hub for financial advice”. Maybe Eoin could do with taking some of his own advice. Mediahuis Ireland editor-in-chief… Read more »
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BLINDNESS CHARITY BLINDSIDED
Date: April 17, 2025 -
IT IS strange to see so little media coverage of the appointment by Charities Regulator Madeleine Delaney of inspectors to two blindness charities, the biggest of which by far is the Vision Ireland (VI) group, formerly the National Council for the Blind of Ireland. This operation boasted income of €30m in 2023 but that could… Read more »
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ICY DEFROSTED
Date: April 17, 2025 -
A STEWARDS inquiry may be in order for outspoken online racing pundit Gearoid Norris (aka Icy), who has just found himself ‘unplugged’ from his X and Facebook soapboxes. Coincidentally, the suspension of his @icyestretro account followed a day after his airing of a “trilogy of articles” examining the Pro Sports Advice (PSA) tipping service. While… Read more »
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BROPHY’S TIMES
Date: April 17, 2025 -
THE IRISH TIMES has found it difficult to keep up with the chequered but successful CV of Karl Brophy, CEO of Red Flag Global, which was sold to New York-based Ankura Consulting Group for €45m circa in February. That nice little earner was treated with the respect it deserved by IT business editor Ciarán Hancock,… Read more »
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MICHAEL LOWRY’S POLITICAL CHUMS
Date: April 17, 2025 -
MICHAEL ‘NO MATES’ LOWRY is more isolated (outside the company of Micheál Martin and Simon Harris, that is) than many have realised and political schizophrenic TD Barry Heneghan is not the only soulmate that recently came within Lowry’s orbit before fleeing in great haste. Barry would need his mentor, former minister Finian McGrath, to walk… Read more »
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KARL WHELAN’S GOOGLE GRUB
Date: April 17, 2025 -
IT IS full steam ahead at the brash Boland’s Mill development in Dublin’s south docklands, acquired by Google for a reported €300m. Interestingly, it turns out the tech giant is also providing some funding for at least one of the extracurricular offerings to be available onsite in the coming weeks. It was reported last month… Read more »
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