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EMMA MAYE’S MANSION
Date: April 17, 2025 -
GOLDHAWK NOTES that Weavers Hall, a “New England style” mansion off Westminster Road in Foxrock, has come on the market with an asking price of over €7m. Although described by Sherry Fitzgerald as “a most impressive modern, detached home of distinction”, it is not so long since plans were drawn up to knock the whole… Read more »
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VOL. 43 NO. 08
Date: April 17, 2025 -
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NEW FACES ON CHI BOARD
Date: April 17, 2025 -
THE TIMING wasn’t great for the two new directors who have just been appointed to the board of Children’s Health Ireland (CHI). They arrived exactly as the brown stuff was hitting the fan over the scoliosis scandal and opposition TDs were scenting blood. The CHI board had already suffered a couple of recent health scares… Read more »
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LUCINDA CREIGHTON’S PROFITS
Date: April 17, 2025 -
IT WAS reported in March that a couple of Irish Blueshirt adversaries have been generating significant revenue in their consultancy (ie lobbying) businesses in Brussels. Filings with the EU transparency register show that Phil Hogan’s Triton Advisory had declared income of over €1m from clients such as Ardagh and Vodafone. Lucinda Creighton’s Vulcan Consulting, which… Read more »
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THE MOST RELIABLE FRED HOLROYD
Date: April 17, 2025 -
It is becoming clear that the Operation Denton inquiry into the crimes of the UVF’s Glenanne gang will establish a modicum of collusion with the UK state, albeit at the level of a few local UDR foot soldiers. No links will be found that connect MI5’s Denis Payne, the director and co-ordinator of intelligence at… Read more »
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BRITISH/IRISH FAR RIGHT
Date: April 17, 2025 -
THE DEEPENING relationship between loyalists, British fascists and right-wing activists from the south was very much in evidence at a recent anti-immigration protest at Belfast City Hall. A few dozen anti-immigration activists travelled north for the protest. On the day, the Off-Grid Ireland livestream on X provided by Offaly man Gavin Lowbridge was shocking not… Read more »
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DISSIDENTS PEACE PROCESS
Date: April 17, 2025 -
THE MOOD at dissident republican Easter commemorations in 2024 was subdued. This was because there was no sustained armed campaign under way but the frustration of dissident republicans was compounded by the seemingly irresistible electoral rise of Sinn Féin. In the year since, the main armed dissident groups have not mounted any bomb or gun… Read more »
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THE HOT AIR BRIGADE
Date: April 17, 2025 -
There’s a psychosexual dimension to Trump’s tariffs. You don’t have to be Freud to see it. Fintan O’Toole (who else?), Irish Times That was the greatest slap in the face to any nation we ever saw. Labour TD George Lawlor calmly reflecting on Conor McGregor’s invite to the White House, Today With Claire Byrne I… Read more »
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ESRI BLAMESFARM LOBBY
Date: April 17, 2025 -
The latest research from the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) had some fascinating insights into how climate change is perceived by both urban and rural communities, but the real fireworks involved the report’s scathing criticism of another state agency. The ESRI report noted that the so-called urban-rural divide around climate issues is being inflamed… Read more »
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TOMMY TIERNAN’S HOT AIR
Date: April 17, 2025 -
Almost 10 years ago, comedian Tommy Tiernan roared from the Abbey Theatre stage: “It’s too fucking late.” The event was the Climate Gathering and Tiernan was warning that failure to act on the climate emergency was going to get us all killed. That was then. The 2025 version of Tiernan is a Nimby objector to… Read more »
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SF/DUP SHAM FIGHT
Date: April 17, 2025 -
Residents from Belfast’s staunchly loyalist Sandy Row gathered on Monday evening at the nearby new £340m Grand Central station to protest at plans to add Irish-language signage to the station. Slogans on social media encouraging people to attend said there would be “no sham fight over Irish in Grand Central”. A sham fight is exactly… Read more »
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GENDER QUOTA BACKLASH
Date: April 17, 2025 -
THE MOTHER of all political battles could be on the cards if disgruntled noises from inside the parliamentary parties of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael result in demands to scrap or at least reform the gender quota legislation. And while Browne’s abiding concern is, of course, housing (see profile, pp14/15), he is also responsible for… Read more »
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LEFT UNITY THREAT
Date: April 17, 2025 -
THE CENTRE-RIGHT parties and their media supporters ought to make up their minds about whether they support left unity or not. Recent reaction to the opposition uniting against the Lowry deal (the deal that isn’t a deal at all, at all) was even more vehement than the initial campaign from the same quarters in support… Read more »
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MICHEÁL MARTIN’S POLITICAL PEDIGREE
Date: April 17, 2025 -
UNIONIST COMMENTATOR Sam McBride positively gurgled with pleasure in the Irish Independent and Belfast Telegraph at Micheál Martin’s dismissal last week of a border poll and a united Ireland – not even in 50 years’ time and certainly not in the life time of this Government. McBride compared Martin most favourably to former Fine Gael… Read more »
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MORE ‘SINDO’ FALL-OUT
Date: April 17, 2025 -
THE ASCENT of new Sunday Independent editor Liz Kearney from highly proficient sub-editor to the top job at the country’s biggest-selling newspaper completes the Belgian counter-revolution at the Mediahuis Irish colony. But the comparison between departing editor Alan English – his weekly letter to readers exemplified his Washington Post, Ben Bradlee complex as a stand-out… Read more »
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DEIRDRE VELDON’S BLURRED VISION
Date: April 17, 2025 -
Last weekend’s Sunday Times saw Deirdre Veldon – the €270,000-a-year MD of the Irish Times group – deny that Irish news publishers are as addicted as ever to newspaper ink because the moolah from flogging digital subs still isn’t paying the bills. Veldon is in her second year of running the IT business, which (at… Read more »
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TOP GARDA ‘SECURITY’ THREAT
Date: April 17, 2025 -
THE IRISH Times reported last weekend on the “unprecedented… crisis” due to the ongoing pension tax anomaly that will see any senior Garda officer taking the Garda commissioner’s job facing a huge tax bill on retirement. This means that An Garda Síochána may have to recruit a police officer from outside the state to succeed… Read more »
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GRÁINNE’S SWEET LIFE
Date: April 17, 2025 -
LAST WEEK, in the run-up to the busy Easter period for chocolate-maker Gráinne Mullins of the high-profile Grá Chocolates operation in Galway, she posted that her fledgling firm would be churning out over 1,000 eggs. Given the premium prices for the products, Gráinne should do rather nicely this month but the former pastry chef has… Read more »
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LANDMARK’S LOLLY
Date: April 17, 2025 -
WHILE ARTS and culture minister Patrick O’Donovan has been playing Scrooge with the TV producers over the streaming levy, he has also been chucking the green stuff around at Culture Ireland (CI), the department’s vehicle for promoting Irish arts abroad. This is one of the ways the minister has to get credit for funding arts… Read more »
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O’DONOVAN’S ORDERS
Date: April 17, 2025 -
THE LEGACY of the RTÉ Tubs scandal is now clearer, with arts and media minister Patrick O’Donovan introducing some policy swerves that will rankle in Montrose. Rather than adding to the pot of money available to RTÉ and assorted film and TV players, O’Donovan nixing of the proposed content levy on Netflix et al has… Read more »
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COOLMORE SHUFFLE
Date: April 17, 2025 -
THE SQUIRE of Coolmore, John Magnier, and his team recently undertook a little international jockey juggling, with Ryan Moore jetting Down Under to ride in the valuable Star Championships at Royal Randwick, while Coolmore’s usual Australia rider, James McDonald, flew north to the Dubai World Cup meeting. While it was understandable that McDonald was keen… Read more »
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PATRICK MULLINS’S MOUNTS
Date: April 17, 2025 -
AMATEUR RIDER Patrick Mullins left his dismal Cheltenham form behind when winning on three of his five mounts at the Aintree festival, all of which were trained by his father, Willie, most notably Stewart Andrew’s Grand National winner, Nick Rockett. Given that David and Emmet Mullins (Patrick’s cousins) have also won the famous race, Patrick… Read more »
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TWOMEY’S CHALLENGE
Date: April 17, 2025 -
IT WILL be recalled (see The Phoenix 12/7/24) that handler Paddy Twomey found himself on the end of some surprising criticism last season from former-trainer-turned-pundit Sarah Lynam, who suggested that he had been having “a bit of a disappointing time of it lately”. But Twomey went about dispelling such notions recently and is also now… Read more »
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WHAT IS KENMARE RESOURCES WORTH?
Date: April 17, 2025 -
THE REACTION of Kenmare Resources CEO Tom Hickey to Mick Carvill’s €565m takeover bid for the company last month is reminiscent of Tony Smurfit’s dismissal of Mark Sutton’s €9bn approach for Smurfit Kappa by International Paper in 2018. The truth is that the generous offer is just what the doctor ordered as far as the hapless… Read more »
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CORRE ENERGY’S CASH PROBLEM
Date: April 17, 2025 -
CORRE ENERGY investors have been on the proverbial rollercoaster ride, from the company’s September 2021 float at €1 a share to its delisting from the Euronext Dublin stock exchange after a “strategic review”. Today the shares are almost worthless and the question is why did the company float in the first place. The Corre Energy… Read more »
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BUTLERS CHOCOLATES PR TREAT
Date: April 17, 2025 -
CONGRATULATIONS TO Butlers Chocolates, which got a valuable plug in the Indo last week in the run-up to Easter. Goldhawk is happy to fill in a couple of the more interesting details that were missing from the article. The Indo puff-piece – headlined “Inside the Butlers factory: the making of an Easter egg and how… Read more »
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CHARITY’S €1M BLIND SPOT
Date: April 17, 2025 -
ELSEWHERE IN this issue (see p5), Goldhawk looks at the decision of the Charities Regulator to send inspectors into two charities operating in the visually impaired area. One of these is Fighting Blindness (FB), where the most recently filed accounts reveal a near €1m cost incurred by the charity in relation to its own private… Read more »
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GOOD ‘ADVISE’
Date: April 17, 2025 -
THE FOUNDERS of high-tech analytics company Advise, Kevin McCarthy and John Phelan, had plenty to celebrate just before last Christmas when they attracted an impressive €1.66m in investment from assorted backers and their smiling faces have been popping up in various media outlets this month as the PR machine kicked into gear. Clearly the two… Read more »
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CHRISTOPER MOOREHOUSE’S €2M TAX BILL
Date: April 17, 2025 -
THE DREADED Revenue have just registered a judgment for a whopping €2m against one Christopher Moorehouse with an address in Salville Road, Drumgoold, Enniscorthy, Co Wexford. This turns out to relate to a case taken by CAB a year-and-a-half ago where the High Court heard that Moorehouse owed unpaid taxes covering an 11-year period from… Read more »
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NOT SO SUPERMARKET
Date: April 17, 2025 -
SOME ACTIVITY was spotted at Escadia Ltd and Belraine Ltd – the companies associated with a large SuperValu supermarket in Ardee, Co Louth – controlled by Margaret Lanney and her son, David, and which faced a High Court petition from the owners of SuperValu a couple of years back (see The Phoenix 16/12/22). That petition… Read more »
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TOO MANY TDs FOR MARTIN’S LIKING
Date: April 3, 2025 -
THERE IS a particular irony in the resentment felt by many Fianna Fáil backbench TDs at the new Dáil speaking-time arithmetic, which has resulted in Michael Lowry’s backbenchers getting a great deal more speaking time than them and Fine Gael backbenchers. But the incongruity here is not simply down to the preferential share out of… Read more »
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PROFILE: CONOR MCGREGOR
Date: April 3, 2025 -
THE GENERAL, European and local elections in 2024 show that the audience for McGregor’s brand of right-wing populism is limited. And even within this emerging, but still small, right-wing milieu, he does not enjoy unanimous support. McGregor will not secure a nomination for the presidency but will the endorsement of US President Donald Trump and his… Read more »
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YOUNG BLOOD: JACK KEATING
Date: April 3, 2025 -
NEOPHYTE RADIO presenter and social media influencer Jack Keating wanted to do a communications course after leaving school but sadly didn’t get the points. Happily, the 25-year-old recently managed to bag himself a Saturday afternoon radio show on yoof station Spin 1038. Entry criteria for plum jobs is possibly different when you’re a so-called ‘nepo… Read more »
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BOD’S BASELAYERS
Date: April 3, 2025 -
THERE WERE plenty of column inches devoted to the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CPPC) pinging Irish international rugby legend Brian O’Driscoll last month for straying offside with his online marketing posts. It turns out BOD actually owns a stake in the clothing company that he was found to have been promoting outside the rules…. Read more »
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JOHN MAGNIER’S NEXT RACE?
Date: April 3, 2025 -
STRANGE BEHAVIOUR at last week’s annual general meeting of the beleaguered Irish Racehorse Trainers Association (IRTA), where there were more questions than answers. The shadow of John Magnier also loomed large. The IRTA has encountered some very heavy going in recent times, most notably that devastating Court of Appeal setback in a defamation case taken… Read more »
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CAROLINE O’MAHONY’S MOOLAH
Date: April 3, 2025 -
ALTHOUGH FAB fitness influencer Caroline O’Mahony was no doubt unhappy at being outed by the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) for failing to clearly identify which of her videos and posts had been paid for, it is likely that the publicity will further boost her already impressive numbers – online and in the bank…. Read more »
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