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FFG AND ISRAELI ARMS
Date: May 29, 2025 -
THE OUTRAGE of Tánaiste and Fine Gael leader Simon Harris as well as the loud shrieks from the party’s MEPs at the slaughter inflicted by the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) on Palestinian civilians and children in Gaza were most welcome. They were also out of sync with the political positions the party’s MEPs had been… Read more »
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PROFILE: IVANA BACIK
Date: May 29, 2025 -
THREE YEARS ago, Ivana Bacik became the sixth leader of the Labour Party in 20 years and last November its members hoped that its electoral seat gains – from six TDs to 11 – meant that the party had turned a corner following its disastrous… Read more »
YOUNG BLOOD: EOGHAN GILROY
Date: May 29, 2025 -
EOGHAN GILROY has managed to climb the ladder of student politics almost to the very top and shows no sign of slowing down (even over a year after graduation). The Union of Students in Ireland’s (USI) newly elected vice-president for academic affairs has somehow managed to side-step both collegiate and national controversies but how has… Read more »
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COUNCIL ARCHIVED
Date: May 29, 2025 -
GOLDHAWK NOTED Orlaith McBride popping up in the media last week on foot of the Government’s plan for the 1926 census, the first of the Irish Free State, to be published online at an overall cost of €5m. While the National Archives of Ireland (NAI), where McBride is director, will obviously be centrally involved, there… Read more »
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JACK V JIM: SLOW MOTION CONTEST
Date: May 29, 2025 -
AN INTERESTING observation by Irish Times political editor Pat Leahy recently was to the effect that Jim O’Callaghan’s busy, public prominence is due to two reasons: the first is simply that Taoiseach Micheál Martin organised O’Callaghan’s elevation to the justice department (a logical step given… Read more »
PADDY POWER’S TARGET
Date: May 29, 2025 -
NEW YORK-listed Flutter Entertainment plc – owners of gambling giant Paddy Power – has launched High Court proceedings in Dublin against an Irish property company called Waymill Ltd. The name of the principal here should ring a few bells, given that he found himself in the middle of the high-profile ‘Lying Eyes’ murder plot a… Read more »
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A LOAD OF POLLOCKS
Date: May 29, 2025 -
THE IMPRESSIVE early 18th-century Mountainstown House on 121 acres outside Navan, Co Meath, will be auctioned on June 12, having been in the ownership of the Pollock family for well over 200 years. Previous attempts to sell fell flat but the auction is expected to throw up a buyer. Mountainstown is described as being “in… Read more »
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GARY MULLAN’S BAD VIBE
Date: May 29, 2025 -
GOLDHAWK SPIES that the company behind the lauded Prosperity recruitment firm is being liquidated this week. The good news is that it looks like the multi-talented founder of the firm – actor-turned-executive-turned-DJ Gary Mullan – has landed on his (dancing) feet. This week a creditors’ meeting is to be held in D2, at which number-cruncher… Read more »
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DANIEL O’DONNELL’S DUCATS
Date: May 29, 2025 -
AS THE fans of Donegal crooner Daniel O’Donnell come to terms with the fact that he is to take an extended break from touring, the good news for the man himself is that there is plenty of moolah in the coffers to tide him over for quite some time. A month after Wee Daniel took… Read more »
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MICHAEL GAINE MURDER ‘SUSPECT’
Date: May 29, 2025 -
KERRY-BASED American Michael Kelley, who was arrested on suspicion of murdering Kenmare farmer Michael Gaine and who gave an interview to the Irish Mirror last weekend about his arrest, ought to follow the advice of his own solicitor and watch his mouth. Due to Kelley’s remarks to reporter Paul Healy, the newspaper felt able to… Read more »
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VOL 43 NO 11
Date: May 29, 2025 -
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PETER SHANLEY’S LEGAL SQUAD
Date: May 29, 2025 -
CONGRATULATIONS to senior counsel Peter Shanley, who was quick off the mark to take advantage of a key provision in the Legal Services Regulation Act, which allows direct access to barristers by the public – ie bypassing those pesky solicitors. Shanley has hired a PR company to oversee the launch of new venture Barristers Direct… Read more »
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MERRION SQUARE FIRING SQUAD
Date: May 29, 2025 -
IT SHOULD be standing room only at the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) meeting this week as the Arts Council, National Gallery of Ireland (NGI) and arts and culture mandarins come before John Brady’s firing squad. Among the politicians lining up to take a swipe and some easy-looking targets will be the likes of Catherine Connolly,… Read more »
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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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