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KENAH HILL’S LONG STORY
Date: November 28, 2024 -
KENAH HILL, one of the most expensive properties in Dublin, is on the market with a hefty €10.75m price tag and curious readers of the Irish Times were informed that the house had been purchased and refurbished by one Francis Edward Du Bedat, of a well-known Huguenot family, no less than 135 years ago. Of… Read more »
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HEAVY GOING AT CONYNGHAM
Date: November 28, 2024 -
IT LOOKS like the Conyngham Lodge partnership between Curragh trainers Tracey Collins and Michael Halford has encountered some heavy going. In February last year, the pair were issued with what was only the second official training partnership licence in Ireland. This followed Halford’s departure from his Copper Beech Stables training establishment and the collapse of… Read more »
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WHIP SMARTING
Date: November 28, 2024 -
THE REINSTATEMENT of the Cathy O’Leary-trained winner of the Club Godolphin Cesarewitch at Newmarket, Alphonse Le Grande, was described by runner-up trainer Simon Crisford as “another deeply embarrassing episode for British racing”. Alphonse LeGrande, owned by Adrian McAndrew and his fellow six Bet Small Win Big Syndicate members, was demoted by the British Horseracing Authority… Read more »
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HAYES PAYDAY
Date: November 28, 2024 -
FLAT JOCKEY Chris Hayes and his wife, Rachel, enjoyed a bumper payday at Goffs when their homebred Mehmas filly sold for €150,000. Hayes had bought her dam, Shahaada – a daughter of Awtaad, on whom Hayes won the Tattersalls Irish 2,000 Guineas – privately from Sheikha Hissa al Maktoum, following the death of her father,… Read more »
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DCC’S NOT-SO-GREEN ENERGY U-TURN
Date: November 28, 2024 -
FOR OVER two decades Moneybags has been recommending that DCC rationalise the group and instead focus on the more important energy division. Now this strategy is in play but CEO Donal Murphy has an awful lot of work to do to make the division attractive to the market. Happily, he has managed to set the bar… Read more »
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EAMONN ROTHWELL’S RENT
Date: November 28, 2024 -
ONE OF the longest-serving bosses on the Irish stock market listed companies is Eamonn Rothwell, who has made a fortune out of his time at Irish Continental Group (ICG), owner of Irish Ferries. He has just filed accounts for his private investment vehicle, which show just how well he has been doing. It turns out,… Read more »
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JOHN FARRELL’S RECIPE
Date: November 28, 2024 -
FANS OF the type of restaurants associated with hip restaurateur John Farrell will be delighted that a new operation – Suertudo – has opened its doors in place of the recently shuttered Dillinger’s in Ranelagh, D6. There does not appear to be a new company involved with this Mexican eatery, so the trading entity may… Read more »
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JOHN COLLISON’S NEIGHBOURS
Date: November 28, 2024 -
STRIPE BILLIONAIRE John Collison’s spending on his Laois estate continued apace last year, as losses of €3.6m were racked up on his Abbeyleix House and Farm Ltd, bringing the accumulated deficit €6.3m. The billionaire tech bro paid about €20m to acquire the sprawling Abbeyleix Estate from outgoing Irish Georgian Society president David Davies and set… Read more »
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DECLAN GANLEY’S ENEMIES
Date: November 28, 2024 -
GOOD TO see Declan Ganley echoing the honourable legacy of the Skibbereen Eagle, this time keeping an eye on the chairman of the communist party of China. Last week, Decco posted a Financial Times article that outlined how a Chinese state-backed company, StateSail, plans to launch a satellite service to compete with Elon Musk’s Starlink… Read more »
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TAOISEACH HARRIS IS A TROTSKYIST
Date: November 14, 2024 -
WHEN GLEN Moore of the Irish Freedom Party (IFP) won a seat on the 15th and last count in Palmerstown-Fonthill in the June local elections, he became the first member of the party to be elected to hold political office. This allowed party leader Hermann Kelly to spin what were underwhelming results as being a… Read more »
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STEWARDS INQUIRY FOR IHRB
Date: November 14, 2024 -
THE OVERDUE Mazars Report into those “matters of grave financial concern” first raised by Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB) boss Darragh O’Loughlin finally landed, 17 months after the scandal surfaced. The report also looks at the bonanza retirement pay-day for former chief executive Denis Egan, the circumstances of which cast a major question mark over… Read more »
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TONY MARTIN’S FORM
Date: November 14, 2024 -
A TRAINER who is rather familiar with the workings of the IHRB’s disciplinary procedures is Tony Martin. He witnessed a little more controversy last month but, this time, he was not involved in the fall-out. The Co Meath handler had been landed with a €10,000 fine and the suspension of his training licence for a… Read more »
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PETER KELLY V SIOBHAN KEEGAN
Date: November 14, 2024 -
ON THE same day that the Mazars report into governance at the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB) was released (see below), the Bowler Hats also announced the result of Luke W. Comer’s appeal against his stiff 12-month suspension imposed after horse carcasses were discovered at the Comer family’s 600-acre Ginnets Estate in Co Meath. The… Read more »
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DECLAN GANLEY’S TRUMP TWEETS
Date: November 14, 2024 -
ONE PERSON who was delighted with Donald Trump’s re-election as US president was Goldhawk’s old pal, Declan Ganley, the founder of Rivada Networks, who duly fired off a fusillade of excited tweets in the aftermath of the American election result. In one particularly effusive post, Ganley offered himself as Trump’s Boswell, writing that The Donald… Read more »
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FUNDING ‘THE APPRENTICE’
Date: November 14, 2024 -
DONALD TRUMP’S long-time courtship of the movie business is well known (his cameo appearances include a walk-on in Home Alone 2). The incoming US president is not, however, best pleased by his depiction in the recently released movie, The Apprentice, a US/Canada/Denmark co-production that also includes a significant input by the Irish taxpayer. On his… Read more »
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THE ‘REAL’ SPIES IN IRELAND
Date: November 14, 2024 -
IT’S WHAT is behind that recent story in the Irish edition of the Sunday Times alleging that a current Oireachtas member is a Russian agent – a man they labelled ‘Cobalt’ – that is the real story. Goldhawk’s sources insist that the real security concern here is that this story is a ‘black op’ inspired… Read more »
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SILENCE IN THE RANKS
Date: November 14, 2024 -
US Vice president-elect JD Vance has argued that America could drop support for Nato if Europe tries to regulate Elon Musk’s platforms. Social media, and in particular X, are increasingly having real-world impacts on both politics and militarisation. Goldhawk has been alarmed for some time that a number of members of the Defence Forces, on… Read more »
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THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN
Date: November 14, 2024 -
FIANNA FÁIL junior minister James Brown finally guided the Gambling Regulation Bill 2024 around the track to the finishing line, despite intense opposition by assorted groups ranging from commercial giants such as Flutter Entertainment (owner of Paddy Power) to Horse Racing Ireland, the statutory funding agency for horseracing, and lobby groups like the Irish Bookmakers… Read more »
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CANCELLED CATHOLIC
Date: November 14, 2024 -
APPOINTED CEO of Christian Blind Mission (CBM) Ireland – a disability rights organisation working predominantly in Africa and Asia – Dualta Roughneen claimed that, outside of work, he had limited spare time. Happily, however, since his appointment in June 2023 Roughneen has been able to find time to write regularly for the Irish Catholic, Catholic… Read more »
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‘VEXATIOUS’ LITIGANTS
Date: November 14, 2024 -
FOLLOWING THE Irish Times front-page story headlined “Vexatious claimants ‘making a mockery’ of courts”, the newspaper declined to give Cormac Butler, a consultant on banking regulation, a short rejoinder “to balance” its article. The recent article arose from Justice Michael Twomey’s damning comments on distressed borrowers. It may be that the IT was provoked into… Read more »
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ARTS COUNCIL ARRIVALS
Date: November 14, 2024 -
ON OCTOBER 29, arts minister Catherine Martin announced the appointment of two new members to the board of the Arts Council (AC), although one has yet to appear. Last December, the minister had sought expressions of interest for vacancies on the Merrion Square Mafia, many of which had existed for some time, including the position… Read more »
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HUTCH: ‘PUT HIM IN TO GET HIM OUT’
Date: November 14, 2024 -
SOMEONE IN Hutch’s retinue appears to be aware of the famous 1917 by-election slogan in South Longford, when Sinn Féin candidate Joseph McGuinness achieved victory under the slogan, “Put him in to get him out” – McGuinness had been jailed for his part in the 1916 Rising. Now, the more than a century old election… Read more »
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TONY SMURFIT’S FORM
Date: November 14, 2024 -
ELSEWHERE IN this issue (see p124) Goldhawk profiles Tony Smurfit, the chief executive of Smurfit Kappa Group, who has just pulled off an audacious (if maybe unwise) merger with US outfit WestRock to create the biggest packaging group on the planet. This is quite a result for Tony, although the jury will remain out for… Read more »
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NICK CAVE(MAN) PLAYS ISRAEL
Date: November 14, 2024 -
IT WAS interesting but not surprising to hear adverts for Nick Cave’s concerts at Dublin’s 3Arena still being broadcast right up to the day before his two concerts on Tuesday and Wednesday this week, indicating that ticket sales were not going at all well. This is most unusual for artists of this fame and the… Read more »
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DENIS DESMOND’S GUITAR BREAK
Date: November 14, 2024 -
GOLDHAWK was struck by the outpouring of gratitude for Denis Desmond and his Live Nation business partners for the proposed “donation” of Rory Gallagher’s 1963 Fender Stratocaster guitar to the National Museum of Ireland (NMI). It appears that there was little enough red tape for DD to overcome when getting the nod that a chunky… Read more »
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ANNUAL 2024: GOLDHAWK’S AWARDS FOR THE PASSING PARADE 2024
Date: November 14, 2024 -
CLARE DALY THE AWARD for Persecuted Dissident of the Year (in the minority, non-Russian category) goes to former MEP Clare Daly, who lost her Dublin seat in the European Parliament largely due to a witch hunt by the state/establishment-controlled media. This campaign was supplemented by a vote-splitting intervention from ‘comrades’ in People Before Profit –… Read more »
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ANNUAL 2024 – PROFILE: SIMON HARRIS
Date: November 14, 2024 -
Heather Humphreys’ betrayal of Simon Harris on the cusp of his first electoral challenge as Taoiseach must have felt more like abandonment to the man that she nominated for Taoiseach. She told the story of her first encounter with Harris as a TD to a chortling Dáil: “Ah, sure, he must be on a school… Read more »
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CORK WAGE SLAVES REBEL
Date: November 14, 2024 -
LAST CHRISTMAS the south Dublin proletariat at the Irish Times made angry noises about the austerity imposed on them due to losses at The Irish Times DAC. These bolshie attitudes were not assuaged when it emerged that such losses – and the consequent cuts in remuneration – were partly due to the €1.15m golden handshake… Read more »
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ANNUAL 2024: PRINT LEGACY HAUNTS IRISH PUBLISHERS
Date: November 14, 2024 -
ESTABLISHED BEFORE the internet age, the lofty Irish Times Trust has long declaimed the newspaper as some sort of trailblazer for taking a baby step into online publishing in 1994. The trust’s current board continues to hint at a rosy future, if only publishers could get rid of pesky printing plants and distribution trucks criss-crossing… Read more »
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ANNUAL 2024 – RTÉ: NORMAL SERVICE IS RESUMED
Date: November 14, 2024 -
They finally went and did it, as everyone on the inside always knew they would. The Government agreed to a massive bailout for RTÉ – €275m over three years, with no guarantee that it won’t be back for more. Rewarding a decade of bad management, excess and downright greed in Donnybrook, changes are promised –… Read more »
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ANNUAL 2024: PAPAL RULE OK!
Date: November 14, 2024 -
THE MARATHON Synod on Synodality convened in Rome recently by Pope Francis to update world Catholicism ended in the anticipated anti-climax. In his closing homily on Sunday October 27, the first Jesuit Pontiff extolled the participants on their prime duty of evangelising the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Amid glorious autumnal sunshine in St Peter’s Basilica,… Read more »
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ANNUAL 2024: KNOWLEDGE KNOWS NO PRICE
Date: November 14, 2024 -
LOSING ONE university president may be regarded as a misfortune but losing two… as Oscar Wilde nearly said. But even he would have been bemused by how well Ireland’s lost academic leaders are doing career wise since they fell on their presidential swords a few months ago – only to rise again. Professor Kerstin Mey’s… Read more »
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ANNUAL 2024: PEACE BREAKS OUT IN FOUR COURTS
Date: November 14, 2024 -
As the world around us descends not-so-slowly into a veritable state of chassis, it must have been a source of great comfort to the lords and ladies of the legal obsession to go to work each day and bask in the warm glow of friendship and collegiality. As the Middle East and the US tear… Read more »
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ANNUAL 2024: MICHEÁL MARTIN’S UNIVERSE
Date: November 14, 2024 -
“What planet are you living on?” is Tánaiste Micheál Martin’s response to questions on the state facilitating US arms deliveries through Shannon Airport in Nato’s proxy war against Russia in Ukraine. If the state was not officially militarily neutral and had we more than one planet on which to survive, not answering the question might… Read more »
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ANNUAL 2024: GENOCIDE, ROBOTS AND TAYLOR SWIFT
Date: November 14, 2024 -
THIS YEAR the cultural arena was dominated by two rather different personalities – Taylor Swift and Benjamin Netanyahu – both of whom managed to cause mayhem, albeit for very different reasons. The issue of Israel’s war in Gaza was rarely far from the surface for artists but, more often than not, the more familiar names… Read more »
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ANNUAL 2024: GOVERNMENT – SAME OLD GOVERNMENT AGAIN?
Date: November 14, 2024 -
LAST YEAR ended and this year began with a chorus line that said then taoiseach and Fine Gael leader Leo Varadkar would be going for a snap general election. Goldhawk also noted in last year’s annual that should Vlad fall – or be pushed – under a bus, Simon Harris would easily elbow aside his… Read more »
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