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WILL SINN FÉIN BOUNCE BACK?
Date: April 18, 2024 -
GLEEFUL NOISES from Government parties and media critics at Sinn Féin’s poll slide as well as its political confusion indicate a new confidence among coalition Government members that they can see off the party at the local, EU and, most crucially, general election in the coming months. How does Mary Lou McDonald and the SF… Read more »
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IRISH PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS
Date: April 18, 2024 -
THE IRISH edition of the Sunday Times appears to have corrected its revisionist line on British foreign policy and has been brought to heel by the chaps in the London office, whose tutors in MI5 and Whitehall were aghast at the deviant editorial penned in the new year’s Aawrish edition. Then, a stern editorial castigated… Read more »
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CROSS (VERY CROSS) BORDER VIEWS
Date: April 18, 2024 -
IRISH TIMES northern editor Freya McClements wrote extensively and flatteringly about the longest-serving newspaper editor in these islands, Noel Doran, who is retiring after 25 years as editor of the Irish News (IN), the constitutional nationalist paper in the north. But Doran may not have been altogether flattered by the complimentary tone of McClements’s article…. Read more »
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MARK GALLAGHER’S €10M MANSION
Date: April 18, 2024 -
THE ADVERTISING by Sherry FitzGerald of a redbrick pile on leafy Ailesbury Road, with a cool €10m price tag, not surprisingly marks the property as one of the most expensive to hit the market in recent years. Given that the near 6,000 sq ft house is the Dublin abode of banker Mark Gallagher, who is… Read more »
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AINTREE ANTICS
Date: April 18, 2024 -
WHILE ZILLIONAIRE Geneva tax resident JP McManus won his third Aintree Grand National last Saturday, with the Willie Mullins-trained I am Maximus, it was two former McManus jockeys – now turned pundits – Tony McCoy (sorry Sir Anthony Peter McCoy OBE) and Barry Geraghty who… Read more »
SUSAN O’REILLY’S ‘APPARITION’
Date: April 18, 2024 -
A “STUNNING beachfront house hovering over the water in Howth” has attracted a lot of attention over the last week. The unusual structure was the subject of a protracted planning process, which ended up proving more expensive than expected by its owner. The Lake House… Read more »
LARA HICKEY’S CLOSE-UP
Date: April 18, 2024 -
THE FILM and TV business has long been one where ‘who you know’ features high on the lists of credits, even more so since the coinage of the ‘nepo baby’ phrase that gained traction online and has been chucked around with abandon. A recent name firmly establishing a second-generational presence in the film and TV… Read more »
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TONY’S FAILED APPEAL
Date: April 18, 2024 -
THE RECENT overturning by the IHRB appeals panel of the referral committee’s findings on trainer Tony Martin is not the first significant setback for the trainer. It will be recalled (see The Phoenix 5/4/24) that, following an appeal by the IHRB on the grounds of “undue leniency”, the panel chaired by retired judge Peter Kelly… Read more »
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O’BRIEN’S OBSTACLES
Date: April 18, 2024 -
While trainer Aidan O’Brien supplied three of the five runners in Leopardstown’s Group 3 PW McGrath Ballysax Stakes, it was Adrian Murray who provided the shock 50/1 winner, Dallas Star. It presumably proved very satisfying for newly freelance rider Seamie Heffernan to deliver on Amo Racing’s charge, in what is customary seen as a Derby… Read more »
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PHILIPS DELIVERING BLAND TASTE AT GREENCORE
Date: April 18, 2024 -
NO DOUBT there were high hopes in Greencore that the new CEO, Dalton Philips, would be able to revolutionise the company. It certainly hasn’t worked out that way and the latest figures are far from reassuring. Moreover, it is hard to see where Philips even… Read more »
DENIS O’BRIEN’S ‘LOVE ISLAND’ PRESENTER
Date: April 18, 2024 -
IN GLASGOW last week, Capital Scotland radio listeners had their first taste of a brand new breakfast show presenter after the station was forced into a change a little quicker than anticipated. For owner Denis O’Brien, the Scottish station represents a high-profile effort to grow his share of the UK radio market, which he entered… Read more »
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GRÁ FOR GRÁ AR AN TRÁ
Date: April 18, 2024 -
AT A time when RTÉ is facing severe budgetary constraints, it is interesting that the latest round of programme funding from the media commission contains only a single project for its main channels among the dozen biggest winners. Virgin Media TV (VMTV) has four shows, including the top three by value, while TG4 also has… Read more »
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SUZANNE GILHOOLY’S JEWELS
Date: April 18, 2024 -
GOLDHAWK NOTES that the taxman has registered a judgment for a less than blingy €2,400 against a company called C&S Jewellery Ltd, where the principals are husband and wife team Charlie Cullen and Suzanne Gilhooly. While the amount is almost insignificant, this judgment follows a larger €30,000 hit last summer on another entity, the Swiss… Read more »
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PURCELL CONSTRUCTION’S €150,000 OFFER
Date: April 18, 2024 -
ALMOST THREE years on from the liquidation of Megard Ltd, the company involved in the construction of the Hyde Square apartment block in Dublin 8, the residents are still engaged in legal negotiations over compensation. An offer has been put on the table by a subcontractor but it is well short of the potential final… Read more »
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GOING NUCLEAR IN IRISH SEA
Date: April 18, 2024 -
In recent years much has been made by various academics, media and politicians about Ireland’s dependence on the Royal Air Force (RAF) for air defence. Independent TD and former Army Ranger Wing member, Cathal ‘Gung Ho’ Berry even went as far as describing the situation as a “national humiliation and embarrassment”. Strange then that the… Read more »
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HELEN McENTEE’S FUTURE
Date: April 4, 2024 -
JUSTICE MINISTER (as we speak) Helen McEntee has been pleading via the media and in person with her former rival and now leader, Simon Harris, not to sack her from justice. But while Simon may wish to come across as a magnanimous victor and retain… Read more »
PROFILE: SIMON HARRIS
Date: April 4, 2024 -
HOW DID 37-year-old Simon Harris beat off heavyweight contenders Paschal Donohoe and Simon Coveney, as well as Helen McEntee and other ambitious souls, to take the Fine Gael leadership and the job of Taoiseach within 24 hours or so? Harris not only blew away these… Read more »
YOUNG BLOOD: MARK MEHIGAN
Date: April 4, 2024 -
WHILE HE remains unknown to a large swathe of the country, the multi-talented Mark Mehigan has his fingers in all sorts of pies. He’s an ‘agony uncle’ on Image.ie, where his biography describes a “comedian and podcaster, author, Instagram matchmaker, aspiring Cilla Black, dating series host and dating columnist”. Recently, however, he has been attracting attention… Read more »
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DON’T MESS WITH BIG PHIL
Date: April 4, 2024 -
SIMON COVENEY’S flight from Cabinet – before he could be pushed – had as much to do with former EU commissioner Phil Hogan as incoming Taoiseach Simon Harris. Not that Harris needed much persuasion by his unofficial advisor because while Harris was the only Cabinet member to back Coveney against Leo Varadkar in the 2017… Read more »
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DONALDSON UNDONE
Date: April 4, 2024 -
When the news broke at 1.00 pm on Good Friday that DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson had been charged with historical sex offences including rape, there had already been a fair amount of crisis management at play behind the scenes. Charges had been preferred on… Read more »
DEREK RICHARDSON’S SCRUM
Date: April 4, 2024 -
THE FORMER owner of bust English rugby union club Wasps – Derek Richardson – is keeping his lawyers busy. As has been reported, he is suing his legal advisers, Kennedys Law, over the demise of his Wasps club in 2022 with debts of £95m. Another front in his legal campaign features Mark Robertson and the… Read more »
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RONAN COLLINS’S RUSSIAN CONNECTIONS
Date: April 4, 2024 -
LAST MONTH a US-backed nursing home operator, which surfaced in 2016 with big plans to take a chunk of the market here, was placed in examinership, having previously emerged from another rescue package. The Irish director and investor (10%) in Passage Healthcare International (Ireland) Ltd (PHII) is the busy Blackrock Co Dublin-based finance expert and… Read more »
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EN POINTE!
Date: April 4, 2024 -
THE DECISION by Anne Maher’s Ballet Ireland (BI) to withdraw a piece choreographed by Israeli Ohad Naharin from its Bold Moves programme raised eyebrows, given the predominantly conservative character of artistic companies dependent on the state for funding. The move was a provocative one from BI, which is chaired by the former MD of Irish… Read more »
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CATCHING UP WITH JOHNNIE COOKE
Date: April 4, 2024 -
ELSEWHERE IN this issue (see p19), Goldhawk takes a look at an operation called Green Bird, which was established by one Killian Bewley Poynton to provide concierge services to super wealthy clients who don’t have time to organise things themselves. It also turns out he had a loose connection to troubled celebrity restaurateur and caterer,… Read more »
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VOL 42 NO 07
Date: April 4, 2024 -
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JUDGING LUKE COMER JNR
Date: April 4, 2024 -
THE MINTED Comer family, who made hundreds of millions of euro from the building sector, has had its fair share of stumbles in the racing world, most notably the suspension of tax exile Luke Comer’s training licence for three years by the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB). Last month, it was Luke Comer Jnr who… Read more »
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LEDDIN V O’DONOVAN
Date: April 4, 2024 -
THE ANTICIPATION that Limerick’s first directly elected mayoral contest would be a bottomless borefest may turn out to be quite mistaken and Goldhawk will be keeping a watchful eye for some interesting debates between two of the candidates in particular. Social Democrats councillor Elisa O’Donovan swore in 2021 that she would make it her business… Read more »
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VIRGIN’S ‘VANISHING TRIANGLE’
Date: April 4, 2024 -
THE OMENS weren’t good when The Vanishing Triangle, backed with moolah from the taxpayer, failed to appear in the autumn schedule for Virgin Media Television (VMTV) last year without explanation. Now that the production from Annemarie Naughton and Ivan Kavanagh (along with assorted other producers) has belatedly appeared on Irish screens, the critics have, predictably… Read more »
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BRITISH AGENTS AND DUBLIN BOMBS
Date: April 4, 2024 -
May 17 next will mark the 50th anniversary of the Dublin and Monaghan bomb massacres. One of the key figures in the Dublin leg of that operation was Robin ‘The Jackal’ Jackson of the UVF. He collected three devices from James Mitchell’s farm at Glenanne,… Read more »
INTERNMENT WITH TRIAL
Date: April 4, 2024 -
The wall of silence by southern media on the recent acquittal of dissident republicans Colin Duffy and Harry Fitzsimons is in marked contrast to the sensational headlines that many carried at the start of this case back in December 2013. Following a gun attack on a convoy of PSNI Land Rovers Duffy, Fitzsimons and Alex… Read more »
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MONEY TO BURN
Date: April 4, 2024 -
With European and local elections fast approaching, many candidates to the right of Fine Gael are declaring their intention to stand with the Irish Freedom Party (IFP), Ireland First (IF), Independent Ireland, the National Party (NP), Irish People Party and a variety of right-wing independents. And there is no shortage of money swirling about in… Read more »
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THE HOT AIR BRIGADE
Date: April 4, 2024 -
We firmly believe in the unifying power of music, enabling people to transcend differences and foster meaningful conversations. We feel it is our duty to create and uphold this space, with a strong hope that it will inspire greater compassion. Statement from nine Eurovision contestants, including Bambie Thug, explaining their reason for not boycotting the… Read more »
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COLOMBIA 3 MINING PROFITEERS
Date: April 4, 2024 -
“ACTIVIST LUKE Holland has authored this report for Prime Time…” This was the rather odd introduction, read by Sarah McInerney, to an excellent and harrowing report last week from the notorious Cerrejón mine in Colombia. Describing Holland as an activist was apparently RTÉ’s way of distancing itself from this damning exposé of its fellow semi-state,… Read more »
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UNCLE COLM’S CONCERNS
Date: April 4, 2024 -
There’ve been some high-profile interventions in the long-running battle to prevent Canadian firm Dalradian digging up the Sperrin Mountains in Tyrone to mine billions worth of gold. Last year campaigners were outraged to discover, via a freedom of information request, that King Charles’s representative in the county, Robert Scott – aka Lord Lieutenant of Tyrone… Read more »
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IVANA BACIK’S NEW GENERATION
Date: April 4, 2024 -
LABOUR LEADER Ivana Bacik recently deployed her considerable legal and verbal skills to exonerate the party’s local election Ringsend candidate, Carol Reynolds, who had said that Ireland had “too many immigrants” who regarded Ireland as “Treasure Island”. Reynolds had been interviewed for a video by far-right, anti-immigrant campaigner Gavin Pepper, in which they both discussed… Read more »
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KATE O’CONNELL THE DISRUPTER
Date: April 4, 2024 -
THE CLEAR desire of Simon Harris to add Kate O’Connell as a ‘partner’ to councillor James Geoghegan on the Dublin Bay South (DBS) general election ticket is going to upset a number of Fine Gael members and their political calculations. The primary person to be… Read more »
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