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LADY MARY’S WINDFALL
Date: January 11, 2024 -
WHILE 2023 was a year to forget for many employees of the giant Norbrook veterinary pharmaceutical group, it turns out that it was a humdinger for controlling shareholder Mary Haughey, aka Lady Ballyedmond. Norbrook, of course, was founded by Edward Haughey many moons ago and has operations in Ireland, the UK and around the world…. Read more »
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DES O’NEILL’S DES RES
Date: January 11, 2024 -
A BARRISTER who made quite a name (and a lot of money) for himself as the star performer in the Mahon Tribunal, Des O’Neill SC, turns out to be the owner of the impressive Glenbrook House mansion in Delgany, Co Wicklow, which has gone on the market with a price tag of a hefty €3.25m…. Read more »
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LISA JORDAN’S WINDING UP
Date: January 11, 2024 -
INTERESTING TO see that blogger/influencer/businesswoman Lisa Jordan has just wound up the company that registered the name “Lisa Jordan”. This follows her move last year into the fashion world with a brand called Edit Row. Jordan is one of the more familiar faces on the Irish influencer scene, having kicked off her blogging career with… Read more »
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BOTSWANA DIAMONDS LOOKING ROUGH FOR TEELING
Date: January 11, 2024 -
WHILE JOHN Teeling has been overseeing remarkable success in his whiskey distilling business in Ireland, further afield his Botswana Diamonds mining outfit has struggled, with diamond prices hit badly over the last 18 months. Prices are now on the turn but it is not clear how quickly the company can take advantage. Teeling has previously… Read more »
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NOH20 HITS THE BRAKES
Date: January 11, 2024 -
THE MUCH-hyped “bespoke on demand in-house app for carwashing”, NOH2O Ltd, has just collapsed into liquidation. Founded by self-described “brand innovator” Emmet O’Brien, the company’s business was based on waterless carwashing. It has been focusing its attention across the Atlantic, with O’Brien now based in Florida, but back home there had been plenty of changes… Read more »
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THE NYHANS’ TAX BILL
Date: January 11, 2024 -
THE DREADED Revenue has just registered a judgment for €221,000 against a company called Rostella Nyhan Holdings Ltd. This outfit should be familiar to fans of Goldhawk given its ties to the liquidated Rostella Properties Ltd (RPL). The latter was the entity behind three branches of the Nyhan Brothers chain of butchers in south Dublin… Read more »
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MARK LENHERR’S CARIBBEAN COLLAPSE
Date: January 11, 2024 -
THE EXOTIC-sounding Caribbean Jewel Investments Ltd is to be liquidated next week but this is far from the first setback for one of the main players here, English property investor and developer Mark Lenherr, whose name should ring a few bells with Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly – aka Ant and Dec. The star TV… Read more »
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LINDA MARTIN’S PUPPY LOVE
Date: December 14, 2023 -
CHRISTMAS CAME early for Linda ‘Eurovision’ Martin, whose move into the business end of animal welfare has landed her a juicy gig from Dublin City Council (DCC), although the €45,000 per month contract was never advertised. Martin has had a long career in the music industry (she released her own version of ‘Downtown’ last month)… Read more »
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PROFILE: VICKI NOTARO
Date: December 14, 2023 -
HAVING LEFT her position as MD of VIP Publishing earlier this year, Vicki Notaro has impressed Goldhawk with her modus operandi as she forges a new path as a “fiction writer, freelance journalist and brand consultant”. As the keen self-promoter gushed recently: “It’s so fab… It’s like they all satisfy a different part of me.”… Read more »
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YOUNG BLOOD: CHRIS CLIFFORD
Date: December 14, 2023 -
THE current president of the Union of Students in Ireland (USI), Chris Clifford, came to power in unique circumstances. A two-term president of Munster Technological University (MTU) Kerry Students’ Union, he ran a joke campaign for USI president that unexpectedly led to him overseeing more than 300,000 students nationally. Clifford, who previously criticised the USI… Read more »
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JUDGE HUMPHREYS AND JAMIE BRYSON
Date: December 14, 2023 -
WHAT AN intriguing coupling Judge Richard Humphreys and loyalist activist Jamie Bryson make in their collaboration on the recently published Constitutional Balance, the Acts of Union and the Principle of Consent. Jamie is one of the most vocal critics of the Northern Ireland Protocol –… Read more »
GAYLE KILLILEA AND DER KAISER
Date: December 14, 2023 -
FOLLOWERS OF the entertaining X account of Gayle Killilea saw her react in characteristic fashion to a two-page spread in the Indo about her new mansion near Ascot: “As the former Baroness of Ballsbridge, I’d like to thank my beautiful breasts for helping me conquer… Read more »
DAVID NORRIS’S ‘MILLION POUNDS’
Date: December 14, 2023 -
FANS WHO managed to stay up (awake?) for RTÉ’s The Week In Politics programme last weekend were treated to an interesting titbit from David Norris, who was happy to confirm the degree to which he availed of the libel laws here to significantly boost his bank balance. The Trinners senator was the subject of a… Read more »
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BONO’S WINDFALL
Date: December 14, 2023 -
THE PEACE message frequently peddled by Bono has invariably been aligned with a western political agenda but a recent move by the singer saw him benefit from a financial deal funded by a bank entwined with those Israeli heroes that occupy and settle on Palestinian… Read more »
COP ON OR COP OUT?
Date: December 14, 2023 -
Won’t anyone think of the oil companies? In a frantic communiqué issued at Cop28, the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) warned that the “undue and disproportionate pressure against fossil fuels may reach a tipping point with irreversible consequences”. The tipping point exercising Opec has nothing to do with climate. It is the grave danger… Read more »
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REGINA V JOSEPHA – AND MAYBE BARRY
Date: December 14, 2023 -
LEO VARADKAR and his command staff officers in the bunker have one issue to deal with before others when it comes to the Dublin European seat and that’s whether to run one or two candidates. This likely means that Fine Gael delegates at convention will… Read more »
HARRY McCALMONT’S HEAVY GOING
Date: December 14, 2023 -
HARROW-EDUCATED horse breeder and well-known Turf Club personality Harry McCalmont found himself in the headlines last week when a legal action against him resulted in a High Court settlement for over €2m. The case, which concerned the death of stud groom George Williams while he… Read more »
VOL 41 NO 24
Date: December 14, 2023 -
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UKRAINE DEFEAT LOOMS
Date: December 14, 2023 -
THE ISRAELI horror show in Gaza cannot hide for long the uncomfortable fact – for Nato and the West, including Ireland – that Ukraine stands on the edge of defeat in war against Russia. That the Irish Government, and Micheál Martin in particular, does not… Read more »
RTÉ’S FOUR SEATS
Date: December 14, 2023 -
AS GOLDHAWK revealed (see The Phoenix 1/12/23), the premature exit of Connor Murphy from the RTÉ board created a second vacancy for media minister Catherine Martin to fill. She has now advertised the €16,000-a-year seats, along with two other vacancies that have yet to arise. The queue of applicants is unlikely to be a long… Read more »
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Date: December 14, 2023 -
In an article about Chris Andrews TD in your 1 December issue of The Phoenix you give a very misleading account of my position on politicians and defamation law. I have not condemned Mr Chris Andrews or his party. I have consistently said that, while everyone is entitled to go to law to defend their… Read more »
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ARMS TO GAZA (VIA UKRAINE)
Date: December 14, 2023 -
THE ARMS industry makes a big deal of end-use certificates, which identify a government agency of the importing state that will use their weapons. Despite this, there is still a thriving illicit market for weapons in conflict zones and embargoed destinations around the world. The… Read more »
DREW HARRIS’S COP OUT
Date: December 14, 2023 -
Garda Commissioner Drew Harris’s credibility in the aftermath of the Dublin riots rests on his claim that no one could have anticipated the level of violence. But the level of lawlessness at far-right protests has been steadily escalating over the last four years. Also Harris’s cop out does not explain how, even in the aftermath… Read more »
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THE HOT AIR BRIGADE
Date: December 14, 2023 -
If anointed, the appointing of An Taoiseach will begin with a friendly sparring match in my purpose built, Presidents Octagon, in the grass outside Áras an Uachtaráin. Gumshield, 16oz gloves, shin pads, vale tudo for Caio. If you cannot spar a friendly spar with your President you should not lead the country. Televised on ppv…. Read more »
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‘SENSIBLE’ NORTH REFORMS
Date: December 14, 2023 -
ON DECEMBER 4 Westminster’s Northern Ireland affairs committee (NIAC) published its proposals for reform of the Stormont assembly’s procedures for electing its speaker and first and deputy first ministers. The north’s unionist media were quite excited about the development. Some outlets in the south shared the excitement. The Irish Times, confirming once again that the… Read more »
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THE 2023 GIRL
Date: December 14, 2023 -
THE FIRST and one of the most intriguing Fine Gael selection conventions for the next general election takes place in the new year (January 15) in Dublin Bay South (DBS), where the constituency that was once graced by Sir Garret FitzGerald no longer holds a… Read more »
KINGSTOWN FG: THE ENEMY WITHIN
Date: December 14, 2023 -
A FRISSON of anti-Russian paranoia ran through a number of Dún Laoghaire Blueshirts recently, causing the postponement of the convention for candidates to the Blackrock area for next year’s local elections. Three such conventions were organised in the Fine Gael heartland of Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council, namely Dún Laoghaire, Killiney-Shankill and Blackrock. However, a complaint… Read more »
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‘MIRROR’ OVER REACHES ITSELF
Date: December 14, 2023 -
THE ELEVATION of Irish Sun editor Kieran McDaid to the hot seat occupied until recently by Nóirín Hegarty at the Aarish edition of the Sunday Times also saw the transfer of Michael McNiffe to Murdoch’s flagship. McNiffe was lured from the post of executive editor at the Daily Mirror to the role of associate editor… Read more »
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CoI SLEEPS SOUNDLY
Date: December 14, 2023 -
LAST WEEK the Church of Ireland (CoI) and the Scouts Association forked out £100,000 in damages to Eddie Gorman, who was abused by Rev WG (Bill) Neely in Mount Merrion Church, Belfast. Neely also abused children as a scout leader. The scouts expelled Neely in… Read more »
BUSY OLIVER SEARS
Date: December 14, 2023 -
ART DEALER and Holocaust awareness advocate Oliver Sears tends to generate plenty of media interest and most recently was afforded a lengthy outing on Brendan O’Connor’s RTÉ Radio One show. Presumably, the high profile is good for business and Sears has been raking it in at his Upper Fitzwilliam Street gallery in D2. He has… Read more »
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ADVANTAGE MULLINS
Date: December 14, 2023 -
IRISH Horseracing Regulatory Board stewards made a decision at Punchestown that could have ramifications for trainers and jockeys, especially in light of the BHA’s plans to introduce a limit of four runners per trainer in a race. After the four-runner Grade 1 Morgiana Hurdle, which was saw the Willie Mullins-trained State Man lead home a… Read more »
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CONNELL’S PLAN
Date: December 14, 2023 -
THE RECENT ‘festivalisation’ of some of the big winter jumps meets has resulted in big crowds and great atmospheres at Irish tracks. Leopardstown boss Tim Husbands will be hoping this momentum carries on to the big four-day Christmas meeting. It is, of course, the horses that play the big part and have provided some thrilling… Read more »
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BIRR CASTLE’S CHINESE MENU
Date: December 14, 2023 -
IT LOOKS like some very wealthy people from around the world will be making contact with the owners of Birr Castle, who are offloading a much sought after private box in the Royal Albert Hall, home of Last Night of the Proms. With a potential €3.5m price tag, it could deliver a very nice Christmas… Read more »
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DERMOT SMURFIT’S BET ON GAN BLOWS UP
Date: December 14, 2023 -
AT ONE stage, after floating off on the American Nasdaq market in May 2020 and raising $50m, the Dermot Smurfit-headed GAN Gaming looked to be well on the way to making it big in the US. The shares, originally floated on the AIM Market in London at €2 a share, floated on the Nasdaq at… Read more »
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ORIGIN’S LESS THAN FERTILE PERFORMANCE
Date: December 14, 2023 -
THE CEO of Origin Enterprises, Sean Coyle, describes the company as “evolving and well positioned for future growth with strong fundamentals and sustainability at its core”. “Evolving” seems accurate enough but what is concerning investors is the wild fluctuation in results being delivered by the company. Last year was underwhelming and this year didn’t start… Read more »
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BARRY NAPIER’S WINDFALL
Date: December 14, 2023 -
CHRISTMAS CAME early for tech investor Barry Napier, whose remarkable multimillion-euro windfall from the sale of a controlling stake in his Cubic Telecom business to the Japanese SoftBank represents a hell of a comeback for a man who was on the wrong end of a €1m judgment only a couple of years ago. It will… Read more »
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