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FRANK BOYLE’S MISPLACED OPTIMISM
Date: December 14, 2023 -
WELL-KNOWN Sligo-based medtech entrepreneur Frank Boyle is not going to have a happy Christmas and neither will any creditors of his Nektr Technologies Ltd (NTL) and its subsidiaries, all of which are being wound up next week. It looks like Frank was caught cold given that only a few weeks ago he was convinced that… Read more »
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MIZNA’S STRONG MEDICINE
Date: December 14, 2023 -
AMONG THE relatively small batch of tax defaulters published by the Revenue Commissioners earlier this month was a company called Mizna & Co Ltd, which is described as a medical services provider. It turns out to have been rather unhealthy. Mizna was incorporated in 2014 and the listed directors at the time it collapsed into… Read more »
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MAX’S BURNT BURGERS
Date: December 14, 2023 -
AMONG THE more high-profile players in the hospitality game here in recent years have been Shane Mitchell and long-time business partner John Quinn, who are associated with a number of popular Dublin restaurants and bars, including the likes of Asador in Ballsbridge and Lennan’s Yard on Dawson Street. A recent addition to the stable of… Read more »
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MAURA DERIVAN’S SETTLEMENT
Date: December 14, 2023 -
THE SETTLING this week of circuit court defamation proceedings by number-cruncher Bobby Fitzgerald against outgoing Law Society president Maura Derivan and her hubby, Patrick, took no less than 14 years. The case also almost prevented Maura from attending the prestigious International Bar Association (IBA) conference in Paris. Things got pretty hairy for Derivan, given that… Read more »
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ED HONOHAN AND THE VULTURE FUNDS
Date: December 14, 2023 -
FORMER MASTER of the High Court Ed Honohan has been on the rampage in the US in recent weeks, with dramatic allegations against what he describes as collusion between the Irish Government and the mainly Wall Street-backed vulture funds that have been repossessing Irish properties. Essentially, Honohan is alleging that there is collusion between certain… Read more »
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BILL CALLANAN’S CANDID COMMENTS
Date: December 14, 2023 -
The long-standing nitrates derogation that allows some farmers to use 250kg per hectare ends this month. A new lower limit of 220kg will be in place in 2024 amid much weeping and gnashing of teeth in agri circles. But this is still far above the EU’s “safe” level of 170kg and will likely be gone… Read more »
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SIMON COVENEY’S AMBITIONS
Date: December 14, 2023 -
YOU REALLY have to wonder who, apart from one of Simon Coveney’s people, inspired that Sunday Times story last weekend headlined, “TDs tip Coveney to replace Donohoe”, as speculation continues about public expenditure minister Paschal Donohoe becoming head of the IMF next year. The other suspects mentioned – servants of further education minister Simon Harris… Read more »
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NON-DISCLOSURE AT THE ‘IT’
Date: December 14, 2023 -
IT LOOKS like the Irish Times DAC and also the IT Trust have weathered the stormy response of the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) and its chapel (NUJ branch) to the revelation that the outgoing editor and managing director received a total of €1.15m between them as they kissed goodbye to the company last year…. Read more »
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BOX OFFICE BLUES
Date: December 14, 2023 -
AROUND 40 ‘Irish’ movies, some of them re-releases or hold-overs from 2022, were released in cinemas in Ireland over the course of 2023. Many of these movies will have passed Irish cinemagoers by or, possibly, Irish cinemagoers decided they weren’t worth seeing. What counts as an Irish film continues to puzzle cinephiles but if it… Read more »
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DAME LOUISE RICHARDSON: NO TRIPLE LOCK
Date: November 30, 2023 -
ANTI-TERRORIST EXPERT Dame Louise Richardson was hand-picked by Tánaiste and foreign minister Micheál Martin, to chair his forum on defence and security policy and also to compile a report on the proceedings. However, given the furore that greeted the forum’s bias and the carefully selected… Read more »
PROFILE: CHRIS ANDREWS
Date: November 30, 2023 -
CHRIS ANDREWS TD is the latest Sinn Féin politician to be accused of abusing defamation law via his High Court action against the Irish Times and its political correspondent, Harry McGee. Senior Government politicians and various media groups – including press ombudsman Susan McKay, the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) and Reporters without Borders –… Read more »
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YOUNG BLOOD: SARAH KIERNAN & CONOR COCHRANE
Date: November 30, 2023 -
While talent managers such as Noel Kelly, Joanne Byrne and Andrea Roche are almost as recognisable as their respective stables of clients, Mullingar-based couple Sarah Kiernan and Conor Cochrane of Icon Management are virtually unknown in the public arena. Yet the 34-year-olds are coming up on the inside lane to show the more established influencer marketing agencies… Read more »
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RTÉ BOARD’S EMPTY SEATS
Date: November 30, 2023 -
FOLLOWING IAN Kehoe’s decision not to seek a second term on the beleaguered RTÉ board, there is a second man overboard as a result of the decision of tech whizz, Connor Murphy, to quietly step down for what the communications department told Goldhawk were “personal reasons”. Finding replacements for the two boys could prove tricky… Read more »
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FAR-RIGHT’S INTERNAL SPAT
Date: November 30, 2023 -
IN THE aftermath of the recent Dublin city riots, the gyrations of the far-right Irish Freedom Party (IFP) was striking as evidenced by party president Hermann Kelly, who regularly distances himself from more extreme right-wing elements. Kelly emphasised that he was against violence, arguing on his X account that he hoped people would “channel righteous… Read more »
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DUNNE-HAUGHEY: THE REAL STORY
Date: November 30, 2023 -
Last Saturday Irish Times finance guru Cliff Taylor posted an account of how the story about Ben Dunne bunging Charlie Haughey £1.1m was researched and published back in 1996. Taylor placed himself and his newspaper at the centre of this feat of investigative journalism. He… Read more »
LAURIE MANNIX’S STAR SIGNING
Date: November 30, 2023 -
CONGRATULATIONS TO Laurie Mannix and her team at lobbying and PR firm MKC Communications, which has landed former secretary general of the Department of Finance Derek Moran as a consultant, opening up more doors for the influential firm. Fans of Goldhawk will be aware of MKC’s roles in the campaign opposing the Public Health (Alcohol)… Read more »
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MARIA BAILEY’S FORTUNE SWINGS
Date: November 30, 2023 -
WHAT A reversal of fortune ex-Fine Gael TD Maria Bailey secured last month when Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN) apologised unreservedly for two articles it published in the Daily Mirror in 2019 about an insurance claim she made against the Dean Hotel in 2015. MGN said it had accused Bailey of taking out a “dodgy” insurance… Read more »
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MARY MacMAHON’S HEADACHE
Date: November 30, 2023 -
WHILE THE president of the Irish Planning Institute (IPI) should be focusing her energies on the publication by Darragh O’Brien last month of the Planning and Development Bill 2023, Mary MacMahon has another issue on her plate. The IPI has just been landed with a High Court writ from its former executive director, Orla Purcell… Read more »
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TOMMY KELLY’S BRENT GEESE
Date: November 30, 2023 -
IT’S BEEN a busy month for moneybags Tommy Kelly, who has finally secured permission for the renovation of his sprawling Seafield House in north Co Dublin after overcoming a problem with some brent geese and he also incorporated a new trade association company for the… Read more »
PATRICIA GHERING’S ‘URBAN COMMUNITY’
Date: November 30, 2023 -
HAVING WOUND up assorted interests in the UK, a controversial Dutch so-called property guardianship outfit now operating as Monoma has pulled the plug on its Irish venture. Monoma Ireland Ltd appointed Tom Murray of Friel Stafford as liquidator last month and it doesn’t look like there will be much in the pot for creditors, although… Read more »
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VOL 41 NO 23
Date: November 30, 2023 -
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CHARLIE MCCONALOGUE’S EXTENSIONS
Date: November 30, 2023 -
THERE HAS been some odd behaviour by agriculture minister Charlie McConalogue in relation to vacancies on the board of the Irish National Stud (INS). Irish Farmers Journal/Irish Field chairman Matt Dempsey’s second term ended in February this year but it was not until August that McConalogue actually replaced Dempsey, choosing former Irish Times chairman Dan… Read more »
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FF DUBS OUT TO GET McENTEE
Date: November 30, 2023 -
MORE THAN one media reference last weekend to Fianna Fáil backbenchers’ anger at Helen McEntee spells internal coalition trouble for the justice minister, especially as the FF group consists of more than just a few backbenchers. And the group has been campaigning on law and… Read more »
FIGHTING EXTREMISM
Date: November 30, 2023 -
THE Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) presents as a welcome antidote to all things extreme. It also claims to be “fiercely independent” in the intro to its recent report on far-right influence on social media, which was given prominent coverage in the Irish Times last… Read more »
STANDING BACK AND STANDING BY
Date: November 30, 2023 -
FAR-RIGHT activists have been accustomed to the policy of Drew Harris for the gardaí to stand back as they have not only pushed the Overton window further to the right but also pushed their luck on the streets. As soon as Ireland First member Philip Dwyer heard of the stabbing attack on Parnell Square, he… Read more »
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FRANCES RUANE’S REPORTS
Date: November 30, 2023 -
GOLDHAWK PRESUMES there will be little enough Christmas spirit on show between the Arts Council (AC) and the Abbey Theatre this month as the touchy subject of money continues to come between them. Fans of Goldhawk are well aware that Abbey chair Frances Ruane had to commission two separate consultancy reports in the light of… Read more »
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POOR FARMERS SHOCK!
Date: November 30, 2023 -
Despite the constant moaning and demands for bailouts coming from the sector, overall agriculture incomes have improved in recent years. However, according to the outgoing president of the Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association (ICMSA), Pat McCormack, “it’s very hard to sit back and watch farm families’ incomes decimated, their livelihoods diminished and extinguished”. Pat McCormack… Read more »
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THE HOT AIR BRIGADE
Date: November 30, 2023 -
I think we need to be tough on crime and tough on the causes of crime. Leo Varadkar speaking before the Dublin disorder, The Week in Politics, RTÉ, submitted by reader I am worn down by trying to highlight the systemic and structural issues within the fraying fabric of the urban ecosystem. Una Mullally on… Read more »
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LEGAL ARM OF CLIMATE MOVEMENT?
Date: November 30, 2023 -
Prestigious Dublin law firm McCann FitzGerald seems keen to bring its moral authority and intellectual rigour to bear on the climate crisis, judging by an article on its website that poses the “burning question” of whether the Government’s 2019 Climate Action Plan “is a sufficient response to ‘climate breakdown’.” Another post, with a photo of… Read more »
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JOHN MULHERN’S JETS
Date: November 30, 2023 -
Kerry Airport CEO John Mulhern has applied for permission to build a new mini-terminal for private jets at the Farranfore facility, so that wealthy visitors to the Kingdom needn’t mix with the peasantry. Private jet usage has soared globally, with over three million flights last year, and Ireland punches above its weight. Private jets are… Read more »
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THE ROADS TO GOD KNOWS WHERE
Date: November 30, 2023 -
On NOVEMBER 23, one of the Irish Times’s unionist columnists, Newton Emerson, examined cross-border funding from Irish governments and concluded that it doesn’t come up to the mark. He was especially scathing about Leo Varadkar’s “broken promise” of £400m for the A5 dual carriageway from Aughnacloy to Derry. As transport minister, Varadkar cancelled that commitment… Read more »
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McENTEE: MISSION IMPOSSIBLE ENDS
Date: November 30, 2023 -
UNLESS SOME additional, damaging information emerges in the next week or so, justice minister Helen McEntee will survive the current crisis. However, the real damage is not that inflicted on the minister in her role as guardian of the nation and the streets of the… Read more »
LOYAL MEDIA ‘NO’ TO RESIGNATIONS
Date: November 30, 2023 -
There was much vexed huffing and puffing from Government politicians and the media alike last weekend over the perceived failure of the justice minister and Garda commissioner – Helen McEntee and Drew Harris respectively – to either anticipate or contend with the O’Connell Street anarchy last week. But most of it was for the optics,… Read more »
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FINE GAEL – THE UNITED IRELAND PARTY
Date: November 30, 2023 -
LEO VARADKAR recently revived the old title of Fine Gael, the United Ireland Party, in the introduction to the party’s policy on the north. The first sentence in the FG document, entitled Northern Ireland and the future of our shared island, says: “Bunreacht na hÉireann… Read more »
HELEN MCENTEE’S BAD PRESS
Date: November 30, 2023 -
IRISH TIMES political editor Pat Leahy directed his sardonic derision at Helen McEntee last weekend following her embarrassing efforts to posture as a plausible justice minister on television following the mayhem in Dublin city centre. “‘This is not,’ said Minister for Justice Helen McEntee, ‘about… Read more »
SINS OF THE FATHER
Date: November 30, 2023 -
IT MAY be a coincidence but the fact that Sunday Independent columnist David Quinn wrote two weekly columns supporting Israel in three weeks (not “a column” as Quinn claims) probably has something to do with a parent that had similar views. These columns were written during the period of daily slaughter of civilians and children… Read more »
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