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LOMBARD SMITES ZEALOTS
Date: November 2, 2023 -
Environmental “zealots” are putting lives at risk by objecting to flood defences, declared Fine Gael senator Tim Lombard in the wake of the catastrophe that hit Midleton last month. The implication of the Cork man’s Old Testament slur was that the town would have been… Read more »
ZUCKERBERG’S SUNSHINE
Date: November 2, 2023 -
The prospect of our homes, schools, cars and more being powered by the sun’s clean energy is one genuinely feel-good story that should help drive the green transition. Last year Irish-owned company Highfield Energy powered up two huge solar farms in Meath and Wexford, with a combined peak capacity of 276MW. All good so far…. Read more »
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MARTIN’S NON-POLICY ON NORTH
Date: November 2, 2023 -
In 2018 Theresa May appointed Karen Bradley – one of her dimmest politicians – as northern secretary. Apparently, Bradley was the only MP who would voluntarily have tea with the robotic May, who was dreaded among journalists as “the worst lunch in town”. Bradley’s ignorance of the north was staggering and she openly admitted it…. Read more »
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NATO AND ‘IRISH TIMES’ ADULTS
Date: November 2, 2023 -
THERE WERE two types of media reaction to Dame Louise Richardson’s recent report of Micheál Martin’s forum on international security. One was to play it down to virtual non-existence; the other was an angry rant from Irish Times political editor Pat Leahy. Both responses were… Read more »
CLONGOWES WOOD ‘IRREGULARS’
Date: November 2, 2023 -
As the Decade of Centenaries comes to a close there seems to be a bit of unfinished business and even a hint of Civil War recrimination, although mercifully without any gun play. Early last year three former Clongowes Wood College students wrote to then tánaiste… Read more »
ISRAEL’S MEDIA CHAMPIONS
Date: November 2, 2023 -
THE SUNDAY INDEPENDENT’S new columnist, David Quinn, has been regurgitating all the disingenuous clichés about Israel’s critics being anti-Semitic, Hamas using people as human shields and denials that Israel deliberately slaughters civilians. Quinn’s line of attack has continued for two of the last three editions… Read more »
STEPHEN RAE’S SETTLEMENT
Date: November 2, 2023 -
A LONG-RUNNING High Court defamation case taken by the former editor-in-chief of Independent News & Media (INM) titles, Stephen Rae, against then Sunday Times journalist Mark Tighe and RTÉ has been settled. Rae objected to reports that concerned comments about his behaviour in controversial editorial matters by INM chairman Leslie Buckley, Denis O’Brien’s man at… Read more »
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ORLAITH McBRIDE’S ARCHIVES
Date: November 2, 2023 -
INTERESTING TO see that arts and culture minister Catherine Martin found time last week to drop into the €2.4m pa National Archives of Ireland (NAI) premises on Bishop Street in D8. Certainly, she has not found time to make the long-overdue appointment of members to the National Archives Advisory Council (NAAC), defunct since July of… Read more »
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BIENNALE BOO-BOO
Date: November 2, 2023 -
IT LOOKS like the Arts Council and Culture Ireland got a little ahead of themselves earlier this year when they advertised for expressions of interest from architect types to represent Ireland at the Venice 2025 biennale exhibition. The promoters were in such a hurry that the advert could not include an overall theme, which remained… Read more »
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O’LEARY TAKES OFF AGAIN
Date: November 2, 2023 -
THE 2019 claim by Mick O’Leary that he was winding down his huge string of jumps horses and quitting going racing looks a pretty long shot today. While the Ryanair moneybags did move on a lot of his old squad at various horse-in-training sales over the past couple of years, he has also been actively… Read more »
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WHIPPING UP A STORM
Date: November 2, 2023 -
OISIN MURPHY has made more than a decent fist of rebuilding his career after serving a well-documented 14-month ban from riding that he picked up last year. But he could have done even better. A season total to date of over 160 winners and more than £5m in prize money is testament to his return… Read more »
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RACHEL FLYNN’S CHOCOLATE DROP
Date: November 2, 2023 -
In August last year, Hilliard Lombard and David McKernan’s food investment firm, BiaVest, pumped €700,000 into Nobó, the vegan ice cream and chocolate operation set up by former Vogue magazine digital marketing exec Rachel Flynn and hubby Brian Nolan. It looks like this business has yet to hit the sweet spot. Although it was reported… Read more »
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WRITING WAS ON THE WALL FOR HEALTHBEACON
Date: November 2, 2023 -
BACK IN January last year, Moneybags expressed concern about Jim Joyce’s medtech outfit, HealthBeacon, which had just floated off at €5.85 a share (see The Phoenix 14/1/22). Little more than 20 months later the company is in free-fall and its future is very unclear. A lot of small investors have been badly burned in the… Read more »
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BARRYROE OILFIELD SAGA FAR FROM OVER
Date: November 2, 2023 -
BEEF-BARON-turned-oil-explorer Larry Goodman knows a good thing when he sees it. His move to gain control of Barryroe Offshore Exploration (BOE) is clearly based on a belief that the wily billionaire can turn the heat up on the government and waltz way with a very nice profit. The other shareholders have been severely bruised but,… Read more »
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NIALL QUINN’S TACTICS
Date: November 2, 2023 -
CONGRATULATIONS TO former Irish goal-scoring machine Niall Quinn and his missus, Gillian, who have joined the movers and shakers by purchasing a rather large apartment in the K Club development. There has been rather less for Quinny to celebrate on the business front as losses… Read more »
‘VANISHING TRIANGLE’ SIGHTED
Date: November 2, 2023 -
FANS OF Goldhawk will be familiar with Virgin Media TV’s (VMTV) ‘missing’ drama series, The Vanishing Triangle – a six-part effort from Ivan Kavanagh and Annmarie Naughton’s Park Films based on the story of several women, missing and presumed dead, in the Dublin hinterlands (see The Phoenix 8/9/23). It has finally turned up, albeit far… Read more »
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AMNESTY’S CAMPAIGN WOES
Date: November 2, 2023 -
GIVEN THE turmoil in the Middle East, it is not surprising that Amnesty International Ireland (AII) has been extra busy, for example through its central role in the Irish Anti-Apartheid Campaign for Palestine, which issued a statement this week calling for “an immediate ceasefire”. Another statement that may concern AII chairwoman Bríd Cannon and her… Read more »
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COLM WU’S TAXING MATTERS
Date: November 2, 2023 -
IT LOOKS like 2023 is ending with Goldhawk’s old friend, hospitality operator Colm ‘Bo Vision’ Wu, on the back foot, just as he ended 2022. Next week, no less than four of his many companies are facing winding-up proceedings in the High Court courtesy of the dreaded taxman, who has also just registered a judgment… Read more »
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IRELAND AND PALESTINE NOW
Date: October 19, 2023 -
EXACTLY ONE year ago, European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen said: “Russia’s attacks against [Ukrainian] civilian infrastructure, especially electricity, are war crimes. Cutting off men, women, children of water, electricity and heating with winter coming – these are acts of pure terror. And we… Read more »
PROFILE: MICHAEL MCGRATH
Date: October 19, 2023 -
TO SUCCEED in political life, observed journalist and political commentator Malcolm Muggeridge, “it is necessary to conform either to the popular image of a bookie or a bishop”. Bookies carefully weigh up the odds of different alternatives before making a decision. Careful calculation is their essence. Bishops are true believers who approach problems already convinced… Read more »
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YOUNG BLOOD: ELLA MAC LENNAN
Date: October 19, 2023 -
TRINITY’S BRANCH of the radical, left-wing, student activist group Students4Change (S4C) has chosen its new leader. Ella Mac Lennan was recently unanimously elected as chairperson and now faces the challenge of leading this young group in fighting the good fight against the neoliberal agenda and the ghost of Adam Smith. Mac Lennan is only the… Read more »
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DRINKAWARE’S HANGOVER
Date: October 19, 2023 -
GOLDHAWK ALWAYS enjoys reading the annual report of the alcohol-industry-funded charity Drinkaware, and the one just published is as entertaining as always. It emerges in a year that has seen the drinks sector come under fire for exploiting a loophole to facilitate the advertising of brands at sporting events. Also, there was an end this… Read more »
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ALAN SHATTER’S ROMP
Date: October 19, 2023 -
CONGRATULATIONS TO loudmouth former politician Alan Shatter, whose saucy novel has been attracting rather a lot of media attention here. Given that it is a Benny Hill-style legal tale featuring an English town judge who “likes to retire to bed in a nappy and be… Read more »
BRENDAN MULLIN’S TACKLE TECHNIQUE
Date: October 19, 2023 -
WHILE ALL eyes have been on Paris for the rugger buggers, former Irish and Lions outside centre Brendan Mullin has been making his own tackles. It is unclear at this stage, however, if he is going to get a result out of his encounter with property developer John G Burns Ltd The last 18 months… Read more »
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McENTEES: MEATH PATRIOTS
Date: October 19, 2023 -
THE McENTEE family has done the county proud in recent years and efforts by two or more of the boys to promote the county football team have been matched by another family member’s efforts in the field of local business. Meath County board chairman Conor… Read more »
SIMON KILROY’S EXOTIC FISH
Date: October 19, 2023 -
ONE OF the most expensive properties to come on the market in recent times is Rarc-an-Ilan, sitting on 0.6 acres of prime Dalkey land on leafy Coliemore Road, overlooking the Irish Sea. The 3,400 sq ft mansion was only built in 1993 after Mick Smurfit’s former right-hand man at the Smurfit cardboard group, Howard Kilroy,… Read more »
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ALAN CLANCY’S GLASS HOUSE
Date: October 19, 2023 -
IT HAS been an eventful 12 months for nightclub and bar owner Alan Clancy, who started off the year by marrying Jacqueline Given, the sister of former Republic of Ireland and Manchester City goalkeeper Shay, and he has been busy expanding his empire ever since. His latest venture turns out to be Dublin’s first ‘glass… Read more »
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IMC EXPLORATION’S GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY
Date: October 19, 2023 -
IMC EXPLORATION is a tiny little Irish company that, although quoted on the London AIM stock exchange, remains very much under the radar in Ireland. This is despite the fact that the outfit owns the licences and mining rights around the old Avoca copper mine… Read more »
RACHEL KENNY’S WRITS
Date: October 19, 2023 -
A COUPLE of libel writs have just landed relating to recent coverage of events in An Bord Pleanála (ABP). It looks like the controversial planning appeals body will continue to generate headlines. ABP has been under intense scrutiny for the last 18 months or so as a result of media examinations of alleged conflicts of… Read more »
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VOL 41 NO 21
Date: October 18, 2023 -
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ABBEY THEATRE REVIEWS
Date: October 18, 2023 -
WHILE ARTS and media minister Catherine Martin has come in for criticism over her hands-off style when it comes to the unfolding debacle at RTÉ, this strategy is straight out of her playbook with the Abbey Theatre, where the off-stage drama has continued. It will… Read more »
BUDGET BLUES
Date: October 18, 2023 -
FROM UNDER- to over-reaction, the gardaí lockdown around the Dáil and Government Buildings on budget day, to ward off protests, reminded Goldhawk of British royal visits during and after the Troubles – except there was no trouble this time around. There wasn’t a single protester to justify the overtime bonanza for the boys in blue…. Read more »
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RIC PARTY POOPERS
Date: October 18, 2023 -
CHARLIE FLANAGAN is hanging up his blue shirt at the next election with the great disappointment that his “postponed” Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) celebration may never happen. Back in the run-up to the 2020 election Charlie BlackandTanAgain got the bright idea to have a knees-up in Dublin Castle for the RIC. He was ably supported… Read more »
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‘WARRIOR CLASS OF OUR RACE’
Date: October 18, 2023 -
MARK TWAIN’S assertion that “history never repeats itself but it does often rhyme” definitely holds water when you consider the composition of the various far-right movements to emerge in the last decade. In Ireland as elsewhere, on surveying the far-right scene, just as in the 1930s you find a similar coalition of conspiracy theorists, esoteric… Read more »
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ARMS AND THE CORKMAN
Date: October 18, 2023 -
LATE last month Tánaiste and defence minister Micheál Martin rolled out the red carpet for a visit from the European Defence Agency (EDA), the heroes that orchestrate the manufacture of serious weaponry in the EU. The EDA was set up in 2004 by the Council of the European Union and works with all 27 EU… Read more »
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THE HOT AIR BRIGADE
Date: October 18, 2023 -
Au revoir too to the incredible magic the Irish fans brought here to France, to Zombie-singing, metro-hopping, Paris-crossing, missed meals, melted heads, hoarse throats, getting bitten by mosquitoes, avoiding the bed bugs, too much coffee, too little rosé and the mash-up of spending six weeks here but leaving with the feeling of going home too… Read more »
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