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DAIRY STORIES
Date: October 18, 2023 -
Of late, undisputed climate expert Prof Myles Allen of Oxford University has filled the gap left by departed ‘experts’ in greenhouse gas emissions. The Farming Independent last year quoted Allen, ahead of his Oireachtas committee hearing, contend that a tweak to how methane is calculated, known as GWP-star, should be implemented. According to the Indo’s… Read more »
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JOHN FAGAN’S FARM
Date: October 18, 2023 -
Congratulations to Westmeath County Council for its recent courageous decision to reject planning permission to local farmer John Fagan. In 2019, Fagan applied for permission to build a massive 450-unit milking parlour, silage pits etc. No problem, said the council. John Fagan decided instead to go green and applied for permission for a solar farm,… Read more »
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DUP SPLIT: DONALDSON V DODDS
Date: October 18, 2023 -
The DUP holding its annual conference last Saturday in Belfast’s Crowne Plaza hotel was tempting fate. It was in this venue in May 2021 that the DUP publicly fell apart. At a meeting called to ratify newly elected leader Edwin Poots (by a majority of two over Jeffrey Donaldson), the gathering descended into a shouting… Read more »
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LABOUR’S RUFFLED FEATHERS
Date: October 18, 2023 -
FEATHERS THEN LABOUR TD Colm Keaveney received a white feather in his internal Leinster House mailbox in 2012 with a message that said: “This traditional White Feather is presented to you for your cowardice and betrayal of the Irish people. May this great shame be… Read more »
FF FEAR VLAD AMBUSH
Date: October 18, 2023 -
ONE OF the few real advantages Leo Varadkar has over Micheál Martin is that he is currently the rotating Taoiseach in situ and, therefore, can decide on the date of the next election. Martin and Fianna Fáil are consequently fretting over the strong temptation for… Read more »
HOW ‘AL-QUDS FLOOD’ ALTERED THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PALESTINE AND ISRAEL FOREVER
Date: October 18, 2023 -
THE MASSACRE by Hamas of over 1,000 Israeli civilians a fortnight ago has been the justification for the current slaughter by Israel of at least 3,000 Palestinian civilians in Gaza in just over a week. Western media has concentrated mainly on the trauma of Israelis… Read more »
OFFALY ‘MURDER’ AND JUDGE’S ORDERS
Date: October 18, 2023 -
DISTRICT COURT judge Andrew Cody clearly possesses a sophisticated and flexible legal brain and he has not moved to haul the Sunday Times into court over what some have described as a potential breach of several orders he made recently in Tullamore District Court. When… Read more »
‘ISRAEL’S BLOODY SUNDAY’
Date: October 18, 2023 -
THE ISRAEL Defense Forces (IDF) may be good at carpet bombing Palestinians in civilian areas of Gaza but its public relations expertise leaves a lot to be desired and its recent PR initiative involving Ireland and U2 lead singer Bono blew up in its face…. Read more »
JOHN COONEY’S DEBATE
Date: October 18, 2023 -
VETERAN AUTHOR and journalist John Cooney led the successful opposition to a students’ motion “regretting the fall of religion” at Trinity College Dublin Philosophical Society last week. But the most sulphurous intervention in the debate was Cooney’s remarks about Archbishop John Charles McQuaid. Cooney – who held the prestigious posts, uniquely, of religious affairs correspondent… Read more »
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McGRATH’S MOVIE PLOT
Date: October 18, 2023 -
THE NEWS that the first budget script of finance minister Michael McGrath contained extra moolah for the country’s movie moguls was greeted with the usual chorus of appreciation. The leading plot line here is a rise in the tax credit cap from €70m per production to €125m. The question is, what conditions will be attached… Read more »
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NEW CAST FOR THEATRE FESTIVAL
Date: October 18, 2023 -
WITH THE Dublin Theatre Festival (DTF) having wound down this week, there will be a couple of new faces added to the cast, although the process has proved less than smooth. Two new roles were advertised this summer but the closing date for applications had to be delayed from July to mid-September to allow for… Read more »
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ALAN AHERN’S TEST
Date: October 18, 2023 -
A RECENT referrals case at the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB), involving a point-to-point winner that failed a post-race dope test, looks set to have significant ramifications for the sport. Flemensface, trained by point-to-point handler Alan Ahern, tested positive for clenbuterol (aka bute), after the point to point in Cork. Bute is an anti-inflammatory used… Read more »
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KARLOSS’S WIN
Date: October 18, 2023 -
A HORSE previously trained by Charles Byrnes popped up in England under the care of low-key trainer Samuel Drinkwater and managed to land a significant gamble, winning at Sedgefield last week. Karloss had been an intended runner at Downpatrick at the end of August on the day Byrnes and his son, Philip, combined for a… Read more »
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UNIPHAR’S SHARE SLIDE DEMANDS NEW PRESCRIPTION
Date: October 18, 2023 -
FOUR YEARS after floating in Dublin, Uniphar has grown significantly but suffered a significant setback when its attempted takeover of Navicorp was shot down at the end of 2022. Although the group’s market presence internationally has been expanding, the shares have been underperforming and there is little sign of the right medicine being prescribed to… Read more »
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NICHOLAS WICKHAM’S GOLDEN SHOT
Date: October 18, 2023 -
THE ANTICS of Nicholas Wickham, founder of Irish Gold & Silver Bullion Ltd (IGSB), have been well aired in the High Court, although the process of getting a few bob for the unfortunate investors tempted into buying previous metals is ongoing. The latest development this month is the withdrawal of a strike-off notice for a… Read more »
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MICEÁL SAMMON’S SCARP SETBACK
Date: October 18, 2023 -
THE LATEST company that has failed to emerge successfully from the erratic Scarp protection process is BTP Construction Ltd, which turns out to feature a couple of high-profile building names who know a thing or two about company collapses. BTP was set up almost five years ago and the founders and directors here were Waterford-based… Read more »
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ANOTHER FRACK UP IN KERRY
Date: October 18, 2023 -
LAST MONTH was a bad one for US giants New Fortress Energy (NFE), with An Bord Pleanála putting the kibosh on its Irish subsidiary’s plan to construct a €650m liquified natural gas (LNG) terminal on the Shannon Estuary near Ballylongford Co Kerry. Another casualty was… Read more »
MORE MEDIA TRANSPARENCY
Date: October 5, 2023 -
THERE IS something piquant about the current fury among the once-pampered literati at the Irish Times, who have for long purveyed ethical attachment to transparency at all significant institutions. This character trait, worn on most of the senior hacks’ sleeves, was especially evident during the recent turmoil that engulfed RTÉ when the moralising from Tara… Read more »
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PROFILE: NÓIRÍN HEGARTY
Date: October 5, 2023 -
THE ANNOUNCEMENT that Nóirín Hegarty is stepping down as Ireland editor of the Times and Sunday Times Ireland after less than two years in the job is not entirely unexpected. Back in October 2021, Hegarty reacted to her appointment by saying that she was “delighted” to get the opportunity at a “very interesting time in… Read more »
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YOUNG BLOOD: BECKY KEALY
Date: October 5, 2023 -
SMALLER PARTIES can be easily crushed by the juggernauts of the major political players but, with the possibilities of government formation so finely balanced, parties such as Aontú are hoping that a breakthrough by Becky Kealy in Cork North West along with sitting TD Peadar… Read more »
McGRATH TAKES LEAD FROM TRUSS
Date: October 5, 2023 -
MICHAEL McGRATH and Liz Truss are not obvious political bed-fellows but the finance minister appears determined to announce similarly discredited policies of cutting income taxes as those championed by the failed British premier. If the various kite-flying leaks to newspapers are to be believed, Fianna Fáil’s Michael McGrath, egged on by Fine Gael ministers, is… Read more »
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FIGHTING TALK
Date: October 5, 2023 -
THE PHENOMENON of members of the Travelling community recording ‘call out’ videos – where they challenge others due to perceived slights, previous confrontations or family feuds – which are then posted online has become very common in recent years. In the last fortnight it appears that the far-right leaders of the National Party from Longford… Read more »
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DANA’S LENGTHY LEGAL SAGA
Date: October 5, 2023 -
THE LENGTHY legal journey that Dana – the singer and former MEP and presidential candidate, aka Rosemary Scallon – has embarked on over defamatory media reports regarding her brother John Brown’s prosecution on child abuse charges (he was cleared of all such charges) is close to and end. But there are one or two scores… Read more »
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JOHN TEELING’S NEW ADVISORS
Date: October 5, 2023 -
JOHN TEELING has been delivering some premium quality profits from his whiskey endeavours for the last two decades but the performance of some of his other companies has been closer to cheap lager. Take Petrel Resources, for example, which delivered a small loss of €164,000 in the six months to end of June this year,… Read more »
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RONAN McNALLY’S TIPS
Date: October 5, 2023 -
WHILE HE may have begun serving an eight-year ban from training, Ronan McNally is obviously keen to maintain an involvement in the sport by setting up a tipping service. Having landed a number of carefully planned gambles over the years, something that ultimately lead to his downfall, McNally has taken to social media to announce… Read more »
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ADMIRAL McDOWELL CLAMBERS ABOARD
Date: October 5, 2023 -
THE ESCALATION of a planning row over an Athlone marina, which began in 2012, has moved from Westmeath County Council to the District Court, Waterways Ireland (WI), the Oireachtas joint committee on public petitions and, lately, the High Court. Now one of the parties, marina owner Michael Barrett, has pressed the nuclear button and hired… Read more »
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SUPERPAT’S BIG SCREEN
Date: October 5, 2023 -
THE EFFORTS of Pat ‘Supermac’s’ McDonagh to bring a bit of New York’s Times Square to Galway’s Eyre Square have fallen flat again. SuperPat has been trying for some time to get permission for a giant video screen mounted on the façade of his restaurant on the famous Galway square. The glitzy video screen measures… Read more »
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VOL 41 NO 20
Date: October 5, 2023 -
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ZOMBIE CHANTS
Date: October 5, 2023 -
THE LATE Dolores O’Riordan is an unlikely icon for Irish rugby fans outside her native Limerick. But needs must in the face of Ooh Ah…, ‘The Fields of Athenry’ and ‘Sean South of Garryowen’. Thus, the recent enthusiasm by some media for the song ‘Zombie’… Read more »
IRELAND CLIMATE LAGGARDS — OR NOT?
Date: October 5, 2023 -
Later this month, a case taken by six Portuguese youths will be heard by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg. The case claims that 32 named states (including Ireland) need to radically ramp up their climate ambition in order to protect the fundamental human rights of today’s young people. Ireland has submitted… Read more »
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CUSSEN’S CUSSED CRITICS
Date: October 5, 2023 -
ONE OF the big beasts in the permanent government, Niall Cussen – his last civil service gig was as chief planning officer in the Department of Housing and Planning when he served minister Alan ‘AK47’ Kelly, among others – was made planning regulator in 2019. Cussen will not have expected the recent resurrection of a… Read more »
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FAR RIGHT DÁIL TANTRUM
Date: October 5, 2023 -
The far-right activists who attended the recent Call to the Dáil protest outside Leinster House were an eclectic bunch. While there were National Party, Irish Freedom Party and Ireland First activists in attendance, most of the 150 or so protestors showed no sign of party… Read more »
MI5’S SERIAL KILLER
Date: October 5, 2023 -
THE PHOENIX reported last May that the BBC was refusing to broadcast The Lost Boys, which has become the documentary du jour, because it linked the disappearance of five boys in Belfast to a paedophile ring employed by MI5 (see edition 6/5/23). A lucky few… Read more »
IRELAND’S DISCREET NATO INVOLVEMENT
Date: October 5, 2023 -
REPMUS IS an annual Nato exercise that takes place in Portugal’s Troia Bay. While there have been many congratulatory media reports about the Irish Naval Service’s recent involvement in the impounding of a cargo ship carry 2.2 tonnes of cocaine, there has been no mention… Read more »
THE HOT AIR BRIGADE
Date: October 5, 2023 -
Like Donald Trump, Mickey is entirely transactional. Joe Brolly on Mickey Joe Harte, Sunday Independent They’re basically the Jedi Knights of the army, really. Independent TD Cathal Berry on the Army Ranger wing operation on MV Matthew, Morning Ireland, RTÉ Radio 1, submitted by reader She makes a Love Island-esque surprise entrance in the first… Read more »
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DATA CENTRES SMOKE AND MIRRORS
Date: October 5, 2023 -
Simon Coveney is the latest big hitter in the data centre PR crusade. He is the keynote speaker at DataCentres Ireland conference in the RDS next month and Goldhawk feels sure he’ll be excellently briefed with industry talking points that portray a sector selflessly innovating Ireland towards sustainable prosperity. We’ve heard about data centres heating… Read more »
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