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THE TORIES’ LEGACY
Date: October 5, 2023 -
Leo Varadkar says relations with Britain have improved in the last year. What he didn’t say was that is because of the departure of former prime ministers Boris Johnson and Liz Truss, which set a pretty low bar for improvement. Serious strains remain on a… Read more »
SHINNERS AT THE GATE
Date: October 5, 2023 -
THE FIRST line of defence from the Government and its Greek chorus in the media against the increasing likelihood of Sinn Féin coming to power is that the combined poll rating of the Government parties is still greater than that of SF. The second is… Read more »
‘IRISH TIMES’ AND MICHEÁL MARTIN
Date: October 5, 2023 -
THE IRISH TIMES appears to have offered itself as a surrogate platform for internal political and leadership debate in Fianna Fáil given the absence of same inside the once Republican Party. The muttering inside FF for a long time – although not in the presence… Read more »
TÁNAISTE’S LONG WAR
Date: October 5, 2023 -
THE WESTERN-NATO pact driving the Ukraine war with Russia has long been seen as primarily an American initiative. But cracks are appearing in this western front, with signs of weariness in not only the US but also some European countries. Thus, Tánaiste Micheál Martin was… Read more »
POLEMIC ON CHILDCARE PROVIDERS’ ‘STRIKE’
Date: October 5, 2023 -
LONG-TIME socialist, union activist and Siptu researcher Michael Taft can hardly be accused of being soft on the ‘right-of-centre’ FFG-led Government. So given the recent ‘strike’ of some childcare providers demanding extra Government subsidies, Taft’s attack on their rising “profits, dividends and directors’ remunerations” is… Read more »
GARDAÍ ACCUSED OF PRIVACY BREACH
Date: October 5, 2023 -
AN INTRIGUING case that Sinn Féin TD Martin Kenny is taking against not only Mediahuis title the Irish Independent but also An Garda Síochána is one for breach of privacy, not defamation. This is intriguing because it is the gardaí as much as the media that is in the firing line – not for the… Read more »
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“PARTITIONIST” ALISON
Date: October 5, 2023 -
What an unusual angle Alison O’Connor deployed in defending beleaguered Garda Commissioner Drew Harris in her Sunday Times column last weekend headlined, “Garda commissioner Harris’s biggest crime? Being a Protestant”. According to Alison O’Connor, “there is no way there would have been a vote of no confidence in him”, let alone 99% majority support for… Read more »
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MOOLAH IN MONAGHAN
Date: October 5, 2023 -
THE NEWS that the Tyrone Guthrie Centre for artists, which is located in Annaghmakerrig, is to benefit to the tune of €1.5m for a brand-new studio courtesy of the arts department’s Shared Island initiative will come as a major fillip to the Co Monaghan operation and marks quite the welcome for the new incoming resident… Read more »
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RAY GREHAN’S RESULT
Date: October 5, 2023 -
PROPERTY DEVELOPER Ray Grehan has had his fair share of tumbles off the track in his high-profile business career but one of his race horses must have caught him by surprise at the Curragh. Grehan’s Magellan Strait, trained by Joseph O’Brien, went to post the 150/1 rank outsider of the 30-runner field last month for… Read more »
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PETER GLEESON’S PILE
Date: October 5, 2023 -
THE LATEST multimillion-euro pile to come on the market is Melfort on leafy Shrewsbury Road in D4. This turns out to be the humble abode of moneybags Peter Gleeson, who picked it up way back in 1988. This sale looks like a rather better bet than his investment in the gambling software business set up… Read more »
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FEMALE ARTISTS
Date: October 5, 2023 -
THE NATIONAL Gallery of Ireland (NGI) has expanded its collection through the acquisition of Rachel Ruysch’s ‘Vase of Flowers with an Ear of Corn’ (1742) and it should not come as a surprise that the 18th-century artist responsible for the work is a woman. Unlike the case of the far more high-profile purchase of Paul… Read more »
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CHARLIE CULLEN’S SWISS CHRONOGRAPHS
Date: October 5, 2023 -
NO DOUBT Charlie Cullen was delighted with the plug for the Swiss Watch Club in the Sunday Times last month. Unfortunately, the article was published immediately before a judgment was registered against the company for €30,000 by the UK-registered World Shiner (UK) Ltd, a diamond and jewellery wholesaler with offices all over the world. In… Read more »
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SMURFIT KAPPA SHAREHOLDERS FACE UNEASY FUTURE
Date: October 5, 2023 -
FANS OF Moneybags will be aware that he has long highlighted the lack of a trans-Atlantic presence for Smurfit Kappa Group (SKG), a state of affairs that, rather late in the day, CEO Tony Smurfit has finally got around to addressing. As he prepares to turn 60 at the end of this year, the proposed… Read more »
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AMINEX FINALLY READY FOR THE BIG TIME?
Date: October 5, 2023 -
THE REAPPOINTMENT last month of Bob Ambrose as a director of Aminex is a real signal that the potential game-changer well – Chikumbi-1 (CH-1), which had originally been planned for last November – will actually be spudded this autumn. Alongside the 35-km gas pipeline that… Read more »
BÉBHINN FLOOD’S FASHION FAUX PAS
Date: October 5, 2023 -
THIS WEEK sees the creditors’ meeting for a company called The Design House (Bespoke) Ltd, which was incorporated a decade ago by fashion designer/entrepreneur Bébhinn Flood, who was previously shortlisted for Image Businesswoman of the Year. Despite attracting some investment in the early days from her mentor, marketing consultant John Fennell (ex-Penneys), the business is… Read more »
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NIAMH PARKER’S RETWEETS
Date: October 5, 2023 -
AFTER MONTHS of relative silence, it was interesting to see one of Goldhawk’s favourite tech gurus, Allan Beechinor, pop up again – this time on the Revenue’s latest list of tax defaulters. Meanwhile, Niamh Parker – Beechinor’s wife and former ‘co chief-executive’ of the ill-fated artificial intelligence company Altada –continues to entertain on social media…. Read more »
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LUKE COMER’S HANDICAP
Date: September 21, 2023 -
THE WIDELY reported three-year suspension of the training licence of billionaire tax exile property developer Luke Comer is dividing opinion on the severity of the penalty. What is clear is that, despite the number of horses involved, Comer is not the Lance Armstrong-type figure that bolshy trainer Jim Bolger referred to when claiming Irish racing… Read more »
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PROFILE: DARRAGH O’LOUGHLIN
Date: September 21, 2023 -
THE SHENANIGANS at RTÉ have hogged headlines in recent months and one outfit more than happy with this state affairs, surely, is the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB), the entity that was established by the Bowler Hats of the Turf Club and the Irish National… Read more »
YOUNG BLOOD: CLARA ROCHE
Date: September 21, 2023 -
THE NEW editor-in-chief of the University Times (UT), Clara Roche, has assumed leadership of a paper crying out for stability. Recent controversies have tarnished the reputation of the paper, which is funded by Trinity College Dublin Students’ Union (TCDSU). Roche ran for election on a manifesto emphasising accountability, accessibility and community. With the new college… Read more »
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SIOBHÁN TALBOT’S SURPRISE EXIT FROM GLANBIA
Date: September 21, 2023 -
IT IS a surprise to see Siobhán Talbot exiting Glanbia given that the CEO for the last 10 years appears to be on something of a roll, having almost doubled her remuneration package last year from €3.5m to a whopping €6m. With Glanbia heading for a 15% increase in earnings this year, it would seem… Read more »
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SEÁN QUINN V JOHN McCARTIN
Date: September 21, 2023 -
IT IS clear that former bankrupt Seán Quinn has little time for John McCartin – one of the two names he dropped on Newstalk last week when asked which executives in Mannok Holdings (formerly Quinn Group) he would be happy to see beaten up. It… Read more »
MICHELLE O’NEILL’S HEADACHE
Date: September 21, 2023 -
LOUGH NEAGH is by far the biggest lake in either Ireland or Britain. At 400 sq km, it is as large as the island of Malta and provides 40% of all of the north’s drinking water. The lake, however, is dying, crippled by pollution, overexploitation and neglect. There is also no little political fall-out, as… Read more »
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LEAKS FROM RTÉ BOARD
Date: September 21, 2023 -
BRENDAN GRIFFIN’S attack on RTÉ at last week’s Oireachtas media committee was colourful but it obscured an intriguing tussle between committee chair Niamh Smyth and deputy chair of the RTÉ board Ian Kehoe, who is also co-owner and founder of The Currency website. After a… Read more »
LYRA’S LEGACY
Date: September 21, 2023 -
BBC NI commissioned a documentary called The Lost Boys of Belfast from TV production company Alleycats. It was due for broadcast in May 2021 but was never shown (see The Phoenix 6/5/22). It will now open the Irish Film Institute Documentary Festival on September 27…. Read more »
ALI CURRAN’S NEW GIG AT IMMA
Date: September 21, 2023 -
ALI CURRAN is now in situ as chair of the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) following a small hiatus when there was no chair in place. The arts consultant will now have to turn her attention to a long-overdue strategic plan and the small matter of a strange proposal from the west. Former chair… Read more »
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ASHLING KILDUFF’S CURATED COMEBACK
Date: September 21, 2023 -
GOLDHAWK SPIES that Naas-based number-cruncher Patrick McDonnell has stepped down as a director of a company called Curated Designs Ltd just 16 months after its incorporation. The company turns out to be one set up with fashion queen Ashling Kilduff in the aftermath of the liquidation of her Design Centre business in Dublin’s Powerscourt Townhouse… Read more »
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DAVID MONGEY’S GOOD GOING
Date: September 21, 2023 -
THE IRISH National Stud (INS) in Tully, Co Kildare, has had a change at the top as a result of the retirement of Irish Farmers Journal/Irish Field chairman Matt Dempsey and his replacement on the board, courtesy of agriculture minister Charlie McConalogue, is former Irish Times chairman Dan Flinter. The latter is getting into the… Read more »
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McGRATH’S EXPANDING BOARD
Date: September 21, 2023 -
THIS WEEK was the closing date for expressions of interest in joining the board of the Parnell Square-headquartered Irish Heritage Trust (IHT). According to the trust’s constitution, directors can serve a term of five years and then be eligible for re-election by the board “for one further” five-year stint. The current 13-member board features three… Read more »
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VOL 41 NO 19
Date: September 21, 2023 -
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ROSSLARE GOLF CLUB BUNKERED
Date: September 21, 2023 -
THERE’S RARELY a dull moment at Rosslare Golf Club, where the latest spat relates to a €2m plan to sell off lands that ended up firmly in the bunker. Overseeing the current state of play is club committee chairman Paddy Lonergan. It will be recalled (see The Phoenix 12/1/23) that he replaced former senior suit… Read more »
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MAIREAD CASEY’S JUDGMENT
Date: September 21, 2023 -
A HEFTY €¾m judgment has just been registered against Co Cork solicitor Mairead Casey by a UK property investment company called Advanced Industrial Technology Corporation Ltd (AITC). It is not the legal eagle’s first setback. Between 2008 and 2012, Mairead Casey (aka Margaret Casey), who previously practised with her brother, Greg Casey, as Casey &… Read more »
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SILENCE ON US SHANNON ROUTE
Date: September 21, 2023 -
SINCE IT’S now out in the open that Ireland’s Defence Forces personnel are providing weapons training to the Ukrainian army and that our National Cyber Security Centre is working with the Ukrainian government, it should come as no surprise that Shannon Airport and Casement Aerodrome… Read more »
UKRAINE: NOTHING TO SEE HERE
Date: September 21, 2023 -
DESPITE BEING the ‘first casualty of war’, the truth about the Ukraine invasion sometimes emerges and from the strangest quarters, however unintended. Recent slips from Nato secretary general Jens Stoltenberg and Iveagh House mandarins are just further indications that western generals and would-be Irish generals… Read more »
MORE IRA SPIES
Date: September 21, 2023 -
Richard O’Rawe, a former IRA hunger striker turned author who fell out with the republican movement some years after the hunger strike — he later joined an ‘expert’ panel of the SDLP’s New Ireland Commission — has published Scappaticci’s Dirty War. It explores the career of Freddie Scappaticci, the IRA’s mole hunter, who was himself… Read more »
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FARMERS LOSING THE MEDIA?
Date: September 21, 2023 -
The recently formed Farmers’ Alliance (FA) hosted a public meeting in Portlaoise at the weekend, with a “diverse range of guest speakers” present to offer “something for everyone”, according to the organisers. Everyone was welcome to attend, the FA flyer added. However, this warm welcome did not extend to the media, whose presence would be… Read more »
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PHILOSOPHICAL RIGHT-WINGERS
Date: September 21, 2023 -
NOT ALL right-wing Irish politicos are street activists and some would affect a certain disdain for such extremist behaviour. Take the European Conservative (EC), which has a group of Irish writers in its editorial ranks. This quarterly magazine and website, which claims circulation of 100,000, is registered in Budapest but also has offices in Vienna and… Read more »
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