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LIVELY LIVESTOCK
Date: August 24, 2023 -
New research has found that livestock farmers in the EU receive around 1,200 times more public funding than plant-based or cultivated meat groups. “Powerful vested interests exerted their political influence to maintain the system unchanged and to obstruct competition created by technological innovations,” the researchers… Read more »
NOLAN AT THE BBC’S NORTH FACE
Date: August 24, 2023 -
The north’s only shock-jock is in trouble. Stephen Nolan, the BBC’s fifth-highest-paid star at around £400,000, has faced a series of accusations in recent weeks including allegations of bullying, circulating sexually explicit pictures to BBC NI staff and using ‘plants’ in his studio audiences. There are also questions about his production company, Third Street, and… Read more »
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BLUESHIRT LAW LIBRARY REVOLT
Date: August 24, 2023 -
JUNIOR ENTERPRISE minister Neale Richmond will not have been pleased at being described by Fine Gael spin doctors as the person responsible for the cancellation of last October’s Business Breakfast fundraiser (€100 a pop for a full Irish in the Mansion House). Richmond will be… Read more »
SIMON HARRIS’S TACTICS
Date: August 24, 2023 -
IF RESENTFUL Fine Gael colleagues really believe that Simon Harris leaks like a sieve, they should have a word with Mediahuis political hack Philip Ryan. Philip recently got a scoop about the vision of the coming force in Fine Gael, minister Harris. Ryan told Sindo readers in advance – under the headline “Harris stakes claim… Read more »
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SEE NO EVIL, PRINT NO EVIL
Date: August 24, 2023 -
THE COMPLICITY of the media in largely failing to highlight clerical child abuse unless it is perpetrated by Catholic clergy has recently been exposed yet again (see below). This sectarian phenomenon goes back 25 years or so to when clerical abuse was first being publicly exposed. In December 2000 Mary Kenny profiled Castlepollard rector Glenn… Read more »
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DUKE’S HEAVY GOING
Date: August 24, 2023 -
CURRAGH TRAINER Brendan Duke has an ugly battle on his hands to remain in situ in his rented training yard (see p5). The High Court recently granted him a temporary injunction against Peter Keatley and Teresa Kearney, owners of the trainer’s rented premises, Fenway House,… Read more »
COOLMORE’S FAMOUS FIVE
Date: August 24, 2023 -
FOUR YEARS ago, Swiss billionaire Georg von Opel made some seven-figure purchases of prime horseflesh at Irish sales under his thoroughbred investment vehicle, Westerberg. Most of the deals were made in conjunction with Coolmore and von Opel was duly welcomed into the fold by John Magnier. He has significantly strengthened his ties. This was clear… Read more »
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SHARON KEEGAN’S SUPPORTERS
Date: August 24, 2023 -
LAST MONTH Goldhawk’s favourite athleisure wear seller, Sharon Keegan of Peachylean, gave her tuppenceworth on succeeding in business in an online discussion with “global retail expert” Nicole Higgins, aka The Buyer and Retail Coach. Keegan has also secured some more moolah, courtesy of the taxpayer. Not surprisingly, the podcast featured plenty of inspirational titbits from… Read more »
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THE COSTELLOS’ LABOUR LEGACY
Date: August 24, 2023 -
A GLOWING political obituary of former Labour minister Joe Costello was delivered from the appropriate pulpit of the Irish Times last week. The lengthy article covering Costello’s political career of over 50 years managed to avoid any unseemly mention of Labour’s self-destructive role in a… Read more »
SUMMER SELECTION
Date: August 24, 2023 -
ONE SUMMER school the Irish Times won’t be covering is the 33rd Desmond Greaves Summer Weekend School at the Irish Institute, 27 Pearse Street, Dublin 2, from September 1-3. The organisers include indefatigable anti-EU campaigner Anthony Coughlan, and ex-Green Party radical and MEP Patricia McKenna, while the speakers include unrepentant Sinn Féiner and former Dublin… Read more »
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TOM HIGGINS’S COUNTDOWN
Date: August 24, 2023 -
NO DOUBT, after the high-profile launch of Virgin Galactic’s (VG) first ever batch of private space tourists earlier this month, Irish space cadet Tom ‘Psychics Live’ Higgins must be getting excited about his own planned trip, over 18 years after he stumped up the equivalent of $¼m to Richard Branson’s company. But could he run… Read more »
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PETER WHITE’S PROPERTIES
Date: August 24, 2023 -
A VERY lengthy renovation project on leafy Wellington Road in D4 has finally concluded. The impressive pile was most closely associated with businessman and one-time restaurateur Peter White, although it was understood to have been the subject of an off-market sale a couple of years… Read more »
HOSTELWORLD JOURNEYING TOWARDS REAL PROFITABILITY
Date: August 24, 2023 -
THE LATEST results from Hostelworld demonstrate that CEO Gary Morrison has been doing an impressive job getting this online travel booking engine back into action. The latest figures, covering the half year to June 2023, show bookings (despite the ongoing impact of the war in Ukraine) up 57% to €340m and net income up 57%… Read more »
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C&C LEAVES A BAD TASTE IN MARKET’S MOUTH
Date: August 24, 2023 -
THE C&C group is unique in that it is the only Irish-quoted company whose financial year ends on February 28. In the ordinary way this would not be significant but it means that the company’s last trading year before the pandemic lockdown in March 2020 covered a full year and its first year out of… Read more »
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ANNE HERATY’S SAD STOREY
Date: August 24, 2023 -
SOME BAD news for Anne Heraty and hubby Paul Carroll, who got a red light from Dublin City Council (DCC) planning officials when seeking an extra floor on their building at the corner of Haddington Road and Baggot Street in D2. Heraty/Carroll made the planning application through the Tullington Ltd vehicle, which was working on… Read more »
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RUNNING OUT OF ENERGY
Date: August 24, 2023 -
IT IS not looking like a great year for energy safety expert Denis Higgins, who is a director of two separate regulatory bodies that lost out on state contracts courtesy of environment and climate minister Eamon Ryan’s Commission for Regulation of Utilities (CRU). This latter… Read more »
SUSAN KIRBY’S HEADACHE
Date: August 24, 2023 -
IT TOOK a while – and pickets on the studios in Hollywood by the actors’ union SAG-AFTRA, supported by the likes of Meryl Streep and Matt Damon – but the two-year-long pedestrian plot featuring the stand-off here between Gerry O’Brien’s Irish Equity union and Susan Kirby’s Screen Producers Ireland (SPI) is finally picking up pace…. Read more »
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FINAN O’DONOGHUE’S HOLIDAY WOES
Date: August 24, 2023 -
IT MAY come as a surprise to fans of camping in Europe that a business set up a few years ago to sell increasingly popular outdoor holidays is collapsing into liquidation. Ecommodation Lab Ltd was founded by Finan O’Donoghue and is behind the website campsited.com,… Read more »
‘HUMANITARIAN’ IRISH WAR EFFORT
Date: August 10, 2023 -
LAST OCTOBER the then foreign minister and defence minister, Simon Coveney, spoke in humanitarian terms when announcing the plan for Irish Defence Forces’ participation in the EU’s Military Assistance Mission in Support of Ukraine (EUMAM). Referring to Ireland’s role as training Ukrainian sappers to demine areas of Ukraine, Coveney said: “There are unfortunately many, many… Read more »
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PROFILE – MICHAEL FITZMAURICE
Date: August 10, 2023 -
IS THERE anybody in Leinster House who wants to be a minister more than Independent TD Michael Fitzmaurice? The Roscommon turf-cutting contractor recently made clear his determination to be in the next government and also warned that if his plans for a new political party with the necessary intent and discipline to negotiate a coalition… Read more »
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YOUNG BLOOD: DAVID MCMANUS
Date: August 10, 2023 -
UNEASY LIES the head that wears the crown and uneasy it seems is Fine Gael TD Colm Brophy as he peers over his shoulder at the increasingly strident challenge from Rathfarnham councillor and party ‘colleague’ David McManus, who has his sights firmly set on Brophy’s seat in Dublin South-West (DSW). The 33-year-old McManus burst on… Read more »
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MICHEÁL MARTIN’S CAREER CURVE
Date: August 10, 2023 -
CONSTANT ASSERTIONS by Micheál Martin – repeated at the weekend in a statement to the Sunday Times – that he will lead Fianna Fáil into the next election have long been treated like the obligatory denials of any party leader when asked if they intend to resign in the morning. However, there is now a… Read more »
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HELEN McENTEE PROJECT UNDONE
Date: August 10, 2023 -
THE carefully constructed Fine Gael leadership campaign of Helen McEntee was given what appeared to be the kiss of death with her recent walk on the wild side of Dublin’s mean streets. Evidence of this was the very loud silence from ministers and even back… Read more »
MARY AIKEN’S NEIGHBOURS
Date: August 10, 2023 -
INTERESTING TO see that concert promoter extraordinaire Peter Aiken and his wife, Mary, are suing their Howth neighbours, Moya Doherty and John McColgan and Suzy and Ronan O’Brien, in a boundary dispute. (Suzy is the daughter of Gaybo and Kathleen Watkins.) The Aikens bought the… Read more »
AUF WIEDERSEHEN WIRECARD
Date: August 10, 2023 -
SO FAREWELL then Wirecard Payments Solutions Holdings Ltd, the Irish arm of the uber controversial German outfit, Wirecard AG. It will be finally wound up next week, three years after the extraordinary implosion of the parent company, which generated best-selling books and a popular Netflix documentary, Skandal! Bringing Down Wirecard. The Netflix show centred on… Read more »
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ANN’S CHINESE PUZZLE
Date: August 10, 2023 -
THE IMPRESSIVE Cambridge House on Cambridge Road in Rathmines has come on the market with a €3.5m price tag. Until recently, this late Victorian detached pile was owned by high-flyers Ann Corcoran and Finn Lyden, who have extensive business interests, as well as connections with China and Malta. The couple’s D6 house was quietly sold… Read more »
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GEORGINA’S GOOD NEWS
Date: August 10, 2023 -
GOLDHAWK SPOTTED a rather chunky judgment satisfaction registered in Stubbs Gazette this week. The defendant who has had the debt cleared is one Georgina Appelbe and the amount in question is a cool €3.5m. Georgina is the wife of one Fergus Appelbe, who will be familiar to fans of Goldhawk for his various scraps with… Read more »
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KIDS CHARITY SCOOPED!
Date: August 10, 2023 -
SO farewell then to The Scoop Foundation (Supporting Children Out Of Poverty), a charity that has just been wound up on foot of its liabilities, despite everything looking hunky-dory just nine months ago. Scoop was founded in 2009 by brothers Andrew and Calvin Sweeney, with the former installed as the first chief executive for a… Read more »
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PETER WILSON’S DOG FIGHT
Date: August 10, 2023 -
SOME BAD news for The Black Dog Communications, run by Peter Wilson, which provides billing services for “dating, psychic or adult chat” lines, amongst others. Black Dog had already been stung by two complaints made by former employees and directors, Lorraine Walsh and Barbara Coyle, in a case that the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) said… Read more »
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VOL.41 NO.16
Date: August 10, 2023 -
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PETER AIKEN’S SIDE BET
Date: August 10, 2023 -
WHILE IMPRESARIO Peter Aiken is currently engaged in a high-profile boundary dispute (see p18), he will have been keeping an eye on the All Together Now festival in Co Waterford. It turns out Aiken and wife Mary have a financial interest in the gig, which has just been landed with a High Court writ. All… Read more »
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JOHN ROBERTS’S MENU
Date: August 10, 2023 -
A COMPANY linked to Crackbrgr restaurant, owned by John Roberts, is being wound up next week, just a couple of months after the operation opened its doors in Temple Bar. It will be recalled (see The Phoenix 2/6/23) that hipster Joe Macken – a former business partner of Roberts – told the Business Post that… Read more »
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DEEP STATE AND MOUNTBATTEN
Date: August 10, 2023 -
Andrew Lownie has been monitoring his social media accounts for at least five years. Files surrendered to him included a flyer about a talk he gave at a bookshop, something that indicates the level of scrutiny under which he has been placed. The disclosure has… Read more »
NOT-SO-QUIET MAN
Date: August 10, 2023 -
As signs of the ever-deepening climate emergency become all but impossible to ignore, some of those voices who have peddled climate denial for years have had to adapt. Chief among these is long-time climate sceptic and former Fine Gael environmental advisor Conor Skehan. His latest foray into eco-contrarianism saw Skehan declare in his Sunday Independent… Read more »
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CHASING AFTER FOOL’S GOLD
Date: August 10, 2023 -
The surreal nature of the crisis enveloping the National Party (NP) began with the revelation of the €400,000 worth of gold bars stored in vaults in Dublin 4, before competing factions claimed online to control the party. An Garda Síochána was called in by Justin… Read more »
THE HOT AIR BRIGADE
Date: August 10, 2023 -
Yet this glass ceiling has become a monkey around the necks of Irish teams, and seemingly with increasing weight. What’s more, it is used as a stick to beat over the heads of the sport in this country by the anti-rugby lobby. Gerry Thornley, Irish Times Where are the Roses who have experienced homelessness, or… Read more »
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