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UNDERPOWERED GREENCOAT RENEWABLES RIPE FOR PICKING
Date: May 29, 2025 -
IT IS difficult to know what Paul O’Donnell and Bertrand Gautier – the so-called investment managers in Schroders Greencoat Capital who run Greencoat Renewables for a juicy fee – are up to. They are earning a very handsome fee not linked to performance, while the company’s share price has been plummeting. For investors, matters are… Read more »
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JUST WHY IS THE BOARD TRYING TO SELL DALATA?
Date: May 29, 2025 -
IT REMAINS difficult to know who is pushing to have Dalata Hotels Group bought out. AS CEO, Dermot Crowley is clearly front and centre but, given his stated strategy, a sell-off would be hard for him to stomach. Also, it is very hard to justify the excuse being put forward by the company for the… Read more »
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DEREK MADDEN’S PRIME PROBLEM
Date: May 29, 2025 -
FANS OF Goldhawk with long memories will recall an interesting little bioenergy company called Prime Energy Power Ltd (PEP), where Nicholas O’Dwyer of Grant Thornton was installed as liquidator after it ran out of moolah (see The Phoenix 20/4/2018). The principal player here, Derek Madden, has now been restricted for five years under Section 150… Read more »
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BIG NOISE MATT GLEESON
Date: May 29, 2025 -
A COMPANY called Blackberry Hearing Ltd has just had a charge registered against it by non-bank lender InvoiceFair Ltd, which now trades as FinanceFair. This follows on foot of a most upbeat outing in the Sunday Times by Blackberry boss and pal of Denis O’Brien, Matt Gleeson. The ST article made it clear that Blackberry… Read more »
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‘IMAGE’ MAKEOVER
Date: May 29, 2025 -
ELSEWHERE IN this issue, Goldhawk notes the agreement between Image Publications Ltd (IPL) and the Revenue in relation to repayment of warehoused pandemic-period taxes (see p18). It is also worth noting that the publisher has been steadily reducing its significant accumulated deficit. These days IPL is owned by a holding company called Zernicke Ltd, which… Read more »
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NO BAFTA FOR KINCORA FILM
Date: May 15, 2025 -
The BBC has just secured a prestigious Bafta (British Academy Film and Television Arts) award for Clive Myrie’s Caribbean Adventure made by Alleycats of Derry and directed by Des Henderson. The series dwells on the culture of the Caribbean and also its history of slave sugar production…. Read more »
PROFILE: RUADHÁN MAC CORMAIC
Date: May 15, 2025 -
THE PRESS COUNCIL’S recent confirmation of a Press Ombudsman’s decision underlines the Irish Times’s one-sided coverage of clerical child abuse. An IT article last September inaccurately reported that the 2009 Ryan Report on residential child abuse was exclusively “about” Catholic institutions. This bias has resulted in a virtual IT blackout of reportage on the abuse… Read more »
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YOUNG BLOOD: EOGHAN KENNY
Date: May 15, 2025 -
WHILE THE Labour Party nearly doubled its Dáil representation in 2024 with only a marginal increase in the percentage of votes it received in the 2020 general election, the big question is whether its new TDs, such as Cork North Central’s Eoghan Kenny, can hold on and repeat the trick next time out. Kenny was… Read more »
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WINDING DOWN LAND-HOARDER NAMA
Date: May 15, 2025 -
AFTER THE furore surrounding the mooted appointment of Nama CEO Brendan McDonagh as the head of the Government’s new housing activation office, the focus can now turn to his performance as head of the agency. Nama is currently in wind-down mode and, despite many claims made by it and on its behalf, the truth is… Read more »
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EASTWOOD ROUNDS ON TAOISEACH
Date: May 15, 2025 -
At the end of April Colum Eastwood, MP for Foyle and former leader of the SDLP, had an article published in the Irish Times that is a scathing criticism of what he called “southern establishment views”. He said those views on “partition, the nature of reconciliation and the need to finally wage war on want,… Read more »
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LYRA’S COMFORT ZONE
Date: May 15, 2025 -
CAROLINE DOWNEY must be delighted with the latest outing for the singer-songwriter she manages, Lyra, who continues to benefit from a remarkably high profile despite her relative lack of music success. Of course, being represented by the co-owner (with Denis Desmond) of music venue and promotion behemoths MCD presumably does help when it comes to… Read more »
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BERTIE BANGS ON ÁRAS DOOR
Date: May 15, 2025 -
MUCH MEDIA attention was given – as intended – to a rather self-serving organisation, which is entitled the InterAction Council. It is composed of former world leaders and has been co-chaired since 2016 by none other than one of our own, ex-taoiseach and former leader of Fianna Fáil Bertie Ahern. The council was founded in… Read more »
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TRUMP’S PLOT(S) SPOILER
Date: May 15, 2025 -
WITH ARTS minister Patrick O’Donovan having just reappointed four directors of Screen Ireland (SI), including chairman Ray Harman, at least the state film funding agency has a full complement at a time when the sector is faced with Donald Trump’s 100% tariffs on non-American movie and TV productions. Of most immediate concern to the SI… Read more »
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DUBLIN PRIDE’S PREDICAMENT
Date: May 15, 2025 -
SINN FÉIN has been carrying out a damage limitation exercise after comments by health spokesman David Cullinane saw Trans and Intersex Pride Dublin ban the party from its annual march in July. The good news is that there is no such move by the larger Dublin LGBTQ+ Pride march next month, although the organisers must… Read more »
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MAGNIER ON THE ROPES
Date: May 15, 2025 -
IF LEINSTER’S European semi-final exit to Northampton was a bona fide sporting shock, the drubbing handed out to John Magnier and the gang at Coolmore was also a bruising affair. There will surely be an inquest. In the opening classic of the season, the Betfred 2,000 Guineas, Sheikh Mohammad al Maktoum’s Godolphin fielded Ruling Court,… Read more »
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VOL 43 NO 10
Date: May 15, 2025 -
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RTÉ’S LATEST HOT SEAT
Date: May 15, 2025 -
WITH THE Oireachtas committees finally in place, certain state board vacancies can now be filled. One place they could start is RTÉ, which is facing its latest scandal with an underpowered board in place. Kevin Bakhurst et al have confirmed that RTÉ wrote off €3.6m on its partly failed IT system. This is the kind… Read more »
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AFTER COMISKEY
Date: May 15, 2025 -
SENIOR CLERICS such as Bishop Brendan Comiskey could hardly complain about being targeted for covering up child abuse by priests in their diocese but the platitudes of politicians and others in authority in this field are hard to endure. Before Comiskey resigned in 2002, senior government politicians had resisted the efforts of victims’ parents and… Read more »
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DEMPSEY’S ACADEMIC DISCOURSE
Date: May 15, 2025 -
Back in June 2010, UCD conferred one of its highest accolades, an honorary Doctor of Science, on Irish Farmers Journal (IFJ) editor Matt Dempsey. Thanks to his leadership, the journal “has a unique strength in that it makes available to farmers and other readers the most up-to-date interpretation of scientific research”, the UCD citation read…. Read more »
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THE MANN WHO KEPT HIS BALLS INTACT
Date: May 15, 2025 -
Notorious ex-SAS officer and soldier of fortune Simon Mann has died. In 2004 he led a failed plot to topple President Teodoro Obiang of oil-rich Equatorial Guinea. Baroness Thatcher and her son, Sir Mark, invested $300,000 in the doomed venture. Born in 1952, Mann went to Eton from where he progressed to Sandhurst and joined… Read more »
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LEFT V RIGHT MARCHES
Date: May 15, 2025 -
In the weeks that followed the recent large anti-immigration protest in Dublin, right-wing activists have tried to tap into that energy by calling a series of local demonstrations. This has created a dilemma for Sinn Féin and other groups in how to appropriately respond. In Dublin TDs Paul Donnelly and Louise O’Reilly as well as… Read more »
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FAR-RIGHT COUPS
Date: May 15, 2025 -
THAT LARGE anti-immigrant march in Dublin recently masked upheavals and faction fighting among new-right corporals jostling for ascendancy. Two casualties appear to be Justin Barrett – still claiming to be leader of the National Party (NP) and also head of Clann Éireann – and Hermann Kelly, president of the Irish Freedom Party (IFP) until its… Read more »
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THE HOT AIR BRIGADE
Date: May 15, 2025 -
They should follow the masters, who are U2. Bono goes on, he talks about Palestine. He does it in peace. He’s pro-Palestine, that’s his opinion, Bono, God bless him, but he does it in such a way that it doesn’t incite violence from a crowd. Sharon Osbourne’s advice for Kneecap, Piers Morgan Uncensored Kneecap have… Read more »
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GOLD MINE PROJECT FOYLED AGAIN
Date: May 15, 2025 -
In a saga of government department hypocrisy that Strabane man Brian O’Nolan (aka Myles na gCopaleen) may have considered perfect fodder for his Cruiskeen Lawn column, the Sinn Féin-led Northern Ireland Department of Infrastructure (DfI) has reluctantly admitted that environmental issues must indeed be viewed on an all-Ireland basis. This has always been the case… Read more »
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‘INSECURE’ OIREACHTAS COMMITTEE
Date: May 15, 2025 -
THERE WAS consternation among certain members of the Dáil reform committee when it met to ratify the draft Orders of Reference and Establishment of Committees Report. A one-line footnote in the report nearly derailed the whole long-awaited process of creating Oireachtas committees, provoking a fraught and nervous debate. The only footnote in the report said: “National… Read more »
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HAS BACIK BACKED OFF LEFT UNITY?
Date: May 15, 2025 -
THE GROWING movement pushing for broad left unity among the opposition received two signals last week at a large rally to retain the triple lock that involved most, but not all, the left political parties and like-minded individuals. Firstly and positively was the attendance of Sinn Féin and a considered speech from its leader, Mary… Read more »
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LOW-COST MEDIA FREEDOM
Date: May 15, 2025 -
UNSURPRISINGLY, THERE has been little or no media coverage of the pay-outs to media organisations recently from the Government or, rather, the taxpayers’ largely unknowing munificence so generously enabled by the Government. Sums amounting to €5.7m have been dished out to a struggling media across… Read more »
CLARE DALY V ‘SUNDAY TIMES’
Date: May 15, 2025 -
GOLDHAWK PREDICTED as far back as 2022 that then MEP Clare Daly would come for those sections of the media that had, as she saw it, set out to politically target herself and partner Mick Wallace, also an MEP at the time. This was because Daly in particular had been an especially powerful advocate of… Read more »
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FUNDING GREAT BRITISH NEWS
Date: May 15, 2025 -
IRISH TAXPAYERS will be equally happy – in the spirit of our shared island and its history – to learn that the Government’s media largesse has spread to the north. DUP communications minister Gordon Lyons last month “unlocked” extra funding for the Ulster-Scots Agency, an entity that claims parity for Ulster-Scots with Irish as a… Read more »
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PATRICK O’DONOVAN’S HEADACHE
Date: May 15, 2025 -
ANYONE SURPRISED at Donald Trump’s threat of a 100% tariff on films produced in “foreign lands” must not have been paying attention. But there are some players who have more to lose than others. The reaction of Susan Kirby’s Screen Producers Ireland has been largely mute, noting “the potential scope and impact” but “awaiting the… Read more »
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PIANO BLUES
Date: May 15, 2025 -
THE 13TH Dublin International Piano Competition (DIPC) takes place this week in the Royal Irish Academy of Music, with the final showdown at the National Concert Hall on Friday May 16. Apart from musical notes, those of a financial kind will also be on the minds of the directors. The board is chaired by Clonskeagh… Read more »
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McGARVEY’S MOVE
Date: May 15, 2025 -
JODY McGARVEY signed off on his riding career with a third place aboard the well-supported Willie Mullins-trained beaten favourite Mirazur West in Punchestown’s Frontline Security Handicap Chase. Predictably, his final ride was for his main patron, JP McManus, for whom he had three Grade 1 successes. The record books will show McGarvey’s last winner to… Read more »
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McDOWELL’S TIKTOK TRIUMPH
Date: May 15, 2025 -
BELFAST-BASED cosmetics czar Brendan McDowell (who landed the Entrepreneur of the Year award at Ali Ryan’s Gossies bash in the RDS last year) continues to make millions in the competitive cosmetics sector. It turns out that TikTok is one of his secret weapons. Bren managed… Read more »
TOM KENNEDY’S YOGA STUDIO
Date: May 15, 2025 -
AN IMPRESSIVE six-bedroom pile in D14 that has gone on the market with a chunky €4m price tag turns out to be owned by one Tom Kennedy – co-founder of Hostelworld many moons ago – who generated headlines last month courtesy of an ambitious €190m winter sports arena proposed for south County Dublin. His sprawling… Read more »
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LAURA MAGEE’S ‘THOROUGHBRED EXPERIENCES’
Date: May 15, 2025 -
WHILE MINISTERS Peter Burke (enterprise and trade) and Martin Heydon (agriculture and food) were no doubt entertained on Punchestown’s Gold Cup day, they also took the time to officially launch Horse Country (see The Phoenix 9/8/24) – a racehorse tourism initiative that offers common-or-garden racing fans the chance to experience the big time by purchasing… Read more »
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WHY IT’S TIME TO CHOP UP GLANBIA
Date: May 15, 2025 -
ACTIVIST INVESTOR Clearway Capital is correct in its view that Glanbia should be broken up into its three component parts. Tirlán Co-Op, which is still the dominant shareholder, should be dictating the direction of the group but doesn’t see itself having that role, leaving the running to Clearway boss Gianluca Ferrari, who believes the shares… Read more »
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