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VOL 41 NO 12
Date: June 15, 2023 -
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UNA MCGURK’S WRIT
Date: June 15, 2023 -
OUTSPOKEN SENIOR counsel Una McGurk has been tweeting about the incoming hate speech legislation but she has also been keeping an eye on the existing laws regulating the media. It will be recalled (see The Phoenix 26/2/21) that McGurk was the focus of significant criticism after speaking at a rally alongside the Irish Freedom Party,… Read more »
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SPOOKY SPEAKERS
Date: June 15, 2023 -
HOW APPROPRIATE that the first speaker to address Micheál Martin’s opening panel at the forum on security policy (see also p11) this month should be Renata Dwan, deputy director of British military think-tank Chatham House (CH), which is stuffed with HMG’s military and intelligence types. Otherwise known as the Royal Institute of International Affairs, CH… Read more »
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NUNAN’S TOUGH TASK
Date: June 15, 2023 -
CHILDREN’S MINISTER Roderic O’Gorman’s choice of Sheila Nunan to lead negotiations with churches on contributions to the long-awaited, miserly Mother & Baby Institutions Payments Scheme is interesting. As usual, Irish Times reporting emphasised Catholic contributions. It failed to note a ministerial press release mentioning the Church of Ireland (CoI). CoI clergy were involved in managing… Read more »
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BAUER’S RADIO INTERFERENCE
Date: June 15, 2023 -
THIS WEEK the High Court will hear deliberations regarding the action initiated by DJ and radio presenter Dave Macardle against his new employers, Bauer Media Audio, owners of Newstalk and a variety of other stations. The German-owned Bauer became a significant presence in the Irish radio market in 2021 when it acquired Denis O’Brien’s Communicorp… Read more »
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GARETH MCALLISTER’S BACKERS
Date: June 15, 2023 -
WITH IT getting harder to avoid tripping over the latest new whiskey distillery to pop up (see p17), it is not surprising to learn that punters are throwing money at the sector and this is clearly the case for a little outfit called Ahascragh Distillers… Read more »
KINCORA WON’T GO AWAY
Date: June 15, 2023 -
THE DECADES-old snake pit that is the former Kincora Boys’ Home in Belfast, where children were abused in blackmail tactics against unionist politicians and loyalists by British spooks, is about to resurface. Two former residents are suing various NI officials for the sex abuse they… Read more »
AI TO SCAN ALL EU PRIVATE MESSAGES?
Date: June 15, 2023 -
AN INCREASINGLY burning issue concerns multinationals and states accessing the public’s personal data. In the last month alone, politicians in Ireland have voiced concern over the use of TikTok on official devices, while Meta Ireland has been taken to task by the Data Protection Commission… Read more »
INTERNATIONAL BRIGADE SWAPS SIDES
Date: June 15, 2023 -
RTÉ HAS certainly avoided any friction with the Government line on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and its coverage of events over the last year has been exemplary for a media highly reliant on effective government subvention. The recent incursions into Belgorod in Russia, by Russian Nazi’s fighting in support of the Ukrainian administration, saw RTÉ… Read more »
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THE HOT AIR BRIGADE
Date: June 15, 2023 -
I think even my harshest critics would say that any role I am given in government, I genuinely try to give it my all. It is my personality. It is how I operate. Simon Harris, Irish Times Something I say a lot is that someday you’ll find someone, and they’re going to find out how… Read more »
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ICE IN LEO VARADKAR’S VEINS
Date: June 15, 2023 -
IN 2019 Leo Varadkar pointed out that climate change had its “benefits” as well as its “downsides”. You know, warmer Irish winters and the like. He was, rightly, pilloried. But there are winners as well as losers. Take the truly ominous report by scientists this… Read more »
SUNAK/DUP DEAL?
Date: June 15, 2023 -
Michelle O’Neill travelled to Washington on June 4, two days before British prime minister Rishi Sunak – but they were on different missions. Sunak was there to be seen to be meeting the US President for the TV news in Britain and to shake hands… Read more »
MURPHY’S SOC DEMS OWN GOALS
Date: June 15, 2023 -
WAS THE blundering performance put in by Catherine Murphy in the Denis O’Brien/Siteserv saga one of the reasons for the change in the Social Democrats leadership and the elevation of Holly Cairns? Murphy’s image has changed from whistleblower against the ogre, O’Brien, to one of… Read more »
SIMON COVENEY’S CONSTITUENCY
Date: June 15, 2023 -
IS SIMON COVENEY trying to emulate British Tory prime minister Harold McMillan’s electoral slogan, “You’ve never had it so good”, in an effort to galvanise Fine Gael as the party slips into demoralisation and leadership speculation? In a recent Irish Examiner interview, Covetous Coveney insisted… Read more »
PACIFISTS SILENCED AT MARTIN’S FORUMS
Date: June 15, 2023 -
INDICATIONS OF the militarist tenor of Tánaiste and foreign affairs minister Micheál Martin’s Forum on International Security were noted in The Phoenix (see edition 24/4/23). Martin announced that the forum is to be chaired by security expert Louise Richardson DBE. He did not spell out… Read more »
VETTING ‘MALE’ REFUGEES AT INCH
Date: June 15, 2023 -
FORMER COMMISSIONER of the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission and ex-RTÉ producer Betty Purcell has made an interesting complaint to RTÉ about the broadcaster’s recent coverage of the protests against asylum seekers in Inch, Co Clare. Purcell complained to the national broadcaster about the… Read more »
JOHN DOWNING & THE BELGIANS
Date: June 15, 2023 -
ERUDITE INDEPENDENT writer John Downing normally gives his newspaper titles a slightly higher tone but what are we to make of Downing’s apparently whimsical column recently about “famous Belgians”? Beginning with indignation about “trite… banal… smart aleck” types who sneer at Belgians, Downing quickly moved on to claim “you could wallpaper a fair-sized room with… Read more »
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CASHING IN ON CHATHAM ST
Date: June 15, 2023 -
GOLDHAWK WAS interested to spy that a company called Dtat Ltd has just been wound up by its owners, who have scooped a fair few bob as a result. It turns out that Dtat is the company behind the high-profile ESL jewellery shop just off… Read more »
EARL OF TYRONE’S TIPPLE
Date: June 15, 2023 -
IT WAS reported last weekend in the Business Post that one Henry de la Poer Beresford, who happens to be the 9th Marquess of Waterford and owner of the impressive Curraghmore House and demesne, has objected to plans for a 35-acre solar farm on lands where he owns “shooting, sporting and killing” rights. Presumably paying… Read more »
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FAT LADY SINGS
Date: June 15, 2023 -
SO FAREWELL then Classical Arts Ireland (CAI), where the curtain has officially come down. CAI, a not-for-profit enterprise established back in 2011, promoted opera, ballet and classical music here, as well as promoting Irish classical arts overseas and live screenings of the best international opera, ballet and orchestral music. Another aim of CAI was to… Read more »
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DAVE MCWILLIAMS’S KYIV COMPANY
Date: June 15, 2023 -
BONO, MARIELLA Frostrup and co will be popping up at the Dalkey Books Festival this weekend, with David McWilliams front and centre as usual. While many of the big-name gigs are sold out (including Tom Hanks) there are still tickets available for less mortals like… Read more »
SLOW START FOR LYONS
Date: June 15, 2023 -
THE IRISH flat season is in full swing and one of the main talking points has been the absence of Ger Lyons-trained horses from the winners’ enclosure. Lyons has established himself as a top-five trainer over the past decade and last season finished third in the trainers’ championship, behind Aidan and Joseph O’Brien, having won… Read more »
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WHELAN’S WHIP WOES
Date: June 15, 2023 -
KILDARE JOCKEY Ronan Whelan has enjoyed a fine start to the flat season but his momentum has been stalled after racking up a 13-day suspension for breaching the whip rules in Ireland and England. Whelan has delivered 15 first places already this year and has forged lucrative relationships with trainers such as Jessica Harrington and… Read more »
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HVIVO LOOKING HEALTHIER THANKS TO PANDEMIC
Date: June 15, 2023 -
WHILE THE effects of the pandemic on businesses are starting to ease, some companies made great leaps forward over the last couple of years. One of these is hVivo (formerly Open Orphan), the Cathal Friel-backed contract research organisation. Despite the high price/earnings rating for the… Read more »
CORMAC LOHAN’S COSTS
Date: June 15, 2023 -
GOLDHAWK’S OLD friend, Athlone legal eagle Cormac Lohan, has suffered yet another setback, this time over a legal costs adjudication relating to the previous winding up of his company by the dreaded taxman. In 2018, the Revenue petitioned the High Court to wind up the solicitors’s consultancy business, Lohan Consulting Ltd, with Aidan Garcia Diaz… Read more »
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SEAWEED COMPANY SINKS
Date: June 15, 2023 -
GOLDHAWK WAS surprised to see that a liquidator (Flavien Kelly) has just been appointed to The Seaweed Company Blue Turtle Ltd, the Irish subsidiary of a giant Dutch firm operating in the investment-friendly world of seaweed cultivation, having developed a 50-acre sea farm off the… Read more »
IAN LUCEY’S GUARANTEES
Date: June 15, 2023 -
HAVING COME pretty close to the edge on a couple of occasions, serial tech investor Ian Lucey’s investment vehicle, Lucey Technology Ltd (LTL), where he is the only listed director, has been wound up by the High Court. The question is whether liquidator Neil Hughes will be able to realise anything like the value attributed… Read more »
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CHRIS WHOLEY’S SETBACKS
Date: June 15, 2023 -
INTERESTING TO see long-established engineering business KC Civil Engineering Ltd (KCCE) on the wrong end of a judgment for €66,000 from suppliers Stakelums Hardware Ltd, although this is not the first such hit in recent times. KCCE owner Chris Wholey is well known to someone… Read more »
The Phoenix 40th Edition
Date: June 1, 2023 -
The 40th edition is packed with interesting and amusing stories from 80’s, 90’s, 2000’s and up to 2020. Also includes regular issue inside. Download the PDF here
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FG LEADERSHIP PARALYSIS
Date: June 1, 2023 -
MANY FINE GAEL TDs and senators want Simon Harris to get a move on and go for the leadership of the party but the new dauphin (following the decline of Simon ‘Covetous’ Coveney’s ambitious designs) is stricken with fearful paralysis. The return to politics of… Read more »
CATCH THE WIND
Date: June 1, 2023 -
While touted by some as Ireland’s green energy moonshot, the backlash against offshore wind energy seems to be gathering pace, long before a single pylon has been installed. Although experts were delighted with the results of the recent auction of 3GW of offshore wind, the Irish Times gave the news a distinctly cool reception, with… Read more »
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‘SEE NO SECTARIANISM …’
Date: June 1, 2023 -
THE IRISH TIMES lasered in on the Government’s scoping inquiry into abuse “at private fee paying schools” recently, but its article had little to say about the most newsworthy aspect of the inquiry – its sectarian terms of reference, namely the exclusion of Protestant-school pupils. When the inquiry was set up in March, academic Niall… Read more »
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MEDIA STRUCK DUMB BY NORTH RESULTS
Date: June 1, 2023 -
The results of May’s council elections in the north confirmed, as expected, SF’s political dominance, which it displayed in last year’s assembly election. The outcome is a political revolution, the significance of which was completely lost on media in the south. Showing its grasp of the northern political scene the day before the elections, the… Read more »
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KEVIN DOYLE’S MISS-HIT
Date: June 1, 2023 -
IT HAS been interesting to follow the progress, or indeed lack thereof, of a horse now named Montecam. Readers may recall that former Irish soccer international-turned-horse-breeder Kevin Doyle bought the brother to then superstar chaser Altior for €155,000 as a foal back in 2019. Doyle viewed the horse as a risky but potentially very rewarding… Read more »
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THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING
Date: June 1, 2023 -
WHEN TÁNAISTE Micheál Martin went on the offensive in relation to The Ditch and it’s exposure of corruption among the political classes, he was careful to do so under Dáil privilege. Martin is no fool and knows that accusing The Ditch of not being “an… Read more »
THE HOME SCAR – KATHLEEN MACMAHON
Date: June 1, 2023 -
FOR MORE than a decade, the fiction of Kathleen MacMahon has centred largely on family members coming together to support one another through various crises. It is the reader who may end up needing a little support, however. The former RTÉ journalist (and granddaughter of short story writer Mary Lavin) got off to flying start… Read more »
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