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AVVIO’S AI BONUS
Date: April 20, 2023 -
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) is generating quite the buzz at the moment but an Irish hotel booking software company, Avvio, that has been working away with this technology for a number of years recently hit the jackpot when US giants bought in. The big winner here was Frank Reeves. Elsewhere Goldhawk highlights the impressive PR skills… Read more »
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FILM PRODUCERS’ PROFITABLE PLOT
Date: April 19, 2023 -
THE LOBBY organisation for film and television producers, Screen Producers Ireland (SPI), has just delivered a nice plot in its latest accounts, covering the year to December 2021. Presumably, most of its member companies are happy with the tough stance it has been taking on royalties for actors. Run by chief executive Susan Kirby, SPI… Read more »
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MICHELLE HETHERINGTON’S CURATED COLLAPSE
Date: April 19, 2023 -
A COMPANY called Curated Ltd has just collapsed into liquidation. This entity turns out to be linked to high-profile design company David James Interiors Ltd (DJI). The latter operates as DJI Design and Construction – David Clarke and Michelle Hetherington’s design company, which has built up a strong client base in the commercial interior fit-out… Read more »
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CLADDAGH’S BIDEN BOOST
Date: April 19, 2023 -
THE SINDO was rapturous in its reporting that Sleepy Joe Biden was gifted a vinyl copy of Almost Everything – a spoken-word album of the poetry of Patrick Kavanagh – by Michael D Higgins. As the paper pointed out, Claddagh Records is chaired and owned by Denis O’Brien’s PR man, James Morrissey, and has been… Read more »
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P&O STORM DELIVERS SMOOTH SAILING FOR ICG
Date: April 19, 2023 -
THE LATEST figures from Irish Ferries’ owner Irish Continental Group (ICG) are pretty impressive and reflect the wise move to expand on the busy Dover-Calais route – an opportunity provided by competitor P&O and gleefully accepted by Eamonn Rothwell, ICG boss since 1992. Shareholders, however, remain in the dark about various aspects of this Irish… Read more »
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VODAFONE SHARES WORTH DOUBLE CURRENT PRICE
Date: April 19, 2023 -
VODAFONE HAS seen some significant changes at the top recently – and not just in Ireland, where CEO Anne O’Leary switched provider for Meta/Facebook last September. Rather more significant, however, is the exit of the CEO of the whole Vodafone group, Nick Read, who was ousted at the end of last year having failed to… Read more »
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McREDMOND’S RTÉ CAMPAIGN BLOWS UP
Date: April 19, 2023 -
DAVID McREDMOND came out with his hands up last Sunday issuing a statement saying he had “no further interest in a role at RTÉ” (actually, it was the other way round) following a veritable campaign to install him as RTÉ director general by his supporters on the national broadcaster’s board and in the wider media…. Read more »
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THE DEVIL’S OWN – MARIA McDONALD
Date: April 19, 2023 -
THIS MUCH-HYPED historical suspense novel, The Devil’s Own, centres on three mysterious diaries dating back to the late 1800s but only discovered in 2020. After a lifetime in the Irish army, Brian McElroy is retiring. While clearing his attic before moving out of the Curragh Camp, he finds the journals and is instantly engrossed in… Read more »
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PROFILE: NEASA HOURIGAN
Date: April 19, 2023 -
THERE WAS a time when Green Party members would have been calling for smelling salts to revive themselves if its TDs and other personalities engaged in political brawling in public. The suspension of Neasa Hourigan TD – for the third time in two years – reveals a party that has changed from the gentleness of… Read more »
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YOUNG BLOOD: KEILIDH CASHELL
Date: April 19, 2023 -
MONAGHAN MAKE-UP artist Keilidh Cashell (27) has parlayed a talent for creating dramatic looks into a very profitable business, thanks to a little help from her friends. Her cosmetics brand, Kash Beauty, was made up when it wiped the eye of other more high-profile competitors in October. Out of a very crowded market, it became… Read more »
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BERTIE’S OBSTACLE TO THE ÁRAS
Date: April 19, 2023 -
ANYBODY WHO presumed that Bertie Ahern would shy away from a bid to run for the presidency in 2025 because of the adverse comments made about him in the Mahon Tribunal will have been surprised by his remarks in an interview with Justine McCarthy in the Irish Times last week. There, Bertie made it clear… Read more »
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LAW SOCIETY COCK-UP
Date: April 19, 2023 -
THERE WILL have been some red faces in Blackhall Place this month when the solicitors’ body had to apologise for a warning notice it had posted on its own website, which left readers with the impression that a totally innocent firm may have been acting in a dishonest manner. The good news for Law Society… Read more »
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CILLIAN MURPHY’S FOREIGN AFFAIR
Date: April 19, 2023 -
IT IS not well understood by the public that most of the taxpayers’ moolah that subsidises film production in Ireland is soaked up by (mainly) US producers, although assorted reports commissioned by Désirée Finnegan’s Screen Ireland (SI) emphasise the local jobs provided. An recent Irish film funded by SI, God’s Creatures, is a case in… Read more »
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ANGELA SCANLON’S MOOLAH
Date: April 19, 2023 -
IT HAS been hard to avoid the hype around Angela Scanlon’s return to the screen with her Ask Me Anything talkshow on RTÉ. The bad news for fans, however, is that they won’t be seeing loads more of her as busy Angie has officially ruled herself out for The Late Late Show hosting gig, telling… Read more »
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JP McMAHON’S NEW DINERS
Date: April 19, 2023 -
WITH FINE dining under pressure as the rising cost of living kicks in and tourism numbers come under pressure due to a lack of hotel accommodation, it is not surprising that restaurateurs are looking at ways to boost their income. The latest brainwave involves serving up swanky tasting menus to kids. One of those extolling… Read more »
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STANLEY’S STRATEGY
Date: April 19, 2023 -
THE QUEEN of the Body & Soul festival in Ballinlough Castle, Avril Stanley, announced recently that she has cut the shindig’s capacity by almost 70% to 5,000 “to come back to what was important”. This may put the brakes on the impressive financial performance delivered by Avril but it is clear that she intends to… Read more »
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MAGNIER’S COSTLY FILLY
Date: April 19, 2023 -
THE OLD adage of breeding the best to the best and hoping for the best is as good a guide as any to navigating the tricky waters of breeding racehorses (although it’s a method that tends to require very deep pockets). With the flat season gathering pace there have been some interesting examples of horses… Read more »
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DEVELOPERS’ WINNING WAYS
Date: April 19, 2023 -
PROPERTY DEVELOPERS Sean Deane and Ger O’Brien have experienced highs and low in their business careers but have rarely enjoyed anything but good times when it comes to their horses. The boys are best known for the exploits of the great mare Quevega, who brought them into the Cheltenham winners’ enclosure no less than six… Read more »
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FRANK REEVES’S BIDEN BOOST
Date: April 19, 2023 -
GOLDHAWK DOFFS his cap to the PR skills of Frank Reeves, the Irish businessman behind hotel booking software operation Avvio, which he set up in Limerick 20 years ago with his brother, Brian. There was plenty of commercial interest in Joe Biden’s visit, given the potential for delivering marketing opportunities courtesy of copy-hungry hacks. Reeves… Read more »
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COLIN MARRY’S SAUSAGES
Date: April 19, 2023 -
GOLDHAWK WAS surprised to see that a company touted as being behind the farming of “pigs that could change the world” has just collapsed into liquidation. It appears that Louth entrepreneur and farmer Colin Marry has found that changing the world is an expensive business. Certainly, he has thrown an awful lot of moolah at… Read more »
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ELLIOTT’S ID FARCE
Date: April 19, 2023 -
GORDON ELLIOTT was summoned before an Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB) referrals committee recently to explain how a significant mix-up in his yard led to two of the wrong horses being sent to compete at Navan in March. When the Elliott-trained filly Optoforce was presented by her groom for inspection to IHRB veterinary officer Emma… Read more »
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NOEL MEADE’S PARTNER
Date: April 19, 2023 -
THE PAST 10 years have seen a number of predominantly Wexford-based point-to-point trainers revolutionise the point-to-point game from what was an amateur discipline – often seen as a bit of fun for amateur riders and trainers – into what is now closer to a high-stakes poker game involving millions of euros worth of horseflesh. People… Read more »
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SILVANA’S LUXURY HANDBAGS
Date: April 19, 2023 -
WHILE MOST of the big bucks invested in this country is focused on the likes of tech, pharma and property, there has been a fair few bob sloshing around in recent times looking for a home in the luxury goods market. One of those hoping to tap in here is Silvana Landa. As Goldhawk revealed… Read more »
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FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Date: April 19, 2023 -
Given the constant chorus from the livestock sector claiming it is being unfairly demonised on emissions while fossil fuel companies are not subject to the same scrutiny, a new international media analysis on industrial meat and climate change had some surprising findings. It noted that while livestock accounted for a whopping 14.5% of global emissions,… Read more »
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IRELAND DUMPS ON AFRICA
Date: April 19, 2023 -
In his recent address to the Oireachtas, US President Joe Biden said that “Ireland remembers the painful hollows of the Great Hunger”. He praised the fact that the Irish aid budget is now expanding to help the most vulnerable, “especially partner nations across Africa”. And, for good measure, Biden added that Ireland was a “global… Read more »
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‘IT’ DENOUNCES SECTARIANISM
Date: April 19, 2023 -
JUSTINE McCARTHY recently thundered against the “sectarian criteria” of the planned scoping inquiry into the abuse of children in “schools run by religious orders”, an inquiry stimulated by reports of abuse in Blackrock and other Spiritan schools. Confining the inquiry to schools run by religious orders limits the exercise to Catholic schools as Church of… Read more »
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OFFICER CLASS MEDIA FIGHT BACK
Date: April 19, 2023 -
THE DAMNING report of the Independent Review Group (IRG) into sexual assault and other abuses in the Defence Forces was given a supportive response by PDForra – representing enlisted members – but a somewhat more guarded welcome on its release by the officers’ organisation, RACO. Chief of Staff, Lt General Seán Clancy has so far… Read more »
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IS SHANNON NEUTRAL GROUND?
Date: April 19, 2023 -
In two recent Morning Ireland interviews, Áine Lawlor has interrogated the details of Sinn Féin’s commitment to neutrality, a sensitive issue given the upcoming National Consultative Forum on Ireland’s International Security Policy. SF’s newly appointed spokesperson on foreign affairs and defence, Matt Carthy, was interviewed recently alongside Fianna Fáil MEP Barry Andrews. Carthy was definitive… Read more »
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NO COUNCIL HOUSES – NO COUNCIL DEBATE
Date: April 19, 2023 -
DAYS BEFORE Sinn Féin’s Dáil motion on ending the eviction ban and a fortnight before the ban was due to expire, Tánaiste Micheál Martin rounded on local councils and accused them of “resistance” to the scheme of buying homes with tenants in situ. The Fianna… Read more »
HOUSING FOR ALL… ELSEWHERE
Date: April 19, 2023 -
FIANNA FÁIL insiders raised an eyebrow last week at an Irish Independent report that housing minister Darragh O’Brien continues to send constituents with housing queries to an Independent councillor rather than a party colleague. But locals in Balbriggan have focused instead on the fact that the housing minister’s councillor of choice opposes housing developments. As… Read more »
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18 KIDS ON THE DOLE
Date: April 19, 2023 -
“It is frightfully hard to explain to Protestants that, if you give Roman Catholics a good job and a good house, they will live like Protestants because they will see neighbours with cars and television sets; they will refuse to have 18 children. But if a Roman Catholic is jobless and lives in the most… Read more »
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THE HOT AIR BRIGADE
Date: April 19, 2023 -
I told him that I’ve brought the famous light in the [Áras] window down to Ballina, so it will now be housed in the Mary Robinson Centre opposite where he will be speaking tonight. Mary Robinson gets her priorities right when asked about meeting US President Joe Biden, RTÉ’s News at One We believe anything… Read more »
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MOBILE MEDIA ETHICS
Date: April 19, 2023 -
A common trope in the Irish media is the accusation of censorship by the Chinese Communist Party and the Russian government. According to Irish and most western media, since the invasion of Ukraine Russia has effectively criminalised opposition to the government and any independent reporting of the news. But what is the cause of the… Read more »
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IAN PAISLEY’S REAL RECORD
Date: April 19, 2023 -
The BBC’s House of Paisley marathon trilogy ignored vital chunks of Ian Paisley’s stormy career, despite the fact it had exposed many of them in the past. In 2019, former British army officer David Hancock told BBC NI’s Spotlight programme that Paisley had helped finance the Silent Valley bombing in 1969. It was a false… Read more »
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SCAPPATICCI TALES
Date: April 19, 2023 -
In the early 1970s, the IRA adopted a cellular structure. The overlap between cells was kept to a bare minimum, thereby limiting the damage a British agent could inflict if he infiltrated one compartment. One of London’s spies in the IRA, the recently deceased Freddie Scappaticci, managed to breach the new arrangement. Scappaticci was run… Read more »
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DAME TO SAVE IRISH NEUTRALITY
Date: April 19, 2023 -
ONE TRUSTS that Tánaiste Micheál Martin’s recent failure to give Louise Richardson her full, proper title of Dame Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (DBE) was a lapse in his usual respect for British authority and not an effort to obscure… Read more »
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