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SEAN O’RIORDAN’S RATIONALE
Date: April 19, 2023 -
SOME SORT of award should be organised to encourage Irish journalists competing with each other to be the most enthusiastic champions of Nato and/or an EU army with Ireland to the fore. The Henry Kissinger Pacifism Award or the Orwellian Literary Prize might produce improved arguments that say battle groups are not real armies or… Read more »
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MARGARET SWEENEY’S BATTLE
Date: April 19, 2023 -
AS GOOD old corporate battles are rare enough here, there is mounting interest in the open challenge by a leading shareholder in the giant Ires Reit property rental company to the re-election of much of the board. It looks like the very well paid CEO, Margaret Sweeney, will have to earn her crust in the… Read more »
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VOL 41 NO 08
Date: April 19, 2023 -
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OFFICER CLASS IN RETREAT
Date: April 6, 2023 -
THE SPECTACLE of Defence Forces Chief of Staff (c/s) Seán Clancy being pilloried for denying he had encountered any abuse issues as highlighted by the Independent Review Group (IRG) is ironic. Ever since he was appointed c/s in 2021, Clancy has been a target for the more conservative, male officers in the army who regard… Read more »
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PROFILE: BARRY CONNELL
Date: April 6, 2023 -
SINCE THE beginning of this year, racehorse trainer Barry Connell had been telling everyone who would listen that his horse, Marine Nationale, would win the opening race of the Cheltenham Festival – the Grade 1 Supreme Novices Hurdle – and he duly delivered. This was the latest significant step taken by the Dublin-based hedge fund… Read more »
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YOUNG BLOOD: PÁDRAIG O’SULLIVAN
Date: April 6, 2023 -
WITH FIANNA FÁIL continuing to lag in the polls and its support among young people at catastrophic levels, the party is hoping its young breed can find a way forward. Cork North Central (CNC) TD Pádraig O’Sullivan then has a pivotal role to play in the hoped-for regeneration of FF. But does he share the… Read more »
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GERRY O’CARROLL’S CRI DE COEUR
Date: April 6, 2023 -
WITH EACH staging post along the 40-year-old Kerry Babies saga, the prevailing view is that several gardaí were involved in a travesty in which six members of Joanne Hayes’s family in Abbeydorney confessed to crimes in 1984 they could not possibly have committed. One such garda is retired Det Inspector Gerry O’Carroll, one of two… Read more »
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CLAIRE BYRNE’S ‘SUPER AGENT’
Date: April 6, 2023 -
WITH THE clock ticking in the search for the new host of The Late Late Show (TLLS), there are those wondering if agent Noel Kelly can make it a hat-trick, given that he also represents Ryan Tubridy and Pat Kenny. No doubt the influential owner of NK Management was delighted that the Mail on Sunday… Read more »
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JAY BOURKE’S STORIES
Date: April 6, 2023 -
GOLDHAWK’S OLD friend Jay Bourke addressed the AGM of the insolvency specialists’ representative body, Restructuring and Insolvency Ireland (RII) last month. Judging by a report in the Irish Times, bankrupt Jayo was most effusive, as is his style – when it suits him. RII is chaired by Mark Woodcock of Fieldfisher but not on the… Read more »
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MARISSA CARTER’S GLOW-UP
Date: April 6, 2023 -
IT HAS been a busy few months for Marissa Carter, who was chosen as Newstalk’s Eversheds Sutherland-sponsored ‘Business Person of the Month’ for March. She also launched her budget cosmetics range, Carter Beauty, in Dubai a month earlier. In other good news, the tan queen appears less browned off with her business partners these days…. Read more »
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ELECTIONS AT MILLTOWN
Date: April 6, 2023 -
IT’S NEVER all that easy to secure membership of the more sought after golf clubs, especially those in and around south Co Dublin. One of these is obviously the venerable Milltown Golf Club, founded way back in 1907 and the 19th tee for many of Dublin’s most prominent business, professional and legal players. Last month,… Read more »
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MARC GODART’S TENANTS
Date: April 6, 2023 -
FANS OF Goldhawk will have recognised the name of landlord extraordinaire Marc Godart on the front page of the Irish Times earlier this week when he was ordered to cease short-letting apartments in a block on Dublin’s Reuben Street in Dolphin’s Barn. He has quite the record. The latest run-in relates to notices of termination… Read more »
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NATIONAL PARTY ON THE RUN
Date: April 6, 2023 -
After the fracas in Fermanagh, when antifascists confronted National Party (NP) members at their ard fheis in November, Goldhawk wonders whether, despite fighting talk, they have thrown in the towel. At its recent ard fheis, leader Justin Barrett claimed the NP only wanted a calm and quiet debate but “if they want the other way,… Read more »
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GOD’S CREATURES
Date: April 6, 2023 -
FITTINGLY FOR a movie set in a rural fishing village, God’s Creatures arrived on a tidal wave of hype now standard for any Paul Mescal film. This time, the golden boy of Irish cinema plays Brian, a moody young man whose return from Australia to his close-knit Kerry village sparks major drama, which unfortunately unfolds… Read more »
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MI5’s BENIGN ROLE IN IRELAND
Date: April 6, 2023 -
THE NEW book by veteran British author and broadcaster Peter Taylor, Operation Chiffon, has much to say about MI5’s activities in Ireland. It also includes a claim by one spook, ‘Robert’, of how he and other British agents helped to advance the peace process. Taylor’s book does not include one interesting story, which has been… Read more »
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ONLY OUR RIVERS RUN FREE
Date: April 6, 2023 -
A PLANNING row that began in 2012 over an Athlone marina has turned into a major confrontation involving Waterways Ireland (WI), Westmeath County Council, litigation and hearings at the Oireachtas joint committee on public petitions. Lakeside Marina owner Michael Barrett is rather cheesed off because since 2011 he has spent a lot of moolah negotiating… Read more »
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NEW IRA HASN’T GONE AWAY
Date: April 6, 2023 -
In the last few years, a number of militant dissident republican groups have announced ceasefires or merely faded away. The Republican Network for Unity, Republican Sinn Féin and 32 County Sovereignty Movement continue to exist but have been unable to develop a political project beyond interpreting the actions of armed republicans. However, when MI5 released… Read more »
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THE HOT AIR BRIGADE
Date: April 6, 2023 -
What I can say is that it’s indeed the preparation of what we call here the newsroom of the future. How Mediahuis Ireland CEO Peter Vandermeersch explains the redundancies being sought at the Independent group titles, Business Post We’d never eaten in either restaurant before, so when the window for February bookings opened on December… Read more »
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GOOD UDA V BAD UDA
Date: April 6, 2023 -
THERE’S Yet another so-called ‘loyalist feud’, one of many that have erupted over the past 25 years, but this time there’s a difference. It’s not happening in the back streets off Belfast’s Shankill Road or the impoverished housing estates of loyalist Larne or Carrickfergus. It’s in prosperous north Down – Bangor, Donaghadee, Newtownards – where… Read more »
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NEUTRALITY: THE FINAL PUSH
Date: April 6, 2023 -
THE GOVERNMENT has finally decided to launch a ground offensive against neutrality with a series of discussions or “forums” on the issue later this year led by the foreign and defence minister, Tánaiste Micheál Martin. The actual content of Irish neutrality has been hollowed out in recent years with membership of Pesco and various Nato… Read more »
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FREE FRANCE!
Date: April 6, 2023 -
FORMER BRITISH Labour MP, now Baroness Kate Hoey (courtesy of then UK prime minister Boris Johnson in 2020) has enraged even those who normally agree with her hard-line unionist views. During the recent House of Lords debate on the Stormont brake, Hoey described those MLAs who would accept the new framework deal on the assembly… Read more »
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POLLS SPELL DISASTER FOR FF
Date: April 6, 2023 -
ONCE AGAIN, the media fixation on the latest poll is on how Sinn Féin compares with both Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil. But the existential competition between the latter two parties is the really historic battle being played out in front of everyone and the ongoing polls have for some time now indicated that FF… Read more »
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BERTIE TO FIX IT FOR SF/FF COALITION?
Date: April 6, 2023 -
WHAT SCHEMING object has the most cunning one in mind when he tells Fianna Fáil and its leader, Tánaiste Micheál Martin, that he should accept not only a coalition deal with Sinn Féin but also a subsidiary position in such a government? Bertie Ahern does not make pronouncements of such weight without a clear goal… Read more »
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‘EXTENSIVE’ CUTS AT MEDIAHUIS
Date: April 6, 2023 -
THE JOB cuts and restructuring announced last week by Mediahuis editor-in-chief Cormac Bourke and chief executive Peter Vandermeersch gave quite a different vision of the future of Irish newspapers’ than last year. Vandermeersch said that, as the changes would be “extensive”, there was a chance the company would seek compulsory cuts as well as voluntary… Read more »
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‘IT’ GOES PALE GREEN
Date: April 6, 2023 -
IT IS only fair and fitting that long-time news editor of the Irish Times, Mark Hennessy, should be succeeded in that onerous post by one Simon Carswell. Not only has Simon filled the position of public affairs correspondent with distinction at the newspaper but he also performed well as the IT’s man in Washington. Carswell… Read more »
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ROUND UP THE USUAL LOBBYISTS
Date: April 6, 2023 -
‘ROUNDUP’ SEASON is approaching – that time of year when Ireland’s verges, parks, playgrounds and farmland are doused in toxic chemicals that trash biodiversity, reduce insect numbers and cause cancer in humans. Also approaching is a historic moment in Brussels when the king of weedkillers could be banned across the EU. The licence to sell… Read more »
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JOHN THOMAS GALLAGHER’S €10M PILE
Date: April 6, 2023 -
GOLDHAWK’S EYE was caught by a puff piece in the Irish Times last week about a property outside Kilrush, Co Clare, that has just come on the market with an eye-watering €9.75m price tag. Although the owner of this unusual property was not named, it turns out to be an American millionaire based in Switzerland… Read more »
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AINTREE’S GREEN TINGE
Date: April 6, 2023 -
IRISH-TRAINED horses have won the last four runnings of the Aintree Grand National and it looks short odds that they will make it five in a row in the world-famous race in Liverpool next week. With a maximum field of 40 runners permitted to take part, 30 of the top 40 horses in the weights… Read more »
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NO LIFE IN THE PARK
Date: April 6, 2023 -
THE INCONSISTENCY of race-day stewards was evident again recently after a valuable Grade 3 novice chase in Limerick. The race in question was won by the 11/8 favourite Thedevilscoachman, trained for JP McManus by Noel Meade, but it was the performance of the third horse – Life In The Park – that certainly caught the… Read more »
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ITHAKA’S GAMBLE
Date: April 6, 2023 -
WITH RONAN McNally’s imminent appeal hearing over his 12-year suspension, an ex-horse of his, Ithaka, landed a tidy gamble in England recently. The horse is now in the care of little-known trainer Ryan Potter and was having his fourth start for new connections. Although he had been beaten out of sight at big odds on… Read more »
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O’LEARY’S NAMING GAME
Date: April 6, 2023 -
MICK O’LEARY performed a U-turn last year by investing in some young national hunt horses to be trained by Willie Mullins, one of which was a three-year-old gelding by Blue Bresil (the sire of the mighty Constitution Hill), which Mullins bought at the Derby Sale at Tattersalls Ireland for €170,000. At some stage since then,… Read more »
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VOL 41 NO 07
Date: April 6, 2023 -
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CHASING ‘BACHELOR’S WALK’
Date: April 6, 2023 -
DOCUMENTS RELEASED to Goldhawk reveal the pressure arts minister Catherine Martin came under in 2021 to come up with the readies to enable the National Gallery of Ireland (NGI) to acquire Jack B Yeats’s Bachelor’s Walk, In Memory (1915), which had been on loan there since 2009 – an arrangement that allowed the lucky owner… Read more »
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FLUTTER ENTERTAINMENT’S DANGEROUS US BET
Date: April 6, 2023 -
PETER JACKSON is preparing to seek an additional listing for Flutter Entertainment (owner of Paddy Power) in the US, with a view to eventually migrating the company’s primary listing to New York. While the announcement has generated a fair degree of hoopla here, Moneybags wonders if the move could blow up in the gambling giant’s… Read more »
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KENMARE RESOURCES SHARES COULD RISE TO €20
Date: April 6, 2023 -
TWO YEARS ago (see The Phoenix 7/5/21), Moneybags noted that Kenmare Resources shareholders should be happy to “sit tight for the next 12 months awaiting the impressive results set to be delivered to shareholders”. Today the mining company is throwing off money and is debt free but the share price has barely moved. Is this… Read more »
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MICHAEL WOODLOCK’S WOES
Date: April 6, 2023 -
GOLDHAWK WAS interested to see his old pal, Michael Woodlock (whose brother-in-law was former Fianna Fáil North Tipp TD Michael O’Kennedy), generating headlines last month. The Clonmel-based businessman was fined €15,000 by the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) after the adjudicating officer found that discrimination had taken place against a tenant in one of Woodlock’s properties…. Read more »
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