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CANCELLING KEVIN HIGGINS
Date: January 26, 2023 -
THE COMPLIMENTARY obits to the late poet Kevin Higgins last weekend did not quite do justice to the bard’s talent and wit. Nor did they depict the full extent of the British Labour Party’s determination to hunt this dangerous poet down and purge him. Although he lived in Galway, Higgins was an exiled member of… Read more »
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SUZANNE LAURIE’S INSTITUTE
Date: January 26, 2023 -
WHILE THE health and wellness sector has been thriving in recent years, a Dublin-registered company, owned by Suzanne Laurie and Laurence Dann, that has been providing courses in this field has had to call in the company doctor to deliver a fatal dose of reality. The grandly titled Institute of Health Sciences (IHS) was incorporated… Read more »
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FOOD ‘VISIONARY’ McCONALOGUE
Date: January 26, 2023 -
WITH PRESSURE growing on all sectors to find ways to meet their legally binding emissions reduction targets, recent research conducted by the Irish Farmers Journal offered a rare, easy win for agriculture. The IFJ survey, involving over 800 farmers, found that around half were ready to either cut the size of their suckler cattle herds… Read more »
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ALTERNATIVE PATRIOTS
Date: January 26, 2023 -
On JANUARY 12, 11 protests – eight in Dublin – were organised against the provision of accommodation for immigrants in Ireland. The plan was to cause major traffic disruption by blocking important roads. The protestors took to the streets at 5pm but it soon became obvious that the numbers turning out were far less than… Read more »
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THE HOT AIR BRIGADE
Date: January 26, 2023 -
He’s the pre-eminent politician of our generation, internationally and both domestically. Fine Gael TD Peter Burke gives thanks to FG colleague Paschal Donohoe, Prime Time, RTÉ One Winter trees are not less than but differently beautiful to their summer fullness. Bare branches reveal fractals mirrored in our own organs, the bronchi that branch into bronchioles… Read more »
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MARTIN’S LONG BARGE POLE
Date: January 26, 2023 -
DURING ALL the toing and froing in the last couple of weeks as EU-UK talks on the protocol intensify, one aspect was notable: this Irish Government keeps northern nationalist representatives at arm’s length; with Micheál Martin as Tánaiste the arm will grow longer. One illustration is the kerfuffle on January 11, when British foreign secretary… Read more »
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PUSSY CAT BARRY COWEN
Date: January 26, 2023 -
MEDIA SURPRISE at the new model Barry Cowen’s merciful attitude to beleaguered Blueshirt minister Paschal Donohoe – normally a legitimate target in Cowen’s eyes – may or may not have been genuine. But if Irish Times court jester Miriam Lord was being deliberately ironic (likely) and the Indo’s Senan Moloney was merely regurgitating what Cowen… Read more »
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GENERAL ELECTION TIMING
Date: January 26, 2023 -
LEO VARADKAR’S stated preference for a general election to be held in the autumn of 2024 has not gone down well inside Fianna Fáil, especially in the parliamentary party, where there is fear and dread of any election and especially a Dáil election that would be held after the next locals. The local elections are… Read more »
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VARADKAR’S SECOND COMING
Date: January 26, 2023 -
LAST WEEKEND’S Behaviour and Attitudes/Sunday Times (B&A/ST) poll, showing Fianna Fáil six points ahead of Fine Gael (25-19), reflects the difference between B&A/ST poll ratings of FF/FG compared to all the other polling firms’ results on the same parties in the last 12 months. Of nine B&A polls in that time, six showed FF ahead… Read more »
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MARIA BAILEY COMEBACK?
Date: January 26, 2023 -
FORMER FINE GAEL TD Maria Bailey paid off a few scores in Simon Carswell’s Irish Times piece at the weekend, with Taoiseach Leo Varadkar the main target, although junior minister Josepha Madigan did not come over as one of Maria’s VBFs either. But what is the agenda behind this heavily researched and carefully laid out… Read more »
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SIMON CARSWELL’S SILVER MEDALS
Date: January 26, 2023 -
IRISH EXAMINER political editor Danny McConnell took the job as Business Post editor ahead of Simon Carswell, the public affairs editor and former Washington correspondent of the Irish Times, who many had expected to take the job given his broader experience. However, the Post is primarily business and politically oriented and Danny McConnell is also… Read more »
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OFF WITH HIS HEAD!
Date: January 26, 2023 -
CONSPIRACY THEORISTS believe an imposter may have used Eoghan Harris’s identity on social media to launch an attack on the British royal family for collaborating with the republican movement. This, the hypothesis goes, is because a recent tweet from Harris accused Charles III of being in league with Sinn Féin, as evidenced by the king’s… Read more »
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‘NAZI SHOW TRIALS’
Date: January 26, 2023 -
IRELAND’S BIODIVERSITY crisis is so severe it now requires a “societal response”, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar told the Citizens’ Assembly (CA) at the weekend. “This will benefit not just the people of Ireland but the entire ecosystem that we all depend on,” he said. The Citizens’ Assembly, the first in the world of its kind to… Read more »
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BOYD-BARETT AND THE NIMBYS
Date: January 26, 2023 -
WILL THE 2020s become the decade that Ireland finally takes its place as a major player in renewable energy? Not if the nimbys have anything to do with it. Plans are well under way to develop our first offshore wind farm in over 20 years, to be located on the Kish and Bray sandbanks, over… Read more »
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BRENDAN McDOWELL’S £2M DIVIDEND
Date: January 26, 2023 -
NO DOUBT cosmetics czar Brendan McDowell is glued to the latest series of Love Island, given his company’s marketing links to some of the stars of the series. Most recently, the BPerfect founder teamed up with the show’s 2022 winner, Ekin-Su Cülcüloğlu, to launch a new collection of slap on the market, BPerfect x Ekin-Su,… Read more »
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JOHN O’CONOR’S SUCCESSOR
Date: January 26, 2023 -
WHILE PIANIST John O’Conor is currently delivering his residency at the Glen Gould School of Toronto’s Royal Conservatory, the hunt is on back home to find a new artistic director at the Dublin International Piano Competition (DIPC). Given that founder JOC had been in situ for decades as artistic director and chair of the international… Read more »
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SIOBHAN’S BANSHEE WEBINAR
Date: January 26, 2023 -
MAYBE IT’S because Sunday Times editor Nóirín Hegarty previously worked for Lonely Planet but readers will have noticed a tendency of stories in the ‘news’ section of the paper to breathlessly puff up tourism and Irish travel agents in particular. This month saw headlines such as “Americans pay top dollar as tourism gets a reel… Read more »
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PAUL BYRNE’S HORSE TRADING
Date: January 26, 2023 -
RACEHORSE OWNERSHIP is a well-known way to burn through money but one man who is proving most adept at making a decent living out of owning nags is Paul Byrne. Through his association with the Mullins clan, most notably his pal Emmett, Byrne has pulled off some impressive deals in recent years, selling his Cheltenham… Read more »
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PAUL HENSEY’S POLITICAL CHALLENGE
Date: January 26, 2023 -
CLEARLY THE lure back to Ireland was too strong to resist for Paul Hensey, with the news that he is to take over from the retiring Paddy Walsh as head of the Association of Irish Racecourses (AIR). Hensey has been on an interesting journey since he ended his long association with the Curragh back in… Read more »
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DERRICK SMITH’S STRATEGY
Date: January 26, 2023 -
WHEN THE former Aidan O’Brien-trained and Coolmore-owned High Definition was sold to bloodstock agent Mark McStay at Tattersalls last October for £350,000, it was reported that the high-class colt would be going to Joseph O’Brien to embark on a career over hurdles. That lead to the natural assumption that High Definition would be carrying the… Read more »
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DÉSIRÉE FINNEGAN’S DIVIDEND
Date: January 26, 2023 -
ON JANUARY 20 Désirée Finnegan’s Screen Ireland (SI) finally published its 108-page report on the Section 481 film tax credit, entitled: The Cultural Dividend Generated by Ireland’s Section 481 Film and Television Incentive. Those waiting for a rundown on the dividend in question will be sorely disappointed. What readers of the report may define as… Read more »
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KERLIN’S SMILING DIRECTORS
Date: January 26, 2023 -
ART-LOVING moneybags Paddy McKillen has been busy fighting legal actions in recent times courtesy of his increasingly fraught relationship with the Qatari royal Al Thani family. Separately, the Irishman has never been shy about spending big bucks on art projects, as evidenced by his 540-acre Chateau La Coste cultural/tourist project in France. Another of Paddy’s… Read more »
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THE ONLY WAY IS UP FOR GREENCORE
Date: January 26, 2023 -
HAVING DISAPPOINTED the unfortunate Greencore shareholders over his 13-year reign, Paddy Coveney parachuted out of Greencore and left behind a company that is a shadow of what it once was. If investors were looking for some relief under a new regime, it is unlikely that… Read more »
CATHAL FRIEL DELIVERS AGAIN AT AMRYT
Date: January 26, 2023 -
CATHAL FRIEL has plenty of followers who are impressed by his entrepreneurship and optimism. His Raglan Capital supported John Craven’s Cove Energy, which was taken out by the Thai state-owned PPT for $1.25bn. That deal delivered a fantastic return to all Cove shareholders, including Mike Nolan and Tommy O’Gorman, but was seen by many market… Read more »
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ARNE VIGELAND’S IRISH ANGLE
Date: January 26, 2023 -
NEXT WEEK will see a creditors’ meeting held for a company called SJI Equities Ltd, which is owned by a Norwegian investor named Arne Vigeland. This company had starred as the plaintiff in a multimillion-euro Norwegian legal action – initiated against the directors of the listed RenoNorden ASA – in which allegations of insider information… Read more »
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KITE MEDICAL’S CRASH LANDING
Date: January 26, 2023 -
WHAT AT one stage looked like one of Ireland’s more promising medtech start-ups, Kite Medical Ltd, is now to be wound up after failing to secure long-term financing to complete the development of its patented technology. It attracted plenty of praise but not enough moolah. The company, which spun out of Galway University’s BioInnovate programme,… Read more »
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PAT O’FLYNN’S SUPPLEMENT BOOST
Date: January 26, 2023 -
PAT O’FLYNN’S iron-absorption supplements company Solvotrin Therapeutics continues to attract the big bucks, with a business expansion scheme (BES) fund the latest to come on board here to join the stellar line up of existing investors. In total, €4m has been raised in this latest round at €250 a share, with €2.1m chucked in by… Read more »
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BOWLER HATS’ BARGAIN AT THE CURRAGH
Date: January 26, 2023 -
WHILE THE state-backed Curragh racecourse has been haemorrhaging money – the 2021 accounts filed before Christmas show that Curragh Racecourse Ltd dropped €4m that year and accumulated losses hit €22.3m – of more interest to some is the ownership structure. Of particular interest is the large stake acquired by the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB),… Read more »
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DONOHOE’S SIPO COMPLAINT
Date: January 12, 2023 -
EUROPEAN POSTER-BOY boy Paschal Donohoe, now public expenditure minister and recently re-elected as president of the Eurogroup, may have his glistening image tarnished if a complaint to the Standards in Public Office Commission (Sipo) under the Electoral Act proceeds to a formal stage and an eventual adverse ruling. With some rather more serious allegations circulating… Read more »
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PROFILE: JENNIFER CARROLL MACNEILL
Date: January 12, 2023 -
While the media-hyped ministerial reshuffle turned out to be the damp squib that cynics had predicted, it was still interesting that Jennifer Carroll MacNeill, got the nod for a junior minister position ahead of the much-touted Neale Richmond. The 42-year-old barrister has makes no secret of her ambition to be a future leader of Fine… Read more »
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YOUNG BLOOD: SHARON KEEGAN
Date: January 12, 2023 -
SURELY THE biggest asset Sharon Keegan has is her ability to talk up her athleisure brand Peachylean? This year business watchers who have followed the company’s trajectory since it launched five years ago will get to see if it can deliver on its founder’s confidence. Keegan could never be accused of lacking ambition – or… Read more »
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HEAVING GOING FOR TRAINERS
Date: January 12, 2023 -
A DEVASTATING ruling by the Court of Appeal has meant a very bad start to 2023 for the new regime at the Irish Racehorse Trainers Association (IRTA). There has to now be a question mark over whether the body can avoid a trip to the knacker’s yard. The IRTA went through a recent leadership change… Read more »
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MARTIN’S DIPLOMACY
Date: January 12, 2023 -
IT’S BEEN a rough year for Russian diplomats on Dublin’s Orwell Road since Russia invaded Ukraine, when the Russian embassy became a focus for protests by Ukrainian exiles and their Irish supporters. Probably the most dramatic of the protests in the early months was when Desmond Wisely, the owner of an ecclesiastical supplies company, drove… Read more »
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BRUSSELS BAGGAGE
Date: January 12, 2023 -
THERE HAS, not surprisingly, been acres of space devoted to the scandal over cash-fuelled lobbying by the Qatari government of European Parliament members, with a number of players arrested to date, most notably parliament vice president Eva Kaili. Goldhawk has previously reported on how other counties in the Gulf region, the United Arab Emirates (UAE)… Read more »
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MICHAEL HEFFERNAN’S NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS
Date: January 12, 2023 -
THERE HAVE been some changes in the business portfolio of Michael Heffernan, son of Dunnes Stores boss Margaret, with the businessman having checked out of his hotel group. Meanwhile, his fashion interests remain very much on trend. The annual return filed just before Christmas for H&H Hotels Collection covers the year to April 17, 2022,… Read more »
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JACKY TEHAN’S PROMOTION
Date: January 12, 2023 -
THERE HAVE been some changes at the Roche family’s investment company, where Jacky Flavin Tehan has moved into the hot seat. Flavin Tehan is the daughter of Mary and DCC founder Jim Flavin and indeed her hubby, Paddy Tehan, is a senior suit in the DCC group. Jacky’s own background is in accountancy, having worked… Read more »
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