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EAST WALL’S GANDHI RESURFACES
Date: December 1, 2022 -
AMONG THE speakers, mostly outsiders from the hard right, attempting to mobilise East Wall residents against refugees was a more exotic political personality, locally born Malachy Steenson, aka Gandhi of North Strand. Gandhi has managed to combine a history of diverse political attachments and allies with various campaigns, some of which led to fractious disagreements… Read more »
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IRAN-KINAHAN SCARY STORY
Date: December 1, 2022 -
THE IRISH edition of the Sunday Times has been purged of most long-time, senior staff but crime and security correspondent John Mooney remains in situ. This is either because of editor Nóirín Hegarty’s appetite for spooky stories and tales of cops’n’robbers or because the ST’s London management appreciates the editorial value of Mooney’s sources in… Read more »
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CHAPTER ONE’S NEW CHAPTER
Date: December 1, 2022 -
THE WINDING-UP of a company called Lindley Ltd has just taken place, marking an ‘official’ end to the original Ross Lewis-fronted Chapter One restaurant business, where the name in lights these days is Mickael Viljanen. The good news for Ross is that he still appears to have comfortably the biggest share of the plate. Before… Read more »
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SHEIKH FAHAD’S THOROUGHBREDS
Date: December 1, 2022 -
THERE HAS, not surprisingly, been oodles of coverage over the last month of the Qatar’s sports-washing agenda, which is playing itself out for a global audience courtesy of the World Cup. There is also the well-known and much-debated ownership of the Paris Saint-Germain football club by Qatar Sports Investments. Less high profile, however, is the… Read more »
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ROBERT TYNER’S U-TURN
Date: December 1, 2022 -
ANOTHER TRAINER who had a spot of bother with the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB) earlier this year is Robert Tyner. During the summer the Cork-based trainer announced his intention to quit the business, citing staffing issues and quality of life as the main reasons, although it looks like he will be around for a… Read more »
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GO, HARVEY, GO!
Date: December 1, 2022 -
IN A timely editorial last Saturday, the Irish Times warned: “Indigenous retailers have been effectively strong-armed into holding Black Friday sales by multinationals better equipped to buy in stock specifically for sales… many small and independent Irish retailers cannot afford such luxury but have little choice but to compete. Over 50 per cent of the… Read more »
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GREENS DIVIDE ON CETA
Date: November 17, 2022 -
GREEN PARTY TD Patrick Costello has gone from naive radical to triumphant litigant fighting the EU-Canada trade deal, Ceta, with his successful Supreme Court victory last week. But it is his own party members, or more precisely the Eamon Ryan led leadership, that forms the real opposition to his crusade on the issue. As party… Read more »
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VARADKAR’S BLACK AND BLUE SHIRTS
Date: November 17, 2022 -
RECENT ATTACKS by Leo Varadkar on Sinn Féin have tried to link the party to far-right movements in Europe. At the launch of the Fine Gael think-in in Kilkenny in September, Vlad ventured: “Bear in mind, if Mary Lou became Taoiseach there would only be three potential prime ministers who will be out of the… Read more »
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EAMON MARRAY’S MASK PROTEST
Date: November 17, 2022 -
THERE WERE fun and games in the Dublin County Registrar’s court last week when experienced commercial law barrister Eamon Marray made it pretty damn clear that he wouldn’t be wearing any mask for the call-over. It was not the first time the issue of masks had exercised the highly regarded legal eagle. Rita Considine is… Read more »
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PAUL HOURICAN’S RETURN
Date: November 17, 2022 -
GOLDHAWK’S favourite landlord Paul Hourican is living proof that you can’t keep a good man down. Having been burned by his adventure with Period Door Properties (PDP), the D4-based all-rounder is back in the estate agency game. It will be recalled (see The Phoenix 23/4/21) that Hourican first made an impact when the number of… Read more »
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LAST ‘POST’ GOES SCANDINAVIAN
Date: November 17, 2022 -
REPORTS LAST week that Swedish publishing multinational Bonnier is to take an indeterminate stake in the Business Post may begin to shed light on just who the Post’s investors are, besides owner Enda O’Coineen. When he bought the paper in 2018, O’Coineen gave the impression that he was preparing for a flotation in Sweden. He… Read more »
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MISCOUNTING GENDER QUOTAS
Date: November 17, 2022 -
ELEVATION TO the Fianna Fáil ard comhairle (AC) may not be everyone’s idea of political paradise but it caused a dispute between junior equality and children’s minister Anne Rabbitte and party bosses. The dispute also recently involved former front-bench spokesperson and current party leader in the Seanad, Lisa Chambers. The parliamentary party nominated three women… Read more »
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UNARMED COVENEY
Date: November 17, 2022 -
THE DEFENCE department released a press release last month regarding the information and networking event it had organised in the Aviva Stadium could not have been more bland, banal or even bureaucratic. The event title, “Building the ecosystem – identifying connections for collaboration in security, defence and dual technologies”, was stultifying. Yet the conference was… Read more »
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PIPPA O’CONNOR’S POT STILL
Date: November 17, 2022 -
THE RELENTLESS expansion of Pippa O’Connor Ormond’s business interests has continued in the form of a move into the vodka game. Having signed on as a creative director at the Istil38 Irish vodka brand back in April, she has now put her money where her mouth is. Istil38 was established last year by John Reynolds… Read more »
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JOHN BRADY’S PLOT TWIST
Date: November 17, 2022 -
AS FANS of Goldhawk are aware, there has been a relentless rise in the number of film and TV studio projects at various stages of planning – all preparing to slug it out for a share of the lucrative tax breaks worth around €110m pa at last count. One operation in the west now finds… Read more »
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KEVIN MANNING’S FUTURE
Date: November 17, 2022 -
AFTER A successful career in the saddle spanning four decades, Kevin Manning finally hung up his boots after winning on Vocal Studies at Galway, trained by Jim Bolger, his father-in-law. The jockey’s retirement now raises the question of where he goes from here and will it involve being part of Bolger’s big training and breeding… Read more »
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THE QUEEN OF DIRT ISLAND – DONAL RYAN
Date: November 17, 2022 -
HAVING MADE an impact with his early ‘recession-lit’ fiction, Donal Ryan continues to be associated with vividly drawn characters, wrenchingly sad lives and a compressed lyrical style. His latest novel has the usual rural Tipperary setting and takes place over four decades from the 1980s to the present time. The story traces turning points in… Read more »
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DRINKAWARE’S BUSY YEAR
Date: November 17, 2022 -
THE PRICE of alcohol was back in the news this month as giant brewer Heineken upped the cost of a pint by around 10% in Ireland, with Budweiser and Diageo looking set to follow suit. Heineken and Diageo are also backers of the industry-funded ‘charity’ DrinkAware, which has just filed its 2021 annual report. DrinkAware… Read more »
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COP27: MARTIN ON CYNICISM
Date: November 17, 2022 -
IT’S NOT unusual to hear politicians being called out by NGOs and activists for their empty words and hollow rhetoric on the climate emergency. However, you sense that something significant has changed when Taoiseach Micheál Martin warned, at COP27, that “our citizens will become increasingly cynical, weary and hopeless if words are not urgently matched… Read more »
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THE HOT AIR BRIGADE
Date: November 17, 2022 -
Now, it’s rare for a creative genius like Shane to have one avenue of output. Such an incendiary talent is likely to have a multitude of facilities whereby his talent might infiltrate the atmosphere and change the climate. Johnny Depp in the foreword to Shane MacGowan’s new book, The Eternal Buzz and The Crock of… Read more »
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DUP: NO ONE LIKES US — WE DON’T CARE
Date: November 17, 2022 -
IN A remarkable series of assertions last month, Taoiseach Micheál Martin told the Financial Times that the Good Friday Agreement (GFA) is “not fit for purpose”, that its voting system “does polarise” and has to be reformed because “there’s a good spread of parties”. That’s not a great endorsement for the celebrations planned for the… Read more »
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FF BALANCE OF FORCES
Date: November 17, 2022 -
MUCH SPECULATION about minor adjustments to Cabinet members of both Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael in the December upheaval ignores the likelihood of greater changes at junior ministerial level, something that would have a greater impact in FF. For some time there has been a clutch of TDs in FF who are neither part of… Read more »
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WHAT A LOVELY WAR
Date: November 17, 2022 -
AMID MEDIA hand-wringing about Ukraine and Nato propaganda masquerading as journalism, it takes a small NGO to reveal who has really been making decisions about the energy and inflation crisis and who makes multi-billion profits from the same crisis. Coming after reports of the obscene profits (€78 billion plus) made by Big Oil during the… Read more »
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NO IMPEACHMENT AT TRINNERS
Date: November 17, 2022 -
IT’S BEEN a rocky start for Ailbhe Noonan, newly elected editor of University Times, the Irish student publication of the year for six out of the last seven years. However, this academic year’s first UT edition was error strewn, with articles finishing mid-paragraph, incorrect headings and no bylines on many articles. The second edition was… Read more »
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DECLAN RYAN’S VERANDA
Date: November 17, 2022 -
PLANNING PERMISSION has just been granted to a little-known company to add a veranda to the multimillion-euro former abode of the Brazilian ambassador on leafy Temple Road in D6. This is good news for one Declan Ryan. It will be recalled (see The Phoenix 11/3/22) that, despite owning an already impressive portfolio of Dublin properties,… Read more »
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PADDY’S CHOCOLATE ADVENTURE
Date: November 17, 2022 -
HAVING SURPRISINGLY branched into the confectionery business with the purchase of Skelligs Chocolates, Paddy McKillen Jnr will be hoping to shift lots of ‘Chocolate Pyramids’ next month. Documents just filed reveal that he has bought a business primed for take-off. The Companies Office filings show that ownership of Skelligs was transferred from Colm Healy to… Read more »
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MV MAGNIER’S SPENDING SPREE
Date: November 17, 2022 -
AFTER SADDLING three winners at the Breeders’ Cup in Lexington Kentucky, Aidan O’Brien is within sight of becoming the most successful trainer in the history of the Breeders’ Cup. O’Brien currently sits on 16 winners, four behind retired American training legend D Wayne Lukas. Given O’Brien’s appetite for the game, he could well overtake Lukas… Read more »
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PHILIP BYRNES’S SETBACK
Date: November 17, 2022 -
CHARLES BYRNES has bounced back in some style this year after serving his six-month ban for negligence in 2021 over the high-profile case of the mysterious nobbling of Viking Hoard at Tramore a few years ago. The trainer has also landed a few nice gambles, particularly in England. The most recent one came last month… Read more »
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GAMBLE THAT NEVER WAS
Date: November 17, 2022 -
A LOT of gambles are overhyped and often even invented by bookies to get ordinary punters to jump on the bandwagon and lash out the cash. Recently at Thurles, however, there was a significant gamble on the Tom Cooper-trained Palladian Jewel just minutes before the off, which saw the horse’s price tumble from an opening… Read more »
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ROBERT DRENNAN’S SOUL SEARCHING
Date: November 17, 2022 -
SO FAREWELL then to Robert Drennan’s trendy sofa retailer Soul, which has been wound up after a decade in business. Happily, design conscious south Co Dublin urbanites will still be able to decorate their gaffs with gear from the replacement business, Modern Soul, which is already up and running. Soul actually stands for ‘spirit of… Read more »
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JENNY ROCK’S ADVICE
Date: November 17, 2022 -
VIRTUALLY EVERY media outlet provides some kind of ‘your money’ or ‘how to save it’ advice these days, with some mid-tier entrepreneur or business guru offering words of wisdom. In such turbulent economic times, sage advice is not to be turned down, of course, so Goldhawk’s eye was caught by such advice in the Indo… Read more »
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ANNUAL 2022: GOLDHAWK’S AWARDS FOR THE PASSING PARADE
Date: November 17, 2022 -
MOYA DOHERTY WITH RTÉ on the hunt for a new board chair, outgoing chairwoman Moya Doherty will prove a hard act to follow for anyone seeking to avoid making a lasting impact. At a time of growing concern over the effect our actions have on the environment, Moya’s ‘leave no trace’ approach has to be… Read more »
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ANNUAL 2022: GOVERNMENT – THE REAL WAR: VLAD V MARTIN
Date: November 17, 2022 -
IF 2021 was the year in which Government parties and their praetorian guard in the media were rendered aghast by the rise of Sinn Féin to 30% circa in the polls, then 2022 conjured up images of barbarians at the gate. Mary Lou McDonald and her comrades rose to 35%-37% in the polls, causing shrieks… Read more »
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ANNUAL 2022: OPPOSITION – ALEXANDRA GIRL RULES OK!
Date: November 17, 2022 -
FOR A man who has cultivated such a pugnacious image, Alan Kelly gave up the leadership of the Labour Party with less than a whimper. His brother Declan’s firm, Teneo, sponsored Tipperary GAA for several years. They would be embarrassed to have walked off the field after putting up so little of a fight. But,… Read more »
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ANNUAL 2022: INDEPENDENTS/TROTS – INDEPENDENTS LEFT AND RIGHT
Date: November 17, 2022 -
THE INDEPENDENTS and minor parties of the left continue to cheerlead from the sidelines but they have little tangible achievement of which to boast. IN THE 2020 election, 18% of first-preference votes went to Independents or candidates of People Before Profit/Solidarity and Aontú. The far-left might dispute Aontú’s positioning here, since it is so vehemently… Read more »
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ANNUAL 2022: PROFILE – MARY LOU McDONALD
Date: November 17, 2022 -
MARY LOU McDonald perplexes the pundits. For decades they warded off support for Sinn Féin’s message down south by appealing to a liberal community located in south county Dublin and equivalent locations across the state. The national question was peripheralised in the far-off north, about which the public was presumed to know little or nothing,… Read more »
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