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KINCORA COVER-UP — AGAIN
Date: October 6, 2022 -
THE KINCORA Boys’ Home scandal, as old as the northern Troubles, not only refuses to go away but now threatens to burst into the open again, this time with much greater consequences than hitherto. The Police Ombudsman of Northern Ireland (PONI), Marie Anderson, has produced… Read more »
AID FOR DALAI LAMA
Date: October 6, 2022 -
the 87-year-old Dalai Lama must be wondering where Robo is when you need her, as a Trinity College Dublin (TCD) committee agonises about whether to upset the Chinese government by conferring him with an honorary degree. Ex-president of Ireland and former Reid professor of law at TCD, Mary Robinson has long been a champion of… Read more »
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GUNS’N’HOUSES
Date: October 6, 2022 -
THE “MODEST” 5.6% increase in Irish defence spending – to €1.174bn – in Budget 2023 appeared not to cause any negative reaction from either the minister responsible, Simon Coveney, or other interested quarters. This is because the sums have already been done and negotiations concluded, not merely for this year but the next six years,… Read more »
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AER LINGUS HACKED AGAIN?
Date: October 6, 2022 -
WHEN AER LINGUS suffered a significant IT outage on September 10, Goldhawk pointed out that the account provided by the airline made little sense (see The Phoenix 23/09/22). A more likely explanation lay in the fact that the airline’s Astral network was linked to British Airways via an entity called IAG Tech. This opened the… Read more »
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FINE GAEL BORDER POLL
Date: October 6, 2022 -
MORE EVIDENCE of Leo Varadkar’s cunning plot to outmanoeuvre Micheál Martin on the national question (see The Phoenix 9/9/22) came with his appearance at the Ireland’s Future event at the 3Arena last weekend. But another piece of evidence came with an Irish Independent article last week by Fine Gael councillor (Dún Laoghaire) Lorraine Hall that… Read more »
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FF/FG CIVIL WARS
Date: October 6, 2022 -
THE PERSISTENCE of Cork City Fine Gael councillors and others in their quest to honour Michael Collins with the erection of a statue has finally been rewarded. But it’s no thanks to FG’s coalition partners, Fianna Fáil, led by Taoiseach Micheál Martin’s brother, Seán, on Cork City Council. He initially opposed the proposal despite the… Read more »
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CAUGHT RED HANDED
Date: October 6, 2022 -
CONTROVERSIAL LOYALIST Jolene Bunting was elected to Belfast City Council in 2014. Offensive comments about Muslims, jokes about the famine and allowing British first deputy leader Jayda Fransen to broadcast from the lord mayor’s chair in Belfast City Council were among 14 complaints made against Bunting that led to her suspension from the council in… Read more »
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DOUBLE DUTCH
Date: October 6, 2022 -
IN THE last fortnight Dutch MEP Paul Tang travelled to the Emerald Isle as he had a bone to pick about the thorny question of Ireland’s tax system. Tang, a member of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats and chairman of a European Union tax subcommittee, claimed Ireland was not a “real European partner”… Read more »
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THE HOT AIR BRIGADE
Date: October 6, 2022 -
Prudent Paschal channels his inner Charlie McCreevy with a giveaway Budget that leaves Sinn Féin in stunned silence. Senan Molloy’s headline in the Irish Independent We are a small team and so being one of the top shows in the country, and only an hour on a Sunday, means a lot. I had this plan… Read more »
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LIES, DAMN LIES AND CENSUS DENIAL
Date: October 6, 2022 -
Among southern politicians and the media, the universal public response to the census results in the north was: “Move along now. Nothing to see here and don’t say anything sectarian as you move along.” It makes no difference. The Irish Times devoted almost a page to this approach, calming anxieties about the inescapable political consequences…. Read more »
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SDLP SPLIT WITH FIANNA FÁIL
Date: October 6, 2022 -
THE ANNOUNCEMENT of the split sounded more like non-consummatum than divorce as the two partners to the supposed union, Fianna Fáil and the SDLP, never got into bed with each other regardless of any formal political sacrament. SDLP leader Colum Eastwood was left jilted at the altar rails more than once by the capricious Micheál… Read more »
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FF ARD FHEIS
Date: October 6, 2022 -
A MISCHIEVOUS leak from disloyal Fianna Fáil sources to the Irish Daily Mail spoke of “abysmally low” numbers having registered to attend the party’s ard fheis just a week beforehand — allegedly only 700 members had signed up compared with 3,000 in previous years. This in turn put pressure on the leadership, including Micheál Martin… Read more »
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OAKLEY EXITS POST
Date: October 6, 2022 -
THE DEPARTURE of Business Post editor Richie Oakley is just the latest such resignation and underlines the flight of national editors from their positions in the last 12 months. The editor of the Aawrish Sunday Times, Frank Fitzgibbon, threw in the towel just 12 months ago which, along with the Post, means that two of… Read more »
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OAKLEY RIDES AGAIN
Date: October 6, 2022 -
BUSINESS POST editor Richie Oakley is on the move again and has gone over to what many journalists deride as the ‘dark side’, ie public relations, with his recruitment to Murray Group, formerly Murray Consultants. Oakley has worked for the Sunday Tribune, Sunday Times, Times Ireland and the Business Post. Now Richie Oakley has become… Read more »
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WEAK CLIMATE BUDGET 2023
Date: October 6, 2022 -
When delivering Budget 2023, finance minister Pascal Donohoe referred to “our defining challenge of climate change”. Those expecting this budget to be the moment where the rhetoric of Ireland’s 2019 declaration of a climate and biodiversity emergency became reality were to be sorely disappointed. The carbon tax is expected to bring in €623m next year,… Read more »
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SCEPTIC SKEHAN
Date: October 6, 2022 -
THE Sunday Independent continues to platform landscape architect, planner and would-be influencer extraordinaire Conor Skehan. While lacking either expertise or credibility on energy or climate, Skehan now regaling Sindo readers on a weekly basis with his assorted thoughts on everything from energy security to hurricane Ian. This week, he discussed the hurricane that flattened large… Read more »
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NCH’S NEW TUNE
Date: October 6, 2022 -
THE POPULAR Tradition Now bi-annual traditional musical series returns to the National Concert Hall (NCH) this month and will feature some big names, including singer Luka Bloom, piper Paddy Keenan and the exciting band The Unthanks, who will be joined by Louise Mulcahy. A couple of other new names have also (finally) been unveiled on… Read more »
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JP MCMAHON’S VIEW
Date: October 6, 2022 -
THE ALWAYS opinionated chef and restaurateur JP McMahon has been cooking up a new business structure, having incorporated two new companies. Although he is separating from his wife, Drigin Gaffey (who also has her own ‘life-coaching’ business called Creating Self), the split is clearly amicable and she has popped up as the second director in… Read more »
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MARY LOU McDONALD – SHANE ROSS
Date: October 6, 2022 -
“I must make a confession… I have known and liked Mary Lou McDonald for many years.” Shane Ross anticipated co-operation in writing her biography but Mary Lou McDonald politely declined, wisely. Ross despises McDonald’s leadership of “a party full of hardened IRA veterans”. He demonstrates little empathy for why thousands in the north supported or… Read more »
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O’LOUGHLIN’S ROUGH RIDE
Date: October 6, 2022 -
THE NEW chief executive of the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB), Darragh O’Loughlin, had his first experience of sitting in the Oireachtas hot seat at a recent public accounts committee (PAC) meeting and the pharmacist was left in no doubt that his honeymoon period was over. Among the many issues he has inherited from former… Read more »
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EADE IN THE SADDLE
Date: October 6, 2022 -
HORSE RACING Ireland (HRI) chief executive Suzanne Eade also felt the heat of the public accounts committee chinwag last month, with questions about a land deal at Tipperary Racecourse among the contentious issues that she had to answer. Back in 2019, when Eade was financial controller of the HRI, Tipperary Racecourse (owned by the HRI)… Read more »
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MAHON’S SETBACKS
Date: October 6, 2022 -
STEPHEN MAHON – the star witness in Paul Kimmage’s Sunday Indo series of allegations of widespread doping in horse-racing circles published earlier this year – has suffered yet another setback, having been found guilty of assaulting a former neighbour with a riding whip two years ago. Mahon, who was banned from training by the Irish… Read more »
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BIG BOYS’ BIG POT
Date: October 6, 2022 -
THE CURRAGH’S revamped weekend of racing, which included the Goffs Million and the €600,000 Friends of The Curragh Irish Cesarewitch handicap, was hailed as a great success by track CEO Brian Kavanagh. Although there was over €1m in the prize money pot for the Goffs race – money provided essentially by owners and purchasers of… Read more »
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PRAXIS AND THE VENICE BIENNALE
Date: October 6, 2022 -
WHEN THE Arts Union of Ireland – also known as Praxis – announced itself on the scene last year (see The Phoenix 9/4/21), it was clear the new entity intended to shake things up, initially targeting the Arts Council’s byzantine funding application process. The union has since turned its sights on the Venice Biennale but… Read more »
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DISAPPOINTING TULLOW OIL SHARES NOW UNDERVALUED
Date: October 6, 2022 -
WITH OIL prices averaging over $100 a barrel in the first half of this year, the oil industry worldwide has been experiencing a profit bonanza, with super majors such as Shell and Exxon quadrupling half-year returns to $18bn. Against this background, the market had expected the Irish entry in this sector, Tullow Oil, to do… Read more »
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DATALEX’S VALUATION IMPOSSIBLE TO EXPLAIN
Date: October 6, 2022 -
WERE IT not for the significant financial support of Dermot Desmond, Datalex would have crashed and burned by now. It is difficult to understand the billionaire’s motivation, given that the company has been though several crises since it first took off in 1999 with Howth-based Scot Neil Wilson in the cockpit. Today, Datalex is flying… Read more »
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ALVAN HUNT’S LATEST INVESTMENT
Date: October 6, 2022 -
THERE’S BEEN plenty of, er, buzz around Hexafly lately, the Irish company that wants to turn insects into animal feed to provide a global supply of sustainable meal and fertiliser. The Business Post lent an able hand last weekend, breaking the news that the company is on the verge of a deal to “secure €40m… Read more »
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LEECH PAPERS FILED AWAY
Date: October 6, 2022 -
A FORMER document disposal and paper recycling business called Leech Papers Ltd (LPL) has been placed in liquidation by the High Court, more than a year after an application from a former listed director and shareholder of the company. The long-established LPL was set up back in 1982, with Joe Leech in situ as the… Read more »
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IVAN WILDE’S NEW COURSE
Date: October 6, 2022 -
CHOPPY WATERS recently for fishing boat skipper Ivan Wilde, who has battled complaints from some workers about pay and conditions, while also winding up one of his profitable companies. Wilde’s family is steeped in Dublin fishing but one of his former employees, Jose Pame Salandron, has been involved in a lengthy Labour Court battle with… Read more »
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RYANAIR’S BUSINESS CLASS
Date: September 22, 2022 -
THERE WAS A bumpy landing for those financial hacks who booked their tickets for the Ryanair AGM in north County Dublin last week. The question is, what were they doing there in the first place. The sorry state of affairs began with Mick O’Leary and the Ryanair PR firm, Edelman, seeking to ban the Indo’s… Read more »
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PROFILE: FRANCES BLACK
Date: September 22, 2022 -
CIVIC GROUP Ireland’s Future may still be a little hazy and fraught with antagonism from most unionists and southern partitionists, but south it is coming next month. Its chairperson is singer, addiction counsellor and Independent senator Frances Black. But who is Frances Black politically and why is she the face of Ireland’s Future? Black’s interest… Read more »
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YOUNG BLOOD: ROZ PURCELL
Date: September 22, 2022 -
BEING PLACED in the top 10 at the Donald Trump-owned Miss Universe contest in 2010, the career of all-round media darling Roz Purcell has pivoted from modelling to food and nutrition in recent years. While the Tipperary woman’s persona is one of goofy chumminess, her strategy of promoting inclusivity, eco-friendliness and body positivity has backfired… Read more »
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McDOWELL TO TAKE OUT RYAN IN DBS?
Date: September 22, 2022 -
GREEN PARTY leader and climate minister Eamon Ryan has been roughed up by political hit man and ex-minister Michael McDowell, repeatedly in recent months. Senator McDowell’s invective is savage. “Piffle about sod turf, lettuce in window boxes… no time for wand waving or wishful thinking… highly irrational” and so on is how he describes the… Read more »
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MYSTERY IT CRASH AT AER LINGUS
Date: September 22, 2022 -
THE COMPUTERISED IT system at Aer Lingus suffered a significant crash on Saturday September 10, from 9am to 5.30pm. The disruption caused the airline to cancel more than 50 flights on the day. Only a thorough review would establish if the Irish system shut itself down to snuff out a trojan virus. Aer Lingus is… Read more »
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CATHERINE MURPHY’S CRUSADE
Date: September 22, 2022 -
YOU HAVE to hand it to Social Democrats co-leader Catherine Murphy for sheer chutzpah in the face of the embarrassing conclusions in Justice Brian Cregan’s report into the IBRC sale of Siteserv to Denis O’Brien 10 years ago. Instead of slipping away quietly with a modicum of embarrassment and a mild statement of disapproval about… Read more »
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NEW CHAIR FOR RTÉ
Date: September 22, 2022 -
NEXT WEEK is the closing date for applicants seeking to land the plum job of chairperson of RTÉ. There should be plenty of interest given the perks. The post was advertised only two weeks ago and the overall three-week window seems pretty short given the significance of the gig. The wheels need to start turning,… Read more »
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