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DUBLIN PARNELLS’ OWN GOAL
Date: September 8, 2022 -
LOOKS LIKE the long-established Parnells GAA club in Coolock, D5, might have scored an own goal following a costly lawsuit. Certainly, someone took their eye off the ball to allow recruitment firm Barry M Whelan to slip in and register a near €20,000 judgment against… Read more »
RODERIC O’GORMAN’S WAR EFFORT
Date: September 8, 2022 -
ELSEWHERE IN this issue (see p3) Goldhawk examines the awarding of contracts to accommodation providers, particularly hotel owners in relation to the arrival here of 50,000 refugees from Ukraine. There have been plenty of businesses stepping up to do their part – and being well rewarded for the effort too. A list of the contracts… Read more »
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DEE FORBES’S PLEADINGS
Date: September 8, 2022 -
THE INTRO to RTÉ’s autumn season launch is familiar to perusers of press releases from assorted Irish film festivals, Screen Ireland, IFTA and film industry organisations: “This upcoming season from RTÉ celebrates Irish culture, creativity and Irish talent, with Irish drama, unique Irish stories, and… Read more »
FACTORY GIRLS – MICHELLE GALLEN
Date: September 8, 2022 -
THE CASTLEDERG author’s debut novel Big Girl, Small Town (2020) features a 27-year-old chip-shop worker trapped in a Co Tyrone backwater during the 1970s. It offers an ominously comic perspective on a life overshadowed by sectarian conflict. Michelle Gallen’s second book, Factory Girls, also explores the legacy of the Troubles but is rather less sure-footed…. Read more »
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VOL 40 NO 17
Date: August 25, 2022 -
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‘IRISH TIMES’ HOT SEAT
Date: August 25, 2022 -
THE EXIT of Paul O’Neill, after little more than five years as the editor of the Irish Times, came as a surprise to outsiders, although the rumour machine has been in overdrive since last month. Now, the focus turns to his successor. The announcement from… Read more »
PROFILE: NORMA FOLEY
Date: August 25, 2022 -
THE ANNUAL back-to-school drama festival is kicking off with an all-star female cast in Dublin’s Marlborough Street, home of that venerable institution that has given us so much good theatre over the years – the Department of Education. The Irish Examiner’s political correspondent, Daniel McConnell, reported recently that some insiders call education minister Norma Foley… Read more »
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YOUNG BLOOD: MUIREANN O’CONNELL
Date: August 25, 2022 -
HAVING BEEN dropped from her radio show on Today FM in 2019, the gobby Muireann O’Connell is powering ahead with her TV career with Virgin and side hustle as a social media influencer. While her brash style is not to every viewer’s taste, the 39-year-old is now firmly installed as the golden girl of Virgin… Read more »
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BARRY COWEN’S CAMPAIGN
Date: August 25, 2022 -
BARRY COWEN’S supporters in Fianna Fáil have been working overtime, pushing out a leadership election message via the sympathetic pages of the Irish Mail on Sunday. One of the paper’s weekly “exclusives” was headlined: “Cowen ‘a contender’ for Fianna Fáil leader” and was remarkably positive about the prospects of former taoiseach Brian Cowen’s brother. Apparently,… Read more »
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MORE HEADACHES FOR DEE FORBES
Date: August 25, 2022 -
RTÉ’S HEAD of news and current affairs, Jon Williams, threw a clever feint with his new year’s message to staff back in January by telling them he was poised to become an Irish citizen (see The Phoenix 14/1/22). Clearly, this showed that the executive was… Read more »
LAW SOCIETY TRUCE
Date: August 25, 2022 -
BOTH SIDES have temporarily backed down in the Law Society controversy that saw a motion to expel 2020-21 president James Cahill from the society’s co-ordination committee, finance committee and all finance sub-committees (see The Phoenix 1/7/22). The two council members who moved the motion — Richard Hammond SC and Dr Shane McCarthy — argue that… Read more »
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ROSIE CONNOLLY’S NEW FRIENDS
Date: August 25, 2022 -
ALTHOUGH barely a year in existence, influencer Rosie Connolly’s new fashion brand has attracted some unlikely funders. Given that one of them is Tommy Kelly, the zillionaire behind the stupendously successful online sales outfit eShopworld, the future looks particularly bright for Rosie’s own online business…. Read more »
FIONA MCHUGH’S CLOUDY OUTLOOK
Date: August 25, 2022 -
HAVING ONLY recently found herself on the end of a tiny judgment from the Revenue for just €1,850 (presumably as a result of some oversight), former Sunday Times editor turned businesswoman Fiona McHugh has suffered another setback with her Rathmines bar and restaurant availing of new legislation aimed at helping struggling small to medium-sized companies… Read more »
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BIG DATA, BIG EMISSIONS
Date: August 25, 2022 -
“DATA CENTRES have a lot of roof space so installing solar panels on the top of their facilities could help make them energy self-sufficient.” This tip from industry insider Chris Collins of Schneider Electric was the concluding line of an otherwise mostly useful two-page spread in last Sunday’s Business Post on the problem with data… Read more »
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LORRAINE KEANE’S BATHROOMS
Date: August 25, 2022 -
GOLDHAWK WAS surprised to see two pages devoted to Lorraine Keane’s Monkstown pile in the Sunday Times last weekend. Three years after the impressive house she shares with musician-cum-radio presenter Peter Devlin and their children was the subject of oodles of publicity when it was put on the market with a €2.65m price tag, the… Read more »
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PAT MCDONAGH’S BUN FIGHT
Date: August 25, 2022 -
BURGER KING Pat ‘Supermac’s’ McDonagh found himself in a stand-off with a Limerick-based franchisee John Lyons over alleged rent arrears. It looks like the bolshy McDonagh has met his match. Earlier this month, gardaí attended a burger joint on the Ennis Road that operates under the name The Hungry Lyons. They were called when McDonagh… Read more »
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CLINTEL’S DECLARATION
Date: August 25, 2022 -
WITH EVIDENCE of climate change impossible to avoid this summer a Dutch-based group Clintel, mainly funded by a real-estate millionaire, issued a statement that there is “no climate emergency”. Carbon dioxide is “plant food, the basis of all life on Earth” and it’s “increasing the yields of crops worldwide”, according to Clintel, which added that… Read more »
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HEAVY GOING AT HRI
Date: August 25, 2022 -
THE LONG overdue publication of the annual report of Brian Kavanagh’s Horse Racing Ireland (HRI) agency is due next month and there will be plenty of interest in its contents. The odds look pretty short that there is trouble brewing. The draft accounts were received from HRI headquarters by Comptroller & Auditor General Seamus McCarthy… Read more »
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DERMOT McCARTHY’S REVIEW
Date: August 25, 2022 -
WITH THE hapless Irish public facing a ‘perfect storm’ of power cuts, fuel rationing and soaring prices both this and next winter, the Government has asked former chief civil servant Dermot McCarthy to conduct “an independent review of electricity supply matters”. It is already clear that there will be plenty of blame to go around,… Read more »
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ALTADA SETS THE RECORD STRAIGHT
Date: August 25, 2022 -
IT HAS been a hectic August for Allan Beechinor and Niamh Parker, the principals in the Altada artificial intelligence (AI) outfit tipped to be the next ‘unicorn’ but now the subject of intense scrutiny over the level of spending and need for investment. While the… Read more »
‘TANS’ WRITTEN OUT OF HISTORY
Date: August 25, 2022 -
A DISAPPOINTED Charlie ‘BlackandTanAgain’ Flanagan and friends will not, as promised, be organising another effort to celebrate the contribution of the Royal Irish Constabulary to Irish independence and town planning via the burning of Cork City, Fermoy, Balbriggan, and many creameries and villages around the country. To our inestimable shame, nationalist Ireland felt the celebrations… Read more »
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KINCORA WHISTLE BLOWER DIES
Date: August 25, 2022 -
CAPTAIN BRIAN GEMMELL, who ran loyalist agents for MI5 in the mid-1970s, has died. When Gemmell discovered that boys were being abused by a staff member at Kincora Boys’ Home in Belfast, he reported this to MI5, only to be ordered to drop his inquiries by Ian Cameron, a top MI5 officer. In 2014 Gemmell… Read more »
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ZUZANA’S ZETBACK
Date: August 25, 2022 -
GOLDHAWK SPOTTED that a judgment for a hefty $438,000 (€439,000) has been registered against Co Waterford developer Shane Houlihan and his American wife, Zuzana Ratajova – previously a senior finance executive at the giant Turner Entertainment group and vice president at CNN. This is not the first time the couple have found themselves in a… Read more »
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THE HOT AIR BRIGADE
Date: August 25, 2022 -
New York is hilarious, I’ve been to New York and in the subways, I get, ‘What are you doing here Tubs?’ I’m actually okay with it. Ryan Tubridy, Sunday World, submitted by reader The release of Chapter Three pays homage to history and craftmanship, a journey of age and time inspired by the element of… Read more »
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AN ENEMY OF THE CROWN
Date: August 25, 2022 -
NEW INFORMATION about a decade-long MI6 smear campaign against Charles Haughey and even an operation to sully St John Hume is about to be published in a book called An Enemy of The Crown: The British Secret Service Campaign against Charles Haughey by David Burke. The campaigns were led by Sir Maurice Oldfield, a top-ranking… Read more »
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PLUS ÇA CHANGE…
Date: August 25, 2022 -
IT’S AS regular as well-oiled clockwork. Every July nationalist outrage at effigies of politicians and Irish and papal flags being burned on loyalist bonfires is followed by unionist outrage at republican chants during Féile concerts. And it’s all funded by the taxpayer. To add consistency, each year it’s the same effigies and flags and the… Read more »
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BARRISTERS FIGHT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
Date: August 25, 2022 -
THE BAR of Ireland’s human rights committee has had a mixed press recently, with its front-of-house personalities offering different perspectives on human rights depending on who and what issues are under discussion. But there is a party-political dimension to this debate. When it came to the elevation of ex-chief justice Frank Clarke and former High… Read more »
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WHITHER THE GREENS?
Date: August 25, 2022 -
RECENT POLL figures for the Green Party by the Business Post/Red C (4%), Irish Times (3%) and Sunday Independent (4%) will have many of its TDs and councillors worrying about their seats in upcoming elections. Eamon Ryan seems determined to plough on, however, assuming that even if the party has a bad election, maybe even… Read more »
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MAKING THE MEDIA GRADE
Date: August 25, 2022 -
AFTER THREATENING last February to walk out of Newsbrands Ireland post haste – because its titles were “treated unfairly” in Newsbrands journalism awards – Mediahuis, the largest newspaper group in the country, appeared last week to have softened its attitude to the awards and Newsbrands itself. There was a time when the subpanels that selected… Read more »
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IRISH FREEDOM PARTY CHAIR
Date: August 25, 2022 -
MANY PEOPLE would have been surprised to learn that the chair of the right-wing, anti-immigrant Irish Freedom Party (IFP), Michael Leahy, was the An Bord Pleanála board member who dealt with the ESB’s contentious, multimillion-euro Fitzwilliam Street redevelopment in 2015. Frank McDonald mentioned this in a Sunday Independent report recently. Leahy is one of only… Read more »
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Date: August 25, 2022 -
COLLINS AND VARADKAR Dear editor, What an extraordinarily disingenuous pronouncement from Leo Varadkar to say at Glasnevin Cemetery, on August 14, that Michael Collins and Arthur Griffith did not believe there was no alternative to war. Both men were front and centre in the republican movement, whose avowed objective in word and deed was to… Read more »
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VICKY CONWAY’S CONCERNS
Date: August 25, 2022 -
THE MEDIA tributes to academic and policing expert Vicky Conway reflected the genuine esteem in which she was held by her peers. But many of the tributes by journalists and academics gave the misleading impression that this impressive woman was at one with such as ex-justice minister Charlie Flanagan and senior gardaí. Vicky Conway was… Read more »
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MEDIA EYES UP SF
Date: August 25, 2022 -
IS THE media reverting to its previous attack-dog role against Sinn Féin after a truce of sorts since the general election and more than two years out from the next one? Or is it more concerned with the practical realities of Mary Lou and her party coming to power? A bit of both, depending on… Read more »
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METAVERSE’S MEGA DEMANDS
Date: August 25, 2022 -
THE METAVERSE is Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s science-fiction fantasy, his vision for an always connected virtual world that will exist in parallel to our own. What’s not to love? Well, a senior Intel engineer, Raja Koduri, has predicted the Metaverse would require a 1,000-fold increase in computing capability. Just how many more data centres would… Read more »
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JIM BOLGER’S SAUDI SALE
Date: August 25, 2022 -
CONGRATULATIONS ARE yet again in order to wily racehorse trainer Jim Bolger, who has managed to offload one of his nags for what must be a very tidy sum to an Arabian sheikh looking to make his mark on the sport of kings. The horse… Read more »
IMMA’S PLURALITY PITCH
Date: August 25, 2022 -
IT SHOULDN’T be too much longer before arts minister Catherine Martin finally gets around to filling the four vacancies on the IMMA board, three of which have existed for over 18 months, given that the deadline for expressions of interest in serving on the David Harvey-chaired board was earlier this month. Happily, the fab four… Read more »
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