Plus: How Gerard Hutch got his nickname ‘The Monk’, Fair City actor’s house sale, and AI guru Allan Beechinor’s court troubles
The Books at One initiative, financed by Declan Ryan’s One Foundation, is going through a tricky chapter. Declan, a son of Ryanair founder Tony Ryan, came up with an idea to establish a collective of locally managed community bookshops that would serve as social hubs for local artists, writers, craftspeople and, of course, readers.
Rocktop is alleging “breach of contract” against Beechinor and Oysterhaven Ventures, jointly owned by Beechinor, his wife Niamh Parker and Martin O’Brien, the tech company’s former chief financial officer. The following week Paddy Clancy, the then chief of The Sun’s Irish office, splashed the nickname across the front page of the tabloid and it stuck. It was probably a fortuitous turn of events for Hutch, who described McGee as “a good lad” last week on the podcast. One of his other nicknames from the time, although maybe not said too often to his face, was Mr Bean.on Leeson Street in Dublin wants to squeeze more out of its investment in the crammer school.
The Kearns family, which founded the college, still owns 6.7 per cent. Peter Kearns, the former managing director of the school, hasn’t been slow in spending some of his windfall from the sale. He recently bought a house on Cowper Road in Rathmines, Dublin 6, for €5.8 million, one of the highest prices paid in Dublin this year.
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