Mr Desmond warns of “Ballymun Towers South Dublin” and “modern-day slums”
The full letter sent this week to local politicians from billionaire Dermot Desmond concerning the development of RTÉ land close to his property on Ailesbury Road, Dublin 4.
Mr Desmond threatens to use his “resources” to challenge fast-track planning laws being applied to build 611 apartments on the site “all the way to the European Courts”.
Fight!
Previously: Room To Improve
Liam Zero writes:
“Page 5 of yesterday’s Sunday Times. We can all rest easy now that 16 and a half years of distress have been mended…Seriously though, 1998?!
Last Week: Kaizer Sez So
From yesterday’s Sunday Times.
Ouch.
Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland
(From top: Dermot Desmond at the Change Nation event in Dublin Castle last year)
You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I’ll rise.Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
‘Cause I walk like I’ve got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I’ve got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?
Gulp.
Part of a poem ‘Still I Rise’ by Maya Angelou sent by Dermot Desmond to Fintan O’Toole after being questioned about the Telecom scandal of 1990.
25 years of Irish life through the columns of Fintan O’Toole (Irish Times)
(Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)
Denis O’Brien and Dermot Desmond, top, at the National College of Ireland earlier this afternoon, where a business lunch was held to launch the college’s three new courses in finance: Certificate in Personal Financial Planning, Diploma in Personal Financial Planning and Certificate in Personal Insolvency Practice.
Personal insolvency, eh?
Previously: A €140 Million Write-Off From Bank Of Ireland And AIB
