Minutes of a private meeting between Minister for Communications Denis Naughten (top) and David McCourt, head of the last consortium to bid for the National Broadband tender.
Details of the dinner hosted by David McCourt, the head of Granahan McCourt, show that a far more wide-ranging discussion than was outlined by the minister took place, with at least four issues relating to the plan having been discussed at the gathering in New York in July.
…This week the communications minister said he had a discussion with Mr McCourt during which the “only issue” raised was that of potential changes to the bidding consortium.
…The document shows that Mr McCourt reassured officials who were accompanying the minister that an individual had been selected to take a role within the consortium which the department had requested be filled by a “permanent, Irish-based” executive.
Fresh doubts over Denis Naughten’s account of dinner with bid chief (The Times Ireland Edition)
Previously: ‘Here We Are Again’
Meanwhile…
Um.
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and David McCourt, of Granahan McCourt Capital, during a Science Foundation Ireland’s (SFI) ceremony in Washington, USA last March.
Just a fabulous coincidence.
Good times.
another corrupt blushirt – how surprising
Waheyyyy – all aboard the new taxpayer-funded gravy train!
It’s so exhausting keeping up with all the underhanded dealings and hoodwinking that ‘important’ people get up to!
Working on behalf of the real Fine Gael leader, [REDACTED] O’Bribe.
That chap looks like he’s wearing old-man prosthetic make-up. He’s scary.
The quagmire that is FFGOB
I loved McCourts role as the creepy preacher in the Poltergeist trilogy.