26 thoughts on “De Friday Papers

  1. eoin

    Anyone going to the loftily titled “International Fraud Prevention Conference” in the RDS today?

    It’s run by Paul Williams (INM), Stephen Rae (ex-INM) and James Treacy (Stubbs Gazette)

    It’s sponsored by Newstalk (owned by Redacted), Sunday Independent (until recently owned by Redacted), AL Goodbody (representing the ex-chairman Leslie Buckley who is being sued by INM) and Deloitte (which are the FAI’s auditors) and Stubbs Gazette.

    I’d say there’d be lots of expertise there about fraud.

    https://internationalfraudprevention.com

    1. eoin

      Biggest corruption probe in the Gardai, new revelations about the scandalous cost overrun at the National Childrens Hospital, the public seething about the cost of the National Broadband Plan, Theresa May and Brexit teetering as Nigel Farage “marauds”, Trump visit, Huawei and what does RTE feature on its flagship radio station in the flagship post 8am slot today?

      10 minutes of promotion for the above conference with a waffly interview with a policeman.

  2. eoin

    How is Gerald Kean getting on with his defamation action against the Daily Star?

    Yesterday, having received several hours of instructions from the judge and then considered its verdict for nearly two hours, the jury decided it was tired and will return at 10am today. They may be given the option of reaching a majority verdict if they can’t reach a unanimous verdict. As with the recent Denis O’Brien v SBP defamation case, the jurors have been given a flowchart and by the sounds of it, it’s giving them a headache also.

    Some important issues in this matter, but probably best to leave discussion until the jury has done its work

    1. Vanessa the Holy Face of Frilly Keane

      I suppose Noel Whelan will be on R1 @1 to tell us all about it

      1. Cian

        Solicitor Gerald Kean has been been awarded €160,000 in damages after a jury at the High Court found that he was defamed in a newspaper article.

        A majority of at least nine jurors found the 11 March 2016 article in the Irish Daily Star meant that Mr Kean was the subject of a probe by the Criminal Assets Bureau into the criminal activities of the Hutch/Kinahan gang following the Regency Hotel shootings.

        A majority could not agree on whether the article meant Mr Kean was suspected by CAB of being associated with gangland crime and of facilitating criminal activity in his profession as a solicitor.

        A majority also found, in the circumstances of the case, the manner and extent of publication was more than was “reasonably sufficient”; the article was not published in the course of, or for the purpose of, the discussion of a subject of public interest, the discussion of which was for the public benefit; and it was not “fair and reasonable” to publish it.


        https://www.rte.ie/news/courts/2019/0517/1050123-gerald-kean/

  3. Catherine costelloe

    Two bent cops will be having a full Irish in their cells this morning ?! Not as smart and arrogant now , eh boyos?

      1. eoin

        You mean this

        “19 Dec 2018

        CVC Capital Partners Fund VII has signed a binding agreement to invest in a minority shareholding in Premier Rugby Limited, the commercial manager of Premiership Rugby, which is the top league in the English Rugby Union system. This investment is expected to complete in Q1/2019 and follows on from other investments in the sports & entertainment sector which CVC has led, including Moto GP, Formula One, Stage Entertainment, and Merlin Entertainments.”

        This is British rugby, isn’t it? Not an area of any huge interest to me, I must say.

        1. johnny

          thanks Eoin:)
          While not a area of tremendous interest to me,I am quite familiar with CPPIB-CVC’s partner who are very publicity adverse,regarding oh say investments that have rape case controversies attached.
          CVC’s investment has ‘allowed’ or facilitated the signing of a few new ‘players’ by London I.
          “The additional income has come at just the right moment for the Exiles, but Facer insists it has had no bearing on their plans or ambitions; it merely “helps grease the wheels” of the transition.” -link below.
          http://www.cppib.com/en/

  4. eoin

    The Express continues its fight, on behalf of a US drugs company cystic fibrosis sufferers, for the UK taxpayer to stump up for the Orkambi drug. In Ireland, we were blackmailed a few years ago into funding that drug.

    “The Daily Express has been crusading for NHS England to strike a deal with Vertex for Orkambi and other drugs they have in the pipeline…The firm refused the NHS’s £500million offer last July and withdrew from the NICE drug approval process.”

    Back here in Ireland yesterday, the soldiers of destiny are demanding the government over-rule the HSE which is refusing to pay the €600,000 a year (1st year, followed by €380,000 for life) per patient for Spinraza. Gombeens.

  5. George

    The Times think house prices going down is a bad thing! The threat is from ever increasing house prices.

  6. johnny

    Tell No One-independent documentary movie by Tomasz and Marek Sekielski brothers. This is truth about the Catholic Church in Poland.

    – Anna Misiewicz was just 7 years old when she was invited into the private chambers of her parish priest, in the small village of Topola in southwest Poland. She thought he wanted her to count church donations.
    Instead, she found herself alone with a predator, identified only as Father Jan A. He touched her chest, stroked her body and forced her to use her hands to masturbate him.-NYT

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrUvQ3W3nV4

    -incredible doc about catholic church.

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