Garda body hires private security firm to “sweep” it’s HQ following “leaks” is an interesting article by Maeve Sheahan.
eoin
Yea, RTE covered it 24 hours ago. €2,500 fee to the security company doesn’t suggest any major investigation, and anyway, they didn’t find anything. Some members of the GRA upset they weren’t informed, and they won’t see the content of the security firm’s report for eight weeks.
In fairness to Maeve Sheehan, she appears to be spearheading the effort to get at a confidential report commissioned by the Housing Agency into housing associations. The Housing Agency has now gone to the High Court to stop the report being released.
Housing associations are so powerful, they control a multiple of the homes controlled by vultures yet they’re generally escaping scrutiny.
Well done Maeve and good luck at the High Court (it’s the Data Commissioner the Housing Agency is suing, but it’s Maeve trying to get her hands on the report).
B9Com From No
+1
eoin
Wow! Front page of London Times (not the Sunday Times, Ireland edition though….)
“EU countries are secretly wooing Boris Johnson in a bid to thrash out a new Brexit plan that would avoid a no-deal disaster as he prepares to take over as prime minister this week.
Senior Irish politicians and diplomats have held peace talks with two of Johnson’s cabinet allies in recent days.
German and French figures, as well as the Dutch and Belgian governments, have also established contacts with Johnson’s team and signalled an intention to do a deal.”
eoin
Simon Coveney gets a full comment piece in the London Times also. It’s a well-written piece that seeks to protect the backstop which both Boris and the other one say must go. It concludes “The Irish government looks forward to meeting and engaging with the new prime minister.”
It aint over ’til the fat lady sings.
B9Com From No
Titanic, deck chairs, anyone ?
Charger Salmons
Picked up by the anti-Brexit MOS.
The Boris Effect before he’s even taken office.
softer stance than it had before and during the referendum, but it’s certainly not anti-brexit
Charger Salmons
You’re quite right of course.
Under Geordie Greig it was the direct opposite of Paul Dacre’s Daily Mail which campaigned vigorously for Brexit.
Greig has moved to the DM and turned that paper against Brexit.
The MOS less so now.
Brother Barnabas
you might say it’s a fine line that it’s skillfully navigating
it can’t go full anti-brexit as that would enrage the tantrum-prone little englanders who shell out for it, but, at the same time, it’s seemingly woken up to the self-serving calamity that’s brexit
you have to wonder though if subtlety is something the thick-skulled little englanders can cope with – the impact of cheap lager and street fights on mental faculty etc
Charger Salmons
Heh,heh,heh.
Do try harder dear boy.
Brother Barnabas
that was a bit harsh, bodger, but ok
eoin
Ex-governor of the Irish Central Bank, Patrick Honohan’s book “Currency, Credit and Crisis” is worth a read. It was published two months ago, but alas, Patrick wasn’t invited on the Late Late Show to promote it.
Patrick should have called it “Stuff I didn’t tell the Oireachtas banking inquiry in 2015 when I had the chance” because it does contain some interesting insider revelations.
The Sunday Times reports today the Central Bank examined debt writedowns for unde-water mortgage borrowers when the FG government with Michael Noonan was unwilling to countenance any such thing.
“He has contributed millions of euros to the State in revenues and created over a thousand jobs. He successfully blocked Nama from acquiring his loans and has since repaid his IBRC loans in full”
-except at the very least the maple ten one that’s personally guaranteed and which is subject to ongoing litigation and has absolutely NOT been repaid to the state,so now we have establish that statement is a lie and just completely false and misleading…..if only there was like a journalist or hack doing a profile :)
‘The two businessman and their property company sued IBRC’s liquidators, Kieran Wallace and Eamonn Richardson, alleging in the Delaware bankruptcy court – where the bank’s US subsidiary is being wound up – fraud, misrepresentation and breach of duties of care to Mr McKillen over the €45 million loan.
IBRC sued Mr McKillen in the Irish courts in July 2014 to recover a quarter of the loan extended by the bank to the businessman who, with nine other long-standing borrowers of Anglo, took a 10 per cent stake in the bank with the loans from the institution, helping Anglo unwind Seán Quinn’s investment in July 2008.
Mr McKillen and his business partner turned to the US court to fight the case, prompting the liquidators to argue that it was an attempt to “end-run” the bank’s action to recover the loan in the Irish courts.‘ https://www.irishtimes.com/business/mckillen-loses-us-legal-bid-to-sue-former-anglo-over-maple-10-loan-1.3683449
GiggidyGoo
Well Noonan limited the ‘investigation ‘ to amounts ABOVE €10m. The excuse was ‘time’. The real reason may never be known
eoin
Fair play Mick Wallace (63)
Sandals, tank top and cargo pants.
eoin
Susan Mitchell is back in the SBP today with an interview with Derek Scally, but the paper is looking shaky, slimmed-down and dominated by trinkets on the periphery of business. It’ll be another month before the circulation figs for Jan-June 2019 are published, but I’d be shocked if it’s shifting more than 20,000 copies a week. And presumably the decision to appoint an editor after a year without, is only to give it the appearance of being a serious paper which meets the threshold needed so the owners can sell it.
Lilly
Susan Mitchell ‘back’? I wasn’t aware she’d left.
eoin
Was she not absent for a couple of weeks? She’s the best health sector journalist in Ireland and I missed her.
Lilly
I agree she’s excellent but don’t get the SBP so hadn’t noticed she’d been gone. Probably badly needed two weeks away from reporting on the HSE, Cervical Test basket cases.
eoin
Judge doesn’t believe a word from a witness who was bursting his hole laughing in court during testimony in a proceeds-of-crime hearing.
“You were laughing away during the case, you were in stitches during the evidence, weren’t you?”
Congrats to all of Minister Katherine Zappone’s appointments at the Oberstown Children Detention centre. But, what is this? There’s a bunch of re-appointments. Surely that can’t be correct. Hasn’t Oberstown been roundly criticised in a report which the Minister can’t even publish for legal reasons?
Why would you re-appoint people who aren’t, it would seem, doing a great job?
Mr Tadgh Delaney Re-appointment 4 years
Mr Eamon Clavin Re-appointment 4 years
Mr Pat Rooney Re-appointment 3 years
Ms Elizabeth Howard Re-appointment 3 years
Mr Laoise Manners Re-appointment 2 years
Mr Craig Mulligan New appointment 2 years
Ms Linda Creamer Re-appointment 4 years
Mr Don O’Leary Re-appointment 3 years
Ms Emer Woodful Re-appointment 3 years
Ms Jennifer Gargan New appointment 4 years
Ms Bernadette Costello New appointment 4 years
Mr John McDaid New appointment 4 years
B9Com From No
shameful
Thanks for highlighting Eoin
GiggidyGoo
Not Zappone’s decision. After all she owes FG big time – ministerial post and allowed to game the mileage allowance by thousands yearly .
some old quare
Interesting summation of Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson’s career to date-
And here’s another hack jealous of Boris’s achievements in journalism and the £250,000 a year he received from the Daily Telegraph. https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2019/08/15/boris-johnson-ham-of-fate/
Poor Fintan O’Foole.
Three years of spilling anti-English bile in the Irish Times gets rewarded with Boris being given the keys to No 10.
Let the fun begin.
Lilly
I seriously doubt FO’T is weighed down with jealousy. The Irish Times may have had its heyday but The Daily Telegraph is a rag.
scottser
And I doubt Mr Johnson will be winning any Pulitzers any time soon, will he?
Charger Salmons
The only thing Fintan O’Foole wins is fawning obsequecy from his chums on fellow left-wing and largely unnoticed organs such as The Guardian.
Boris is box office.
But after the Autumn election it’ll be the Boris and Nigel show.
And you lot will be too busy trying to survive on nettle soup and an Abrekebabra snack box to feed a family of five once a No Deal Brexit turns the green fields of Ireland into a Blade Runner-esque nightmare landscape of rundown farms and toothless peasants gurning for American tourists.
But Ireland will have your backs.
After they’ve come for your corporate tax rates.
Heh,heh,heh.
Charger Salmons
Or words to that effect.
Papi
Sherry kicking in again?
millie st murderlark
Are your skills of discernment really that poor?
Either way, fantastic entertainment. Point and laugh.
GiggidyGoo
ROFL. More fantasy figures.
Behaviour and Attitude Poll Sunday Times.
Fianna Fail: 30% (+2%)
Fine Gael: 26% (+3%)
Sinn Fein 14% (+2%)
Labour: 5% (unchanged)
Greens: 7% (-4%)
Solidarity-PBP: 2% (unchanged)
Ind Alliance: 4% (+1%)
Soc Dems: 1% (unchanged)
Ind/Others: 8% (-5%)
Dav
How soon after the election will be the heave against Leo?
jamie
About a week
GiggidyGoo
The grassroots won’t forget how they were sold out in the Leadership ‘contest’. The buckos that attached themselves to Varadkar are in trouble with their constituents, but more so with those that help out at election times. Varadkar’s childishness and his lack of competence will be rewarded quite quickly by the grassroots.
GiggidyGoo
So, and updates on the Paul Kelly / Console case. Las i heard was that in January this year he was brought for a drive by the Gardai.
Funny enough, he was reported to be at the centre of a HSE probe as well. The silence is deafening.
eoin
Can ex-Gardai write books which exploit confidential information obtained by the Garda in the course of his duty?
The Irish Sun on Sunday reports a retired Garda is to publish a book about a murder which he investigated.
Yes is the answer. This particular detective appears to have the support of the victims family ( which is something I suppose) and is of the belief that the man serving life would kill again if released on parole.
Commissioner Harris would be aware of concerns voiced though !
GiggidyGoo
Im sure they would have to have signed something when they first joined about not divulging priveledged information.
B9Com From No
So do Sindo readers increasingly trend towards retirement age Eoin?
Had a look through there now and it’s nearly all about oul fellas losing their shirts in the boom and their wives hating them
G’wan Shane
ye feckin boy ye!!
wow super Shane Lowry
brilliant
Yep, well done Shane Lowry!!
John Delaney is still being paid his full salary by the FAI.
He’s like the herp. We’ll never be rid of him.
And some here think the fai board are a great bunch of lads
Probably worked for them now or in the past
Garda body hires private security firm to “sweep” it’s HQ following “leaks” is an interesting article by Maeve Sheahan.
Yea, RTE covered it 24 hours ago. €2,500 fee to the security company doesn’t suggest any major investigation, and anyway, they didn’t find anything. Some members of the GRA upset they weren’t informed, and they won’t see the content of the security firm’s report for eight weeks.
https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2019/0720/1064254-gra-confirms-it-hired-outside-company-to-examine-security/
In fairness to Maeve Sheehan, she appears to be spearheading the effort to get at a confidential report commissioned by the Housing Agency into housing associations. The Housing Agency has now gone to the High Court to stop the report being released.
Housing associations are so powerful, they control a multiple of the homes controlled by vultures yet they’re generally escaping scrutiny.
Well done Maeve and good luck at the High Court (it’s the Data Commissioner the Housing Agency is suing, but it’s Maeve trying to get her hands on the report).
+1
Wow! Front page of London Times (not the Sunday Times, Ireland edition though….)
“EU countries are secretly wooing Boris Johnson in a bid to thrash out a new Brexit plan that would avoid a no-deal disaster as he prepares to take over as prime minister this week.
Senior Irish politicians and diplomats have held peace talks with two of Johnson’s cabinet allies in recent days.
German and French figures, as well as the Dutch and Belgian governments, have also established contacts with Johnson’s team and signalled an intention to do a deal.”
Simon Coveney gets a full comment piece in the London Times also. It’s a well-written piece that seeks to protect the backstop which both Boris and the other one say must go. It concludes “The Irish government looks forward to meeting and engaging with the new prime minister.”
It aint over ’til the fat lady sings.
Titanic, deck chairs, anyone ?
Picked up by the anti-Brexit MOS.
The Boris Effect before he’s even taken office.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7267403/Brussels-offer-Boris-Johnson-Brexit-extension.html
“anti-Brexit MOS”
softer stance than it had before and during the referendum, but it’s certainly not anti-brexit
You’re quite right of course.
Under Geordie Greig it was the direct opposite of Paul Dacre’s Daily Mail which campaigned vigorously for Brexit.
Greig has moved to the DM and turned that paper against Brexit.
The MOS less so now.
you might say it’s a fine line that it’s skillfully navigating
it can’t go full anti-brexit as that would enrage the tantrum-prone little englanders who shell out for it, but, at the same time, it’s seemingly woken up to the self-serving calamity that’s brexit
you have to wonder though if subtlety is something the thick-skulled little englanders can cope with – the impact of cheap lager and street fights on mental faculty etc
Heh,heh,heh.
Do try harder dear boy.
that was a bit harsh, bodger, but ok
Ex-governor of the Irish Central Bank, Patrick Honohan’s book “Currency, Credit and Crisis” is worth a read. It was published two months ago, but alas, Patrick wasn’t invited on the Late Late Show to promote it.
Patrick should have called it “Stuff I didn’t tell the Oireachtas banking inquiry in 2015 when I had the chance” because it does contain some interesting insider revelations.
The Sunday Times reports today the Central Bank examined debt writedowns for unde-water mortgage borrowers when the FG government with Michael Noonan was unwilling to countenance any such thing.
-one often wonders did the borrowers or clients of Anglo get any writedowns:)
https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/paddy-mckillen-jnr-the-mystery-man-of-dublin-nightlife-1.3960320
Careful there Johnny ;-)
“He has contributed millions of euros to the State in revenues and created over a thousand jobs. He successfully blocked Nama from acquiring his loans and has since repaid his IBRC loans in full”
https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/business/developer-paddy-mckillen-receives-apology-from-irish-daily-mail-in-high-court-852726.html
-except at the very least the maple ten one that’s personally guaranteed and which is subject to ongoing litigation and has absolutely NOT been repaid to the state,so now we have establish that statement is a lie and just completely false and misleading…..if only there was like a journalist or hack doing a profile :)
‘The two businessman and their property company sued IBRC’s liquidators, Kieran Wallace and Eamonn Richardson, alleging in the Delaware bankruptcy court – where the bank’s US subsidiary is being wound up – fraud, misrepresentation and breach of duties of care to Mr McKillen over the €45 million loan.
IBRC sued Mr McKillen in the Irish courts in July 2014 to recover a quarter of the loan extended by the bank to the businessman who, with nine other long-standing borrowers of Anglo, took a 10 per cent stake in the bank with the loans from the institution, helping Anglo unwind Seán Quinn’s investment in July 2008.
Mr McKillen and his business partner turned to the US court to fight the case, prompting the liquidators to argue that it was an attempt to “end-run” the bank’s action to recover the loan in the Irish courts.‘
https://www.irishtimes.com/business/mckillen-loses-us-legal-bid-to-sue-former-anglo-over-maple-10-loan-1.3683449
Well Noonan limited the ‘investigation ‘ to amounts ABOVE €10m. The excuse was ‘time’. The real reason may never be known
Fair play Mick Wallace (63)
Sandals, tank top and cargo pants.
Susan Mitchell is back in the SBP today with an interview with Derek Scally, but the paper is looking shaky, slimmed-down and dominated by trinkets on the periphery of business. It’ll be another month before the circulation figs for Jan-June 2019 are published, but I’d be shocked if it’s shifting more than 20,000 copies a week. And presumably the decision to appoint an editor after a year without, is only to give it the appearance of being a serious paper which meets the threshold needed so the owners can sell it.
Susan Mitchell ‘back’? I wasn’t aware she’d left.
Was she not absent for a couple of weeks? She’s the best health sector journalist in Ireland and I missed her.
I agree she’s excellent but don’t get the SBP so hadn’t noticed she’d been gone. Probably badly needed two weeks away from reporting on the HSE, Cervical Test basket cases.
Judge doesn’t believe a word from a witness who was bursting his hole laughing in court during testimony in a proceeds-of-crime hearing.
“You were laughing away during the case, you were in stitches during the evidence, weren’t you?”
https://www.echolive.ie/corknews/Judge-unimpressed-at-man-in-stitches-laughing-during-court-hearing-over-cash-seized-during-Garda-raid-061e21ae-714e-4c4d-bb4c-9ea85df81030-ds
Congrats to all of Minister Katherine Zappone’s appointments at the Oberstown Children Detention centre. But, what is this? There’s a bunch of re-appointments. Surely that can’t be correct. Hasn’t Oberstown been roundly criticised in a report which the Minister can’t even publish for legal reasons?
https://www.rte.ie/news/politics/2018/1111/1010158-oberstown-report/
Why would you re-appoint people who aren’t, it would seem, doing a great job?
Mr Tadgh Delaney Re-appointment 4 years
Mr Eamon Clavin Re-appointment 4 years
Mr Pat Rooney Re-appointment 3 years
Ms Elizabeth Howard Re-appointment 3 years
Mr Laoise Manners Re-appointment 2 years
Mr Craig Mulligan New appointment 2 years
Ms Linda Creamer Re-appointment 4 years
Mr Don O’Leary Re-appointment 3 years
Ms Emer Woodful Re-appointment 3 years
Ms Jennifer Gargan New appointment 4 years
Ms Bernadette Costello New appointment 4 years
Mr John McDaid New appointment 4 years
shameful
Thanks for highlighting Eoin
Not Zappone’s decision. After all she owes FG big time – ministerial post and allowed to game the mileage allowance by thousands yearly .
Interesting summation of Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson’s career to date-
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jul/21/boris-johnson-route-to-number-10
…seems to exhibit multiple persona but in reality is just the tiresome same old, same old…
Well you are the one who used the derogatory term.
As commented by others on various threads previously , it would be nice to have one day a week without all the cat swipes.
Hey, liking the new nom de plume – referencing Brendan Behan – last time I heard “Quare” was this – in Tyrone “Quare” just means “Great” https://tyronetribulations.com/2017/02/07/brawl-in-coalisland-pub-over-quare-stretch-in-the-evening-comment/comment-page-1/
And here’s another hack jealous of Boris’s achievements in journalism and the £250,000 a year he received from the Daily Telegraph.
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2019/08/15/boris-johnson-ham-of-fate/
Poor Fintan O’Foole.
Three years of spilling anti-English bile in the Irish Times gets rewarded with Boris being given the keys to No 10.
Let the fun begin.
I seriously doubt FO’T is weighed down with jealousy. The Irish Times may have had its heyday but The Daily Telegraph is a rag.
And I doubt Mr Johnson will be winning any Pulitzers any time soon, will he?
The only thing Fintan O’Foole wins is fawning obsequecy from his chums on fellow left-wing and largely unnoticed organs such as The Guardian.
Boris is box office.
But after the Autumn election it’ll be the Boris and Nigel show.
And you lot will be too busy trying to survive on nettle soup and an Abrekebabra snack box to feed a family of five once a No Deal Brexit turns the green fields of Ireland into a Blade Runner-esque nightmare landscape of rundown farms and toothless peasants gurning for American tourists.
But Ireland will have your backs.
After they’ve come for your corporate tax rates.
Heh,heh,heh.
Or words to that effect.
Sherry kicking in again?
Are your skills of discernment really that poor?
Either way, fantastic entertainment. Point and laugh.
ROFL. More fantasy figures.
Behaviour and Attitude Poll Sunday Times.
Fianna Fail: 30% (+2%)
Fine Gael: 26% (+3%)
Sinn Fein 14% (+2%)
Labour: 5% (unchanged)
Greens: 7% (-4%)
Solidarity-PBP: 2% (unchanged)
Ind Alliance: 4% (+1%)
Soc Dems: 1% (unchanged)
Ind/Others: 8% (-5%)
How soon after the election will be the heave against Leo?
About a week
The grassroots won’t forget how they were sold out in the Leadership ‘contest’. The buckos that attached themselves to Varadkar are in trouble with their constituents, but more so with those that help out at election times. Varadkar’s childishness and his lack of competence will be rewarded quite quickly by the grassroots.
So, and updates on the Paul Kelly / Console case. Las i heard was that in January this year he was brought for a drive by the Gardai.
Funny enough, he was reported to be at the centre of a HSE probe as well. The silence is deafening.
Can ex-Gardai write books which exploit confidential information obtained by the Garda in the course of his duty?
The Irish Sun on Sunday reports a retired Garda is to publish a book about a murder which he investigated.
Yes is the answer. This particular detective appears to have the support of the victims family ( which is something I suppose) and is of the belief that the man serving life would kill again if released on parole.
Commissioner Harris would be aware of concerns voiced though !
Im sure they would have to have signed something when they first joined about not divulging priveledged information.
So do Sindo readers increasingly trend towards retirement age Eoin?
Had a look through there now and it’s nearly all about oul fellas losing their shirts in the boom and their wives hating them
https://www.rte.ie/news/2019/0720/1064249-cervical-screening/
11500 affected by the cervical testing scandal.
That Lowery lad did Offaly well this weekend, wha?!