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Mick Wallace (top) this afternoon; Northern Ireland First Minister Peter Robinson (right and his son Gareth last year.

A multi-headed monster.

From Greece (!)

“Yeah, he [Peter Robinson] very categorically came out and declared that he had no interest whatsoever, hadn’t gained anything as a result of this particular transaction carried out in the name of Northern Ireland with this company Cerberus.

A fascinating name, it comes from Greek mythology actually, a three-headed, multi-headed, three-headed dog which guarded  the gates of Hades…hence this monster of a story now and it’s really turned into a monster story which is consuming every lawyer and every barrister in Northern Ireland and stretching now deeply into Dublin on the back of [Independent TD] Mick Wallace’s claims in the Dáil – some of which I actually challenge.

In fact, the offshore account was not rumbled as a result of an audit, a routine audit of Tughans’ accounts. In fact, my understanding is that the managing partner at the centre of this controversy, who’s no longer working with Tughans, actually advised his fellow partners there was a big payment coming down the line and, eventually, a fee….”

Veteran Northern Ireland journalist Eamon Mallie on Today with Sean O’Rourke on RTÉ Radio One this morning.

Previously: Project Eagle And The €3.5billion Haircut

Pic: Pacemaker

Meanwhile…

 

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Mick Wallace’s response to an invitation from John McGuinness, chairman of The Public Accounts Committee, this afternoon.

Via Mick Wallace

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He said Mr [Sean] FitzPatrick referred to the name “Denis O’Brien” and referred to him as “my mate, Denis”.

Mr Gillespie told the court he was able to reassure Mr FitzPatrick as he did not believe then and he does not believe for a second that the name had anything to do with the Denis O’Brien most people have in their minds.

He said it was a common enough name and this was a different individual who had an address in the UK.

Mr Gillespie said he recalled that Mr FitzPatrick described him as “a bit naive”.

Not to be confused with Vladimir Savčić.

Trial hears FitzPatrick was concerned about ‘mate’s name on list for Revenue (RTÉ)

(RollingNews.ie)

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Then you may wish to catch this.

A Day Like Today.

By Gerard Walsh who also brought you Is This It? and Bound.

The feature film – which was shot in eight days with €400 – follows the lives of Joe, a homeless man with a troubled past and Alice, a wife with problems at home, who spend a day together.

A Day Like Today will be screened tomorrow at the Galway Film Fleadh at 6pm in the Town Hall studio.

Tickets for €10 can be bought here

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Part of an ongoing photo series by artist Jakub Geltner entitled ‘Nest’, wherein flocks and gaggles of surveillance cameras, satellite dishes and other tech (normally associated with harvesting data) are perched on schools, quay walls and derelict facades around his hometown of Prague for the delectation of passers by.

 

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