Marc_General_FinalThey all say that.

Further to Dr Julien Mercille’s paper on the Irish media’s complicity in the property bubble.

Newstalk’s Marc Coleman (above), singled out by Dr Mercille in the report as a bubble blower-upper extraordinaire while economics editor of the Irish Times, has sent us the following.

[It’s a letter to the Sunday Tribune in 2010 wherein he defends his record and correctly if cruelly predicts the paper’s demise]

marc

Earlier: Calling It

(Pic: Newstalk)

Update:

Sent last night.

BJC5Y87CQAEtHc9From 2007.

Probably out of context.

via Oireachtas Retort:

90273969Five Limericks in one

A poem.

Let’s worship the men of the Lockout,
And praise the things that Larkin said,
The tramworkers all are now heroes,
They’re heroes because they are dead.

Spare a thought for those men on that brave day,
When they stood before Murphy’s dread rage,
Then shut up and bring me my latté,
Or I’ll lower your minimum wage.

It baffles me now that mere workers,
Once could purchase a house or a car,
It’s time to clamp down on those shirkers,
We have to, we are where we are.

We’ll have no more talk of progressing,
To this one truth we’ll always hold fast,
That union men are a blessing,
As long as they stay in the past.

John Moynes

(Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)

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In 2004, Karl McCaughley was employed as an agent of Cork City Council to distribute parking discs and bin tags and to collect payments from retailers.

Within a year, he came to the attention of the internal audit department of Cork City Council.

This eventually lead to an audit by Pricewaterhouse Cooper in 2009 and a garda investigation.

During a search of Mr McCaughley’s home, Gardai gave evidence of the accused having six luxury cars at his address (including two Porsches, two Mercedes SUVs and a Land Rover).

In March 2012, McCaughley appeared in Stubbs Gazette as the council registered a separate judgement against him for €925,000.

According to The Phoenix magazine, the council agreed to an installment scheme of €25 a week which would mean it would be 2721 before the bill was settled.

Mr McCaughley pleaded guilty to 28 charges of theft, deception and fraud totalling €124,000 in October 2012 and was sentenced to three years today.

In evidence, McCaughley said he “100% apologised” and he wanted to repay the council, but to date just €26,000 has been repaid.

And thanks to the guilty plea, Cork City Council is not required to give evidence in court of its auditing practices.

Result.

City council scammer had several luxury cars (Liam Heylin, Irish Examiner)

Businessman pleads guilty to deception, forgery and theft (RTE News)

(RTE)

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