Cowen's Connemara Caravan is no longer cool

[fluffybiscuits]

Everybody including politicians, should be encouraged to holiday at home.

They should not be door-stepped by journalists

“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”

― Augustine of Hippo

I advocate travelling abroad for people who have not seen the world!

[Baron von Biffo]

The photo is frightening. It will take more than a few rounds of golf in a buggy to address the unhealthy amount of weight he appears to have packed on. Very little austerity taking place there by the look of it.

Tsk, what does a poor Offaly man have to do to get respect? Cowen is trying to cut the PS pension bill by dying early of an obesity related cause. Such sacrifice for his country shouldn't be derided.

[Kev Bar]

Tsk, what does a poor Offaly man have to do to get respect? Cowen is trying to cut the PS pension bill by dying early of an obesity related cause. Such sacrifice for his country shouldn't be derided.

Sometimes a crank.

Sometimes a Christian.

[Stanley 2]

Foster n Allen.
Hazy.
It was a tax drama they were involved in wasn't it?

"Musicians Foster and Allen are to appeal a court ruling which leaves them with a bill of about €6 million for taxes and penalties owed to the Revenue Commissioners.

Legal challenges by the duo to demands by the Revenue for about €3 million each for unpaid taxes were dismissed by the High Court yesterday".





Not difficult to see Donie getting stuck into the Revenue to get this bill wiped out, giving them a bit of "Dont you know who I am" lyrics, FF politicians have always seeing it as their duty to guide the Revenue and encourage the right decision for them.

"Legendary" manager - my ass, FF stroker - defo.

Donie even fupped up building houses in the Celtic Pussy boom when it was like shooting fish in a barrel.

[C. Flower]

― Augustine of Hippo

I advocate travelling abroad for people who have not seen the world!

You think Cowen should have gone foreign?

[fluffybiscuits]

You think Cowen should have gone foreign?

and stayed there....

I think all the ministers should be forced to fly Ryanair and not be staying in four star hotels...

[PaddyJoe]

"Musicians Foster and Allen are to appeal a court ruling which leaves them with a bill of about €6 million for taxes and penalties owed to the Revenue Commissioners.

Legal challenges by the duo to demands by the Revenue for about €3 million each for unpaid taxes were dismissed by the High Court yesterday".





Not difficult to see Donie getting stuck into the Revenue to get this bill wiped out, giving them a bit of "Dont you know who I am" lyrics, FF politicians have always seeing it as their duty to guide the Revenue and encourage the right decision for them.

"Legendary" manager - my ass, FF stroker - defo.

Donie even fupped up building houses in the Celtic Pussy boom when it was like shooting fish in a barrel.

Looks like Foster and Allen had a pretty dodgy barrister representing them in dealing with the Revenue:

Foster and Allen are not the only people who have made serious allegations about how their tax and investment affairs were handled by Mr Russell whose name has cropped up in some unusual places.

Mr Russell, the Sunday Independent has learned, is the subject of a wide-ranging investigation by the Garda Bureau of Fraud Investigation which has been going on for some years but appears to be still some way from completion.

Mr Russell, a former member of Sinn Fein, was also a former business associate of ex-Taoiseach Albert Reynolds. He also represented Liam Lawlor at the Flood tribunal (later the Mahon tribunal) and also Mr Lawlor's estate after his death. He also gave evidence at the tribunal in another capacity when he was questioned about his co-ownership, along with Mr Reynolds, of a Guernsey-based company, Universal Management Consultants Limited, that sought to buy lands in north Dublin.

http://www.independent.ie/national-n...o-2946955.html

[Stanley 2]

Looks like Foster and Allen had a pretty dodgy barrister representing them in dealing with the Revenue:

http://www.independent.ie/national-n...o-2946955.html

Quite amazing, when the shlte hits the fan, the manager is nowhere to be seen but you can be certain all his fees have been paid up to date.

Reading the article above the "country and western" FF lads utilised Russell quite a bit.

[Stanley 2]

Everybody including politicians, should be encouraged to holiday at home.

They should not be door-stepped by journalists

In reality, no politician wants to be door-stepped especially the rogues like Biffo, McCreevy, Bertie, Lowry, Wallace, they want everything on their terms or no terms, until someone stops the cheques.

[Kev Bar]

In reality, no politician wants to be door-stepped especially the rogues like Biffo, McCreevy, Bertie, Lowry, Wallace, they want everything on their terms or no terms, until someone stops the cheques.

I don't think it's quite fair to add Wallace to the other three.

I don't t know any details about the allegations of him not being fair to his workers.

And even if he did go against a union, one would need to hear the details.

I broke the rules of a union back in the day.

When the union was a stupidly over-paid militantly closed shop that deliberately obstructed young talent which it saw as a threat and all came wrapped up in racist hues.

What really pissed me off was that here was the union itself giving a better and more legitimate argument for its own destruction than anything out of Maggie's mouth.

Sam Lord would have called them class traitors.

I thought they lacked class.

I believe Wallace should have stepped down.

Then he would be remembered more for the good things he did.

His was one of the first multi-racial workforces - although I am open to hearing that this was due to low wages if the allegation is true.

What I call Wallace Way - the so called Italian quarter - is a badly needed asset to the dour capital city of ours.
I can't think of another developer who would have bothered to include aesthetics on his brief.
HIs stance on the Iraq war and US terrorism which irritated his major paymaster DCC was a rarely seen sign of backbone. Whether you agreed with him or not.

His wine is grand.

His food is not a rip-off.

I am not sure how many others developers would have been in a rush to open cafes in Inchicore and off the North Circular.

And sure isn't he great with the kids.

And unlike our aspiring politician and once rotund, devious man of wile John McGuirk, who boasted about not listening to any music at the Electric Picnic, I met Mick at a Grandaddy gig.

Now, before you all jump in and accuse me of going Daly like dewy-eyed, I said I believed Wallace should have stepped down.

Particularly because his supposed raison d'etre was to different from the craven, abject fools who people Leinster House.

[C. Flower]

I don't think it's quite fair to add Wallace to the other three.

I don't t know any details about the allegations of him not being fair to his workers.

And even if he did go against a union, one would need to hear the details.

I broke the rules of a union back in the day.

When the union was a stupidly over-paid militantly closed shop that deliberately obstructed young talent which it saw as a threat and all came wrapped up in racist hues.

What really pissed me off was that here was the union itself giving a better and more legitimate argument for its own destruction than anything out of Maggie's mouth.

Sam Lord would have called them class traitors.

I thought they lacked class.

I believe Wallace should have stepped down.

Then he would be remembered more for the good things he did.

His was one of the first multi-racial workforces - although I am open to hearing that this was due to low wages if the allegation is true.

What I call Wallace Way - the so called Italian quarter - is a badly needed asset to the dour capital city of ours.
I can't think of another developer who would have bothered to include aesthetics on his brief.
HIs stance on the Iraq war and US terrorism which irritated his major paymaster DCC was a rarely seen sign of backbone. Whether you agreed with him or not.

His wine is grand.

His food is not a rip-off.

I am not sure how many others developers would have been in a rush to open cafes in Inchicore and off the North Circular.

And sure isn't he great with the kids.

And unlike our aspiring politician and once rotund, devious man of wile John McGuirk, who boasted about not listening to any music at the Electric Picnic, I met Mick at a Grandaddy gig.

Now, before you all jump in and accuse me of going Daly like dewy-eyed, I said I believed Wallace should have stepped down.

Particularly because his supposed raison d'etre was to different from the craven, abject fools who people Leinster House.

Exactly. He should have stepped down and stood for re-election once he had cleared the debt. No one in Government wanted him to, because it would have put pressure on their own ranks.

The fact that he didn't gives one the feeling that becoming a TD was at least in part a way of protecting his livelihood, rather than *to serve the people.*

[Kev Bar]

Exactly. He should have stepped down and stood for re-election once he had cleared the debt. No one in Government wanted him to, because it would have put pressure on their own ranks.

The fact that he didn't gives one the feeling that becoming a TD was at least in part a way of protecting his livelihood, rather than *to serve the people.*

It kind of does, doesn't it.

[PaddyJoe]

This Patrick Russell chap is a bit of a scharlet pimpernel....
Foster 'n Allen, 'The black widow', Albert Reynolds and McFeely

A DISGRACED lawyer being investigated by gardai for swindling high-profile clients was involved in a $30m (€23m) paradise island land deal with fallen property developer Tom McFeely.

Patrick Russell, a recently struck-off barrister and tax consultant, and the now bankrupt Mr McFeely planned the deal in the Caribbean island of Antigua.

http://www.independent.ie/national-n...r-3223214.html

[PaddyJoe]

Am I missing something very basic here? Belfast Telegraph story attributed to Dearbhail McDonald and Tom Brady is completely different to the tame Indo story with Dearbhail McDonald's byline?

Gardai believe a disgraced barrister conned the taxman in the Republic out of hundreds of thousands of euro and handed it over to a former IRA hunger striker before fleeing the Republic.

They are now investigating the activities of Patrick Russell, a recently struck-off Irish barrister and tax consultant, amid claims he defrauded high-profile clients — including entertainers and sportspeople — out of €7m (£5.5m), although the true scale of his deception may be double that.

It has been learned the self-styled tax adviser-cum-property guru conned a company out of at least €290,000 (£230,000) it owed the Revenue Commissioners — and gave the cash to controversial developer Tom McFeely (below).

Russell's link to former hunger striker and disgraced developer McFeely, from Dungiven in Co Londonderry, was previously unknown outside of republican circles.



Read more: http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/ne...#ixzz25vMf9bV4

[Kev Bar]

Russell's link to former hunger striker and disgraced developer McFeely, from Dungiven in Co Londonderry, was previously unknown outside of republican circles.

Read more: http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/ne...#ixzz25vd81MTu

That's my kind of republic.

But that bizarre Indo Protuguese bar story about the ditz confronting the scum which left out McFeely's name seems to indicate there is some unusual reluctance to highlight FF/Shinner-esque filth when FF/Shinner-esque filth are being behaving in a filthy manner.