The Elite and the Entitled of Irish Politics

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In the last couple of months an employee of the DPP is suspended with pay in relation to a breach of confidentiality under the Oath that all staff must take, before working in that Government agency. It is a most serious situation that alleged leaks have come out from the DPP’s office and I repeat if it is factual, it actually is a betrayal of the State you work for.

Frances Fitzgerald, who left the Justice Department, when she replaced the failed Alan Shatter, is back in the headlines and this time somebody is doing a fabulous PR cover-up because Ken Foxe of the Mail on Sunday, has disclosed emails and documents that are most disturbing and they raise many questions going forward. In Ireland’s political history and for almost eighty years a Cabinet meeting is completely State confidential and also anybody who speaks outside that remit must stand down and maybe or may I say face criminal charges. We all know Frances Fitzgerald began her career in Public Relations and she is a former employee and personal friend of Terry the Prune. I ask people today to just read the article by Foxe and then the questions, will start floating around in your head. Foxe first had asked the Department of Justice if there were any emails or correspondence between Fitzgerald and Terry the Prune when she was defending Noirin O’Sullivan at the time that Sgt McCabe, an honest Garda, was literally been thrown to the wolves. Also, we must mention Mick Wallace who may have faults in relation to unpaid taxes but who had the courage to take on Shatter and then Fitzgerald, along with former Commissioner Martin the Carpark Callinan and Noirin the missing mobile O’Sullivan. Foxe was told early in the request that no documents existed but to be fair to the journalist he kept digging. Now we know that what first popped up were sixty emails between Fitzgerald, former Carr Communications PR and then Minister for Justice at the time and Terry the Prune. Later on, through FOI papers and consistent banging on doors, a further sixty five emails have emerged. One particular email is most disturbing. This email goes: “How do I handle Wallace?” Reply: “Don’t Engage with him. Ignore him, let him be on the media and TV outlets. Deny all he says”. These emails should shock the Dail and particularly the present Government which is backed up by Martin and the other Cork Stooges.

The question I ask today is direct: How can Terry the Prune have access to Cabinet meetings? How can she advise a former Minister for Justice in relation to State matters and I believe that this is just the tip of the Titanic iceberg. I believe that Terry Prone had access to a lot of State business and I also believe that the PAC committee should request that Fitzgerald should attend an urgent session and be put under the floodlights. If this country is going to have leak after leak and ordinary employees are suspended – how can Ministers be immune to the same laws. This story and I know this will happen will be buried in a matter of days but I ask John McGuinness today and Sean Fleming and other decent members of the Dail to call Fitzgerald to task on this. There are too many elite figure heads with too much information at the moment in relation to Cabinet meetings and Government files.

To conclude today: some years ago a Government task force was set up to determine if e180 per week too much money for the unemployed? On that committee was the infamous Angela Kerins, former Rehab, who is now nearly invisible awaiting the conclusion of the Justices of the Supreme Court. Her salary at the time from Rehab was roughly at that time e5,500 per week plus expenses. Which idiot Clown put her on that panel?

Do I have to say anymore? The elite are so called run this country and the TD’s are just the messenger boys and girls.

Fred

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Ireland’s main newspapers are either in semi-retirement or have lost the hunger to be true investigative journalists. Today Ireland is sinking in an epidemic of heroin, cocaine, crystal meth, and cannabis; let us not forget the prescription drugs bought on the black market. Opioids have America on its knees; Ireland is not far behind but we are in denial as usual and we continue to push the can down the road using the word research; and breakfast seminars. Yesterday morning as I walked through Dublin’s Fair City, O’Connell Street was filthy; there was litter everywhere; the bins had not been emptied and literally in every doorway there were young people crashed out in sleeping bags. Why? Drugs – Illegal drugs and alcohol also causes strife in families which results in homelessness. The Drug culture in Dublin is not just Gangland; it is not just Kinahan and the other gangs, it is more structured than one thinks. Drug dealers, as media will tell us, are men going around in track suits showing off their steroid muscles and tatoos; not quite so correct. In the UK many old people are being arrested and sent to prison for drug dealing, after retirement from years of work. They like the thrill.

Drugs are bringing in millions on a weekly basis to the mobs in Dublin but this money has to be laundered through different banking institutions. The dealers have to have front men; they have to have the man in the pin stripe suit with the briefcase and the rest. Believe me these people are a very important cog in the drug culture in this country. They live in South Dublin, some of them are in business, some run pubs, some are in the legal profession and some drive around in Garda cars. O yes, drugs bring money into play and money brings corruption. Dublin 4 is a perfect example of that old sleepy hollow but don’t be fooled when you walk around Elgin, Pembroke, Waterloo, Clyde, Wellington, Burlington and of course Ballsbridge. These people live all around us and don’t give you a scent of any illegal activity taking place. Activity is taking place and large portions of money are being laundered on a daily basis through betting shops, race horses, properties in Spain, and also buying properties and shares in the City of Dublin. Sources within our media can name some but they don’t have enough evidence to print. I can name a dozen of these so called suits who live on the roads I have just mentioned, and they live with total immunity.

People always think of Finglas, Ballymun, Coolock, Darndale, Rialto, and the rest when you mention drugs but the financial headquarters for most of the drug money laundering is in the D4, D2, D6 areas and the corrupt cops will protect their sources because the money and the backhanders are too big to ignore. The drug squad should be overhauled and also there should be drug checks on Gardai frequently without warning. We need a Police Force unlike Mexico and Spain and the rest. We need a Police Force that acts within the law and not above it. Never forget people even those who wear wigs can be tainted because money has no conscious.

To be continued.

Fred

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The expenses gravy train has been very good to Billy Kelleher. The figures do not include his TD’s salary. 2011=€49,715

2012=€60,550

2013=€51,715

2014=€51,715

2015=€51,714

2016=€43,690

2017=€51,715

2018=€51,708

Total expenses received= €412,522

Have these people any shame at all, the FF party that fucking destroyed a Nation. Kelleher is one Muppet but there are many more raking in millions from the backs of the Irish taxpayers. We have people tonight sleeping in doorways in the bitter cold. We also have this Gravy Train and Billy Kelleher blowing his horn and laughing all the way to Bitcoin.

If you are interested in more, Twitter @tdexpenses. A shocking indictment on those who represent the people of Ireland. But in reality they represent themselves, their families and their bank accounts, here and abroad, and the Public are only a means to an end of getting all the money they can and bluffing on a daily basis.

Fred

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Reparations: Did Ireland ever receive same from the British Empire now proposing Brexit? Double dip hardship imposed.

Back to members of the Gravy Club in Expenses Paid at the Dail. I nearly forgot about the Boss of Bosses – Gearoid Adams. The Sunday Business Post gave a shabby account (to be truthful) on Sinn Fein’s TD’s and the salaries they choose to take home. It is a bit like asking the Mafia for an audit and an independent one at that. It is hard to translate the salaries of Lynn Boylan, O’Riada, Eoin O’Broin and a few more and to put it all into perspective, Boylan claims that she takes home £650 per week and gives the rest to 6 different charities in her area yet she is regularly dining with O’Broin in Mick Wallace’s winery in Inchicore, where a class of vino can come to £7 per hit. A meal there on average is £90 for two, not bad for the party of the people and the left.

Now – Mick the Sheep has his own problems but you have to hand it to him, he keeps the show on the road between traveling globally to football games, entertaining the Penguin on a daily basis and running the fine vineyards in France. For a man that owes Revenue a few bob, he certainly has the Trump image.

Back to Gearoid Adams: It is alleged that he has a summer house in TooLose in France and also he runs a guesthouse in Co. Louth with two assistants followed by many wild geese. His take home pay according to the SBP last Sunday is £43,000 per annum, not including his expenses. Also he fails to show the profits from the guesthouse. In the middle of all this he has a book coming out for Christmas on Gerry’s favourite TiTBiTs. I don’t mean MaryLou – it is Gerry’s Cookery Book and his favourite menus. If I can recall correctly he may be doing an hour of his cooking on BBC or some station, assisted by Ruth Dudley Edwards, a fan of his and a trainee in the kitchen. Micheal Martin is making an appearance on the show and his favourite menu is Cosy Stew with a Leo Sauce topped up with a spicy ingredient called McGuinness, a rebel who want’s to take-over the country and the menu in the future.

Now we have Mairia Cahill back in the news stating that MaryLou showed her no respect. The point is missed here. The PSNI failed to investigate the allegations and let me make this very clear, Cahill pointed a finger of accusation at many people and in law they are only Allegations until proven in a Court Room. Also, let’s go one further, there are numerous civil cases being taken against Ms Cahill on the same subject. I admire her audacity but there comes a time where you have to produce valid evidence and not always being an attention seeker from the High Ground. Just look at the woman from Limerick during the week who had the courage to face her attacker down in a Court of Law and rightly so she won. Mr O’Dea is doing 17 years and Mrs O’Callaghan in her own words said “I took the shackles of guilt that I felt were on me and put them on him”. I wish Ms Cahill the very best but the options are there in our legal system and the place to start is in our police stations.

So Christmas is almost upon us and we can’t wait for Gerry and Ruth Dudley Edwards to cook the Goose and not the Books.

To be continued.

Fred

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SELECTIVE JUSTICE – IRELAND IN THE DOCK

Ireland as one American sat me down a year ago and told me straight: is a land of contacts, cronies, and if you are not in the privileged inner circle, you will not do business here. Let’s face it the late Tom Gilmartin is proof of what I am saying. Imagine being told by certain politicians of that time, if you don’t play ball, you could end up face down in the Liffey, It was almost like the line from the Godfather ‘Sleeping with the fishes’. Now, we are back to Selective Justice Irish Style. Let me try and outline the examples below and I am sure there are hundreds if not thousands of same in the last few decades.

The young mother had an unpaid fine; she had children and probably she did not have the money. The Judge gave her some time, not much, but he could have been more understanding; she did not take the State for billions like the Developers did (and so many back in business now) after the Bust iin 2008. This woman just simply could not pay and it happened in Limerick. They could have made contact with a phone call, with a simple knock at the door in daylight, but NO they used the Stasi methods – Sharp Shock and Aggressive. Imagine her children but also think of 4 years ago when the country voted for Equality for all people: This is the biggest joke of all. She was taken from her home at 3 am; her small children were present and the rest you can and should read below:-

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Saturday 8 December 2018
Six gardai sent to arrest mum for unpaid fine at 3am

Barry Duggan

December 11 2012 5:00 AM

SIX gardai called to the home of a mother just before 3am to arrest her and bring her to prison over an unpaid €250 traffic fine.

The 27-year-old woman has appeared in Limerick District Court where Judge Eugene O’Kelly extended the time to allow her appeal the case.

The case arose after the Limerick woman was allegedly caught using a mobile phone while driving in 2010.

However, she insists she was not aware of the initial fine or proceedings in the District Court last May when she was convicted and fined €250.

When the court fine was left unpaid, a penal warrant was subsequently issued and forwarded to gardai.

The mother, who lives in a halting site in Limerick, spoke after the court sitting on condition of anonymity.

Last Wednesday morning, gardai arrived at her home just before 3am.

“It was about 2.45am and they knocked at my back door and they had flash lamps and at first I didn’t know who it was,” she said.

“Then when I opened the door, it was the guards – about six of them.

“When they walked in, they asked us what our names were because my sister was there as well and my mam was in bed and my baby was in bed.

“When they came in then, they said, ‘There is a warrant for your arrest’.

“I asked them for what and they said for a mobile phone,” she said.

The woman pleaded with the officers not to bring her to prison because of her three-month-old son.

She told gardai she would sort it out that week.

“I said I was not going up to the prison – no way.

“They were fair enough about it, but it was the hour of the morning that was upsetting,” she said.

Last Friday, her solicitor Sarah Ryan made an application in Limerick District Court to extend time to allow an appeal.

Granting the application, Judge O’Kelly said he hoped there was some “extraordinary” reason for the gardai attempting to execute the penal warrant at that time of the morning.

Insp John Deasy said it was “not the normal practice” and told the court there may have been specific reasons as to why it was done at that time but did not identify what they were.

“They (penal warrants) should not be executed after midnight or before 7am,” Judge O’Kelly added.

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This case is the other part of the word Selective. John Shee is now a fugitive from the Irish High Court and NAMA. He owes £24 million plus costs and penalties, rising daily. I did some research in the last number of months in relation to Mr Shee and the Gardai who are trying to find him at Roxboro station in Limerick. This is how it goes:- Ah sure he’ll turn up sometime. “We know he is in Cannes and he travels to Paris and all over France over the past number of years. Mr Shee is well connected and knows many people in low and especially high places in Limerick. I am amazed and intrigued that Niall Collins, FF TD, has never mentioned this fugitive in the Dail or anywhere else. Michael Lynn became a household name in Ireland because journalists were out to get him but why are the same journalists not out to get Mr Shee who has left many a person high and dry in relation to the £24 million he owes the State. It is alleged that Shee has personal friends in the legal and medical fraternity and used them as a way to money launder through their accounts and then on to France where Mr Shee lives the high life, somewhat like the infamous Lord Lucan of old. For any reasonable person reading the two articles which relate to the one City ie Limerick and the two people from different social divides, you can see how they also live in the Selective Justice Divide of Modern Ireland. One woman owed £250, 6 Gardai arrive at her home at 3 am, the other Gentleman from the upper elites of Limerick owes £24 million and yet the Gardai have no interest in finding him nor has the journalists, some to my shock, were not even aware of the case.

It is hard to comprehend the above but then again and I hate repeating myself “Corruption is legal on this Island”. Let’s not forget the letter to the Irish Times last week. This woman stated with deep anger “We are in a cash shortage crisis; we need more money from the Irish Fools of Taxpayers; we run charities according to our own rules WE HAVE A CRISIS. This woman went to New York. She used the
Charity card and broke all rules; she bought her husband a painting in Macy’s but no big deal, after a little pressure she paid the money back and Barbara O’Connell is still the Chief Executive of ABI Ireland – some hard neck to ask with 6 others for more money. Enough said

Fred

Gardai unable to locate businessman John Shee who is being pursued by NAMA
Gardai remain unable to locate a businessman being pursued by NAMA in its effort to enforce a €24m judgment against him, the Commercial Court was told yesterday.
Gardai remain unable to locate a businessman being pursued by NAMA in its effort to enforce a €24m judgment against him, the Commercial Court was told yesterday.

February 24 2014 6:33 PM

Gardai remain unable to locate a businessman being pursued by NAMA in its effort to enforce a €24m judgment against him, the Commercial Court was told yesterday.

There was no sign of life when gardai attended at John Shee’s home at South Circular Road, Limerick city, and discussions with various relatives of his had not resulted in any information about his whereabouts, Sergeant Gearóid Thompson said. There has also been an all ports entry and exit alert in relation to him, the sergeant said.

Mr Justice Peter Kelly said there appeared to be “a kind of conspiracy of silence” concerning Mr Shee’s whereabouts and it appeared there was very little more the gardai could do in this matter of civil contempt.

The judge said he would leave in being the court’s order directing gardai to continue efforts to find and arrest Mr Shee for the purposes of bringing him before the court to explain why he should not be jailed for contempt of an order requiring him to provide a sworn statement of his assets and liabilities.

On January 27 last, Andrew Fitzpatrick, for NAMA, had secured an order directing gardai to arrest Mr Shee arising from his failure to adhere to the terms of a court order requiring him to provide a statement of affairs by January 6.

The matter was returned to February 10 and again to yesterday when Sergeant Thompson, stationed at Roxboro Road, Limerick, outlined a series of further unsuccessful efforts to locate the businessman, including attendance at various properties in Dublin and Limerick.

Sgt Thompson said an entry and exit alert had been issued for all ports but, he noted, a person may leave the country without using a passport. Mr Shee was not known to the gardai and, without more firm information, he considered it would be fruitless to attend at several other properties around Ireland which had been referred to, he added.

Mr Fitzpatrick said NAMA was very frustrated it had not proven possible to locate Mr Shee but it appeared little more could be done at present.

NAMA had obtained the orders requiring Mr Shee to provide a sworn statement of his assets and liabilities, plus relevant books and records, for use in a court examination of Mr Shee about his financial affairs, which had been scheduled for February 7.

The examination was sought arising from a failure by Mr Shee and others to make repayments under a €24m judgment obtained against them in March 2011. The judgment related to unpaid loans advanced by Allied Irish Banks and was later transferred to NAMA.

* In a separate case before Mr Justice Kelly, a businessman consented to a €19.5m judgment order being entered against him in favour of a NAMA company.

He granted judgment for €19.5m against Eugene McManemy, Dunguir, North Circular Road, Limerick.

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The article below was written by Michael O’Farrell. My question is:- An Garda Siochana know where this Limerick fugitive is and they know he has channeled millions through his wife’s account yet he lives like a French aristocrat and appears not to have a care in the world nor has Mrs Shee. The arrogance and the hard necks are beyond belief. Sometime ago a friend of his wrote a malicious and damning letter to a couple in Dublin accusing them of all sorts, yet these people helped their daughter through dark times and through illness. The consultant and his wife, who I will not name, are personal friends of the lowlife below.

(Would An Garda Siochana get the international warrant and BRING MR SHEE BACK TO FACE DUE PROCESS IN THE IRISH COURTS.

I repeat we do have a two tier legal system just like the shambles of our health system in this country.

Our Cops go to houses after midnight and arrest people for non payment of a TV license yet the entitled bastards like below can their fingers up, drink their Vintage and live like millionaires. I am sure Willie O’Dea and Niall Collins could make a comment on the Justice system and the two tier divide.

Fred

EXCLUSIVE. ON-THE-RUN DEVELOPER HIDING OUT IN SOUTH OF FRANCE

Posted on 26 July 2015.

Michael O’Farrell

Investigations Editor in Nice

THIS is the fugitive Nama developer John Shee strolling down the street in his luxury French Riviera hideout of Nice. A warrant for his arrest was issued in January 2014 after he failed to disclose his assets to Nama on foot of a court order to do so.

Despite Garda searches and an entry and exit alert at all ports, the authorities have so far failed to locate Mr Shee.

But this week the Irish Mail on Sunday tracked him down to an exclusive residential street in the centre of Nice where he is living with his wife Mary who alternates between the family home in Limerick and the French retreat.

The developer made a statement, which is printed in full below, but when first approached he declined to comment and maintained a stony silence for a full 10 minutes as he walked down the street, crossed the road and doubled back on himself before standing completely silent at a tram stop.
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Irish Mail on Sunday – July 26, 2015. Photo – Sean Dwyer.

He eventually agreed to think about speaking and nominated a time for the following day and a rendezvous point in the basement of a local shopping centre.

‘If I’m there, I’m there. If not, you’ll know I won’t speak,’ he said, accepting a list of questions about why he went on the run and why he is not paying back his debts.

Although his lifestyle in Nice is extremely comfortable, Mr Shee is very much in hiding and appears determined to attract as little attention to himself as possible.

He refuses to use mobile phones or email and never ventured more than five minutes’ walk from his home during the week the MoS observed him. When he did venture out, he always had a baseball cap and dark sunglasses with him.

Despite the heat, he avoids sitting out on the balcony of his apartment where the curtains are always drawn.

He arrived at our meeting point the following morning via back streets but only after he had scoped out the location by circling the shopping centre before approaching the café and sitting down.

After insisting that batteries be removed from phones he agreed to speak off the record and unfolded a handwritten list of more than a dozen points he wanted to address.

One of Mr Shee’s central concerns – apart from the implications of the MoS story for his wife – was that the precise number of his apartment not be disclosed as this would lead to people seeking to serve summons on him.

He was also anxious to express that he does not feel he is living a life of luxury and says he will return to Ireland to face the Judge who issued his arrest warrant.

Eventually after more than an hour and a half, Mr Shee agreed to make a statement containing some of the points addressed.

In it he said he had transferred his assets to his wife Mary as he was ill with cancer and ‘feared the worst’. ‘Despite the way it looks,’ he said, ‘I’m living a modest lifestyle and will probably have to bankrupt in due course.’

He also said: ‘I do intend to come back when I’m fully recovered.’ Mr Shee first moved to divest his assets in 2009, when he transferred the family home in Limerick and several apartments to wife Mary.
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The Shees live in this Nice apartment block.

When questioned by gardaí last year relatives of Mr Shee – including his wife – declined to reveal his whereabouts.

The couple are living in a first floor apartment on the sought-after Boulevard Victor Hugo, which overlooks a garden of palm trees adjacent to the renowned five-star Boscolo Exedra Hotel.

Council records confirm that the apartment, estimated to be worth in the region of €500,000, is owned by John and Mary Shee.

It is a short walk from Nice’s famous beach and old town, though for the most part Mr Shee prefers to lie low in his apartment. He emerges only once or twice a day to run brief errands on foot to the local bottle bank, supermarket and chemist, sometimes with a pullalong shopping trolley.
Nama developer John Shee photographed in Nice, France this week. John Shee strolling down the street in his luxury French Riviera hideout of Nice. (Wednesday This Week.) Photo by Sean Dwyer 22/07/15
Nama developer John Shee in Nice. Photo – Sean Dwyer.

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At one point on Tuesday he accompanied his wife on a shoe-buying trip and a stroll down a street of designer boutiques. However, he left her to continue to the city’s busier tourist area alone while he doubled back to their apartment.

The couple’s Riviera lifestyle is funded thanks to millions being made by Ireland’s largest nursing home chain, Mowlam Healthcare Ltd, which Mr Shee co-founded a decade and a half ago with his business partner Joe Hanrahan.

Though Mowlam continues to be profitable, Mr Shee and Mr Hanrahan oversaw a string of failed construction firms which owe more than €50m to Nama and a series of banks.

At the last hearing into the matter in February 2014, Judge Peter Kelly said there appeared to be a kind of ‘conspiracy of silence’ concerning Mr Shee’s whereabouts.

However, instead of trying to repay his Nama loans with the nursing home income – much of which is funded by the taxpayer through the Fair Deal nursing homes support scheme – Mr Shee transferred his stake in Mowlam to his wife in 2011. Mr Hanrahan also transferred his stake to his wife Vivienne.

That year the firm – which owns 23 nursing homes in 14 counties and cares for more than 1,200 residents – had income of over €30m and posted pre-tax profits of €2.5m.

The accounts of the nursing home group are now secret since the company re-registered as unlimited in 2012 and moved its ownership to the British Virgin Islands.

In the past Mrs Shee has declined to answer MoS questions about the whereabouts of her husband and the millions being channelled to her from Mowlam Healthcare.

A €24m judgment was obtained against the pair of developers in March 2011 after they failed to make repayments on AIB loans which were later taken into Nama.

The order to arrest Mr Shee was issued after he failed to provide a statement of affairs to Nama by January 6 last year. At the last hearing into the matter, Judge Kelly said it appeared there was very little more gardaí could do but he directed them to continue efforts to find and arrest Mr Shee.

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