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    In the bath – Seán Quinn

    Seán Quinn lay back in the gilt bathtub that he had got the Quinn Group to buy for him, and was hiding from Anglo, and reflected on how honest he was.  I am a very honest man, he thought, decent and humble, wrecked by Anglo.  I don’t use a mobile phone. I play cards in […]

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    Government covering up for pulling of planning inquiry.

    By John Gormley. I know how Tom Gilmartin  must have felt listening to Pádraig Flynn speaking on the Late Late. You’ll recall that this was the evening that Pee just couldn’t stop talking about how difficult it was to keep three luxury homes and in the process also ‘dissed’ the developer, Mr Gilmartin, who had […]

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    Noonan’s ‘miracle’ Anglo deal didn’t stop us paying in full.

    By Mark Malone and Andy Storey. Michael Noonan could have “walked on water across the Liffey” to the recent Fine Gael Árd Fheis. That was the view of one political commentator on RTÉ, following the “miracle” the Finance Minister had performed in relation to the Anglo Irish Bank promissory note, due for payment that day. […]

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