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Provos moving in on the communications industry?

  • 20-02-2005 8:29pm
    #1
    vinnyfitz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 805 ✭✭✭


    Can anyone cast any light on this intriguing comment from Michael McDowell reported by RTE:
    Earlier, the Minister for Justice, Michael McDowell accused the men (Adams, McGuinness and Ferris) of being members of the council while taking part in a radio debate on Today FM.

    He said there were seven members of the council and that the IRA was increasingly trying to get involved in legitimate businesses, especially the communications industry.

    What are they doing? Buying shares in O2 and Vodafone.....?


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  • #2
    dahamsta
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,659 ✭✭✭✭dahamsta


    Look, somebody has to do it, right?

    They've been involved in Eircom for years vinnyfitz. It's not exactly a secret that it's being run by criminals...


  • #3
    Sponge Bob
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 25,234 ✭✭✭✭Sponge Bob


    Wait for the CAB raids :)


  • #4
    mrblack
    Registered Users Posts: 350 ✭✭mrblack


    vinnyfitz wrote:
    Can anyone cast any light on this intriguing comment from Michael McDowell reported by RTE:



    What are they doing? Buying shares in O2 and Vodafone.....?

    No, McDowell means the newspaper industry- specifically the new paper Daily Ireland. At lest thats what he said on the radio this morning.


  • #5
    BrianD
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,221 ✭✭✭BrianD


    Wasn't there some controversy about an internet provider that was allegedly owned by people with strong republican connections? Got bought up by one of the major telcoc.

    Some of these groups have a penchant for pulling down local mobile phone masts. Would that be an involvement in the communications industry??

    I did hera an advert for the Daily News paper on the radio. Apparently, you can subscribe by dialling a number that ends in 1916!!!!


  • #6
    Sponge Bob
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 25,234 ✭✭✭✭Sponge Bob


    You mean Indigo , bought by the state (Eircom)

    I also heard the shinners had a Dubln Radio licence , which one ?


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