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Corruption findings against George Redmond

  • 19-12-2014 4:58pm
    #1
    Big C
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 943 ✭✭✭


    Tribunal withdraws corruption findings against George Redmond.

    It was all a bad dream.


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  • #2
    coylemj
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,624 ✭✭✭✭coylemj


    A man of unblemished character.

    Still waiting to hear where he got all that cash they found on him in Dublin airport as he attempted to squirrel it out of the country - a good day in Leopardstown perhaps?


  • #3
    nuac
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,769 ✭✭✭nuac


    coylemj wrote: »
    A man of unblemished character.

    Still waiting to hear where he got all that cash they found on him in Dublin airport as he attempted to squirrel it out of the country - a good day in Leopardstown perhaps?

    Didn't he claim to be a great saver?.

    A friend who worked for a while in that local authority said that Redmond would never be the first to put his hand in his pocket to pay for any refreshment

    Indeed a great public servant of umblemished character etc


  • #4
    michael999999
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,771 ✭✭✭michael999999


    coylemj wrote: »
    A man of unblemished character.

    Still waiting to hear where he got all that cash they found on him in Dublin airport as he attempted to squirrel it out of the country - a good day in Leopardstown perhaps?

    Maybe he got it the same place as Fianna fail hero Bertie!

    How much did that tribunal cost on parasitic legal fees again?


  • #5
    Big C
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 943 ✭✭✭Big C


    He never took bribes, he will get his costs back, will he get the €2, ooo,000 CAB stole off him, he never obstructed any enquirey, what about poor Ray Burke another much abused honest politician, zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Great country were the truth always comes out. Also on the xmas TV viewing will be the true life documentry "Mrs Brown's Boy's"


  • #6
    coylemj
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,624 ✭✭✭✭coylemj


    michael999999 wrote: »
    Maybe he got it the same place as Fianna fail hero Bertie!

    Bertie never had anything to do with the old Dublin county council which is where all that planning corruption happened.

    Frank Feely was the overall City and County manager but on a day to day basis he effectively ran the city and he let the deputy C & C manager George Redmond run the county. That allowed Redmond, in league with corrupt county councillors, developers, builders and facilitators like Frank Dunlop to hijack the planning process so the meetings of the county council in the O'Connell St. offices were usually preceded by a preliminary gathering around the corner in Patrick Conway's pub where brown envelopes were handed around like snuff at a wake.


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  • #7
    Valetta
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,611 ✭✭✭Valetta


    coylemj wrote: »
    A man of unblemished character.

    Still waiting to hear where he got all that cash they found on him in Dublin airport as he attempted to squirrel it out of the country - a good day in Leopardstown perhaps?

    You might want to get your facts straight.

    He was bringing it back into the country.


  • #8
    conorh91
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,328 ✭✭✭conorh91


    nuac wrote: »
    Didn't he claim to be a great saver?.

    A friend who worked for a while in that local authority said that Redmond would never be the first to put his hand in his pocket to pay for any refreshment
    Fearghal Keane had a radio sketch on Redmond last evening.

    He said Redmond was known to be a terrible miser. People would tell stories of his tight-fistedness around Dublin Castle. A clever restauranteur in the vicinity invited Redmond to lunch, on the house. Redmond jumped at it. Free publicity, big joke. But Redmond kept coming back. He came back for weeks. Never once put his hand in his pocket. A few weeks of this, the restaurant has has to tell Redmond to stop coming. No shame at all. But maybe he just forgot to pay…

    http://www.independent.ie/unsorted/features/george-is-no-fool-on-the-why-fronts-26418423.html

    Redmond, 83, claims that upon seeing a Lidl ad for azalea plants, he decided, with winter fast approaching, to get some of these plants for his wife. "They're winter plants," he's reported as saying.

    No problem there, just some good forward-planning - and planning is what George is renowned for, along with heavy saving of course, and there's few places where you can save as heavily as Lidl.

    George left with his azaleas only to be stopped by security and told that they'd seen him put other goods in his pockets. The store claims that in his pocket, and unpaid for, were underpants, socks and a light bulb. The gardai were called and Redmond was taken to Blanchardstown station.

    No stranger to a bit of questioning, George was never likely to cave in over a pair of Y-fronts and a 40watt bulb, and was released without charge and stated that "it was all a complete misunderstanding". He later told the Irish Independent he didn't remember if he'd bought anything other than the plants, he didn't know what size the socks were and that the light bulb was under his waistband as he'd no room in his pockets.


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