Why do Charlie Haughey's family still own an island?

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo · 07-09-2018 06:16PM #1

Why? Shouldn't CAB have been able to seize it.

Maybe the same way Denis O Brien accrued his wealth in Ireland?

TheValeyard · 07-09-2018 06:17PM

Lets make it a prison island.

Charles J. haughey Prison Island.

SEPT 23 1989 · 07-09-2018 06:18PM

He did nothing wrong

Baron Kurtz · 07-09-2018 06:31PM

Love the chatter about how expensive the shirts he wore were. Ooh, the tax-payer picking up the tab for his shirts

07-09-2018 06:32PM

Good time for Charlie. Dacent skin he was.

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo · 07-09-2018 06:39PM

Murray TheDemonic TalkingSkull wrote: »

Lets make it a prison island.

Charles J. haughey Prison Island.

Any new prison wing is opened up in Ireland, should be called the Charles J. Haughey wing.

colm_mcm · 07-09-2018 06:42PM

Baron Kurtz wrote: »

Love the chatter about how expensive the shirts he wore were. Ooh, the tax-payer picking up the tab for his shirts

£700 shirts wouldn’t be the norm though, and it seems he bought at least 20 of them with money that wasn’t his. It wasn’t the taxpayer IIRC that paid for them but donations for Brian Lenihans liver transplant. He embezzled £250k from that fund.

Fann Linn · 07-09-2018 06:44PM

'He gave us de bus pass'.
Lol.

dxhound2005 · 07-09-2018 06:46PM

They want to make a few bob out of it during the eclipse.

Inishvickillane will be the first land in Europe to experience the Solar eclipse of September 23, 2090.

Your Face · 07-09-2018 06:49PM

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo wrote: »

Why? Shouldn't CAB have been able to seize it.

Maybe the same way Denis O Brien accrued his wealth in Ireland?

What?

SEPT 23 1989 · 07-09-2018 06:50PM

his only crime was that he loved his country too much

Spanish Eyes · 07-09-2018 06:53PM

His children were gifted the Kinsealy pad yonks ago when it was not worth as much as today. Presumably they they have now inherited Inishvikwhatever now that mammy is gone RIP.

That is what a lot of parents do, but however...... Kinsealy and InishV were procured by nefarious means as we all know now. Still the kids benefited with millions and will never see a poor day again.

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/maureen-haughey-stoic-wife-of-charlie-leaves-9m-fortune-36830625.html

I'll leave it there

Franz Von Peppercorn · 07-09-2018 06:58PM

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

his only crime was that he loved his country too much

He loved his country and the filthy lucre too much. Not necessarily in that order.

Poor Uncle Tom · 07-09-2018 06:58PM

A man of his day, without him as a gauge it wouldn't be as easy to see how politics have changed for the better as we emerge from the 'tighten your belts' mentality of post war of independence cabinet of ministers.

Zebra3 · 07-09-2018 07:00PM

They should dig him up and hang him.

dxhound2005 · 07-09-2018 07:01PM

Zebra3 wrote: »

They should dig him up and hang him.

Why would his children want to do that?

Spanish Eyes · 07-09-2018 07:01PM

Pity the CAB wasn't around in his day though!

The children are wealthy on the back of his deeds. I hope they enjoy it all.

OldMrBrennan83 · 07-09-2018 07:03PM

Could do with more Charlies these days.

Franz Von Peppercorn · 07-09-2018 07:04PM

Patww79 wrote: »

Need more Charlies.

Like a fish needs a bicycle.

Am I right?

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo · 07-09-2018 07:15PM

Spanish Eyes wrote: »

His children were gifted the Kinsealy pad yonks ago when it was not worth as much as today. Presumably they they have now inherited Inishvikwhatever now that mammy is gone RIP.

That is what a lot of parents do, but however...... Kinsealy and InishV were procured by nefarious means as we all know now. Still the kids benefited with millions and will never see a poor day again.

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/maureen-haughey-stoic-wife-of-charlie-leaves-9m-fortune-36830625.html

I'll leave it there

£9 million is a nice amount to leave behind. He played the part of a humble man. My Granda couldn't speak highly enough of him, unfortunately.

Belts had to be tightened.

Ipso · 07-09-2018 07:19PM

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo wrote: »

£9 million is a nice amount to leave behind. He played the part of a humble man. My Granda couldn't speak highly enough of him, unfortunately.

Belts had to be tightened.

Auto erotic asphyxiation!

terryduff12 · 07-09-2018 07:20PM

http://iwdg.ie/downloads/ezine/Irish%20Whale%20&%20Dolphin%20Group%20Newsletter%2009.91.pdf

Spanish Eyes · 07-09-2018 07:22PM

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo wrote: »

£9 million is a nice amount to leave behind. He played the part of a humble man. My Granda couldn't speak highly enough of him, unfortunately.

Belts had to be tightened.

That amount is what Maureen left. Prior to that the kids were gifted Kinsealy and the lands as a gift way before mam and dad passed on. So you could double or treble that amount now.

Nice one. On the back of dodgy procurement IMV.

RobbingBandit · 07-09-2018 07:27PM

Same reason Berties parents are in the republican plot in glasnevin as he man puts it I have the power

Clonmel1000 · 07-09-2018 07:30PM

Patww79 wrote: »

Could do with more Charlies these days.

Just curious why?

Are Am Eye · 07-09-2018 07:34PM

RobbingBandit wrote: »

as he man puts it I have the power

He Man also said
'When we find the Key, Gwildor will set the coordinates for Grayskull. We'll use the element of surprise...'

steddyeddy · 07-09-2018 07:39PM

Bravo for asking.

His family are living off criminal assets. I always wondered how they're not ashamed let alone allowed to remain in ownership of criminal assets.

No different to a drug dealer's wife living off his ill bought gains.

Badly Drunk Boy · 07-09-2018 07:42PM

terryduff12 wrote: »

http://iwdg.ie/downloads/ezine/Irish%20Whale%20&%20Dolphin%20Group%20Newsletter%2009.91.pdf

After he declared Irish territorial waters a whale and dolphin sanctuary, there were reactions (included in that link). Most were serious, but I liked this one:

"Did Fungi have something to do with it?"
- Tom MacSweeny, Marine Times.

:pac:

Spanish Eyes · 07-09-2018 07:42PM

steddyeddy wrote: »

Bravo for asking.

His family are living off criminal assets. I always wondered how they're not ashamed let alone allowed to remain in ownership of criminal assets.

No different to a drug dealer's wife living off his ill bouhht gains.

Have often thought the same myself, and I mentioned it in a previous post re CAB.

But the children don't seem to be too bothered.

gozunda · 07-09-2018 07:42PM

Charlie the man that famously told the country that we were "living beyond our means" all the while he was living it up in his big house, buying islands and having the state pay for his designer shirts in Paris.

He left a legacy of corruption and backhanders that is still with us to this day. Try getting planning permissions without extra fees and you might as well take the boat.

Just in case anyone forgets ...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/dec/20/ireland

Spanish Eyes · 07-09-2018 07:45PM

Is one of the children a TD, or in the running for a place on the FF ticket out there in Haughey Land?

You could not make this up if so.

Why do Charlie Haughey's family still own an island?

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