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Jay Bourke and the Battle of Berlin

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  • #2
    jay0109
    Registered Users Posts: 2,669 ✭✭✭jay0109


    What's jumped out at me so clearly from this Berlin D2 incident is how can Burke be so heavily linked with a commercial business while still under a 7yr ban from being a Company director!
    I've not seen any other management figure linked with this business other than him.


  • #3
    James Brown
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,015 ✭✭✭✭James Brown


    I'd say the standard Egan luvvie piece.
    There were zero repercussions for the flouting by a staff member no less and this piece is Egan doing a solid for one of the in crowd.
    He'll no doubt be at this years Indo z list three page christmas dinner.


  • #4
    Irishphotodesk
    Registered Users Posts: 1,896 ✭✭✭Irishphotodesk


    jay0109 wrote: »
    What's jumped out at me so clearly so from this Berlin D2 incident is how can Burke be so heavily linked with a commercial business while still under a 7yr ban from being a Company director!
    I've not seen any other management figure linked with this business other than him.

    One for the gardai to look at perhaps.


  • #5
    Donald Trump
    Registered Users Posts: 19,017 ✭✭✭✭Donald Trump


    tea and coffee wrote: »
    The lack of basic maths is worrying too. His mum (RIP) passed away this year at age 80, so states the article. Making her birth year 1940. Yet later in the article it describes how she "left Cologne in the late 1930s and moved to Ireland " (it's phrased as if to seek a better life)..... so in utero then? Other than that, it just makes for a good story.




    Don't mention the war.


  • #6
    jay0109
    Registered Users Posts: 2,669 ✭✭✭jay0109


    Irishphotodesk wrote: »
    One for the gardai to look at perhaps.

    Alas, this is Ireland


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  • #7
    Stovepipe
    Registered Users Posts: 2,979 ✭✭✭Stovepipe


    the article in last weeks Irish Times is more accurate and much less ass-licking.


  • #8
    gmisk
    Registered Users Posts: 31,810 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    https://twitter.com/DebsNaylor/status/1397548737224925184?s=19

    Good


  • #9
    Irishphotodesk
    Registered Users Posts: 1,896 ✭✭✭Irishphotodesk


    Interestingly, none of the directors attended the court today.


  • #10
    Fann Linn
    Registered Users Posts: 7,770 ✭✭✭Fann Linn


    Irishphotodesk wrote: »
    Interestingly, none of the directors attended the court today.

    Probably because they might have to answer questions.


  • #11
    Irishphotodesk
    Registered Users Posts: 1,896 ✭✭✭Irishphotodesk


    Fann Linn wrote: »
    Probably because they might have to answer questions.

    It was the judgement being delivered ...the directors were giving evidence during the hearing a few weeks ago, normally when someone/a company are before the courts and a verdict is about to be given they are in court to hear the result.


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  • #12
    touts
    Registered Users Posts: 6,430 ✭✭✭touts


    Good riddance. They got what was coming to them.


  • #13
    Hangdogroad
    Registered Users Posts: 4,869 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    Bourke is an utter knob. Texted staff of a previous place he ran that is was closing rather than tell them face to face.


  • #14
    poisonated
    Registered Users Posts: 2,277 ✭✭✭poisonated


    Didn’t he own cafe bar deli in ranelagh? I heard he didn’t tell people it was being shut down and they turned up for work. That could be wrong though.


  • #15
    jay0109
    Registered Users Posts: 2,669 ✭✭✭jay0109


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    Irishphotodesk wrote: »
    Interestingly, none of the directors attended the court today.

    Did the named directors even know they were directors of said premises!


  • #16
    Irishphotodesk
    Registered Users Posts: 1,896 ✭✭✭Irishphotodesk


    jay0109 wrote: »
    Did the names directors even know they were directors of said premises!

    That I can't answer.


  • #17
    paw patrol
    Registered Users Posts: 2,314 ✭✭✭paw patrol


    While I don't care about Berlin D2 much.
    It does strike me as a harsh punishment.

    Justified , you may retort.

    But will the same happen for a hotel in the west of Ireland called Station House Hotel in Clifton? the hosts of "golf gate" a blatant breach of covid rules.
    The answer is - will it fcuk.

    and that's Ireland in a nutshell.
    golf for me , rules for thee


  • #18
    expectationlost
    Registered Users Posts: 11,749 ✭✭✭✭expectationlost


    paw patrol wrote: »
    While I don't care about Berlin D2 much.
    It does strike me as a harsh punishment.

    Justified , you may retort.

    But will the same happen for a hotel in the west of Ireland called Station House Hotel in Clifton? the hosts of "golf gate" a blatant breach of covid rules.
    The answer is - will it fcuk.

    and that's Ireland in a nutshell.
    golf for me , rules for thee
    it wasn't just one incident


  • #19
    Calhoun
    Registered Users Posts: 7,447 ✭✭✭Calhoun


    expectationlost wrote: »
    it wasn't just one incident

    Pretty much this was the nail in the coffin, combined with two of the directors not willing to meet the guards it looked like in public they were being contrite but then really they didnt give a ****.

    The judges comments were quite harse.


  • #20
    paw patrol
    Registered Users Posts: 2,314 ✭✭✭paw patrol


    expectationlost wrote: »
    it wasn't just one incident

    Don't disagree


  • #21
    Jizique
    Registered Users Posts: 1,817 ✭✭✭Jizique


    Looking to leave €12.5m debts behind



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  • #22
    Brucie Bonus
    Registered Users Posts: 5,189 ✭✭✭Brucie Bonus


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118182456#Comment_118182456

    If someone is losing their home they are labeled chancers yet we often see the wealthy have millions 'written off'. Different rules for different sections of society.



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