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So I'm thinking if the likes of yourself are already dismissing it while knowing little about it or the article we can expect it's jurnos to be personally attacked in the near.
Unfortunately, my pension doesn’t extend as far as paying for new online newspapers. If it was free for a few months to draw us in, then I’d consider it. For the moment I’m happy with the online subscription I already have.
The hounds of FF and FG will be set upon any journalist that dares to tell us what is going on. Look at what happened Aoife Moore after the Golfgate 4 got off. Whistleblowers can expect the same.
If the journalists wanted their stories to be read, they wouldn’t have them all behind expensive paywalls! Every other online newspaper have some free articles.
There's always a whiff of Denis offa FG state contracts. This one is no different.
That's what it costs to run an independent voice. No vested interests, ad money propping them up.
The Currency is great. Lots of good journalists working there.
Ian Kehoe, Tom Lyons, Sam Smyth and Francesca Comyn are well respected, recognised and trusted contributors and journalists. The Currency offers excellent well written and researched articles. Sometimes you pay more to get the best.
Shocking that the main bidder McCourt only owns 6% of the NBP.
Seen a Fanning name, that the Indo crowd?
Yep Dion Fanning ex Sindo.
Never a good sign, weren't they and oul mad Eoghan all the one?
Tom Lyons is ex Sindo too, and ex is a good sign.
It's great to read something online and not having ads distracting you, especially when half the ads are scummy bullshit.
Isn't the company involved in the NBP owned by a hedge fund? The complicated ownership structure wouldn't be that unusual there. The idea would be to diversify the risk for the investors involved (e.g. lots of investors hold a small stake). Different investors invest their money through the most efficient vehicle for them. In reality it wouldn't be much different to a publicly owned company that has loads of investors/shareholders (for example can you list every single person who owns a bit of Eir or Vodafone).
If the NBP was such a goldmine there would have been loads of tenders for it, as it was no company in the state beyond this special purpose company would touch it.
Interesting little read on SF opposing housing.
FactCheck: Has Sinn Féin objected to the construction of 6,000 houses? https://jrnl.ie/5679519
Newstalk did a similar one (not as detailed and conclusive) a few weeks back too, coming to the same conclusion. Won't change the narrative from the desperate though.
It will be interesting to see the response of those that like to throw this out on here when defending the governments pathetic record on housing.
I kept hearing FFG bring that number up. Over and over again. It seemed too 'hokey' to me at the time. Rather than look at their own track record and projections, they kept saying 'look at the 6000!'. They need to get their facts straight because every tactic they use is backfiring. All these highly paid advisors and all they can say on housing over and over is the following: "4 'billun' a year and blame the SF 6000". It's beyond amateur.
Meanwhile the housing crisis gets worse and worse and worse and the perception is that both FF and FG caused it and continue to make it worse whilst making cuckoo funds rich. Our young professionals will be forced to emigrate as a result. More shame on the power swap. Not another red cent was another one.
A Dutch investment firm is paying €110m for almost 300 homes in Dublin, including a number of starter homes in Housing Minister Darragh O’Brien’s constituency, the Irish Independent has learned
FF and FG summed up
Watt and OBrien, handbags at dawn?
http://cf.broadsheet.ie/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/IRISH-MAIL-ON-SUNDAY-PAGE-ONE-20.2.22.jpg
Anyone got a sub to the Indo or know what the story is with this one?
The minister, the Tayto Park boss and the €4,200 donation that breached Sipo regulations - Independent.ie
The minister, the Tayto Park boss and the €4,200 donation that breached Sipo regulations
Businessman sent cheques to the election account of Helen McEntee
Justice Minister Helen McEntee received three cheques each worth €1,400 on February 4, 2020. They were political donations from three separate companies and would have come in handy to cover the cost of the general election campaign being held that month.
Ms McEntee was successfully elected to the Dáil five days after receiving the cheques, when she secured just over 18pc of the vote in her Meath East constituency.
New Politics.
I wouldn't mind but McEntee never comes to the Ashbourne part of the Meath constituency. I wonder if there were donations made to Regina Doherty and Thomas Byrne (FF) also. Just to cover all the bases.
Old story about donations getting returned getting rehashed for some reason.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/helen-mcentee-returns-4-000-chipped-in-by-tayto-park-magnate-ray-coyle-gkvnp8jmc
In with the 'nothing to see here'. Nice.
Question actually - given the 200 euro limit, does that mean if you held a gala dinner at 250 euro a head you'd have to return the 50?
With the 1000 limit, is this applied on benefit in kind as well? For example where a candidate leases office space in a party office?
Is it April 1st? 😗
All the waste is giving money for food and rent to low income families doncha know.
I'm thinking it's time to sack every person employed in the department of Foreign Affairs and maybe any relative employed by the state elsewhere just to be on the safe side.
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