Freeman Megamerge

More woes for Caitriona Carey, 46 more charges. What I found interesting are her co-accused, who are also charged with acting unlawfully as a solicitor, as these names don't include a person who was previously involved in her companies who has been held out in the media before as a "solicitor" despite holding no professional legal qualifications.

I think the Companies Act offences would give pause for thought to other people operating in the same sphere who decided to incorporate companies for reasons and then decided that filing annual returns, accounts etc. was all a bit of a palaver.

Ten years on, Colm Granahan (sometime friend of Mayo's greatest love machine, Joe Doocey) is still at it. This time bringing an application as a "sovereign" seeking to spring the Strokestown Three from jail.

Some choice averments in his affidavits:

Each affidavit identifies the deponent as “a sovereign living person ever present from fertilisation until last breath” and the relevant averments are, in short, “I say the evidence contained in the affidavit of Colm M. Granahan is true and factual”.

Proper oldschool Freeman classics abound including "the real constitutition that they're keeping from you".

(1) I stand as a free, living man upon the land known as Eire under the sovereign authority proclaimed on Easter Monday 1916, and governed by the lawful, unrevoked 1919 Constitution of the Irish Republic. I do not recognise or submit to the jurisdiction of any corporate State, legal fiction, or commercial construct.

(2) I act herein in full lawful standing and with moral duty to defend the sovereign men and women of the Irish Republic specifically the McGann family of Falsk, Strokestown, Co. Roscommon who were subject to criminal trespass, armed intrusion, and unlawful eviction from their private and inviolate home on 11 December 2018.

(3) Said home and lands are recorded in E-I-R-E.ie and under UCC filing as sovereign estate, not subject to corporate or Crown-derived commercial jurisdiction.

It appears that the above website is a new Cash-for-Paper scam where Freeman have created a fake Land Registry where for the low low fee of €500 (and numerous personal documents), you can register your property holdings in a way that means absolutely **** nothing.

Granahan v. Governor of Mountjoy Prison [2025] IEHC 247

Joe Doocey, there's another blast from the past. For recent viewers, he's a Mayo based Freeman who keeps running into (and over) bother with the Gardaí, his exes and sundry others. I think one of his origin stories is that his sheer animal magnetism meant that the wrong woman fell in love with him and her previous partner was either a Garda or Revenue official and since then the State's been out to get him.

Granahan's still about, regularly filing papers in the High Court and making habeas corpus applications on behalf of some of the Strokestown Mob.

Yesterday I asked Mr. Granahan questions about his role in the application, given the very obvious fact that he himself is not detained. He confirmed yesterday that he is not a solicitor or barrister and does not hold himself out as having any legal qualification. He also confirmed yesterday, and reconfirmed again today, that he does not represent others. He would not answer me when I asked whether any of the three individuals identified in para. 7 of his affidavit were even aware of today’s application, but it is clear that he moves it in the following circumstances, namely: “…to defend the sovereign men and women of the Irish Republic specifically the McGann family…” (para 2 of his affidavit).

Pretty hard to be Chief Justice if you've told the High Court you don't possess a professional legal qualification…