Albert Reynolds made an unscheduled flight to the Bahama

Murt10 · 06-04-2016 10:49AM #1

I wonder what he was doing there?

http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/tribunals/air-chief-reynolds-ordered-diversion-49154.html

Menas · 06-04-2016 10:51AM

That story is 8 years old!

me_irl · 06-04-2016 10:52AM

hey guys

Boom_Bap · 06-04-2016 10:54AM

He was obviously trying to complete his life goal of whacking off in every country that is prefixed with 'The'
The United States of America and The Bahamas in one trip. Boom.

SEPT 23 1989 · 06-04-2016 11:06AM

they lost power in one of the engines and rather than throwing bags of money out the door of the plane to reduce weight they decided to land

jossnjuice · 06-04-2016 11:15AM

Speaking to Raymond Tusk off the record.

Pac1Man · 06-04-2016 11:25AM

Well I am outraged.

xabi · 06-04-2016 11:30AM

In other news, id say we are about to have a recession.

darkpagandeath · 06-04-2016 11:36AM

xabi wrote: »

In other news, id say we are about to have a recession.

Ha, What next you will be telling us the IMF are in town... :pac::pac:

seamus · 06-04-2016 11:57AM

Fianna Fail Taoiseach in corruption shocker.

Not a single one of them has been able to keep their greasy fingers out of the tin.

I don't know about the FG Taoisigh, but if they've been naughty they've been way more discrete about it.

Anyway, as said this is 8 years old. We've already known for a long time that Reynolds was no less of a scumbag than his predecessor.

kneemos · 06-04-2016 12:07PM

seamus wrote: »

Fianna Fail Taoiseach in corruption shocker.

Not a single one of them has been able to keep their greasy fingers out of the tin.

I don't know about the FG Taoisigh, but if they've been naughty they've been way more discrete about it.

Anyway, as said this is 8 years old. We've already known for a long time that Reynolds was no less of a scumbag than his predecessor.

Never there long enough to even find the tin.

biko · 06-04-2016 12:18PM

I assume this thread is about possible tax evasion. OP just linkdumped so it's just guesswork from here.

DURING his St Patrick’s Day visit to the US in 1994 former Taoiseach Albert Reynolds ordered the government jet to make an unscheduled flight from Nassau to Freeport in the Bahamas, the Mahon Tribunal heard yesterday.

Mr Gilmartin had also said developer Owen O’Callaghan had told him he had given Mr Reynolds £150,000 in a bedroom following a dinner in Cork on March 11, 1994, shortly before the Taoiseach left Cork by helicopter to return to Dublin. Both Mr Reynolds and Mr O’Callaghan deny the claim.

Or is it about saucy gay sex, who knows?

blinding · 06-04-2016 12:24PM

Well , I would say he was a crook and Hiding Money....

If he couldn't do this then he would not get to lead FF .

LiamoSail · 06-04-2016 12:28PM

Reynolds was at a function with corrupt property developer Owen O'Callaghan the night before he left. The same Owen O'Callaghan who made corrupt payments to Liam Lawlor, the same Owen O'Callaghan who was found by the Mahon Tribunal to be corrupt, and the same Owen O'Callaghan who made contributions to fellow Corkonian Michael Martin's election expenses.

It's been nearly 40 years since Fianna Fáil had a leader that hasn't been part of a corrupt Government. In that time, they've twice driven the country to the brink of bankruptcy and surrendered our economic sovereignty while all the while lining their own pockets. But never mind that, Fine Gael want to charge us €150/yr for water, that's what most are focused on. Goes to show, you get the Government you deserve.

Jayop · 06-04-2016 12:30PM

Pac1Man wrote: »

Well I am outraged.

Welcome to boards and you'll fit right in.

NiallBoo · 06-04-2016 12:31PM

LiamoSail wrote: »

Goes to show, you get the Government you deserve.

None?

LiamoSail · 06-04-2016 12:37PM

kneemos wrote: »

Never there long enough to even find the tin.

Reynolds was Taoiseach for under three years and he found it handy enough. Whatever criticisms people have of FG, their last three Taoiseagh, Kenny, Bruton and Fitzgerald, are, I believe, honest politicians who wouldn't sell their office.

Compare that to their counterparts; Haughy, Reynolds and Bertie. A man that owned and island, another that used the Government jet to drop money in his offshore bank accounts, and of course, the Minister for Finance who didn't have a bank account and attributed part of his wealth to luck on the horses.

LiamoSail · 06-04-2016 12:38PM

NiallBoo wrote: »

None?

We have a caretaker Government at present

NiallBoo · 06-04-2016 12:47PM

LiamoSail wrote: »

We have a caretaker Government at present

Spoil-sport!

Strazdas · 06-04-2016 12:48PM

blinding wrote: »

Well , I would say he was a crook and Hiding Money....

If he couldn't do this then he would not get to lead FF .

Reynolds was already a wealthy businessman, wasn't he? It would probably make sense alright that he had money offshore.

diograis · 06-04-2016 12:53PM

biko wrote: »

I assume this thread is about possible tax evasion. OP just linkdumped so it's just guesswork from here.

Or is it about saucy gay sex, who knows?

For 150k? Maybe Albert had expensive tastes, who knows :P

seamus · 06-04-2016 12:55PM

LiamoSail wrote: »

Whatever criticisms people have of FG, their last three Taoiseagh, Kenny, Bruton and Fitzgerald, are, I believe, honest politicians who wouldn't sell their office.

Honesty is a scale tbh. Nobody is completely honest. Kenny alone is known to pull rank in order to ensure that his buddies get appointed to lucrative jobs.

But that's less dishonest than taking cash in hand for favours.

maudgonner · 06-04-2016 12:55PM

diograis wrote: »

For 150k? Maybe Albert had expensive tastes, who knows :P

Platinum Prince Alberts don't come cheap, ya know.

06-04-2016 01:23PM

seamus wrote: »

Fianna Fail Taoiseach in corruption shocker.

Not a single one of them has been able to keep their greasy fingers out of the tin.

I don't know about the FG Taoisigh, but if they've been naughty they've been way more discrete about it.

Anyway, as said this is 8 years old. We've already known for a long time that Reynolds was no less of a scumbag than his predecessor.

Just so no one could suggest you were completely devoid of balls, could you show us your posts here that made these observations while he was still alive?

Thanks.

06-04-2016 01:27PM

LiamoSail wrote: »

Reynolds was Taoiseach for under three years and he found it handy enough. Whatever criticisms people have of FG, their last three Taoiseagh, Kenny, Bruton and Fitzgerald, are, I believe, honest politicians who wouldn't sell their office.

Honest clowns?

How many deals has a FG led Government brokered with Denis O'Brien? Why, following the exposition of his corrupt links with former FG Chairman Lowry, did Kenny and Hogan go back to that very man to do more deals, water, fuel, hospitals, debts written off etc. etc.

You are correct in one aspect, we have no hard evidence of any corruption this time...

seamus · 06-04-2016 01:32PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Just so no one could suggest you were completely devoid of balls, could you show us your posts here that made these observations while he was still alive?

Aw, did I hurt your feelings by criticising Fianna Fail?

Alas, I was but a sprite when Reynolds was Taoiseach and seeing as I'm not an investigative journalist had neither the information nor the motivation to go digging around in Reynolds's closet.

razorblunt · 06-04-2016 01:37PM

Plantain. The man loved plantain.

06-04-2016 01:39PM

seamus wrote: »

Aw, did I hurt your feelings by criticising Fianna Fail?

Alas, I was but a sprite when Reynolds was Taoiseach and seeing as I'm not an investigative journalist had neither the information nor the motivation to go digging around in Reynolds's closet.

You were a poster here for 13 years before he died.

13 years, 10s of thousands of posts, not a whimper.

But you can say what you like now. He's well cold. Good man.

Menas · 06-04-2016 01:41PM

Deleted User wrote: »

You were a poster here for 13 years before he died.

13 years, 10s of thousands of posts, not a whimper.

But you can say what you like now. He's well cold. Good man.

So only people who expressed an opinion on boards before Reynolds died are entitled to express an opinion now?

06-04-2016 01:45PM

Menas wrote: »

So only people who expressed an opinion on boards before Reynolds died are entitled to express an opinion now?

I don't think I said that at all.

They are entitled to an opinion, obviously. And others are entitled to observe that it's very easy to make strong pronouncements when the target is dead. Would you not agree?

cml387 · 06-04-2016 01:45PM

*cough* Larry Goodman *cough*

Albert Reynolds made an unscheduled flight to the Bahama

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