Irish Taxi Forum
Public Area => Taxi Talk => Topic started by: John m on September 15, 2022, 12:38:44 pm
-
FINE FAIL TO WELCOME BERTIE BACK INTO THE PARTY . rofl rofl rofl rofl rofl rofl rofl rofl rofl rofl rofl rofl rofl rofl rofl rofl rofl rofl rofl rofl rofl rofl rofl rofl rofl rofl rofl rofl rofl rofl rofl rofl lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol rofl rofl rofl lol lol lol lol lol lol lol rofl rofl rofl rofl rofl rofl ::fuck ::fuck ::fuck ::fuck ::fuck ::fuck ::fuck ::fuck ::fuck ::fuck
-
Looks like Fianna Fail have learnt nothing. They will be annihilated at the next election.
-
Presidential Candidate ,"5th aniversary of the Good Friday next year give Bertie a lot of Credit ?
-
Presidential Candidate ,"5th aniversary of the Good Friday next year give Bertie a lot of Credit ?
A two-horse race with him against Paddy the plasterer. the bent, corrupt wife beater allegedly.
Will he funnel his income via a beauty salon in Drumcondra again - if locals are to be believed?
Beauty at the black eye was its name IIRC. 8)
-
Good to see/hope that he is back in the fold soon.
Fer me he is one of Ireland's true Greats !
-
Bertie and his bowl come begging
-
Bertie and his bowl come begging
Your point is lost on me, please explain ?
-
Minister for Finance and he hadn't got a bank account.... rofl rofl rofl rofl rofl
-
Minister for Finance and he hadn't got a bank account.... rofl rofl rofl rofl rofl
Tis easy to poke fun Marky !
-
Good to see/hope that he is back in the fold soon.
Fer me he is one of Ireland's true Greats !
Betie, pure class.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bd5hLBS0eME (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bd5hLBS0eME)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShnNmrnYOFM (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShnNmrnYOFM)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vU40LC1Aatk (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vU40LC1Aatk)
Bertie is not an accountant.https://www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/arid-20054897.html (https://www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/arid-20054897.html)
-
https://twitter.com/paddycosgrave/status/1570461109726879745?s=20&t=hVnV5j0EiZq2OFEE3pcwuw
He hasn't changed yeh know..
-
Read between the Laughing .Mick from Cork knows Cynide Tits is going to shove Leos Backstop deal right up his Backpassage .Bertie will be drafted in to be a special go between between the we say NO up in Ulster and the Irish Government and the Brits .The Problem is Bertie is twenty Years out of the Game .Bringing back Bertie is a big Red Flag that Cynide Tits is not going to Play with Clowns like Covney or Von Der Layen .Mick from Cork is looking for cover .
-
Looks like Fianna Fail have learnt nothing. They will be annihilated at the next election.
I think it's us..the electorate...who have learned nothing....we're the definition of madness!!
-
Minister for Finance and he hadn't got a bank account.... rofl rofl rofl rofl rofl
Tis easy to poke fun Marky !
Burke tells of 'rat in anorak' jibe
Collection: Taoiseach Bertie Ahern was referred to as "the rat in the anorak" by cabinet colleagues in 1992, the Mahon tribunal…
Fiona Gartland
Fri Dec 14 2007 - 00:00
Collection:Taoiseach Bertie Ahern was referred to as "the rat in the anorak" by cabinet colleagues in 1992, the Mahon tribunal was told yesterday.
The chairman of Dublin Port Authority, Joe Burke, said that at about the time that Albert Reynolds took over as leader of Fianna Fáil, comments were made about Mr Ahern by some of his colleagues.
"Others said it would be nice to know where the Taoiseach would live," Mr Burke said.
He said the comments were partly the reason why he and three other friends of Mr Ahern decided to give him a "dig-out" of £16,500 in September 1994.
Mr Burke contributed £3,500 toeards the "dig-out".
The other contributors were Paddy "the Plasterer" Reilly, businessman Barry English and publican Dermot Carew.
The collection was made after the four friends had a discussion in Mr Carew's pub, the Beaumont House, about Mr Ahern's housing needs. Mr Burke said Mr Ahern had also lived with Mr Burke and his family "on and off" after his marriage ended, on one occasion for two weeks.
Counsel for the tribunal, Henry Murphy SC, asked why the friends had waited 2½ years after the remarks about the Taoiseach to make the collection.
"Who knows why a sequence of events happens at certain times," Mr Burke replied.
Pressed on the details of the conversation between the four men on the night they decided to make their contribution, he said it was difficult to remember.
"This was almost closing time on a Saturday night, none of us were driving and a certain amount of alcohol was consumed," he said.
Mr Burke said he contributed cash to the collection from the proceeds of a pub salvage business.
Mr Burke had £5,000 in an envelope in a safe and had intending giving that, but he spotted a present for his wife, whose birthday it was at the end of September, and took £1,500 out of the kitty for that gift.
He gave the remaining £3,500 to Mr Carew in his pub in £50 and £20 notes, he said.
He told the tribunal that if the same circumstances occurred today, he would do the same.
"I didn't give it to the minister of finance, I didn't give it to a politician, I gave it to a personal friend of long standing," he said.
Afterwards, Mr Ahern offered to pay it back on at least two occasions, he said.
-
Speaking of tribunals, I copped this in the papers :
Home Death Notice FLOOD, FeargusPrint | Share
The death has occurred of Feargus FLOOD
Howth, Dublin
Feargus FLOOD
FLOOD, Feargus (former Judge of the High Court and late of Baily, Howth); September 10th 2022; died peacefully, surrounded by his family in the wonderful care of Highfield Nursing Home. Beloved husband of Anna and much loved Dad of Richard, Micheline and Suzi. He will be sadly missed by his grandchildren, Killian, Robert, Sam and Alessia, his sons-in-law John and Erig and his daughter-in-law, Patricia.
Funeral Mass on Thursday morning, 15th September, at 11am in St. Fintan’s Church, Sutton followed by cremation at Dardistown Crematorium.
R.I.P.
A true Gentleman.
The Flood Tribunal
The who, what, when and where...
Sat Apr 27 2002 - 01:00
The who, what, when and where...
The Flood tribunal, headed by Mr Justice Fergus, was set up in November, 1997, with a remit to investigate the planning history of 726 acres of land in north Co Dublin.
The land was owned by James Gogarty's company, JMSE, and was the subject of a development proposal made by the developer, Michael Bailey. Gogarty claims he paid Ray Burke at least £30,000 in June, 1989, in connection with this deal.
After it was revealed Burke received £30,000 in the same month from Rennicks Manufacturing, the terms of reference of the tribunal were widened to allow for the investigation of all payments to the politician.
READ MORE
There followed a year-long inquiry into a £35,000 payment to Burke by Oliver Barry, the co-founder of Century Radio, in May, 1989. Four months earlier, Century had been awarded the franchise for the first commercial radio station.
The tribunal was also empowered to investigate allegations of corrupt payments, and its work expanded considerably after April, 2000, when the lobbyist Frank Dunlop revealed he had made payments to more than 20 members of Dublin County Council.
-
Bertie and his bowl come begging
Your point is lost on me, please explain ?
[/quote
I presume you have heard of the Bertie Bowl idea that was scrapped.So when I saw BERTIE IS BACK…I thought he might be coming back with his bowl to beg ..Joke! Joke! rofl rofl rofl rofl lol :2cheers have a laugh oops
-
Bertie and his bowl come begging
Your point is lost on me, please explain ?
[/quote
I presume you have heard of the Bertie Bowl idea that was scrapped.So when I saw BERTIE IS BACK…I thought he might be coming back with his bowl to beg ..Joke! Joke! rofl rofl rofl rofl lol :2cheers have a laugh oops
I remember it, the Abbotstown gig !
Bertie was Good fer Eire, as were his predecessors Albert and Charlie.
But they were not perfect enough in this new 'Snowflake' era.
-
A liar in good company:
https://www.independent.ie/lifestyle/not-so-mellow-berties-canary-yellow-moment-29346439.html (https://www.independent.ie/lifestyle/not-so-mellow-berties-canary-yellow-moment-29346439.html)
Dubya was a liar:https://www.dailysabah.com/world/americas/you-lied-about-wmds-iraq-war-veteran-blasts-bush-in-public
Schroder collaborates with Russia:https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/23/world/europe/schroder-germany-russia-gas-ukraine-war-energy.html
And as for Tony Blair - a war criminal.
-
It's easy to sit back on the couch and JUDGE !
Whom of us would like to be Judged ourselves ?
-
A lot of gangsters around my area have partners who run cash businesses like nail bars and beauty salons, I've no idea where they got the idea from:
This, allegedly?
Celia sells two salons and goes back to her roots in the capital
Ronald Quinlan
September 21 2008 04:48 AM
CELIA Larkin, the former partner of ex-Taoiseach Bertie Ahern, has sold her two beauty salons in Limerick to a local businesswoman for an undisclosed sum.
The Sunday Independent understands Ms Larkin disposed of both salons -- Beauty at the Blue Door at the Castletroy Park Hotel and Calm at the Limerick Marriott -- in July.
Both concerns are now owned and operated by a Ms Nadia Wright.
Ms Larkin is once again understood to be focussing her efforts on running her remaining Dublin salon, Beauty at the Blue Door in Drumcondra.
News of the sale of her Limerick-based businesses will come as something of a surprise to many given the fact that Ms Larkin only recently moved to a new home in the picturesque Clare town of Killaloe.
The sale also comes just seven months after the well- known beauty consultant opened the second of her Midwest salons, Calm, in the Marriott Hotel on Limerick's Henry Street.
Commenting on that occasion, Ms Larkin appeared set to further expand her business, rather than sell it off.
Asked at the time if her former life partner, then Taoiseach Bertie Ahern, would perform the salon's official opening, as he had for her Beauty at the Blue Door at the Castletroy Park Hotel, Ms Larkin seemed quietly determined.
"I just put an ad in the local paper and opened the doors. I want to build the business that way," she said. "It is hard work, like all businesses are hard work, but I am enjoying running Calm in Limerick and Beauty at the Blue Door in Dublin."
Yesterday, Ms Larkin was back in Drumcondra and busy at work, attending to clients in her remaining salon.
Asked by the Sunday Independent to comment on her recent decision to downsize her business, she declined.
Ms Larkin's 08 registered Mercedes C180 Kompressor parked outside would suggest she is still in a relatively comfortable financial position.
Daily Digest Newsletter
Get ahead of the day with the morning headlines at 7.30am and Fionnán Sheahan's exclusive take on the day's news every afternoon, with our free daily newsletter.
Enter your Email Address
Sign Up
A spokeswoman for Ms Wright, meanwhile, confirmed that the Limerick businesswoman had taken over Ms Larkin's two salons, but declined to comment further.
Outside of her personal professional interests, Celia Larkin continues to make headlines as a consequence of her previous long-running relationship with Mr Ahern.
Only last week, the Mahon Tribunal turned its attention once more to a lodgement of £28,772.90 Ms Larkin made to her account in the AIB Bank in December 1994.
The tribunal had already heard the money was the proceeds of Stg£30,000 Manchester businessman Michael Wall had brought to Dublin to assist with the purchase of a house in Drumcondra, which Bertie Ahern would later come to own.
Last Friday, the Cork developer Owen O'Callaghan told the tribunal he had absolutely no knowledge of the lodgement made by Ms Larkin to the AIB when questioned on the matter.
The issue of the lodgement arose in the context of claims by developer Tom Gilmartin that Mr O'Callaghan told him of having paid Bertie Ahern in return for granting tax designation for a shopping centre in Athlone in 1994.
Mr O'Callaghan strongly denies the claims made by Mr Gilmartin.
The depth of Celia Larkin's relationship with the former Taoiseach and the intricacies of their personal and professional ties were exposed further at the Mahon Tribunal earlier this year when it emerged that Ms Larkin had received a loan of £30,000 from Dublin Central constituency funds in the 1990s to assist with the purchase of a house on behalf of her elderly aunts. The money -- which has since been repaid -- was drawn from the bank account of the O'Donovan Rossa Cumann Trust House Committee chaired by Bertie Ahern.
Mr Ahern for his part, has told the Mahon Tribunal he had no knowledge of the loan being given to Ms Larkin.
Purchased for £40,100, the house on Dublin's North Circular Road is now worth in the region of €1m and is registered in Ms Larkin's name. Her surviving aunt and Beauty at the Blue Door co-director Alice Minogue lives there still.
Ms Larkin has also been the focus of much attention -- and criticism -- over her appointment in 2005 by Mr Ahern to the board of the National Consumer Agency.
I couldn't find anything on Nadia Wright, perhaps she moved to the Cayman Islands. 8)
-
Whats Celia doing now in 2022?….Last I heard of her,she was hanging around with a big hairy builder! ;D
-
I see as predicted in an earlier post Bertie might like to run for President .I suppose he would be Transfer friendly from both FG and SF I had a tenner on him@100/1 about two years ago I also had a 10er on Gerry Adams @100/1 .Makes you think are FF going to hold a referendum to allow all Irish Citizens including those who live abroad vote in the Presidential Election ?that would change everything make Bertie the Favourite .There must be some reason Bertie is back sniffing around .Think it was Charlie Haughey said "Watch this Cunt "
-
Whats Celia doing now in 2022?….Last I heard of her,she was hanging around with a big hairy builder! ;D
John Rooney.
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/wife-declares-celia-is-welcome-to-her-husband-26235171.html (https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/wife-declares-celia-is-welcome-to-her-husband-26235171.html)
-
That was 2003…
Since 2016 she has worked for Thames Water in their HQ at Reading as External Affairs Manager. She is known as Cecilia Larkin today.
She was always good at internal and external affairs but dont quote me! ::clap
-
That was 2003…
Since 2016 she has worked for Thames Water in their HQ at Reading as External Affairs Manager. She is known as Cecilia Larkin today.
She was always good at internal and external affairs but dont quote me! ::clap
It was often thought that the person making the cash deposits into the Irish Permanent from the St Luke's office in -Drumcondra accidentally went two hundred yards up the road and inadvertently deposited them into the cash rich beauty salon allegedly. A simple mistake.
-
Celia in U-turn at tribunal on £50,000
September 10 2007 07:50 AM
A NEW dimension has been added to this week’s Mahon Tribunal as Celia Larkin is to tell how she remembers a significant cash transaction involving her former partner, Bertie Ahern.
She has informed the tribunal she now recalls withdrawing £50,000 (€63,500) in cash from her bank account 12 years ago and delivering this to the Taoiseach.
The tribunal, chaired by Judge Alan Mahon, was told earlier in the year that Ms Larkin could not recall withdrawing the cash, or giving it to Mr Ahern, in January 1997.
She was said, at that time, to be “relying on Mr Ahern’s recollection that she did so”.
Because of the large amount of money involved, the tribunal was preparing to ask Ms Larkin how it was that she could not remember such a major withdrawal.
But, it was reported yesterday that Ms Larkin’s solicitors had written to the tribunal in July, saying she does recall collecting the £50,000 (€63,500) from Allied Irish Banks in O’Connell Street, Dublin.
Ms Larkin will give evidence to the tribunal on Wednesday, the day before the Taoiseach begins his crucial two days of evidence.
It was reported in the ‘Sunday Tribune’ yesterday that, in a letter sent to the tribunal in July, Ms Larkin’s solicitors Crowley, Millar stated that on January 19, 1995 she withdrew £50,000 (€63,500) from her first deposit account “on the instructions of Mr Ahern”.
The letter outlined that she “collected a bag or parcel from Mr Philip Murphy in AIB on O'Connell Street.”
It added: “Mr Murphy had a bag or parcel ready for collection. Ms Larkin delivered that bag or parcel to Mr Ahern”.
But, according to the letter sent to the tribunal, “Ms Larkin did not recollect looking into the bag or parcel and did not see its contents”.
But “she took the contents to be the £50,000 (€63,500) cash withdrawal from the first deposit account and had no reason to think otherwise”.
Questions are also likely to arise when Ms Larkin appears at the tribunal over when the money was withdrawn.
The tribunal was told that money had been transferred from Mr Ahern’s account to Ms Larkin’s the previous month, with the intention of using it to refurbish Manchester businessman Michael Wall’s house in Drumcondra.
Mr Wall, who is himself expected to appear at the tribunal tomorrow, was buying the house – now the Taoiseach’s – at the time.
Meanwhile, tribunal lawyers are set to question Mr Ahern on what they believe are contradictions between statements he made to the tribunal in private sessions earlier this year, and other information furnished to the inquiry.
Reports yesterday said the alleged contradictions relate to statements the Taoiseach made about money he was given by associates, and funds he received for the purchase of his Drumcondra home.
He told the tribunal in private-session interviews last April that he received more than £22,000 (€27,940) from friends in 1993, to help him to buy the property.
Yet, his accountant, Des Peelo, submitted documents to the tribunal in 2006, stating that the money exclusively related to the Taoiseach’s marital separation from his wife Miriam.
AIB official Rosemary Murtagh is also to be recalled this week to elaborate on evidence she gave before the tribunal adjourned in July for the summer recess.
She told the tribunal that a lodgement to Mr Ahern’s account in December 1994 was, in all probability, $45,000 (€32,685). Mr Ahern has been adamant that he did no dealings in dollars.