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Public Area => Taxi Talk => Topic started by: watty on February 16, 2025, 05:58:42 pm
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sting operation | Chef caught running illegal taxi was charging just €35 from Mullingar to Dublin Airport (https://www.sundayworld.com/crime/courts/chef-caught-running-illegal-taxi-was-charging-just-35-from-mullingar-to-dublin-airport/a2090818164.html)
A cash-strapped chef who set up an illegal taxi service by charging customers just €35 from a midlands town to Dublin Airport was caught red handed by National Transport Authority officials in an undercover ‘sting operation’, a court has heard. Father of one Mahendrasingh Ramchurn (38), of Grange Village, Mullingar, Westmeath, told inspectors while he was fully aware the service he had been providing was an offence, it had been done purely as a means towards covering his petrol costs to Dublin where he worked as a chef.
... Compliance officer with the state body, Anthony Carey gave evidence of the covert operation which took place on June 13 last year. He said its origins were borne out of information which had come to the NTA’s attention concerning an online advertisement of a suspected illicit hackney service which was operating from Westmeath to Dublin. Mr Carey said after booking the fare to take him to Dublin Airport, he got into Ramchurn’s 08-registered car outside Loreto College, along Mullingar’s Harbour Street before handing the agreed €35 fee to the accused. Ramchurn’s car was later stopped en route to the airport by members of the Meath/Westmeath Divisional Roads Policing Unit where Mr Carey revealed to the accused he was in fact a compliance officer with the public transport licensing agency. Mr Carey said when he asked Ramchurn why he was operating a taxi service for financial gain without a licence, the accused replied after caution: “I am providing a service (and the) €35 only covers the petrol.” The court was told Ramchurn, who had no previous convictions to his name, was “very cooperative” during his exchange with the NTA official.
... Judge Bernadette Owens consequently convicted and fined Ramchurn €600 for one of the summonses, giving him 10 months to pay in the process. He was also ordered to pay €300 in costs. The second summons was, meanwhile, taken into consideration.
His defence arguement was novel. He basically felt sorry for people standing at bus stops and the trip was free with a €35 contribution towards petrol!
I'd say if you rang the International Red Cross, they'd get you out of Mullingar for free :P No need for dodgy chefs.
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€900 fine is a bit steep. Woulda been closer to €90 if he was Irish by accident of birth.
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i keep tellin 1990 to contact Anthony Carey about his bogey problem.
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€900 fine is a bit steep. Woulda been closer to €90 if he was Irish by accident of birth.
Probably 'cause he had a job. An Irish by accident of birth would be unemployed & only doing it to buy football boots for his promising soccer career!
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Still, €900 for not buying a licence that isn't available. I've seen cases where criminals have been fined a mere €100 for not holding a TV licence which is readily available from any Post Office.
When you consider how often the probation act is applied to offenders with thousands of previous convictions in respect of real crimes with real victims it's more than a tad OTT.
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sting operation | Chef caught running illegal taxi was charging just €35 from Mullingar to Dublin Airport (https://www.sundayworld.com/crime/courts/chef-caught-running-illegal-taxi-was-charging-just-35-from-mullingar-to-dublin-airport/a2090818164.html)
A cash-strapped chef who set up an illegal taxi service by charging customers just €35 from a midlands town to Dublin Airport was caught red handed by National Transport Authority officials in an undercover ‘sting operation’, a court has heard. Father of one Mahendrasingh Ramchurn (38), of Grange Village, Mullingar, Westmeath, told inspectors while he was fully aware the service he had been providing was an offence, it had been done purely as a means towards covering his petrol costs to Dublin where he worked as a chef.
... Compliance officer with the state body, Anthony Carey gave evidence of the covert operation which took place on June 13 last year. He said its origins were borne out of information which had come to the NTA’s attention concerning an online advertisement of a suspected illicit hackney service which was operating from Westmeath to Dublin. Mr Carey said after booking the fare to take him to Dublin Airport, he got into Ramchurn’s 08-registered car outside Loreto College, along Mullingar’s Harbour Street before handing the agreed €35 fee to the accused. Ramchurn’s car was later stopped en route to the airport by members of the Meath/Westmeath Divisional Roads Policing Unit where Mr Carey revealed to the accused he was in fact a compliance officer with the public transport licensing agency. Mr Carey said when he asked Ramchurn why he was operating a taxi service for financial gain without a licence, the accused replied after caution: “I am providing a service (and the) €35 only covers the petrol.” The court was told Ramchurn, who had no previous convictions to his name, was “very cooperative” during his exchange with the NTA official.
... Judge Bernadette Owens consequently convicted and fined Ramchurn €600 for one of the summonses, giving him 10 months to pay in the process. He was also ordered to pay €300 in costs. The second summons was, meanwhile, taken into consideration.
His defence arguement was novel. He basically felt sorry for people standing at bus stops and the trip was free with a €35 contribution towards petrol!
I'd say if you rang the International Red Cross, they'd get you out of Mullingar for free :P No need for dodgy chefs.
Good ole Anthony.
No more curry in a hurry for him! 8)
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35 euro?
Sure it be 20 in petrol up and back
Profit of 15 euro
What's the point
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If/when we get US style rideshare it'll be €0.78 after commission... and there'll still be men to do it, probably!
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I'd say the only reason he got done was because he was touting at the bus stops.
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Maybe €35/head hoping for a 4 ball?
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i keep tellin 1990 to contact Anthony Carey about his bogey problem.
1990 wants his nemisis caught but he seems unwilling to put his head above the parapet to do so ??
Both myself and SB agreed to a Joint venture a few years ago to help out 1990 with his bogey problems, as Two of the most conniving taxi minded Khounts ever, but 1990 refused our offer of help ??
I was actually looking forward to the fun of working on this once-off project with the devious SB, between us we legally would have run 1990's bogey-man the lenght and breath of the country fer no reward.
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I'd say the only reason he got done was because he was touting at the bus stops.
... Compliance officer, Anthony Carey gave evidence of the covert operation. He said its origins were borne out of information which had come to the NTA’s attention concerning an online advertisement of a suspected illicit hackney service ....
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All he had to fo was register as a rural hack
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All he had to fo was register as a rural hack
Anyone have an idea of how much insurance is on a Rural Hack ?
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Dunno Belker this is what he said
"His defence arguement was novel. He basically felt sorry for people standing at bus stops and the trip was free with a €35 contribution towards petrol!"
It's not illegal for commuters to give each other lifts as long as they aren't making a profit.Contrubutions towards fuel are allowed.I'm guessing that was his angle and the didn't want to hear it.
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Dunno Belker this is what he said
"His defence arguement was novel. He basically felt sorry for people standing at bus stops and the trip was free with a €35 contribution towards petrol!"
It's not illegal for commuters to give each other lifts as long as they aren't making a profit.Contrubutions towards fuel are allowed.I'm guessing that was his angle and the didn't want to hear it.
That was me, trying to interpret the newspaper article in 10 words or less. E.&O.E. :P
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All he had to fo was register as a rural hack
An average of less than 1 LAH plates per county have been issued over the last decade. I think you need letters from a Garda, a solicitor, a priest and a publican to be entered into a draw with one winner drawn from every 3,483 entries.
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Dunno Belker this is what he said
"His defence arguement was novel. He basically felt sorry for people standing at bus stops and the trip was free with a €35 contribution towards petrol!"
It's not illegal for commuters to give each other lifts as long as they aren't making a profit.Contrubutions towards fuel are allowed.I'm guessing that was his angle and the didn't want to hear it.
Inspector Anthony Carey, on approaching the defendant said "Irish Stew in the name of the law"!! 8)
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When I first read this story I thought why don't they go after the big time unlicensed taxis but this guy was charging so little that he was a big problem to legitimate taxis and deserved the fine he got.
The fine should be so high it deters anyone thinking about operating as an unlicensed taxi. I believe you can be fined up to €5000 so really he got off lightly.
As for the NTA and Anthony Carey, I know him and has spoken to him a few times so they are well awareness of the guy in my town.
I don't see the point in sending the guy in my town on wild goose chases, I want him caught.
That chef wouldn't get a local area Hackney license in mullingar.
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It's a bit OTT fining him €900 for a licence he can't get. Like I said you can buy a TV licence at any post office yet the criminals who won't do that get fined €100-150, less than the price of the licence. If he were able to buy a hackney licence it'd probably cost the same as a taxi licence i.e.€150, very similar to the TV licence.
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It's a bit OTT fining him €900 for a licence he can't get. Like I said you can buy a TV licence at any post office yet the criminals who won't do that get fined €100-150, less than the price of the licence. If he were able to buy a hackney licence it'd probably cost the same as a taxi licence i.e.€150, very similar to the TV licence.
His insurance would be thousands of euro.
Lots of people just don't want to play by the book and do stupid things like operating as an unlicenced taxi.
If the NTA didn't catch illegals, we wouldn't have a business.
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His insurance might already be thousands. We can't assume he wouldn't buy a licence without providing the option.
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His insurance might already be thousands. We can't assume he wouldn't buy a licence without providing the option.
He could have got a normal taxi plate like the rest of us? if a local area hackney license wasn't a viable option.
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No saloon plates issued for last c.10 years.
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No saloon plates issued for last c.10 years.
Let him buy or rent a wheelchair taxi. I did and paid 7,000 euro insurance, why should he be any different?
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He's a chef who wants to cover his petrol money not run a full-time taxi service.
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He's a chef who wants to cover his petrol money not run a full-time taxi service.
Well he said he knew what he was doing was illegal so hard luck to him but he got what he deserved.
He did the Mullingar taxi drivers out of 150 + euro every time he took a fare off them.
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Most of those who don't buy TV licences or dog licences know it's illegal. It's just a question of proportionality. A white Irish by accident of birth taximan got off with a warning for killing a child in another case reported on here recently.
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What is the point in fining him 100 euro, you need to make it a good fine to put off other chancers from doing a job they have no right to do.
If I had my way he would have been fined the maximum 5000 euro, same as all the other losers who operate an unlicensed taxi service, and that is exactly what they usually are from my experience, and they attract the same kind of people to their illegal taxi business, alcos and wasters.
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What is the point in fining him 100 euro, you need to make it a good fine to put off other chancers from doing a job they have no right to do.
If I had my way he would have been fined the maximum 5000 euro, same as all the other losers who operate an unlicensed taxi service, and that is exactly what they usually are from my experience, and they attract the same kind of people to their illegal taxi business, alcos and wasters.
Luckily, there are no Alco's or wasters in the regulated business!! 8)
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What is the point in fining him 100 euro, you need to make it a good fine to put off other chancers from doing a job they have no right to do.
If I had my way he would have been fined the maximum 5000 euro, same as all the other losers who operate an unlicensed taxi service, and that is exactly what they usually are from my experience, and they attract the same kind of people to their illegal taxi business, alcos and wasters.
Luckily, there are no Alco's or wasters in the regulated business!! 8)
Thats the only customers the illegal guys get.
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What is the point in fining him 100 euro, you need to make it a good fine to put off other chancers from doing a job they have no right to do.
If I had my way he would have been fined the maximum 5000 euro, same as all the other losers who operate an unlicensed taxi service, and that is exactly what they usually are from my experience, and they attract the same kind of people to their illegal taxi business, alcos and wasters.
Luckily, there are no Alco's or wasters in the regulated business!! 8)
Thats the only customers the illegal guys get.
I was talking about drivers.
My own alcoholic brother managed to get done for drink driving twice in the one day.
He ended up as a base controller for Ebbs.
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What is the point in fining him 100 euro, you need to make it a good fine to put off other chancers from doing a job they have no right to do.
If I had my way he would have been fined the maximum 5000 euro, same as all the other losers who operate an unlicensed taxi service, and that is exactly what they usually are from my experience, and they attract the same kind of people to their illegal taxi business, alcos and wasters.
Luckily, there are no Alco's or wasters in the regulated business!! 8)
Thats the only customers the illegal guys get.
I was talking about drivers.
My own alcoholic brother managed to get done for drink driving twice in the one day.
He ended up as a base controller for Ebbs.
If you get caught drink driving, is that usually the end of your taxi career?
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No. I knew a man that got banned but nobody asked for his licence so he just ignored the ban.
Fair play to the Ebbseses employing your brother, SB. There but for the grace of An Garda Siochana....
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What is the point in fining him 100 euro, you need to make it a good fine to put off other chancers from doing a job they have no right to do.
If I had my way he would have been fined the maximum 5000 euro, same as all the other losers who operate an unlicensed taxi service, and that is exactly what they usually are from my experience, and they attract the same kind of people to their illegal taxi business, alcos and wasters.
Luckily, there are no Alco's or wasters in the regulated business!! 8)
Thats the only customers the illegal guys get.
I was talking about drivers.
My own alcoholic brother managed to get done for drink driving twice in the one day.
He ended up as a base controller for Ebbs.
If you get caught drink driving, is that usually the end of your taxi career?
Not at all. You serve half the ban, then apply for your licence back.
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No. I knew a man that got banned but nobody asked for his licence so he just ignored the ban.
Fair play to the Ebbseses employing your brother, SB. There but for the grace of An Garda Siochana....
Birds of a feather flock together.
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Did you work for the Ebbseses too... What did they do on you... post your invite to the Christmas party in the green bin?
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Did you work for the Ebbseses too... What did they do on you... post your invite to the Christmas party in the green bin?
None of the above.
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"One of our own" fined a mere €500 for running an unlicensed bar for 5 years... less than a ton a year for not buying a licence that's readily available.
https://www.sundayworld.com/crime/courts/wife-of-former-td-convicted-of-managing-unlicensed-pub-claims-she-was-just-cleaning-it/a202790325.html (https://www.sundayworld.com/crime/courts/wife-of-former-td-convicted-of-managing-unlicensed-pub-claims-she-was-just-cleaning-it/a202790325.html)
FINED | Wife of former TD convicted of managing unlicensed pub claims she was just cleaning it
Patricia Ellis fined €500 after gardaí called in to premises
Mark Tighe
Yesterday at 08:17
The wife of a former Fianna Fáil TD has been convicted of managing an unlicensed pub. However, she claims she was merely cleaning it on behalf of her daughter.
Patricia Ellis, wife of the former TD and senator John Ellis and the mother of Orla Ellis — who was struck off the roll of solicitors for misconduct — was fined €500 at a hearing in Carrick-on-Shannon District Court in Leitrim last month.
The Leitrim Observer reported on how it emerged in court that Quinn’s pub in Fenagh had been operating without a valid licence for six years before gardaí inspected the premises on St Patrick’s Day 2023.
Sergeant Damien Guckian gave evidence that he called to the pub after midnight on a routine inspection and found six patrons consuming alcohol, a lit cash register and two people behind the bar.
Patricia Ellis initially identified herself as being in charge, but said she was unsure if a licence was in place. She later said she was cleaning the pub and closing it up for the night.
“I never pulled a pint or served a drink in my life to anybody,” she said.
Patricia Ellis claimed her son-in-law Cormac Feehan, husband of Orla, was said to be responsible for licensing matters, but he was in hospital at the time.
Judge Sandra Murphy acknowledged Patricia Ellis’s difficult position, saying: “I feel sorry for Mrs Ellis, but the law is clear.” She convicted her and fined her €500.
The garda said enquiries with Revenue showed the pub had not been licensed since 2018. It is understood Quinn’s pub was leased to Orla Ellis and her husband Cormac Feehan and is now under new management.
Orla Ellis was struck off from practising as a solicitor in 2023 after a Law Society investigation found a deficit of €566,000 in her client accounts. It told the High Court she had behaved “dishonestly” and engaged in “fraud”. A number of bequests from her clients to charities were found not to have been paid.
The Law Society had paid €666,000 to compensate Orla Ellis’s former clients when she was struck off in December 2023.
Orla Ellis told a Law Society investigating accountant that she and her husband had acquired a pub before the pandemic hit in 2020.
“She admitted that her husband had bought a pub just before the pandemic and that they had spent a lot of money on it, so perhaps they would be under a lot of pressure given the lockdown,” an accountant for the Law Society wrote in an affidavit.
However, Orla Ellis told him “they were doing very well”.
After it emerged Ms Ellis was suspended by the Law Society she was hired as a clerical officer by the Department of Social Protection. This position was later terminated.
Then social protection minister Heather Humphreys said recruitment was a matter for the department and the Public Appointments Service.
Revenue has obtained five judgments totalling €348,203 against Orla Ellis since 2023.
It has also registered five judgment mortgages on her house in Fenagh.
Cormac Feehan was convicted of drink-driving in 2021 after a court heard gardaí found him slumped over the steering wheel of his car while “highly intoxicated”.
According to a separate report in the Leitrim Observer, Feehan, who gave his profession as a car salesman, said he wasn’t driving the vehicle that night. He said the car was stopped and the engine was running to keep the heat on as it was cold.
His blood alcohol reading was 104mcg alcohol per 100ml of breath — over five times the legal limit.
Judge Kevin Kilrane said the facts of the case were that the defendant appeared to have driven to that point and couldn’t drive any further.
Feehan was convicted and fined €500 and was disqualified from driving for three years.
Patricia Ellis is a co-director with her husband John of a construction company, Birchmoy Developments. Revenue registered a judgment of €57,769 against this company in 2018.
John Ellis was a TD and then a senator for Fianna Fáil up to 2011. Orla Ellis campaigned for her brother Shane who was a party candidate in the 2020 general election.
John Ellis was a controversial figure in the north-west due to the collapse of a cattle firm he owned with his brothers. Stanlow Trading ceased operations in the late 1980s leaving more than 80 farmers out of pocket for hundreds of thousands of pounds in payments.
It later emerged Mr Ellis received a £240,000 write-down on his debts from National Irish Bank, which he claimed was due to lobbying from Albert Reynolds.
Mr Ellis had to resign as chairman of the Oireachtas agriculture committee in 1999 after news of his write-down emerged.
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"One of our own" fined a mere €500 for running an unlicensed bar for 5 years... less than a ton a year for not buying a licence that's readily available.
https://www.sundayworld.com/crime/courts/wife-of-former-td-convicted-of-managing-unlicensed-pub-claims-she-was-just-cleaning-it/a202790325.html (https://www.sundayworld.com/crime/courts/wife-of-former-td-convicted-of-managing-unlicensed-pub-claims-she-was-just-cleaning-it/a202790325.html)
FINED | Wife of former TD convicted of managing unlicensed pub claims she was just cleaning it
Patricia Ellis fined €500 after gardaí called in to premises
Mark Tighe
Yesterday at 08:17
The wife of a former Fianna Fáil TD has been convicted of managing an unlicensed pub. However, she claims she was merely cleaning it on behalf of her daughter.
Patricia Ellis, wife of the former TD and senator John Ellis and the mother of Orla Ellis — who was struck off the roll of solicitors for misconduct — was fined €500 at a hearing in Carrick-on-Shannon District Court in Leitrim last month.
The Leitrim Observer reported on how it emerged in court that Quinn’s pub in Fenagh had been operating without a valid licence for six years before gardaí inspected the premises on St Patrick’s Day 2023.
Sergeant Damien Guckian gave evidence that he called to the pub after midnight on a routine inspection and found six patrons consuming alcohol, a lit cash register and two people behind the bar.
Patricia Ellis initially identified herself as being in charge, but said she was unsure if a licence was in place. She later said she was cleaning the pub and closing it up for the night.
“I never pulled a pint or served a drink in my life to anybody,” she said.
Patricia Ellis claimed her son-in-law Cormac Feehan, husband of Orla, was said to be responsible for licensing matters, but he was in hospital at the time.
Judge Sandra Murphy acknowledged Patricia Ellis’s difficult position, saying: “I feel sorry for Mrs Ellis, but the law is clear.” She convicted her and fined her €500.
The garda said enquiries with Revenue showed the pub had not been licensed since 2018. It is understood Quinn’s pub was leased to Orla Ellis and her husband Cormac Feehan and is now under new management.
Orla Ellis was struck off from practising as a solicitor in 2023 after a Law Society investigation found a deficit of €566,000 in her client accounts. It told the High Court she had behaved “dishonestly” and engaged in “fraud”. A number of bequests from her clients to charities were found not to have been paid.
The Law Society had paid €666,000 to compensate Orla Ellis’s former clients when she was struck off in December 2023.
Orla Ellis told a Law Society investigating accountant that she and her husband had acquired a pub before the pandemic hit in 2020.
“She admitted that her husband had bought a pub just before the pandemic and that they had spent a lot of money on it, so perhaps they would be under a lot of pressure given the lockdown,” an accountant for the Law Society wrote in an affidavit.
However, Orla Ellis told him “they were doing very well”.
After it emerged Ms Ellis was suspended by the Law Society she was hired as a clerical officer by the Department of Social Protection. This position was later terminated.
Then social protection minister Heather Humphreys said recruitment was a matter for the department and the Public Appointments Service.
Revenue has obtained five judgments totalling €348,203 against Orla Ellis since 2023.
It has also registered five judgment mortgages on her house in Fenagh.
Cormac Feehan was convicted of drink-driving in 2021 after a court heard gardaí found him slumped over the steering wheel of his car while “highly intoxicated”.
According to a separate report in the Leitrim Observer, Feehan, who gave his profession as a car salesman, said he wasn’t driving the vehicle that night. He said the car was stopped and the engine was running to keep the heat on as it was cold.
His blood alcohol reading was 104mcg alcohol per 100ml of breath — over five times the legal limit.
Judge Kevin Kilrane said the facts of the case were that the defendant appeared to have driven to that point and couldn’t drive any further.
Feehan was convicted and fined €500 and was disqualified from driving for three years.
Patricia Ellis is a co-director with her husband John of a construction company, Birchmoy Developments. Revenue registered a judgment of €57,769 against this company in 2018.
John Ellis was a TD and then a senator for Fianna Fáil up to 2011. Orla Ellis campaigned for her brother Shane who was a party candidate in the 2020 general election.
John Ellis was a controversial figure in the north-west due to the collapse of a cattle firm he owned with his brothers. Stanlow Trading ceased operations in the late 1980s leaving more than 80 farmers out of pocket for hundreds of thousands of pounds in payments.
It later emerged Mr Ellis received a £240,000 write-down on his debts from National Irish Bank, which he claimed was due to lobbying from Albert Reynolds.
Mr Ellis had to resign as chairman of the Oireachtas agriculture committee in 1999 after news of his write-down emerged.
In mitigation, she had drink taken M'Lud! 8)
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"One of our own" fined a mere €500 for running an unlicensed bar for 5 years... less than a ton a year for not buying a licence that's readily available.
https://www.sundayworld.com/crime/courts/wife-of-former-td-convicted-of-managing-unlicensed-pub-claims-she-was-just-cleaning-it/a202790325.html (https://www.sundayworld.com/crime/courts/wife-of-former-td-convicted-of-managing-unlicensed-pub-claims-she-was-just-cleaning-it/a202790325.html)
FINED | Wife of former TD convicted of managing unlicensed pub claims she was just cleaning it
Patricia Ellis fined €500 after gardaí called in to premises
Mark Tighe
Yesterday at 08:17
The wife of a former Fianna Fáil TD has been convicted of managing an unlicensed pub. However, she claims she was merely cleaning it on behalf of her daughter.
Patricia Ellis, wife of the former TD and senator John Ellis and the mother of Orla Ellis — who was struck off the roll of solicitors for misconduct — was fined €500 at a hearing in Carrick-on-Shannon District Court in Leitrim last month.
The Leitrim Observer reported on how it emerged in court that Quinn’s pub in Fenagh had been operating without a valid licence for six years before gardaí inspected the premises on St Patrick’s Day 2023.
Sergeant Damien Guckian gave evidence that he called to the pub after midnight on a routine inspection and found six patrons consuming alcohol, a lit cash register and two people behind the bar.
Patricia Ellis initially identified herself as being in charge, but said she was unsure if a licence was in place. She later said she was cleaning the pub and closing it up for the night.
“I never pulled a pint or served a drink in my life to anybody,” she said.
Patricia Ellis claimed her son-in-law Cormac Feehan, husband of Orla, was said to be responsible for licensing matters, but he was in hospital at the time.
Judge Sandra Murphy acknowledged Patricia Ellis’s difficult position, saying: “I feel sorry for Mrs Ellis, but the law is clear.” She convicted her and fined her €500.
The garda said enquiries with Revenue showed the pub had not been licensed since 2018. It is understood Quinn’s pub was leased to Orla Ellis and her husband Cormac Feehan and is now under new management.
Orla Ellis was struck off from practising as a solicitor in 2023 after a Law Society investigation found a deficit of €566,000 in her client accounts. It told the High Court she had behaved “dishonestly” and engaged in “fraud”. A number of bequests from her clients to charities were found not to have been paid.
The Law Society had paid €666,000 to compensate Orla Ellis’s former clients when she was struck off in December 2023.
Orla Ellis told a Law Society investigating accountant that she and her husband had acquired a pub before the pandemic hit in 2020.
“She admitted that her husband had bought a pub just before the pandemic and that they had spent a lot of money on it, so perhaps they would be under a lot of pressure given the lockdown,” an accountant for the Law Society wrote in an affidavit.
However, Orla Ellis told him “they were doing very well”.
After it emerged Ms Ellis was suspended by the Law Society she was hired as a clerical officer by the Department of Social Protection. This position was later terminated.
Then social protection minister Heather Humphreys said recruitment was a matter for the department and the Public Appointments Service.
Revenue has obtained five judgments totalling €348,203 against Orla Ellis since 2023.
It has also registered five judgment mortgages on her house in Fenagh.
Cormac Feehan was convicted of drink-driving in 2021 after a court heard gardaí found him slumped over the steering wheel of his car while “highly intoxicated”.
According to a separate report in the Leitrim Observer, Feehan, who gave his profession as a car salesman, said he wasn’t driving the vehicle that night. He said the car was stopped and the engine was running to keep the heat on as it was cold.
His blood alcohol reading was 104mcg alcohol per 100ml of breath — over five times the legal limit.
Judge Kevin Kilrane said the facts of the case were that the defendant appeared to have driven to that point and couldn’t drive any further.
Feehan was convicted and fined €500 and was disqualified from driving for three years.
Patricia Ellis is a co-director with her husband John of a construction company, Birchmoy Developments. Revenue registered a judgment of €57,769 against this company in 2018.
John Ellis was a TD and then a senator for Fianna Fáil up to 2011. Orla Ellis campaigned for her brother Shane who was a party candidate in the 2020 general election.
John Ellis was a controversial figure in the north-west due to the collapse of a cattle firm he owned with his brothers. Stanlow Trading ceased operations in the late 1980s leaving more than 80 farmers out of pocket for hundreds of thousands of pounds in payments.
It later emerged Mr Ellis received a £240,000 write-down on his debts from National Irish Bank, which he claimed was due to lobbying from Albert Reynolds.
Mr Ellis had to resign as chairman of the Oireachtas agriculture committee in 1999 after news of his write-down emerged.
A criminal family involved in law and politics, and they look down their nose at Gerry Hutch, an Ordinary Decent Criminal. 8)