Four of the Anglo ten named: Sunday Times

[He3]

These paragraphs are just hanging there, in the middle of the article.

Patrick Kearney, a founder of PBN Property in Belfast, did not return repeated calls made last week. He was variously “in a meeting”, “in another meeting” and then “flying to Gibraltar”. Kearney is Anglo’s largest client in Northern Ireland and a close friend of Drumm. His business partner, Neil Adair, established Anglo’s Belfast branch.

John McCabe, the founder of McCabe Builders, also refused to comment last week. He was said to be “out of the office”, then “not at home” and finally The Sunday Times was told “he will call you back if he wants to”.

McCabe is an important Anglo client who lives on a stud farm in Meath formerly owned by Charles Haughey, the late taoiseach.

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I heard some other very serious stories about one person on that list. Up to the neck in gombeenism.

[Gabha Óir]

How so? what's new?

The fact that the Mount Carmel Hospital group was founded by one of these dudes and they have been appointed by the HSE to build private hospitals on public land. Would that not stick and stink in the public nostrils?

[JCSkinner]

yea i understand that but surely those reasons there also should have applied to the 4 they named....!

They might have other names, have put it to them and been threatened with injunction, for example.
I'm only speculating, but there are a number of reasons why only a few might have been published.
What is more relevant is the fact that ANY have emerged. That effectively divides the Maple Ten into outed and not outed, and increases pressure to have them all equally treated (and equally named in public.)

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The claim that the government is worried about prejudicing possible legal action against the 10 is just cynical. There may indeed be a legal complication insofar as the 10 are customers of the bank who borrowed substantial amounts of money and were given loans to allow them to participate in share manipulation. But why should confidentiality take precedence over the public interest?

Critically, the matter is not sub judice because no charges have been brought so there is no case, never mind trial, to prejudice. The public interest demands that the identity of these individuals be disclosed — if only to reassure the public that these 10 are not being let off the hook deliberately for ¤300m because of who they are.

Matt Cooper in the same paper

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None of these names are politically significant.

[JCSkinner]

These paragraphs are just hanging there, in the middle of the article.

Patrick Kearney, a founder of PBN Property in Belfast, did not return repeated calls made last week. He was variously “in a meeting”, “in another meeting” and then “flying to Gibraltar”. Kearney is Anglo’s largest client in Northern Ireland and a close friend of Drumm. His business partner, Neil Adair, established Anglo’s Belfast branch.

John McCabe, the founder of McCabe Builders, also refused to comment last week. He was said to be “out of the office”, then “not at home” and finally The Sunday Times was told “he will call you back if he wants to”.

McCabe is an important Anglo client who lives on a stud farm in Meath formerly owned by Charles Haughey, the late taoiseach.

I think the question arises why the paper would have been ringing Kearney and McCabe so continuously, and why they decided to include those facts in this story.
Isn't it fascinating to see so many builders in one place? Reminds me of a tent I used to know.

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Is this private hospital link not dynamite?

Not really, its expected.

[Gabha Óir]

Not really, its expected.

I hope you're being ironic there

[spidermom]

Funding co location perhaps???(Mt Carmel are bidders)


NAH we are just desperate to grasp at anything resembling a straw.
But I know where you're coming from!!

The fact that the Mount Carmel Hospital group was founded by one of these dudes and they have been appointed by the HSE to build private hospitals on public land. Would that not stick and stink in the public nostrils?

Co location sticks in our craw!!!


But the contracts were won by competitive tender!


Mt carmel are to build at Blanchardstown but I don't think contracts have signed and unlikely to now!