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Thread: Elaine Byrne - Tribunals have made €500m. net profit for the State

  1. 24th March 2011, 01:25 PM #21
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    Quote Originally Posted by Oppenheimer View Post
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    The fallout of the tribunals will likely lead to much, much deeper and broader change to our legal system in the long run than a rake of cases carried out in serial fashion, one after the other for the next thirty years.
    Not just our legal system I hope.
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  3. 24th March 2011, 01:30 PM #22
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    Quote Originally Posted by H.R. Haldeman View Post
    This had never occurred to me. If true, it is a startling and very heartening story.

    I think Elaine Byrne is a big asset in our national discourse.
    Small face and voice. Big hitter.

    Looks and sounds like a normal person.

    This is a good one to have reminded us of: the tangible upside of the tribunals.

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  4. 24th March 2011, 01:31 PM #23
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    Will that thing o brien have to pay the Tribunal costs for obstructing.
    LOW ry will he have to pay.
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  5. 24th March 2011, 06:31 PM #24
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    Quote Originally Posted by Toland View Post
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    This is a good one to have reminded us of: the tangible upside of the tribunals.
    Yes
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  6. 27th March 2011, 07:02 PM #25
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    Elaine Byrne covers this again in the Business Post today.

    Link up tomorrow.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Stating the Obvious View Post
    Really glad that she pointed that out. The stupid short-sighted wailing about Tribunals always overlooks the value they have added to the country, in financial terms and in terms of exposing what had gone on.

    If we had no Tribunals, then Haughey, Lowry, Burke, Lawlor, and that fat junkie slob Ben Dunne would all still be saints.
    with none of the above seeing any real punishment, just a slap on the wrist for a couple of them and the rest rode off into the sunset with their millions
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