Over Christmas I heard a story about a guy I know (older lad, but a friend of the familt) who was contacted by JP McManus a few years ago (10 or so probably) about building a national stadium. McManus wanted to pay for a stadium himself as long as there were a few conditions attached - it wasnāt to be sponsored, couldnāt be named after anyone and it was to be for multiple sports.
Anyway the guy I know was asked to sound out a few construction companies and draft proposed projects to facilitate the stadium being built. He went to the US and met a few people and in California met one of the largest stadium construction companies in the world (Turner Construction I think).
He met some guy there and had an informal meeting and left it at that. He was about to leave when the CEO of the company called and asked to be speak to the Irish guy. He called him into another rooom and told him that heād been over in Ireland before to pitch for a national stadium with the government. In the middle of their proposal he was called away into another room where he met then Taoiseach Albert Reynolds, Bertie and a few financiers. He said that what they asked of him and what they told him about the project was the single most disgraceful thing he had ever heard in all his years of construction and that at that point the company decided theyād never pitch for a construction contract of any sort in Ireland again.
Moral of this story: We could have had a cracking second stadium built for nothing but the meddling and interference from gombeens ruined it on us.
Say this was merely a story for a novel or something and youāre not naming any names etc.
In that case, what might the Taoiseach, future Taoiseach and a raft of financiers in this no-way based on reality fantasy tale have said to the construction company CEO?
I donāt know what they said to the CEO, thatās the problem with the story. Desmond was one of the random financiers though: not sure who else is there but Iāll find out.
God thatās an awful anecdote. I wish I could remember more of it, if I knew any more, so I could at least add to it and try and justify the new thread. Apologies to everyone.
Well dunlop plead guilty and got 3 years iirc. So id like to see something similar here if not more. I also hope this is just the start of this type of prosecutions especially for those named in mahon
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Thatās a bad photo KP, in fairness sheās a fair auld lasher, god bless her. What she seeās in that loser I donāt know. Word is the developer that handed over the 80k is now going to be investigated even though he took out an injunction to prevent his name being mentioned in this trial.