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Minister 'misinterpreted the requirements' after failure to declare second house in Longford

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    #1712
    BrianD3
    Registered Users Posts: 8,375 ✭✭✭BrianD3


    Uh oh, as happened with previous stories, The Ditch is drip feeding the juicy stuff. Now we learn that Collins' wife has difficulty spelling her own name, including, crucially when signing it. Can't pin that on a planning agent. Add to that a letter from a non existent company.

    https://www.ontheditch.com/company-didnt-exist-collins/




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    #1713
    Blut2
    Registered Users Posts: 3,001 ✭✭✭Blut2


    Hes got to be gone now, he and his wife were both obviously lying for their own benefit.

    How many more government ministers is it going to emerge have committed fraud I wonder? They're really racking up now.



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    #1714
    Floppybits
    Registered Users Posts: 7,640 ✭✭✭Floppybits


    Has Niall/Neil Collin's/O'Connor come out of hiding yet? I wonder who will be thrown under the bus.



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    #1715
    BrianD3
    Registered Users Posts: 8,375 ✭✭✭BrianD3


    One great thing about these property stories from The Ditch is it is not particularly difficult, time consuming or expensive to get the information. A lot available even without FOI.

    Planning documents are public and many are online. Property price register - free. Land registry searches - small fee. Irish Newspaper Archive - small fee. Companies Registration info - small fee. Etc.

    The more of these stories there are, the more tipoffs there will be and the more efficient The Ditch will become.



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    #1716
    Cluedo Monopoly
    Registered Users Posts: 9,193 ✭✭✭Cluedo Monopoly


    Yes but FFG have also normalised corruption and cronyism so much that the public aren't shocked anymore.

    See how they have resisted all calls for reform. They know they have it good.

    What are they doing in the Hyacinth House?



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    #1717
    Annasopra
    Registered Users Posts: 41,062 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120301774#Comment_120301774

    Whos funding The Ditch though Sinn Fein?

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



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    #1718
    thomas 123
    Registered Users Posts: 2,768 ✭✭✭thomas 123


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120301493#Comment_120301493

    By gone do you mean remain a TD and just do less work? As is the convention in every single one of these cases.



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    #1719
    thomas 123
    Registered Users Posts: 2,768 ✭✭✭thomas 123


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120301570#Comment_120301570

    This will somehow be sinn feins fault! Just wait till Heather Humphreys has her say. "Do as we say, not as we do"


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8M3u7Zu2_I&ab_channel=VideoParliamentIreland




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    #1720
    MegamanBoo
    Registered Users Posts: 2,508 ✭✭✭MegamanBoo


    It's sickening how belligerent he's been about it too.

    I can't remember where exactly but in one report I read the reporter was asking him about this second planning application that went in with a similar fake name. Not only did he deny it but his response was, "You tell me about it? Do you know about it?"

    How FFG can stand behind that type of arrogance and disregard is beyond me.



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    #1721
    Floppybits
    Registered Users Posts: 7,640 ✭✭✭Floppybits


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120305944#Comment_120305944

    Sure he will probably be greeted like a returning war hero at the next FF parliamentary meeting. I'm sure he has a few visitors coming in and slapping him on the back and saying not to worry about it will all blow over.



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    #1722
    Brendan Bendar
    Registered Users Posts: 19,438 ✭✭✭✭Brendan Bendar


    Bit like the Wolf Tones in the RDS back in the day?



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    #1723
    BrianD3
    Registered Users Posts: 8,375 ✭✭✭BrianD3


    Sickening stuff on Six One news there, the Tanaiste was in Westmeath opening a dementia care centre and no prizes for guessing who was by his side in all the footage. Will he be "rehabilitated" in time for the next election.

    https://twitter.com/alzheimersocirl/status/1659575097160613888?t=gnMv5U3ZpLMI6iO6bQswEQ&s=19




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