Category: Irish Politics

Former Anglo director Gary McGann has resigned as chairman of the Dublin Airport Authority. Gary McGann was among five non-executive directors who resigned from Anglo on January 19 — just before the Government took steps to nationalise it. In the 1980s Mr McGann worked in the office of the Comptroller and Auditor General before joining…

Sayeth Dick Roche: A Minister of State has today contended that the Government cannot identify the ten individuals involved in the €451 million transaction to purchase shares in Anglo Irish Bank being unwound by businessman Sean Quinn. Dick Roche, the Minister for European Affairs, said today that the Minister for Finance Brian Lenihan told him…

Last night I was trawling newspaper archives for information on the four Anglo names. I have already posted on Seamus Ross and Jerry Conlan. While searching for information on Gerry Gannon I came across this gem from the Sunday Independent from April 2008. A GROUP of clients of Anglo Irish Banks, including big builders and…

Harlequin/Mount Carmel Jerry Conlan is a Naas-based developer involved with a company formerly known as Harlequin Healthcare. The company owns and runs St Joseph’s private hospital in Sligo. In 2004 the firm competed with another company to build a private hospital in Waterford. As of June 2006 Mr Conlan was chairman of Harlequin. The company…

Liam Lawlor In 1998 – Seamus Ross told the Mahon Tribunal in 2003 – Liam Lawlor “plagued” him for money. After a day at the races at Fairyhouse, Mr Lawlor asked Mr Ross if had any money. Mr Ross told him he had “a few pounds in the house” and later gave him £5,000 in…

The Sunday Times have revealed 4 names they believe are part of the Golden Circle at Anglo Irish: Four of the 10-strong group of investors assembled by David Drumm, Anglo Irish’s former chief executive, are: Gerry Gannon, Joe O’Reilly, Seamus Ross and Jerry Conlan. Either they or some of their companies now owe several billion…

The crash just got crashier. From today’s Tribune: * At a meeting in September Willie McAteer, Anglo finance director, told the head of the Financial Regulator Patrick Neary the bank would be “managing” its balance sheet, to which Neary is recorded as replying, “Fair play to you, Willie.” * A phone call records officials from…

The report is out. Download it here. (Hover, or right click and save as..) Update: The PwC report was published at 9.20pm. Here it is. First impressions: It’s 44 pages long. Wasn’t this report over 700 pages? Seems as though they were busy cutting the best bits. On Page 26 we get this: The Bank…

Or maybe he does, but has started spinning. His interview on Pat Kenny amounts to an opening salvo in what might be a PR campaign to prepare the ground for the eventual naming of the Anglo 10 (or 20). There may have been a realisation that the names will have to be released, and now…