The weeks bad news in brief.

For those in too much of a hurry to update..

Various goings on, re the Soldiers of Destiny and their new Broccoli Brotherhood.

Safety in a "Technicality"?

The corrupt multimillionaire owners of Bovale Developments,Brothers Michael and Tom Bailey have launched a court action against the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement (ODCE),to stop the ODCE disqualifying them from serving as company directors,claiming that his office used defective and invalid search warrants to raid their confidential financial records.!

No new airport-only more new hospitals..

Entrepreneurs Des and Ulick McEvaddy plan to set up a chain of private "co-located" healthcare centres around the country. Larry Goodman and many other wealthy businessmen are already well advanced in similiar schemes in Limerick Waterford and many parts of Ireland.

The state taketh away,and the state giveth back-but only to wealthy speculators;
A state-backed venture capital fund has emerged as a major investor in the company that took over Smart Telecom’s failed phone and broadband business. Following its spectacular collapse last year provoked by the inept government quango "Comreg".Comreg was established by Fianna Fail to tackle the incumbents,but for a variety of reasons,it never did so. It had no powers to force Eircom to open its exchanges to rival companies, after the sale of the original government run communications outfit Telecom Eireann to speculators, who in turn sold it on to an Australian based investment fund in 2006..
Funds from state business development agency Enterprise Ireland, as well as Bank of Ireland and a number of private investors, will be used to contribute approximately €3 million towards Smart Yuroe Broadband ,acompany set up by Brendan Murtagh, the Kingspan co-founder who had been Smart Telecom’s biggest shareholder with a stake of around 20 per cent.
Murtagh’s company took over the assets and liabilities of Smart, including debts estimated at more than €10 million, following the cash crunch that caused its collapse last year.
SYB bought Smart’s businesses for a nominal sum of €1.S mart shareholders, who had seen the value of their investment plummet from a peak of €150million,were also given a 10 per cent stake in the new company.Many small shareholders had their fingers burned badly.they opposed the deal at a stormy agm, to no avail complaining that they were getting too little from the transaction.

GARDAI are investigating the deaths of two people from the deadly hospital superbug after formal complaints from relatives of MRSA victims.

Another body blow for the taxpayer looms. Hospitals are facing at least 200 legal actions as a result of MRSA deaths. Pressure to deal with the disease is now mounting, with at least 30 families requesting coroners to hold inquests into the deaths of relatives whom they believe died from MRSA-related causes.
Health Minister Mary Harney has asked hospitals to explain why they are not telling patients they have contracted the superbug MRSA. ! And she is also seeking an explanation as to why it is not being recorded as the cause of death on official documents such as death certificates.
Pity an out of touch Minister for Health. She needs to co- locate herself closer to the web of labrynthine secrecy surrounding her new Health Service Executive.