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A MAN IN his 20s has died after a collision between a motorcycle and a car in Co Donegal.
Shortly before 5pm yesterday, Easter Monday, Gardaí and emergency services were alerted following a collision on the R231 at Killinangle More, Rossnowlagh.
The motorcyclist, a man aged in his late 20s, was treated by medical personnel at the scene, but was pronounced dead a short time later.
The occupants of the car were uninjured.
The body of the deceased has since been removed to Sligo University Hospital where a post-mortem examination will be carried out. A report has been sent to the coroner.
The road at the crash site will remain closed overnight with local traffic diversions in place. A technical examination of the scene is to take place in the morning.
Investigating gardaí are appealing for witnesses to come forward and are also appealing road users with video footage, including dash-cam, to make this available to them.
Anyone with information can contact Ballyshannon Garda Station on 071 9858530 the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111.
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Trips to Dublin to see Cleary Santa was a highlight of my Christmas, staff were always lovely , shame it all had to go
Yes, let’s focus on the architecture and forget the corporate vultures like Deirdre Foley, John Skelly and Ronan Daly who ransacked the company and threw the workers on to the dole in order to gorge themselves.
The sellers Gordon Brothers (OCS) engineered the corporate and legal structures for efficient asset stripping the company. This involved separating the operations side of the business from the valuable property.
OCS properties which owned the building was making substantial profits. OCS operations which ran the department store was making a loss primarily because it was paying the €300,000 a month rental to it’s sister company OCS properties. If the 2 companies were not deliberately separated then there is no rent payable and the business is viable and the workers still have their jobs.
Instead the operations business was liquidated leaving the employees and creditors with little or nothing while the property is then sold for a massive profit. The statutory redundancy for the workers of course will be paid for by the state as the vultures swagger off with the loot. It’s a neat little corporate ruse designed to facilitate the asset stripping of the company, exactly as occurred.
The buyers Natrium have organized their tax affairs nicely and use hedge funds based in tax havens like Cayman and Guernsey so that they can avoid making any contribution to the society and workers that they prey on.
Meanwhile insiders like KPMG work for both sides and acts as liquidators on one hand and auditor for the buyers Cheyne Capital Management on the other. Cheyne Capital Management is one half of the joint venture Natrium which also consists of D2 Private owned coincidentally by a former KPMG employee. KPMG executed the sale at 2.30 am on the Friday morning just in time to avoid paying over the estimated €2 million owed to the concession holders.
The looting of Clerys is another example of the Irish state protecting the interests of domestic and international capital over the welfare of the majority citizens as it has always done.
@Davy Boy: It didn’t have to go, one greedy woman brought it down.
@Benjy Mooney:
There you are!
Same cut and paste bull as usual.
Can you point to anything incorrect in what I’ve explained there Goofy?
@Benjy Mooney: Private Company legally bought property and then did with its property as it saw fit.
What’s the problem with that ? Oh I forgot you don’t like people owning property because you cant afford nice things.
Therefore the only people who should own nice things is the government. A large foreboding mother figure to which you can cling on to for the rest of your life.
You become more and more pathetic each day.
Still waiting Goofy and Doughboy…………….
@Benjy Mooney: Clerys was a hole – nobody shopped there and it was inevitable it would close – retail evolves, customer habits change and they didn’t adapt. While the manner in which it was done was deploarable it isn’t illegal the end result will be a net gain of 2000 jobs and a building that was falling into decline restored and brought back to life.
@Tony Tee:
“it was inevitable it would close”
Eh no. As explained above the company was profitable until it was engineered to make a loss by separating the property from the operations and charging the operations side €300k pm in rent.
This was done to allow the corporate vultures to fill their boots. But you knock yourself out imagining that Deirdre Foley and the rest of the parasites care about bringing the building “back to life”.
To be fair, this is not Wally’s usual cut-and-paste stuff. He deals with the specifics of the Clearys case and makes some valid points.
This has Apple store written all over it. I personally hope that it happens
@Benjy Mooney: Billy do you believe you should just live off the hard work of others due to the fact that you offer nothing to society ?
It seems to be the classic socialist line, they offer nothing yet want everything.
Its quite pathetic.
Doughboy,
It appears that you believe that Deirdre Foley and the rest of the parasites “should just live off the hard work of others” ?
@Thewalking bread. Legally? We have reckless trading laws. Which don’t seem to be enforced. Where are these people going to borrow the money. A state owned bank?
@Eamon Mac Gowan: @Eamon Mac Gowan: it was in liquidation since 2012… clearly not a going concern it what was it’s current format.
My question is what was SIPTU doing in the 3years before it was bought and since the liquidation.
Hope SIPTU and politicians don’t hold up the creation of jobs and something that might liven up the area, just to justify their existence to the Clerys workers they don’t care about.
@Benjy Mooney: It went into liquidation in 2012 as outlined in the article with both BoI and KPMG involved.
Also fairplay to them charging 300k rent – you really think 300k is a lot for a store the size of Clerys in the city centre?
@Benjy Mooney: They were in liquidation since 2012 and had their parent company propping them up by letting them only pay €300k rent…..whether or not Foley is interested in bringing the building back to life is irrelevant as she will have to do so in order to get planning xx
@Scrap.ie: Don’t bother with Mooney his best response is Doughboy for myself. He has never debunked one of my points in the history of his commenting.
He can barely string a sentence together without resorting to a poor copy and paste job.
He is a joke, his arguments have been repeatedly been debunked at the cost of over 100 million people and he honestly think he is some sort of intellectual.
Lol he is a joke.
@Tony Tee:
And again. OCS properties which owned the building made a profit of around €5 million between August 2012 and January 2014 which equals the €300k monthly rental figure it received from OCS operations over the period. OCS operations made a loss €2 million during the same period. If the 2 companies are combined as they originally were, then that leaves a net profit of €3 million. Separating the property was the root cause of the subsequent business losses, exactly as planned in the asset strip.
@Benjy Mooney:
“Then no rent payable and the business is viable” Why should they not charge rent or in the looney AAA world is this forbidden too?
@Benjy Mooney:
When the new capitalist elite Cleary’s opens how many jobs for the hard pressed working class will it create and how much more money will come into the government in taxes?
Go to work, benjy, and pay your taxes
@Benjy Mooney: Nothing you say on this is inaccurate.
@Benjy Mooney:
Yesterday you were delighted that people lost their jobs. A socialist government that has totally made a mess of their countries finances seizes 4 million toys to make a gift to children for christmas and puts lots of worker out of work. You gloated. Today you are annoyed because a private company used the laws of the land to put people on the dole here. There is no difference between either, both are wrong in my book but you on the other hand think what the socialist Venezuelan Government did was a great move. You are a hypocrite.
http://www.thejournal.ie/venezuela-government-seized-toys-3132243-Dec2016/
Cheers Austin.
Goofy, Allen, Doughboy etc. are mouthpieces whose job it is to defend the status quo. The Clery’s ransack is capitalism working exactly as it’s supposed to .That is profit accumulation taking priority over all other concerns. They really don’t like it though when this is pointed out and start stamping their little neoliberal feet in temper. It’s quite amusing really :)
@Benjy Mooney:
Coming from a hypocrite like you it is amusing.
Robert Mugabe would be so proud of you the way you keep promoting the “print more Cash” exercise and look what happened to the Zim economy. Your Venezuelan mates have made a right hash of theirs all on their own. I will not be surprised when they flee their respective countries with suit cases full of cash, That’s US dollars, as their money wont be worth the paper its printed on.
You really are some Tulip Wally.
Former Clerys worker and objector Susie Gaynor McGowan said yesterday: “There is a lot wrong with the plan. We are not Abu Dhabi here.This is O’Connell Street – O’Connell Street is a working-class area for decent, hard-working people. No one wants an open-top bar on O’Connell Street.”
I see, so first of all she thinks a modest 6 storey retail and office building makes us like Abu Dhabi? Then she seems to think “decent, hard working people” don’t want a rooftop bar?
Surreal. They are reverse snobs. Let’s call it out for what it is.
@Fred Johnson: Suppose her idea is lets keep parts of O’Connell run down,and a kipp and lots not encourage more people to visit the area and do business there.
@Barry Somers:
Or she feels that what she sees as the grotesque opulence of the plans reflect more the nature of the developers than the area.
@Fred Johnson: Please please tell me that that’s a joke. That is some serious navel gazing.
Looks good. Now if only they could clean up the rest of the street we’d have a city we can be proud of
The 450 staff should get first refusal on jobs
I’d say the unions aren’t happy with the office element. Bit difficult to train former Clerys workers to work for a tech multinational that employs young graduates.
Every clerys staff member that they screwed should be offered a job in the hotel . Some of them were der 20 30 years and might like to go back I’m not sure but at least offer ..
Did you mean there?
How dp you go abuut forcing a hotel to employ former staff of a shop that used to be owned by the people who redeveloped the building in which the hotel happens to situated? Perhaps converting to a communist state would be one way, but that seems a bit drastic.
@silverter: why in the hotel??? There are a number of floors of retail as well … retail is their trade, so …..
Qualified hotel staff should be denied a job because retail staff used to work on that plot of land?
We are always being told that the world would be a better place if it was run by women, well it was a woman who coldly and for her own gain, that closed Clerys down.
@Daisy Chainsaw: You support the trafficking of women?
@Eamon Mac Gowan:
Is that your Mrs that is always telling you the world would be better run by women?
Boycott the place after the way the staff were treated
Or grow up and wish the new businesses and their employees every sucess in bringing the place back to life.
@Eddie Byrne: yeah best for all if the place is left to fall to pieces – just like the rest of the North Inner City. Everyone is a winner then.
@Eddie why would we boycott the new owners when they had nothing to do with the way the old owners treated their employees ?
Ms Foley and her colleagues are obviously on a charm offensive with all this great news. Personally calling bull on the jobs figures, how many of them will have decent terms and conditions? They’re only kidding themselves.
Oh Wally, Wally, where are you?
@Alan Cooke: Draining Society because his entire ideology is a failure.
@Alan Cooke:
He is where he normally is..in cloud cuckoo land.
Ugly. Ugly. Ugly. Ugly. A monument to corporate greed, a permanent reminder of how people get f*cked over. I’m not a AAA voter by any means, but I hope this place gets plastered by protest day in, day out. All water charges protests should rail straight through this building. Make it a centre of the Hard Left’s protests, because us centrists have fallen short in allowing this to happen. Natrium should be on its financial knees, begging forgiveness.
Talk about fake news. 2500 jobs thats funny. So who is financing this? A state owned bank?
Sounds like this new project will employ thousands more people both in its construction and operation than a failing department store in an underutilized space…
I hope when the new management are employing new staff that the old staff get priority of employment, if they so wish
Clerys clock was a very popular place for young couples to meet in Dublin. It was also, unfortunately, a place to be stood up. As a result, it was popularly known in Dublin as hearth break hotel.
How much were you paid for such a vapid advertorial?
It would be great to see historic building brought back to life. Hope former Cheryl staff members get employment as a result. It must have been awful for them anyway when store run by Guineys
Still no sign of the unions doing anything about construction workers forced to deem themselves as ‘self employed’ on C45 tax certs(scam)in order to gain employment.
I’ll be boycotting the place
D’Tiger is back!
I really liked it the way it was.
while i am sorry for the staff of Clearys, hopefully they will get what they are entitled to, i am delighted to see the building been restored, hopefully own keegan the cyclist friend will get the dublin city council to get their finger our and start cleaning up OConnell st and bring it back to its glory!! since the street was revamped its been a disaster and that stupied spir get rid of it! and police the streets, but been dublin city council they wouldn’t have a brain between them!!
The grubby deirdre foley is another societal leech whose governmental influence will ensure this project will succeed when in fact the door should be slammed shut in her face. She should never profit from what has happened…It is immoral and wrong
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