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FOR MANY, TODAY – 1 March – is the first day of spring.
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However, some astronomers would say spring begins at the Vernal Equinox, which falls on Saturday 20 March.
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God help us.
Fair play Denis, always great to see a successful irish business man investing in ireland.
So snoop if you had his money you would just give it all to charity yeah? You would in your arse. Just face the fact you are just jealous simples
I certainly wouldn’t use it to buy up large chunks on the Irish media. If he is the patriotic businessman you are portraying why would he want to influence what Irish people read and listen to?
Murdoch looks like the ould rich plutocrat that’s looking for eternal life in Prometheus.
http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130201220209/avp/images/b/b8/Guy-pearce-prometheus-2012.jpg
Maybe Ridley Scott based the character on Murdoch or one of our other Globalists?
@Rocky, because there’s a lot of money to be made in media, and it’s area where O’Brien has experience in
Mahon tribunal. Bet DOB thanks god every night for the DPPs abilities.
He wants to be digger. Hope Tony Blair gets into the kennel.
The likes of him have big bellies which are never full… The only time he was truly happy was probably when he was a baby
He must be investing in new riot gear for the Garda
That’s right Rocky. I commented in reply to Richard Cynical’s silly “jealous” remark earlier and this too seems to be deleted. And to think we were worried about media control and freedom of speech/expression? By the way, does the aforementioned gentleman to who this whole article refers happen to own The Journal.ie by any chance? Just curious that’s all.
Correction “to whom this whole article refers”
The Irish government must be about to outsource something else big and he is just releasing cash to snap it up, watch this space, some how or another that money he released will cost us more money
@Sloop John G. No, DOB doesn’t own any part of TheJournal. Here’s our comments policy in case you need any clarification on what’s acceptable on this forum: http://www.thejournal.ie/comments-policy/
I hope he doesn’t buy An Phoblacht.
Unbelievable Peter. After reading the journal’s comments policy and seeing what others have stated about DOB I don’t see how you can delete that comment? I merely stated facts and opinions relevant to the article which the majority of people agreed with and you delete them?
Denis O”Brien did attend a Biderberg meeting.
Where elitest plutocratic globalists and their friends in government discuss media agendas, population control and other weird god policies?
He was found out to be in the wrong by the Moriarty tribunal?
He was the under bidder for siteserv, inspire of this he was chosen as the buyer?
The other bidders in the 2nd mobile phone licence auction were way more deserved of the licence?
Unless he can rewrite History.
Those and other very shady facts still stand.
So why was my comment censored then, when I mentioned the Moriarty Tribunal report, available to anyone interested incidentialy, uncensored online ?
I am sure FG will look after their most generous benefactor. Irish Air must coming online shortly.
More money for Dinny to invest in getting his protege re-elected to push his water metering and to award him the lead pipe replacement contract worth a few more billions
Tell us more about the lead pipe replacement contract. Where are all the lead pipes?
Maybe INM will use this money to pay back those debt writedowns AIB & BOI granted them a while back.
LOL
No chance Mark. You know how the banks work in this country. If you owe them €100 they will hound you until you pay back every penny. If you owe €100 million you get write downs.
He’s only selling that to take up the slack. His Topaz franchise is loosing money. Has to resort to crapy club promotions all over the radio.
29.9% is not a majority stakehold in Independent News and Media, it does however make him the single biggest shareholder. It’s INM and not the bould Denis selling this stake, so technically it doesn’t affect his media empire size at all.
Are there any actual researchers working in the Journal to catch such basic errors?
Are we still at war with Eastasia?
Was making a joke there, but yeah, reading the story again, it’s an obvious error.
@Paul – I’ve used the term majority in the dictionary sense – that is, O’Brien having the biggest share. However I’ve reworded in case there’s any confusion. Given that its both O’Brien’s private investment vehicle AND the company he owns the largest share in selling off their holdings there are no errors here
His record speaks for itself. Dismissing people’s rightful concerns as simply jealousy is meaningless. You are ok with the damage been done to what is left of the democratic fabric of the country with this man’s control over so much of the media here.
A-ha – That might explain why my Independent App has disappeared this morning.
He was the start of cheaper mobile usage ! I for one take my hat off to him he has set up some of the most profitable companies in Ireland.
That’s great, now tell me how much tax he pays here on all his profitable businesses
Easy Shane, you are on tbe fast track to a journal dressing down. You can’t come on here and give praise to a successful irish person, are you mad?
Probably more the you euro
€135m in 2013 Euro McPunty.
Those hand outs you get for sitting on your ar5e don’t actually come from the magic lefty money fairy. Most of it comes from decadent capitalist companies.
Without figures id be guessing but he employees thousands maybe more ! Between his companies. I saw a protest outside my local Topaz a few weeks ago what fools wanting the company shut down and everyone loose their jobs !
I did wonder how the protesters had time do they not work !!
I didn’t need diesel but i drove back and got some
Shane, how sad you are;-(
Loose their jobs , like make the hours more flexible or something.
Lose their jobs? That’s no worry, Denis O’Briens media and the FG shills/trolls here keep telling us that there are thousands and thousands of new jobs. Make up your mind FG shills/trolls.
Water meters???
Why is that happy Mary !
Shane that’s a proper cowardly fg thing to do sneaks the lot of ye.dob lackey
True Irish patriot
Like IW lol.
Nice to have a place where the anti Denis O’Brien folk can let it all out of their systems.
Boo… lol.
Dennis paid 2.53 for his INM shares, today they trade at 0.14, just saying..,
Not so sure describing Murdock as a “rival” of O’Brien is all that accurate.
Only in a p155ing contest I believe?
It’s unfortunate that Independent News & Media have chosen to lower its horizons and retreat from the world back into the small and insular island of Ireland, particularly at a time when there is a growing population of Irish people once again in Australasia. But I suppose this is the price to be paid for the huge and debilitating debts built up at INM when the company was the plaything of the Tony O’Reilly family.
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