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THE PROCESS WHICH will see the ownership of St Luke’s Office Building in Drumcondra transferred to Fianna Fáil has been completed this week.
In March this year, the trustees of the famous north Dublin building agreed to give control of the constituency office back to the national party.
The building, which was the career HQ of former taoiseach Bertie Ahern, was controlled by members of the so-called ‘Drumcondra mafia’ who agreed to relinquish power in the fallout from the Mahon Tribunal report.
A statement from Fianna Fáil this afternoon said that the trustees “engages proactively and positively with this process”.
At the time of the purchase of the property in 1987, the Trustees decided that St Luke’s was to be used for the benefit of the local Fianna Fáil organisation in the Dublin Central Constituency and that the ultimate beneficiary of the Trust was the Fianna Fáil National Party. The process has been completed this week and the property has now been signed over to the National Party. Fianna Fáil wishes to thank the Trustees of St Luke’s for their full and active co-operation throughout. It has been a very constructive process.
In 2011, it was reported that Ahern was looking to retain control of the office. However, the Mahon report which saw the former leader lose his place in the party made this impossible. It was then reported that he told the trustees to co-operate with Fianna Fáil headquarters in transferring the building back to the party. At certain times over the past 20 years he has lived in an apartment above the office in Drumcondra.
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Might want to check under the bed !
It should be part of a gangster tour of Dublin. St. Lukes, Abbeville,Haughey grave. Drive past FF HQ. It could be called St. Lukes house of accounting horrors. Print the admission slips on old FF national draw stubs.
It could be a big earner, a similar one in Chicago for Capone and his gang is very successful.
Love the idea Simon.. It’s brill .. Lol
Sadly John. I have no control over it so I guess some members of FF will steal it.
A neighbour of mine, I knew him when he was in his 80′s, he was an early member of FF. He fought for his country from 16-23 and suffered greatly as a result but never regretted anything. An inspirational man, unassuming, decent to the bone.
He was adamant from the 70′s on that most people who were joining FF were the worst description of criminals, social climbers and filth that ever walked. This was a man who knew the party intimately and wasn’t he correct about it. The greatest enemies of Ireland are in FF, the same type of man that informed in the20′s, was a land lord agent in the 1800′s, that stole food from the hungry. The worst men that Ireland ever made. The men that he fought were now running the country. I learnt to despise FF criminality and treason from all that he told and showed me. Life and the news just reinforced it.
Here here Jim. My great grandfather said the same and he was a war veteran. It was a once great party. Hideous to see them back in the poles and ready to implement their final solution of destruction of the fabric of society. Gangsters.
By what do you mean by the national party? and I hope they have to pay their taxes on it gift tax or what ever plus property tax,water tax, SCC and the whole nine yards. Now that it has been handed over I am sure we can soon find out the names of the ‘Drumcondra mafia’ in the freedom of information.
It will all be done above board and in line with requirements but being that it is FF behind it, there will be somethings that just stink to heaven.
if the walls could only talk in that office.
I don’t get why it had to be given to FF? They had nothing to do with it originally.
Surely it could be converted into incubation offices for new businesses or given to women’s aid instead?
Why should FF benefit?
It was the Ahern homeplace, sold to Fianna Fáil but retained by Bertie as his own office. Now that the Drumcondra Mafia is all but disbanded, Fianna Fáil are claiming back what is rightfully theirs. It’s no conspiracy, nothing dodgy.
As its superfluous to their needs they may wish to offload it. It also stands as an unpleasant reminder to the constituents of Dublin North City of the reign of Bertie Ahern so I doubt they’ll hold onto it for too long, irrespective of current market conditions.
Bertie might even buy it himself if he can get it at a good price, although he won’t expect any discount from the sellers.
The Drumcondra mafia have lost power, their project was to put that dirt Ahern in to office and they achieved it and made a fortune as a result.
Like any gang war, another faction are in charge now of the FF commission and they are just as bad. Many of the junior capo’s in the Drumcondra mafia are still advancing in FF and while the Drum boys might have made Ahern the vast majority of the party went along with him, his cabinet went along with him. Everyone in politics knew what he was like, he wasn’t a shy man about it and FF members and voters admired his brass neck and gombeen activities.
Passing on my bike one day I saw the gangster Ahern getting out of a car outside St. Lukes with a couple of FF thugs minders with him. I told him exactly what I thought of him. Quite satisfying!
And now let’s have a referendum to remove all pension provisions of politicians and ex-politicians from the year 2000 onwards.
Where is the famous Galway tent now.
The party put it in storage but it seems that some FF party members stole it. You can’t expect anything more from a pack of stray dogs but barking and dirt on the floor and taking stuff.
Dis an dat skool of speakin proper
did anyone check under the floorboards
Open it up as a museum to a corrupt government and put a plaque up with the names of the resident,s
The Drumcondra MaFFia – They haven’t gone away ya know!!!
Would be interesting to see who paid the property charge this year & who will be paying it in 2013
Do you notice the cream coloured extension on the left? There’s a white door just out of view on that extension. You want to know what the purpose of the extension was?
Well… I often used to go past St Luke’s on the way into town in the bus when Berty was Taoiseach, one day the door to that extension was open and I saw inside.
It was full of what appeared to be beer kegs, CO2 bottles and related pipes work suitable for an fairly decent bar. There was a private “Pub” in St Luke’s.
Thanks to Bertie Saint Luke is now the patron saint of corruption
It would be a brilliant building to use as a bank – a sperm bank.
I won’t continue on this storyline but you can imagine the rest of text.
It would be a great premises for a massage parlour. I wonder who could run it????
A massage the figures parlour. Maybe FF are going to make it their Fundraising HQ. Certainly a lot of massaging needed there.
I hope it goes on for
You had st Luke’s now you have st Pukes
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