My Trip to the High Court

                                       ''Betrayal is the only truth that sticks'' - Arthur Miller. This is the letter of resignation of Paddy McCaul from our company. I received it  on May 15th 2020. This is the letter of resignation of Cieran Temple from our company. I received it on May 19th 2020. These letters were obviously drafted by the same person, almost certainly a lawyer. The address (ex-Minister For Justice Paddy Cooney's old gaff) comes from the Companies Registration Office and is one which both men would know not to be mine. The lawyer doesn't appear to know either man well, using 'Patrick' and a misspelling of 'Cieran' - and 'faithfully' was the wrong choice for an old acquaintance. It should be noted that at the time the letters were sent, Paddy was in a situation of having come to an accommodation with Garda Dully's people, while Garda Dully's people were pursuing Mr...

Over the past decade the Football Association of Ireland has taken, directly or indirectly, a most extraordinary series of actions in relation to three entities - Athlone Town Stadium Ltd. (a charitable purposes company with the task of protecting a stadium property for the people of Athlone), Athlone Town AFC Ltd. (the company name for the triumvirate or duumvirate of Michael O'Connor, John Hayden and David Dully) and Pre Season (a trans-national match-fixing, money laundering and investment firm). Chief among these actions has been its two or (if our one time legal team of McNelis/Masterson/Forde is to be believed) three attempts to take ownership of the property. I would argue that none of the FAI's actions have been to the benefit of our company and all of them have been to the benefit of the other two entities. All of it has happened within a culture of secrecy and obfuscation which could be best described by its good friend Bertie Ahern as ''smokes and daggers...