Sinn Fein are not a Normal Political Party

[TheOutdoorThreadmill]

Credit union looking for their money

A Sinn Féin TD received a loan from a charity while he was serving as one of its directors. The deputy said he was not involved in the decision to approve the loan.

Sinn Féin's Martin Kenny used his family home as security for the €20,000 loan to his company according to Land Registry records seen by The Ditch. The guarantee is still registered as a burden on the property’s folio – usually indicating a loan has not been fully repaid.

Charity directors “may not profit from carrying out their duties as a charity trustee… or receive other benefits”, according to the Charities Regulator.

A €20,000 loan a year after incorporation​

Sligo–Leitrim TD Martin Kenny served as a councillor with Leitrim County Council from 2001 until his election to the Dáil in 2016. He is Sinn Féin’s spokesperson for justice and equality and a member of the Oireachtas committee on justice.

In December 2009 he was appointed a director of the Leitrim County Enterprise Fund (LCEF) and served on the registered charity’s board until September 2015.

The LCEF, the charity says, “aims to assist and support small- and medium-sized enterprises in job creation by offering low-interest loans”.

Kenny incorporated boiler-servicing company Jack Frost Freeze Prevention Systems Limited in June 2011. He and his wife were both directors of the company and each held 50 percent of its shares.

Kenny’s firm received a €20,000 loan from LCEF less than a year later. At the time Kenny was a director of the charity, which did not disclose the loan in its 2012 accounts.

In a statement to The Ditch, Kenny said “The company did get assistance from the County Enterprise Fund and I made sure not to be part of any decision around the company's application.

“Jack Frost Freeze Prevention Systems Ltd was a company that unfortunately went out of business and stopped trading in early 2013 and was liquidated toward the end of 2013, at which stage my directorship ended.”

LCEF declined to comment.

SF TD got loan from charity while serving as its director

A Sinn Féin TD received a loan from a charity while he was serving as one of its directors.

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[daftbrush]

Good Post

 

[TheOutdoorThreadmill]

Good Post

That means so much coming from you.

 

[DeepThroat]

Garda alert as Hutch crime gang associates turn up at the home of Jonathan Dowdall

Former Sinn Féin councillor Jonathan Dowdall was at the centre of a major garda security operation – just 24 hours after he and his father pleaded guilty to facilitating the Regency Hotel attack which sparked the Hutch-Kinahan feud.

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[jimmym]

Is the incident at Martin Kennys home sinister or just an accident?

 

[PROCNA2018]

Is the incident at Martin Kennys home sinister or just an accident?

Being reported as though it was an accident - didn't he have his car burnt out a few years ago?

 

[Minstrel]

Is the incident at Martin Kennys home sinister or just an accident?

Supposedly avoiding a tree that had fallen on the road. The IRA said they had planted it.

 

[daftbrush]

Supposedly avoiding a tree that had fallen on the road. The IRA said they had planted it.

Was this authorised

 

[Stacky]

Is the incident at Martin Kennys home sinister or just an accident?

It is a sinister accident.

 

[Gregory_Mike]

Cross-community compromise needed for united Ireland - Varadkar​

Tánaiste Leo Varadkar has told a conference to discuss options for Irish unity that the there was a responsibility to ensure that the dream of a new Ireland did not become someone else's nightmare.

He said there were "opposing dreams" on the island that could not be wished away.

"We need to acknowledge that cross community engagement in Northern Ireland and between the north and the south remains far short of where it needs to be if we want to build a new Ireland."

He said the objective should be to secure as large a majority as possible in any future poll.

"Fifty percent plus one may be enough on paper, but won’t be a success in practice."

He said success would involve compromise and might involving retaining and building on Northern Ireland’s devolved institutions and British-Irish relations.

"Some might see that as no change but the biggest change would be the most important one: the sovereign government would be the Irish one."

Organisers for the conference said they had sold 5,000 tickets.
Leaders and senior figures from many of the main parties on the island are attending, and a broad sweep of civic and cultural life are also represented.

Organisers said the aim was to promote discussion about Ireland's future, including the possibility and viability of a new constitutional arrangement.

During a panel discussion, Fine Gael TD Neale Richmond said he did not believe his party had done enough to plan for unity.

He said for too long in Ireland the rallying call had been "Brits Out".

He said instead it should be "Brits In" and he wanted the 300,000 British passport holders in Northern Ireland to feel comfortable in any new constitutional arrangements.

Labour leader Ivana Bacik said the future was a united island rooted in the EU and that a huge amount of preparatory work remained to be done.

Fianna Fáil TD Jim Callaghan said no-one should be forced to be loyal to the State. That had to be earned and those ambivalent about unity would need strong guarantees.

He also confirmed he would like to be a future Fianna Fáil leader.

SDLP leader Colum Eastwood said unity was not an Orange and Green issue, it was new arrangements that would build a sustainable economy and health service on the island.

Sinn Féin's Declan Kearney said the Government should immediately move to a Citizens' Assembly on unity to formalise a conversation that was already happening.

Unionist politicians are not taking part. The Alliance Party, which now represents a significant section of the electorate in Northern Ireland, also declined an invitation.

It said it did not want to participate in a "rally" to endorse Irish unity.

A number of high-profile actors were expected to attend, including Colm Meaney and James Nesbitt, who was expected to deliver the keynote address at the close of the afternoon-long rally.