Comments on: Bertie Ahern, The National Lottery and the Phoenix Park Casion (and Tom Morrissey’s Bribe allegations)

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 05:23:14 +0000

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By: James

James — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 10:13:36 +0000

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By: John McDermott

John McDermott — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 21:23:03 +0000

There was a huge groundswell of opposition to the Phoenix Park Casino at a time when the city had been turned into a mini Las vegas and one armed bandits were impoverishing the poorer citizens of Dublin with no political will to stamp them out.
Even when the law was finally changed to make heavy gambling illegal,on the one armed bandits, the casino owners continued as before selling tokens instead of updating their machines to new money. (in many cases these “tokens” were old irish pennies-which gambling arcade owners had retained from the time of the currency changeover)
The pennies were actually valued as large units of cents and when a machine paid out the pennies they were cashed in for their token value in large amounts of “real money” i.e. euros.
Ahern saw that the wind was overwhelmingly against the casino and altered tack on this basis-too many votes in jeopardy- the only basis they ever back off their pet projects.

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Irish Election » How many more times — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 22:09:49 +0000

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By: P O'Neill

P O'Neill — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 13:33:14 +0000

We’ll have the perfect circle when the same name comes up in the UK Labour proxy donor scandal and Mahon — I’d say the odds are high of that happening given the focus on property developers in both affairs.