Frank Flannery

Frank Flannery caught in the mega net of the Panama Papers…

Mick Fealty on April 4, 2016, 8:39 am

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The 2009 Westminster expenses scandal just got eclipsed, and by some way. 11.5 million files have been leaked to Mossack Fonseca, a law firm operating in the tax havens of Switzerland, Cyprus and the British Virgin Islands, and in British dependencies Guernsey, Jersey and the Isle of Man. It is the world’s fourth biggest provider of offshore services, favoured by the rich and famous who want to find creative and inventive ways of hiding their wealth: or put another way avoiding …

Frank Flannery: Latest victim of his party’s crusade against health charity’s salaries

Mick Fealty on March 12, 2014, 11:36 am

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For the man who famously laid out his party’s ambition to replace Fianna Fail in Irish politics, his end came suddenly and rather ignominiously. Outside politics Frank Flannery build up the charity Rehab over forty years and into a viable business. So the push for conformity with government funding rules first aimed at medical charities like the Central Remedial Clinic (critics suggest to divert attention from the financial difficulties facing Health Minister James Reilly) concludes with Fine Gael dropping their …