I rang builder Denis O’Flynn a year-and-a-half ago and said I wanted out. He said he wasn’t going to go down that road
With IN&M gradually progressing through the management re-structuring plan, the banks and bondholders, rather than Denis O’Brien, are likely to have a significant say over the direction of the UK franchise in the future
I rung Anthony ... told him what had happened to Mick and Jack Pat travelling home from Clonmel and what it would mean to Skibbereen to have the Derby winner trained by Denis O’Driscoll.
There is no point in talking about the Denis O’Briens and the Dermot Desmonds in this context, or fat cat bankers. Their numbers are insignificant.
A bondholder committee established to negotiate terms with INM has unanimously rejected a revised proposal made to the committee by Denis O’Brien. The committee has confirmed its decision to Denis O’Brien, to INM and to the company’s banks.
Given the serious threats made by Denis O’Brien on that call, contemporaneous notes of the call were taken by Gavin O’Reilly. It was those contemporaneous notes, and not a recording, that formed the basis of a subsequent file note of the conversation.
Today I am very saddened and, as a result of what has happened, during the rest of my mayoralty I won’t be putting anybody else forward for the Freedom of the City. This has left a very sour taste in my mouth and my mayoralty. They should have supported me.
Few have done more for Limerick than Denis Leonard
Denis’s life work was all about protecting our heritage. We will be eternally grateful for what he has done and his passing is a huge loss.
We were thinking of going to Ireland (for the Lexus Chase) but we won’t now he’s won ... It appears we’ll go straight to the Aon and that suits us fine. It means one less race to worry about.