In fairness, there had been a hearing scheduled for 10am local time yesterday in the Connecticut Superior Court in Stamford, in the NAMA case against the Dunnes, Sean and his wife Gayle. This is the case initiated last July 2012 where NAMA is alleging shenanigans in the transfer of wealth from Sean to the missus at a time when he was deep in hock to creditors, shenanigans vigorously rejected by the Dunnes. The case was scheduled to be heard way off in the future in September 2014 but there has been a lot of interim hearings to deal with various matters of disclosure and the like. Last Friday’s filing for bankruptcy by Sean Dunne in Connecticut seems to have stopped this other court case in its tracks. On Monday, Sean filed a motion to dismiss the case because of his bankruptcy filing.
Sean’s filing led to yesterday’s hearing being cancelled but that didn’t stop fearless journalists from both the Irish Independent and the Irish Examiner turning up. Orlaith Farrell and John Riordan duly attended as evidenced by John’s tweet below.
Simon Carswell, the finance journalist whom the Irish Times bizarrely transferred to the US gig last year wasn’t there, smugly telling enquirers that his article on Tuesday about the Dunne case meant the case would be cancelled. And indeed, if you look at the present record for the case, the status of all future hearings is “off”. If NAMA wants to pursue its claim against Sean Dunne, it will need do it in the bankruptcy court. The status of the case against Gayle Dunne is less clearcut, and is complicated by it revolving around her husband’s transactions.
Ah well, better luck to the old media on Monday next at the Sean Dunne bankruptcy hearing, and remember the bankruptcy court judge has threatening to dismiss the filing unless Sean complies with certain rules. Hopefully the new media will also have an attendance on Monday.
NAMA Wine Lake 
So, INM have no problem sending a man to Connecticut…
…but (according to the Phoenix) they can’t find anyone to go to the High Court in Dublin to cover the Denis O’Brien, Paddy McKillen muzzling case?
Why would INM not cover a Denis O’Brien story? And can we expect Pat Rabbitte’s opinion on media ownership any time soon?
Maybe someone will doorstep Pat, like in the following (in case you haven’t seen it):
@Kieran, thanks for that, hadn’t seen the 8-minute version of that interruption of the Pat Rabbitee/ (ex NAMA director) Peter Stewart fifth course at Buswells.
The Independent and Herald are now firmly on message when it comes to reporting Denis O’Brien’s activities. The Sunday Independent this coming Sunday might have something to say, but some say its editor Anne Harris has seen the writing on the wall and the fire is no longer in her belly.
Maybe RTE will return the compliment for the criticism of not reporting the Deputy Michael Lowry/Kevin Phelan tapes – which apparently reveal the evidence provided by Michael Lowry to the Moriaty Tribunal was incorrect – and maybe RTE on Sunday will have a pop at the Sindo for not reporting the O’Brien (and McKillen) injunction.
Indo are too busy peddling gossip. Article yesterday by Martina Devlin more-or-less calling Gayle Killilea a gold-digging social climber who was sold a pup. True or not, it’s nasty stuff.
@Ella do you have a link…go well with my morning coffee:)
Here it is John, with your afternoon tea :)
http://www.independent.ie/opinion/columnists/martina-devlin/as-sean-dunne-files-as-a-bankrupt-the-younger-wife-gayle-i-remember-29173305.html
Devlin reckons Gayle was settling for a bit of rough on the basis that his money would compensate. Bitchy stuff but it’s the Indo afterall.
‘and that is so unlikely to be true his affidavit is beginning to get a whiff of perjury about it’…..’and of course.the lovely Lucinda’
Bitchy stuff but it’s the Indo after all.
@Ella tks,scurrilous and salacious…she certainly signed up for better r worse,rich r poor,I’d b out the door….the stain smell of BK tends to linger….second coming my hol..
Does no one believe in love any more? …Sigh… Sure, she might have initially been impressed by him flashing the cash (the peacock maneuvre) but they might genuinely have clicked as well. Was they not a hint of the sourpuss about Devlin tut-tutting at Dunne buying her baubles as if every man in courtship mode doesn’t do the same thing. Anyway what do I know… She’s made her bed. Not that easy for her to be ‘out the door’ if she has three young sons with him.
@Ella yeah agreed she appears a bit bedazzled,at that level of game it’s bout self survival….what’s love got do with it.
Rookie mistake,my money on her he’s road kill at this point,old tired,involved in litigation,a loser,,over done dusted.
Put it like this, I’d rather be stuck with Sean Dunne than Ray Grehan ;)
Specsavers?
Specs wouldn’t do much to erase an anecdote of sleaze that has imprinted itself on my mind.
@John Gallaher
“he’s road kill at this point,old tired,involved in litigation,a loser,,over done dusted.”
Depressing outlook you have there, you’re clearly not a poet :) There’s more to any man than his business interests. Besides, I’ve known more than a few Lazarus types to write anyone off.
@Ella probably a bit tired and emotional here…afraid say as Camilla will comment….off make a few bob,traveling again :)
Agreed,he’s got the world at his feet I’m probably just jealous,bitter.
Eh no…he played same game I do…we keep score..at that age and vintage he’s useless,Ray G much better bet.
@Dorothy Jones
“‘and that is so unlikely to be true his affidavit is beginning to get a whiff of perjury about it’…..’and of course.the lovely Lucinda’”
Where you reading that?
Gayle’s comments on this blog.
@Ella the glamorous GK joins us on her occasionally,as her husband is a bankrupt they have lots more time on their hands.
Greenwich is old world WASP’y think Great Gatsby,bankrupts are shunned avoided whispered about in hushed tones….unless its like Marc Rich type fortune.
Sad to say its chump change…shame really small amount…..
@John Gallaher Sounds a bit Stepford. They might be better off living somewhere like Brooklyn where people have lives, not just bank accounts and rubber necks.
@Ella,Sean on a subway go way out that….have a funny hunch he may end up back amongst you guys!!!!
IRS as a creditor…it’s awful in Greenwich so snobby and pretentious,horrid really and the big deal they make over BK…they should try New Jersey,Short Hills like his pocket.
@ John Gallaher It’s one of life’s delightful ironies: the wealthier a person becomes, the more assh0les they’re surrounded by!
regarding devlin’s article
http://www.independent.ie/opinion/columnists/martina-devlin/as-sean-dunne-files-as-a-bankrupt-the-younger-wife-gayle-i-remember-29173305.html
many years of backwater journalism apprenticeship comes to fruition in just one metaphor “she would polish him”.Pulitzer right there..
Screw the Independent and the “writer”. I’m getting tired of their bitchy tirades dressed up as “articles” and “columns”. More people should sue.
Personally I’m tired of The Independent’s baseline cattiness being passed off as “journalism”. They can be bitchy at the watercooler, but please try to step up a little from the gutter when writing for a publication that aspires to be mainstream and serious not a rag. All that is needed to write a decent article is a modicum of wit and intelligence, It should not be vicious and bitchy. It says more about the writer than it does about her subject.
if you play to the base instincts of you readers and pay peanuts…. you get the readers and the “journalists” that will eventually put you out of business….. They need to start writing their own obituary. It’s unacceptable to most right thinking people, if this is what it takes to sell newspapers.
Agreed wstt….I read your posts for intelligent quotes from Plato to Nietzsche, (then end up wondering why you are in property of all things)…anyway, crap journalism from Indo
@JG, Ah John…. old and tired, done and dusted? Not to lower myself to the level of the likes of Martina, but to give NWL a world gossip exclusive before the Indo prints on on Sunday – there is life in the old dogs yet… even virility! Our FF handler, PJ Mara will be a daddy next month at the age of 73! Put that in your pipe and smoke it!
Proves that the politicians of Charlie’s era definitely had more cojones than the present lot of wimpy schoolteachers.
@WSTT Well whoopty doo that a 73 year old can still produce a few swimmers. Has your admiration no bounds? No doubt Albert Reynolds could still sire a sprog too. So what? Will PJ have the stamina to get up with the child at 6am, tell Gruffalo stories when he’d rather watch TV and run around after them in the park. There’s more to being a daddy than shooting your load and at 73, he’s past it. So put that in your pipe and smoke it! Cojones my backside. Poor child.
@Ella, Now that’s not very nice. According to the bible:
“Deu 34:7 And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.”
So there you have it … from the bible, no less. People swear by it! 120 years old and still up for it!
No the golden oldies sometimes have an advantage, For instance….
Bob, a 70-year-old, extremely wealthy widower, showed up at the Country Club with a breathtakingly beautiful and very sexy 25 year-old blonde. She knocks everyone’s socks off with her youthful sex appeal and charm and hangs over Bob’s arm and listens intently to his every word.
His friends at the club were all aghast.
At the very first chance, they cornered him and asked, “Bob, how’d you get the trophy girlfriend?”
Bob replied, “Girlfriend? She’s my wife!”
They’re knocked over, but continued to ask. “So, how’d you persuade her to marry you?”
“I lied about my age”, Bob replied.
“What, did you tell her – that you were only 50?”
Bob smiled and said, “No, I told her I was 90.”
@WSTT, that is indeed a world exclusive. Here is PJ just a couple of weeks at the Irish Day at NYSE, fifth in from the left with the glasses.
PJ is a member of Denis O’Brien’s board.
http://www.digicelgroup.com/en/about/board-of-directors
@WSTT I’m willing to put my money where my mouth is…he’s road kill .
Done dusted over,no second act none.
Their will be “blood” or an objection to his discharged guaranteed :)
I’m not so sure you’re right, John. A little parable:
After working his farm every day, an old farmer rarely had time to enjoy the large pond in the back that he had fixed up years earlier with picnic tables, horseshoe courts, and benches. So one evening he decided to go down and see how things were holding up. Much to his surprise, he heard voices shouting and laughing with glee. As he came closer he saw it was a group of young women skinny dipping in his pond.
He made the women aware of his presence and they all went to the deep end. One of the women shouted to him, “We’re not coming out until you leave.”
The old farmer replied, “I didn’t come down here to watch you ladies swim or make you get out of the pond naked. I only came down to feed the alligator.”
Moral: Old age and treachery will always triumph over youth and naivete
AAAAAH John