20 Million hotel built with proceeds of illegal dump

national | bin tax / household tax / water tax | news report

Friday August 11, 2006 12:46

by John McDermott - www.fiannafailparty.biz

Gran Canaria ,Spain

Guess who will pay for the clean up.?

The irish people will pay dearly through the bin taxes and other impositions for cleaning up the hundreds of illegal dumps operated by Cement Roadstone, and other Friends of Fianna Fail during the past two decades.This problem has not been touched upon by our current government-nor will it be- until after the coming election.

Two wasters meet on the street in Kerry.

Two wasters and a new 20 million euro hotel!!
The poor get solicitors letters for non payment of the bin taxes-meanwhile the rich build new hotels:
THE wealthy businessman whose hotel venture was visited by Taoiseach Bertie Ahern has been linked to illegal dumping, it emerged in August 2006 (Irish Independent0
While on holidays in Sneem, in Co Kerry, Mr Ahern paid a visit to the site of the new €20m Sneem Hotel due to open next March.
The businessman behind the venture, Louis Moriarty, a staunch Fianna Failer,has been involved in a number of court actions over illegal dumping by his former business, Swalcliffe Ltd, trading as Dublin Waste.
Mr Moriarty, a native of Sneem who lives in Griffith Ave, Drumcondra, Dublin, pleaded guilty last month to an offence under the Waste Management Act and is due for sentencing in respect of that. The Taoiseach was pictured in national newspapers yesterday accompanied by Mr Moriarty when he visited the site for the new hotel.
A spokesman for Mr Ahern said he has been visiting Sneem for over 20 years and last Sunday "a local person, who is known to him, asked him to visit the development and he was glad to do it".
The spokesman said the visit was not officially organised and was not in the Taoiseach's diary.
He said the Taoiseach had no prior knowledge of Mr Moriarty before the visit.! He added: "The Taoiseach has absolutely nothing to say about any case pending that Mr Moriarty may be involved in." Yesterday, the newly appointed marketing and sales manager for the hotel, Nicola Duggan, confirmed she had approached Mr Ahern on the street and asked if he would visit the Sneem Hotel site in order to help launch the project.
Mr Moriarty is no longer involved in the waste business. Dublin Circuit Criminal Court was told recently that he will be due before the court in relation to illegal dumping. In 2001, Wicklow Co Council discovered two major illegal dumps and commenced investigations along with the Gardai. Court proceedings were also issued against Swalcliffe Ltd.
The company was fined a total of IR£7,500 and ordered to pay IR£8,000 in costs for illegal dumping.
A hearing in Dublin District Court was told there were discrepancies of up to 8,500 tonnes per month between the amount of waste that Dublin Waste said it was disposing of and the amount received from it by two dumps approved by the Environmental Protection Authority.
Mr Moriarty and his wife Eileen, both directors of Swalcliffe Ltd were also fined IR£1,500 between them.
Crime pays it seems-and dumping your waste pays best of all. Now guess who will pay to clean up the sites where Moriarty dumped his rubbish for the past ten years.?-you've got it in one-you will,meanwhile Mr Moriarty will collect massive tax reliefs on his hotel build with the proceeds of criminality-any room for the CAB to confiscate the hotel.?
Oh,Bertie your mam must have told you never to talk to-or go with- strangers who approach you on the streets of Kerry.!