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Perhaps "Coach and Four" Jim Mansfield typifies,more than most, the arch crony type among the many who form the nucleus of the Fianna Fail "Tenters" at the annual Galway race week gathering.They comprise land speculators and builders:refuse collectors and nursing home operators: landlords (refugees) and horse breeders:toll bridge builders and farmers, funeral undertakers and cement makers.they are truly a motley crew.These fat cats who cream the Guinness here,have been enriched by successive Fianna Fail governments for generations. Many of them-those who were not previously exempt from taxation- have lodged their vast profits in far away tax havens with total impunity while salaried workers were crucified with taxation.

Why?

Because the politicians party which the people have in their absolute innocence re elected to government for successive decades; Charles Haughey,Ray Burke,Liam Lawlor,Padraig Flynn and so on down to the smallest of their ilk,the minor functionaries in the local county councils,have been busily feathering their nests and happily feeding off the extra crumbs (a la carte-a la Frank Dunlop) that fell from their rich patrons tables.

Mansfield of course is a total law unto himself. He is above the law. Above any government (any Fianna Fail one at any rate).

He is one of a group of Fianna Failers small in number who own 80% of all potential building land on the periphery of Dublin ,and other cities.

These people are a state within the state.

A powerful cartel who-in association with their "agents" in Leinster house and local councils countrywide- decide where our young people will reside and how much they will pay ,for the rest of their lives,for the privilege of living in a remote three bedroom semi detached,or a tiny flat nearer to civilization.

Not only will their mortgage yoke them,but now that the Soldiers of Destiny are disengaging from the provision of any local services such as water and waste collection, the same parasites who sold you a house will "manage" every facet of your tenancy and profit from Fianna Fail "privatisation" of all essential services, until the day you die.

Mansfield and his pals are often in a feeding frenzy to enlarge their bank balances.

Sometimes,they build their golf courses, industrial parks or conference centres without bothering to go down the onerous route of planning permissions.

No problem here.

Their lackeys in Fianna Fail scurry to hastily grant "retention" status for the illegal developments such as in Citywest (Tallagh) where "Coach and Four" Mansfield has, not only given the planning officials,An Taisce, An Bord Planeala, and everybody else the two fingers-but he has capped the stroke by persuading Bertie to extend the Luas into his vast land bank domain, thereby ensuring immediate planning permission for high rise apartment blocks against the backdrop of the picturesque Dublin/Wicklow mountains.The fact that he has offered to pay for the cost of laying the track has been portrayed as a win win situation for the taxpayer.!

Be assured its a win win situation only for Mansfield.Nice of Bertie to dress his wolves in sheeps clothing-courtesy of the government spin and propaganda department.( also paid for by you, the mug in the street)

If you hurry you can buy one off the plans,(the illegal ones).Dont just buy one buy three.Who knows,they may be as sought after as Ranelagh and Sandymount and Stillorgan, in a few years time if the economy keeps booming !

Mansfield has bought the small private Airport (Weston) from where his pals private planes flit here and there to avoid public transport.It is located in  the Green Belt between Lucan and Celbridge.His pilots "double job" importing vast quantities of Heroin and other drugs into the state..

He may have had no direct hand in this little affair and it now that Jim has been feted on RTE as one of the richest and most successful men in Ireland it is probably unfashionable to mention that when he was dealing in used  and scrap cars out Crooksling way (in an earlier life) , he received three jail sentences-all of which he served- for various petty crimes such as larceny and receiving. Best not to mention that on the cocktail circuit though, or when he cuts the ribbon alongside his Fianna Fail ministerial pals at the opening of the Luas extension shortly in Citywest hotel ,Conference Centre and Golf Club.

Dont expect the Green Belt to exist for much longer.Don,t rent a parking space for your Cessna here either. In a few years it will be a high rise development. On the other hand if you are looking to buy a luxury apartment close to the city,all amenities,and local "must visit"attractions such as Liam Lawlors last resting place in Esker Cemetary..get in now, before everything is sold out.

The E.E.U have requested Bertie to cease the practise of granting permission for illegal developments,"retrospectively".

Some hope.

Bertie has given Brussels the two fingers on this directive,as he has done on the nitrates directive,as he has done on the widespread illegal fishing,and so many other activities of his farmers, pet henchmen, assorted donors, and loyal voters.

Mansfield though,is in a class of his own.! He has come a long way from the days when he was a dodgy "used car dealer" in Crooksling , Tallagh,and   according to a report in a currently published book, he actually did some "time" in prison for larceny and other offences ! The official version of his rise to enormous wealth, tells of making enormous profits after the Falkalands War,buying up army surplus etc. One wonders.

a phrase comes to mind: "Behind every great fortune lies a great crime"(or maybe a number of smaller ones)

  How the wicked and hard necked property speculators prosper within the Fianna Fail cocoon of privilege and "retrospect" planning permissions.Just apply to the boys for retention.That is if you are one of the "boys"

Fianna Fail & Jim Mansfield. Birds of a feather flock together. Problem is, many of the Fianna Fail Councillors have yet to do "time".