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IT’S BEEN A busy morning at Gorse Hill.
The grounds of the south Dublin mansion have been the venue for some bizarre scenes over recent weeks – most notably, on the day Vincent Browne led a group of journalists and cameramen into the garden, asserting “this is bank property”.
Midday today marked the deadline for Brian O’Donnell and his family to leave the Killiney house – and reporters gathered once again at the gates from early today, not sure what to expect.
But it appeared the family had decided against making a stand and barricading themselves in. A removal truck was driven first from the gates – followed, in separate journeys, by cars containing Mary Patricia O’Donnell, and then her husband.
After he left Killiney this morning, the solicitor – who has been engaged in a public battle with Bank of Ireland over whether he should be allowed remain at the house – headed to straight to UCD to confront BoI boss Richie Boucher, handing back the keys as the CEO arrived for the institution’s AGM.
A group of his supporters from the New Land League – including former developer Jerry Beades, who has become a de-facto spokesman for the O’Donnells – remained at the property as receivers arrived later this afternoon.
After speaking briefly to Beades, they entered the grounds – accompanied by gardaí.
As O’Donnell handed the keys of the mansion to Boucher at UCD, Beades and his supporters earlier posted a notice on the gates of Gorse Hill, asserting it was still property of Vico Ltd.
Beades also told the media the locks had been changed (meaning the set handed to the BoI boss were effectively useless).
The New Land League leader later left the scene - after the receivers arrived.
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Are they really benefitting from WhatsApp’s outage, or is it more that people are ditching WhatsApp since the Facebook takeover?
I deleted my account, and the app from my phone. Barely use it as it is. Find Viber better.
Yeah, I only use viber. Didn’t bother even trying any other messaging app. How many different ways do I need to talk to the same people?
Had both WhatsApp and Viber for a couple of years. When Viber added text messaging (was originally just voice) stopped using WhatsApp altogether.
The stock valuations of these tech companies make no sence ! Twitter never has made a profit and is worth billions !
Never heard of LINE don’t know why they’re bragging. Left whatsapp for viber a long time ago. Joining with Facebook will mean constant technical problems problems
Currently working in S.E. Asia here, Whatsapp is almost nonexistent – Line has pretty much obtained market saturation. It’s a big world out there buddy, and Ireland is a very small pixel in the picture.
Just sayin’
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Understand that… Just stating I’ve never heard of them….. Buddy….
Well you said you don’t know why they’re bragging… Well, 340+ million users and 0 network problems, (ever, in my experience). Facebook buys Whatsapp and an outage occurs within hours.
That’s the reason they were braggin’
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Yep. Any Korean or Japanese person I’ve met here in Asia seem to never even have heard of Viber or Whatsapp. LINE is massive. I prefer it to Viber which I use for my Irish friends. I’d recommend to give it a try.
Ah jasus there’s messaging app fanboi’s now…
No point in staying with a service when there is a better one out there for free.
Viber is so laggy I can’t deal with it. Whatsapp is miles better but now I wonder about privacy now that fb have taken over. No doubt in a few weeks we’ll notice ‘pages you might like suggestions’ will be relevant to private conversations had with mates on what’s app.
I’m no expert but I would expect people to bounce around from one free app to the next. It takes seconds and groups can reform in no time. Facebook will try to cull or own any threat to its platform, which I have to say, for me is becoming less interesting every day.
My daughter in Japan told us about Line over two years ago and we use it all the time, it is a superb messaging and call service, very clear with no delay between Ireland and Japan.
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