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IRISH BUSINESSMAN DENIS O’Brien has found himself in the middle of the US presidential battle as candidate Donald Trump launches an attack on Hillary Clinton.
In a missive on his website, the Republican nominee criticises his rival for her ties to O’Brien who is described as a “cell phone tycoon”.
Entitled ‘Follow the Money’, the statement details O’Brien’s business interests in Central American, the Caribbean and the Pacific Islands.
It notes that he is the chair of the Clinton Global Initiative Haiti Action Network and a ‘leading philanthropist’ before going on to paint an unfavourable picture of the Irishman.
It uses quotes from a number of media articles and other sources.
The lengthy letter details some of the donations O’Brien has made to the Clinton Foundation, as well as pointing towards $2.5 million in funding Digicel received from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in 2011 for use in cell phone development in Haiti. Trump notes that USAID (US Agency for International Development) administered the programme while Clinton was US Secretary of State.
It outlines O’Brien’s various legal actions against media organisations and the purchase of Siteserv, a company which went on to win the contract to install water meters across Ireland.
On the 1995 mobile phone license competition which O’Brien’s Esat Digifone won, the statement quotes articles from the Guardian and the Irish Times published following the Moriarty Tribunal which found that O’Brien made payments to former minister Michael Lowry.
O’Brien continues to challenge the findings of the Tribunal which concluded ‘beyond doubt’ that the then-minister gave “substantive information” to O’Brien, which was of “significant value and assistance to him in securing the licence”.
O’Brien’s spokesperson has told RTÉ that the businessman would not be making any comment on Trump’s statement.
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Great comment there..Mr/Mrs anonymous account. Please list 5 major car park fires caused by ICE vehicles in the last 5 years. I can give you 3 major EV fires in the last five weeks and a ferry fire that sank the ferry and its cargo of toxic batteries in to the sea. Give me a break, EV’s and BEV’s are a total joke and dangerous. Go an watch an EV explode multiple times after crashing. Catch yourself on there, use the internet and look at the pro’s and cons.
@calum Tierney: I really hope that poor chap finds his father someday
@calum Tierney: HFCV says…. hold my drink….
@calum Tierney:
EV’s – Cars for the gullible.
@calum Tierney: didn’t a car park burn down in liverpool a couple of years ago because of a ICE Land Rover?
The amount of Diesel and petrol cars catching fire lately is shockingly scary.
@Dave F Sov:
Yes, you take your life in your hands parking next to an EV ;))
Lol… You’re still pi$$ed off since I pointed out you write like a 10 year old ! Learn a bit of basic grammar before you comment on anyone’s intelligence. I’m embarrassed for you.
@Dave F Sov: diesel is far safer, will not ignite by impact sparks or flames, until very high temperatures.
Diesel fuel can’t melt steel beams.
Just as well they’d never let you build an underground car park under the world’s most expensive children’s hospital.
Imagine coming back from a meal or a trip to the cinema and realising you were parked next to the original car that caught fire, and your car was burned also…
@James K.: or imagine it was your car that started the fire and ringing around for insurance quotes at the next renewal. ‘Have you ever had any claims or accidents’?? Ohhhh ehhhh ahhhhh just 1.
@Ron Burgundy: Imagine all the people.
Somebody wants to spread anarchy.
Whatever we might have done in the past so be it, can’t turn back the clock. Europeans need to grow a pair. Those who want a revolution have no idea what to do after.
So we are where we are.
And will stay there until what I dont know anymore ..
Another car park fire!!!!
@Pato:
EV’s, mobile incendiary devices.
@Regular John: source: trust me bro
@Martin Mongan: Ha Ha, I like that one, might have to use that myself.
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