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by Shane Ross

First Active 49

  Sheehy, Eugene 67, 84, 135, 202–3, 209, 211, 227, 231

  29/30 September 2008 crisis meetings 190, 193–4

  2008 dinner with the regulators 2

  AIB and 2, 173–4, 234–8

  and recapitalization 206, 207, 222, 237–8

  Sheehy, Maurice 235

  Shelbourne Hotel, Dublin 125

  Sherry FitzGerald 156–7, 166

  DTZ Sherry FitzGerald 164

  Shortall, Paddy 12

  Smith, Brendan 195

  Smith, Paul 219

  Smurfit Kappa 55

  Smurfit, Michael 107, 119–20, 122

  Smurfit Paribas 48

  Smurfits 31

  Smyth, John 49, 140

  Smyth, Noel 122

  social partnership 135, 136, 149, 249, 269

  Socialist Party 249

  Société Générale 148

  Soden, Mike 182, 187, 189–90, 211

  Solomons Abrahamson 47

  Somers, Michael 242, 243–4

  Spain 255–6

  Sparks, Greg 138

  Spollen, Tony 23, 64

  Spring, Dick 106, 207, 239, 258

  St Patrick’s Day (2008) 87, 88, 179

  St Vincent de Paul 39, 198

  Stability and Growth Pact 266

  stamp duty 170–1, 173

  Standard & Poor’s ratings 243, 252–5

  state subsidies 130

  US 180

  Stephenson, Sam 72

  stock market 47, 83, 145–6, 212

  the Dow 145, 181, 182, 193, 212

  flotation of building societies converted to banks 17, 49

  stockbrokers 46, 83, 146–8

  banks buying up brokers 45–7

  foreign 148

  see also specific stockbrokers

  Stokes Kennedy Crowley 36

  Straffan House 11

  see also K Club

  sub-prime mortgages

  global 171–2

  US 83, 171–2

  Sullivan, Ned 54, 218

  Sunday Independent 98, 102, 159, 160, 161, 162, 209

  AIB and the DIRT scam 23–4

  Bank of Scotland 139

  Liam Collins 23, 64

  Maurice Sheehy 235

  Sunday Tribune 128, 184

  Sutherland, Peter 26, 134

  Taggart, Paschal 116–17

  Tallaght 131

  tax

  2008 emergency Budget 206

  avoidance 74

  and the black economy 15–16

  building societies and 15–16

  capital acquisitions 123

  capital gains 15, 123

  car park incentives 124, 125, 128, 129

  corporate 123

  Deposit Interest Retention Tax (DIRT) 17, 23–4, 30–1

  evasion see tax evasion

  income 15, 123

  McCreevy’s reductions 123

  property tax breaks 123–32

  residential development and 123

  stamp duty 170–1, 173

  tax evasion

  Ansbacher scam 26, 72–5

  avoidance and 74

  through building society accounts 15–16

  of Deposit Interest Retention Tax 23–4, 30–1

  Faldor scandal 24–6

  Teahon, Paddy 118–19

  Tinney, Ethna 93, 94, 95, 97–103

  Tóibín, Colm 105

  trade unions 40

  Traynor, Des 26

  and the Ansbacher scam 72–5

  Treasury Holdings 118, 119

  Trichet, Jean-Claude 190–1, 196

  Tucker, Geoff 157

  Ulster Bank 70, 84, 125, 135, 197, 264

  McArdle, chief economist 151

  United States of America

  AIG receive federal funds 181

  bailout of banking system 181, 193

  collapse of Bear Stearns 179

  collapse of Lehman Brothers 180–1

  economy 158, 179–80, 181, 193

  government rescue of mortgage finance companies 179–80

  housing market 171

  Merrill Lynch bailout by Bank of America 181

  sub-prime mortgages 83, 171–2

  urban renewal schemes/status 120, 124, 127, 129–30, 131–2

  Vanuatu 68

  Wace Holdings 43

  Wall, Vincent 207

  Walsh, Joe 207, 258

  Walsh, Michael 194, 227

  Walsh, Willie 189

  Went, David 10, 224

  West Link toll bridge 163–4

  Whelan, Gerry: Maplewood 119

  Whitaker, Ken 9, 70–1

  Williamson, Philip 101, 103

  Wilson Hartnell 176

  Wright, Paddy 55, 107–8

  Zoe Group 263

 

 

 


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