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