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Jp macmanus
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Generous1991
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Hi there pokodot,
Any chance of amending the title to JP McManus?
Otherwise it's going to keep triggering my spelling OCD
Any chance of amending the title to JP McManus?
Otherwise it's going to keep triggering my spelling OCD
Len Madeiros
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80 winners at Cheltenham, including the 2025 Gold Cup winner. On top of: 6 CH winners; another GC winner; and 3 GN winners.
Where do you want me to stop? Bloke is a total legend, and great for the sport. What’s the beef?
Where do you want me to stop? Bloke is a total legend, and great for the sport. What’s the beef?
The Fortune Teller
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Err, answer, yes.
He's also apparantly quite close the bloke who runs Coolmore stud in Ireland. They can get a few winners.
If you don't like the horses don't back them.
Slim
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JP McManus and the Glackin Report
For anyone who has not gone near this before, the Glackin Report examined the sale of the Johnston Mooney & O’Brien Ballsbridge site to Telecom Éireann in the late eighties and early nineties.
What it found about McManus was not complicated.
He provided a £1.5m loan through a Jersey account in the name “J & N McMahon” to Chestvale Properties, the company used to buy the site.
When Telecom Éireann bought the site for roughly £9.4m, he was one of the people who shared in the profit.
The report stated he received £500,000 in cash as his portion. It put it plainly:
“I can find no evidence that any other person received the cash of £500,000 and find accordingly that it was received by Mr McManus.”
That sentence matters. He denied benefiting. The State investigator said he did.
Despite how politically charged the affair became, no criminal charges were brought against him or anyone involved.
Readers can make their own judgement, but that is what the report actually recorded and what it says about The Great Man’s relationship with the truth.
For anyone who has not gone near this before, the Glackin Report examined the sale of the Johnston Mooney & O’Brien Ballsbridge site to Telecom Éireann in the late eighties and early nineties.
What it found about McManus was not complicated.
He provided a £1.5m loan through a Jersey account in the name “J & N McMahon” to Chestvale Properties, the company used to buy the site.
When Telecom Éireann bought the site for roughly £9.4m, he was one of the people who shared in the profit.
The report stated he received £500,000 in cash as his portion. It put it plainly:
“I can find no evidence that any other person received the cash of £500,000 and find accordingly that it was received by Mr McManus.”
That sentence matters. He denied benefiting. The State investigator said he did.
Despite how politically charged the affair became, no criminal charges were brought against him or anyone involved.
Readers can make their own judgement, but that is what the report actually recorded and what it says about The Great Man’s relationship with the truth.
