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INDEPENDENT TD MICK Wallace has hit out at former Northern Ireland First Minister Peter Robinson after he received a legal letter from the DUP leader.
The letter of complaint was in relation to a tweet Wallace had sent about Robinson and Nama. Today Wallace’s solicitor Gareth Noble said the TD has a “proud public record of highlighting important matters in the public interest in relation to issues which demand transparency, openness and accountability.”
He shall not be distracted or deterred from continuing his work by the threat of legal action.
“It is not considered that the commentary referred to on social media was in any way defamatory. We also note that MR Robinson himself has given interviews to the media, including the BBC, where he was asked to address issues around the Nama controversy.”
Responding to the threat to sue, Wallace said:
One would have thought that Mr Robinson would make better use of his time if he concentrated on stabilising the political situation in Northern Ireland, rather than taking legal action to shut down debate on an issue that is of great public concern, in particular for the taxpayer in the Republic of Ireland.
His solicitor said that should Robinson wish to pursue the matter, the action will be defended in full.
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if Robinson is short a few bob he can ask his wife to get some of that money back from the coffee shop she sponsored!
Services rendered I believe
decommissioned vagina more like
If Wallace is so sure of what he says, why use parliamentary privilege? Wallace banned me from his twitter feed for asking questions about his non payment of his staff pensions and his use of expenses. Wallace is a spoofer and a Waster.
He didn’t use parliamentary privilege, it’s over a tweet. And Wallace has done more good as a TD than the vast majority of government backbench TDs who exist only to vote for the government and draw their huge wages.
He used privilege to start the whole process and now he is saying tweets don’t count.
Richard, can you give a list off all the fantastic things Wallace has done for his country?
Left left stop. Mick Wallace is sure of all he reports, its the others who have to watch out. Go on Mick, at last we have someone who is for the People. Thank you.
So why use parliamentary privilege? He’s a coward and a proven tax dodger and cheat.
im just delighted hasn’t added to the shite unlike a lot of them
For the people?? What about the people who used to work for him? He wasn’t exactly for them was he?
true but we really have bigger fish to get and the cooker is switched off.
Why would you need a cooker to get fish?
Left. left stop. Yet ANOTHER wesole identity. About three on the go at the moment. Journal, have you ANY policy at all on trolling?…. I see, banned, am I? Shure, why not.
apologies I did type FRY but my smartphone IS a smartarse :)
Rashers, it’s one identity, one twitter account, one person, I use the edit button to brighten up my day every few months. One account.
Bollocks
Dziadek uncaged,sunshine on a rainy…I can`t remember the rest, but the reason you change is not to brighten up your day every few months,
The reason you change, is because everyone gets used to your shite talk and knows who you are, you change it because people are sick of it, and you crap is not working anymore, you have had more faces than a second hand clock repairer, I reckon ou are like that in real life too.
Same twitter account guys, sorry to disappoint ye. Never been banned unlike people like for connolly. If it bollocks rasher, te twitter handle would change but it never has, @wesole123
I notice you didn`t dispute my point though, only reason you change your profile is because everyone gets sick of you and you don“t feel relevant anymore.
was for connolly banned?
Interesting to see the Blueshirts willing to throw parliamentary privilege out the window to score political points.Of course by backing the leader of the DUP on this they think they’ll also score against SF. What happened to letting the police up north concluding their investigation?? Or are the afraid about what they might turn up.Enda can’t threaten the head of the fraud squad in the UK into resignation I guess.
Jamsey, your point is well made. It appears that “abuse of parliamentary privilege ” only applies to Independents or members of minor parties. We have all heard and seen the Government parties ‘abuse ‘ privilege for political advantage, but apparently that’s perfectly fine.
Profile isn’t changed, twitter account isn’t changed
lls I think your confusing Mr Wallace with no spine Enda to be honest.
Kerry he’s a proven tax cheat. He took pension money from workers and didn’t put it into their fund, leaving them short. How is he any better than FG/lab?
why?
Jesus, are we still judging Wallace on his ex business issues. This guy has singlehandedly given more service in the Dail, on Shattergate alone, than the opposition parties did. No-one can deny he has been useful: bringing up his past continuously is a waste of time now and if people have a recourse to action then let them take a civil suit against the guy for whatever you say they’re owed. It’s just clogging up the board repeating the same stuff. He went bust, shit happens, anywhere else it would be long forgotten about.
if I could you’d get 1000 green thumbs. Everyone seems to have short memories…no sorry I apologise…friends of government seem to have short memories. And their friends And their friends friends.
Magnus that’s like saying Micheal Martin is a great fella, sure didn’t he save thousands of people from getting cancer by bringing in the smoking ban. Doesn’t matter what he did before or after.
Wallace isn’t some innocent builder who got into trouble and couldn’t pay his bills. He gave himself and his son more money while misappropriating pension fund money.
let Robinson sue..go for it..lets bring it all out. If he’s the big man he wants to be..let him sue. But he wont. I for one would wish all could be brought out, thrashed out( metaphorically) and we could have peace. Because realistically at the end of the day..us down here are not affected, but there are a million people affected by this silly carry on. In the grand scheme of things I am a nobody…but I am one nobody that wants peace, a communal community and wants to live in a divert country that gets on. We live in such an open, internet world, any arguments are nearly mute now.
Is that established fact, your version of events, or conjecture? Difference between Michael Martin and Wallace should be obvious. One was a self-employed business man, the other is a lifer on a state salary. Again Jane, if people were shortchanged let them take him to court for their money. I don’t know the ins and outs of his financial collapse in detail. Lots of business leave people in the shit when they fail. Thats’a hard reality of working in the private sector. Is there something about his particular demise that was so different to most others?
I could give you a list but your mind is closed so what’s the point? Compare him to say Brian Crowley FF MEP who hasn’t turned up and has lowest attendance in history?? Maybe Michael Noonan!! List the damage he’s done against just this one good thing???
A proven tax cheat that old chestnut??
You are so profoundly stupid it’s hard to fathom
The Properties are taken from people who in most cases are doing their best. Sold way under value to a horrible vulture fund!!
There is a possibility of some few dodgy crook politicians getting backhanders out of this corrupt little deal!!
And your comment is about the person who exposed the scam and years old lies about how in the last days of his business he paid his suppliers first!!!
That means either you are thick or working for the dark side!! Which is it??
Paid all his suppliers? Are you deluded? Think you need to do a little research there, try starting with his subcontractors and then work your way back to his suppliers. And then when you are finished remember he signed over a vineyard worth approx. €1 million to his brother just before it went south.
Sol so it’s ok that he filed false return to revenue? He didn’t just run into trouble and not pay his tax, he filed false returns.
You know what ye deserve what ye get in the politicians that are elected.
Magnus it was widely reported at the time and I didn’t see him sue anyone so I take from that it was the truth.
As you say lots of business went bust, in my own family 2 went bust that were in the building trade. In both their cases though they were the ones not taking a wage while paying the staff and trying to keep the business afloat and ride it out. They may have owed revenue money when it went belly up but they never tried to defraud revenue by making a false return. I don’t think they should be lumped into the same bracket.
Doesn’t matter if Robinson wins this case. Wallace isn’t exactly renowned for paying his debts.
He can’t stand debts / bills with VAT on them.
plus vat
wallace pays his bills back, ask revenue. not to mention his work as a td surpassing 95% of whats in the dail
If a gov td was faced with the same situation as robinson is you can be sure we would get an inquiry headed up by a retired high court judge that would neither be able to enquire nor provide findings of fact
do yout think robinson will ever go to court?? its a sham cover for the up coming elections in the north
An erudite contribution my friend. Go back to your Campfire now like a good man and take your four Twitter followers with you.
@ Rashers of course
@Ciaran. You cannot defend a man who pockets his employees pension contributions.
I cannot agree with…makes my blood boil that his company owes the guts of €20 million in vat and he still stays as a sitting TD with a voice..but any small business who owe relatively small sums are simply put out of business and workers lose their jobs…it’s always a two tier system and always will be…
Wallace one of the developers who brought the country to its knee’s now playing the hero !!
looks like its a fight, pull up seat grab a beer! hup hup !!
It’s like de ja vu. A td highlighting a serious matter that concerns taxpayers of this state . in this case NAMA , and someone trying to stop it. Reminds me of Catherine Murphy td and siteserv, irbc and dob.
Didn’t include the offending tweet? I overheard it’s about project eagle and the attack on the peace process. Then again, maybe not it’s not. Who knows?
He should be arrested by the fashion police.
Wallace doing what the voters expect him to do. Highlight taxpayers concerns.
Doing what FG promised to do.
I know which of the two gentleman I prefer..
Never judge a book by its cover!
Pity he doesn’t pay his taxes. Invading run ways is not what tax payers want.’
it’s the big guys that destroyed this country… actally it’s the big guys in All the capitalist counties that contributed.
David who should be alerted by the fashion Police.
Give me Wallace any day, he seems to be honest. And don’t recall his tax we all know. At least he is paying back what he owes.
How you can you say he is honest when he is a convicted tax dodger?
Enough playing the man…we are coming up to an election soon. Lets start focussing.. seriously. Lets start looking at the alternatives, lets hear what they have to say. For the first time in most peoples lives, lets take the upcoming election seriously and get thinking. And the journal.ie could take the lead. By running an equal, partisan, piece on all candidates, instead of all the party bashing thats going on…I for one will never do party politics again..I dont like the main parties anymore. I want a change..a sea change.
He seems to be honest …. Come on, this guy is an embarrassment. Trespassing on Irish Aviation Authority property, ( if it were you or I the matter would have be dealt with ages ago with a fines and / or possibly a jail sentence) failure from his Companies to pay taxes, the state of him going in to The Dail… Plain and simple he’s a disgrace !!
well for that ‘trespassing’ alone he’d get my vote
well a lot of developers bankers … politicians haven’t been convicted of anything yup salt of the earth types ( my ass )
Another ‘munster ‘ person – nyhan – need we say more.
Trespassing? Well I never how shocking. I’m just sad I don’t live in his constituency because I’s vote for Wallace in preference to those people being touted by FF, FG or Labour.
Great point… Tierney… How could I have a come back for that one …. FOOL !!
I’d vote for anybody but that tool !!Maybe you should move ??
I can’t believe the very people defending Wallace are the ones who rage against the government for perceived injustices.
Wallace made false returns to revenue while at the very same time giving himself and his son a pay rise when he knew the company was in serious trouble. He was deducting pension contributions from his staff but not putting it into the pension funds.
The government are bad but cheerleading for this lad??? Seriously?
He is the biggest Pratt in our government buildings. What has he done as a statesman? Nothing but a shyster
So define what “it’s not our debt” “seismic shift” Enda has managed as a statesman? Being patted on the head by Sarkozy doesn’t count by the way.
Ahhh! I come here to get away from our news up here. Can’t believe the first story I see is about that nut Peter Robinson raging he’s infiltrated my southern news lol
He’s an ejit! Don’t know why he responded to your mans tweet, the way he gets on is that down there in the dail is on a different planet!
Bit of 50/50 split on Wallace here……
One thing we can all agree though, he does have lovely hair. Very Joey Tempest of Europe fame (the band not the fascist dictatorship).
I’ll bet he still uses Timotae!
I don’t give a rat’s ass what anyone on this forum thinks of Wallace. I say “fair play to you and keep on trucking “. As a business man there have been mistakes, which were in the halfpenny place when compared with others. Face that obnoxious bluenose down, Mick. Any right thinking person will be behind you.
Ah Rashers, better the devil you know (like) is it?
Sure who cares about a little lie, others tell bigger fibs. Great rationality.
I don’t totally disagree with you but the rationality is a little shady to say the least.
Tell that to the guys in Wexford who’s pensions he screwed over
true but om more posed off with the billions we apparently owe and which future generations will pay for.
That is true Margaret, though doesn’t dishonesty and lies morph from small beginnings. I suppose my point is the rationale of worse things happening on the world stage cannot take away from the small steps on a local level. It just gets scaled down, or up.
but it’s the BIG lies I hate.
very good!
Margaret, I get ye.
Wallace is a muppet
This party political broadcast was brought to you from.. a muppet.
Well done Mick Wallace
more tds like Mick,that’s what we need.
Why?
Because people talk to them and tell them about things going on that should be stopped?
the assembly in the north being pulled down distracted from this and grabbed all the media & public attention.
robinson has plenty to answer for……………wallace is rattling his cage, i suspect this is why the legal threats are being made.
whether or not a person likes wallace is not the issue here………………..the issue is the public is being screwed by NAMA and the IBRC, those in power are willingly ignoring this and have some interests in burying the issue.
personally i am grateful to wallace for keeping up the pressure.
Wallace. An absolute waster.
Couldn’t agree more
If what Wallace says turns out to be true Robinson would have had to resign in the morning. Like any good politician he’s ditching the ship before it sinks…unionists can’t take much more with Scottish independence running so close and if labour get elected in England they will want rid of Northern Ireland immediately. The best case scenario is for FG and DUP is to keep shouting murder as loud as they can at Sinn Fein in the hope that it reduces the support they are gaining through the modern day revelations of dirty dealings of governments north and south. The fact Robinson has had time to send solicitors letters to a brick layer from Wexford at a time like this shows he must have something on him.
This issue is the main reason Robinson stood aside as first minister in the north. if this all comes out before election he wont be given his lords seat in Westminster. Turn the focus to the IRA and Sinn Fein instead.
He looks more and more like Pat Kenny every day and I don’t meant Mick Wallace who is 100 times more of an Irish man than either Robinson or Kenny could ever be
Wallace Wallace Wallace.. a man with BALLS
criminal hippy should pay his taxes. Hopefully that’s the end of his windy career as an annoyance in govt opposition and pure waste of my taxes.
Exactly. The man accumulated debts in the millions. People still forget this. This guy is one the very same people gives out about. And idiots think he’s great. He’s a gangster.
Good old yellow pages comes to mind…
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/drug-resistant-strain-gonorrhoea-spreading-035848329.html#7PzOh9I
That reminds me… Why I do not know… lol.
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