Pat's Sunday Papers Review August 9th

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What headlines open the Sunday papers and why do they matter?

Pat Kenny 0:01

The Pat Kenny Show with Timber Living Log Cabins. Saturday and Sunday from 10am on News Talk. Conversation that counts. Now we're flicking through some of the Sunday newspapers. The headline in the Independent revenue nets ten million euro in black market crackdown. Builders, hairdressers, and takeaways. That's according to the Sunday Independent. One third of Soc Dem's new voters are people who deserted Sinn Fein, says another headline. The Business Post states record eleven point eight billion spend to prop up the housing market. We look at That in uh some detail in a little while. The Irish Mail on Sunday, Kinnan lands, a bit premature, I think, as Bomb Squad sweeps the court, uh and Kinnan making a lot of the headlines in the newspapers.

Pat Kenny 0:50

The Sunday Times, Kinnan at risk from cartel and rivals on his what they call bittersweet return, and a minister concerned by delays to critical power link between this island and France and uh the Irish Sun on Sunday. It's nice to get back home. That's in quotes and it's uh referring once again to Daniel Kinnan. So Brenda Power, uh columnist with the Sunday Times and the Irish Daily Mail, is with me. She's been going through the papers in some detail. Brenda, good morning and welcome. Good morning, Pa. So it's Kinnan, Kinnan, Kinnan.

Brenda Power 1:20

It's Wall to Walkinham this morning, yes. Um this really is as he e he said himself, in fairness, in this podcast that he's been contributing to, that this is really like something out of the movies. You think in Conair or whatever, the whole business of trying to fly him back safely and then transport him from uh the airport to apparently he'd be brought straight to the special criminal court, which is currently being swept uh by the bomb squad, and then to Port Leash to a in in a special van, by the way, that has been purchased for the purpose, um, which is bomb proof, bulletproof with run flat tires. And uh then he'll be located within a in a prison within a prison, in one of Europe's most secure prisons.

Brenda Power 2:01

Sounds a little bit like the place where where where the the you know the Supermax prisons in the States where where they keep the big drug gangsters with everything concrete. And nailed to the floor. Um so but meanwhile he's he's delighted to be coming back, apparently. Um I don't know why he didn't do it years ago, he's probably asking himself. Uh he's a proud Irishman and all this stuff that people have read about him apparently it's all nonsense. In Pat we should remind ourselves that of course he is innocent until proven guilty and uh he's entitled to his his Uh.

Pat Kenny 2:29

And we'll be talking with Frank Rainey later on as to the whole judicial process and what he's going to be uh charged with and so on. It seems he as soon as he steps onto the the tarmac, he will actually be charged at that moment. Yes he'll be charged. Okay, so uh Kennan aside, what else is taking your fancy?

Brenda Power 2:46

Um well the the uh Sandy Indo lead story about the revenue uh cracking down on black market. um earnings and that's ten million in black market crackdown on the said rogue builders, vape shops, beauticians, um garages and so on.

Who is Daniel Kinnan and what is the controversy surrounding his court case?

Brenda Power 3:02

But mind you, ten million out of the entire tax take for the year so far is the not point not one six percent. And Ailey Shohanland has a very good piece actually in the Sunday Independent saying, hang on a second. You're talking here about people about hairdressers earning a few extra bob doing some work off the books, calling it someone's house. You're talking about families running takeaways, these probably probably non-national families working every argument. You're talking about people selling their homemade brown bread at electric picnic without charging fat. Is that really are these the people we should be going after? And you know, when you think about it, in a country where none of these people have the slightest hope of ever being able to buy a house, where does

Brenda Power 3:46

Playing by the rules actually get ya. And bear in mind, Pat, just last month it was announced that Transport for Ireland, or you and me, had written off fifty million euro that was squandered on an IT system that didn't work.