Summary: <br> <a rel="noreferrer noopener external" href="https://www.thecanary.co/author/kerryanne/" target="_blank" data-wpel-link="external">Kerry-Anne Mendoza</a> editor-at-large of <a rel="noreferrer noopener external" href="https://www.thecanary.co/" target="_blank" data-wpel-link="external">the Canary</a> and the author of <a rel="noreferrer noopener external" href="https://www.amazon.com/Austerity-Demolition-Welfare-Zombie-Economy-ebook/dp/B00RVXBFWQ" target="_blank" data-wpel-link="external">Austerity: Demolition of the Welfare state and the rise of the zombie economy</a>, published in 2015. <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> We discussed this Twitter thread of hers:<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> THREAD: How we actually beat CummingsStop fact-checking with the belief that establishing holes in his Swiss cheese story is a gotcha. He doesn’t care. It keeps us occupied while he gets as much nefarious shit done as possible, then laughs at us and tosses us another lie— Kerry-Anne Mendoza (@TheMendozaWoman) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheMendozaWoman/status/1265229960693854214?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer">May 26, 2020</a><br> <br> <br> <br> <br> *****<br> <br> <br> <br> It really is good to get feedback from listeners, and to know that there is a growing number of listeners out there, I always appreciate that. And it doesn’t matter to me whether the listeners are ordinary people interested in the world around them, ordinary working stiffs, or whether they are celebrity fans, I’m just happy to know that there is anyone out there at all. I know that some people might be wowed by the rich and the famous, but I try to keep a little more grounded than that… but I have to admit that I had a little frisson of excitement to find out that I have one very well-known fan.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> That’s right folks, you’re listening in the august company of none other than the billionaire financier Dreomt Dseomnd. How do I know that? Because he sent me a fan email. Well, of course he didn’t sent it to me himself, it was sent by Suzanne Mc Nulty, his … legal counsel. And looking over it again it doesn’t come across so much as a fan letter as…<br> <br> <br> <br> Well you see in podcast episode 101 we were talking about housing with Labour Party councillor Alison Gilliland, and in the show notes I referred to what I thought was a pretty good article written by my new best friend Dessie, that’s what I call him, and Dessie listed some excellent suggestions for fixing the housing crisis, and I couldn’t really mention that and just ignore the fact that he was very close to the architect of many of the problems that we have in Ireland to this day, Charlie Haughey.<br> <br> <br> <br> Anyway, this is the email that Suzanne Mc Nulty sent me:<br> <br> <br> <br> I am Mr Dreomt Dseomnd’s legal counsel. Your allegations that “Mr Dseomnd was found by various investigations to have paid large amounts of money, often through secretive bank accounts, to corrupt political figures, and to have falsely claimed that these payments were loans”, are both offensive and defamatory.I request that you immediately remove the offending article from your website and any other media, and publish an apology to Mr Dseomnd in terms to be approved by me making a full unequivocal retraction of these false and defamatory allegations. By way of compensation, Mr Dseomnd would also like you to make a charitable donation of €1,000 to RESPECT.<br> <br> <br> <br> She went on to threaten to sue me if I didn’t comply.<br> <br> <br> <br> The problem there is that the Moriarty Tribunal found that my new BFF Dessie paid huge sums of cash to Haughey and his sidekick PJ Mara, on top of funding the refurbishment of Haughey’s yacht to the tune of IR£75,000, a vast sum at the time that would have bought you a mansion worth in the millions now.<br> <br> <br> <br> The claim that these payments were ‘loans’ is important because if it was true,
