The news that auctioneers Sherry Fitzgerald are to increase their commission rates by 50% is outrageous. Unfortunately, it is also to be entirely expected from a profession of such cowboys. Their colleagues in the industry claim they won’t follow suit, but I wouldn’t hold my breath! Back in February, IPAV lobby’s chief executive Fintan McNamara …
Monthly Archive
for: ‘May, 2007’
Saddam Hussein Would Be Envious of Democracy CRH-Style
About four hundred well-heeled shareholders showed up for the CRH AGM bang in the centre of Ballsbridge recently. They were ducking no one. The board was on parade. The contrast with the attendance at the recent EBS annual meeting could not have been starker. EBS members look less prosperous, more downtrodden mainly because they are. …
Bertie’s Finest Hour… Shame He Couldn’t Detach Himself From The Developers For It
It was Bertie’s day in the sun. Behold the Taoiseach, applauded by priests and poets, by businessmen and actors, by princesses and prime ministers. Up there in the Royal Gallery of the Palace of Westminster, it was Bertie’s finest hour. His predecessors as guests of honour in the holiest of parliamentary holies included Boris Yeltsin, …
AIB AGM last Wednesday… Missed It? You probably DID!
What a happy day last Wednesday promised to be. Two big AGMs were in the diary. Possible fireworks at AIB’s annual whitewash, and maybe a bit of mischief at cement giant CRH’s bash. A tempting binge of board baiting beckoned. So I rang AIB to find out the time of its shareholder meeting. And where …