Who else were at #golfgate?
John Sweeney and his wife Treena were at the dinner they sat at table 5 along with supreme court judge Seamus Woulfe, Fianna Fail Senator Paul Daly, Bernie Daly, the Ambassador of Morocco, former Labour Senator Lorraine Higgins and Maura O Connor
Brian Hayes the head of the Banking Payments Federation of Ireland was beside them at the next table
The Stationhouse Hotel was once owned by
John & Treena Sweeney with Hugh Duffy company name Blackshore holdings which went into liquidation with debts of almost €400 million.
That doesn't stop the likes of John Sweeney.
He is now a director of Sea Strand Properties along with James Sweeney , which secured planning permission last year to develop a €32m 172-room hotel property on Amiens Street in Dublin.
These people are untouchable.
John Sweeney has a long history of debt & court judgements against him
His company Blackshore holdings owned a large fuels business named Sweeney oil d several hotels including a stake in the Shelbourne, Marriott Courtyard Galway , Station House Marriott in, Co Meath.
The High Court restricted Sweeney, Treena & Hugh Duffy of BlackShore Holdings from being company directors for 5 years.
In 2010 Bank of Ireland believed Sweeney may have attempted to hive off funds that were due to the bank under a €10 million judgment against him
Justice John Edwards granted to the bank ex parteinjunctions restraining Mr Sweeney from reducing his assets below €10 million and directing him to disclose all assets in which he has an interest in Ireland
He also had a judgement for €2.7million over an unpaid loan