The resignation of Charles Green from his post as Rangers International chief executive last month was more curious for what it wasn’t – a resignation from the board. Green retained his position as a director of the club. This was always likely to have consequences.
BBC report this morning that club chairman, Malcolm Murray, who media outlets loyal to Green reported innuendo against earlier this year, in what was viewed as an attempt to discredit and ultimately remove him, yesterday lost a vote of confidence at a board meeting.
I am certain the vote of confidence was called by Murray himself after he informed the board, including Charles Green, of how he intends to deal with the important matters surrounding the club at this time. In particular, what he plans to do with information received from Pinsent Masons and forensic accountants from Deloitte. The investigation underway by Pinsents and Deloittes is only taking place at the insistence of Murray.
The innuendo against Murray was inappropriate and part of a dirty tricks campaign against the man by those who do not have Rangers best interests at heart [the irony is searing]. The normal reaction to losing a vote of confidence is to resign and let your opponents deal with the consequences of their actions. Murray may feel he has done all he can for the club (or company, if that is how some would like to start calling the entity now). Those who invested in Craig Whyte’s various claims last month will enormously encouraged.
On Friday I’ll be joined by Phil Mac Giolla Bhain and Paul McConville at the Columba Club, Blantyre, for what is certain to be an enjoyable Question and Answer event. Tickets, £5 each, for the Columba Charitable Fund, are available at the door. I’m really looking forward to it. See you there.
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Celtic Football Club @celticfc 5s
Tonight (Tuesday), the young Hoops, who have already clinched the title, entertain Hibs at Firhill. Kick-off 7pm. Free entry for fans. (MH)
Going tonight to watch the young hoops ? Im looking forward to it
blantyretim
12:33 on 7 May, 2013
Peter
Bar will be fully stocked, already asked bar staff to get plenty of Peroni in fridge for Vogue punter…
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Excellent.
That Vogue Punter though, he is dodgy. :))
Are you not sure him and the Giants are not spawn of the Nephilim.
Fallen Angels…..
hehe
Brilliant guys that I am glad are Celts ;) and definitely not Fallen Angels. ;)))
Peter is fine btw. I dinnae think that Pythagoras Theorem was needed on this occasion. :D
Have Celtic got Hoopers replacement in Bangura?
Moonbeams see you atop the huddle
kikin how is the training going for the walk?
This months trail gives a breakdown of the route used
O.G Rafferty.
Well done mate you’ve always been on the money so let the games begin.
Celtic are guaranteed to be seeded in each of their three qualifiers for the Champions League next season http://t.co/G6XXjw0aN9
Via twitter.
I can’t help feeling they haven’t quite got it yet. From hunmedia
Posted Today, 11:31 AM
Setting speculation aside and dealing with what we know
I feel we urgently need an untarnished version of Charlie back to sort this s##t out..
The man travelled the globe and worked every waking hour to get the club back on its feet..
He was never short of a putdown when fighting back..
Very sad that he is no longer at the club given his efforts & dedication to Rangers “regardless of any accusations”
zimmerman
12:42 on 7 May, 2013
Things ain’t going so well for the boys of the old brogue-ade.
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Add any other ade, apart from Mafe to the mix, the Brilliant athlete, and you have the fingerprints of Monsanto (666 English Gematria) all over the food consumption of this World.
Epigenetics.csc?
The tension is killing me :0)
hen1rik
Great news that, bring it on in Europe..
Mo Bangura also sang backing vocals with The View at the Player of the Year bash at the Hilton on Sunday night.
Michael Higdon out-drank The View.
One of these things is true.
” A parcel of Brogues…….”
tomtheleedstim
Surely they must have an Untarnshing Machine down Govan way…
James Doleman @jamesdoleman 1m
RFC share price page appears to be offline. http://www.lse.co.uk/SharePrice.asp?shareprice=RFC …
Bwaaaahhhaaaaa!!
An Dun–those “deserters” pardoned today did not make their decision lightly.In the Spanish Civil war I would have fought for the Republicans, of that there is no doubt. That fight against fascism became world-wide. It was still a fight against fascism. This blog contains many viewpoints, each to be considered on it’s ownn merits. There will be many disagreements, but one of the bravest things I witnessed in N.I. was by a Republican who had done the lot–volunteer,prisoner et al. Alex Maskey laid a wreath at the Cenotaph in Belfast city hall, in an act of respect for brave men. He didn’t have to agree with their politics or religious outlook, just their bravery.
RFC share price page appears to be offline. http://t.co/iyjBZ0GZZZ
Via twitter.
the legend johnny doyle
12:50 on 7 May, 2013
James Doleman @jamesdoleman 1m
RFC share price page appears to be offline. http://www.lse.co.uk/SharePrice.asp?shareprice=RFC …
Bwaaaahhhaaaaa!!
Best me to it :(
You can still get the RFC share price here
http://www.londonstockexchange.com/exchange/prices-and-markets/stocks/summary/company-summary.html?fourWayKey=GB00B90T9Z75GBGBXASQ1
Henrik
Back up again now :(
Free to a good Celtic home,Mothercare pram and matching car seat/baby carrier,mint condition.Liegh Griffiths need not apply.Anyone interested get my email from P67.
Gumtreecsc
A stor mo chroi – Ireland was under threat at that time. Both Germany and England looked at the feasibility of invasion. The fact they decided not to is irrelevant. The men charged with defending the State deserted ! They deserve no pardon.
Their duty was to protect the Irish people, they abandoned the people they swore an oath to protect. Their shame remains.
AN DUN
My uncle was one of those “deserters” to whom you refer.
He fought as a Commando.
Not many cowards amongst them.
And by the way,Nazi atrocities were widely-known well before the outbreak of war.
It was for that reason that the kind offer of peace and you can keep your Empire was declined.
Principles and the knowledge of a just cause.
Much like those you term deserters.
Brogue Traders.
Councillor George Ryan has tweeted saying the application to demolish the school outside Celtic Park + build has been “agreed at committee”.
Boys can I suggest you use londonstockexchange.com – it’s the official stock exchange site – lse is not.
Looks fine there although the shares are in periodic auction call, which I believe means that any orders won’t be carried out immediately but will be added to the order book – though I might have that wrong.
starry plough – i think it got accidentally shredded during a previous “audit”
starry plough
12:47 on 7 May, 2013
hen1rik
Great news that, bring it on in Europe..
Defo mate can’t wait the atmosphere is special on the European nights :)
Ten Men Won the League @ 12 34.
Corleone ..
Population @ 12,000.
Average annual murder rate =14.
You can do guided tours of Corleone and nearby Castello Soprano——-‘ and this is where the Mafia tortured and killed 3 teenagers ‘ etc .
Sad assed tourists can do wee day trips from Palermo. —– eat ice cream in the bar where Mr X had his face and genitalia blown away.etc.
The Mafia will get a percentage of the profits and an annual insurance fee
ASonOfDan
12:58 on
7 May, 2013
Councillor George Ryan has tweeted saying the application to demolish the school outside Celtic Park + build has been “agreed at committee”.
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Hee hee the man you speak of is on CQN just now ;-)
BLANTYRE TIM 1233
Peroni?
Poof juice!
Dont know if has already been posted
http://alzipratu.wordpress.com/
SoT@12:59
Sounds like Ghouls Tours to me.
Watched a BBC2 documentary on ‘Ndrangheta last week. They look + sound just as bad as the Sicilian lot.
Someone managed to sell some Sevco shares at 12:59 and got £37.26 for their efforts.
Some zombies getting treated to a Chinese tonight. lol!
The brogues my father wore no more:)))
The men had become soldiers in World War II but among the details in the file marked confidential are their occupations before they signed up.
They were mostly labourers, but many of the roles are of a different age, a milk server, a butler, a tailor’s apprentice.
It is not a list of honour, compiled under the Irish Republic’s government of 1945, it is a list of those dismissed from the Irish Army for desertion.
The 5,000 men involved left the Irish Army after 1941, WHEN THE THREAT OF INVASION HAD RECEDED
“The problem then was what to do with them when they came back,” explained Tommy Graham, editor of History Ireland.
“Eamon de Valera’s government had to do right by the people who did not desert so they came up with the solution, Emergency Powers Order 362.”
The order banned their employment in all state agencies for a period of seven years and the list was issued to every state body.
“I think in the circumstances it was quite generous treatment,” Tommy Graham said.
“Obviously not pleasant for those who were blacklisted but the alternative was that they would face the rigours of military justice.”
The consequences of the government’s order helped shape Paddy Reid’s life.
“My father’s reasons for deserting the Irish army like thousands of others were low morale, very poor pay, really the boredom part got to them, there was a war going on that they wanted to be part of and he fought for the British Army throughout the Burma campaign into India.”
There was no hero’s welcome on his return to the Irish Republic.
“If a man could not work he could not feed his family and I was born into that environment where there was no work, no food, very poor accommodation,” he said.
But Paddy along with his brothers and sisters were the lucky ones.
“The children of deserters killed in action were put into orphanages, and marked SS to be treated harshly” he added.
The letters SS, stand for ‘saighdiuir sasanach’, meaning English soldier.
“If you had an SS name behind your name as a three-year-old boy or girl you were in for it, you were going to pay for it,” he said.
Stigma
Groups like the Irish Soldiers Pardon Campaign have been calling for a pardon for the soldiers who deserted.
The Republic’s Justice, Equality and Defence Minister, Alan Shatter, has indicated that a pardon is on the way.
“There was a great deal of understandable concern to maintain the integrity of the Irish Defence Forces, desertion from any army at any time is a serious issue,” he said.
“I think now that we are so much further on we have an opportunity to look back on those events, re-evaluate judgements made and where wrong judgements were made to correct them and this is an opportunity to do that.”
It is a move supported by all parties in Northern Ireland’s Assembly.
“This is about repaying a debt and trying to remove the stigma from families that were put in this very difficult position,” said DUP MLA, Peter Weir.
Others are critical of the gesture.
“A pardon implies that the government did something wrong,” Tommy Graham said.
“My suggestion is that they be given an amnesty.
“Jimmy Carter, for example, gave an amnesty to people who dodged the Vietnam draft and allowed them to come home but that black mark against them was still on the record, they were amnestied but not pardoned.”
However, Paddy Reid wants to see justice for his father and others like him.
“It’s too late for many of those men, they’ll never hear it but I think for the children it would mean, yeah, it’s okay to be the descendant of a deserter.
“My father was a good just man, loved in the community, respected in the community; a pardon is not going to make him any different than he was
-from the BBC Feb 2012.
The capitals are mine.
History is like peelin’ an ole onion; layer after layer after layer, and a good chance your eyes will water.
Raymac
12:51 on 7 May, 2013
An Dun–those “deserters” pardoned today did not make their decision lightly.In the Spanish Civil war I would have fought for the Republicans, of that there is no doubt. That fight against fascism became world-wide. It was still a fight against fascism. This blog contains many viewpoints, each to be considered on it’s ownn merits. There will be many disagreements, but one of the bravest things I witnessed in N.I. was by a Republican who had done the lot–volunteer,prisoner et al. Alex Maskey laid a wreath at the Cenotaph in Belfast city hall, in an act of respect for brave men. He didn’t have to agree with their politics or religious outlook, just their bravery.
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An excellent comment.
Really Brave Men are few and far between.
Outstanding comment, I hope people really start to put their Faith in the Lord.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dz2LTIkWIB0
You have no idea what the person that has brought this amazing track to my attention, has gone through.
Never ever doubt people that are hardcore in their belief, nae matter what side they are from.
I’ve been online since the beginning, I loved Gaming, Kingpin, Tactical Ops, Counterstrike and to a lesser extent Battlefield 2 & 3
Philvis makes me a lot more welcome than a lot of Celtic traditionalists.
Every Human, unless you are seduced into a Secret Society, and that is NOT confined to Masonry, loves each other no matter their Politics.
Pi eye.csc
It is Human Nature.
Anyone got the link to the drawings of CP that were up the other day regarding the agreement to demolish old school.
Thanks
HH
St.John.Doyle
Charity begins at home ;)