ARCHITECTURAL INTEGRITY AND SUCCULENT LAND

With the fantastic work of Football Tax Havens blog http://footballtaxhavens.wordpress.com/ and john stevens ‏@pzj_1 growing momentum. I’m going to throw my hat into the ring with this blog.

Like many of my Blogs you will see recently, they have been written originally months ago sometimes even a year. Like this one you are going to read Dear Reader.

It was originally the end of a trilogy of blogs on the Glasgow city council Glasgow life company. The 1st being

IN THIS TIME OF AUSTERITY, DON’T TELL ME GLASGOW CITY COUNCIL WASTED TAX PAYERS MONIES ON ANTI RANGERS PROPAGANDA!

RANGERS TAX CASE UNCOVERED:IN THIS TIME OF AUSTERITY, DON’T TELL ME GLASGOW CITY COUNCIL WASTED TAX PAYERS MONIES ON ANTI RANGERS PROPAGANDA!

and the 2nd

Was the first ministers wife and the Husband of the Leader of the Scottish Labour Party behind the anti Rangers hate fest?

RANGERS TAX CASE UNCOVERED

It is with great sadness dear reader that I write this blog, London Road Primary School was built in 1907.

The school was listed in 1992, and was given a ‘B’ category. It is soon to be demolished to accommodate a retail superstore that will include a museum, theatre, café, ticket sales and offices.

All for the benefit of Celtic Football Club.

Why the Planning Applications Committee should bend over backwards to help Glasgow’s biggest white elephant is anybody’s guess.

Does a white elephant that was barely half full really need, ticket sales and offices? For Christ sake they cant give tickets away for Celtic games.

If anything Celtic park should be downsized

I suppose they will come in handy when Celtic get back in the Champions league group stages, no laughing at the back now.

It should be noted that the school building remains in Glasgow City council ownership, while the remainder of the site belongs to Celtic Football Club.

Nearly 100 years of this east end Landmark’s unbroken history will be bulldozed away with the bang of gavel, the swipe of a pen and the click of a mouse.

All at the behest of the Planning Applications Committee.

Who sat in judgement in Glasgow, on the 7th May in the year of our Lord 2013.

Present on that fateful day were.

James Scanlon (Chair), Dr Nina Baker, Malcolm Balfour, Elizabeth Cameron, Glenn Elder, Jonathan Findlay, Iris Gibson, John Kelly, Russell Robertson, Austin Sheridan, Soryia Siddique, Fariha Thomas, Alistair Watson and Kieran Wild.

Apologies:

Phil Greene and Paul Rooney.

Attending:

L Sclater (Clerk); B Greenock and K McCormack (for the Executive Director of Development and Regeneration Services) A Harrington (for the Chief Executive).

Let’s have a closer look at those who were there that day

James Scanlon, Scottish Labour Party, Ward 8 – Southside Central

who Chaired the meeting did he declare he is a fanatical Celtic fan did he abstain from vote? could it be construed by some people a conflict of interest issue for a fanatical Celtic fan to hold the power of chair at such a meeting?

Soryia Siddique, Scottish Labour Party,Ward 8 – Southside Central

Did she declare that she is on the board of culture and sport Glasgow?

The company that is involved heavily in the Commonwealth games, pretty sure they would like to remove the “carbuncle” of a LISTED building from spoiling the rest of the TESCO-isation of Celtic park.

Would this be considered as a conflict of interest?

Here is Soryia Siddique with Komal Adris at a Labour Friends of Palestine event

Komal Adris has a bit of history of anti-Israel jewish propaganda as reported here in an atricle By Jonathan Kalmus, in June 24, 2010

Israel deports anti-Zionist activist to UK

Komal Adris: deported

A woman from Bolton who claims she was “brutally” locked up by Israeli immigration staff at Ben Gurion Airport for no reason other than wanting a holiday in Israel has been unmasked as a high-profile anti-Israel political campaigner.
She is also behind a website which peddles the claim that Israel harvests human organs and that “the Jews are eating villages”.
Komal Adris told the Bolton News and Asian Image, which runs the UK’s leading Asian news website, she was strip-searched and locked up for 15 hours without access to lawyers, on Tuesday.
She said she had been interrogated for nine hours by Israeli officials after she flew to Tel Aviv from Luton. She was then escorted on a plane back to the UK. She claimed she intended to see the sites of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.
But on the website of the Muslim Public Affairs Committee (MPAC), a vehemently anti-Zionist group, she writes that her “Palestinian summer plans were brutally crushed by Israel’s refusal to let me enter the country”.
Ms Adris, who has headed MPAC’s northern team, is also a key Labour Friends of Palestine executive committee member. In 2002 she campaigned for a motion at Manchester University branding Israel an apartheid regime. Ms Adris said she had told Israeli officials her trip was “just a holiday”, but that they had insisted on making her sign a document confirming she would not travel to the West Bank.
“I told them I have friends in Jerusalem and Bethlehem, I thought it was ridiculous and illegal and I wanted freedom of movement. I have nothing to hide and have been as open as I possibly could be and I found it strange I was held in that criminal manner.”
Ms Adris is also a founder of the lobby group Organ Donor Campaign, which launched in Parliament last year. The website of the organisation, which is not a registered charity, runs a blog linking to news about the Swedish journalist who accused the IDF of killing Palestinian youths to harvest their organs. It also links to the story of a Jewish New Yorker who was arrested for illegal organ transfer, while the anonymous blog quotes a Moldovan man who says “the Jews are eating our villages”.
Ms Adris said that the blog had been written by a medical student volunteering for the organisation, adding: “I absolutely do not condone those comments. We have a good relationship with the Jewish community in Britain, we wouldn’t think about jeopardising that.” She would not confirm whether or not the comments would be removed.

Would Soryia Siddique involvement with unsavoury characters influence her vote in favour of Celtic football club? The only place in Great Britain where not only is Anti British pro Irish terror is not only condoned but actively encouraged but so is Pro Palestinian anti Israel terror?

 

Former Lord Provost Liz Cameron

Liz Cameron – former Chair of Culture and Sport Glasgow Aka Glasgow Life, Glasgow Sport.

Lets read about Bailie Liz Cameron from the excellent Variant article, The New Bohemia by Rebecca Gordon Nesbitt.

Passionate about promoting Glasgow abroad, former Lord Provost, Liz Cameron, travels the world at the city’s expense. This has seen her taking trips to New York, Sri Lanka and Melbourne, the latter of which was undertaken as part of the delegation to secure the 2014 Commonwealth Games for Glasgow. Aside from her work for Glasgow City Council, Cameron works as Vice Chair of Glasgow Cultural Enterprises (the company set up by the council in 1988 to manage various cultural venues, which acts as something of a precedent for CSG) and Glasgow City Marketing Bureau (to be discussed in more detail later). Her connections extend into virtually every aspect of cultural life in Glasgow, while her presence on the planning applications committee ensures that development projects are tailored to fit the city’s priorities.

Read the last line dear Reader was Liz Cameron precence on this board vital? because as it says, “ensures that development projects are tailored to fit the city’s priorities.”

Did she declare her involvement with the delegation to secure the 2014 Commonwealth Games for Glasgow? I’m sure she wouldn’t want an auld carbuncle, and I’m sure shes an expert, offending the eye of the ever increasing Tesco-isation of Parkhead.

Did she declare she was a Celtic fan? would she let that effect her decision with regards to Celtic Football club?

The Scottish Green Party Involvement

 

Dr Nina Baker Ward 10 – Anderston

 

Kieran Wild, Ward 16 – Canal

 

Now the fact that the Scottish Green party are involved in the tearing down of this beautiful architecturally rich listed building disgusts me.

I mean think of the carbon footprint of tearing it done and building a new!

Another thing that should of been of these two friends of the earth was Bats, ironically the subject matter in one of Dr Nina Baker favourite songs.

Read the following from the minutes.
After consideration, the committee conditionally granted planning permission and listed building consent, subject to
(1) Additional conditions to read
(a) “Before any demolition work commences on the site the applicant shall instruct a survey to be carried out by a suitably licensed professional to establish whether bats are present on site, and shall submit this survey to the Planning Authority. Should the presence of bats be established by this survey, the applicant shall simultaneously submit full details of proposed mitigation measures to the Planning Authority to ensure that development on site does not result in an offence under the Conservation (Natural Habitats, &c.) Regulations 1994 (as amended).No demolition works shall commence on the site before the Planning Authority provides formal written approval of the findings of this bat survey, and any required mitigation measures”; and
“No demolition works shall commence on the site before the Planning Authority provides formal written approval of the findings of this bat survey, and any required mitigation measures”

Has the Green Councillors chase this up? Being earth children did they forensically find out if any bats were not molested or disturbed in their habitat?

Maybe Councillor Kieran Wild was to busy crowing about how he was trying to hamper Orange Order marches in Glasgow to Celticminded Journalists and having a right auld LOL at Rangers current predicament?

Seriously could you imagine Could you imagine any Councillor being so proud of stopping other religious marches such as Hindu Muslim or Jewish ones that he would take to social media to crow about it?

 

For you out there a Category B listed building means.

Buildings of regional or more than local importance, or major examples of some particular period, style or building type which may have been altered.

The fact that Scottish ministers at Holyrood approved the demolition of this wonderful old building full of Architectural integrity against the best wishes of Historic Scotland sickens me.

I mean would they do this to other B listed buildings?

St Aloysius’ College, Glasgow

 

Im not sure if that includes the sectarian and racist banner “THE HUNS ARE GOING BUST”

 

St Andrew’s College, Drygrange

 

Where many young men say they were sexually abused by disgraced Cardinal Keith O’Brien

and the H-Blocks 

 

Would these Councillors be so quick to knock down them?

Also a B listed Building is Ibrox Stadi…………. you know what forget what I’ve just said. Wouldn’t want to give them ideas.

BOBBY SANDS, THE PRIEST A “MURDERED” POPE AND A CHILD RAPE SCANDAL

  

Newly-released State Papers from 1981 claim that Bobby Sands offered to suspend his hunger strike just a week before his death.
According to the documents released this morning under the 30-year rule, the offer was conveyed to the British government by the Pope’s Secretary, John Magee.

Government archives in Dublin, Belfast and London opened today, giving new insights into the events of 1981.
The year was dominated by the H-Block hunger strikes in Northern Ireland, in which ten men committed suicide, starting with Bobby Sands.

The papers contain the claim that just a week before his death, Sands offered to suspend his strike for five days, when he met Fr Magee, then secretary to the Pontiff, who later became Bishop of Cloyne.

Fr Magee told Northern Secretary Humphrey Atkins that Sands said he would suspend his strike in return for discussions with a British government official, in the presence of two priests and three other prisoners as witnesses.
The British rejected the offer out of hand, claiming it was an attempt to open negotiations.
Senior Republicans involved in the hunger strike have told RTÉ News they had never heard of such an offer, which they say went against everything Sands did and said during the hunger strike.

WOW! just WOW!

What I have read here goes against every thing that Steve McQueen’s HUNGER has taught me.

HUNGER is a film funded by co-funded by Channel 4, Film4 Productions ironically after funding was turned down by the Irish Film Board.

The film is notable for an unbroken 17-minute shot, which has been mentioned to be one of the greatest film scenes in film history, in which a priest played by Liam Cunningham tries to talk Bobby Sands out of his protest. In it, the camera remains in the same position for the duration of the shot.

This it appears is now according to Government archives in Dublin, Belfast and London a load of “ol BOLLOX” to use a Longkesh phrase.

What? , I hear you cry Dear Reader Channel 4 that esteemed institution Channel 4 who employ such moral guardians as

Stuart Cosgrove

Alex Thomson

Being involved in untruths and propaganda? SURELY NOT?

But that is exactly what Steve McQueens hunger is Propaganda nonsense that sets out to deify a cold blooded killer Brainwashed, sectarian, racially motivated terrorist pawn Bobby Sands.

It is to the struggle what Mel Gibsons BRAVEHEART is to Scottish independence. A politically motivated flight of fancy.

The “Murder” of Pope John Paul I

In his own words, Magee recounted the surrounding events and death of Pope John Paul I, explaining that he found the pope dead in his bed on the morning on 28 September 1978 (Lighthouse Catholic Media, NRP, 2008, entitled “Untold Stories of the Last Three Popes”). While Magee was the first to summon assistance, he explains that the nun who served him coffee each morning was, in fact, the first to discover the pope dead, when she realised he had not opened the door to accept his morning beverage (Lighthouse Catholic Media, NRP, 2008, entitled “Untold Stories of the Last Three Popes”).
In a radio interview in 1990, RTÉ religious affairs correspondent Kieron Wood asked Magee why he had claimed that he found the body of the dead Pope, when it was then public knowledge that the body had been found by a nun. “I did find the body of His Holiness”, he replied. “I just didn’t find it first.”

Sexual abuse scandal in Cloyne diocese

In December 2008, Bishop Magee found himself at the centre of a controversy concerning his handling of child sex abuse cases by clergy in the diocese of Cloyne. There were calls for his resignation, and on 7 March 2009 he announced that at his request the Pope had placed the running of the diocese in the hands of Dermot Clifford, metropolitan archbishop of the Archdiocese of Cashel and Emly, to whose ecclesiastical province the diocese of Cloyne belongs. Magee remained Bishop of Cloyne, but withdrew from its administration in order, he said, to dedicate his full time to the matter of the inquiry. On 24 March 2010 it was announced by the Holy See that Bishop Magee had formally resigned from his duties as Bishop of Cloyne and was now bishop emeritus.

The subsequent report of the Irish government judicial inquiry, The Cloyne Report, published on 13 July 2011, found that former Bishop Magee had falsely told the Government and the HSE in a previous inquiry that the diocese was reporting all allegations of clerical child sexual abuse to the civil authorities.

The inquiry into Cloyne – the fourth examination of clerical abuse in the Church in Ireland – found the greatest flaw in the diocese was repeated failure to report all complaints. It found nine allegations out of 15 were not passed on to the Garda.
Response

Speaking in August 2011 Magee said that he felt “horrified and ashamed” by abuse in his diocese. Magee said he accepted “full responsibility” for the findings. He added that “I feel ashamed that this happened under my watch – it shouldn’t have and I truly apologise,” he said. “I did endeavour and I hoped that those guidelines that I issued in a booklet form to every person in the diocese were being implemented but I discovered they were not and that is my responsibility.”
Magee also offered to meet abuse victims and apologised “on bended knee”. “I beg forgiveness, I am sorry and I wish to say that if they wish to come and see me privately I will speak with them and offer my deepest apology,” he said. Bishop Magee said he had been “truly horrified” when he read the full extent of the abuse in the report. However, the victim said apologies would “never go far enough”. “It’s too late for us now, the only thing it’s not too late for is that maybe there will be a future where people will be more enlightened, more aware and protect their children better,” she said. Asked about restitution for victims, Dr Magee said it was a matter for the Cloyne Diocese.

Sexual abuse in Cloyne diocese

The sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Cloyne was investigated by the Commission of Investigation, Dublin Archdiocese, Catholic Diocese of Cloyne, examining how allegations of sexual abuse of children in the diocese were dealt with by the church and state. The investigation was led by Judge Yvonne Murphy, The Cloyne Report, and published in July 2011.[1] The inquiry was ordered to look at child protection practices in the diocese and how it dealt with complaints against 19 priests made from 1996.

Misrepresentation by Bishop Magee

In February 2008, the Irish Government referred two allegations of child sex abuse to the National Board for Safeguarding Children, an independent supervisory body established by the Irish bishops, led by Mr Ian Elliot. When the chief executive of that body made contact with the diocese on the matter, he was met with lack of co-operation. Meetings held with Bishop John Mageeand representatives of the diocese in March failed to elicit his full co-operation with the National Board for Child Protection’s investigation. As per BBC News, “The report found that Bishop John Magee falsely told the government and the health service that his diocese was reporting all abuse allegations to authorities. It also found that the bishop deliberately misled another inquiry and his own advisors by creating two different accounts of a meeting with a priest suspecting of abusing a child, one for the Vatican and the other for diocesan files”.

Media disclosures

In April 2008, Justine McCarthy, a journalist with the Sunday Tribune, broke the story of the impending scandal in the diocese of Cloyne. There followed a number of hastily arranged meetings between Magee, Monsignor Denis O’Callaghan, (the Vicar General of Cloyne), and Dean Eamon Gould with representatives of the National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church(or Safeguarding for short). These resulted in O’Callaghan handing over documentation concerning the two cases referred by the Irish Government to Safeguarding.

On 28 June 2008, Ian Elliot, the chief executive officer of Safeguarding, completed a damning report on the handling of both cases by Magee, by his delegate for Child Protection, O’Callaghan, and by his inter-diocesan case management committee. The Elliot Report was examined by that case management committee on 9 July 2008, and it adopted a position threatening Elliot and Safeguarding with legal action were they to publish the Report. In the meantime, Elliot passed the report to the Irish Government and to the minister for Children, Barry Andrews who did not read the report but passed it to the Health Service Executive to compile another report on it.

Political recommendations

In December 2008, Deputy Sean Sherlock of the Labour Party raised the matter in the press and demanded a Dáil discussion of the handling of Child Sex Abuse in Cloyne. Further press coverage led to the publication of the Elliott Report by Bishop Magee on 19 December 2008. The contents of the Report were shocking and concluded that Bishop Magee’s actions, and those of his agent’s in this area, were inadequate and in some respects were dangerous.

There followed a chorus of demands for Bishop Magee’s resignation. The demands were renewed in January 2009 with the publication of the HSE Report commissioned by the Minister for Children which uncovered a number of other cases which had not been reported to the authorities or dealt with according to self-regulatory procedures. The Minister rejected a recommendation of the Health Executive Service report that the Cloyne case not be referred to the Dublin Tribunal of Investigation into Child Abuse and, following a Cabinet meeting held on 7 January, he referred Cloyne to the Dublin Tribunal which published a report in November 2009.

Public consequences

It now remains to be seen whether a member of the public will make complaint to An Garda Síochána (Gaelic: Guard of the Peace) against Bishop Magee and/or Monsignor Denis O’Callaghan under the terms of the Criminal Justice Act 2006 which provides for a new offence of reckless endangerment of children. This came into effect on 1 August 2006.

This offence may be committed by a person who has authority or control over a child or an abuser and who intentionally or recklessly endangers a child by:

Causing or permitting any child to be placed or left in a situation which creates a substantial risk to the child of being a victim of serious harm or sexual abuse or failing to take reasonable steps to protect a child from such a risk while knowing that the child is in such a situation. This offence may be prosecuted only by the Director of Public Prosecutions. The penalty is a fine (no upper limit) and/or a maximum of 10 years imprisonment.

Apologies

In January 2009, Magee apologised to victims of clerical sex abuse after a report compiled by the Health Service Executive (HSE) found his diocese had put children at risk of harm through an “inability” to respond appropriately to abuse allegations. In spite of “a large number of calls for his resignation” the Bishop signalled his intention to remain.

Further analysis in January 2009 suggested that the bishop and diocese staff were sparing with details of allegations, and that Bishop Magee might have to resign, but also that the Irish government had not yet legislated for all the improvements in the law of evidence that were called for in the Ferns Report of 2005.

Intervention by Rome

On 7 March 2009 Pope Benedict appointed Archbishop Dermot Clifford of Cashel and Emly as apostolic administrator of the Cloyne diocese, though Bishop Magee remained Bishop in title. Bishop Magee requested that the Pope take this action on 4 February. Bishop Magee said that he would use the time to “devote the necessary time and energy to cooperating fully with the government Commission of Inquiry into child protection practices and procedures in the diocese of Cloyne”. In accordance with canon law, an apostolic administrator is named for an open-ended interim period. Bishop Magee’s resignation was formally accepted by the Vatican on 24 March 2010.

Judicial Inquiry report, July 2011

Due to the success of the 2009 Murphy Report, a judicial inquiry into the sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic archdiocese of Dublin, the same team was reappointed to investigate allegations surrounding the diocese of Cloyne. Its remit included investigating the state’s health and policing practices as well as the Church itself. Judge Murphy’s Inquiry issued its report on 13 July 2011. The findings of fact included that:

Two-thirds of abuse allegations made in 1996–2009 were not passed on to the Garda, as required by the Church’s 1996 guidelines
In a secret letter the Vatican described the Irish bishops’ 1996 guidelines to be a “study document”, and not a binding set of rules
Bishop Magee had misled the former inquiries by the Health Service Executive (HSE) in 2009
An accusation against Bishop Magee himself was dismissed; another 18 priests were named using pseudonyms
Taoiseach and other reaction

On 20 July 2011 Taoiseach Enda Kenny criticised the Vatican, deploring “the dysfunction, disconnection and elitism that dominates the culture of the Vatican to this day” The Vatican reacted “to evidence of humiliation and betrayal … with the gimlet eye of a Canon lawyer[, a] calculated, withering position.” He also told the Dáil that “the historic relationship between church and state in Ireland could not be the same again. The rape and torture of children were downplayed or ‘managed’ to uphold instead the primacy of the institution, its power, standing and reputation.”
In a televised interview, Archbishop Diarmuid Martin deplored a “cabal” in the Church that still refused to recognise Vatican rules on child protection.

Alan Shatter, the Minister for Justice and Equality, said that “.. it is difficult to read the Cloyne Report and avoid despair. ..The report’s findings are unambiguous. It is severely critical of the Diocese of Cloyne. The diocese’s response to complaints and allegations of child sexual abuse in the period from 1996 up to 2008 was totally inadequate and inappropriate.”
Head of the Holy See Press Office Federico Lombardi, speaking on a personal basis, said it was “.. somewhat strange to see the Vatican criticised so heavily”. Regarding the 1997 letter that suggested that the 1996 bishops’ child protection guidelines amounted only to a “study document”, he added that “There is no motive to interpret the letter in the way it has been, as an attempt to cover up cases of abuse. There is nothing in the letter which suggests not respecting the laws of the land.”

The Cloyne diocese commented that the 11 priests considered abusive in recent decades worked among 415 priests about whom no complaints were made.

 

RANGERS TAX CASE UNCOVERED

Lennon’s land deal Lawyer’s  (You know the one with Julian Dowes the man who got his housed seized in IRA Money Laundering probe that the Scottish press decided not to report) Strange Rangers Tax case obsession.

 

Professor Leo Martin

Professor Leo Martin is co-Director of the Diploma in Legal Practice and the Professional Competence Course at STRATHCLYDE UNIVERSITY.

He is responsible for tutor recruitment and training, and liaises with the profession with regard to these courses. He teaches Conveyancing on the Diploma, and has designed project-based resources for online learning in his subject. He teaches Ethics on the Professional Competence Course, and has written and teaches on a two-day Conveyancing elective on the Professional Competence Course.

let me first, start by informing you dear reader of the great christian work that this man does with St. Margaret’s Hospice win Roman Catholic nun Sister Rita

A hospital where incidentally, Rangers hater and publicly outed liar, as seen on national TV, Graham Spiers father the reverend Baptist minister Spiers spent his last days on this earth.

No doubt it gave them a dignified and peaceful sanctuary to share stories of the mighty, and very much still alive Glasgow Rangers. How they tied scarfs round each others wrists and walked up the Edmiston Drive. How they sneaked cans of top deck shandy into Ibrox in the hems of their flares.

But Baptist minister Spiers isn’t the only man of the cloth to spend their last days at St. Margaret’s Hospice,oh no

Former Knight Commander of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre Mgr. James McShane stayed there until his death in December 2012 and had his funeral St. Margaret’s, Clydebank where Archbishop Tartaglia was principal concelebrant, with Archbishop Emeritus Mario Conti also present, and a large number of Mgr. McShane’s fellow priests.

Among the congregation were many staff members from St. Margaret’s Hospice, led by Sr. Rita the Chief Executive and Prof. Leo Martin the Chairman, Knights and Dames of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre and local politicians.

I wonder if the Lunny clan paid their respects? or if former Glasgow Lord provost, alcoholic, assaulter and house breaker Alex Mosson seen here being inducted into the the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre by the disgraced Cardinal O’Brien

was in attendance?

That is why I find Professor Leo Martin a rather complex individual a man of duality a Jekyll and Hyde type of character because as you will see dear reader for all his christian endeavors the majority of the limited people he follows on Twitter are totally contrary to the Christian ethos.

They are bigoted spiteful sectarian very judgmental and certainly dont turn the other cheek when the mighty Glasgow Rangers are involved. they certainly don’t take out the plank from their eyes before taking the splinter out of yours christian typeslets have a

look at this roll of “honour”

As you can see dear reader, not the type of Christians full of the milk of human kindness and love for their fellow men.

Not even Angela Haggerty!

At the time of these screenshots and the were a while ago he was following round 200

Now that’s a lot of internet bampots and sectarian brush tarred bigots for a professional man to follow

In his workings at STRATHCLYDE UNIVERSITY Professor Martin is joined in teaching by Donnie Munro, Partner and Head of the Business Advisory department of Harper MacLeod LLP.

Donnie Munro of Harper Macleod, a senior tutor on the University of Strathclyde postgraduate Diploma in Professional Legal Practice,  received the Chairman’s Award for his contribution to family businesses. Professor Leo Martin, Director of Professional Legal Practice Courses commented

“We are delighted that Donnie has received this award not least because it was in no small part a recognition of the first ever Family Business focused course for lawyers in the United Kingdom that Donnie authored and leads for the new Diploma. All of our students who elected to take the course were impressed by the breadth of legal skills intertwined in the course which came about through Donnie’s vision. Well done!”

Prof Leo Martin of Strathclyde University put forward a tongue-in-cheek suggestion that lawyers follow the early career footballer transfer fee arrangement that may assist to combat against smaller firms who provide training from losing their newly-qualified lawyers to the larger firms, or at least recompenses their commitment to legal education which benefits the profession as a whole.

Prof Leo Martin is in business with ex Celtic player Brian O’Neil in a company called CLEAR SPORTS MANAGEMENT LIMITED which appears to be a sports management Agency type business. I wonder how up to speed they are with EBT’s and dual contracts?

For all those that don’t know Brian O’Neil lets have a look at his work

Brian O’neil is very opinionated on those very subjects on his twitter site and infact about all things Rangers

Another thing I would like to pick the brains of Professor Leo Martin is on his specialist subject, his field, his specialty Conveyancing 

For those that don’t know Conveyancing is the transfer of legal title of property from one person to another, or the granting of an encumbrance such as a mortgage or a lien.

This man could solve the Timmy myth about who owns Rangers once and for all! Or indeed he can dispel what football tax havens blog and  john stevens @pzj_1 on twitter who say Celtic Park is owned by the Co-op bank?

I would also like to pick Professor Leo Martin on the whole administration, Liquidation thing as he has been at the coal face of it with Gretna as he was Rowan Alexander lawyer.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/2321135/Rowan-Alexander-may-issue-Gretna-with-writ.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-473137/Gretna-Premier-League-debut-marred-manager-rumpus.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/g/gretna/6933265.stm

Also I thing I find interesting in his list of followers is a Mr Peter Martin. Is he related? he dosnt just interact with Peter on twitter he has met him in real life. Seen here in a picture with Nicky Quinn  Ladbrokes Area Manager taken just days before Ian Black was indicted by SFA on betting charges.

But he cant be related because if a poster on Rangers media is to be believed

http://forum.rangersmedia.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=33294

Peter Martins real surname is Maguire and had to change it cause he did VERY Celticminded road shows across Lanarkshire under the banner of ‘the biggest tim in Newarthill’ I can neither confirm or deny this?

Lets see a bit of Peter Martin/Maguire in action.

Finally Professor Leo Martin is not just a professional friend to Celtic Manager he is a close friend and seen on many occasions with Neil.

I wonder if Professor Leo Martin professional expertise influenced Neil Lennon when Rangers were found not guilty on all of the charges they faced?

“I will see what the commission finds and, if they are found to have broken the rules, then they should be stripped of their titles,”

“It will not change what has gone on in the past but I suppose there will be a sort of moral victory in that respect.”

“It is not going to change my life now, by any stretch of the imagination, but it would be good to be changed for historical reference,”

“I can’t get that title or feeling back and it won’t make a huge dent on my life from here on in. It would be a lot better on my CV, though. I wouldn’t want the medals – just the recognition. That would be enough.”

“At that time, though, it might have cost players contracts, bonuses, managers their jobs and might have relegated teams,”

“There are so many ripple effects to it. Again, you go back to the integrity of the game. Was it there? If not, then it should be investigated. That is all we ask for. We are in the game for the glory and then the money comes with it.

“The more successful you are, the more money you get but when you are a kid growing up all you want to do is to play football for a big club and to win things. That never changes.”

Earlier, Celtic manager Neil Lennon was guarded over whether Rangers enjoyed a competitive advantage over alleged undisclosed payments.

And from the BBC website http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/21633595

“I believe they were found guilty of paying £47m over 11 years in non-disclosed payments,” Lennon said.

He declined to share his “own views” on whether they enjoyed a competitive advantage.

“I will save that for another time,” the Celtic manager added.

Asked if the Ibrox club should feel vindicated by not having titles stripped, he said: “They probably feel they’ve got their own way”.

“It wasn’t our fight, it was the SPL, they brought up the tribunal against Rangers, it doesn’t affect us. We have the quarter-final to prepare for and we’re playing Juventus in the last 16 of the Champions League, we’re not renting out a training ground.”

The Celtic manager added: “I don’t want to take anything away from what my team and club are doing.

“The way we behave, the way we do our business has been impeccable and that’s the reason why we are in the position we are in now.”

Dry your eyes mate! there might be a few Investigations into Celtic coming your way that you might win!