Brinks - Who is Watching the Security Industry?

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Thursday November 01, 2007 09:51

by Domhain Sceadaman - The Plain People of Ireland

The Langley Lackies have bitten off more than they can chew

I cam across this tale whilst having coffee in leafy D4, in the Baggot Street area and this tied in with something that I had heard a few weeks ago in that Palace of Epicurian Delights the Embassy Grill in Ballsbridge.

The story is about corporate greed, arogance and "murky stuff" which links back to the rendition flights out of Shannon.

When having coffee in D4, or should I say D$, recently I heard about a lad who was having a problem with a client company who would not pay its bills. Fair enough you say, it happens every day. But this is a tale with a difference. The lad concerned is a marketing and pr consultant called Gerry Creechan. The company the have "done the dirty" on him are not members of the legal profession that have "borrowed" the deeds to his house to raise funds for speculative house building, but are a "security company" which the major banks in Ireland use to carry our cash from bank to bank.

This lad, Gerry Creechan, went to see if Brinks would supply services to his new venture, but what seems to have happened is that they offered him a handsome consultancy assignment, then stole his idea. Needless to say they did not even pay his fee.

The tale might have ended there but Brinks did not realise just who they were trying to mess arround with. Gerry, it seems, is quite a creative individual. He knew that spending 200,000 euro on legal fees was probably a waste of time so he created a project called MuchRobbed. The project has a website called www.muchrobbed.com and a blog www.muchrobbed.blogspot.com The sites are a complete satire of a security company and the core of the Muchrobbed Project is a film and a computer game called Brinkmanship.

Yesterday a friend told me to have a look at www.gerrycreechan.com It would seem that the lad has put all of the documentation about his dealings with Brinks on the net!!! Not only that he is now talking to the US "ambulance chasing" law firm Milberg Weiss.

On hearing this I scratched my head. A few weeks ago I heard a tale about the same Brinks company from some lads who hang out at the Embassy Grill in Ballsbridge. Years ago our "friends" in Langley used US companies like IBM and Coca-Cola to conceal some of thier "in Country" operatives. The so called "war on terror" has led to the boys with the short haircuts extending thier "portfolio" of "associates" to include Brinks as well as the obvious companies such as Blackwater.

We could be set for a real fireworks party on this one. This lad, Gerry, has impecible republican credentials. I asked arround and apart from his grandfathers, who were both volunteers, his grandmother, from Derry, was a tenatious individual, and his inspiration during his formative years.

Lets see if we can help this lad. In return lets ask him if he knows anything about the "Shannon Connection" and Brinks.

Slan

Domhain Sceadaman