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South Wales Guardian
33 minutes ago
- Sport
- South Wales Guardian
Inisherin fine after Newmarket frustration
Owned by Sheikh Mohammed Obaid, the four-year-old was 17-2 to register a second Group One success in the Newmarket feature before being withdrawn at the start on veterinary advice, with the Yorkshire-based handler appearing frustrated in the aftermath. However, Ryan reported last year's Commonwealth Cup hero to be 100 per cent and is now looking ahead to the future – which could include a trip to Deauville for the Prix Maurice de Gheest or a move up to seven furlongs for York's newly upgraded Group One City of York Stakes on August 23. 'Inisherin is fine, he's perfect,' said Ryan. 'He spread a plate and they withdrew him, but it's past tense and gone now. 'He's in the Group One at York and he's also got the option of the Prix Maurice de Gheest, but I'll discuss what we do with Sheikh Mohammed Obaid nearer the time.' A trip to France on August 10 would represent Inisherin's first outing on foreign soil, while he is as short as 8-1 with Paddy Power for success closer to his handler's Hambleton home and at a track he made a winning reappearance over a shorter distance earlier in the season.
Irish Independent
12 hours ago
- Business
- Irish Independent
Succession crisis fears as SMEs are warned they 55pc tax risk if business is sold to management
Entrepreneurs selling to management can be hit with tax bills worth up to 55pc of the sale value, as the Revenue Commissioners can treat this as a dividend for the owner, according to Una Ryan, international tax partner at Grant Thornton Ireland. Sales to private equity or larger trade rivals are charged capital gains tax (CGT) of 33pc, with the potential for further reliefs. The certainty over tax can make this exit route more attractive for owners. Ryan warned confusion and uncertainty over the tax treatment of certain exits could lead to a succession crisis at SMEs, particularly among companies wanting to sell to their management teams. While private equity and large trade sales can mean a chunky payday for SME owners, Ryan said many of her clients were eager to ensure their businesses stayed with management when they retire. 'The management team are invested in the company, they see it as their company and they want what is best for the company in the long-term,' she said. 'A private equity play is, get in, make as much money as possible, and get out. They have a three-to-five-year life-cycle. 'My client portfolio consists of an awful lot of owner-managers and family-owned businesses. Nobody lives forever. Everyone is always looking at retirement or future planning, and how they exit from their company. 'A lot of them see their business as their babies,' she adds. 'So, they want to keep it with a steady ship.' If you buy back an employee's shares, it is treated as a distribution, meaning it is income Grant Thornton Ireland is asking the Government to change how sales to management teams are treated in this year's Budget. The firm is seeking to ensure these exits are CGT events, with certainty provided by legislation to avoid the risk of a huge income tax bill for sellers. Ryan also recommended changes to the tax treatment of employees with shares in SMEs versus those at listed multinationals. 'If employees get shares in owner-managed businesses or family businesses, there is no market for them in the same way as if someone is working in one of the large multinationals. 'So, under first principles in Irish law, if you buy back an employee's shares, it is treated as a distribution, meaning it is income. That is leading to the point again that if that employee is fully exiting and selling their shares, why shouldn't it be treated as a CGT event? 'If there is a similar employee in a listed multinational and they are retiring and they sell their shares, and they are selling it on the market, then they get CGT treatment.'
Irish Daily Mirror
12 hours ago
- Politics
- Irish Daily Mirror
Ashling Murphy's partner says he'll "never want to rule out" career in politics
The boyfriend of murder victim Ashling Murphy says he's considered a career in politics - as he also opens up about dealing with his unimaginable grief. In the third and final part of our exclusive podcast interview which we are serialising today, Ryan Casey revealed he's thought about entering the world of politics - following a legal battle with the BBC over remarks made about his victim impact statement. 'I've always been interested in politics. Always have been since a very young age. I was always obsessed with American politics and then going to a little more Irish politics as time went on, I started realising what's going on. 'Did I ever see myself doing it ? No. But I'd be lying if I said I didn't consider it for the last election cycle.' Ryan, 27, last week settled a defamation case against the BBC, which issued a statement that it did not consider him to be 'racist' or someone who was being held up as a 'hero of the far right' through his victim impact statement. It also stated it was 'happy to clarify' it does not consider Mr Casey to be 'someone guilty of, or attempting to, incite hatred'. The statement came after journalist Kitty Holland was a guest on the BBC's 'The View' programme and stated that she believed some elements of his victim impact statement were 'incitement to hatred' and that Ryan was 'being held up as a hero of the far right'. Ryan, who has views on a number of issues, says he had been approached about running in the last election - but he wasn't in the right headspace at the time. 'At the time I wanted to do it, a lot of people wanted me to do it. But you know, in hindsight looking back, I wasn't in the right mental state, you know, it was more out of anger and if I was to do it now, it would be more, I suppose, of a natural progression. Better judged. 'I'll never want to rule it out, completely. But we'll see how things go. I'm not entirely happy with a lot of people, the way things are going.' Ryan, who told us earlier in the interview that he was not 'far right' or 'anti immigrant,' says he's considered using his harrowing experience for good - and he doesn't want it to go to waste. 'It's obviously come about due to horrendous circumstances. Did I ever want this? No. Did I ever want to be sitting here today? No I didn't. 'But... if you can, I suppose, now, use this to do some good to help people, why not? And what I'm going to do exactly, I don't know, and maybe nothing will happen. But I suppose it would be a shame for me to let it slip, and maybe if I can do some good and maybe help some people, maybe help things on a wider scale - why not?' The grieving young man also opened up about his process for dealing with grief - and how his father Ned gave him valuable advice that helped get him through the unimaginable tragedy. 'I will say, don't get me wrong, it will be the roughest time of my life. You do wonder yourself thinking on your darkest days, how the hell am I even sitting here today? How do you get through it? I'm not going to beat around the bush either. We have an amazing family, we're so lucky. Some people in these situations we're in mightn't be so lucky. At the end of the day, your only tool is to lean on each other,' he said. 'I've two parents and they're just amazing people. I don't know where I'd be only for them.' Speaking about his mindset in the days and weeks after Jozef Puska brutally murdered the love of his life in January 2022, Ryan said: 'I was not in a good headspace for quite some time. I might be sitting here talking to you today and able to hold a conversation, but it wasn't always like this the last three and a half years. You have to have the mindset - for Ashling, and for your family as well. You have to go on,' he said. 'My Dad brought me for a walk in the very early stages and he told me something that stuck with me even to this day. He was worried, as you would be. I wasn't in a good head space. He said something that will always stick with me. He said: 'Ryan, that guy (Puska) is after taking so much from you and from all of us. Don't let him take any more. ''Use that as your internal fire that you need to burn to get back on track'. That was something that kind of hit me at the time.' Ryan is now actively involved in the incredible charity - the Ashling Murphy Memorial Fund - which gives back to the community and also involves her parents and siblings. He also plays golf, darts, and keeps fit as he works towards a better future - living with the grief. 'It was an accumulation of things. I started working out and eating healthy you know and I'm a firm believer in that now, what you put into your body is highly important for your mood. 'People do ask how you get through it, you just have to find that inner resilience,' Ryan said. 'There's still life out there.' The Irish Mirror's Crime Writers Michael O'Toole and Paul Healy are writing a new weekly newsletter called Crime Ireland. Click here to sign up and get it delivered to your inbox every week
Irish Daily Mirror
2 days ago
- Irish Daily Mirror
'He is evil' - Jozef Puska grinned at Ashling Murphy's boyfriend during trial
The boyfriend of murder victim Ashling Murphy has revealed how he had to restrain himself in court as her 'evil' killer Jozef Puska locked eyes with him and smiled. In the second part of our exclusive interview an emotional Ryan Casey told of how remorseless murderer Puska stared and smirked at him and the family throughout his November 2023 trial. 'You just watched this before your eyes and you think this guy's pure evil. And he is evil. I firmly believe it. I made eye contact with him the first day we came in and I never saw such evil in anyone's eyes in my life. Those grey eyes,' Ryan said. 'He'd look over at us, he'd make eye contact and he'd grin his little teeth. Just nasty little things. Not an ounce of remorse. Unless you're in the courtroom you don't see that I suppose.' Brave Ryan, who spoke exclusively to the podcast, 'Shattered Lives,' told how he found himself having to leave the courtroom on several occasions - as he couldn't contain his anger over Puska's brazen arrogance. Watch the full interview below 'To sit there and look at a guy like that for six weeks knowing what he's done to your partner. Don't get me wrong there were a couple of times, you probably saw it, where I had to get out of there. I'll be honest with you, me and my Dad, we had to get out of there. We didn't trust ourselves,' he revealed. 'We didn't want to jeopardise what the gardai had worked so hard to put together, what was a very strong and robust case. I'd be lying to you and everyone if I was to sit here and say I was able to keep things under control. It was very hard. Especially when he's so close.' Ryan opened up about having to sit through the most harrowing evidence of the six week trial - with the jury and family members having to hear of how Puska stalked Ashling as she went for her run along Grand Canal Way in Cappincur, just outside of Tullamore, Co Offaly on January 12, 2022. They heard graphic evidence of how the psychotic killer knifed Ashling 11 times in the neck in broad daylight - and saw shocking CCTV of him stalking multiple women on his bike ahead of the killing. 'Looking back at it now, we actually went into court and the immediate aftermath of it not prepared for what we were about to sit through,' Ryan told us. 'There's another element to it too, that took a lot of us off guard - how the human element of it was removed. It was very factually based and evidence based. A lot of the human side of it was taken out of the question. That was one thing that was hard to accept at the beginning. It was just very matter of fact and it's cold. It's tough to sit through that for six weeks,' he said. And he told us why it was important for him and the rest of the family - including Ashling's parents, sister and brother, to be there for the entire trial. 'I guess it was important for a sense to bring some sort of humanity into the courtroom. We wanted to be there and represent the person they're discussing. I think it's important, you know, to find that inner strength and to sit there. You know to be there and show to him (Puska) who's sitting five or six metres away from you, we ain't going anywhere. We know exactly what you done to her. A lot of it was about defiance but God damn it was tough to listen to.' Ryan told us he was 'definitely not prepared' to hear the horrific details of the murder itself, but he says he found the strength to be there for Ashling. 'I was definitely not prepared for that part. That was tough. It was just one of those things. It just felt like you had to be there for it. And I don't know, you have to dig deep and show a bit of defiance. Show him and his family members who sat down the back and supported him, how the hell can ye guys support him and what he's done. You want to sit through this and support him after this?" Ryan also spoke about having to sit through Puska taking the witness stand - where he provided an 11th hour new story in which he sensationally claimed he interrupted the real killer - and tried to 'help' Ashling. 'It was embarrassing and it was just downright disgraceful that he thought he could even spin something the way in which he tried to spin it and it just sums him up in my opinion - to drag a family through that knowing what he's done and to try and spin a ludicrous story like he tried to pull. It's crazy stuff,' Ryan said. 'It was infuriating. It was so disrespectful and it just sums him up. Anyone that sat in that courtroom knew, not even, it didn't even have to go past a week, a lot of people knew. In my mind I wasn't afraid that he wouldn't get the verdict we were looking for. (But) verdicts and justice are two different things I suppose. How do you get justice for that really? There's no real justice in a case like this." Puska is now serving a life sentence in the Midlands Prison - and for Ryan, he hopes he stays there - though he has considered if he'd prefer he'd been deported back to Slovakia. 'There's part of me that thinks keep your enemies close and keep him here under our supervision. Then you see the cost to the State,' he said. Asked if he had any message for Puska or for the family members who stood by him throughout his trial Ryan said: 'I've nothing to say to them. He was just a good for nothing low life who had nothing going on for himself and what he done that day and why he done it I don't know. I don't think we'll ever know. He's just a good for nothing coward really. And I'm not afraid to say it, the family that stood by and supported him and continues to support him, what are they made of? 'If and when the time comes, who knows what the future has in store for us all, I just know if I had a child some day and they came to me and said I've committed such a crime - I'd be the first person to drag you to the garda station, sit you down there and say I never want to see you again if you done what you said you done. How can they support that? 'They sat through that trial as well after listening to all the evidence as well. Come on. Is that what you really want in our society too?' This month it also emerged that two of Jozef Puska's brothers who were convicted in connection with their actions following the murder, will not be appealing their convictions. Lubomir Puska Jr, 38, and Marek Puska, 36, along with their wives Viera Gaziova, 40, and Jozefina Grundzova, 32, are all set to be sentenced in October after a jury accepted the prosecution's case that the brothers misled gardaí by failing to disclose crucial and vital information when they gave witness statements, while their wives burned Jozef's clothes to impede his arrest or prosecution. The Irish Mirror's Crime Writers Michael O'Toole and Paul Healy are writing a new weekly newsletter called Crime Ireland. Click here to sign up and get it delivered to your inbox every week Meanwhile Jozef Puska's wife Lucia Istokova, 36, had pleaded guilty to withholding information from gardaí investigating the murder. But Ryan says he does not ultimately care that the brothers are not appealing - and says the family members were convicted thanks to overwhelming evidence. 'They've been found guilty so to be honest with you I don't care what they do. The evidence was there and it was cut and dry. I don't think there's anything wrong with me discussing this. They tried to conceal it. They've been found guilty of that. Is that really the people we want walking around our streets?' he said. The heartbroken young man also opened up about how he wants Ashling - who was a talented musician and beloved teacher, to be remembered. 'I want her to be remembered as a person who embodied everything that's good about Ireland. She was interested in culture and the arts, was a very talented musician and she loved giving back to her community. A very loving person, very caring person, very unselfish person," he said. "She would always go out of her way, would always put herself last. Never liked the spotlight. Just a very giving loving nurturing person. Loved her family, she loved children. She'd work all week. She'd come home, she'd teach Friday night and then she'd teach all day Saturday from nine to seven in the evening. "That was her way of giving back but she also did it because she loved kids."
West Australian
2 days ago
- Sport
- West Australian
West Coast Eagles forward Liam Ryan misses training session with soreness ahead of Port Adelaide Power clash
There is a cloud over West Coast premiership star Liam Ryan ahead of the club's clash with Port Adelaide on Sunday. Ryan missed the Eagles' training session at Adelaide's Henley High School on Saturday morning and remained at the team hotel to receive treatment. It comes after the club's intriguing decision to bring a 25-man squad to South Australia for the match at Adelaide Oval, including small forward Noah Long. He trained fully on Saturday and is the likely inclusion if Ryan misses the clash with the Power. Long kicked three goals in last week's WAFL victory over Subiaco to stake his claim on a spot. Ryan battled a hamstring problem during pre-season and missed the Eagles' round one clash, but the only other game he has missed this season was the round four defeat to Greater Western Sydney through illness. Key forward Jack Williams, who was dropped from the side but is travelling as an emergency, also trained with the group. Backline pair Tom Cole and Rhett Bazzo have been recalled to Andrew McQualter's side, alongside Matt Owies after his four-goal haul in the WAFL. The concern over Ryan comes with veteran Tim Kelly at home in Perth. Kelly will play in the WAFL against West Perth on Saturday night after it was revealed he had asked to play reserves as a midfielder, rather than facing Port Adelaide as the substitute. West Coast had been slated to train at West Adelaide's Hisense Stadium, but a week of rain in South Australia and heavy load on the ground meant they were shifted. It is not forecast to rain again until the hours before the Eagles' clash with Port Adelaide, which should limit the impact of tonight's rugby union clash between the British and Irish Lions and AUZ invitational team at Adelaide Oval.
