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Irish Daily Mirror
2 days ago
- Business
- Irish Daily Mirror
Gareth Sheridan says Sean Gallagher's circle launched 'coordinated attack'
Presidential hopeful Gareth Sheridan has slammed people in his former business associate Sean Gallagher's circle, saying 'a coordinated attack' on his character is taking place. The 35-year-old multimillionaire from Dublin officially launched his campaign in The Shelbourne's Constitutional Room today. Mr Gallagher - who himself was a presidential candidate in 2011 - was the chairman of Mr Sheridan's pain relief company Nutriband from 2017 until 2022. The 6'7 tall hopeful extraordinarily opened his campaign with a scathing attack against what he described as some people in his former colleague's circle. He said: 'There seems to be somewhat of a coordinated attack taking place on my character by people associated and in Sean Gallagher's circle. 'I'm not saying that Sean is behind this or involved in any way. Some of you in the room know what I am talking about, that's all I will say on that. 'I wish Sean nothing but the best on whatever he is working on now, I would just like to be upfront and make sure you are aware of the situation we are facing." Mr Sheridan said his team have been receiving 'copy and pasted question lists' from various media outlets so 'something seems a little off'. He added: 'We have it on good authority that people in that circle have been involved in some way and there are people in this room aware of that themselves." However, when asked what he believes the motive is behind the alleged muddying of his campaign, he said: 'That's not an answer I have'. During his launch, Mr Sheridan confirmed that he has $16m in shares of his company, and €500k in cash. He will be paying for his presidential campaign himself, which is not a small cost. In the 2011 election, the seven candidates spent over €2.3m. The highest spending candidate was Fine Gael's Gay Mitchell whose campaign cost €527,000. Asked what his budget is for his potential run, Mr Sheridan said: 'The budget that is to be seen, you talked about €500k, on a personal level that is what I have available to me. '(My wife) Heidi and I discussed in depth that we are willing to fund this campaign from our savings because we take it very seriously." The tall Dubliner has not yet gotten his name on the ballot. He will have to be nominated by four county councils. This is not an easy feat as the most powerful parties - Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil - will be backing their own candidates. However, Fianna Fáil have not yet announced a candidate, while Mairead McGuinness shockingly pulled out of the race on health grounds. Mr Sheridan claimed he has support in Tipperary and Laois county councils. However, a hearing will still have to take place in each for him to be nominated. While the presidential hopeful said he's 'not a one trick pony' he believes solving Ireland's housing crisis would would rank highly among the issues the country is facing. He is drawing attention to 45.2.1 of the Constitution. It says that Government social policy should be directed so that citizens "find the means of making reasonable provision for their domestic needs." Mr Sheridan said this means that anyone holding a job should have a decent standard of living and a roof over their heads, and 'no one' has picked up on this. He added: 'The president upholds the constitution and we have a very good constitutional argument that no one else seems to have picked up on, even the constitutional experts haven't picked up on but it takes the tycoon pharma CEO to do it.' Despite speaking about few other issues than housing, Mr Sheridan accepted that he can't solve the housing crisis as president. However, he said he would go into Dáil Éireann and address the parliament about the issue if he was elected as president. During his speech, the 35-year-old said he wanted to 'Make Ireland Home Again'. Despite his Trump-like slogan, apparent one issue race and being a non-politician, the hopeful denied several times that he is a populist. He said he is 'a protagonist for the people' and the persona of him as a 'multi millionaire tycoon egomanic' is not fitting of the person he is. Sean Gallagher has been contacted for comment. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest news from the Irish Mirror direct to your inbox: Sign up here.
BreakingNews.ie
2 days ago
- Business
- BreakingNews.ie
Gareth Sheridan accuses people in Sean Gallagher ‘circle' of coordinated attack
Presidential hopeful Gareth Sheridan has claimed he has been the victim of a 'coordinated attack' on his character by 'people associated' with former presidential runner Sean Gallagher. Mr Sheridan made the claims about his former business partner at his campaign launch in Dublin city centre. Advertisement Mr Gallagher left Mr Sheridan's multimillion-euro pharmaceutical company, Nutriband, after serving as chairman from 2017 until 2021. Presidential candidate Gareth Sheridan at the official launch of his campaign at The Shelbourne hotel in Dublin (Cate McCurry/PA) Mr Gallagher previously contested the presidential election in 2011 and again in 2018. Launching his campaign at the five-star Shelbourne hotel, Mr Sheridan said he had something he wanted to bring to the attention of the press. 'There seems to be somewhat of a coordinated attack taking place on my character by people associated, and in Sean Gallagher's circle,' he told reporters. Advertisement 'I'm not saying for a moment that Sean is behind this or is involved in any way. 'You know, at MacGill (Summer School) a couple of weeks ago, he actually encouraged participation, asked the media to be nice to candidates that were brave to come forward and encouraged candidates to put their name in the ring. 'Hopefully that's still the case. But some of you in the room know what I'm talking about. That's all I'll say on that. 'For a couple of days now, we've been receiving essentially copy and paste question lists with minimal time to respond from various different outlets with the exact same questions. Something just seems a little off.' Advertisement He added: 'Let me just give you, hopefully for the last time, a little bit of context on the relationship between myself and Sean. 'Sean was chairman of my company, Nutriband, which I founded for a number of years around 2017/2018 through to the point that we were able to achieve our Nasdaq listing in 2021. 'Leading up to a Nasdaq listing, it was strongly advised by our shareholders, investors and board that we had a chairman with capital markets experience. We proposed this to Sean. We asked him to voluntarily step aside on the same remuneration, and we will put Serguei Melnik as chairman, who had 20-plus years of capital market experience. 'At this point, communication broke down. At the next shareholder meeting, Serguei was voted in by the majority of our shareholders, and he has been in the position of chairman. Advertisement 'I wish Sean nothing but the best in whatever he's working on now. 'Perhaps somebody is taking our break-up a little bit worse than me.' The 35-year-old was also critical of the state's failure to resolve the housing crisis, saying it is driving young people out of the country. Mr Sheridan, who has lived in the US for more than 10 years, said his goal is to 'make Ireland home again' for those who have emigrated. Advertisement Describing himself as a 'multi-millionaire pharma tycoon', he claimed there has been a 'complete ignorance' of Article 45.2 of Ireland's Constitution, which refers to Irish citizens having an adequate means of livelihood. The married father of one said he held the event in the Constitution Room of the luxury hotel as it is where the 1922 constitution was drafted. Mr Sheridan said that while he is not a single issue candidate, he believes housing is an 'anchor' for every issue the country is facing. 'We have healthcare problems in the country because we can't afford to keep our nurses and doctors here because they can't afford to live close to the hospitals and clinics they serve,' he added. 'We have education problems because teachers can't afford to live close to the schools and communities they're supposed to serve. 'We used to value ourselves on being the land of 100,000 welcomes. We are now, statistically, on a yearly basis, the land of 100,000 departures.' Mr Sheridan added: 'Now as president, I'm not going to grab my hammer and start building houses, but I will champion the issue over the course of my campaign. 'My ideal goal here is that we can claim to make Ireland home again. And this is something that is very important to me.' Mr Sheridan, who has a net worth of 16.5 million dollars (€14.1 million), which includes 16 million dollars in Nutriband shares and 500,000 in cash, said he understands the value of a euro. He said he went through a 'very gritty entrepreneurial journey', which was not a 'fairy tale'. 'I've made the phone calls home asking for help with rent,' Mr Sheridan added. 'I understand the value of the euro. I'll never take that for granted, because I didn't have it at one point. 'I think we have to be careful that we don't get into a position as well, that if an entrepreneur that's aspiring in this country makes a success out of an idea that they have, that all of a sudden it's a negative, right? 'The company worked out well, and the company is going to be extremely impactful for thousands of lives a year when that FDA (US Food and Drug Administration) approval comes. I'm very proud of that. By no means I will be handed that success.' Mr Sheridan said he is confident he has a 'path to a nomination', and said the support has been 'overwhelming'. The Dublin native said he has the support in Tipperary and Laois county councils but would not disclose which other councils have indicated their support. Mr Sheridan, who owns a house in Utah and rents a property in Dublin, said that former Irish president Mary Robinson was a 'big reason' why he decided to put his name forward to run in the upcoming election.
BreakingNews.ie
4 days ago
- Health
- BreakingNews.ie
Wednesday's front pages: What the papers say
A study into concussions in rugby and the Presidential election makes the front pages of Wednesday's papers, The Irish Times leads with Tony Holohan pndering running for the election an 'encouraging' poll. Advertisement The Echo leads with almost 10,00 people are waiting over a year for therapy services in Cork. The Irish Examiner leads with a study into concussions in rugby, as attitudes to it are deemed unsafe. The Irish Indeoendent reveals former Presidential candidate Sean Gallagher quit Gareth Sheridan's firm over a row over a €154,000 corporate box. The Irish Daily Mail also leads with the study on concussion in rugby, as head injuries are not taken seriously by amatuer players. The Irish Daily Mirror leads with a women who suffered from scoliosis 16 years ago, now has to fight for her daughter to receive the same care. The Irish Daily Star reveals it is costing €200,000 to guard a prisoner who killed a Guarda, with the prisoner in a coma.
Sydney Morning Herald
01-05-2025
- Business
- Sydney Morning Herald
Not using AI at work yet? You're already falling behind
When future historians look back on this period of work in a hundred year's time, there are two simple letters that will dominate their recounting: A and I. The sudden rise of AI in the workplace, and its inevitable impact on every corner of our lives, will go down as one of the most axis-tilting shifts to the way that we work. Now, I'm not being overly dramatic here for no reason, the early advancements in AI are just the start of an exponential curve in front of us. For years, many people assumed that robots would come for lower paid jobs first, like factory workers or front-of-house staff, before gradually working their way up the wage chain. But the sudden arrival of generative AI (which can create content like reports and images) and agentic AI (where technology works autonomously on behalf of a user) has shown that no amount of higher education makes you immune from these trends. Increasing AI adoption can bring on two extreme reactions: fear and excitement. Both are valid responses as we better understand the potential and dangers of this new technology, but whether we like it or not, AI is already being used in most workplaces. Your colleagues and competitors are drafting emails, reviewing contracts, writing presentations, analysing data and using it to help with every task we used to think only other humans could do. Use of AI programs, like ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini, can have immediate and immense impact on your day-to-day work. However, the uptake is pretty uneven. A new Australian survey by Humanova found that mid-sized businesses with 50 to 99 employees are leading the charge when it comes to AI adoption. The report's author, Dr Sean Gallagher, says the reason for this is that just over a third of employees of firms this size are 'power users' who are currently using AI at least daily. If you're not one of them, there's a real and growing risk that you might become professionally obsolete as those around you transform their roles through AI.
The Age
01-05-2025
- Business
- The Age
Not using AI at work yet? You're already falling behind
When future historians look back on this period of work in a hundred year's time, there are two simple letters that will dominate their recounting: A and I. The sudden rise of AI in the workplace, and its inevitable impact on every corner of our lives, will go down as one of the most axis-tilting shifts to the way that we work. Now, I'm not being overly dramatic here for no reason, the early advancements in AI are just the start of an exponential curve in front of us. For years, many people assumed that robots would come for lower paid jobs first, like factory workers or front-of-house staff, before gradually working their way up the wage chain. But the sudden arrival of generative AI (which can create content like reports and images) and agentic AI (where technology works autonomously on behalf of a user) has shown that no amount of higher education makes you immune from these trends. Increasing AI adoption can bring on two extreme reactions: fear and excitement. Both are valid responses as we better understand the potential and dangers of this new technology, but whether we like it or not, AI is already being used in most workplaces. Your colleagues and competitors are drafting emails, reviewing contracts, writing presentations, analysing data and using it to help with every task we used to think only other humans could do. Use of AI programs, like ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini, can have immediate and immense impact on your day-to-day work. However, the uptake is pretty uneven. A new Australian survey by Humanova found that mid-sized businesses with 50 to 99 employees are leading the charge when it comes to AI adoption. The report's author, Dr Sean Gallagher, says the reason for this is that just over a third of employees of firms this size are 'power users' who are currently using AI at least daily. If you're not one of them, there's a real and growing risk that you might become professionally obsolete as those around you transform their roles through AI.
