Phone Call 3 May 2011 John Darcy’s Man got the story from Nick Stafford that he killed a man on a Bike in front of his cattle lorry story. John Darcy thought it was three two or something like that, meaning 3.2 million euro he thought the land was partly the wife’s. I asked John Darcy was Nick Stafford’s wife alive at the time, of the deal I asked him what year it was he said it was definitely 2004 or 2005. When I asked him had he? He though Nick Safford’s wife was alive at the time, probably because she had been part owner.
Actual Text: of call: John Darcy speaking after I asked him what would the price have been: “I thought it was 3 2 three two or something like that, then I Austin speaks: three two maybe, and was it in his wife’s name that time, or had he trouble getting it from his wife’s to his. John Darcy replies: Ah he had no trouble, it was just the I said or the tax just. then John speaks: the tax thing I suppose, but sure I suppose just like anything she probably had to sign off on it. I Austin then asked was she alive that time? John Replies: Oh, God she was alive that time, and then I ask him would it have been in her name that time? John replies: I can’t actually remember, now there was something about it anyway She certainly had a big hold on it anyway, like I Wasn’t really that interested at the time, you know what I mean. yeah, I Reply. John says, “it wasn’t really part of my concern.” I Austin then speaks: but it was around 2004 or five. John Replies: “Yeah, it was definitely 2004 or 2005”. Austin then speaks: “Did you get a chance to check anymore about the man that was killed on the bike?”
John replies: Yeah, that’s all I heard, all I got back was the same thing, it was a, he came across out of a by road or something straight across the road in front of him, he had no brakes on his bike or something like that. I Austin speaks: It was another fellow I was speaking to, now, this was back in 2008, (I made a mistake here this should be 2009) had a story it was a man and a woman in a car that had come out in front of him, but you think it was more likely a man on a bike. John replies: It was definitely a man on a bike from what I was told anyway, then John says: about a statement saying that, I will take it the rest of the way I speak: if you got him meaning John Nolan to state what Nick Stafford told him about rigging the Auction, he John Darcy would take it the rest of the way through his solicitor. His concern was that he thought it would be unlikely that John Nolan would say anything against Stafford if he was truckin and dealin with him.
John Darcy and me transcript 14th October 2011 9:17a.m.
Austin: “So you were at her funeral when she died, she was alive that time when you were doing the deal that time in 2005. John Darcy reply’s “She was yeah, Austin speaks: “Gee Just to show how we can make mistakes, I have a piece of paper from the, I think it is from the Wexford People, The Wexford People about her death in 2002. John speaks again: and in a genuine way: “well now maybe she was, I was definitely at the funeral, because I can remember to this day been at it, and I remember Nick and we were standing to one side, I had no involvement with her, I didn’t know her and I do remember Nick crying, and one of the boys, you know, Bradshaw saying: “Fu*k!, imagine that f*cker crying” and we were both quite amused at this man Bradshaw’s comment, and John said then : “You know yourself, Austin if you are not involved in a funeral, you don’t really have any emotion for it.” I then speak and tell him that he had no problem telling a mother of six children to shoot ourselves and then she was saying what about the young children, and he said “Fu*k them out to grass or something like that. John then replies: “Make no mistake about it, he would be the very same with his own kids like, he would talk about some of them as if they weren’t his, he would disown them, they are fuck’in useless, and he’d say that to a stranger, he is a fuckin Dope, most people would have enough cop-on not to say that.” I then speak and check again with John and I speak: “Just the important bit, the man you were talking to, has got that story off Nick, Nick Stafford, that it was a man coming through a Crossroads on a bike.” But John was quick to emphasize that it was years ago that this man got this story or account from Nick Stafford, this was the same man we were referring to during our phone conversation 3rd May 2011 that it was definitely a man on a bike came straight across the road in front of him that was killed in front of his cattle lorry.
page 10 Limerick Leader, 10 November 2012
Stafford use to leave the late Michael Bolger outside in the cattle lorry for hours while he was inside the Bridge Bar in Gorey chatting up the owner the late Monica Keating who died early 2006, Stafford told Michael that he got off very light in a fatal collision in Limerick where he killed a man with his cattle lorry. Michael used to work in the cattle marts as well as having a farm in Poulepeasty, Clonroche probably only about five miles from Quinn’s old mart in Adamstown, Co. Wexford Clonroche and even after he retired he still enjoyed working or helping out in the Carnew mart, I understand he also had an interest in horses and kept some. Michael died in 2010 after a short illness, but had passed on this information many years before this. Monica was well liked and I believe could be quiet out spoken, and after I spoke to people who knew her, like the late Ned Purcell who told me about an incident where some of the lads were telling Monica there was going to be a huge block of apartments where the present ALDI Supermarket is now, and Monica quickly piped up, “There will be no little Tallaght built here as long as I am here.” One of the men who used to drink there told me about an evening there after a few of them had come back from a pub in Enniscorthy, that they decided to say it loud enough in the little side area that Monica could easily hear them saying that a large bottle of McArdle’s Ale was much cheaper in Enniscorthy, Monica quickly responded saying : ” If it was so good it is a wonder you didn’t stay down there.” These are only a couple of amusing incidents re garding Monica. David Quinn told me it was many years ago when the Late Michael Bolger got this information from Stafford.
The woman who replied to my Advert early 2012 had said something that wouldn’t have been quite possible, but it would appear the part where she said the traffic lights changed, is correct and using some of Stafford’s information that was when the male cyclist was killed in front of Stafford’s cattle lorry