THE HALL OF SHAME

rateyoursolicitor.com and their sister site crookedlawyers.com came up with the idea of a Hall of Shame. Clearly the idea was for them to use it as a batton to beat anyone who crossed them.

Basically The Hall of Shame lists:
- Solicitors
- Barristers
- Judges
- And ANYONE else who John Gill of the VLPS and his friends decide to deride and award with an AVOID rating ~ repeatedly. And under various names.

It is a great place for these obsessed people to vent their spleen. And oh boy do they do vent with a vengence! Truth and facts are immaterial, all that is need is an axe to grind, actively encouraged by rateyoursolicitor.com.

Indeed the front page of rateyoursolicitor.com (25th of November 2008) says:

"A rating should be based on your own experience, or that of your company.There are four possible ratings:: Poor: Average: Good

Here are some guidelines to help you decide if an AVOID rating is justified:
* Did your solicitor wrongfully hold onto your files or papers?
* Did your solicitor wrongfully misappropriate money or property belonging to you?
* Is your solicitor untruthful and guilty of dishonest and dishonourable conduct?
* Do you believe that your solicitor does not carry on his/her practice in a professional and competent manner?
* Has your solicitor altered, distorted or suppressed legal documents?
* Did your solicitor commit or attempt to commit fraud or probate a fraudulent Will?
* Did your solicitor commit or attempt to commit an act which would attract a prison sentence if perpetrated by a lay person?"
They obviously prefer to encourage negativity and AVOID ratings.

Now let's take our (Sean McGlynn & Co.) entry into the Hall of Shame to prove the way they work.

First, a posting by John Gill, trumpeting about our being in their Hall of Shame, dated the 15th of November 2008:

"I see those lowest of lowlife trying to defend their conspiracy to defraud, perjury, theft of property, abuse of the system, low moral and ethical standards. How can these Liars and Thieves sleep at night? How low can a human being crawl? What kind of upbringing did they have, have they any sense of shame or decency at all? When are they going to wake up to the fact that they are in the Hall of Shame, do they not realise that the whole world is watching and waiting for the demise of the last bastion of the Black-n-Tans, the lowest of low life."

Of course, true to form, John Gill slips in and out of rateyoursolicitor.com (as he does on their sister site, crookedlawyers.com) to change his posts at will, as evidenced here with the above post originally reading:

"I see those lowest of lowlife trying to defend their conspiracy to defraud, perjury, theft of property, abuse of the system, low moral and ethical standards. How can these Liars and Thieves sleep at night? How low can a human being crawl? What kind of upbringing did they have? Did they not have enough to eat. Have they any sense of shame or decency at all? When are they going to wake up to the fact that they are in the scumbag Hall of Shame, do they not realise that the whole world is watching and waiting for the demise of the last bastion of the Black-n-Tans, the lowest of low life."

Strange, is it not, the way a man, John Gill, PRO of the VLPS, who claims to have no influence with rateyoursolicitor.com has carte blanche to change posts on rateyoursolicitor.com at will?

Now to our AVOID LISTINGS

The listings on Sean McGlynn & Co., Letterkenny, County Donegal, has 187 postings (it runs to 32 pages of hard copy).

The AVOID postings (which these people actively encourage) total 154

- AVOID postings by various 'branches' of the VLPS = 38

- AVOID postings by John Gill, using his own name = 24

- AVOID postings by Daniel Gallagher = 2

- AVOID postings are by people who claim to have been clients = 8
NOT ONE of these HAVE EVER BEEN clients of Sean McGlynn & Co.

- And the balance of the AVOID postings are made up of people posting under such names as

'AIB corner, Ploughing Championships' (7th October 2007) who said:

"Tis a long way from Killarney to Dublin Four Courts, you will have our support on the 8th of Oct, God willing. Tis past time someone took a stand against our new Black n Tans, the Cromwellian forces of the new century, fair play to you."

Does that post remind us of the posts of John Gill who constantly brings up the Black and Tans, no doubt a rather puerile and very unsubtle dig at their idea that I am English and Sean is Irish. (See John Gill's post above dated 15th of November 2008).
So, 100% ~ ONE HUNDRED PERCENT ~ of our AVOID postings are generated by the VLPS, John Gill, Daniel Gallagher, non-existent 'clients' and people not connected at all with the case and unknown to us.
What does that tell the readers of rateyoursolicitor.com?
Simply, it tells us that the whole thing is an absolute farce and riddled with lies.
AND FOR THE INFORMATION OF rateyoursolicitor.com ~ Try to at least get SOME of your basic facts right (the lies we have come to expect):

1. I am not English. Posters under various names keep repeating this non-fact as if it were an insult to me. Is being English a bad thing? Because you are clearly throwing this at me as if you think it is an insult to be English. And in so doing you insult all English people. Racism? I think so. Not exactly good PR. But then they do have John Gill as their PRO.

2. Brendan McGlynn, Auctioneer, is not Sean McGlynn's brother.

All of the above proves that these people are not above lies in the postings ~ if indeed proof was needed. And if I have been able, with little effort, to prove it in our case then it has the knock on effect of indicating that others with many AVOID postings may, and indeed probably, have been subject to the same lies.

There are other posters who have drawn the same conclusions:

"Mrs McGlynn, I read your blog and it certainly casts things in a different light. I am sorry to say that for a while it seemed Mr Gill and his crew were fighting the good fight but not (sic) its clear to see that they are the ones who are up to no good."
Posted by George Kirk (who is totally unknown to us) 20th of November 2008

"Anyone interested in these allegations should read the recent High Court judgement on these matters. It is available on the Courts site. In my opinion it completely vindicates the McGlynns."
Posted by John Finnegan (who is unknown to us) 17th of January 2008

"You should all stop ranting and read the High Court judgement where all of these accusations were considered and found to be without any foundation. I am an independent reader who looked at this website out of interest, and has become totally disillusioned with the pointless nature of the baseless mudslinging that goes on."
Posted by John Finnegan (who is unknown to us) 10th of April 2008

I'd like to thank John Finnegan and George Kirk, neither of whom we know, for at least trying to bring some rationality to the site.

rateyoursolicitor is not the place for sane, rational people to associate themselves with, and nor is their sister site crookedlawyers.com. And all because John Gill and his friends, through their total lack of intelligence and decency, have ruined their own sites.

NB. From the front page of rateyoursolicitor.com
"THIS WEBSITE IS HOSTED IN THE USA AND IS GOVERNED BY U.S. LAW ONLY!"
If rateyoursolicitor.com and crookedlawyers.com were set up with good intentions, why then are they both now, and always have been since inception, registered with a host site outside of Ireland? Think about it.
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NOTE: I have posted all above on rateyoursolicitor.com tonight 25th November 2008. Will they post it? I think they will.
THREE DAYS LATER:
I was wrong. They have been posting things I posted on their sites since I opened this blog on the 11th of November 2008, and only because I informed John Gill by email about this blog. So they are aware of it and as indicated by postings on their sites since. are reading my blog.
But clearly, as proven by my exposing their lies here, they do not want the proof I exposed to appear on the rateyoursolicitor.com Hall of Shame.
Because if this proof of their lies did it would knock all the other threads on rateyoursolicitor (and indeed the waffle on their siter site crookedlawyers.com) into a cocked hat.
So exposing their lies on the Sean McGlynn & Co. thread on rateyoursolicitor.com to be an absolute farce and riddled with lies exposes at the VERY least the possibility that the rest of rateyoursolicitor.com is too a farce.
YOU REALLY CAN'T IMPROVE ON THE TRUTH.

WHO IS THE ABSOLUTE LUNATIC?

Since I posted here the thread: RATEYOURSOLICTOR/CROOKEDLAWYERS (link:
http://victimsofthelegalprofessionexposed.blogspot.com/2008/11/rate-your-solicitor-why-this-site-is.html ), one of the postings on the crookedlawyers.com Guestbook by someone who calls himself Absolute Lunatic has mysteriously disappeared.

These 2 postings are still there:

"In India throwing Acid in someone (sic) face is perfectly acceptable means of figting (sic) crime. Ireland needs a similar method."
This appeared on their guestbook on the 10th September 2006 and is still there as of todays date (21st of of November 2008).

The full post:

Name: Wakeupcall
Country:
Date: Sun Sep 10 03:29:44 2006
Comment: I don't blame Solicitors I blame all the cheats and scammers who thing having a large family is a good enough reason to take whatever they want to better themselves. Solicitors are dirty and take money under the table all the time its human nature for them to do that. Ireland's laws need to focus more on fraud than any other crime. In India throwing Acid in someone face is perfectly acceptable means of figting crime. Ireland needs a similar method

"In America if a Solicitor/Lawyer stole from a client he or she would be hunted down and killed and then the client would then commit suicide."
This appeared on their guestbook on the 10th of July 2006 and is still there as of today's date (21st of November 2008).

The full post:

Name: Good Night
Country: USA
Date: Mon Jul 10 00:21:39 2006
Comment: I am a American who family comes from Ireland. I guess that most Irish are very Peaceful people who blame themselves for problems caused by Solicitors. I read articles on victims of Solicitors who had there entire life savings as well as their homes taken by Solicitors. I find it strange that these victims are committing Suicide so soon. In America if a Solicitor/ Lawyer stole from a client he or she would be hunted down and killed and then the client would then commit suicide.

The post that has mysteriously disappeared:

"... the best way to get my point across is to kidnapp (sic) and torture crooked Solicitors. I find that to be the best method to deal with these Rats."
This appeared on their guestbook on the 7th of September 2006, was still when I posted it here on the 12th of November 2008, and now it has gone.

The full post:

Name: Absolute Lunatic
Country: Rockall
Date: Thu Sep 7 20:19:16 2006
Comment: I would like to comment on Imelda (sic) asertion (sic) that this forum is for lazy malicious cowards. She is right the best way to get my point across is to kidnapp (sic) and torture crooked Solicitors. I find that to be the best method to deal with these Rats.

That post, unitl I posted it on this blog on the 12th of November 2008, had been on page 10 (currently) of the Guestbook and had been there for OVER 2 YEARS slotted in between these two posts that remain as of this date:

Name: Bernard
Country: Ireland
Date: Fri Sep 8 18:35:56 2006
Comment: Liam, have you ever tried to make a complaint against a solicitor through the so called 'legitimate channels'? Unfortunately consumers have no other option but to try 'ranting' on websites to encourage change. How many solicitors have been stopped from practicing by the law society due to misconduct? Answer: zero! How about the redress board scandal? How many solicitors have been punished for stealing from those victims? Answer: Zero. They got a slap on the wrist!

Name: Liam
Country: Ireland
Date: Thu Sep 7 18:31:00 2006
Comment: Bernard, I agree fully with Imelda. Nobody is denying that there are bad apples in the legal profession, but the malicious scattergun approach taken by the so called victims of the legal profession society is simply an extended rant, and it lacks all credibility. You can practically feel the sparks from the huge axe they are grinding. There are legitimate channels for ventilating complaints against members of the legal profession. Those with personal vendettas need not apply.

For the information of people reading, a poster on a Guestbook cannot remove his posting therefore the people/person ( link: http://victimsofthelegalprofessionexposed.blogspot.com/2008/11/rate-your-solicitor-dot-com-tdi-mill.html ) who own/run the site are the only one/s who can remove it. Which begs the question: why would that one post be removed when other offensive posts remain?

So who is the 'Absolute Lunatic'?. And why did s/he have that post removed? Could it be that the owner/s of crookedlawyers.com might have to give up the identity of the 'Absolute Lunatic' if called upon to so do? And in so doing would the identity of the Absolute Lunatic totally embarass crookedlawyers.com and the VLPS? It certainly looks that way.

THANK YOU

I wish to thank the many people who have contacted me with their support, assistance and information since opening this blog, and to let them know I will respond to all in due course.

Thank you.

Catherine McGlynn

THE ANCESTRAL HOME

19th November 2008

Our Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Brian Cowan has invited the 44th President of the United States of America, Barack Obama, to visit his ancestral home in County Offaly, Ireland.

I really hope that Mr. Obama does not run into John Gill and the members of the Victims of the Legal Profession (VLPS) whilst here. Imagine if they could persuade Mr. Obama to fight for the rights to his ancestral home?

Does that sound ridiculous? Of course it does!

Every bit as ridiculous as Daniel and Elva Gallagher claiming the land owned by the late Mrs. Madge Friel is their ancestral home. (Sean McGlynn and Catherine McGlynn -v- Daniel Gallagher and Charles Gallagher). At least Daniel Gallagher's brother, Charles Gallagher, recognises the fact that there is no claim and has from an early stage indicated this to Sean and Catherine McGlynn.

Further, Elva Gallagher has absolutely no connection whatsoever with the said property, and Daniel Gallagher was not born there. Nor was his father, Anton Gallagher, and nor indeed was Anton Gallagher's father. And how can he, Daniel Gallagher, or anybody, honestly believe that this man Daniel Gallagher can have a better entitlement to the land of Madge Friel (he has never disputed that the land belonged to Madge Friel) than her nephews and nieces, her nearest next of kin who are rightfully entitled to the lands and have a far closer connection to the lands than Daniel Gallagher or any of his family. Remember that Daniel Gallagher is the son of Anton Gallagher who was a first cousin of Madge Friel and that makes Daniel Gallagher a second cousin which in terms of next of kin is far removed from nephews and nieces.

The right to any ancestral home claimed by Daniel and Elva Gallagher is every bit as remote as any link Barack Obama may have with any ancestral home in County Offaly. The only difference being, Mr. Obama is intelligent enough to know that.

THE LONE RANGER!

John Gill imagines he is the Lone Ranger.

From a sworn Affidavit of John Gill dated the 2nd of November 2006 (his SIXTH Affidavit in that particular matter by the way):

"I say and believe that I John Gill am the lone ranger ..."

So, is Mr. Gill indeed the Lone Ranger? Let's consider the facts:

1. The Lone Ranger was a cowboy.

2. From Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary: "one who acts alone and without consultation or the approval of others."

If the stetson, sorry, cap fits ...

LEGAL ADVICE IN ST. JOHNSTON

News has reached me that there is now legal advice available in the St. Johnston area, and although it is not free, to quote a source: "He's not hard to pay."

MADGE FRIEL'S GOLD WATCH

THE GOLD WATCH

This was a beautiful solid 14 carat gold gentleman's hob watch and chain. It was held in Madge Friel's safety deposit box in the Ulster Bank, Letterkenny, and was never seen by either myself of my husband until I, as one of the Executors of Mrs. Friel's Will, collected it AFTER her death.

The watch was in it's original box together with the original recipt dated 15th of August 1896. At that time I took a photograph of the watch, it's box and the original receipt::

THE LIE:

From the Affidavit of Daniel Gallagher dated 2nd of July 2007:

4. Father McMahon P.P. Termon never got his gold watch before he died

THE TRUTH:

Fr. McMahon died on the 5th of February 2006. He collected the watch in person in our office on the 31st of January 2002. FOUR YEARS BEFORE HE DIED.

I rang Fr. McMahon following Madge Friel's death to inform him that Mrs. Friel had left him her gold watch. Fr. McMahon duly called to our offices to collect said watch. I had him sign for same and here is the receipt:

Further, upon subsequently hearing of the accusations of the Gallaghers in this matter I telephoned the Bishops secretary in Letterkenny to find out who the Executors of Fr. McMahon's Will were.

He told me that the Rt. Rev. Monsignor Daniel Carr, Parish Priest, St. Johnston, County Donegal, and Fr. McMahon's nephew, an accountant in Dublin were the Executors. My husband and myself then visited Monsignor Carr who in turn contacted the nephew of Fr. McMahon who wrote to confirm that the watch had been in the home of Fr. McMahon when he went to clear the house following his uncle's death.

Further, Monsignor Carr who was very familiar with Fr. McMahon's signature having worked with him for many years, confirmed that the signature on the above receipt was definately that of Fr. McMahon.

The case of the gold watch of Mrs. Friel is but one example of the many lies of Daniel and Elva Gallagher, all of which will be exposed by me on this blog in due course.