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Declan Ralph

Declan Ralph

Broadcaster, journalist and radio presenter; Retail Development Director at BWG Foods; regular contributor to Newstalk's Down to Business

Aug 15, 2026

7:49
Some minority shareholders having some issue with it and benchmarking performance against other ferry companies and saying that they're not getting fair value for their buck.
7:59
Yeah, it's – the company you're referring to there is Onx Capital, and they said that there's unnecessary urgency about this.
8:06
They're giving out about it being done in the August holiday period so the small shareholders can't get together and can't, you know, put all their ideas into one sort of force to go against this.
8:19
But, you know, on the other hand is that the offer would see shareholders paid eight euro per share, which is a 28 percent premium to the closing price on July the 24th.
8:30
And the offer was made just within an hour and a half of half an hour of the closing on that day.
8:34
Yeah.
8:35
So there's sort of two sides to the story here, Bobby.

7 MINS LATER

15:34
At a high level, that is the solution, but difficult to get there, Declan.
7:49
Some minority shareholders having some issue with it and benchmarking performance against other ferry companies and saying that they're not getting fair value for their buck.
7:59
Yeah, it's – the company you're referring to there is Onx Capital, and they said that there's unnecessary urgency about this.
8:06
They're giving out about it being done in the August holiday period so the small shareholders can't get together and can't, you know, put all their ideas into one sort of force to go against this.
8:19
But, you know, on the other hand is that the offer would see shareholders paid eight euro per share, which is a 28 percent premium to the closing price on July the 24th.
8:30
And the offer was made just within an hour and a half of half an hour of the closing on that day.
8:34
Yeah.
8:35
So there's sort of two sides to the story here, Bobby.

7 MINS LATER

15:34
At a high level, that is the solution, but difficult to get there, Declan.
4:32
So it's getting very knotty, this whole
4:34
thing, isn't it? It is getting very complicated, yeah.
4:36
The health insurers, the main ones in there, are saying that they're probably not going to pay the bills if you use the consultant that's on the public-only contract.
4:47
If you use them and they give you private care and you claim it back from your health insurer, that they're unlikely to pay you.
4:54
I think as well, Emmett, Minister McNeill as well has said, I mean, you know, she makes a point where she wants the consultants who have been trained by the state, in the state, who have been paid for by the state to work for all women in the Irish state who have risky pregnancies or, you know, just normal pregnancies, if that's the correct way to say it, Louisa.
5:13
And not just because a woman has the opportunity to go private and can do that.
5:17
So she's making the sort of counter argument that, you know, it should be available to everybody.

14 MINS LATER

19:44
It seems to be good news emerging there that could be saved.

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