elly said:
Hi
Has anybody used MacMahon & Nagle for wooden windows. Looking at gettin french doors. they seem very competitive and efficient. Windows are Swedex. Would like to have a reference before we order.
thanks
Elly
I've had some recent dealings with Mc Mahon and Nagle and I'm not very impressed -- they seem to be all over the place. I can get no good feeling about them.
Unfortunately I have already given them an order for some doors and seem to be stuck with them !
I decided to do some searching for some background information and came up with the following extract from the Sunday Post (Ref. Sun. 17th Apr 2005) :
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Sunday, April 17, 2005 - By Laura Noonan
Two directors of a Dublin window and conservatory company have been restricted as company directors for five years after a series of irregularities were uncovered in their company.
Mark McFadden and Ian Coogan, directors of MCN Windows and Conservatories, consented to the Section 150 restriction last week.
The company's business name, McMahon & Nagle, a long-established trading name in north Dublin, was leased from its owner who had no involvement in the running of the company.
The Revenue Commissioners, which had the company wound up in the High Court, are owed more than €115,000.
The directors paid themselves a net salary of €800 a week each. The full cost of their salaries was not known, as they did not pay PAYE or PRSI.
They had the use of luxury cars as part of their salary packages from the company - a Mercedes-Benz ML 270 for Coogan, aged 41, and a BMW 318ci for McFadden, 45.
The company failed to make many of its tax returns.
It paid no corporation tax from the time that it started trading in 2000.
The firm paid no Vat between November 2002 and July 2004. McFadden and Coogan also breached company law. Their company never had an annual audit and no annual returns were ever filed for the company.
MCN also failed to prepare any accounts for an annual general meeting or ever held an annual general meeting.
On a day-to-day basis, the company did not keep proper books. There was no record of payments, debtors, creditors, stocks or company assets.
Both directors agreed to pay €1,200 plus Vat towards the cost of the action to have them restricted.
They cannot act as directors of a company for the next five years. "
Maybe this is all ancient history and they've improved their act --- but it doesn't sound the best !