Tom Hartley: The Dealmaker

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A spokeswoman for the SFO told Car Dealer today: ‘On November 9, 2023, the SFO confirmed it would no longer be proceeding with its prosecution of Mr Hartley for failure to comply with an SFO investigation.

Now the best part of all of this is when you just cannot find a certain piece of information and then suddenly you come across it and it makes everything else fall into place. That is so gratifying." It was an Eureka moment," Hartley tells me. "All these years I had been wondering why I was so contrary and argumentative and then I discover I have Presbyterianism in my DNA!" It took me a long time to get my head around the church as an organisation against the individual conscience."

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It certainly turned out that way in his own case. For the veteran republican, who was the second Sinn Fein lord mayor of Belfast, discovered that his grandfather from his mother's side, David Nelson, was a Presbyterian.

Tom Hartley in Balmoral Cemetery –'You will always find what you are not looking for'. Picture by Mal McCann Though not a fervently religious person himself, Hartley – who is now 73 – admits having been long fascinated by the subject. Now his latest work, the third in his series – which also includes a history of the City Cemetery – focusses largely on Presbyterianism through the history of another major Belfast graveyard. I hope he won't mind my saying so but [the Rev] John Dunlop and I have now been arguing with each other for years," he says.Thousands of investors lost their savings after the company is alleged to have used their money to lease cars to people with low credit scores.