Our opinion of the self-published book by Lyn Gilbert called 'Behind the Scenes at Radio Caroline (in the 1970s)', reaches the same conclusion about Ronan O'Rahilly as Malcolm Smith: Ronan O'Rahilly was a low-life crook lacking morals and lacking any sort of attribute of empathy for others.

As a book, Lyn's work is a ridiculous notepad of scribbles by a young single mother from Australia, who ended up in London and got to know Oonagh Leigh.

Oonagh Leigh knew Ronan O'Rahilly who swindled everyone and anyone to his own advantage. He somehow managed to con Christopher Moore - again - after Chris Moore sued Ronan O'Rahilly in the Sixties for conning him then.

​What is that line? Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me? Well it seems that Ronan fooled him at least twice.

What everyone forgets is that Ronan O'Rahilly came to London in 1961 on behalf of his father who was seeking investment capital for the family business. Ronan was a part of the family business when he arrived. He certainly wasn't trying to get his father to invest in someone else's business.

Anyway, Ronan succeeded in a complex sort of way in putting money into the family business by bringing two ships (Fredericia and Mi Amigo), to the shoreline of Greenore and an abandoned Irish Port which Ronan's father wanted to reopen. For a fee, the two ships tied up in Greenore and work was contracted out to Dundalk Engineering - for a fee.

Ronan's dad did pretty well out of commissions on that deal, and he was able to pay to have his own container ship built in Holland. Ronan was there to see it launched. That vessel replaced the mv 'Friendship' which Ronan's dad had chartered since 1960.

But is seems that single Mom Lyn knew nothing about any of that when she got to know Ronan. In fact, the mv 'Fredericia' had already been scrapped by then, and Lyn did not even know that it had ever existed, because Lyn tells us so in her rambling notebook.

That's the real trouble with Lyn's book: it rambles and she is very green but becoming street wise by the moment. Lyn is no businesswoman and no scholar. She is pretty surface-aware of events such as the Kennedy assassination, even though Ronan O'Rahilly tries to make a big deal out of it. But Ronan is about as uniformed as a retarded chimp regarding that affair as well.

Ronan scoots around the edges of known gangsters and tries not to tangle with them, but to learn from them in how to steal and get away with it. He seems to be mindful of not double-crossing known gangsters who will rub him out in the blink of an eye. Instead, he put human buffers between them and himself.

One of his tricks was get the dupes, like Lyn, to stick their own names on legal documents so that if anyone decided to take action they would not be looking for Ronan. But since Lyn was judgement-proof, in the sense that you could sue her but you couldn't collect, because she didn't have anything to begin with, she was another of Ronan's bullet-proof vests.

Those who did have money were Ronan targets, and so they tried to stay at arm's length from him. In the end, Ronan O'Rahilly died a useless bit of flesh who had harmed the lives of a lot of people and made his victims thank him for harming them.

Ronan O'Rahilly really was a true boy preacher of the 'Elmer Gantry' ilk.

Lyn was the young, single mother trying to make life better for herself and her child in an environment where her immediate needs became obvious hooks for Ronan O'Rahilly to get hold of, and to use and abuse.

Ronan O'Rahilly seems to have spent his entire worthless lifetime stealing from and abusing other people, and getting his victims to thank him for doing so.

Yes, Malcolm Smith was right in his own assessment of Ronan O'Rahilly, but at the same time this former grease monkey seems to be trying to learn the craft of his past master in order to practice it to his own advantage.

The 'Caroline' that lives, is really an evil spirit that harms anyone who comes into contact with it.

Do not give money to this so-called charity that lacks transparency and which is based upon totally fraudulent claims both about the authenticity of Radio Caroline, and the obscure ownership of the hulk Ross Revenge.

This ship was paid for by U.S. citizens under false pretenses years ago. A U.S. criminal court ruling settled that issue. The UK Admiralty Court awarding the same ship to Malcolm Smith did legally remove international claims against the vessel that remain unpaid.

Malcolm Smith is making false claims about his venture called Radio Caroline which he wants you to think is related to another venture in 1964, and he also wants you to forget that the original Radio Caroline ship was scrapped. 

His hulk called Ross Revenge has already been at the center of a criminal case involving fraudulent claims about its ownership, and Malcolm Smith is trying his best misdirect your attention away from that fact.