Category: Irish Politics
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The Anglo Irish 10
Update: The confirmed so far list is: Paddy McKillen Gerry Gannon Jerry Conlan Joe O’Reilly Seamus Ross John McCabe, builder. Patrick Kearney, developer. Paddy Mc Killen, investor. Brian O’Farrell, developer and auctioneer. Gerry Maguire, developer. Sean Reilly, builder. If I were inclined to discover who the people behind the €300m loan and investment in Anglo…
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Prieur du Plessis on Ireland
Prieur du Plessis on Ireland: I am spending the next few days in Europe on a short business trip. First stop is Dublin where the temperature is icy, the mood is dour, property prices are plunging, the queues for jobless claims are five hours long, the soon-to-be-unemployed are holding protest strikes, and the banks are…
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Brian Cowen's speech February 5 (audio)
Everyone is abuzz and I don’t know why. Here is the audio. h/t Maman
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Brian Cowen's speech in Wordle
The audio of his now infamous Dublin Chamber speech is here. I meant to upload this yesterday: Interesting how Lenihan’s own Budget speech also used “Government” so often. The audio of his now infamous Dublin Chamber speech is here.
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Brian Cowen
Bad Taoiseach or the worst Taoiseach? Will all the cuts lead to wholescale industrial action? Can Cowen actually lead the country? Can he hold more than one press conference a year?
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Back to reality
My first full day of news and it aint pretty. Near riots in Waterford, Dunne nearing bankuptcy, Quinn saying he lost €1bn in Anglo, and some unbelievable scheme of local authorities to rent empty houses at prices way over the odds. Eddie Hobbs was also getting berated by some for suggesting that recent graduates should…
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Back in Ireland
Back to reality. Ugh. For a while there I wanted to change my citizenship.
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Anglo Irish Bank nationalised
The Government has finally seen sense and nationalised Anglo Irish Bank. We will have to see how good a job they do of it. The Government has today decided, having consulted with the Board of Anglo Irish Bank Corporation plc (“Anglo”), to take steps that will enable the Bank to be taken into public ownership.…
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Cowen's IMF comments
I know some readers may have thought I was joking when I said that I thought the IMF would be called in this year. I wasn’t. Ireland is essentially bankrupt. That Cowen is using it as a threat to public service unions is incidental – IMF intervention is a very real possibility. The lads over…
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Martin Mansergh
He made some awfully stupid comments on Vincent Browne tonight. Will post a video once it’s up. What a dumbass.