Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Economist Digest
The world economy A glimmer of hope? Tim Geithner Baptism of fire The World Trade Centre Slow building China’s navy Distant horizons The new politics of Israel’s foreign policy A grand bargain? Poland’s economy Not like the neighbours Computing Mr Ellison helps himself Germany’s high electricity prices Power to the people (at a price) Digital…
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Haughey sells Abbeyville
For a total of €45 million, in case you forgot. As it turned out, Moriarty found that the money came from AIB, effectively writing off his debt. How nice of them. moriarty1 Publish at Scribd or explore others: Research moriarty tribunal mo
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Ansbacher explained
Dug up from the RTE archives. Brings back memories, or perhaps new material for younger readers. Unfortunately, nothing was done about it. The words of the Revenue ring hollow after publication:
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Reports so far
Hopefully this list is about to get much longer: Adobe Acrobat is needed to view most of these documents. Download it here. Planning Tribunal First Interim Report (.pdf) (1997) Second Interim Report (.pdf) (2002) Third Interim Report (.pdf) Fourth Interim Report (.pdf) (2004) Morris Tribunal First report (Report on explosives ‘finds’ in Donegal)(.pdf) (2004) Second…
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The Beef Tribunal Report
The Government Publications Office does not appear to have it. Does anyone have a copy of the report?
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IMF report
Was a statistic on Ireland pulled from the report? Paul Mason says: So maybe there is an interesting explanation of why the original list got made, why it was so much worse for the UK, why Ireland was on it and is now not on it, and why it got pulled. Unfortunately I do not…
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Digitising documents
Further to the launch of Kildare Street, I have been attempting to build a digital database of important documents and reports. For now the provisional list is over at Public Inquiry, but I hope to either build a dedicated website to house these documents, or perhaps wikify the whole thing. I recently got my hands…
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Kildare Street beta
You may have already come across it by now but I am pleased to announce – after the Herculean efforts of one John Handelaar – that the Irish version of TheyWorkForYou.com, Kildare Street, is now open for business in beta form. I hope you all find it very useful, as I will.
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Carr Mills Property Development
Here is the Memo of Association. The firm is directed by property developer Enda Hunston. Taoiseach Brian Cowen is related to the firm in this story. I wonder what Mr Hunston’s history is. In March 2004, Mr Hunston claimed his signature had been forged on a joint investment agreement over a €3.3m hotel and fishing…
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The Ansbacher report
I got my hands on a PDF version of the report. It was nowhere to be found on the internet until today. There are dozens of appendices, which I hope to add soon. This is part of my effort to digitise all previous tribunal reports and High Court investigations. New Years’ resolution and all that…
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