You’ll find me here later today looking at Budget 2011 from a disability and social welfare/health angle. The Irish Internet’s cup truly doth run over in terms of online coverage. If you are on twitter and following #budget11 you may not be able to keep up with the stream and may need a bit more […]
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Thomas Byrne is a Meath East TD for FF and tonight he emailed his constituents about the National Recovery Plan. No outside interference in the writing of this plan seemingly? Not sure what the IMF were reading and commenting on or the ECB or Olli for that matter. So this Guaranteed Irish Document (sing the […]
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You didn’t miss much. Tonight Brian Cowen said that his government will call a general election after completion of the budgetary process in 2011. There are enough backbenchers calling on him to go to believe that he won’t be leading the government into that election. Brian Cowen’s statement 22/11/010
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You have probably seen it already. I’m hoping that it was genuine anger and not thinking about the next election. My reaction and those of thousands of people was ‘at long last’ after a truly terrible week and many terrible weeks to come somebody turned to a Government Minister and said stop the lying, look […]
Statement by the Eurogroup Ireland The Eurogroup welcomes the significant efforts of Ireland to deal with the challenges it faces in the budgetary, competitiveness and financial sector areas. The Eurogroup welcomes in particular the announcement by the Irish authorities that their four-year budgetary strategy will be frontloaded by € 6 billion in 2011 on a […]