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Cowen says sorry

December 1st, 2010 · Comments Off on Cowen says sorry · Irish Politics

Not a lot of parody over the current situation – thanks to Jim to passed on this to me to have a look at. This is from Taiwain seemingly – There is a Libertas\Fr. Ted thing going on which has me wondering!

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In case you missed it

November 22nd, 2010 · 1 Comment · Elections, Irish Politics, Recession

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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Ireland Inc. bankrupt not only financially

November 19th, 2010 · 25 Comments · Elections, Irish Politics, Personal, Recession

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 […]

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The Eurogroup statement from Brussels on Ireland

November 16th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Irish Politics, Recession

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 […]

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