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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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Dick Roche on Newsnight

November 17th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Elections, Irish Politics

On the night the ECB/IMF said they were coming to Dublin and that the bailout was ready, Dick Roche, Minister for Europe, chuckling away, fabricating rubbish, went on Newsnight looking for votes for FF. From 8.14 in

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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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