This is looking east on the Old Head of Kinsale, before you get to the golf club, the one that’s just In My Way.
Not too far away from there is a pub called, I think, The Speckled Door, and I had lunch there last Tuesday. It was a stunning day – I’d gone to meet [...]
No person should be a TD for more than 3 terms. I’d like to make it 2 terms but there is a debate for that being problematic.
No person over the age of 60 stands for election. Not being ageist but there are retirement rules in this country and they should apply to politicians also.
No person [...]
Some time in the next 2 years, there will be an election. This means that people will be wanting YOUR vote. Unfortunately, I’ve come to the conclusion that despite grand aspirations, many politicians in Ireland aspire to being politicians and have forgotten that means that they answer to you, the electorate. So we need to [...]
Enda Kenny survived his confidence motion today. There are rumours that there were 6 votes in it. There were 70 people voting.
While you can’t argue with him winning – this is the choice of the Fine Gael Parliamentary party’s choice – there is the more than inconvenient issue that a lot of people who vote [...]
Back in the days that I was in college doing a module on translation technology, one of our lecturers talked about a concept of the “green dream”, particularly with respect to translators; how being connected to data communications service would make it possible for you/anyone to export translation services to anywhere in the world because [...]
For various reasons I am looking at going back to college next autumn. In fact, the whole college thing has been under consideration for three or four months but the bastardisation of semesterisation in Irish colleges means that on average, intake is in autumn and that is it. This is in contrast to Germany where [...]
31 March 2010. This should go down as a seminal day in Irish economic history.
Quinn Insurance into administration
1200 bank loans transferred to NAMA on a haircut of 47% on average. Two building societies facing annihilation.
8 billion transferred to the systemically important Anglo Irish Bank. Because saving it is less expensive than closing it.
AIB and Bank [...]
Down. Basically, down. How far down is the problem. I don’t know. And over what time frame, difficult.
But
falling incomes
general CPI deflation
increased property supply
increasing tax burden
increasing interest rates
increasing unemployment
collapse in inward migration
increase in net emigration
This suggests downwards in the short term.
On the other hand
government action by way of moratoria on repossession proceedings
government action on properties securing [...]