If i was really good I’d have an intense picture of tally counters looking seriously at bundles of ballots being counted but frankly I have too much else to worry about.
Yesterday was the Lisbon Treaty, re-submitted to the people for approval. As things stand, it looks as though the result is going to be a [...]
For entertainment, do listen to that podcast. Michael O’Leary is hilarious.
One who is Dana because he couldn’t get elected to the Dail, one who used to be Dana but couldn’t get re-elected and one who wanted to be Dana but he couldn’t get elected.
What a comment….
Patricia McKenna is yelling at me via TodayFM podcosts. I don’t like this. I mean, you’re on the radio, you don’t have to yell.
EDIT: I’d also comment that Patricia McKenna’s record as health spokesperson for the Green Party makes her incompetent to comment on changes to health policy. Here’s why I think that.
Liam Carroll’s companies were back at the High Court yesterday for round 2 of “Please Give Us Examinership”.
The High Court said no, and the written judgment from Justice Clark is due out this afternoon some time.
The reaction – again – has been very interesting. When the first case followed by the Supreme Court case was [...]
Dear Eamon Ryan,
please get a grip. I see here you claim that NAMA will not pay over the odds for assets.
If NAMA was not going to pay over the odds for the assets, NAMA would not be necessary to save the skin of the banking industry. The whole country is getting up in arms because [...]
Ulster Bank hold some shares as security for debts from Liam Carroll’s companies and they are taking an interest in that security now according to the Irish Times.
You’d be inclined to wonder why. Up to last week, apparently the only bank that wasn’t playing ball with the “we can trade our way out of difficulty” [...]
Fifteen years ago, I sat in an economics lecturer where the guy giving the lecture was talking about a discussion he had had on meritocracy with some students he was teaching in America. He stated that they were all fully in favour of meritocracy until it was clarified that in a truly meritocratic society such [...]
Two key things happened this week. The legislation for NAMA was published and Liam Carroll and the Zoe Group of companies were in court looking for examiner protection from its debtors. The hearing was by Mr Justice Peter Kelly and the result came out yesterday afternoon. Friday of a bank holiday weekend.
Liam Carroll is not [...]