impatient, obnoxious, petty, argumentative, and obsessed over meaningless details
International Monetary Fund Deputy Director Ajai Chopra said Ireland has a good chance of returning to markets if European leaders are able to stem contagion from the region’s debt crisis. We were Baaa3 and now are Ba1. That is the school like system that rates Ireland’s perceived ability to pay back what it owes. Thankfully [...]
follow up to lenihan party hard: FORMER Financial Regulator Brian Patterson has hit out at the media for being overly gloomy in a speech which saw him blame “everybody” for the country’s economic woes. Mr Patterson — who led the regulator at a time when banks such as Anglo Irish and Allied Irish Banks were [...]
I am not really going to write about the titanic or the movie of the same name. I just like the metaphor, the image and how it relates to our current economic woes. During the week a German friend said “Irishman pay your way” – I said “thanks for all the cash you gave us [...]
I saw this on the front of the Wurdeld as it was laying on a table next to me yesterday, honestly, it was in a hotel lobby, I dont know who put it there but like a car crash I couldnt stop looking. THE Sunday World today lays bare the antics of the revellers behind [...]
Detectives questioned a circus owner today about allegations that a wallaby died after being plied with ecstasy and drink at a birthday disco. The marsupial was let loose among more than 150 revellers dancing at the Clarion Hotel in Liffey Valley, west Dublin, to the theme tune of Australian television show Skippy The Bush Kangaroo. [...]
The running of the bulls comes to Ireland. Anything is possible even wearing bacon on your clothes and running away from people trying to eat you. The only time I recall seeing a village decorated like this was Ballyporeen when Ronald O’Reagan ‘found his roots’ and came to visit in 1984.
Nearly as funny as A man is due before Dublin District Court tomorrow morning following an incident in which a car was driven against the main doors of RTÉ’s television studios in Donnybrook last night. Shortly after 11pm the man, identified by RTÉ Security as Paul Stokes, drove the car onto the RTÉ campus in [...]
As a follow up to a post which links to a video of the same name It occured to me that the lyrics of some songs I love accurately depict what I see and have seen going on around me. At the risk of becoming someone who just posts links to videos I am not [...]
irishelection.com: John ‘I love going to the races’ O’Donoghue says: I will accept the verdict of informed judgement, but not the verdict of the disingenuous. I will accept the judgement of my peers after their careful reflection of all the facts and fair procedures. I will not allow my life in public service to be [...]
