impatient, obnoxious, petty, argumentative, and obsessed over meaningless details
"RIP Brian Lenihan"? Seriously? Just because you die doesn't mean you get de-cunted.— Kitta Please (@Fluffykins2009) June 10, 2011
After reading Morgan Kellys article in the Irish Times yesterday I cried from embarassment: the sole purpose of the Irish bailout was to frighten the Spanish into line with a vivid demonstration that EU rescues are not for the faint-hearted. And the ECB plan, so far anyway, has worked. Given a choice between being strung [...]
Image from boards.ie: More embarrassment for the Gardai today as a second report of sex talk emerged but this time one of the Gardai wants to make a video with one of the protestors wives. On the tape, Mr Monaghan can be heard talking to another protester and referring to a garda wearing a high-visibility [...]
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 [...]
irishtimes.com: Minister for Enterprise Batt O’Keeffe described the situation as being akin to a poker game. “We’ve got to play poker over the next couple of days to see what cards these people have to play, what exactly they have in mind. We would like to see the colour of their money,” Mr O’Keeffe said [...]
The brits want to help us out: NY Times The British government signaled Wednesday that it could offer direct financial assistance to Ireland, even though Britain is outside the euro zone, as prospects grew for an international rescue package to avert another European debt crisis. … Irish pride is an important factor, given how long [...]
irishtimes.com: The Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission has received 28 complaints about the behaviour of gardaí following a protest organised by the Union of Students in Ireland (USI) last week. Some 25,000 people participated. If you thought the behaviour of the Gardai was about to change, think again. In this video there are beatings of people [...]
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 [...]
no, actually yeltsin had the smarts to stay asleep: newstalk.ie: Brian Cowen is robustly rejecting opposition claims he sounded drunk or hungover on the radio this morning. journalist Lise Hand says she saw Brian Cowen leaving the bar at 3.30am after having warbled an abridged version of the Lakes of Pontrachain From an ogra fianna [...]
