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ireland plays heads up poker with IMF

Comments Off Posted by on November 18, 2010

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 [...]

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Conspicuous Consumption

1 Comment Posted by on November 20, 2009

I learned about this in college. There was a lot going on in Ireland lately: The term conspicuous consumption was introduced by economist and sociologist Thorstein Veblen in his 1899 book The Theory of the Leisure Class. Veblen used the term to depict the behavioral characteristic of the nouveau riche, a class emerging in the [...]

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cheating french and blind swedes

1 Comment Posted by on November 19, 2009

blog.taranga.com: “Throughout the country today there is an air of bitterness. We were beaten unfairly and there is general disgust in France too,” McHugh said. “Friends of mine who attended last night’s game phoned me this morning from a cafe in Paris to report that the French people are ashamed and do not regard this [...]

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its a nice day for a white wedding

3 Comments Posted by on November 7, 2009

independent.ie: There is a Mafia feel to this lot. The main men are directing families around Britain and Ireland. They have called us racist, but we lived happily with English Travellers for 40 years until the Irish ones forced them out. These guys are extremely aggressive, demanding and anti-social. They shout at staff in shops, [...]

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lisbon wins

Comments Off Posted by on October 3, 2009

So the Irish decided we had enough assurances and it looks like Lisbon is going ahead. Who did the Irish think they were to block the EU after all they had done for Ireland, which to be fair was an awful lot. We took the structural funds to to build a ‘transport network’. The only [...]

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no to nama, yes to lisbon

Comments Off Posted by on September 30, 2009

The Lisbon vote was and is a bit of a sham. In June last year people were told by the government to vote yes and not to ask any questions. It was plain arrogant by the government. EU Commissioner Charlie McCreevy admitted he had’nt even read the thing. The No campaign were well funded and [...]

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shit flows to the bottom

1 Comment Posted by on September 22, 2009

As follow up to plausibledeniability – it now appears the toll Bridge people have seen sense in the end. My ticket has gone through the system It went from: STR – Standard Toll Request UTN – Unpaid Toll Notice Prosecution Entity – that sounds a bit like robocop could have said it – how Orwellian. [...]

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CORK

Comments Off Posted by on July 23, 2009

I am off to Cork this weekend. It is the real capital or you could call it the fillet of Munster. I asked a colleague who recently moved from Cork if there were any issues with what he had just done. He said “of course, they hate you up here and then they hate you [...]

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4 legs good, 2 legs better

1 Comment Posted by on July 22, 2009

RTE.ie: A property dispute between developer Sean Dunne and his former estate agents CB Richard Ellis has got under way in the Commercial Court. Justice Finlay Geoghegan this morning rejected an attempt by Mr Dunne to seek an adjournment of the case on the grounds that he had swine flu and could not attend the [...]

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exclusivity

1 Comment Posted by on July 8, 2009

I have been thinking about the concept of exclusivity when it comes to club membership in Ireland. This is following where the streets have no name. dictionary.reference.com defines exclusivity as some of the following: incompatible shutting out all others from a part or share noting that in which no others have a share disposed to [...]

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