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mr burns verkaufen der kraftwerk 2

Comments Off Posted by on November 17, 2010

March 2009, http://atoast2toast.com/2009/03/05/mr-burns-verkaufen-der-kraftwerk/: It crossed my mind that a simpson episode has parallels with the German story I put up earlier today. Mr Burns is the Irish people, the factory is Ireland and the German company is … well Germany. Mr. Burns sells the Power Plant to a German company for $100 million. In the [...]

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Irish Pride to blame

Comments Off Posted by on November 17, 2010

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 [...]

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free money

2 Comments Posted by on November 17, 2010

EUROZONE FINANCE ministers backed moves last night to intensify “short and focused” preparations for an EU/IMF rescue plan for Ireland. IMPACT OF THE EU STRUCTURAL FUNDS IN IRELAND (1989-2006) The European Union’s Regional Policy, through the Structural Funds, has played an important part in the transformation of the Irish economy, in particular by bringing about [...]

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jackpot

Comments Off Posted by on October 24, 2010

wow … some of this video by German Spiegel magazine is in English and worth a watch to see what people get up to on the Hill of Uishnech on the 1st of May for ze festival of ze fires. Presumably they ran a bus from the Rossport-Shannon-Tara and Glen of Aherlow drum circles.

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Hitler on the Luas on Twitpic

8 Comments Posted by on October 20, 2010

Hitler on the Luas on Twitpic.

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always something there to remind you

Comments Off Posted by on July 28, 2010

Every time I leave Ireland the trip through the airport on the way back serves to remind you of the annoying things about living here. There are interactions that you dont seem to get at other times. The people flying from Düsseldorf to Dublin yesterday were definetly strange. The first sight of some fugg boots [...]

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operation green

Comments Off Posted by on June 30, 2010

Bizarre photoshopping of swastikas on Dail Eireann – wishful thinking from irishtimes.com ? The Nazis allocated 50,000 German troops for the invasion of Ireland. An initial force of about 4,000 crack troops, including engineers, motorised infantry, commando and panzer units, was to depart France from the Breton ports of L’orient, Saint-Nazaire and Nantes in the [...]

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no, not racists

Comments Off Posted by on June 29, 2010

On RTE’s world cup programs poor ol Johnnie Giles seems to be asleep. When they wake him up he often cant remember who is playing. Last week he even got Algeria confused with Nigeria. It was quiet embarassing for all but good old Billo was able to deflect attention and moved on to more klangers. [...]

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podolski

Comments Off Posted by on June 13, 2010

Twitter was awash with people questioning the birthplace of #podolski as soon as he scored a decent goal for #Germany. Flashback to 2008: A Polish far-right politician wants Polish-born German striker Lukas #Podolski, who scored both goals in #Germany’s 2-0 victory over Poland in the European Championship on Sunday, to be stripped of his Polish [...]

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if ww2 was declared on facebook

Comments Off Posted by on April 21, 2010

someone clearly put a lot of time into this:

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