as minister for finance – he worked out that if he changed a cheque from punt to sterling and back 142 times, taking into account commissions – he could make the monies disappear, thus solving the country’s national debt problem over night and kick starting the Celtic Tiger. Next! “erh punt – sterling – punt…
Category: politics
[Rpt] Teflon® 10 year guarantee
bizarre day (June 14th 2007); i walked contra flow to the traffic of TDs heading to the Mass on westland row for the blessing of the 30th Dail 🙂 Major govt. limo pile up outside the church with Special Branch escort to get to holy communion in time, before confession. Bless me father for i…
[Rpt] Mother Board
first invented for children’s entertainment and folksy guitar playing this model went on to greater things. {final upgrade of eprom chip before switch on} shane hegarty has a election piece on time past over on the ireland.com blogs
A global shock to the system
Global capitalism faces its worst crisis since 1945. by Lynn Walsh, Socialist Party Global capitalism faces its worse crisis since the end of the second world war. “This is not a normal crisis”, financier George Soros told the gloomy delegates attending this year’s Davos forum of big business leaders. “We are at the end of…
Hillary & Eleanor
When Hillary Clinton came to Dublin in 2004 fund raising, she went shopping and purchased 3 CDs. One of the three was by Eleanor McEvoy whom Hillary had met in December 1996 when McEvoy warmed up the 80,000 strong crowd in a cold College Green before the Clintons took the stage. [the song is ‘Leave…
€3.50 per school child – water charges
thanks bertie ahern & Fianna Fail. “those buckets will come in handy for a whip around”
edros site amenity zoning gone
yesterday local councillors Cllr Healy Maher & Cosgrave supported the material contravention that gave way to development on the Edros site. photo taken in march 2003 at a previous rezoning attempt at the site. in November in the Irish Times cllr Healy having objected to the planning application said the following Watch this Space Opposition…
School Principals of Ireland time to tell the Government where to stick it.
€3.50 per child water tax bin the bill Tens of thousands of litres of water leak from the mains water to the ground water every day. Children sit in drafty prefab rooms in need of repair, FF/GP/PD govt give nowhere near the cap grant they promised in May ’07 and class sizes promised to INTO…
Fine Xmas
got this last year from Brody Sweeney / fine gael. Brody’s .ie/.com are gone as is his ambition of a Dail seat to young gun Terrence Flanagan who is busy delivering retraction notices to every door in Sutton Park over storm drains & Brickfields. the card needs a caption. Out in the cold for 5…