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Irish Times/ TNS-MRBI Poll is Good News, but not great news, for Cowen and Fianna Fail
The second part of the Irish Times/TNS-MRBI poll released today has state of the parties and party leaders. It is good news for Cowen in that the Fianna Fail support level has risen by a statistically significant 3% to 20% but bad news in that they are still the third party behind Fine Gael and [...]
Anglo Irish gets another €172 million
It’s small change by the standards of the sums being tossed around for NAMA and the bank recapitalizations, but the Irish Stock Exchange company announcements carries news of a capital infusion to Anglo Irish. Since the company is delisted, it’s not clear why the announcement is there — perhaps this is needed for the supposed [...]
What Lisbon will do for us : Key ‘No’ arguments don’t hold up
‘Lamentable’ was how my friend described the Lisbon Treaty campaign thus far, ‘and on both sides too.’ He’s right. Some of what has passed for debate has been nothing short of disgraceful, particularly on the ‘Yes’ side. Witness Michael O’Leary’s dismissively vacuous and insulting contributions, that perhaps he finds charming, but certainly no-one else does. [...]
Lisbon 2 poll: 48% (+2) Yes 33% no (+4)
Latest poll from TNS-MRBI in today’s Irish Times. The poll was conducted with a representative sample of 1,000 voters in face-to-face interviews at 100 sampling points in all 43 constituencies. The margin of error is plus or minus 3 per cent. Highlights: Breakdown of support by party/class/gender/age/region: Yes/No FF: 74-16 FG: 57-31 Labour: 46-34 Green: [...]
Did Ireland nearly pull the European banking roof down?
It’s going to be worth watching BBC2’s The Love of Money at 9pm tonight. It’s going through the sequence of events this time last year as pressure mounted on global banking systems. The show’s apparent scoop is that RBS (Ulster Bank parent) and HBOS were within hours of losing all access to liquidity in early [...]
In case you missed it, Declan Ganley and Michael O Leary Debate Lisbon
On the Last Word earlier the two were part of a six-person panel debate on Lisbon. The audio is online and Alexia went along to Qik it and cover it for a liveblog. Thanks to them for giving the MP3 in two parts below. One of Alexia’s Videos:
Sectarianism and Lisbon
Reading the latest press release by Labour’s Alan Kelly you would think this was 1972 and this release was coming from the IRA. It is truly an incredible statement to come from a politician in Europe. Playing the sectarian bigotry card. Alas no it is a release from 2009. Alan Kelly seems firmly intent on [...]
