If you are thinking of donating to a charity this year you might consider the Kerry Rape Crisis Centre for their support of a victim of sexual assault subject to horrific community bullying in Listowel.
Minister engages in excessive expenditure for private jet citing pressures of schedule and lack of commercial options to attend an event. Resulting public outcry causes minister to resign before he is sacked.
It’s France, last month, when the aid minister Alain Joyandet chartered a jet to go a donors conference for Haiti — conveniently located in [...]
A little Saturday puzzler. One likes to believe that the annual report of a financial organisation provides a somewhat comprehensive description of its activities and accounts. With that in mind, consider the following: Where in the 2009 annual report of the Central Bank of Ireland is there a discussion of its approximately €10 billion loan [...]
July 1st, 2010. A momentous day for Ireland, and one that will be remembered in history for a long time to come. Not as momentous as July 7th, 1993 perhaps, but astonishing that we’ve reached this point just 17 years after Mary Robinson signed into law the decriminalisation of homosexuality.
As we all wait out the diplay of Fine Gael self-indulgence that would shame even the most vain World Cup WAG, it’s worth recalling that there are several sleeper stories floating around that could yet shed further light on our present predicament. Take in particular the missing millions that the HSE says went to SIPTU [...]
Another day, another confidence motion. Well it may have been if #fgheave was not going on in the background.
If you care to watch the main speeches you can watch Enda Kenny here (with James Reilly his new best friend/wannabe deputy leader sitting beside him) , Brian Cowen and him saying sorry for the government’s part, [...]
Latest Irish Times/IPSOS-MRBI (the newly merged group) poll. Poll taken Tue-Wed when the banking report drip feed was on but before it became main news. Last comparable poll (January) in brackets: FF 17 (22), FG 28 (32). Lab 32 (24), SF 9 (8), Green 3 (3), Ind 11 (11).
Have at the interpretation in comments. To [...]
Friday evening. Bank holiday weekend. What better time for a document dump?
We are now much closer to the “nearly 200″ figure for deaths of young people in some form of care/interaction that initially circulated in the media. Not least because the 151 doesn’t include the earlier 37. Apparently the post-18 years of age transition out [...]
Minister for Environment and Local Government John Gormley has today published the two consultants reports’ into the planning and finance functions at the Dublin Docklands Development Authority (which were previously published in draft form by Fine Gael) and has also accepted — 5 months later — Fine Gael’s proposal that the DDDA should be subject [...]
Below the fold, the text of Article 136 from the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU), which is the consolidated set of treaties relating to the EU; the context of Article 136 itself originated with Lisbon. This Article is extremely important because the European Commission is making it the legal basis of [...]
In tomorrows Sunday Business Post
Fine Gael 33 (-2)
Fianna Fáil 23 (-1)
Labour 24 (+7)
Green 6 (+1)
Sinn Fein 6 (-4)
Indepedents 8
More on leaders ratings later
Below the fold, the transcript of Leaders’ Questions on Tuesday 20 April. The legal contortions that are required to reconcile Brian Cowen’s transparently untransparent answer with what we now know about Robbie Boucher’s early retirement provision are considerable — but then again not much more than what was on display from the law firm of [...]
HSE reports on deaths of Young Person A and Young Person B. Young Person B was named by Barry Andrews in Dail Eireann on RTE. The reports are summaries and only hint at the disastrous care received by A and B. One example from B –
The independent living accommodation that was provided to Young Person B [...]
The final conference in the season is taking place this weekend as the Labour Party head to Galway (Fianna Fáíl will be holding their conference later this year). Already their prescence has drawn a dig from FF’s Deputy Mayor of Galway regarding that campaign and petition of themselves they launched this week.
The Labour Party will [...]
From the ESRI Spring Bulletin –
For 2010 and 2011, we have assumed that the Government will borrow €2 billion in each year to fund the recapitalisation of Anglo Irish Bank and INBS. This increases the exchequer deficit in both years by €2 billion, but it does not appear in the estimate of the General Government [...]
“We used to provide Irish developers with loan terms, but insist of due diligence. They would then go off to Anglo Irish and be given the cash with no need for any paperwork”
As told to UK property expert Peter Bill.
Incidentally, he thinks that it’s former Central Bank governor John Hurley who has big questions to [...]
In case you missed it – Brian Lenihan’s speech earlier today introducing the Motion on the Stability of the Banking System.
Dan Boyle sheds the green jersey. His Sunday Tribune comments (which only got a weblink late in the day) are noted by Reuters.
Ivor the Driver — full Seanad report. It was nice of Bertie to send Ivor’s letter of appointment to his Cork address.
How ossified is Irish politics? In the blink of an eye, Australia — which had no recession — replaces its Prime Minister.
I’m a victim of unique Irish blame culture, says Harney
Things Ministers don't do part 2: Harney is not really responsible for these clinial fuck-ups. Sure kick her over policy but not failure. Typical Irish begrudgerry.
