What’s that? Another €9bn you say? Sure why not. We’ll just pluck it off this money tree we have here. And we’ll throw in a couple of token arrests to make it look as if we’re really, really cross at you for fucking things up so badly.
We’re the ones who have to pay for the massive gambling debts run up by this bank. They speculated, lost and now we’re landed with the bill. It’s like being asked to go to jail for someone else’s murder. It is the banking equivalent of the catholic church.
For more reading on this stay tuned to The Story. I suspect Gavin will have some very interesting posts in the days to come.
I love this: State ‘must invest €9bn to keep Anglo Irish Bank afloat’.
Should read: State must throw €9bn down the toilet and then burn it to keep Anglo Irish Bank afloat.
The Headlines should read
“More Money for Bastards!”
The bit I’m looking forward to is in some years when, instead of receiving a certificate in the post shwoing how many Anglo-Irish Bank shares each citizen now owns there’ll be a privatisation of the nation’s share of the bank.
This is superb. Its the only mechanism I know of where you can actually sell something to a whole load of people that they already own.
There’ll be people who have paid over and over again for Anglo’s fraud lined up to hand over more money under the impression they are making an investment.
They’ll flog their allocated 500 shares at 1 euro each that they bought for 80cents in the privatisation and think they’ve cunningly made money.
Unbelievable.
March to the Dail.
How can non-unionised people organise themselves into a mass rally?
Now if you were asked to bail out an asbestos-riddled casino built on top of an earthquake fault line on the outskirts of Kandahar and run by some mentally retarded member of the Ahern family, you might consider it.
But Jesus, Anglo-Irish!?
A “MASS RALLY” Does that involve Bishops ?
Seriously. Where do we start? Because this is fucked.
Has any one thought of throwing a rock
maybe then other people will start
But we all know that nothing willever change in Ireland
the fighting Irish is a myth ,there were only ever a handful of people trying to change things and they were usually nutters .The rest of us just talked winged or emigrated
Well if the long range weather forecast is anything to go by and according to the most accurate source for the last two years I’d say we’re in for a long and very hot summer.
Add in a lot of unemployed people, unrest in the public service unions and revelations of corruption from the tribunals and you never know.
There are so many people under pressure that it would only take an over the top reaction from some Peadar in uniform- this kind of stuff usually needs a spark.
WHERE ARE ALL THE ‘OIRLAND IS GREAT’ BOYS FROM A YEAR OR SO AGO NOW?
I CAN STILL AFFORD THOSE STEAKS!
Gluey:They’re all outside the Israeli Embassey looking for Irish passports..
Wow, everyone must be out marching so. I’ll get me coat.
I’m cooking meatballs in tomato sauce. Caught a plump orphan this morning!
HM, they’re all queueing outside the Pisspurt Orifice
Would make for an interesting survey mind…
How many people got fucked by the curch and how many by the banks. As a venn diagram it would be very poor… just a circle really
Church not curch… Fat fingers init
This is democracy? Corruption and moronics. I think I’d rather be kept poor and honest by a benevolent dictator than have this travesty.
The whole lot of them should be skronched off the Cliffs of Moher.
Dear Mr. Cowen,
We’ve heard all the excuses and none of them work.
It’s easy to resign, just head down to your local President’s office.
regards
Ireland.
WE IRISH ARE LIKE SHEEP
We bleat a lot but we will still end up in the Slaughterhouse
IF THIS WAS FRANCE THERE WOULD BE RIOTS ON THE STREETS
at the end of the day most irish people will complain but if they have a few euro for their pints and their cigs they will put up with it.
we are too submissive but thats because we are so used to their bullshit by know
and we have two more years of this to go……
Two more years? Try a lifetime.
I’d emigrate only I already did. I obviously didn’t go far enough. But its not my fault we haven’t got interstellar travel yet.
A mate of mine rang the Tax Office this morning about a job vacancy..
Some guy answered the phone and informed him that they weren’t answering the phones today..
Father Ted was a prophecy.
Sorry, off topic but I haven’t seen this story in the Irish Times yet…the whole church is at it, from the top!
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/785071–pope-wouldn-t-discipline-priest-who-abused-200-deaf-boys?bn=1
Cost to the Irish taxpayer of bailing out Anglo – 18 billion (or whatever insane sum it eventually reaches)
Total costs for reconstruction of Haiti after the earthquake – 11.5 billion
This truly is fucked up beyond belief …
Anglo Irish Bank seemed to tolerate low standards in high places and obviousily ran a Golden Circle I am aware that they currently have on a debtors list a current sitting high court judge who is using his clout to prevent his name been released The same judge has set himself up a Foundation in the UK for £82m sterling using his wife’s name intials are “RW” and his late mother in law’s age The address for residency he is using is currently been investigated to see if the house is occupied or empty and the registered business address appears to be one where correspondence is just sent on to the person
The judge has been using the assets for his own personal use since his mother died nine years ago well with £82m lodged in a bank account a person could quite easily live off the interest alone He appears to have made one substantial payment with the assets in 2005 made what appear to be false admissions to substantiate the payment
It would be very unusual for a barrister to have accumulated that type of income in their career and certainly not in the type of advocacy this judge did as a barrister where most of his came from state funded court cases He only appeared in one tribunal and that was in a small way his earnings for that tribunal in the 1980’s were I believe £40,000
It is very much a case of low standards in high places as this judge is one of the most prominent judges in the central criminal courts and he is overseeing justice to others yet his fellow judges consider him fit to practice on the bench
Barry White?
Brian Lenihan is a cowardly cunt.
He didn’t have to.
He just didn’t.
Holemaster is right.
Revolutions have started for less.
We now vent our outrage on the interweb, and leave our elected officials to do whatever the fuck they please.
Seriously.