Tag Archives: NAMA
Oh really?
Brian Cowen speaking about how the Irish economy has turned the corner. The Irish people stood up and backed the banks of Ireland in their hour of greatest need. Now it is time for the banks to stand with the … Continue reading
Mr B, Sir. Mr, B.
Dear Minister Lenihan, it was with great interest that I noted your generous dispersal of free money yesterday. I would very much like some as I require a bail-out of around €500,000 to continue as a going concern. I am … Continue reading
NAMA-lama-ding dong
I wonder will those who protested against Head Shops and those who made public their gripe at not being able to go on holiday because they left getting their passport to the last minute turn up outside any banks today. … Continue reading
Priorities
So yesterday NAMA was passed. We don’t have money to pay for cancer vaccines, hospitals, old aged pensioners to buy a bit of wood for the fire, but we’ve got €54bn to bail out property developers and gamblers dressed as … Continue reading
This guy walks into a bank, right …
We all know how tough things are in the Current Economic Climate®© yet the Irish government has shown remarkable cunning and ingeniuty in its efforts to solve it. Forget the mythical 127,000 ‘smart economy’ jobs that the Greens are proposing. … Continue reading
With no added preservatives
The Greens staying in government is the greatest act of self-preservation since Walt Disney had his corpse frozen. This morning the Irish Times reports that a ‘senior’ Fianna Fail source told them they expect full support for the budget in … Continue reading
NAMA debate
Have been watching this all afternoon. Lenihan’s proposals and performance laughable. Using quotes from Obama pathetic and people were actually laughing at him in the house. He was heckled like a shit stand-up. Richard Bruton and Joan Burton have essentially … Continue reading
Banks agree to lend Liam Carroll even more money
Seriously. What the fuck? He owes over €1bn, his assets are barely worth 1/3 of that by all accounts, and they want to give him more money? Anglo Irish Bank, owned by the state, financed with our money, wants to … Continue reading
Here comes NAMA
Yay! NAMA is coming. The thing that is going to bankrupt us, our chidrens children, our childrens childrens children but not our childrens childrens children because at that point everyone in Ireland will have emigrated or evolved into a kind … Continue reading