I’ve been cranky for the past few weeks, unwell, computer problems and a heavy workload. The bullshit from the media on the property market isn’t making me feel much better. Friday’s auction of ‘distressed’ properties stank of those queues back in the tiger time that were seen overnight outside estate agents for the purchase of […]
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I am still processing yesterday. A bit of me can’t believe Brian Cowen got it so wrong and then the rest of me looks at the last two years of poor communication and appalling decisions, arrogance and lack of understanding or contact with the public and completely understands how it got to this. He was […]
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You’d be forgiven for thinking there were not 437,000 people on the live register given the last ten days of fightbacks, distractions, chicken impressions (Mary Hanafin) and the rest. Now Dara Calleary (next leader of FF though I don’t see the draw myself) today was anxious to talk about the 1250 jobs that were […]
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Enda Kenny – remember him? Leader of the opposition from Mayo, longest serving member of the Dáil, survivor of the heave. He’s been missing a lot this week – of course he’s in the Dáil asking the long strangulated question of the Taoiseach (ok not as long and strangulated as Gilmore’s can be) but generally […]
While we think we know the cuts to come because of the leaks and the four year plan there will be many cuts not announced in the budget speech but in documents released shortly afterwards by government departments. I will be having a look out for these to keep an eye on the seemingly smaller […]