Monthly Archives: February 2011

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YouTube user mattinbrooklyn uploaded this clip of his buddy Boris proudly showing off his ‘shaving helmet’.

We’d like to suggest that Boris sends one to a certain someone. Although there’s probably only a tiny patch round the back that needs doing.

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    The Green manifesto. Coulda, shoulda, woulda.

  • Invest €500m from the National Pension Reserve Fund into insulation
  • Build 2 gigawatts of interconnection to make Ireland an energy exporter
  • Plant 15,000 hectares of forestry
  • Market Ireland internationally as a ‘Green Island’ and implement Green Star rating for eco-tourism
  • Roll out ultra-fast broadband Exemplar network nationwide
  • Invest €70m in web training for 20,000 unemployed people who can then work to web-enable Irish business
  • Provide access for the private sector to Government data
  • Transfer all public services to cloud computing
  • Establish an International Content Service Centre
  • Abolish Forfás and redirect savings into EI/IDA grants
  • Create a Green IFSC for carbon verification and green financial services
  • Spend the next five years in the wilderness only appearing in public to apologise.

Anglo Irish Bank Corp. Chairman Alan Dukes said the nation’s lenders may need about a further €50 billion euros ($68.2 billion) of capital, more than absorbing a bailout fund for the banks.

The Dublin-based government has already poured 46 billion euros into the banks, and can tap 35 billion euros of extra capital under a bailout agreed last year with the International Monetary Fund and European Union.

“A clean banking core will require something in the region of 50 billion euros,” Dukes, 65, a former finance minister, said in an e-mailed copy of a speech today. “A clean banking restructuring implies the acceptance of irrecoverable losses.”

Bloomberg

(Photocall Ireland)