Dublin is closer to Donegal than it it is to Cork.
We literally did not know that.
Irish Times Letters
Monthly Archives: January 2012
JC Wexford writes:
Flicking through this week’s TV guide, I’ve just noticed there’s a total of 35 minutes of Irish-made TV on RTE 2 on Friday. A repeat of the kids’ prog ‘Roy’ (There was just an hour yesterday – ‘Roy’ again, and the News). After 50 glorious years of Irish TV could this be a new record?
Let visitors to your house know that splatters of any kind are unacceptable. You will not turn the other cheek, you will slice it! What civilized person puts a cup glistening with condensation on a bare wooden table? That’s why we have this set of blood-spattered Dexter coasters. (To put cups on, not to slice people with.) Can you imagine slicing someone open with a dull-edged coaster? That would take a great deal of effort.
$20 for a box of six blood spattered slides from Thinkgeek (currently out of stock, sadly.)
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Above: Alan Mahon, Assistant Principal, Budget and Economic Division, Department of Finance and Michael McGrath, Assitant Secretary, Budget and Economic Division, Department of Finance.
As the great British economist John Maynard Keynes once said: ‘If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has.’
How true. Ha ha.
Seriously, we’re boned.
THE UNIVERSAL social charge and the pension levy boosted the State’s tax take by €2.3 billion to €34 billion in 2011, but the Department of Finance conceded yesterday that revenues fell slightly short of their target.
The State ended the year almost €25 billion in the red, compared with €18.7 billion last year. The figure included a €9.5 billion bill for recapitalising the banks.
The final tax take of almost €34.3 billion was €873 million short of the €34.9 billion target set in Budget 2011, according to the December exchequer returns, which the Department of Finance published yesterday. Michael McGrath, assistant secretary at the department, said the additional €2.3 billion raised during the year included revenue from two extra taxes.
Final tax take sees State end year €25bn in red (Irish Times)
