Monthly Archives: March 2012

Financial advisor Brendan Burgess of AskAboutMoney.com.

I would imagine that the vast majority of people support the household charge and other taxes, even if they don’t like paying them.  But the protests by the vocal minority who oppose them get a lot of attention. How would those of us who support the charge campaign in its favour? Here are some ideas –
Maybe organise a day in mid March “Pay your Household Charge today”
Issue stickers “I have paid my household charge”
Help relatives and neighbours who don’t have internet access to pay online.
Put up posters.

Alternatively, you can repeatedly play this video of Brendan from 2008:

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2q7bBVAo74

Bryan Dobson: “You advise people on what they might do with their money…Irish bank shares are down to what they were in the mid-1980s, is that a buying opportunity?”

Brendan Burgess: “Irish banks are very well regulated, Irish banks are very sound….. we’re going to look back in a few times at the state of Irish banks [and ask] how did we not fill our shoes with those shares?”

Oh.

Frank McDonald (above), Irish Times Environment Correspondent, and Fine Gael junior Minister Alan Kelly on last night’s Frontline on RTE 1.

Pat Kenny: “Frank, you have written about [Environment Minister] Phil Hogan and what he did with five separate inquiries that were actually under way, into planning, which were then suspended.”

Frank McDonald: “Well, I mean, I think that that was a very serious matter. John Gormley, the former minister for the environment, had received detailed complaints and I know in the case of Carlow County Council they were very detailed indeed, of planning irregularities. And I’m not talking, we’re not talking about corruption here, we’re just talking about bizarre decision making and you know really shocking messing about.”

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RETAILER GAME has closed all of its stores in the State with the loss of 121 jobs after the group went into administration. Administrators appointed yesterday also closed most of its stores in Northern Ireland, cutting 110 jobs.

The Game Group became the latest retailer to go into administration, after the company last week suspended its listing on the London Stock Exchange and said it was seeking the protection of the courts.

Only five outlets in Ireland will survive the cull – all in the North.

Game Closes All Shops In Republic (Irish Times)

The Death Of The High Street Game Retailer (IGN)

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