Monthly Archives: September 2012

Seventy-one years after it was taken over by Kerryman Denis Guiney and his family, the famous Clerys department store in Dublin was acquired by a US company yesterday.

The takeover safeguards almost 350 jobs at the O’Connell Street store, which will continue to trade as normal.

Yay!

However, its sister shop, Guineys on Dublin’s Talbot Street, and the Clerys home furnishing stores in Leopardstown and Naas, have been closed with the loss of 29 jobs.

Ah, knickers.

Boston-based private equity group Gordon Brothers acquired Clery & Co (1941) plc through a subsidiary called OCS Investment Holdings.

Meet you under the OCS Investment Holdings clock, so.

350 Clerys jobs saved in US takeover but Guineys closes (Kierán Hancock, Irish Times)

(Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland)

There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it. That that’s an entitlement. And the government should give it to them. And they will vote for this president no matter what…These are people who pay no income tax.

 

SECRET VIDEO: Romney Tells Millionaire Donors What He REALLY Thinks of Obama Voters (Mother Jones)

Via Josh Harkinson 

Thanks Lars Biscuits

Mr Donnelly went to Washington.

And all he brought back was this:

These experts [IMF, World Bank, Harvard, etc] knew that no country had ever repaid that much debt without being able to print its own money. They knew that without a significant reduction in the national debt, a lot of people were not going to get paid back the money they had lent us.

They knew that economic growth and large-scale job creation would be next to impossible with the current levels of household debt. They knew that a country whose GNP was still falling by 2.5 per cent in the fourth year of a crisis was most definitely not on the road to recovery. .

 

We’re Mad As Hell And Need To Show It (Stephen Donnelly TD, Sunday Independent)

 

Thin Lizzy are set to record their first album in nearly 30 years, and their first without original frontman Phil Lynott, HotPress.com reports. Guitarist Scott Gorham (above) said the group will work with producer Kevin Shirley on the new album, and that recording will likely start next month. “I’ll be going out to Los Angeles at the end of the month to work on some songs with [guitarist] Damon [Johnson] and then I think we will start recording in October in our producer Kevin Shirley’s studio,” Gorham said.

 

Ok.

But only if Jim Fitz does the artwork.

Thin Lizzy to Record First Album Without Phil Lynott (Rolling Stone)

Thanks Barry H