Monthly Archives: October 2012

A chem-trailed fluffy cloud-filled paradise.

But where?

Shiela Larkin writes`;

I reckon your readers will just love another ‘where is this?’ photo (probably not, they can be a cantankerous lot). I took this a couple of weeks ago and have been humming and hawing over sending it in to you guys. Feck it, today I thought I’d send it in.

 

Lines close at 5.30pm

Update: Sheila writes: “It’s a view out onto Lough Derg, the N Tipp side, near enough to Ballinderry village. There probably could be more lake in it, but it was the sky that caught my eye.“

Independent MEP Marian Harkin said that “Angela Merkel, having embraced Enda Kenny at the EU summit on Friday, subsequently showed this to be a ‘Judas Kiss’ when she ruled out back-dated recapitalisation of Eurozone banks”.

Speaking from the European Parliament, Harkin argued that this is “an extraordinary setback and a real kick in the teeth to our leaders who have been struggling earnestly to achieve a fair deal for Ireland”.

She added that “our banking debt of € 64 Billion – which Ireland put in place to save German, French and other European banks, as well as our own – cannot be left on the shoulders of Irish taxpayers. It is unjust, unfair and it makes the possibility of recovery virtually impossible”.


Harkin denounces Merkel’s “Judas Kiss” (Westmeath Independent)

(dpa)

Literally.

Eddie Hobbs in today’s Wall Street Journal writes:

So while Time magazine and others eulogise the plucky leader of the Irish people, the truth is that Enda Kenny leads a Vichy government—captive externally to creditors that still insist on loading bank debt onto the sovereign, and internally to a tribe of insiders led by union godfathers in a deal that protects the government’s own excessive pay and pensions while bankers lean over its shoulders to rewrite insolvency laws. This isn’t just crony capitalism. It’s crony democracy.

So there.

Don’t Expect a Celtic Comeback (Eddie Hobbs, Wall Street Journal)

(Graham Hughes/Photocall Ireland)

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