Yearly Archives: 2013

 

Excellent.

ECB president Mario Draghi’s happy face’

Irish taxpayers will spend the next 40 years paying for losses rung up by a failed private bank

Ireland’s immediate burden has been eased by Thursday’s deal, but Irish taxpayers will still spend decades paying the price demanded by the ECB at the height of the panic in 2008.

…it’s no secret that the ECB has played a key role in this Irish drama. Lenihan maintained near the end of his life that he had put the bank guarantee in place at the insistence of the ECB, although the ECB has never acknowledged that publicly.

Ireland’s Bondage (Editorial, Wall Street Journal)

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Eanna Forde writes:

Jessie is a five year old Cocker Spaniel  and was last seen around Coolamber in Rathcoole [south Dublin] at around 6pm yesterday evening.

Her owner is my mam and she’s devastated

Jessie is very friendly but she’s never gone away from the house on her own for any prolonged period. And would certainly have gone home with anyone who would have taken her in. She had a collar on, but unfortunately isn’t chipped and lost her name tag. Thank you.

 

Anyone?

A vintage Mini Cooper parked defiantly during the of set up for the RIAC (Royal Irish Automobile Club) National Classic Car Show [this weekend] at the RDS Simmonscourt, Ballsbridge, Dublin.

Meanwhile, inside…

Anyone name this model (below) being ‘driven’ by elderly joy rider John Cassin?

Lines close at 11am.

(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)