Yearly Archives: 2013

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The latest IMF report card is in.

They want more houses repossessed.

And faster.

RTÉ reports:

“The IMF states lenders are “only beginning to tackle non-performing loans”.

It says repossessions are low at 0.3% of total mortgage arrears in 2012, compared to 3.25% in Britain and the US.The IMF said that suggested a need to strengthen the efficiency of the repossession regime. It also says that the designation of specialist judges could concentrate expertise for handling a “potentially larger volume of repossession cases in an expedited manner”, while maintaining protections for homeowners.”

 

IMF delivers tough assessment of Irish economy (RTÉ)

Previously: The Post-Easter Rising

(Pic: The Atlantic)

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Meanwhile, at the Roundwood Reservoir in Co Wicklow.

 

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_66725429_63880152Novelist Iain Banks (above), who writes sci-fi as Iain M Banks, has announced he has only months left to live.

Fellow Scottish author, Ian Rankin, said the news of [Iain] Banks’ terminal cancer was “just awful”.

He Tweeted: “Typical of Iain to propose marriage to his partner Adele with the words ‘Will you do me the honour of becoming my widow?”

 

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Iain Banks diagnosed with gall bladder cancer (Guardian)

Thanks Mark Dennehy and Sid

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Siblling of Daedalus writes:

German propaganda cards (via Ebay), part of the ‘England Robber-State’ series, detailing British abuses in Ireland. The first deals with the Famine, the second depicts a semi-naked Ireland on a crucifix bemoaning her fate. The cards appear to date from the Third Reich era but the illustrations used first appeared in 19th century French journals.

Gut times.

Screen Shot 2013-04-03 at 14.55.19Jim McElvanna writes:

I was having a couple of beers with another Irish friend  in Kingston last week, when I realised the waitress wasn’t using table numbers for the bill. She was lovely, in fairness, but I wonder if it was a response to BoltfaceGate?

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zm9A0XS2m4M

Roman Antix, the band fronted by a 21 year-old Russell Crowe (aka Russ le Roq) and his mate Billy Dean Cochran that would evolve into 30 Odd Feet Of Grunts, perform What’s The Difference on NZ pop show Shazam! in 1985.

He was Australia’s Shakin’ Stevens.

Mmf.

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