Monthly Archives: April 2013

Marc_General_FinalThey all say that.

Further to Dr Julien Mercille’s paper on the Irish media’s complicity in the property bubble.

Newstalk’s Marc Coleman (above), singled out by Dr Mercille in the report as a bubble blower-upper extraordinaire while economics editor of the Irish Times, has sent us the following.

[It’s a letter to the Sunday Tribune in 2010 wherein he defends his record and correctly if cruelly predicts the paper’s demise]

marc

Earlier: Calling It

(Pic: Newstalk)

Update:

Sent last night.

BJC5Y87CQAEtHc9From 2007.

Probably out of context.

via Oireachtas Retort:

90273969Five Limericks in one

A poem.

Let’s worship the men of the Lockout,
And praise the things that Larkin said,
The tramworkers all are now heroes,
They’re heroes because they are dead.

Spare a thought for those men on that brave day,
When they stood before Murphy’s dread rage,
Then shut up and bring me my latté,
Or I’ll lower your minimum wage.

It baffles me now that mere workers,
Once could purchase a house or a car,
It’s time to clamp down on those shirkers,
We have to, we are where we are.

We’ll have no more talk of progressing,
To this one truth we’ll always hold fast,
That union men are a blessing,
As long as they stay in the past.

John Moynes

(Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)