Monthly Archives: June 2013

90182820angloa1laffunderwearRecorded in the run up to the bank guarantee.

A mere fragment of a transcript of a conversation between Anglo Irish Bank senior managers John Bowe and Peter Fitzgerald from September 2008 revealed by Paul Williams in today’s Irish Independent.

This exchanges (above) occurred following a meeting between the bank and the  Financial Regulator’s office at the Central Bank to assess Anglo’s bad debt exposure.

Mr Bowe is asked by Mr Fitzgerald how they had come up with the figure of €7bn.

“Just, as Drummer (then-CEO David Drumm) would say, ‘picked it out of my arse‘.”

 

 

Inside Anglo: the secret recordings (Paul Williams, Irish Independent)

(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)

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Woke up this afternoon and I crawled right out of a skip,
Well my Liger was gone, and I was left here all dehydrated,
Yeah, I ain’t had no Cheese Flavoured Moments  since 1524,
No, I been selling crack to nuns and using an arthritic old man as a surfboard since the age of three,
Think I’ll go and eat decorative gravel before the deep orange colouration in my urine gets too much.

Mmf.

Unless you can do better.

Oh please do better.

eatliver

BNc_nzkCYAApAhi31/3/2010. Special Needs Protests 31/3/2010. Special Needs Protests 31/3/2010. Special Needs ProtestsA demonstration against SNA cuts from March 2010 when Fine Gael and Labour were in opposition.

All the gang’s there; Bottler, Enda, Hayeser, James Bannon, Eamon, even Willie Penrose.

They even had a Private Members Motion put forward by Brian Hayes.

Fine Gael Special Education Needs Motion – Dail Eireann 31st March 2010 (Dan Neville, Fine Gael TD)

Millions for the banks but only cuts to Special Needs Assistants (John O’Mahony, Fine Gael TD April 2010)

Top pic via SpNeedsParents

(James Horan / Photocall Ireland)

24/5/2013 Third National Patient Safety ConferencesBottler.

He simply can’t help himself.

All the money so far provided from a funding boost for autism services announced by Minister for Health James Reilly last year has been spent on cutting waiting lists for children with the condition in his political heartland in north Dublin, newly released documents show.

Just €300,000 of the €3 million promised over three years by Dr Reilly in January 2012 has so far been allocated, all of it to north Dublin, according to the documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act.

Dr Reilly’s announcement in January 2012 of an additional €3 million in funding for children with autism appears to have taken his own officials by surprise, the documents show. One told a colleague in an internal email that it was “news to me” while another referred to the matter as coming “out of the blue”.

 

All the money.

All €300,000 allocated from autism fund spent in Reilly’s north Dublin heartland (Paul Cullen, Irish Times)

Analysis: Minister’s indecision blocked €3m autism support (Paul Cullen, Irish Times)

Meanwhile, why does Dr Reilly’s personal website reilly.ie forward to the Department of Health’s site?

Anyone?

Any excuse

(Laura Hutton / Photocall Ireland)