The recriminations begin.
From the heavily anti-Brexit FT’s Monday edition.
Can’t see the Irish Times picking up in this one.
But then again where would you read this thoughtful analysis anywhere in the supine Irish media.
The recriminations begin.
From the heavily anti-Brexit FT’s Monday edition.
Can’t see the Irish Times picking up on this one.
But then you wouldn’t find this sort of thoughtful analysis anywhere in the supine Irish media.
So frothing at the mouth you posted the same tripe twice.
Begorrah, The Dream
He must have been on the upstroke and downstroke…
Slightly Bemused
I truly hope that as reported the Gardai are able to solve Deirdre Jacob’s disappearance. Her family deserve the closure. And hopefully they will also solve the cases of the other ladies who disappeared around the same time.
Man On Fire
And boys (Phillip Cairns).
Slightly Bemused
Indeed! I should have included them, but was tired as I wrote. Thanks for including this, as all the families need some resolution.
Spaghetti Hoop
I hope so too. So many disappearances of women and girls in the 90s. Could well be the one man responsible for them all.
That Robbie Keane interview blurb had me in stitches for about twenty minutes
I think I’m off again
eoin
Is it just me or is the agriculture minister Michael Creed re-announcing today a €100 million Brexit support for farmers that was previously announced.
Didn’t Leo and Phil announce the same €100 million to bribe farmers just before the European elections.
Announcing the same money twice, and even three times. is par for the course. And the same goes for IDA Job Announcements.
B9Com From No
Suckler farming is uneconomic and most places that depend on it should be forested
RTÉ is at it again now swinging the lead
B9Com From No
That’s what I thought as well eoin
some old quare
Vauxhall to quit UK- that view must be replicated right across manufacturing companies who supply to or import from the EU.
The English business community must be in despair right now because a cliff edge Brexit could turn a profitable manufacturing plant into a loss maker very quickly. There is a certain irony in the fact that they would have been very pro Conservative in the past, yet are now being ignored.
Telling it as it is- scary reading- from the Institute for Government: Preparing Brexit: No Deal
GM Europe was bought by Peugeot, most Vauxhall/Opels are now rebadged Peugeot, Brexit would have little to do with the decision.
eoin
“Starting tomorrow, the Prime Minister’s most senior officials will meet every weekday morning in the Cabinet Office’s “Cobra” suite to ensure Britain can withstand the impact of a sudden break from the EU. Michael Gove, in charge of co-ordinating the Government’s no-deal contingency plans, will chair meetings of the new Daily Operations Committee. The move comes after Mr Johnson set up a “war cabinet” of six key ministers to deliver Brexit “by any means necessary”.”
Says the Express.
What’s Leo doing?
Our TDs are on their holliers for 10 weeks and will return on 17 September.
British TDs broke for their holidays last Thursday and will have just over five weeks and return on 3 September.
Charger Salmons
I’m sure the Peacock Taoiseach is on top of the important matters of state as the crisis approaches.
Such as Kylie Minogue’s tour dates.
bisted
…much ado about nothing…no deal leavers are a minority in English parliament…when will Boris revoke Art50?
Charger Salmons
Revoke Article 50 ?
The Attorney General, the highest law officer in the land, has told Boris he is legally entitled to take Britain out of EU on October 31 even if he loses a no confidence vote and faces an election.
The new administration is now in full election mode as well as turbo-charging planning for no deal.
While Varadkar hits the beach in his budgie-smugglers Boris is going into overdrive.
A wind of change is blowing through Westminster and Little Leo should be very worried.
…don’t see anything in that Spectator link that obviates the primacy of parliament which has a growing majority against a no deal exit…and, no mention of Attorney General advice – even though the AG is only part of the Boris No10 echo chamber…
B9Com From No
I feel sort of dirty and low inside when I even so much as glance at the Spectator, particularly its blogs. Forgive me father …
GiggidyGoo
Which goes to show that it’s the Sir Humphreys of our civil service who actually run the show. Thus blowing out of the water any notion that FF has a valid excuse for continuing its supply and confidence tricks.
B9Com From No
Bob Watt doesn’t seem to have much pull when it comes to handing out the broadband largesses
GiggidyGoo
His functions include….
implementing government policies appropriate to the department and monitoring Government policies that affect the department
delivering outputs as determined by the Minister
providing policy advice to the Minister on all matters within the remit of the department
Different from those that discuss and agree international details with foreign counterparts. Watt is constrained by what ‘the Minister’ wants. And what the minister wants is Actavo (esat) getting €5bn+ of our money.
Cian
Indeed. We should pay the senior mandarins a lot more since they run the show.
eoin
Another 5% (five per cent) off the bid price for Digicel’s best bonds today, now less than 50c in the euro, offering 35% annual returns. Trading volumes are tiny, but it seems anyone who’s getting out is prepared to take massive losses.
Having looked at Fitch’s latest report, I just don’t believe the Digicel performance figures any more, the revenue, the EBITDA, the debt, the cash balance. I wonder will there be an orderly hand-over of Digicel to the bondholders or will it collapse in a morass of financial confusion.
Either way, will Richard Bruton get his finger out and throw that reputational life buoy of the €5bn National Broadband Plan. NOW!
eoin
It’s nearly a month since new rules for AirBnB lettings came into effect. If you’re letting for more than 90 days a year, you need planning permission from the local council. Yet, the Irish Times reports today only four planning applications have been received by Dublin City Council. Didn’t Murphy estimate that up to 3,000 AirBnB lettings in Dublin would be released after the crackdown?
Presumably Dublin Council have an army of inspectors to enforce the new rules…..
What are the 3,000 AirBnB landlords doing with their properties. Has there been a huge increase of traditional property for rent on Daft.ie? No, there has not. Has there been a huge reduction in Dublin homes available on AirBnB in Dublin? Doesn’t look like it.
What has Murphy got to say for himself.
B9Com From No
yea But look at his new ladyperson Eoin
Over here!
eoin
Britain’s new foreign minister, Dominic Raab, has a “frank” exchange with his Irish counterpart, Simon Coveney, according to RTE.
“frank” is diplomatic language for expletive-laden hostile shouting, that type of thing.
If you want to understand the British strategy, head on down to the Ballinasloe horse fair in a couple of weeks. When Mickey takes his horse and ghosts potential buyers and behaves like he doesn’t want a deal, that’s Boris and co right now. But, at the end of the day, as likely as not, Jacob Rees Mogg will be spitting in his hand in the hope he’ll strike a deal.
Charger Salmons
Well you’re right in the sense that everyone, Boris and the Moggster included, wants a deal.
But Ireland would be very unwise to accept the media-sponsored myth that Boris is bluffing.
He isn’t.
And neither is his main electoral rival Nigel Farage.
The days of the serial appeaser Theresa May are gone.
Welcome to the new order.
And be afraid.
Be very afraid.
Heh, heh, heh.
dav
meanwhile, in the real world.. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/jul/29/uk-deep-poverty-study-austerity
“More than 4 million people in the UK are trapped in deep poverty, meaning their income is at least 50% below the official breadline, locking them into a weekly struggle to afford the most basic living essentials, an independent study has shown.
The Social Metrics Commission also said 7 million people, including 2.3 million children, were affected by what it termed persistent poverty, meaning that they were not only in poverty but had been for at least two of the previous three years.”
Cian
Thanks blushirts!
Oh wait, can we not blame this on FG? Are there other rich countries that has poor people?
dav
@Cian it’s thanks Thatcherism, which is indistinguishable from the current blushirt crop
Charger Salmons
Unsurprisingly the Guardian fails to mention Britain’s record employment, a low deficit, good growth & low inflation.
ReproBertie
And despite all this good news Britain has 7 million people, including 2.3 million children, affected by persistent poverty. Let them eat cake, eh?
Charger Salmons
Just parking this here.
You’re most welcome.
I in 5 children in Ireland are living in poverty.
This means that around 230,000 children in Ireland are living in families with incomes below the poverty line.
@Charger
On page 6 of that is says that Ireland (15.6% poverty rate) is better off than the EU-28 average (16.9%).
Oh, the UK comes lower @17.0%.
One good thing about Brexit is that the EU-27EU-28 average poverty will actually improve.
ReproBertie
Ah, now I understand. It doesn’t matter that Britain has 7 million people, including 2.3 million children, affected by persistent poverty because there’s poverty in Ireland too.
bisted
…Boris has acheived nothing other than construct an echo chamber in Downing Street…the power lies where it always has, in parliament…Mr Bercow Esq will have the final say…
B9Com From No
I saw Stanley Johnson on the Telly yesterday
He said the reasons Brexit had taken 3 years already was because it wasn’t Boris who was in charge.
Seriously :(
some old quare
Vauxhall to quit UK- that view must be replicated right across manufacturing companies who supply to or from the EU.
The English business community must be in despair right now because a cliff edge Brexit could turn a profitable manufacturing plant into a loss maker very quickly. There is a certain irony in the fact that they would have been very pro Conservative in the past, yet are now being ignored.
Telling it as it is- scary reading- from the Institute for Government: Preparing Brexit: No Deal
“Welcome to the new order.
And be afraid.
Be very afraid.
Heh, heh, heh.”
Consistency isn’t your strongest feature, is it?
eoin
A euro will buy you £0.902 sterling this morning.
Reminds me of that English comedian who was on stage in Belfast and asked what a pound would buy you locally in the city.
“A euro” came the response from the audience.
some old quare
For most of us the exchange rate is of some interest but to anyone in the SME sector who’s main business partners are in GB- every increase is another nail in their business’s coffin.
IMO indigenous SME companies in Ireland have never received the state support they deserve and it is unlikely they will do so now either. My heart goes out to those people because they built their businesses from scratch and apart from cutting their losses and closing up shop- there is absolutely nothing they can do.
edalicious
Interesting take from the front of the UK Times about millenials. Surely millenials are getting a bit long in the tooth to be a concern for future police recruiting? Referring to a group that includes people in their late 30s as “recently reached adulthood” might be a bit of a stretch. Perhaps the absolute decimation of youth employment levels caused by the recession is what caused the problem, rather than being “wrapped in cotton wool”?
TheQ47
People “recently reaching adulthood” were born in or around the turn of the millennium, which surely makes them NOT millennials, but more likely Generation Z.
Millennials are what David McWilliams called “The Pope’s Children” – “DIY Declan, Low GI Jane, Breakfast Roll Man, Yummy Mummy and the HiCos“
Cian
Wait I though Generation Z were the generation that survived the zombie apocalypse?
By the way, why are there bits blacked out on the Express and the Telegraph? Is there some article which would be libellous in this country, or some ad that’s not allowed for some reason. Just wondering.
Charger Salmons
Pictures of Harry’s Meghan from this month’s edition of British Vogue which she is guest-editing.
I presume the front pages dropped before the midnight embargo.
TheQ47
Got ya, Thanks. Not missing anything so. I thought it might be for some much more nefarious reason.
The recriminations begin.
From the heavily anti-Brexit FT’s Monday edition.
Can’t see the Irish Times picking up in this one.
But then again where would you read this thoughtful analysis anywhere in the supine Irish media.
https://www.ft.com/content/65eb7ffe-af9a-11e9-8030-530adfa879c2
The recriminations begin.
From the heavily anti-Brexit FT’s Monday edition.
Can’t see the Irish Times picking up on this one.
But then you wouldn’t find this sort of thoughtful analysis anywhere in the supine Irish media.
https://www.ft.com/content/65eb7ffe-af9a-11e9-8030-530adfa879c2
So frothing at the mouth you posted the same tripe twice.
He must have been on the upstroke and downstroke…
I truly hope that as reported the Gardai are able to solve Deirdre Jacob’s disappearance. Her family deserve the closure. And hopefully they will also solve the cases of the other ladies who disappeared around the same time.
And boys (Phillip Cairns).
Indeed! I should have included them, but was tired as I wrote. Thanks for including this, as all the families need some resolution.
I hope so too. So many disappearances of women and girls in the 90s. Could well be the one man responsible for them all.
Charger and Eoin… repeat.
They aren’t changing their minds.
Repeat.
I love it?……….
That Robbie Keane interview blurb had me in stitches for about twenty minutes
I think I’m off again
Is it just me or is the agriculture minister Michael Creed re-announcing today a €100 million Brexit support for farmers that was previously announced.
Didn’t Leo and Phil announce the same €100 million to bribe farmers just before the European elections.
https://www.con-telegraph.ie/news/roundup/articles/2019/05/16/4174158-100-million-brexit-beef-package-agreed/
Announcing the same money twice, and even three times. is par for the course. And the same goes for IDA Job Announcements.
Suckler farming is uneconomic and most places that depend on it should be forested
RTÉ is at it again now swinging the lead
That’s what I thought as well eoin
Vauxhall to quit UK- that view must be replicated right across manufacturing companies who supply to or import from the EU.
The English business community must be in despair right now because a cliff edge Brexit could turn a profitable manufacturing plant into a loss maker very quickly. There is a certain irony in the fact that they would have been very pro Conservative in the past, yet are now being ignored.
Telling it as it is- scary reading- from the Institute for Government: Preparing Brexit: No Deal
https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/sites/default/files/publications/preparing-brexit-no-deal-final.pdf
GM Europe was bought by Peugeot, most Vauxhall/Opels are now rebadged Peugeot, Brexit would have little to do with the decision.
“Starting tomorrow, the Prime Minister’s most senior officials will meet every weekday morning in the Cabinet Office’s “Cobra” suite to ensure Britain can withstand the impact of a sudden break from the EU. Michael Gove, in charge of co-ordinating the Government’s no-deal contingency plans, will chair meetings of the new Daily Operations Committee. The move comes after Mr Johnson set up a “war cabinet” of six key ministers to deliver Brexit “by any means necessary”.”
Says the Express.
What’s Leo doing?
Our TDs are on their holliers for 10 weeks and will return on 17 September.
British TDs broke for their holidays last Thursday and will have just over five weeks and return on 3 September.
I’m sure the Peacock Taoiseach is on top of the important matters of state as the crisis approaches.
Such as Kylie Minogue’s tour dates.
…much ado about nothing…no deal leavers are a minority in English parliament…when will Boris revoke Art50?
Revoke Article 50 ?
The Attorney General, the highest law officer in the land, has told Boris he is legally entitled to take Britain out of EU on October 31 even if he loses a no confidence vote and faces an election.
The new administration is now in full election mode as well as turbo-charging planning for no deal.
While Varadkar hits the beach in his budgie-smugglers Boris is going into overdrive.
A wind of change is blowing through Westminster and Little Leo should be very worried.
https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2019/07/the-new-boris-machine-owes-very-little-to-westminster/
…don’t see anything in that Spectator link that obviates the primacy of parliament which has a growing majority against a no deal exit…and, no mention of Attorney General advice – even though the AG is only part of the Boris No10 echo chamber…
I feel sort of dirty and low inside when I even so much as glance at the Spectator, particularly its blogs. Forgive me father …
Which goes to show that it’s the Sir Humphreys of our civil service who actually run the show. Thus blowing out of the water any notion that FF has a valid excuse for continuing its supply and confidence tricks.
Bob Watt doesn’t seem to have much pull when it comes to handing out the broadband largesses
His functions include….
implementing government policies appropriate to the department and monitoring Government policies that affect the department
delivering outputs as determined by the Minister
providing policy advice to the Minister on all matters within the remit of the department
Different from those that discuss and agree international details with foreign counterparts. Watt is constrained by what ‘the Minister’ wants. And what the minister wants is Actavo (esat) getting €5bn+ of our money.
Indeed. We should pay the senior mandarins a lot more since they run the show.
Another 5% (five per cent) off the bid price for Digicel’s best bonds today, now less than 50c in the euro, offering 35% annual returns. Trading volumes are tiny, but it seems anyone who’s getting out is prepared to take massive losses.
https://www.boerse-frankfurt.de/bond/USG27649AG04
Having looked at Fitch’s latest report, I just don’t believe the Digicel performance figures any more, the revenue, the EBITDA, the debt, the cash balance. I wonder will there be an orderly hand-over of Digicel to the bondholders or will it collapse in a morass of financial confusion.
Either way, will Richard Bruton get his finger out and throw that reputational life buoy of the €5bn National Broadband Plan. NOW!
It’s nearly a month since new rules for AirBnB lettings came into effect. If you’re letting for more than 90 days a year, you need planning permission from the local council. Yet, the Irish Times reports today only four planning applications have been received by Dublin City Council. Didn’t Murphy estimate that up to 3,000 AirBnB lettings in Dublin would be released after the crackdown?
Presumably Dublin Council have an army of inspectors to enforce the new rules…..
What are the 3,000 AirBnB landlords doing with their properties. Has there been a huge increase of traditional property for rent on Daft.ie? No, there has not. Has there been a huge reduction in Dublin homes available on AirBnB in Dublin? Doesn’t look like it.
What has Murphy got to say for himself.
yea But look at his new ladyperson Eoin
Over here!
Britain’s new foreign minister, Dominic Raab, has a “frank” exchange with his Irish counterpart, Simon Coveney, according to RTE.
“frank” is diplomatic language for expletive-laden hostile shouting, that type of thing.
If you want to understand the British strategy, head on down to the Ballinasloe horse fair in a couple of weeks. When Mickey takes his horse and ghosts potential buyers and behaves like he doesn’t want a deal, that’s Boris and co right now. But, at the end of the day, as likely as not, Jacob Rees Mogg will be spitting in his hand in the hope he’ll strike a deal.
Well you’re right in the sense that everyone, Boris and the Moggster included, wants a deal.
But Ireland would be very unwise to accept the media-sponsored myth that Boris is bluffing.
He isn’t.
And neither is his main electoral rival Nigel Farage.
The days of the serial appeaser Theresa May are gone.
Welcome to the new order.
And be afraid.
Be very afraid.
Heh, heh, heh.
meanwhile, in the real world..
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/jul/29/uk-deep-poverty-study-austerity
“More than 4 million people in the UK are trapped in deep poverty, meaning their income is at least 50% below the official breadline, locking them into a weekly struggle to afford the most basic living essentials, an independent study has shown.
The Social Metrics Commission also said 7 million people, including 2.3 million children, were affected by what it termed persistent poverty, meaning that they were not only in poverty but had been for at least two of the previous three years.”
Thanks blushirts!
Oh wait, can we not blame this on FG? Are there other rich countries that has poor people?
@Cian it’s thanks Thatcherism, which is indistinguishable from the current blushirt crop
Unsurprisingly the Guardian fails to mention Britain’s record employment, a low deficit, good growth & low inflation.
And despite all this good news Britain has 7 million people, including 2.3 million children, affected by persistent poverty. Let them eat cake, eh?
Just parking this here.
You’re most welcome.
I in 5 children in Ireland are living in poverty.
This means that around 230,000 children in Ireland are living in families with incomes below the poverty line.
http://www.socialjustice.ie/sites/default/files/attach/publication/5763/2019-04-15-sjipovertyfocus2019final.pdf?cs=true
@Charger
On page 6 of that is says that Ireland (15.6% poverty rate) is better off than the EU-28 average (16.9%).
Oh, the UK comes lower @17.0%.
One good thing about Brexit is that the EU-27
EU-28average poverty will actually improve.Ah, now I understand. It doesn’t matter that Britain has 7 million people, including 2.3 million children, affected by persistent poverty because there’s poverty in Ireland too.
…Boris has acheived nothing other than construct an echo chamber in Downing Street…the power lies where it always has, in parliament…Mr Bercow Esq will have the final say…
I saw Stanley Johnson on the Telly yesterday
He said the reasons Brexit had taken 3 years already was because it wasn’t Boris who was in charge.
Seriously :(
Vauxhall to quit UK- that view must be replicated right across manufacturing companies who supply to or from the EU.
The English business community must be in despair right now because a cliff edge Brexit could turn a profitable manufacturing plant into a loss maker very quickly. There is a certain irony in the fact that they would have been very pro Conservative in the past, yet are now being ignored.
Telling it as it is- scary reading- from the Institute for Government: Preparing Brexit: No Deal
https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/sites/default/files/publications/preparing-brexit-no-deal-final.pdf
Project Fear is so yesterday ….
“Welcome to the new order.
And be afraid.
Be very afraid.
Heh, heh, heh.”
Consistency isn’t your strongest feature, is it?
A euro will buy you £0.902 sterling this morning.
Reminds me of that English comedian who was on stage in Belfast and asked what a pound would buy you locally in the city.
“A euro” came the response from the audience.
For most of us the exchange rate is of some interest but to anyone in the SME sector who’s main business partners are in GB- every increase is another nail in their business’s coffin.
IMO indigenous SME companies in Ireland have never received the state support they deserve and it is unlikely they will do so now either. My heart goes out to those people because they built their businesses from scratch and apart from cutting their losses and closing up shop- there is absolutely nothing they can do.
Interesting take from the front of the UK Times about millenials. Surely millenials are getting a bit long in the tooth to be a concern for future police recruiting? Referring to a group that includes people in their late 30s as “recently reached adulthood” might be a bit of a stretch. Perhaps the absolute decimation of youth employment levels caused by the recession is what caused the problem, rather than being “wrapped in cotton wool”?
People “recently reaching adulthood” were born in or around the turn of the millennium, which surely makes them NOT millennials, but more likely Generation Z.
Millennials are what David McWilliams called “The Pope’s Children” – “DIY Declan, Low GI Jane, Breakfast Roll Man, Yummy Mummy and the HiCos“
Wait I though Generation Z were the generation that survived the zombie apocalypse?
– https://youtu.be/xf_EdKC8iSA
If Rafa worked in an office.
By the way, why are there bits blacked out on the Express and the Telegraph? Is there some article which would be libellous in this country, or some ad that’s not allowed for some reason. Just wondering.
Pictures of Harry’s Meghan from this month’s edition of British Vogue which she is guest-editing.
I presume the front pages dropped before the midnight embargo.
Got ya, Thanks. Not missing anything so. I thought it might be for some much more nefarious reason.