Oh.
That look.
(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)
The Household Charge, blustering arrogance and Environment Minister Phil Hogan’s fumbling.
A transcript of Olivia O’Leary’s radio ‘column‘ on last night’s Drivetime:
“I paid my household charge early last week. Just as well I did, because if I’d been listening to Big Phil blustering on the radio on Sunday, I might have been tempted not to. Almost all on his own, Hogan is fast generating for this Government what destroyed the last one – an air of bullying incompetence. It’s a crying shame because there was a really important job of political work to be done here – a widened tax base, which includes annual property taxes, is an essential reform and might have played an important part in dampening the property boom. The problem with introducing that reform is that Irish people have resisted property taxes fiercely for decades. They were bound to resist this one. So they needed to be firmly encouraged, exhorted, guided, given no excuse. Hogan has managed to give them every excuse.
Ah Here
at@broadsheet_ie The foam cutout of Ireland that…looks like Ireland (at StayHome.ie launch today) twitter.com/NoelRock/statu…
— Noel Rock (@NoelRock) March 21, 2012
FG Senator Noone Launches New Holiday At Home Website StayHome.ie (Inside Ireland)
The Unspecified Thing That Looks Like ireland to Broadsheet@broadsheet.ie
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West Lowland Gorilla (DoneDeal.ie)
Thanks Laura Jane Webb
Timing
atS Club 7 just had to go and reunite on the day I was retiring #limelightstealers#imcoolerthanSClub7
— Jerry Flannery (@jerryflannery)
If you can dye eggs different colors for Easter, you can color fireplace flames – it’s easy & fun.
Want.
The Fireplace Flame Colouring Kit.
Yours for $29. from, er, United Nuclear.
Thanks Bibi Baskin Robbins
AIB says 40 per cent of its customers will still qualify for free banking.
Which means 60% will no longer qualify for free banking.
Which (we assume) means most of its current account holders have less than €2,500 in credit to their names on any given month.
Is this a cause for concern?
And where should Ewok go or free banking now?
Meanwhile:
I’ve an AIB customer since I was 18. I closed my accounts today.
— Gerard Cunningham (@faduda) March 21, 2012
AIB Changes ‘Free Banking’ Rules (Ciara O’Brien, Irish Times)
“Under this Government, Britain has moved into the top ten of the most competitive places in the world to do business.But we have to do more. Here’s how. Exports and investment First, exports. Over the last decade, our share of world exports shrank as Germany’s grew.
We sold more to Ireland than to Brazil, Russia, India and China – put together. That was the road to Britain’s economic irrelevance. We want to double our nation’s exports to one trillion pounds this decade.”
Oh.