SF Councillor Maurice Quinlivan (Limerick City) on Twitter
The Unspecified Thing That made Me Sad: broadsheet@broadsheet.ie
This just in from the Guardian’s Lisa O’Carroll: the tragic tale of the Dublin property investor who claims he’s being screwed because he didn’t borrow enough…
Few taxpayers have a shred of sympathy for anyone who did business with Anglo Irish Bank, which is now being wound down. They are too busy working out how they are going to make ends meet.
But spare a thought for the small time entrepreneurs, those who weren’t big enough to have their loans transferred to the National Asset Management Agency (NAMA) and who – bad luck would have it – chose to borrow from Anglo instead of Bank of Ireland or AIB, the two pillar banks who are earmarked to continue in business.
One of those borrowers, David, contacted me with his story. He has about a dozen commercial properties around Dublin, all of them bar one ‘donkey’ performing.
One is occupied by a state tenant, another a multinational in the IT sector and household name. You don’t get more blue chip than that. In all he borrowed about €5m from Anglo.
Anglo’s recovery unit is not really interested in his story.
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John Sullivan sez:
Just another day at the tourist office. A row between 2 men discussing the Quran while a man with a Jesus sign reads from the bible.
Isn’t multiculturalism wonderful?
O’Brien briefly attracted a few wolf-whistles from the massed ranks of Ireland’s female fans in the crowd on Sunday as he changed shirts.
But he insisted it was nothing like the moment when highly-toned New Zealand centre Sonny Bill Williams removed his jersey in the All Blacks’ tournament opener against Tonga.
“I don’t think I’m in as good a shape as Sonny Bill Williams!” he said.
Ah now Sean, don’t say th….
Never mind.
Irish flanker Sean O’Brien says team just getting started (Herald Sun)
Having ‘quit’ Twitter in January, Ricky Gervais returned this month:
tweeting what looks like pictures of whatever he can think to take pictures of in his apartment (read: his own face in various states of duress, his cat), including this photograph, which he posted along with the missive: “To protect Warwick from scary mice, me and Johhny Depp put him safely in the toilet. Anything for a friend.” Warwick, it should be noted, is Gervais’s co-star on Life’s Too Short…
Ah. See, now it all makes sense.