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The next annual repayment of €3.1 billion of the €30 billion debt incurred in order to shore up the former Anglo Irish Bank falls due on March 31st.

Yesterday Mr Gilmore refused to confirm or deny if he told European leaders in private last week that the Coalition might collapse in the event of a deal not being reached.

Asked in Brussels about reports he had privately voiced the warning to German chancellor Angela Merkel, commission president José Manuel Barroso and council president Herman Van Rompuy during a recent EU Latin America summit, Mr Gilmore would only say: “The future of the Irish Government is a matter for the Irish Government and the Irish people.”

A senior Government source said the the details of a private meeting could not be divulged but pointed to recent comments made by the Tánaiste on the matter, including his description of the “catastrophic” consequences of a failure.

 

Tensions are….(yawn)….running high.

Kenny and Gilmore deny tensions over bank deal (Harry McGee, Irish Times)

(Wanderley Massafelli/Photocall Ireland)

It’s behind us.

Oh yes it isn’t.

Colm Ó Mongáin: “Are we paying up in March?”

Sammy Sausages Eamon Gilmore: “We didn’t pay last year and we’re determined that we will have a resolution of the promissory note…ah…issue by the time it’s due in March.”

Ó Mongáin: “So we’re not paying in March or we are paying in March?”

Gilmore: “We didn’t pay last year and the Government is working on a resolution of that issue..ah…and…ah…..I’m confident that we’ll find that resolution.”

Tanaiste Eamon Gilmore on RTE Radio One’s ‘This Week’.

Listen here (at 27:43)

The Department of Finance in its own Budget 2013 outlook for next year shows that the promissory note was paid.

Previously: Notes From A Scandal

Wikileaks: Here Lies Eamon

 

Speaking in Brussels today, Mr Gilmore said his wife was being treated equally to other people in the education system who were being redeployed as a result of the Government’s decision to amalgamate the VECs.

“It’s disappointing that some people seem to think that a woman shouldn’t have a job or an independent career,” he told reporters.

Shame on some people for thinking that.

Because that’s what all this is actually about.

Gilmore Denies Role In Wife’s Appointment (Irish Times)

Earlier: A ‘Newly-Created’ Position

(Sam Boal,/ Photocall Ireland)

‘The newly created position was filled last week without any public any public advertisement or recruitment process. Miss [Carol] Hanney (top) will continue to enjoy her current salary scale, which starts at €91,765.’

 

Today’s Irish Daily Mail.

Previously: Gilmore Wife Got €525,000 For School Site Now Worth Just €100,000

Keaveney It In The Family

Why Did Eamon Gilmore’s Daughter Get A Job Offer From The AG?

(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)

Eamon Gilmore and Róisín Shorthall.

… But along came a glorious opportunity. Róisín Shortall’s conflict with James Reilly dramatised in the clearest possible way the difference between machine politics and good governance based on clear principles and objective evidence.

Labour had the enormous good fortune to be overwhelmingly on the right side, not just of an argument, but of a whole approach to public life. It had the chance to stop the emergence of Fine Fáil as the new dominant force in Irish politics.

And Eamon Gilmore knew exactly what to do – he threw all of his weight behind clientelism. He cleared the path for Fine Gael to drive The Machine forward – across the dead body of his own party.

 

FG Wide Boys Replace FF As Party of Operators (Fintan O’Toole, Irish Times)

(Sam Boal, Albert Gonzales/Photocall Ireland)