Ireland Told by EU It May Need More Budget Cuts to Meet Targets (Bloomberg)
Tag Archives: Irish Economy
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEPPWHWzJpI
How The American Chamber of Commerce (Ireland) is selling Ireland.
Student teachers this afternoon demanding “equal pay for equal work” for all teachers. New teachers entering the profession will be starting at a salary 30 percent less than 18 months ago.
(Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)
US electronic payments company PayPal is expected to announce 1,000 jobs in Ireland later today.
— RTÉ News (@rtenews) February 21, 2012
Before he marvelled at Riverdance, China’s soon-to-be-new President Xi Jinping took in the Clifffs of Moher yesterday with Clare mayor Pat Hayes.
And just some of the Jin-ping posse:
Also, pinging around Ireland with Xi this weekend:
Xi Jinping Visits Ireland, Finds Calf Named After Himself (Bloomberg)
(Government Information Service and Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)
He said 2013 will be the year of “the Gathering,” an attempt to pull together expats and their descendants and encourage them to visit with their money. In the last month, Bruton has met with representatives of the Israeli government to learn how they’ve coordinated investment with their own diaspora. Ireland, which spent the past two centuries scattering its children around the world, is assessing the value of their affection.
Ireland Goes Looking for Outside Help (Bloomberg)
Very surprising results from CSO quarterly household survey released today. I thoughtthings were much worse than this …… #CSOsurvey
— Philip Boucher-Hayes (@boucherhayes) February 14, 2012
Yeah.
Call this hardship:
Eh, actually…
Shane Ross: That fund that bought €3bn worth of Irish bonds “is not necessarily one we would want to be associated with”. Dodgy. #dail
— Christine Bohan (@ChristineBohan) February 9, 2012
Previously: Meet The 38-Year-Old With $2.5 Billion In Irish Government Bonds
Thomas O Beirne writes:
Every week we march in Ballyhea or Charleville Co. Cork on alternate weeks in protest to the bondholder bailout.
Sunday, March 4 will be our one year anniversary.
All are welcome to join us.
We have only one issue.
We are not affiliated to any political parties.