HIGH noon beckons in the EBS board of directors’ shootout. How should we vote? Let me break the habit of a lifetime. And be a bit balanced. Now for my first effort at balance: Fergus Murphy, the new kid on the block at the EBS could be a breath of fresh air. There are signs …
Monthly Archive
for: ‘March, 2008’
Farewell To The Shamrock
MONDAY: the scene is the White House, Washington. The financial world is facing its worst crisis since World War Two. It is also St Patrick’s Day. Today, you would have to feel a twinge of sympathy for a besieged George Bush. Imagine the pandemonium in the Oval Office: President Bush, Secretary of State Condoleeza …
A Real Threat To Ireland Inc.
Ireland Inc looks a trifle different from the top of an Alp. Suddenly it becomes a nation without a mention on CNN or Bloomberg and totally ignored in the French press. So a perfect bolthole beckoned for an Irish news and gossip junkie seeking to be weaned off his daily fix of misery in the …
Guzzlers Swimming Naked
Let me tell you the tale of a good gatecrash. One of the biggest bashes of the year was held in Dublin‘s Citywest Hotel on Thursday. I was not invited. So I went. Just short of a thousand people gathered for a gourmet’s guzzle, slap in the middle of Lent. The occasion: Ireland‘s pension fund …