JOE Higgins twinkled. The former socialist TD was back in Leinster House on Tuesday. “The system is collapsing,” he told me triumphantly, surveying the shell-shocked faces of TDs and senators all around him. Joe was trying to get up my nose.
Monthly Archive
for: ‘September, 2008’
Paddy Whacks Wrong Target
Bravo, Paddy. A scapegoat has been found. But I have news for poor Paddy the Regulator: Short sellers are good guys. Last Friday morning we all awoke to the news that a small group of stock market traders had been vilified. Paddy Neary, the boss at the financial regulator, had fingered short sellers. They were …
Bash The Banker, Not The Bank
Is your money safe in the bank? My telephone has been ringing all week. Not the usual angry auctioneer giving out dog’s abuse. Nor the bitching banker. This past week it was worried widows; parents of small children; even the cute guys who piled out of property, out of equities and are now flash with …
Milk the sacred cows, Brian.
OK. Let’s be vindictive. Time for a bit of satisfying revenge. Who is to blame for the economic collapse? How did innocent Ireland ever come to depend on the construction industry for its boom? Was it the Government? The unions? Property developers? Or the global credit crunch? All played a part, but none deserves the …
M50 Directors Unmasked
WHO will be the first victim? Someone will soon go to jail for not paying a €3 toll fee on the M50. Come back, National Toll Roads, all is forgiven. The smuggest AGM in Irish history will be held on Thursday. Tom Roche and Jim Barry of National Toll Roads will do a lap of …