Monday AN early morning head-to- head with publishers Penguin. “Where the hell is the book?” they ask, impatiently.
Monthly Archive
for: ‘February, 2009’
Permo Board Clings To Office
YOU could believe anything of Anglo. If they turned up with billions in mafia money tomorrow, you would hardly blink. Anglo, a disgraced basket case, was singled out for nationalisation. It was staffed by cowboys, directed by zombies, audited by men with white sticks, regulated by a sleepwalker and chaired by Sean FitzPatrick, the ultimate …
ESB Wildcats Go Walkabout
TWO cheers for the Green Party. Am I pulling your leg ? No, not at all. Green Party ministers John Gormley and Eamon Ryan are showing more backbone as a small party in government than Labour or the Progressive Democrats ever did. Indeed, more backbone than scores of Fianna Fail backbenchers. And much more than …
Mother Ireland Joins PIGS
GIVE the banks a breather this week. Instead, let us fret over the plight of Mother Ireland. Waking on Wednesday morning, I turned to my daily diet of the Star, the Mail, the Irish Independent, the Irish Times — and last of all, very reluctantly, the Financial Times.The FT is often a hell of an …