A date with Deep Throat on the island of Jersey. There is still room for a few more colourful stories. Next stop, the sunny island of Nevis in the Caribbean to check all the high jinks going on out there. I hope Penguin, the publishers, will think a trip is necessary. Instead, I assemble a …
Monthly Archive
for: ‘June, 2009’
Spare us the Anglo Porkies
IN Ireland, we are fed porkies by the barrowful. Like Taoiseach Brian Cowen endlessly repeating that “the fundamentals are sound”. Or Tanaiste Mary Coughlan rabbiting on about how our economic crisis is due to “global factors”. Or company chairmen insisting that their little basket case is “well-positioned for the recovery”. All that is run-of-the-mill guff …
Anglo Boss too Close to Seanie
MICK Bailey was fresh as a daisy. There was a bounce in the builder’s step. I spent the first hour of Friday morning accosting people in Dublin’s Molesworth Street. Mostly they were people I do not know and, more often, people who certainly do not want to know me. I spotted Mick Bailey of Bovale …