SO after all last week’s hullabaloo, how much do we really know about Greyhound Waste? Well, for a start, did you know that it is a criminal company? You didn’t? Perhaps you should know a bit more. Last year Greyhound — the outfit that has won a series of State waste contracts — was prosecuted …
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Stench as Rubbish Firm Wins
ConcocT a good story. Among your cast of characters include the late lamented auditors of Anglo Irish Bank, a dodgy semi-state transport company, a collection of Dublin city councillors, and an outfit owned by an offshore Isle of Man business. What would you expect? Hardly the tale of the 12 apostles? Something a little murkier? …
It’s an Easy Life for Frank & his New Family
Enter Frank Daly, the family man. On Friday morning Nama chief Frank Daly proudly introduced us to his new family. In his interview with RTE’s Morning Ireland he referred to Nama’s membership of the “NTMA (National Treasury Management Agency’s) family”. Frank was, maybe, a little too euphoric after his warm reception at the Dublin Chamber …
When Enda Met Angela
BRUSSELS, last Monday. A meeting, on the margins of the summit, between German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Taoiseach Enda Kenny. Angela Merkel: “Good morning, Mr Kelly. Perhaps when you have stopped horsing around with Nicolas for the cameras you might spare me a moment to give you your instructions? And no photo-ops today, please. I …
Enda Slips on Davos Slopes
ENDA Kenny was probably the toast of Davos last week. His appalling gaffe, blaming Irish people’s “mad borrowing” for the bankers’ orgy, must have given attending foreign financiers and politicians unbridled joy. And if the Taoiseach repeated in Davos some of the lines he spouted in Dublin before his departure, the assembled European oligarchs will …
He Cared About Readers; Not Just Figures
A few weeks after I was made business editor of the Sunday Independent I went out to lunch with editor Aengus Fanning and a senior management type. On the agenda was the progress of this newspaper’s attempt to compete with the dull business supplements then emerging from our competitors. As so often happened with Aengus, …
Troika is Caught on a Hook
DID the troika get it hopelessly wrong? Perhaps our less than welcome visitors have gone native. A delicious thought occurs — that our persecutors will soon have egg all over their faces. All we now need is icing on the cake. What a bonus it would be to see Sarkozy bite the dust in the …
Enda Rules it Out. Absolutely.
GOOD Christian that he is, Enda Kenny is surely a believer in the Second Coming. Good citizen that the Taoiseach is, he is surely equally a believer in the second bailout of Ireland? I hate to point out to him that there is far stronger evidence for the inevitability of the second bailout than for …
Town held Hostage by Bank
EVERY morning, when I walk to the local Spar in Enniskerry for my news fix, I pass a car park. Nothing remarkable about that. Next I breeze past the adjoining historic Powerscourt Arms Hotel, a listed building with a proud history. Then I glance at the landmark Enniskerry clock tower (1843), buy the papers and …
Flabby CIE Puts Cost On You
So you will be hit by the household tax? Your VHI premiums are about to rocket? You have a child at university? You drive a car? You ain’t seen nothing yet. Worse is to come. And worse could have been prevented. The coalition cannot blame the troika, burn effigies of the IMF’s AJ Chopra or …