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		<title>Enda Slips on Davos Slopes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ENDA Kenny was probably the toast of Davos last week. His appalling gaffe, blaming Irish people&#8217;s &#8220;mad borrowing&#8221; for the bankers&#8217; 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 ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.shane-ross.ie/archives/1545/enda-slips-on-davos-slopes/</link>
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		<title>He Cared About Readers; Not Just Figures</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;s attempt to compete with the dull business supplements then emerging from our competitors. As so often happened with Aengus, ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.shane-ross.ie/archives/1540/he-cared-about-readers-not-just-figures/</link>
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		<title>Troika is Caught on a Hook</title>
		<description><![CDATA[DID the troika get it hopelessly wrong? Perhaps our less than welcome visitors have gone native. A delicious thought occurs &#8212; 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 ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.shane-ross.ie/archives/1542/troike-is-caught-on-a-hook/</link>
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		<title>Enda Rules it Out. Absolutely.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.shane-ross.ie/archives/1537/enda-rules-it-out-absolutely/</link>
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		<title>Town held Hostage by Bank</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.shane-ross.ie/archives/1534/town-held-hostage-by-bank/</link>
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		<title>Flabby CIE Puts Cost On You</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;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&#8217;s AJ Chopra or ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.shane-ross.ie/archives/1531/flabby-cie-puts-cost-on-you/</link>
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		<title>Decisions, Solutions, Delusions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ireland&#8217;s euro magic dust was ready long before the deal was struck in Brussels. Enda and Eamon had positioned Ireland as champions of whatever deal was dictated. They were poised to claim it as their own. The magic dust suited any outcome. Enda and Eamon had told the Dail that they wanted &#8220;decisions&#8221;. They wanted ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.shane-ross.ie/archives/1529/decisions-solutions-delusions/</link>
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		<title>Enda Settles for Satellite Status</title>
		<description><![CDATA[IMAGINE the scene next weekend when Enda Kenny returns from the Brussels summit. One of the most humiliating episodes in Ireland&#8217;s history will be spun as a triumph. Neville Chamberlain&#8217;s return from Munich in 1938 declaring &#8220;Peace in our Time&#8221; will be in the halfpenny place. Stepping off the government jet, Enda will modestly reveal ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.shane-ross.ie/archives/1526/enda-settles-for-satellite-status/</link>
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		<title>If Kevin&#8217;s that Good, Keep him</title>
		<description><![CDATA[CAN we afford to lose a civil servant of the calibre of Kevin Cardiff? The paeans of praise being poured on Kevin&#8217;s head by government ministers would make you wonder. Why are we letting this genius go? God knows, we need people of ability in the Department of Finance. We crave guys with experience of ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.shane-ross.ie/archives/1524/if-kevins-that-good-keep-him/</link>
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		<title>Cronies Win Quangos a Reprieve</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The quangos are dead. Long live the quangos. What a quango cull. Ireland&#8217;s semi-states will never be the same again. Irish politics has been transformed. There is even new blood in the judiciary. While FG and Labour puritans are cleaning up the semi-states, Fine Gael and Labour loyalists are simply cleaning up. The old abuses ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.shane-ross.ie/archives/1521/cronies-win-quangos-a-reprieve/</link>
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