Joan Burton’s new watchdog
The chief warden at the State’s watchdog compound was not happy to hear the news, so he rang Tanaiste Joan Burton to vent his anger. Tanaiste; is it true, is the Government giving birth to yet another...
View ArticleAll I can say is Permanent TSB my arse’
All I can say is Permanent TSB my arse’ This was the comment from shareholder Breeda O’Byrne at the Permanent TSB AGM today. Another customer/victim of TSB, Sarah Hogan said: Banking for life, we are...
View ArticleNothing will change under new Central Bank governor
Irish Times columnist Cliff Taylor has a piece in today’s edition on what skills the next governor of the Central Bank will need to do his/her job. Here’s the key point in the article: Whoever gets the...
View ArticleDrumm: Rueing the day he fled Ireland’s corrupt shores
Here’s a sentence that has never been uttered in Ireland. Wearing ankle shackles and handcuffed behind his back, former Anglo Irish Bank chief executive David Drumm shuffled into a US court. In...
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Tom Lyons: A journalist unlikely to ask the tough questions
Tom Lyons is the business editor of the Sunday Business Post so you would think he would know more than most about what goes on in our corrupt state. But judging from the questions he asks in a recent...
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Denis O’Brien: Are the sharks moving in for the kill?
Cliff Taylor of the Irish Times writes an article with the headline: The question is, why has Denis O’Brien sold Topaz now? Taylor doesn’t actually give an answer so here’s my take on O’Brien’s...
View ArticleSensational news: Government to prosecute tax evaders
By Anthony Sheridan Sensational news from acting Enterprise Minister Richard Bruton in response to the Panama Papers scandal. Cheats using offshore bank accounts to evade paying tax here will be...
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Fitzpatrick decision: A Banana Republic decision
By Anthony Sheridan If I was an establishment judge and wanted to make a questionable and disgraceful decision that would damage my country and its people I would announce my decision the day after a...
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No law for the powerful, strict enforcement for decent citizens
By Anthony Sheridan David Aminu committed a crime by defrauding the Department of Social Welfare of €136,000 in welfare payments. The crime came to light in 2015 when Mr. Aminu wrote to the...
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Middle class revolution
By Anthony Sheridan You’re talking absolute bullshit, journalist Larissa Nolan told economist Dan O’Brien on RTEs Brendan O’Connor Show. The issue was housing and O’Brien was telling the nation that...
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