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margotb posted Essay – Apocalypse from now on: Ireland’s shrinking political sphere | 4 days ago
Fri 18 Dec, 2009 Ireland’s political collapse and fear of affluence occurred long before the recession, says JASON WALSH, in the first of a series of forth essays. Politics continues, but no-one cares. 2008 finally saw the retirement of Taoiseach Bertie Ahern but he wasn’t brought down by an...
margotb posted Irish budget | Dec 11, 2009
Oh the pain. Once hailed as Europe’s answer to Asia’s tiger economies, Ireland has suffered one of the deepest recessions among developed nations. The economy has shrunk by 10.5 per cent from its peak early in 2007, more than double the eurozone’s decline. While the government dreams of an...
margotb posted Irish budget | Dec 11, 2009
Oh the pain. Once hailed as Europe’s answer to Asia’s tiger economies, Ireland has suffered one of the deepest recessions among developed nations. The economy has shrunk by 10.5 per cent from its peak early in 2007, more than double the eurozone’s decline. While the government dreams of an...
little white whale posted the twelfth month | Nov 29, 2009
Saturday while Mitchell and his father and brothers went out to do some bonding at the Four Roses distillery, the kids and I dug around in our storage room hunting for the big plastic containers of Christmas decorations. I was just as excited as the boys to fling back the lids and reveal our...
