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The dreaded April fools day arrives tomorrow, a week late. Of course I’m talking about tomorrow’s impending budget that is. We have been told to expect a drop in the standard of our living and that we will have to bite the bullet and lots of other cliches by the assholes who are partly responsible [...]

Some of the insanity going on in this country at the moment: The Financial Regulator is getting plush new offices to the tune in €8m paid for out of government funds. By the same government who said that there was not enough money to spend €10m on a cervical cancer vaccine! (Thanks to Grandad for [...]

It was interesting listening to the news on the radio this morning while driving to college to hear that the opposition parties are not too happy at the appointment of Richie Boucher as the new head of Bank of Ireland.I imagine they are not pleased because Mr. Boucher was already a BoI employee having taken up [...]

Be warned – This post contains some strong language. Anglo Irish Bank’s annual report released today states that it loaned €451m to 10 clients that are now more commonly referred to as “The Golden 10″. As anyone can tell you, 450 million is a significantally more than the previous estimate of €300m. And here is [...]

I have nothing against the European Union. Actually that should be I have nothing against the European Economic Community. Ireland has benefited under the original goals of the E.E.C. which was to make it easier to trade and do business with other E.E.C. member nations and ultimately by means of a common currency – do [...]

I suppose we will be forever asking the question “how or why did they elect him, not once, but twice?” Here are some highlights of the Presidential career of the not so esteemed George Walker Bush. An idiot if ever there was one:

I have to say straight off that I can’t stand her. I’ve always thought of her as a bit of a nut job and her recent fantasy comments about landing in Bosnia under sniper fire seems to have provided some evidence of that. Despite living on another continent somehow the race for the White House [...]

And no. I’m not on about Bertie’s explanation of his tax clearance cert. Some genius here in Ireland has decided that the Polish are smoking too much. If you are wondering who that genius was, then I’m pleased to tell you that it was none other than Conor ‘Kebab‘ Lenihan himself, who, being our Minister [...]