The Celtic Tiger was built on Italia 90 you balloon.
Gary Mackay was the catalyst for the Celtic tiger .
All the euro did was open more credit to us and look how that turned out. The euro project was designed to have smaller nations like us indebted and controlled by the larger economies. Weâve enslaved ourselves to another master but the shills are happy talking about markets and gains and forecasts like it means something 
. It all comes at the cost of average people but fuck themâŚ
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I wouldnât disagree with you here . I am both E.U. and âŹEuro sceptic . A dangerous enough project .
Itâs Hermannâs fault that Paddy wanted four properties in Bulgaria on the advice of Eddie Hobbs. 
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Sure the cops already have his statement on the dail record
Iâm somewhere in there with you as well⌠But to hear @Biff_Egan, @count_of_monte_crist and @TheUlteriorMotive constantly preach about the Scandinavian model / economies and none of those joined the single market to protect themselves is bizarre given that the same lads are so passionate about the eurozone
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At Cheltenham,or is she better suited to the flat season
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No I meant sex Art
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Ireland is nothing like the Scandinavian model. Low earners there pay much more tax. And Finland is in Eurozone, Denmark is effectively pegged to the Euro, Norway is self sufficient due to its oil wealth so it boils down to a âbut Swedenâ debate. Thatâs for the Covid thread.
There are plenty of flaws in the Eurozone project, not least having a common monetary policy without fiscal integration. Irelandâs problems in the crash were exacerbated by the EU having a monetary policy not suited for the level of growth in the Irish economy. But we were in control of our fiscal policy and Bertie was getting a huge electoral mandate to run an expansionary policy.
Once youâre in youâre in wrt the Euro. Greece were in a more perilous position and has ample opportunity to leave and chose not to. Ireland as an MNC EMEA hub would be insane to do so unless the entire thing was falling apart.
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Theyâre starting to slip sadly.
Shur half the employees in the MNCs are not from Ireland, particularly the more skilled positions. Foreigner workers on big salaries driving up rents and cost of living⌠What you really mean is the MNCs funneling their taxes through Ireland. Thatâs what you really want.
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Disappointing nativism there. Plenty of MNC employees are Irish, not to mention the various suppliers and ancillary companies. Didnât you work for Amazon?
Heâs on with pat kenny soon. Donât expect too many tough questions
Ah they do, but a lot of lower end jobs âŚnot that thereâs anything wrong with that but Amazon employees 60/40 in favour of non irish , maybe even more. They have to with languagesâŚMNCs are fine, but theyâre not forever. Krupps and even more so Dell are lessons Iâll never forget. Itâs a straw house and when it collapses it devastates the entire region.
Shur itâs part of the spin. Pat is always first stop for official Ireland.
To be fair here Thomas - manufacturing is going east also there is more and more automation . That is a problem in all western societies .
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Pat will give him a good doing youâd feel. No RTĂ bias on show