She’s known as the Dail bike. John Gormley rode her.
Now Ireland will be known as Europe’s bike.
She’s known as the Dail bike. John Gormley rode her.
Now Ireland will be known as Europe’s bike.
“No, no, you can’t look at it in terms of applying an interest rate of 6%. You have to factor in a big saving. In fact, they’re giving us the interest and we’re loaning money to them.”
Cowen just stung by the guy from Bloomberg - “What other policy options did you consider?” - “Eh…” :lol:
That’s what we thought they were saying but in fact they were saying the fundamentalists were sound.
“I want to address this issue of defaults. This country is in a position to meet its debts…”
Not sure if this is news to Cowen or not, but we’re not in a position to meet our debts. That’s why we were in talks in the first place. "Responsible country, … partnership … " This is shocking stuff.
WHERE THE FUCK IS VINNY?
FFS won’t answer questions on the rates because it would be too long for this press conference. In other words he doesn’t know.
Tied up and gagged…
This is the worst performance by a negotiating team for Ireland since the Treaty
I’m getting the impression from Noonan that this deal was run by senior opposition members before it was agreed.
Minimum wage reduction is part of this deal. Why the fuck did we decide that was worthy of inclusion?
“They were less good at playing poker”
Fuck off Joan
Bent over taking it up the ass for 5 years at least while biffo releases his book
Nearly all of them are pathetic.
Fionnan Sheehan is married to Averil Power who is an advisor to Mary Hanafin and is a failed FF local election candidate. He himself is a former member of Young FG.
Stephen Collins wrote an article after the first Lisbon referendum saying that the Givernment should railroad it through anyway without even having another referendum. That’s the type of cunt that “confronts” politicians in Ireland.
It actually wouldn’t surprise me if Vincent Browne wasn’t even let in.
And that’s it over. Real shortage of tough questions. The mood outside that press conference is very different. Cowen might find that smile half way through when he joked about the press conference not having time for the technical stuff will come back to haunt him.
Only good question was from the Bloomberg guy who called Cowen on his bluff that “a range of policies were considered”. He hadn’t a clue what to say.
Constantine should be worth listening to.
More resources won’t rebuild confidence in the banks. Total bill for banks is at least €67 billion. €50 billion was the maximum a few weeks ago.
So is the recession over then?
Cowen basically saying we couldn’t consider defaulting as the impact this could have on other states. So it may well be better for us to default now but sure that isn’t worth thinking about as others would be pissed off with us and it could do damage elsewhere. Who cares about the influence all this will have on schools, hospitals and peoples lives on the island of Ireland. Pathetic.
No economy could survive this kind of hit. 30% unemployment by 2013?
Burton and Noonan shitting about the bad deal we got. Have they any notion of making a stand on the issue? Have they fuck. Riots before christmas.
Where can I vote for Constantin?