They put manners on all those people overspending by taking the money from their pockets and paid off our debts, thereby enabling us all to learn to survive within our means. It was a master stroke. And now we’ve the fastest growing economy in Europe, we’re back baby. We’re saved.
Just what I’d expect from two Fianna Fáiler’s. Your boys are done and dusted fellas, we rule the earth now.
Pfft, you can set up a website to prove anything
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Whose debts?
Ireland’s debts, silly. Keep up.
Ireland doesn’t have depts, mate… It’s the name of an island . can you be a bit more precise please?
I’m just grateful for the fact that when we needed a hero, two men stormed over the Shannon and grasped this country by the scruff of the neck and pulled us back from the brink.
Huzzah.
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The name of the State is Éire, or, in the English
language, Ireland.
Armchair Republicans sheesh
Lads here thinking that we would have been better off going down the Greece route. Are they nuts?
It would be interesting to see what kind of a situation Poland would be in now had they adopted the Euro in 2004. A bad one, I suspect.
Greece will ultimately be better off out of the Euro after all this has blown over and the EU brand will be irreparably damaged.
That sounds a bit like predictions of a “soft landing” for house prices.
Yeah, cos we’ve done so much better following Frankfurt’s way
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They were wide enough to say “we’ll do it in 2012 or so” and then every year to put it back another couple of years. They would be quite nationalistic and touchy about keeping the auld Zloty, a bit like the Brits really. They generally track the Euro though.
Thank God we didn’t have populist politicians threatening to burn the bondholders and stirring up anti-German sentiment as an election ploy.
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There won’t be a soft landing for Greece. Because there isn’t a will from either party to stand on the middle ground with a workable plan.
Hardly the same situation tho…the Greek situation is Ireland x 10000000 the only thing they can do is start again on their own terms. Regardless, we wouldn’t have the balls for any hard calls like that.
Fair point. I momentarily forgot that president of the council is now a permanent gig. Saw his name and assumed Poland were rotating president. Has he been quiet enough in the job? I seem to remember von Rompuy being more public.
Anyway, broader point holds. No way this summit has been organised on anything other than the prompting of Merkel and the agreement of Hollande.