Absolute clusterfuck of a Mourning Ireland this morning. Couldn’t get anyone on the line. Now we have Craig Earlham from Awanda brokers on the line. Craig, Craig………Sorry we don’t have Craig on the line.
Now we have Craig. Craig, Craig ……No we can’t get Craig.
Now we’ll go to Lynsey from Channel 4 who is in Ukraine.
Lynsey ……… Sorry we can’t get Lynsey. Hello hello I’m in a car ……Ah Lynsey what is it like where you are in Ukraine………………We’ve lost Lynsey.
Plus what’s the deal with the “experts” they get in from the UK. This morning they had “Dr Ruth” from Kings College in London to talk about the economic impact of sanctions. Dr Ruth’s point seemed to be that wars are expensive (when the bag of nerves could spit out a sentence). I’ve read a few Max Hastings books, I could have told them that.
Meanwhile yesterday, Mourning Ireland was so bad I switched on Newstalk. They had John Fitzgerald of the ESRI on. John was explaining how we shouldn’t cut taxes on fuel as we’d need all that tax to pay for Ukrainian refugees. John finished up.
Shane. I love listening to John Fitzgerald- he’s so wise
Ciara. I could listen to him all day.
This is John Fitzgerald the economist who completely missed the banking collapse.
Very straightforward and simple analysis from John there. A equals B. So much so it convinced the two newstalk presenters anyway.
Pat Kenny had a dinger a while back talking about EU criticism of Ireland’s data protection regulation. “Should Ireland be the data protection policeman for all of Europe? And of course, Ireland doesn’t have the resources to do this anyway.” Pat didn’t seem to see any connection between the resources needed to monitor the multinationals and the income Ireland derives from those same multinationals.