Posted in Irish property bubble, fuckwits, Irish journalism, Property, Ireland on Apr 17th, 2010 1 Comment »
As one who has been involved in the Irish property market for 40 years and has experienced every type of market scenario, I am totally convinced that the market is currently in good shape and that anyone buying now will do extremely well in the years ahead. There is no better investment than Irish property […]
Posted in Health on Apr 16th, 2010 No Comments »
Anyway, enough details. Point is that there is no good reason for the Irish health system to be the way it is, unless you consider its use as an instrument of terror by the rich against the poor as a good reason. As with many other aspects of the Irish oligarchy, in so far as […]
Posted in Irish Capitalism, Irish Economy, Irish History on Apr 15th, 2010 1 Comment »
John Lanchester has a post that is worth reading on the London Review blog about the irony of the Conservative Party launching their 2010 election manifesto at the abandoned and now crumbling Battersea Power Station.
Briefly, the Conservative party allowed the power station to be sold off in 1983, in a bidding process that […]
Posted in UK Politics, blogging on Apr 15th, 2010 3 Comments »
I had thought Conor was up to his neck in waffles, chips and mayonnaise and that I’d have to deputise for him on the Tarquin Bartleby front. I see, however, that he’s managed to get a post up on one of the sorceror’s apprentices that pass for economic analysts in Lilliput.
Nonetheless, in the interests of […]
Posted in Irish property bubble, Irish Capitalism, fuckwits, Irish Economy on Apr 14th, 2010 7 Comments »
Austin Hughes is still being asked for his analysis by the Irish Times.
Here are some gems from a debate Austin Hughes got into with Morgan Kelly on 8 October 2007. It was one of those ‘Head 2 Head’ opinion pieces the Times loves so well, and it was entitled “Are We Heading For a […]
Posted in music on Apr 14th, 2010 6 Comments »
Woke up this morning feeling like Vincent Hanley… hence this meandering post containing five or so promo vids with tenuous connections. My starting point was that recent Erykah Badu vid where she goes all Sinéad O’Connor. In what is apparently a protest against the invasion of her privacy - she proceeds to conduct Operation effin’ […]
Posted in UK Politics, blogging on Apr 11th, 2010 2 Comments »
More from the wonderful Tarquin Bartleby.
Posted in fuckwits, Irish journalism, Irish Economy on Apr 11th, 2010 2 Comments »
Goodbody predicts that the unemployment rate will increase to 6 per cent next year, which is higher than the Department of Finance’s extimate of a 5.5 per cent unemployment rate in 2008.
Because of the speed at which the construction sector has reacted to the slowdown, Goodbody said the effects on the economy would […]
Posted in Industrial Relations, Economy on Apr 10th, 2010 No Comments »
Posted in satire, blogging on Apr 10th, 2010 No Comments »
Great little pisstake on Michael Caine’s endorsement of the Conservative party.
