Posted in Bankrupt ireland, Irish property bubble, Fianna Fáil on Oct 26th, 2010 1 Comment »
A budgetary adjustment of €15 billion will be required over the next four years to reduce the State’s deficit to 3 per cent by 2014, the Government said today.”
Posted in Bankrupt ireland, Irish property bubble, Fianna Fáil on Oct 22nd, 2010 No Comments »
I was just about to head off to bed when I read this on the Irish Times website: Minister rejects claim tax breaks fuelled over 2,800 ‘ghost estates’.
THE GOVERNMENT has rejected suggestions that tax breaks which encouraged residential development during the boom years fuelled the construction of more than 2,800 so-called “ghost estates”.
Minister of State […]
Posted in portraits, Bankrupt ireland, Irish property bubble, Fianna Fáil on Oct 22nd, 2010 No Comments »
For Charlie McCreevy’s role in all of this, have a read of this post we published back in 2007.
Photos taken from ghostestates.com. Music by Blur.
From Austin Hughes, October 2007:
…the proportion of unoccupied dwellings here is slightly below the EU average. A surge in spending power that made ownership of holiday homes and accommodation for children […]
Posted in portraits, Bankrupt ireland, Fianna Fáil, Irish Society on Oct 19th, 2010 6 Comments »
“We have to look at everything, our procurement processes, our staff ratios, five day wards, more day activity, all the agenda items that have been pursued in recent years will be pursued even more agressively over the next phase” (Harney warns of up to €1 billion cut in health service, Irish Times, 19 October 2010)
Posted in Bankrupt ireland, Fianna Fáil on Oct 18th, 2010 No Comments »
Through investing in our infrastructure, strengthening our R&D capacity and developing new policy frameworks to create the best conditions to establish and grow businesses, we can face the future with confidence” (Brian Cowen, 16 October 2010)
Posted in portraits, Bankrupt ireland, Fianna Fáil on Oct 17th, 2010 4 Comments »
It would substantially help Ireland’s position if we were to show the international community that there is a unity of purpose to go from words to actions.” (Brian Cowen, 17 October 2010)
Posted in portraits, Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael, politics/Ireland on Oct 17th, 2010 No Comments »
Fine Gael said last night it would back the Government’s four year economic strategy to reduce the deficit, but insisted it favoured cutting spending rather than raising taxes.
The party’s communications spokesman Leo Varadkar told the Dublin Economics Workshop in Kenmare last night that his party is committed to reducing Ireland’s deficit to 3 per […]
Posted in portraits, Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael, politics/Ireland on Oct 10th, 2010 3 Comments »
Posted in Bankrupt ireland, Fianna Fáil, Banks, Irish Economy on Oct 2nd, 2010 1 Comment »
Posted in Fianna Fáil, Irish Society, Irish Economy on Oct 1st, 2010 No Comments »
