Dublin Opinion

Listen to your woman shouting “Refund, refund” at the end. Classic!

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I’m working my way through my notes for the industry and foreign investment chapter at the moment - the consolidation of the Irish industrial comprador class - and came across this typically smug, stupid editorial from Geraldine Kennedy, former TD for the Progressive Democrats and current editor of the Irish Telegraph Times.
It’s entitled […]

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Negative equity is only a problem if you need to sell your property urgently, either because you can’t make payments or for family reasons. As regards the first motive for those who bought as first-time buyers - the most likely buyers to have 100 per cent mortgages - government plans to abolish stamp duty will […]

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Jesus man, the ESRI. What the hell has happened to them?
A couple of weeks ago they came out and said “We don’t know what we are talking about.”
And today, Paul Krugman has come out and said, “Ye don’t know what ye are talking about.”
I’ve criticised Krugman in the past for taking at face value the […]

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There was no general restriction of credit by the Irish banks to Irish business men or to potential housebuyers, a representative of the banks said yesterday. There was, however, a more careful examination of all applications, and particularly of credits for purely speculative purposes, which were examined in the light of the economic situation and […]

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I planned to read The Best is Yet to Come today, as part of a summary of contemporary publications on the Irish economy for a book I’m working on, but Jesus Almighty Christ.
Do you know that line that if you have an infinite amount of monkeys and if you give them an infinite amount […]

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(From RTE News, just after the result was announced:)

- So do you think this was an Dublin east coast / west coast thing?
- Oh, absolutely!
Beautiful.

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Piss-up. Brewery. Organise. Can’t.

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I was reading Michael Taft’s post on Progressive Economy today, where he was talking about the economic nonsense of a certain Chris Johns, chief executive of Bank of Ireland Asset Management.
Johns has written an article for the Sunday Business Post, telling us all that we can’t raise taxes any further, and that we just […]

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For more crystal quotes and masterful insights from Dan O’Brien, check out here.

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