Comment on Tax and a certain Irish group… by ivorthorne
But does he have a sort of twisted point? Ireland helps lots of companies avoid paying tax. We take a tiny cut of the savings those comapnies make and that is enough for the average citizen. We...
View ArticleComment on Tax and a certain Irish group… by WorldbyStorm
I imagine in relation to the orthodoxy you’re absolutely correct ivorthorne. This is literally business as usual. It’s bizarre though to see it trumpeted as A-okay in relation to U2′s business affairs...
View ArticleComment on Tax and a certain Irish group… by doctorfive
You often hear of rockstars losing all touch with reality but when has drawing parallels between yourself and the Irish Government been a good excuse for anything? btw, is the ‘cranky left’ and...
View ArticleComment on ASTI Fightback statement on the outcome of today’s ballot by Sean...
In most schools those who want handouts etc will make sure to tell you at parent teacher meetings. Notes/handouts are the main way that the private ‘grind’ schools work.
View ArticleComment on Tax and a certain Irish group… by Séamas Ó Sionnaigh (An Sionnach...
Ah yes, it’s all a conspiracy against U2 by Irish Republicans. Much like the protests against government hack-and-slash policies are all by Irish Republicans. And smuggling is all by Irish Republicans....
View ArticleComment on Brief notes on the German elections. by Gewerkschaftler
Yep – the surveillance state has moved on. And comparisons are instructive. I find the ‘meh’ reaction to what we now know about the NSA in the English-speaking part of Europe extraordinary.
View ArticleComment on Brief notes on the German elections. by Gewerkschaftler
Great poem. Reminds me of the RoI approach to referendums.
View ArticleComment on Brief notes on the German elections. by Ed
That Guardian story has 3 delegates out of 100 in Rostock refusing to stand for the Berlin Wall ceremony, and the regional Die Linke leader strongly condemning their actions.
View ArticleComment on Gone to the (Central) Library by Joe
I am indeed SoS. But sadly that’s about as active as I get leftie-wise these days.
View ArticleComment on Brief notes on the German elections. by Pasionario
I don’t see what you mean about the context in The Guardian article. Three members of Die Linke refused to participate in a minute’s silence to commemorate the many people who were murdered whilst...
View ArticleComment on Brief notes on the German elections. by Gewerkschaftler
Good grief – I didn’t think that I was talking to a bridge-dweller. And, as I’ve said before, there are very few of the Rostock diehards left. Plenty of people in the former East are married to...
View ArticleComment on Brief notes on the German elections. by FergusD
I attended a small scientific meeting in the DDR in the 1980s, in Wernigerode in the Haartz mountains. I traveled with 2 others from the UK in a hired car, a fancy, for the time Ford Mondeo. Once of...
View ArticleComment on Gone to the (Central) Library by Shay Guevara
If O’Brien ran the theatres, he’d have to let people in for free if they live abroad for half the year. But DenisO’BrienGate? That just sounds like a scandal waiting to happen.
View ArticleComment on Brief notes on the German elections. by ejh
I was shocked by the backward nature of the economy Bloke I know went interrailing though Eastern Europe around the same time. has vivid memories of seeing cabbages rotting in the fields in the GDR...
View ArticleComment on Financial surveys… outlook? Not great. by CMK
The reason for my dismissive tone towards ‘Europinions’ was the fact that the media are celebrating small jumps of 9 euro and 14 euro per month in monthly disposable income as tentative signs of things...
View ArticleComment on Financial surveys… outlook? Not great. by doctorfive
CMR has an interesting take on the Irish Times reporting too http://criticalmediareview.wordpress.com/2013/09/24/theres-blood-in-the-stone-yet/
View ArticleComment on What you want to say… Open Thread, 25th of September 2013 by Bob...
Following Ivan Yates return to Newstalk, TV3 and the Irish independent, failed developer and chancer John Maguire presents celebrity apprentice on TV3. Is Denis taking the piss?
View ArticleComment on Financial surveys… outlook? Not great. by WorldbyStorm
Don’t get me wrong. You’re dead right to be dismissive. And there’s something particularly obnoxious about €80 lunches being seen as ‘budget’.
View ArticleComment on Financial surveys… outlook? Not great. by sonofstan
‘One in ten’ reporting difficulties with their mortgages when the Central Bank tells us the 18.5% or mortgages are in arrears and a further 5% have had to be restructured?? Not everyone has a mortgage...
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