People I could really get behind ( Read more... )

On Monday just gone I was working 10 years to the day for Big Blue ....

Not entirely sure how that makes me feel.

Independent News & Media have covered this so called story today

Ireland may exit EuroJust three paragraphs but enough to add even more straw to that camel's back of pessimism ( Read more... )

If you're like me (a single guy earning about 35-40k per year, renting, no kids, no dependants good health) then it was pretty much all gravy ( Read more... )

So the Carbon Tax? Surely a tax is only a green tax if it encourages behavioural change and isn't just there to raise revenue?

Won't the carbon taxes we are going to see in the upcoming budget just further deflate the economy?

So, a 6km tailback at Newry today eh?

Jim Larkin must be spinning in his grave.

What would happen if the Irish Govt were to start issuing punts again. Create our own currency, make it legal tender and use it to pay the public services and social welfare etc. Euros would still be legal tender and eventually the Punt would find it's real value based on demand for Irish goods and services. It seems to me that ability to devalue ( Read more... )

So, Public servants go on strike next week and the 1970's style union leaders show that they are not to be pushed around.

Well done those guys.

Then what?

The day after the strike the Govt still doesn't have the money.

I'm not sure what they aim to achieve.

Misfits on E4 last night was absolutely brilliant.

It's not really Heroes crossed with Skins as it's been described...

More like the bastard child of X-Men and Trainspotting filmed in the style of 28 days later and given a bloody great soundtrack.

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