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The Irish Government has a new currency ready to print, if Ireland has to leave the euro…and it won’t be the old punt. The man gave me a preview…It’s the Geallt (pronounced gee-alt), like the Gaelic word for promise.

” The beautiful thing about it”, he says, “is that we can print as many as we
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This was the winning entry in “Ukraine’s got Talent” a few years ago. I think she tells a story of love and war. Thanks to Baumgardt.

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I’m not an historian, but I’ve read a few books and I’m very impressed by the achievements of Irish emigrants down the centuries and their descendents in the Irish diaspora and I’d like to bring you a few facts about that now and again in this column. The diaspora has achieved great things- and please [...]

Yes, Netsso is the sponsor of this blog and I’m proud to acknowledge that and not only because I am a shareholder. But, you may ask, why, then, has there been such a long time waiting for the activity of the blog to re-commence?. Sponsor problems?  No, not that..It was me, being too tired for a [...]

Maybe I am doing him an injustice…He seems a good person and generally reliable..Maybe it is my own fault…I did not notice an official, timely and proper withdrawal of the State’s offer in relation to AIB’s capitalisation, perhaps. If so, I am happy to apologise to Mr. Noonan.
But, otherwise it seems to me that the [...]

The rather poor road between the border at Aughnacloy and the city of Derry is to be upgraded into a dual carriageway, substantially at the expense of taxpayers in the Republic. My proposal is that this roadway should be named after Ireland’s greatest unsung hero Owen Roe O’Neill, (c. 1585 – 1649). (I’m sure John [...]

We have referred before to the essential immorality of the NAMA scheme, under which bank shareholders must accept a valuation of their equity made by state officials and, if that valuation is sufficiently low, hand over their equity to the same state accordingly, even if, ultimately, the state sells off bank assets at an enormous [...]

The results of the stress tests are being presented as an urgent and unexpected need for more capital to cover losses by the Irish banks. The reality is that the extra capital required is to protect the banks in the event that something highly unlikely might happen to our economy and society in the medium [...]

I haven’t heard one word of sympathy for bank shareholders (AIB and BOI) during the election campaign, in spite of the injustice done, and still being done, to them. And in spite of their very large numbers. There must be even more votes to be collected from bank bashers and general begrudgers.
As we have pointed [...]