Posts Tagged ‘government’
Lisbon: A Final Word
This Friday the people of Ireland will go to the polls and at this moment in time I have no doubt that the Lisbon Treaty will be approved by a majority YES vote. Yes, I advocate the NO vote but so too am I realistic with respect to the current state of play. Without offence to any individual, the YES side is made up of people whose jobs would not exist if they were not needlessly paid by somebody to be there and die hard Euro fanatics who would question their own mother before questioning the European Parliament, e.g. die hard trade unionists, politicians, minority businessmen whose [...]
“Dire-land” – FT.com
A clever and appropriate nomenclature coined by John Murray Brown of FT.com to summarise Ireland at the moment. Our Emerald Isle is looking more like a junk shop, jade dragon - cheap, useless, outdated, and fragile. On one hand our country is fighting the evil of wreckless developers and their associated debts while on the other the government and courts appear to be doing everything possible to stop these people from going bankrupt and giving them all the chances necessary to welcome them into the ba-nama republic that we have created. It's fair to say that some great strokes were pulled [...]
Lisbon II – What’s Changed?
Last October the Irish people went to the polling booth to have their say on the Lisbon Treaty - the result was a definite NO. The path is now being paved for a second vote on the treaty; So, what's changed? Before the first Lisbon vote, many people had a great number of concerns about the Lisbon Treaty's content. Unusually despite this, every single, major political party supported the YES vote. The public were subjected to the opinions of ministers who openly admitted never reading the treaty document yet were convinced that YES was the only way to vote. After the NO vote won out, the [...]
Scrap the Dublin Metro Project!
Join the Facebook group. Despite Ireland being in recession and despite an emergency, early budget to try to deal with the crisis, and despite a projected shortfall in taxes of €7.5 billion the government of Ireland still sees fit to proceed with a €4 billion plan to develop a small metro system in Dublin. This proposed budget, which will no doubt be inflated as time goes on given government failures with previous capital projects, is equal to over half of the tax shortfall and would put the country in a far better position financially if it was not spent developing a metro line only [...]
I’m Dreaming of a Tight Christmas…
I'm dreaming of a tight Christmas, Just like the one in '84. When the minister's gone fishin' and people start wishin' To the sound of an economy gone below. I'm dreaming of a tight Christmas, With every pathetic government slight. You may take a ferry, or flight, And leave Ireland long out of sight. I'm dreaming of a tight Christmas, A Christmas when the future's shyte. They get a raise and you get plight, And may all your votes next year be spite. Merry Recession everybody!
2-4-6-8 Who do we not vaccinate?
Sadly the answer to that in recent times has been all those, of a young age, who could avail of the new wonder vaccine for cervical cancer in Ireland. This post was prompted by listening to the Ray D'Arcy show on Today FM this morning when Health Minister, Mary Harney, took her life into her hands and put herself at the mercy of the headline crusader himself. While it is a crying shame that the health service in Ireland cannot be realigned to find the Eur 10 million necessary to commence this vaccination program for young females, and that money is still being spent on ridiculous overheads [...]
