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[I saw a graph in the FT showing the exposure of European banks to Irish debt. France , German and Dutch banks have exposure in excess of €200bn each.]

I saw a graph in the FT showing the exposure of European banks to Irish debt. France , German and Dutch banks have exposure in excess of €200bn each.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/3/31794cd6-7536-11df-a7e2-00144feabdc0.html

The Irish times has a great article by Paul Krugman on the dangers of deviating from Keynesian stimulus.. except that Ireland is doing to exact opposite of what he recommends..

Obvious then why the EU approved all of our guarantee/bailout/NAMA schemes especially as the tab will be picked up ultimately by the Irish taxpayer, rather than those banks.

Yeah. It is shameful. The taxpayer takes it on the chin.  I thought the government had great negotiators with experience going back to 1973 and joining the EEC. The banks walked all over them. 

So this Mayo game will be played the day before Sligo v Galway Semi final is on.. & this is really where the defeat to Sligo will sink in when they to travel Pearse Park on a Saturday night

We never had any problems beating longford so IMO will be a major surprise if Mayo slip up here

they'll be off again if they beat longford by more than a point. Another handy draw for the next round and there will be talk of Sam again. It's like the stock market . When the dollar loses value they're off into the emerging markets and talking risk appetite and nothing will stop them until something goes arseways and the next thing the dollar rises and its all hands on deck and close off all risk positions.  Just like Mayo this year. Very volatile.

What about the Wavin ? the great vibrating Wavin hurl where the waves would continue up your arm long after the ball sailed over the bar.  Was that not synthetic ?  Is it to be airbrushed out of history ? $

   

Northern Ireland is a special purpose vehicle. Greece is a proper country.

I saw a graph in the FT showing the exposure of European banks to Irish debt. France , German and Dutch banks have exposure in excess of €200bn each.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/3/31794cd6-7536-11df-a7e2-00144feabdc0.html

The Irish times has a great article by Paul Krugman on the dangers of deviating from Keynesian stimulus.. except that Ireland is doing to exact opposite of what he recommends..

Mayo got a relatively good draw. I can see a red and green mist coming in from the atlantic.

Israel is pretty desperate if it relies on the ICEJ. Far right christian fundis with very little christianity. 

The Billy Dooley goal from a free in the 1994 all-Ireland when the Limerick fellas had the sun in their eyes and the gap was I think 6 points was pure electricity and was the ultimate downfall of Limerick. 

Not relevant that the Iranian leader is a lunatic, has claimed the Allah given right to annihilate Israel and actively supported Hezbollah to carry out Hezbollah's Allah given right to wipe israel of the map?
I think you need to brush up on the whole theatre of rabid politics/war in the middle east before you throw every Israel security concern into the dustbin.
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I have been following Israeli hasbara for more than a decade following some time watching the occupation up at close hand. There is nothing  rabid about the Middle East. It is all about injustice. Israeli Jews have a standard of living that is 10 times higher than that of Palestinians. They run a Jim Crow system of apartheid and their hasbara propaganda is a key part of this. You obviously are a very diligent swallower. Israel needs people like you.

  On what basis can you infer that the leader of Iran is a raving lunatic? his country is bordered to the west by Iraq, a country occupied by the US and the the east by Iran, a country occupied by the US. Nuclear weapons are the only guarantee against invasion by the US.

Iran has never claimed to want to wipe Israel off the map. That is pure Israeli fiction. Ahmadin-ajad has said that the Zionist regime will disappear. I can't see it surviving the next 50 years either. The world won't tolerate apartheid run by Israel. 

Hezbollah has never launched a war against Israel . If Israel hadn't attacked Lebanon in 1982 and killed over 17,000 people there would have been no Hezbollah. Without Hezbollah Israel would never have left south Lebanon.

Why would a Country without Nuclear weapons (Iran) threaten a Nucear attack on a Country armed to the teeth with them?

a. because they have nuclear weapons
b. they actively aspire towards having nuclear weapons
c. the Iranian leader is a raving lunatic

I suspect a mix of b and c.
Do you doubt that this was said by the Iranian president? The motives are rooted in dogma.

To imply that Iran is run by morons is racist. the elite in Iran are motivated by the same things as the elite in Ireland- money. Was
the stewardship of Ireland between 2000 and 2008 rational  ? Just wondering. Israel would have everyone believe that Iran can't be trusted with nuclear weapons because there is something inherently unstable about the shia brain. this is pure racism. In reality Iranian nukes would neutralise Israel's first mover advantage in the area of nuclear weapons. that is the only issue. Why should Israel have the right to  nuclear weapons and to run torture centres and continue to dispossess Palestinians of their land ?

Maybe it's time all the Mayowestros bucks went away for a week or two till they get over last Saturday.
No point adding to ye're  anguish by continually posting whinges here.
Come back when ye get over it.

Imagine Leitrim tripping up the rossies. That would be class- a Leitrim/sligo connacht final

Didn't JBM score with an overhead pull against Galway one time?

The government can no longer claim that the failure of Lehman Bros., international factors and Ireland being an open economy caused the banking crisis.
The Honohan Report points to homegrown factors.

Who are the well connected bond holders being protected by the propping up of Anglo?

Probably most Irish pension funds and more than a few very sick German and French banks. As well as some local chancers. 

It's all a bit of a blur . I think Cormac Bonner was missing a few. I don't remember the Offaly teeth very well.

Mr Casey is neither of those things. I will not say what I think Mr Casey really is on here, for it is sure to get me in trouble with the Mods! Denis Casey was a career banker who had his career ended by this transaction. In a lot of his other actions while at the helm at PTSB he was not afraid to make unpopular decisions and is a very strong minded individual. It would be a fair man who would bully him into doing anything that he didn't want to! I believe that his recent actions have not been taken for the good of the country, but in order to protect Denis Casey PLC! Patrick "pussy cat" Neary will carry the can for a lot of this in the end, as the guilty say that he was complicit and finger him for being asleep at the wheel. Of course Neary should be held accountable, but so should the likes of Casey.

Casey was an insurer rather than a banker. He was living it up while the music was going. If you want to see what he thought about the likelihood of a property crash check out

http://www.irishlifeandpermanent.com/ipm/ir/reportsandpresentations/presentationsresults/2007/

There is some real away with the fairies stuff in there.