For the past year, this column has been warning of a “triple lock” in the Irish banking system, which would financially incarcerate the Irish people for a generation. The triple lock would solder the people to the banking system in a suffocating embrace forcing us to borrow from tomorrow to pay for yesterday and, in the process, destroy the opportunities of today. Now with the Government upping its stake in Bank of Ireland, this prediction — regretfully — is coming to pass.
— It’s time to shout ’stop’ – NAMA is grand larceny | David McWilliams
Like Trojan Falls, it is built on quicksand yet, in occasional moments, there are glimpses of beauty in the wreckage.
The Dutch coalition government collapsed today when the two largest parties failed to agree on whether to withdraw troops from Afghanistan as planned this year
— Dutch government collapses - The Irish Times - Sat, Feb 20, 2010
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So you bought off the plan in ‘06/’07 at the height of the property boom, and now you’re going to end up owning a property that’s worth dramatically less than you thought?
In an interview before the production’s opening, West described Off Plan as the “riskiest thing I’ve ever done”. Her willingness to take risks yields many results.
The funeral musicians don’t face the audience or each other when playing at a funeral. Instead they sit with backs together and face different directions. Because the dead are not with us. They are gone, scattered.
There’s the old line about the Bourbons when they got back in power after Napoleon that “they had learned nothing and forgotten nothing”. Then there’s Fianna Fail.
