British undercover agent led attack on Irish police at rally
This article was sent to me this morning By DARA KELLY IrishCentral.com Staff Writer Mark Kennedy, an undercover British agent, reportedly encouraged protesters to attack Irish police. An undercover...
View Articlemore New Year predictions!
It’s still January so perhaps we’re still in time for some more New Year predictions. There was a detailed entry on here a fortnight ago on residential property predictions for 2011 and indeed the...
View ArticleFine Gael’s empty promises of universal health care
By Eilish O’Regan Monday February 07 2011 Fine Gael will not be able to begin introducing a system of universal health insurance — ending the current public and private divide — for another five...
View Article“QUEEN BARRED”
A pub owner in Dublin was ordered to remove a 40-foot banner barring the Queen from his premises during her State visit to the Republic of Ireland. John Stokes said he reluctantly agreed to take down...
View Article“improper and unlawful”
by namawinelake There was something surreal about lawyers in the High Court last October, 2010 acting for Paddy McKillen, casually referring to the €45m loan provided by Anglo to the developer as a...
View ArticleWhy the €1bn NAMA provision for loan losses is bunkum
by namawinelake | May 4, 2011 at 4:17 pm source URL: http://wp.me/pNlCf-1mA The Minister for Finance, Michael Noonan gave the green-light this morning for the publication of the report and accounts...
View ArticleFocus Ireland
Dear Machholz, I want to bring you up to date with our campaign to ensure that children who are in state care have a legal right to aftercare when they reach 18 years of age. You will remember that we...
View ArticleTD succeeds in prodding NAMA into action on developer business plan
By Namawinelake Remember when NAMA was a glint in economist Peter Bacon’s eye? Way back when the Department of Finance was, according to Wikileaks, hinting that the haircut on loans would be closer to...
View ArticleNorthern Ireland court case sheds light on Irish banks lending practices...
“About this time Mr McDonald [Bank of Scotland (Ireland)] told Mr Walsh that he was coming under considerable pressure to lend more money due to increased lending targets imposed by the bank and the...
View Article‘rip-off’ price for Medicines
sent in to us by Cris Aideen Sheehan Consumer Correspondent CONSUMERS have expressed fury at ‘rip-off’ price discrepancies between medicines sold in Northern Ireland and the...
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