Bock The Robber

It’s hard to avoid the irrelevant details when talking about Sean Dunne. Let’s forget his friendship with Bertie Ahern.  Let’s forget the cringe-inducing wedding on the Onassis yacht.  It’s hard [...]

Cast your mind back four or five years, to when the full extent of our banking collapse became apparent.  In particular, look at that fateful night in September 2008, when [...]

Remember all those warnings about what would happen if we didn’t bail out the sharks who owned our banks’ bonds?  The ATMs would stop giving out money, the banks would [...]

So the revenue have produced a heatmap of the country, at DED level, to give you a guide as to the property tax you will pay. Or, not. Its fifty [...]

For once, I don’t know what to say, so maybe the best thing to do is rely on our Finance Minister.  After all, who could possibly be  more reliable than [...]

So much for the promissory note deal.  Despite all the posturing by Kenny and Rabbitte, we’re as far away from getting a break as we ever were, so why precisely [...]

I don’t know if Shane McEntee is the first Irish government minister to take his own life, but I do believe he is the most prominent victim of the savage [...]

Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres, quarum unam incolunt Belgae, aliam Aquitani, tertiam qui ipsorum lingua Celtae, nostra Galli appellantur. Hi omnes lingua, institutis, legibus inter se differunt. Gallos [...]

Bludget.  What a wonderful word.  Bludget. The nation should be eternally grateful to Marian Finucane for coining such a gem, just as I am myself.  I for one welcome our [...]

How do you get half a billion dollars back from Russian crooks?  There’s only one way.  You pay protection money to the Russian Mafia, which is exactly what the former Anglo-Irish [...]