Bock The Robber

Selling Ireland

With one bound, our hero is free.

Sean Fitzpatrick becomes a champion for the common man

It’s a little disconcerting to hear people expressing horror at the cursing in the Anglo tapes.  Hello?  This is Ireland where everyone fucking curses all the fucking time.  What exactly […]

I kinda like Joan Burton.  No, not in strange way, but she always seemed (at least in 2008-9-10) to have a good solid handle on the banking calamity.  It’s a […]

The Magdalene survivors are to be paid something by the State to compensate them for their time imprisoned and enslaved by the religious orders.  This is only right and proper, […]

Did you, like me, feel nauseated listening to the Anglo tapes? What made you sickest? Was it the fact that our country was being set up for one of the […]

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 […]

Oh God.  It’s just depressing, and I apologise most sincerely for banging away at this, but someone has to do it. Professor Patrick Honohan, Governor of the Central Bank, is […]

I met Seán Quinn once, and I found him an amiable, approachable sort of fellow with a good line in self-deprecatory wit.  He wasn’t slow to admit his own role […]