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2. #FINANCIAL PRESSURE Homeless charity the Simon Community says that one in three people in Ireland is concerned about losing their home as they struggle to deal with financial difficulties. That is according to the charity’s latest report, which said that it has seen an increase in the number of people turning to its services for support due to the affect of the recession.
3. #HOUSE PRICES House prices are still falling – except in South County Dublin, a report from Daft.ie shows. The Daft.ie House Price Report shows that the average asking price for a house in Ireland now stands at €167,000, which is a drop of more than 3 per cent from the previous quarter. But house prices in south county Dublin rose by 2.8 per cent in the quarter.
4. #CHILD BENEFIT A report compiled by an advisory group to the Social Protection Minister recommends a “two tier” child benefit system, which would involve child benefit payments being cut to about €100 per month. The report was seen by RTÉ’s The Week in Politics programme, and recommends that the universal payment be cut, which along with other moves would see €200 million saved annually.
5. #HEALTH INSURANCE The Government is to bring in a new set of levies on health cover from January, Charlie Weston reports in the Irish Independent today. He says that insurance companies are now warning that the levies – which are part of a formal risk equalisation scheme – could lead to premium increases, with some experts saying a family of two adults and two children could see their insurance hiked by €200.
6. #COMPENSATION Minister for Education, Ruairí Quinn, has written in the Irish Examiner today to criticise religious orders for not paying their share of the child abuse redress package. Minister Quinn says the response from religious congregations to paying the compensation “remains disappointing” and says the taxpayer is shouldering the brunt of the payment costs.
7. #PRIMARY CARE An internal HSE report seen by the Irish Independent ‘confirms’ part of Health Minister Dr James Reilly’s claim about plans for a primary care centre in Balbriggan, Co Dublin, the paper says today. The report shows that a site purchase had been agreed for this specific centre, with a planning application to be lodged by the end of October.
8. #RECYCLING More Irish people are recycling, according to research carried out for Repak Recycling Week. It shows that the average Irish household recycling rate has increased from 58 per cent in 2011 to 65 per cent this year, with an 8 per cent uptake in recycling in work also being seen.
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Best of luck trying to get anybody in Cavan to part with it.
I think the gold deposits were actually found inside someone’s mattress.
We’re rich lads! Rich beyond our wildest dreams. Lets build more houses.
Can’t lose on Bricks & Mortar they say. Great plan, count me in!!
Feck that Stevie!
I don’t trust the auld houses meself, I’m
lumping everything into de auld bank shares, sure aib and boi are bullet proof
I’m just gonna sit back and watch the dosh rollllll in
Easy moneys I tell ya
Screw the both ye guys..eircom shares where the monies at!
I think I will take a risk .Mad I know but I will put my money into unsecured bonds ….easy come easy go and shur I might get something back .Wha ? What’s that you say ? Ah what you dont have you dont miss , its a long shot but hey We are in Ireland anything goes !!!
from cavan myself, very exciting news, turned around to the wife a few minutes ago and said now that they found gold on our land what will we do with all these begging letters, she says sure feck it keep sending them.
No doubt they will rape and pillage the countryside.
Hopefully.
We’ll all be lovely and rich in Dublin though
:)
24carot Cyaavan gold. Watch the sales of shovels sky rocket now.
Just wait for the government to give away the rights to gold aswell. They’re quite good at signing away our natural resources
So that’s where the the Cavan locals stashed their money! ;)
They will never get planning permission. The posters are packing there bags and are on there way to Cavan
Protestors
It’ll create jobs and boost their local economy.
My be it’s the quinns pot , lol they did not hid it well
Lol !
The’s gooold in them theya hills hi!
Its funny how all these gold,oil and gas discoveries are happening when we are in our worst postion to bargain what we receive. Funny that its happening in Spain, Greece and Portugal as well. And to go a bit further sure the IMF have a great record of offering financial assistance to countries in the 3rd world just as they make resource discoveries. Some coincidences i say.
If i had a blonde wig and some lipstick on ….. yeah maybe.
And think about this one…. With the fine motorway network almost completed (with borrowed money…. and not paid for yet) they can come in and easily extract whatever it is they are after…. I believe it was a well taught out plan that the world elites created a plan to flood the PIGS countries with money, then shutting off all lending instantaneously, forcing massive cutbacks, resulting in free falling economies, with the result that they who control the money call all the shots….. Coincidence….. This was a massive setup….
Where have these discoveries happened recently in Spain, Greece and Portugal? I Googled and couldn’t find anything recent. Have you any sources or are you making sh*t up?
@Ryan U ain’t trying very hard. These stories have been in and out of the news regarding the Pigs for the past year. I checked google for oil and gas Greece, Portugal and Spain and on the first pages on each there was news items relating to such.
Gold is always more worthwhile digging up when currency is low in value. The same happened in the 80s. When currency is worth a lot (up until crash of 08), gold has low value, so not economical to extract. Then, it was $300/oz. Now, closer to $1750…
Always knew them Cavan bunch could be trusted with anything – wouldn’t spend a rich mans penny to save their lives!
Eileen
Perhaps you could inform us as to where we can purchase these so called unsecured Bonds.
Paddy (Mark) Rodgers
have you not learned how to reply to posts correctly yet ?
Nothing to say to you .I would have thought you would know better after having your nasty comments to me ,removed from other threads …
what if Paddy Rodgers is a pseudoynm for enda kenny. if you swap his name round it would be quite apt, is that you enda?
Foreigners brought into mine it,and trucks to bring it out,no benefit to us.The government will find a way to make absolutely no use of it as always.Like giving a bag of jellies to a bunch of kids really.
That’s unlikely, Irish Gold commands a much higher price because it’s Irish. Most gold mined will be used in jewellery and sold to tourists and abroad like Tara Crystal. Given the relatively small amount of gold mined it can be smelted in Ireland unlike ~100,000 tons of Lead & Zinc ore that’s exported to Finland(?) for smelting. It’s likely profits made will remain in Ireland, once Connroy Diamonds and Gold get enough capital to set up mining, milling and smelting here.
Ah no they found my communion money!!
Lost in Cavan at the weekend. one pot. High sentimental value to owner. Contact Larry D. Le Prechaun.
Ignore dupe.
Being South African born and bred, will. Cavan now be nicknamed Gold Reef County and Ireland finally finds their pot luck. Who knows maybe, diamonds are next and will be discovered by a Mr ” De Beer O’Loughlin”. The old saying
How much will this mean for government. Hope there is a tax applicable to this licence! But I have a feeling it is same as the oil giveaway! Why not create a new natural resource extraction tax. New 2012 law…..new tax. Can then be applied to the other finds we have. I mean I as a paye worker have been subjected to new taxes brought into law. So why not a new natural resource extraction tax? Put an end to this future tribunal case of looking into Ireland’s resource giveaway!
is it Sean Quinn’s?
Resources should be the communal property of everyone on this Island and should be used to better all of our people. It’s a pity that won’t happen. This shouldn’t be done by private mining companies. Same with oil, gas and everything else.
Resources are already nominally owned by the state, thus are owned by the citizens of Ireland. Legally any “scheduled mineral” deeper than 6 inches underground (deeper than a plough, yes, that’s the definition) is state owned (there’s a few exceptions such as sand & gravel that escape mining rules; that’s how farmers opened sand pits in Kildare and filled them with rubbish without strict planning permission).
When a company applies for a mining licence, they lease the right to mine state owned minerals. The minerals extracted are taxed according to what they are or a duty is applied if exported.
For example, I’ve heard from miners at Avoca that Copper and Gold was mislabeled Pyrite and exported cheaply, escaping higher export duty. That said, Avoca was the world lowest grade copper/gold mine by the 1970-80s, a higher duty wild have closed the mine and resulted in job losses. Companies can’t get away with this now, I hope.
I bet all rights are gone for the next 50 years for any resources found underground in Ireland. Which government sold them I would love to know.
Dig it up because its shiney and its precious. Mmmmm lovely gold $1775 per oz nice one.
Oh come back Biddy Reilly to Ballyjamesduff. Oh come home Biddy Reilly to me.
We struck gold in Cavan! A winning mentality! Between fracking and gold mining the place will be filled with more holes.
Well don’t broadcast it for feck sake. We will be having American peace keeping forces in to “save us” before we know it.
Never thought I would say it but I’m away to Cavan!
Mobile van, selling chips and burgers to the throngs of protesters and media personnel.
That will be the first and only profitable “Gold Mine” if it gets the go-ahead.
The whole idea has a suspect hint of tax payer funded “grab for cash” with no gold to show for it in the end.
The gold bank of cavan
Least something good is comin out of Cavan
its not like you all dont have your pick of shite counties to slag off, l mean yuk (!) Meath or, gulp (!) Donegal, the horrible Dubs, the whole of Munster… so many awful, shite, shite counties, 31 in fact
All the ‘Pig Slurry’ is paying off now…..other Counties take note :-))
They should be told to f off ! Our gold is our culture and our culture is our gold. Our society will get little or nothing . A few jobs for a few years and then an empty mining town. The play Stones in their pockets springs to mind! The wool has been pulled over our eyes for too long! . ” What have they done to the earth?. What have they done to our fair sister?. Ravaged and plundered and raped her and bit her. Stabbed her with knives in the back of the dawn. Tied her with trenches and dragged her down. ” I’d never thought I’d be quoting JM in relation to my native county.
Appropriate tune for the story :-)
Basement business booming!
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