I wouldn’t trust Sinn Fein with my pocket money never mind managing the slim finances remaining in the country

We lost the run of ourselves in the 2nd boom.

what everybody doesn’t realize is the fact Gross National Product is all the money been pumped in here by tax exiles, it has no direct affect on our economy. Shame on FG,LB and FF

What about its indirect effect?

If you want to spend endlessly into oblivion and destroy the middle class, keep running budget deficits and inflate the currency away.

Austerity is getting a bad rap but it is the medicine to cure the ails of misallocated resources, i.e. too much government.

The problem is that the austerity is what is being taken immorally from the wrong places.

We need to get it out of our heads that recessions are a bad thing.

Its not a recession anymore, its a depression.

You’re not on your own Jim. We all partied.

who in the name of god could red thumb that statement ? Oh god……

Sinn Fein seriously couldn’t do any worse. They’re doing a fine job in the north.

im moving to SF….secure me job for the next few years

This info was last on the 1 o’clock news today but Mandela in hospital was the headline. Nothing about protests. Its clear that censorship is alive and well in Ireland’s.

I would have to agree. I am a youth worker and in its simplest form conflict (austerity) is important for the group (the country) to build and develop. It is the most difficult part of the group process, but when it is over and you can preform and create something that is worthwhile. There is a change coming but all people need to be involved in that change. If people get their point across then Ireland wont be what people want Ireland to be in the future. This is a time of great change, but what type of change is up to us all.

This is not bad news for Noonan. It’s the inevitable result of the neo liberal economic vandalism he is inflicting on Ireland. The poisonous limerick toad has been extremely effective at protecting the interests of those he serves, the european political and financial elite. I hope that he answers for his treachery one day soon.

coddler,

i’ve never seen you refer to kenny as a poisonous mayo toad, or micky martin as a poisonous cork toad, or poisonous meath toads or offaly toads.

I think noonan is a poisonous toad, but why put limerick before it?

Have a care Gerry Adams maybe the only man capable of standing up to Angela Merkel and the ECB so far diplomacy has got us nowhere now we need a hard-line approach someone with a fighting spirit.
Interesting how history repeats itself the German are ”dictating” once again now its time for us Irish to start ”fighting” back yet again.

Agree

time for prosperity

time for sinn fein

Tbh, I wish Gerry Adams was in charge right now.

Well said

Really, as far as I can see the Sinn Fein supporters all seem to be either bowl haircuts with the backside hanging out of their tracksuits or the florid faced workshy mouthpiece know nothings. All the Sinn Fein “Clinics” appear to be in semi bombed out housing estate shopping centres with the exception of one I saw in Castleknock some time ago. Each “clinic” I have seen always has two or three hard chaws semi suited standing to attention in them with a brick wall for a puss. Hardly an advertisement for prosperity Garda Pat, unless it is prosperity of the baseball bat variety.

Why do you say that? Last time I checked it was not Sinn Féin who bailed out the banks or the ones in government continuing to facilitate their corrupt practices and financial embezzlement. Who would you vote for Fianna Fáil? I suppose you would trust them with your pocket money?

Pat, No offense to limerick intended. A fine city with a great socialist tradition. I hope you take the Liam McCarthy this year on the off chance that the Dubs don’t :)

Ironic Margaret are you another party hack? This article and the statistics show that Irish government and EU austerity are simply not working and are just making things worse. Austerity that was primarily induced in Fianna Fáil guaranteeing Anglo-Irish bank, did you even listen to the tapes? But instead of addressing the situation at hand you just go on a rant about Sinn Féin and working class people who wear tracksuits who are “know nothings”.

You come across as a class elitist, do you vote Fine Gael by any chance?

beep

Maybe that’s where all the Garda come from Pat? #joking

margaret,

“semi bombed out housing estates”

You have shown us your neocon credentials with that comment

Even at the height of the celtic tiger neocon parties refused to help working class people.

Stick to the poisonous sunday independent and the Mail.

SF has constantly been accused of coming up with barmy economic proposals. Fg and lab think no one notices that they implement them when they think no one is looking. The latest confirmation that Pearce Doherty knows exactly what he is talking about- raiding the pension fund for a stimulus package, as far as I remember, he has been arguing for this the past 4 years. Where are all the fg supporters now? Havn’t they been smugly spewing muck about the economy stabilising and growing for the last few years? Normally vindication should feel good, but in this case it is horrible, when will they start listening to sense?

coddler,
none taken,

he is a poisonous troll, waiting 40 years for a mccarty cup……………better come soon.

I didn’t party and looks like I won’t for a long time.

Right, because the current crowd are soooo trustworthy. So who would you trust with the finances.

barry,
right on. FG spewed hatred at doherty for suggesting using the pension fund as a stimulus package, then they come out and do it.

unbelievable,

only sinn fein can stand up to europe because they are not corrupted..

odran,

of course she supports fine gael, hangs out with shatter types, reads the sunday independent and hello magazine.

Amazing what one comment can tell us.

Aine i’m not a guard,

i’m just pat trolling…………….lol

@ É Mac Gabhann.

If we could just super impose Noonans face on the map of Ireland you’d be able to sum everything up without saying a word.

noonan has done so much for germany he’ll be on the new deutchemark.

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Marie… History repeats itself? The Irish fought back against the Germans the first two times around? Would that be those few Irish who joined with British forces and were then branded as traitors by their countrymen and left to rot with no entitlements? Interesting mix of views in there somewhere from a SF supporter…

Have to love the assumptions here. Not one of you know me, where I come from, what I do, where I go, how I live, what I have observed and experienced, and still you assume. For all you know I am the person on the bus next to you, the person two desks up from you, the person you talked to on the phone today, the person at the counter in any convenience shop or cafe who served you coffee.. I could even be the person on the street with a begging cup in my hand for all you know. If my comment offends you all then prove me wrong.

Loling in the 4 by 4 here Mags.
You troll ‘em girl.
Lunch tomorrows?

RH the point I am making is Germany has a history of Dictatorship and Ireland has a history of rebellious fighting I didn’t mean against each other I meant independently

According to your profile you work in PricewaterhouseCoopers, a top global accounting firm, so I sincerely doubt most of what you just said is true.

Well, I am Sinn Féin supporter. I may also add, I do not wear tracksuits, and do not have a bowl haircut, although what that changes I am unaware off. I may also add that I am a Trinity College Scholar, which obviously categorises me as a ‘know-nothing’ by your high standards. Regardless, I am working hard in my studies to help be a part of a future Ireland, but unless we really see a change in government attitudes, or else replace the current lot with people who are actually willing to put the national as opposed to individual benefit to the forefront, then the future looks very bleak.

Regardless which party people support, as long as they do what they can for our country, I really don’t care; be they people like Anthony Burrowes above, be they doctors, economists or even the dreaded ‘track-suited’ individuals you seemingly despise, they can all do a part for our country.

well said odran.. Magaret Noonan.. i’m sure you would be a prime example of the elitist section of our society who needs a wealth tax introduced upon them…

The only one making gross ignorant assumptions about Sinn Fein supporters is you Margaret. I find it amusing how you get so offended and play the victim when the tables are turned…as the old saying goes ”people in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones”!

Get the fookin money in!

More tax on the way boyos…..my bondholder pal needs payin. Vote FG yes for jobs stability and security….but not if your a little fella LMAO

It’s the British gov.running the north not sinn fein .easy run with something that’s not broke

Ah Recession, its like you never left.

eilish, you are a fool, if you believe that.

best stick to hello magazine and the sunday independent.

Michael noonan looks like he got caught eating daffodils in the toilet in that picture

Congrats Noonan!!!
What an achievement!!!

Just buy a brand new Renault, you’ll be sorted!

barry,

lmao

Yea, but we still need people to buy them on the other end, and the cost of doing business here is so high, you’s need to be selling large volumes to make a profit. No one easy answer really, we need to get money into the economy and get people back to work, if you don’t have that, then anything else you do will not get us going again

graham,

All cork has to do is open up the 800 boarded up houses in the city.

I assume there’s still work on those houses/ estates to be done if they are boarded up. It also doesn’t mean that construction work sucks money out of the economy.

Note to special advisor…..^^^^^^^ we need to do this