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Debt: of the Greek and Irish varieties.
Talks between Greece and the eurozone finance ministers ended without agreement last night.
Eurogroup has now given the embattled country until the end of the week to apply for an extension to its €240 billion bailout. Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis described the deal as “unacceptable”. He is looking for a six-month bridging loan while a new agreement is negotiated.
Doubts about Greece’s future in the eurozone abound, but Varoufakis remains optimistic about the prospect of a deal.
Irish eyes are watching the negotiations with great interest, particularly in light of comments made by Ashoka Mody yesterday. The former IMF chief of mission to Ireland told Newstalk our government had “absolutely” missed out on an opportunity to strike a debt writedown deal with the Troika in 2010. Finance Minister Michael Noonan later dismissed the remarks.
Speaking to Morning Ireland today, Former IMF Director Donal O’Donovan said the country had failed in its “very good efforts” to get a better debt deal as it was “shut out of the markets” had “no negotiating power left”.
He described the deal we got as “not a good solution”, but added: “What options did we have?”
A lot of people are now asking the same question about Greece.
TD Finian McGrath has said that the leadership of the new Independent Alliance is a bit like Cuba.At the moment we’ve a collective leadership, as they say in Havana,” he told us during a wide-ranging interview. The Dublin North Central TD said Shane Ross and Michael Fitzmaurice are strong characters but added that the group’s leadership will ultimately be decided by its members.”I’ve no interest in egos or leadership issues,” he said.
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Good old Boeing,turning into the lada of the skies
@nicknack: what a pathetic comment with no doubt some 200 people in possible danger.
@ApexSnow: Stalking my Facebook page and asking how my Daughter is, is very worrying and very sad on your part
@David Garland: it’s no good reporting these stalking anons sickos. Thejournal does nothing about them.
@ApexSnow: Stop being such a snowflake
@ApexSnow: Yea I’m a snowflake because some weirdo hiding behind a fake twitter profile thinks it’s ok to bring my sick daughter up in an online comments section
@David Garland: set the guards on the pervy git
@nicknack: What an ignorant comment! Clown!
@nicknack: Boeing don’t make the tyres.
@ApexSnow: do you like bullying people and bringing their kids into your sick mind games you dont belong on here
Hopefully they land safely
Landed safely
Looks like it is still circling…
https://www.flightradar24.com/ACA837/23be1953
Still circling. It says it’s due to try landing at 7:53. Not sure if that’s our time or theirs. They’re all getting a good view of Spain. May the landing go well.
@Fiona Fitzgerald: That’s Spanish time. I read the same thing in the Spanish news. So 18:53 Irish time.
@Ciaran Adamson: my comment got deleted I think. I said I’m watching it love on YouTube.
@Donncha Ó Coileáin: Thanks. Fingers crossed for them.
@Ciaran Adamson: dumping fuel.
@Donncha Ó Coileáin: Irish time is always an hour later no matter what time zone you’re in.
I know that a piece of the tyre is indeed a piece of the landing gear and therefore the title is correct, but a bit sensationalist maybe? Anyway, as long as everyone is ok and plane lands safely then that’s what is important, not a title on a news article.
@Bran Brans: You know thejournal….love a good yarn!
What are the chances it was actually a drone that went into the engine. Less than an hour before this plane took off, the airport was only reopened after pilots had spotted a drone in the ‘takeoff area’.
https://twitter.com/skynews/status/1224361953994399746?s=21
@Padraig: your explanation makes a lot more sense….. seems impossible for part of their own planes landing gear to enter one of the engines. But it could also be runway debris from another aeroplane ….. that’s what happened to Concorde flight taking off from Paris in July 2000.
If they can still deploy their landing gear they should be ok …just need to minimize landing weight..hence fuel burn off.
Could be, but so near to the wheels? Airport Webcams on Twitter has it that a tyre burst on take-off, and the pieces went into the engine.
A couple of accounts on Twitter are reporting that the Air Canada Boeing 767 is being escorted by an F-18 fighter jet from the Spanish Air Force as it circles Madrid. Apparently they’re having a look at the landing gear for them.
@Padraig: “What are the chances it was actually a drone that went into the engine.”
Zero. Here’s the landing gear, a large piece of rubber came off a tyre on take-off and was injected by an engine:
https://twitter.com/CarlosC97620547/status/1224440064089845764
Is this plane yet to land……how will it do so if the landing gear is in the engine,scary.
@Honeybee: I’m no pilot, but I imagine that represents most of the problem…
@Honeybee: A LOT 767 flying from JFK to Poland couldnt deploy the landing gear and landed on its belly.
@Honeybee: reports are it was a blown tyre that went into the engineer not the landing ‘gear’
@Tony Gordon: I’m pretty sure the tyre is a very important part of the landing gear!
@Mark H: I’m pretty sure I’d rather have intact mechanical and hydraulics of the landing gear and a single burst tyre!!
@Mark H: They have 10 wheels with 1 burst tyre. A routine return to the departure airport.
3pm today would have been 2pm Irish time not 4pm
Thanks be to God they landed safely, I have been involved in two flights involved with landing gear and hydraulic problems, 3 hours circling over the isle of Capri and Santander in Spain, they were saying the rosary on the plane
@Brendan O’Donoghue: scary stuff, but saying the rosary wouldn’t help much,
@Who cares?: Well, it would calm people who repeated it. The same as meditation, really. All credit to Air Canada pilots and Spanish air traffic controllers for the safe landing.
Wow… so much knowledge on display here folks ! seems all the Masterminds are gathered n one place . I’m privileged.
No tyres but plenty of skid marks I’d imagine!
There is 128 passengers, on board the Boeing 767, returning to Madrid Airport.
@James Moore: all is well it landed safely. TBTG.
I have flown London to Vancouver the flights are always full, Canada Rouge
How many of these flights are flying around half empty?? Climate Change
Nice story
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