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A MOTION CALLING for a national mortgage strike will be debated by the Irish Congress of Trade Unions at its conference today.
The motion has been proposed by the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation and calls on Congress to “prepare for and if necessary, implement” a mortgage strike.
David Hughes, the Deputy General Secretary of the INMO said that Taoiseach Enda Kenny confirmed to the ICTU conference on Monday that Irish taxpayers will pay €3.1 billion to Anglo Irish Bank every 31 March for the foreseeable future.
Hughes said that the INMO wants a broad-based campaign demanding that mortgages on principle private residences be lowered to reflect house values.
He also wants laws to penalise those “who commit financial treason” and called for a charter of rights to be implemented.
Congress and the majority of economists have now declared that Ireland’s debt is unmanageable and there is no moral justification behind the demands that Irish tax payers alone should pay it. Yet, we as a nation continue to pay.
He added that public protest and strikes in ireland and Greece “have so far failed to persuade Government to resist the demands of international bankers and opportunist markets”
The fight must now be taken to those markets and banks by depriving them of their only resource which is our willingness to pay.
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If we can have their economy they can have our catchphrase.
And we’ll throw Enda in too…
A simpleton, could come up with that catchphrase and…………Enda proved that point!
Poor Enda should realise that the doors might be open for business but its out the doors the people are going
I’d we had china buying all our mineral resources we’d have their economy. Unfortunately we don’t have the mineral resources.
Hello Justin
Oil gas water fish food trees?? Ireland is hugely rich and badly managed
Gotta love that picture ‘Enda Kenny with a pen’ what great talks they must have together.
The pen is mightier than the fool !
Difficult to tell whick one is the pen :)
The thicker one, duh!:-)
As the saying goes. If he looks like a village idiot!
The pen is a useful object for everyday use….Enda?…..well Enda is just Enda.
Because what? All the companies were turning down profitable adventures in Aus because someone else happened to be in govt?
No, he’s just trying to give the impression of a new start…just like Enda did, but soon people will realize that like in Ireland France and the US it was just musical chairs, different people, same policies.
Oz economy seriously overheating and will go same way as ours in spite of their vast mineral wealth because China is creaking too. They can’t see it because like us they thought they are different to the other economies.
Advice to any Irish out there – don’t buy property now and if you own any sell it now.
Enda Penny…
You would want to be one sad bastard to copy anything that kenny has said or done.
He’s not copying him John. Its just the journal trying to get you excited, and its worked. Enda Kenny has nothing to do with this story and no connection to Tony Abbott as far as i’m aware.
The sad bustard who has won over the hearts and minds of red necked Australia by singing from the same backwards tory ignorant hymn sheet.
Most of the things he claimed in the run up the election was populist bullshite, claiming their economy was in trouble, that they were going to be awash with refugees, denying climate change….the list goes on
I know its for the journal readers but did the Kenny photo need that caption?
Yes it did.
It was perfect.
It was for Enda ; he’s looking at it as if he doesn’t know what it is so I think the journal were just being nice ; he’s a very powerful man you know !
I could, off course, be wrong .
ausie might want a head to patt
If Enda is his role model he is one sad bastard, God help Australia is all I can say.
Maura, sweetheart, Enda is not Abbotts role model. This is just the journal trying to stir up a frenzy by using Enda in this story for some unknown reason.
Story about Australian election, picture of Enda Kenny: WHAT THE WHAT????
The pic is of the pen, yer man just happened to be there.
Those girls were attractive until I realised they were a politician’s daughters !
Yeeeuck !
“Enda Kenny with a pen”, bahahahaha my sides hurt from laughing! Weekend = Made!
More gutter journalism from the journal, honestly how low can this tabloid rag sink to? So fair enough Tony Abbott looks like he’s going to win the aussie election. I’m delighted for him. But for the journal to try and sex up the story they put a photo and part headline of Enda Kenny holding a pen and claim that Abbott is copying Ends’s phrase. They probably have never even met. I wonder why the journo would do that. Is it because the Abbott story alone would not get as many hits? Tell you what lets throw in a pic of Enda, hopefully this will excite the journal contributors to abuse the govt and get a few like and shares. Whatever you all think about Enda Kenny you shouldn’t let yourselves be fooled by this blatant journalistic abuse by the journal. What an embarrassment to the profession.
Why do you read it so?
Jon Coll me aul flower, that is actually quite a good question and the very same thought darkened my mind when writing my last diatribe. Why would i bother read it and comment on it if i feel so much above the journal’s low standards. I have two answers Jon, the first one is i don’t actually know and the second one is i just felt so irked that i had to share my frustration with fellow readers so i could at least offer an alternative point. However there is a third, secret reason as well Jon. And that is the fact that Enda Kenny gets a lot of bad publicity on here which is not deserved, this govt was left with a huge mess to clean up by FF and they are doing an adequate job i think considering the circumstances. It’s a crazy world Jon.
Dane your man is a traitor who will go down in history as biggest Irish fool of all time.
Traitors will be FF and the real fools will be the irish people for believing ahern, cowen and the rest of the FF spin machine and voting them in 3 times in a row.
By what standards is this Govt doing a good job ? citizens leave our shores at the rate of one every six seconds. Kenny has lied so many times now he is a joke. We hand billions of Euro over to UNSECURED bond holders . Kenny is a spineless waste of space .
*Six minutes.
No wonder he gave up the teaching ; can’t even show how to hold a pen properly !
Go on Enda smile ; you’re always on camera ! I’m sure you can see the joke !
Ah yes; the quiet satisfaction of ridiculing people who lie to me has become one of my favourite pleasures in life !
whats he doing with that pen?? he usually uses crayons
Not crazy about that Abbott guy getting in, a lot of his appeal was based on limiting migrants entering Australia, if ya ask me, they could do with more immigrants not less, put a little chlorine in that gene pool….
Guess it’s more about parental leave and scrapping of carbon tax, hope Enda looks into these too.
Meanwhile at the Fine Gael/Labour internet reconnaissance HQ; ‘We’ve got a good one here lads, true blue!…. with a small light red arm-band…. he’s using terminology like ‘gutter-press’ and ‘tabloid rag’.. and accusing the journalist of exciting contributors to abuse the government!!…… ah Jaesus come on now like, ya can’t be at that lads….. abusing the government like!, ah jaesus! Shur the government are the only wans allowed to abuse…… with the odd exception here and there. Right get his details and offer him a seat on some committee of some sort, see will he do a gig with yer man Vincent Browne on the truth box as well will ya.
WHATS HE DOING WRECKING ANOTHER COUNTRY,THROW ANOTHER DINGO ON THE BARBARQUE SKIPPY
Take note Enda & his merry men, aussies to scrap carbon tax. Now thats what you call looking after your people
The two Right wiggy wingers are now in love to destroy humans. I am sorry that Australia will meet it’s downfall. How tick are Australians brainwashed by the News Corps
More luck to Australia. What a country!
Great work Enda just as the bubble is about to burst in Australia….Idiot
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