Review of 2009
January
Gaza invasion....banking woes....regulator steps down....Sean Fitzpatrick's loans....Hudson hero....unemployment..... Waterford sit-in....Obama inauguration
February
Australian bush fires....Lenihan loans admission....Sutherland resigns.... students protest....Rory McIlroy....Anglo Irish Bank and developers.....water on Mars
March
IAIB results.....Sean Fitzpatrick loans.....Austrian cellar horror.....Cork hurling strike....Sean Quinn's shrinking wealth....Cowen painting.....Ireland's Grand Slam
April
Ireland downgraded... emergency budget.....falling prices....Aer Lingus boss resigns....Erin go broke....G20 stimulus.....Thai trouble...Swine flu
May
Shane Lowry wins Irish Open.... Leinster wins Heineken Cup...new bridge floats up the Liffey...George Lee joins FG....AIB bosses to quit....UK expenses scandal....Paddy Kelly's woes...Michael Smers on Nama
June
Iran's election turns violent.....Fine Gael is the winner at the ballot box....unemployment grows...gloomy IMF report....regulatory reform....Ryanair losses.....auto troubles....Bernie Madoff.
July
An Bord Snip Nua..... O'Brien's sandwich troubles....Derek Quinlan....Liam Carroll....Sarkozy takes ill....Microsoft and Yahoo join forces.
August
Rail bridge collapse.....new taxes proposed....AIB losses.....economists pen Nama letter....Chinese typhoon... Afghanistan...Ted Kennedy....new era for Japan
September
Bernanke says recession over.....challenges mount for Obama....Merkel returns to power.... Fas scandal,,,,Nama figures....O'Brien and the indo....Mueller lands at Aer Lingus
October
Obama wins Nobel prize....Baghdad truck bombs....Pakistan violence....Chinese celebrations....Lisbon referendum....O'Donoghue expenses.....Sea the Stars.
November
The hand of Henry....unions take to the streets....flooding...Murphy Report....the Berlin Wall....the banks..... a billion go hungry.
December
The budget.....Gogarty's Dail expletive....Berlusconi attacked....Dubai debt....Greek concerns.....Tiger's troubles...Copenhagen disappoints....new Liffey bridge...Liam Clancy.
