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Bankers' irony deficit
One credit crunch, a property bubble and some serious lack of foresight later and Bank of Ireland is urging customers to "plan ahead" to ease future financial headaches. Never mind that it was years of not thinking at the bank that forced the Government to announce last February a bailout of €3.5bn.
Our pain is investors gain
At the start of this year, all the talk was of the Government running into a major liquidity crisis or even worse a potential default on its debt obligations.
Tax report: bit late now
The Commission for Taxation report currently being finalised is even more important than Colm McCarthy's menu of possible cutbacks that caused such a stir in recent weeks.
Union's short memory
At a Siptu press conference on Thursday, July 23rd, the trade union's president Jack O'Connor gave his response to Colm McCarthy's An Bord Snip Nua report. He used the occasion to launch a number of broadsides against the Government's neo-liberal policies and the ‘hawks' in the Department of Finance.
