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Visited the Cliffs of Moher a couple of years ago and spectacular they are
We were staying in Killaloe Co.Clare and the drive through Ennis to the cliffs and onwards over the Burren to Galway, then back via Lough Derg was a grand, grand day out
Maith an fear Cav.
I can think of a few more landmarks around the country that would be worthy of inclusion if they were looking for man-made wonders (you might even bump into Biffo!):
http://www.herald.ie/multimedia/archive/00195/PL56712_Copperface__195053b.jpg
http://www.thespilledpint.com/images/Mulligan_s_Poolbeg_St.jpg
http://www.dinglenews.com/images/image/070910brpaidi_o_se_pub.jpg
GOD SAVE IRELAND!
Ahh Coppers Imperial, one of the few places where Dancing At The Crossroads can be heard
"What’s the story Martin Storey?"
Greatest lyrics that have ever been composed. Just edges out "Brazilian haircuts, colonic irrigation" from Christy Moore’s Ballad of Ruby Walsh!
http://order-order.com/2010/10/15/anglo-irish-bondholders-should-take-the-lossesis-the-ecb-forcing-ireland-to-protect-german-investments/
Guido makes an illuminating post on his blog today regarding why the bail out actually happened and who got bailed out.
We in the US are about to put back in power the same people who created the downfall of the middle and working class.As a friend said we are like turkeys voting for christmas.If television can decide elections like it will here what can we say about those who own them?As our education system gets worse and worse the working class become more ignorant and dependent on TV from lack of education. My heart is saddened for the working and swiftly decreasing middle class in America.
Absolutely frightening stuff. And the problem is Professor Kelly hasn’t been wrong yet.
The IMF are here.
The most painful budget in decades ahead of us a fortnight next Tuesday.
Last one out, turn off the lights……
.. the one in the middle is ugly enough to get a job in health and safety.
The Irish should have never joined the Euro and the mess is all their own fault. Now they have got nowhere to go and nowhere to turn to. The big EU countries are going to tell them exactly what they can and can’t do .. Ireland has lost it’s right to it’s own self determination, they might as well have stayed under British rule, the dafties.
They haven’t a hope of cutting 6 billion next year based on what they think the tax revenues will be. Not a chance of 2.5% growth in 2011. The ex IMF guy on Primetime the other night spelled it out – if the revenues projections are wrong, the IMF will looking for more in budgetary measures to make up for the shortfall (just as their doing in Greece at the moment). Either way they’ll get their pound of flesh. Hopefully they’ll force the government to tackle the upper end of the public service but either way its going to be gruesome.
The Euro has been a disaster for Ireland, the entire European "project" has gone too far imo.
I still don’t think the reality has really hit home, it will do next year when the cuts and increases start to bite. May well be the trigger that finally trips the mass population into some form of open dissent. I would love to see the emergence of a Euro-sceptic, Irish nationalist party that had the the reintroduction of the Irish punt at the heart of its manifesto.
Never thought I’d ever say it…I’ll be voting Sinn Fein in the new year.
Erin go Bragh
Much seems to have been made of the Irish Corporation Tax being much lower than here and in the rest of the EU
Do TRF’s Irish correspondents believe they will be able to leave it at the current rate or be forced by either the pressing need to bolster tax revenues or by the EU/IMF to raise it to nearer the EU rates?
If so will this be the final nail in Ireland’s economic coffin as some seem to believe, bringing with it the spectre of mass emigration of multi-national companies who settled in Ireland due to the favourable rate
Or will all/most/some remain realising that relocation costs may outstrip increased tax liabilities?
Also is it the consensus that the Irish workforce are reliable and hard-working? If so this too could help prevent companies upping sticks
I cannot believe the speed with which we are deserting a sinking ship.I recall back in the late eighties we welcomed the intervention of the eec when we (Ireland) were the first really poor country to join.They poured millions of pounds into our economy ,farming and roads.They gave us hope that we would one day be rich or at least not so poor.We willingly took the money.Now having squandered it we want to run away(leave the union)like a highway man after holding up the coach.Sorry but voting for SF is doing just that.I wonder how many of the criers enjoyed the free education etc etc available during the good times? How many went on Euro holidays to celebrate getting their Leaving cert? Bought mobile phones for all the children,upgraded to a BMW?Filled our cellar with French wine? Sorry but having used up our goodwill enjoying ourselves now we want to vote for the war mongers.Sad day for us all.
Just as the Pope is filling his college with right wing senior Italian cardinals we are going back also to the 1970’s. Get out of the union and bring back the banning of liberal literature,Joyce etc.Ireland will be in the forefront of the retreat if we preach retrenchment.The young will depart like the mist before the sun.So please lets not play the patriot game now.That day is gone.Time to grow up.(this is a good time to slow down on the holliers to the far east and start facing reality).A high tax on fun travel might help.
You need to get out more, Andy.
Nobody is deserting a sinking ship. There is a justifiable sense of outrage that up to 90 billion Euro has been gambled away by a handful of bankers and their property developer cronies. A gambling bill that will be payed for by the Irish taxpayer, crippling the country in the process.
We’ve been in the EU since 1973, not the late eighties as you suggest. Nor do I suggest we leave the European Union, but the EMU. There is a significant difference obviously not picked up by yourself if your bizarre rant on Joyce, retrenchment, and the 70’s is anything to go by
European structural funds were not "squandered". They have built roads, schools, universities, they have developed and trained our people. Ireland has been widely and rightly praised for the "thoughtful" allocation of the European funds it has received. Facilities and people that have enabled fellow European’s to benefit from the funding it has provided to our country. Its been more of an investment than aid. To suggest its been spent on holidays, BMW’s, mobile phones and French wine, really is beyond clueless.
Why don’t you educate yourself a bit on modern Irish history, Andy. Your plastic paddy routine is getting tiresome.
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