Irish Banks

[tarik]

Good morning,

I have no understanding of Irish Politics, but could somebody please tell me if the present Irish Govt can be compared to Socialist ( Labour) or Capitalist ( Conservative).

Either way they have problems.


Many thanks

David

 

[Blue5]

Not really a thread for PBO, try the lounge, plenty on there that know it all..................

 

[tarik]

Not really a thread for PBO, try the lounge, plenty on there that know it all..................

Consider myself bo......lked.

D

 

[macd]

I beg to differ with NDH: the question should not be in the Lounge but perhaps in some parallel universe. Why would a post headed "Irish Banks" ask what it did without once mentioning...er, Irish banks?

The answer to the question that should be elsewhere is, in typical Irish fashion, both. They have a coalition government led by right-of centre Fine Gael with the Labour party. The other main party is Fine Fail.

Which brings to mind a tenuous boaty link. Charlie Haughey, Fine Fail's profoundly bent former chief embezzler....sorry, party leader...had a large motor yacht named Celtic Mist. He also managed to get by with a private island, a mansion and a string of racehorses. There, everybody happy?

 

[Twister_Ken]

Plenty of sand banks off Eire's east coast. Dunno about their polly ticks though.

 

[macd]

Plenty of sand banks off Eire's east coast.

That's true, but I suspect the OP might be more concerned about the ones about to go under, rather than the ones that already have.

 

[jpd85]

I beg to differ with NDH: the question should not be in the Lounge but perhaps in some parallel universe. Why would a post headed "Irish Banks" ask what it did without once mentioning...er, Irish banks?

The answer to the question that should be elsewhere is, in typical Irish fashion, both. They have a coalition government led by right-of centre Fine Gael with the Labour party. The other main party is Fine Fail.

Which brings to mind a tenuous boaty link. Charlie Haughey, Fine Fail's profoundly bent former chief embezzler....sorry, party leader...had a large motor yacht named Celtic Mist. He also managed to get by with a private island, a mansion and a string of racehorses. There, everybody happy?

Celtic Mist now for sale: http://www.aaamarine.co.uk/moreDetails.asp?Ptype=BY&idProduct=888
But don't ask an Irish bank for the finance...

Not sure if the misspelling of Fianna Fáil was intended but is certainly very apt!

 

[macd]

I shall obviously claim it was deliberate, but then so might Mr Haughey.

 

[ratbag]

Celtic Mist now for sale: http://www.aaamarine.co.uk/moreDetails.asp?Ptype=BY&idProduct=888
But don't ask an Irish bank for the finance...

wouldn't give more than €20 for that bucket , last time i saw it in a yard it had a huge hole in it where the leaking shower had rotted the hull from the inside out
oh! hang on a minute , as an irish tax payer i have already paid for shares in it

 

[SAWDOC]

Dont worry be happy -feel the wind on your cheek as your boat takes to the sea. All the rest is rubbish. Dont buy into someone else's agenda

 

[Lady Campanula]

And here was me thinking this was about the Arklow and Kish Banks, well known to those who pass that way up the Irish Coast....

...I gather there are now lots of shiny white wind-generator things along there.

 

[Herringchoker]

And here was me thinking this was about the Arklow and Kish Banks, well known to those who pass that way up the Irish Coast....

...I gather there are now lots of shiny white wind-generator things along there.

Only 7 on Arklow Bank. None on the Kish.................yet!

http://www.saorgus.com/projects/dublin_array.html