Category: Ireland economy
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Here’s a topic i meant to write about on the anniversary of the Good friday agreement in April last year. There has been other developments particularly the Sinn Féin ard fheis (party conference ) in November where they seem to have abandoned the principle of a United Ireland. Well the leadership have anyway. A United…
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Here’s a topic that has been discused of late. Its a burning issue for many youngsters who can’t afford to buy themselves a home.Many are still living with their parents or paying expensive rents for one or two bed apartments. According to the Limerick post newspaper there is some 20,000 adults in the Limerick area…
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Decided to splash out on a new car just before Christmas. Got a good deal on a demo car with just 67 km on the clock. So i was happy with my purchase but have to note the state of the roads especially secondary and back roads are absolutely terrible. The roads especially those…
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Just listened to the Niall Boylan show on Classix hits Wednesday 23 August 23. The topic being discussed was young people living with their parents unable to afford rent or mortgages. ( Average salary in Ireland is €45,000. Average price of a 3 bedroomed house is €305,000, in Dublin average house price is €430,000. Borrowing…
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Have watched the situation in Irish hospitals unfold over the last few months, one has to say the overcrowding issue is not new .Its the same story year after year for as long as I can remember, Its made worse by having politicians in charge, their inept, incompetent and corrupt management of Irish hospitals leaves…
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The government have unwrapped new proposals on pension “reforms”. These “reforms” will allow people to “opt” to take a slightly larger pension at seventy years of age instead of sixty six at present. Other “reforms” will increase the length of contributions to forty years up from the present ten year prsi contribution. These measures…
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We have all noticed in the past few months, the price of everything has gone up especially petrol/diesel.gas which has brought knock on increases in the price of food,fertilizers,home heating oil or kerosene and . .just about everything else. I recently bought five hundred liters of kerosene which worked out @€1.40/liter or €700 for…
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Above is gif from Wikipedia Commons showing the signatures on the Anglo Irish treaty which was signed on the December 5th/6th 1921. What can one say about the Anglo Irish treaty ? Absolute disaster is what I would say, the Irish delegation had under pressure signed up to the partition of Ireland, an oath of…
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Just watched the “Eircom Shares” saga on RTE 1, it certainly brings me back unpleasant memories of dabbling in stocks and shares. What can would one say ? like “Ripped off” is what one can say. Small shareholders who owned most of the company where ripped off by “fat Cats”, the company ended up being…
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Here a Question raised by British Government minsters a few weeks ago, They were apparently offended by suggestion from the French that “Northern Ireland” is not really part of the United/Disunited Kingdom. I thought that Ireland belong to the Irish people and not to the Brits. The Brits seemed to think otherwise . Somehow I…