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Cuts to fuel and lighting allowances (open letter)

Sent: in to us from http://dandahan4.com/ To: ‘Niamh Fitzgerald’ Subject: RE: Cuts to fuel and lighting allowances Niamh You have a mathematical formula which any primary school child would refuse to present to teacher.The child would be horrified by the … Continue reading

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Cuts to fuel and lighting allowances

sent in to us By Donal Buckley from the excellent new blog dandahan please do visit A Reduction from 2,400 free units to 1,800 free units is presented by the Department as an act of kindness. The existing economic situation demands … Continue reading

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The visiting Troika get a message from the Irish people

Up to a thousand people came out to-day to tell the visiting Troika that we the people of Ireland will not pay for the gambling debts of the corrupt bankers. This banker’s mouthpiece is in town to dictate to the Irish … Continue reading

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This is it !

Why can’t we have just one person in the government or the presidential race  that can articulate like this man?This is what I feel like but with the gobs**** in the Dail .Our Government  is just as dumb as the guys in … Continue reading

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“make all income from the State taxable”

Well Ronan, yes there is scope in a wide area of the social welfare budget for savings, but instead of picking on the most vulnerable our society. Why not first tackle the honey pots of the X politicians and top civil servants who have after all escaped with their lofty pensions having destroyed the country. Transparency, Simplicity and Fairness is not achieved by stamping on most vulnerable.
The best way to tackle the shortfall in government coffers is to invest in the Unemployed to get them back to work. Investing in re-education of this resource makes a lot of sense! Precisely assessing the needs of industry and amending the training schemes to suite this need. Taking the meager handout the unemployed get is only going to depress the economy still further. The various sections of society that are highlighted are also consumers and they spend their money.
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We must stand up and say no way we wont pay.

The  Irish government’s attempt to re-invent the toxic banks as “Pillar community friendly banks” is just a farce. The Banks latest advertisement that floods our TV screens is insulting and an attempt to dumb down the citizens of Ireland. These toxic … Continue reading

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Richard Bruton crocodile tears for Talk Talk workers

Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Richard Bruton will travel to Waterford today where he will meet workers from telecoms company TalkTalk who were informed by management last week that they are to lose their jobs.All 575 staff at the TalkTalk … Continue reading

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ESRI has been getting its forecasts wrong for years

This article is the latest instalment from David mc Williams I would be inclined to agree with him on what he says about the ESRI and their latest announcements on the economic outlook .Frankly I couldn’t be bothered to even … Continue reading

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6,600 patients were left waiting on trolleys in A&E wards

A RECORD 6,600 patients were left waiting on trolleys in A&E wards last month, according to figures compiled by the Irish Nurses and Midwives Association. The group warned that the situation will get worse, with the closure of 2,000 beds … Continue reading

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Why the mortgage crisis could be a €40bn problem and not a €6bn one

After bubbling under the surface for the past three years the issue of mortgage arrears finally erupted this week.So just how big is the problem? Almost certainly a lot bigger than most of us realise. The latest banking statistics from … Continue reading

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