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Mary O’Dea and the IMF

By The Story.ie I couldn’t let this one pass without comment either. Mary ‘shop around’ O’Dea has landed a new job at the IMF, as the Irish Independent reported earlier this month. O’Dea, currently director general of financial operations at … Continue reading

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Cowen’s meetings and Anglo problems

Time to clear house and bring in a new political system that forces accountability and honesty back into the people that we entrust to run the country Continue reading

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The Story.ie & NAMA

Here at machholz we believe we are duty bound to help fellow bloggers in their attempt to expose anti democratic behaviour or the attempt by public bodies to hide information that is supposed to be available to public scrutiny. This is a perfect example of such a case and Gavin deserves all possible support and if you haven’t done so already please donate to this cause Continue reading

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Brian Cowen and Brian Lenihan’s history of Lies

Talking points in time Quotes. Brian Lenihan; 19 Sept 2008. Six One News. ‘Ireland not at risk of fallout from fiscal crisis, says Lenihan’ “Our financial sector is sound and we are determined to ensure that continues” Brian Lenihan; 30 … Continue reading

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The crisis comes to pass

Posted: By Gavin Sheridan of  http://www.thestory.ie  We have warned time and time again that Ireland was facing a massive fiscal crisis, both on here and on Twitter. We took a look back through the archives to see what we might … Continue reading

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Accounting gimmickry at the Dept Finance ?

      Originally Posted: By Gavin Sheridan 11 Nov 2010 02:42 AM http://www.thestory.ie Last month Anglo confirmed that it had repaid €7.9bn in bonds at the end of September. According to the Irish Independent: Banking sources yesterday stressed that there was … Continue reading

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thestory’s.ie ongoing spat with NAMA Up-Date

Long time readers will recall that this blog has been having something of a legal disagreement with both the National Asset Management Agency (NAMA), and more recently our own Office of the Commissioner for Environmental Information (OCEI). The saga has … Continue reading

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Lies and dam Lies from Brian Lenihan!

Quotes from Brian Lenihan since the bank guarantee: Source http://www.thestory.ie photo Machholz On Breakfast with Newstalk, April 26 2010. First of all, that’s the position in 2009, Eurostat hasn’t decided it yet, that’s our assesment of how they will decide … Continue reading

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Ba –NAMA- Man a human sub species! Found only in Ireland

Thanks to http://www.thestory.ie who continues to do such fantastic work for the cause of Free information movement ,and went to the trouble to set these quotes from Brian Lenihan in a chronological order,all ready one gets the feeling that this guy (Lenihan) is making it up as he goes along,
I will try in the next few days to scour the various radio stations and see if I can dig up any interviews he made inbetween the quotes below.
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The Story.ie tells us about Anglo Irish Bank

      I came across this excellent summary of the Anglo Irish bank Position In November the ECB announced it would begin the process of winding down the emergency funding. In December the last 12-month repos were sold. We … Continue reading

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