Well, if you believe in President Obama's stimulus plan that might qualify as good news for those of us in Ireland who are just waiting,...

The NY Times says the new Archbishop of New York is "a guy's guy". The Times says that people in the Church believe this will...

I heard George Lee and Brendan Keenan on Morning Ireland this morning agree that the issue of the "Anglo 10" was next to nothing ...

I had a bad thought today. I was listening to Newstalk when their little promo came on: "Different nation, different station." Aft...

Okay. That took two minutes and, no, your questions are definitely not answered . Not unless one of your questions is, "How are Anglo’s...

The Anglo-Irish Annual Report and the published version of the PricewaterhouseCoopers report into the bank are available online. Will I ha...

The 'Anti-Bono' is how the NY Times describes Dambisa Moyo. She wants foreign aid to Africa to stop because it breeds corruption an...

Gotta love the suggestion from German bank West LB that Dublin be the world's toxic bank capital . The state government of North-Rhine W...

Hmm. Businessman Ulick McEvaddy described the Anglo 10 - the 10 businessmen who bought Anglo-Irish shares with money borrowed from Anglo-Ir...

The Irish Independent's property pages features a rental property in Buffalo, NY. {Why? I have no idea. I would have imagined that the ...

I can remember when I first heard of Credit Default Swaps how I spent hours looking for an explanation as to what exactly they were, how th...

Sorry for the silence this week. I've been busy hoarding canned goods and reading survivalist web sites - amazing how many useful tips t...

Anyone who's uneasy about the €7bn recapitalization of AIB & Bank of Ireland got a major confidence booster yesterday when they open...

Just so I'd have something to compare it with, I checked Bank of Ireland's share price and trading volumes for the same period as I ...

Just out of curiosity I decided to go back and see how Anglo's shares were doing around the time that IL&P and Anglo-Irish were play...

Okay, in today's Irish Independent , Niamh Brennan says that the IL&P transactions with Anglo-Irish bank "meet" the defin...

No decision taken by the Government was affected in any way by the fact that I did not read page 129 of the report, because my officials rea...

It beggars belief. The future of the state is on the line and the Minister for Finance can't be bothered to read the full report on the ...

I remember being in Dublin during 1988 when we were all celebrating the Millennium. It was sort of a great joke among all the city's res...

Last week's big story was the government's imposition of a pension levy on public sector employees. Although I agree with the gover...