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Joe Giltrap | Wednesday, November 19, 2008

The Irish Budget — made for changing!

I DON’T know why the Irish Government bothered drawing up a budget at all because they have been forced to make u-turn after u-turn. They totally misjudged the mood of the country and their credibility is in shreds.  more »

Telling it like it is

THE ACTRESS Anna Manahan got it spot on when she lashed out at the Irish Government over the medical card fiasco as a result of the recent Budget.  more »

Joe Giltrap

I SUSPECT most people are fed up with credit crunch doom and gloom. It is in your face every time you open a newspaper. It is not going to go away and I’m afraid there’s a long way to go before something resembling normality resumes.  more »

Telling it like it is

YOU may or may not have seen the horrific pictures of a recent car crash on the Letterkenny-to-Derry road that claimed the life of a 16-year-old boy. The car was unrecognisable.  more »

Telling it like it is

WHEN pop impresario Louis Walsh and the President of the folk section of the MUI (Musicians Union of Ireland) Danny Carthy agree on the state of Irish radio you know something is not right.  more »

Telling it like it is

Who could have imagined just a few short months ago that the world would be in such a complete financial mess?  more »

Telling it like it is

When the Irish economy was booming, the property market went stark mad in keeping with the rest of the country.  more »

Telling it like it is

WE ARE hostage to the oil companies and it is high time we actually admitted it.  more »

Tax rise won’t hide the real problems

ACCORDING to reports, the Irish Government is planning yet more taxes on motorists, homeowners and farmers in the next budget. That should cover a fair old slice of the population don’t you think?  more »

Everyone’s enforcing the law except the police

While I am on the ‘green’ subject what do you make of the report that councils in Britain want people to snoop on their neighbours and report people who fail to sort out their rubbish properly amongst other things?  more »




 



 

 



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