Comments on: Irish extend depositor insurance, force Europe towards action

By: mags

mags — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:26:17 +0000

Hawkdriver,misterpeasea,mike the librarian,
I know i went off topic,i will explain why .For over 30 years British people have had to listen to Irish American’s(who have never been there)call I.R.A terrorists ‘freedom fighters’,support the ’cause’.
There were drinks in Boston called ‘car bomb’ and ‘kill a brit’.
You may claim that it was only a few. Maybe,but they were able to raise over 1 million dollars a year.
That doesn’t include weapon’s.
One of the ships coming from your shores to mine was captured,there was ton’s of semtax,and surface to air missiles that they didn’t think they had yet.
I agree that only small number done this,but the u.s gave them a stage.
Against John Major’s pleas Bill Clinton gave Sinn Fein visa’s to fund raise without pre-condition’s.
The ‘real ‘ I.R.A was not put on the U.S terrorist list till after 9/11.
Politian’s like Peter King gave Gerry Adams awards and even named a street after him.
For years the British had called for NORAID to be stopped because the money was going to terrorist’s.
A United Ireland ,which i want can only be won through consent and rule of law,not bombs.
This issue is the main reason some British do not want to stand ’shoulder to shoulder’.
So i just took the opportunity to address it.

By: moxie_neanderthal

moxie_neanderthal — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 20:22:49 +0000

The Irish business landscape and beer are shinning beacons to humanity. Low taxes, pro investment regulations and dark frothy beer are perfect recipes for a dynamic economy and vibrant society.

By: d1carter

d1carter — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 19:37:08 +0000

Go Irish! The EU is a fragile union at best…Irish taking care of Irish.

By: MikeTheLibrarian

MikeTheLibrarian — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 19:26:57 +0000

“Are you with us(in the u.k) or with the terrorists.”

An… odd… way to put that, since the phrasing implies that the Irish not in the UK are terrorists…. However, I will assume that it was simply an awkward sentence and that’s not what you meant.

Saying that because I love the Irish for their tough attitude, it means I support the IRA (Nazi-sympathizing, murderous bastards that they were) is rather nonsensical. Its like saying that by loving the English, I support the brutal suppression of the Irish and the Welsh since the times of St. Beuno and St. Patrick.

By: saiga

saiga — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 18:53:27 +0000

We need to do that here. I hate having to maintain hundreds of accounts at only $100,000. each co cover my butt.

By: hawkdriver

hawkdriver — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 18:16:32 +0000

For the posters who yearn to be like ‘ballsy’,’fighters by nature’,does that include I.R.A terrorists?

They had the ‘balls’ to bomb irish and british people for 30yrs.Are you with us(in the u.k) or with the terrorists.

I am irish living in the U.K.

mags on October 2, 2008 at 1:35 PM

Oh course not my friend. In all I’ve said there’s nothing about the IRA I admire or support. It’s an embarrassment to my mutt heritage as well.

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By: misterpeasea

misterpeasea — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:40:36 +0000

mags on October 2, 2008 at 1:35 PM

Uhm. Could we support Ireland’s extension of depositor insurance and votes against the EU while simultaneously not supporting Irish terrorists?

The mind boggles.

By: misterpeasea

misterpeasea — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:38:24 +0000

We’re all Irish now.

Anti-competitively competitive. You gotta love it.

What you have to hate is that we’re rushing toward that stuff just as fast as the socialists (and commies) in Congress can drive.

By: mags

mags — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:35:03 +0000

For the posters who yearn to be like ‘ballsy’,'fighters by nature’,does that include I.R.A terrorists?

They had the ‘balls’ to bomb irish and british people for 30yrs.Are you with us(in the u.k) or with the terrorists.

I am irish living in the U.K.

By: MikeTheLibrarian

MikeTheLibrarian — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:10:23 +0000

God, I love the Irish. Ireland was the punching bag of Europe for so long and now the EU is shocked (SHOCKED!) that the Irish would tell them to go hang. Between the technology and science boom and now a rush to put money in Irish banks, things are looking rather green for Ireland!

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Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:25:43 +0000

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By: Blaise

Blaise — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:06:25 +0000

Way to go, lads.

By: rtsidedragon

rtsidedragon — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:04:44 +0000

Right-on Ireland!!!

By: Firmworm

Firmworm — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:56:00 +0000

Hard working Conservative Republican Americans = Irish

Lazy Socialist Liberal Democrat ‘Americans’ = EU

By: pussum207

pussum207 — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:36:25 +0000

Ah yes, it was only a matter of time before governments would address the crisis by increasing deposit insurance levels, i.e., the single most important government intervention in creating the whole fiasco to begin with. Oh well – governments wouldn’t be governments if, in the course of “addressing” the current catsastrophe, they weren’t laying the groundwork for a future, even bigger, catastrophe.

By: Spanglemaker

Spanglemaker — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:08:31 +0000

WOOH!! Go, Irish!!

By: Bob's Kid

Bob's Kid — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 13:50:14 +0000

If I could have any ancestry other than my own, it would be Irish. Those folks are fighters by nature.

Indeed they are. I’ve only one great-great grandmother born in Ireland. But I’ll take it.

By: DarkCurrent

DarkCurrent — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 13:36:37 +0000

Many times I’ve done a little run on the ATM just about 30 yards from where that picture was taken, then headed down a couple of blocks to Temple Bar for a few pints

By: The Monster

The Monster — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 13:32:41 +0000

Good on ye, Brave Men of Erin!

By: hawkdriver

hawkdriver — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 13:31:39 +0000

You gotta admit, there’s going to be a certain amount of irony if the EU’s common currency dreams go down during their current crisis, because they’ll be done in due to the oh-so-sophisticated European nations’ balking at implementing a banking law originally crafted under those American yokels Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph P. Kennedy and imported 75 years later by the Irish.

jon1979 on October 2, 2008 at 9:26 AM

Yup, and it was for exactly these kinds of economic events that the EU proponents said a unified currency would be better for Europe. Ironic indeed. Maybe there is hope for them if at the first major crisis, they start looking from their borders inward. A little nationalism goes a long way.

By: jon1979

jon1979 — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 13:26:49 +0000

You gotta admit, there’s going to be a certain amount of irony if the EU’s common currency dreams go down during their current crisis, because they’ll be done in due to the oh-so-sophisticated European nations’ balking at implementing a banking law originally crafted under those American yokels Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph P. Kennedy and imported 75 years later by the Irish.

By: lodge

lodge — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 13:25:30 +0000

This means Irish banks are getting a huge influx of capital as well. LOL

They could become a financial powerhouse at the expense of the rest of Europe.

By: KCSteve

KCSteve — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 13:25:12 +0000

The Times of London actually describes a Keystone Kops approach by the French. After making the proposal, Germany’s Angela Merkel rejected it out of hand, saying she wasn’t going to start handing out blank checks even to the most responsible of banks. The French then denied that they made the proposal at all, and reversed themselves again but said the €300 billion was the wrong figure. Then they said it was the right figure, but said that the Dutch had given it to them. The Dutch responded by saying that they had no idea what France was talking about.

It’s a great day when you can’t tell if you’re watching the news or Monty Python.

By: lodge

lodge — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 13:24:25 +0000

France wanted everyone else in Europe to pay for the destruction of their aging nuclear plants, too.