Comments on: Who bankrupted Ireland?

By: Chic

Chic — Tue, 25 Oct 2016 18:28:19 +0000

In reply to Basil Mc herb. By the way the IFSC was created by Dermot Desmond with the help of Charles Haughey.

By: Patrick Jackson

Patrick Jackson — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 00:56:42 +0000

Brian Lenihan bankrupted Ireland by tying our fate to doomed Banks.

I hope he burns in hell. He certainly isn’t missed by Irish people.

By: Drishana

Drishana — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 23:23:13 +0000

In reply to Ryan.

I agree and disagree with you Ryan. As a German ‘blow-in’ living in Ireland (and someone who has no vote here) I was shocked to hear the discussions in the street when it came to the vote for the treaty… Then at every election I am shocked again. But most shocking is what I see in the media… So given the mass consciousness and apathy how are the chances for your offspring to not only get a feeling for the corruption but understand it and ‘have more backbone’…? Thanks for this blog – it gives me an education.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 11:00:18 +0000

Sorry, but we are just as much to blame as the banks. Not because we are debtors, but because we are voters.

We keep voting for political parties we know to be corrupt. We knew that asset bubbles were blowing up but all we did about it was whinge on blogs. We did nothing to demand proper oversight of the banks or government borrowing. We took the good times when they came and rode our luck, and when our luck ran out we blame everyone but ourselves, thus ensuring that in 30 years time the whole thing will happen again.

We the voters are to blame, because we never learn. We are pathetic, easily led whingers that will always look for the easy way out. The best thing about us is that we won’t be around to screw it up forever. We can only pray that our offspring will somehow have learned to have more back-bone than we have.

By: nicolas blake

nicolas blake — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 06:41:56 +0000

Intersting you should name Cork as the epicentre of this scam .Some 40 years ago I lost my house(holiday home ) which was on a small island in Bantry bay (Co Cork) .Why ? ‘cos I received a bill for £4000 for electricity. Why? ‘cos the whole village had plugged into my electicity meter. I refused to pay (as I hadn’t been there for 2years). The rest is history
The bars of Cork were filled with anti British pro German ex British merchant seamen. Nothing seems to change….. Ireland ..a wonderful place to come from

By: John F

John F — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 00:21:22 +0000

The DepFa story that did the rounds here in Ireland and readily discussed by central bankers is that German Officials demanded €180 billion as the bank was Irish registered. “Its an Irish Bank – thus Irish debt!”. The Irish said no way – but did transfer €10 billion to the Germans post haste…. so the Germans paid €170billion..

By: Basil Mc herb

Basil Mc herb — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 16:00:42 +0000

Being Irish and living in this sod of a place, I wouldn’t refer to Irish regulation but the lack of it. Our Ministers of Finance (brought to new heights (or lows) by that fu*khead Charle Mc Creevey) were the architects of a non existent regulation. We had the head of the central bank who had no qualifications in economics and a financial regulator without a brain or backbone. I hang my head in shame.

By: Diarmuid

Diarmuid — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 12:31:33 +0000

http://www.diarmuidoflynn.com/pages.php?action=article_detail&articleId=1330&sendfrom=TopTenArticles
http://www.diarmuidoflynn.com/pages.php?action=article_detail&articleId=1331&sendfrom=TopTenArticles
This Sunday, March 6th, 12 noon, even if I'm on my own, the first steps in protest. How have we become so docile?

By: Inthemix96

Inthemix96 — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 04:11:01 +0000

David and Teri,

Got you loud and clear, and thanks for that teri, if i'm near london, I will join you all.

This is beyond parody at times, some of the bull these folk spew from their mouths is astonishing.

I mean come off it, how on earth is it in any of our interests to sell off the nations forests? Who thought that pearler up? Who thought we would follow it hook line and sinker?

As sad as it makes me, you know what? They will sell them anyway, no matter what we say, no matter what we do, it is a done deal. One more nail in the coffin of this once great and proud land.

As I said earlier, a complete hostile takeover, and not a bullet shot. What have I brought my kids into? Where only the greedy and corrupt prosper, where only the criminal and sociopathic make the real choices? This has got to change, if not for us, then our children, or those not yet born.

By: David

David — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 16:01:51 +0000

I must admit I did not read all of the comments in depth. I would only point out a couple of things.

The 'bubble' was based on greed. All bubbles are based on greed. The second thing is, in the end there is only paper that says someone is entitled to something. The courts are used to enforce this and empires are built from the paper value.