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Taoiseach will make a statement to the Dáil on the economy at 5pm

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  • #32
    dagdha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 645 ✭✭✭dagdha


    This is what I think:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30YW3wgRvyI


  • #33
    epgc3fyqirnbsx
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,228 ✭✭✭epgc3fyqirnbsx


    Meh, we were gonna have a restrictive 4 year plan anyway soI don't know if this will make a huge amount of difference. The Europeans are just pushing it for stability with is understandable

    Main possible disadvantage : That they want us to adjust our corporation tax as a condition of the bailout , which we should pointblank refuse

    Main possible advantage : We might find out what happened on the evening of the bank guarantee where our government decided not to take any of the advice it was given


  • #34
    zuroph
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,102 ✭✭✭✭zuroph


    maybe its to announce our "national check down the back of the couch for change initiative".


  • #35
    kippy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,013 ✭✭✭✭kippy


    Osgoodisgood wrote: »
    no mortgage huh?

    I've a mortgage alright, I dont know how a bailout will be any different to what the government had planned already in that respect to be honest.


  • #36
    abouttobebanned
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,943 ✭✭✭abouttobebanned


    The rent's too damn high.


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  • #37
    Donal Og O Baelach
    Closed Accounts Posts: 534 ✭✭✭Donal Og O Baelach


    We're taking the bailout!!!

    We're NOT taking the bailout!!!

    We're taking HALF a bailout!!!

    We're pulling out of the Euro!!!

    He's calling an election!!!

    He's going to sing a Duet with Mary Byrne on X-Factor next week!!!


  • #38
    kippy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,013 ✭✭✭✭kippy


    Test For Echo wrote: »
    How about 200billion quid then?

    Again, thats not really the same thing.......and I dont get the relevance of that.


  • #39
    token56
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,703 ✭✭✭token56


    I dont think its going be anything that serious, maybe more cheese?


  • #40
    2qk4u
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,162 ✭✭✭2qk4u


    Him and Harney finally announcing that they are going to weight watchers in a last ditch effort to safe the economy buy reducing their beer and kebab expenses.


  • #41
    Setun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,804 ✭✭✭Setun


    Slave, thou hast slain me: villain, take my purse:
    If ever thou wilt thrive, bury my body;
    And give the letters thou find'st about me
    To Edmund Earl of Gloucester, seek him out
    Among the British party: O, untimely death.


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  • #42
    Dunjohn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,345 ✭✭✭Dunjohn


    Everybody stop panicking, it's probably nothing to do with the economy. Maybe he's discovered an exceptional object in our cosmic neighbourhood.


  • #43
    who the fug
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,042 ✭✭✭who the fug


    super_furry wrote: »
    Can we not just have the Brits back? We've proven we can't run our own affairs but it would be better to have a country were we have more in common with culturaly like England than someone like Germany running the state.

    There's even a nice wedding coming up now, it'd be great to have a street party for it.


    Feck off, we don't want you back, neither do we want the six counties :cool:


  • #44
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,968 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    [inserts downfall parody video here]


  • #45
    JONJO THE MISER
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 12,333 ✭✭✭✭JONJO THE MISER


    4 TV crews are on Grafton street at the moment.


  • #46
    RayM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,973 ✭✭✭RayM


    "Don't panic!"


  • #47
    Duggy747
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    Dunjohn wrote: »
    Everybody stop panicking, it's probably nothing to do with the economy. Maybe he's discovered an exceptional object in our cosmic neighbourhood.

    The fùck is Harney doing up there? More travelling expenses wasted I tells ya!!


  • #48
    syklops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,966 ✭✭✭✭syklops


    Dunjohn wrote: »
    Everybody stop panicking, it's probably nothing to do with the economy. Maybe he's discovered an exceptional object in our cosmic neighbourhood.

    I heard he intends to announce his engagement to Kate Middleton.

    That'll show the BBC!


  • #49
    bullpost
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,329 ✭✭✭bullpost


    Its good news at last.

    Compulsory Irish to be abolished in our schools.




    However compulsory German will be introduced :D


  • #50
    Mr McBoatface
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,579 ✭✭✭Mr McBoatface


    IMO It will go something like this :-

    Hi Folks ,

    Remember when I said we had enough money to last the nation until the middle of next year .... well it was a big fat lie. We are actually broke right now, the good news is the EU believed that line of crap I spun.

    They asked us for the good of the EU and the Euro to take a bailout and I played the bluff card and it worked. Fearing the Euro would collapse they gave into some of our key demands - we got a loan to cover our debt at a rate of 5% which is much less than what we would have got off the markets and our CT remains untouched.

    Nobody pulls a con like FF

    Ohhh sh*t did I say that out loud ???


  • #51
    fontanalis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,619 ✭✭✭fontanalis


    bullpost wrote: »
    Its good news at last.

    Compulsory Irish to be abolished in our schools.




    However compulsory German will be introduced :D

    Compulsory basic maths would be a start!


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  • #52
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,968 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    http://www.rte.ie/live/


  • #53
    BeeDI
    Closed Accounts Posts: 805 ✭✭✭BeeDI


    "And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew,
    that one small head could carry all he knew"

    From Goldsmith's "The deserted village" how ironic is that :eek:


  • #54
    LowOdour
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,904 ✭✭✭LowOdour


    i have it on good authority that he will be unveiling the new Discover Ireland advertisment...which will contain a picture of Angela Merkel straddling mr.cowen in leather chaps while he munches down on a bratwurst


  • #55
    optogirl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,113 ✭✭✭optogirl


    jester77 wrote: »
    He's going to call a general election and step down as Taoiseach


    Dare we hope?


  • #56
    Absurdum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,444 ✭✭✭Absurdum


    going forward, *insert same meaningless ****e that he's been spouting for the last 2 years*, in the context of *more of the same ****e*, current climate, *more ****e*

    repeat until we're too bored to listen anymore


  • #57
    DonkeyStyle \o/
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,144 ✭✭✭DonkeyStyle \o/


    He's going to announce a new quango in charge of locating and taxing the leprechaun community and their many pots of gold.


  • #58
    beagle001
    Closed Accounts Posts: 764 ✭✭✭beagle001


    Deal has been done in Brussels according to financial times and corpo tax is on the agenda with 90 billion bailout.
    That's what he is announcing


  • #59
    glossy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 699 ✭✭✭glossy


    jester77 wrote: »
    He's going to call a general election and step down as Taoiseach

    lets blinky hope so


  • #60
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,079 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    JONJO THE MISER wrote: »
    Come back come back i stole all his supplies before you shot him.

    *looks back & shoots indiscriminately at the shoreline*

    *looks forward and sees......this:

    1224282943520_1.jpg

    We cant even escape the island!!


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  • #61
    Highly Salami
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 216 ✭✭Highly Salami


    JONJO THE MISER wrote: »
    Goodbye Ireland, can the last person to leave, please turn off the lights....THANKS.

    NO!

    YOU turn them off!


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