I'd Like To say A BIG Thankyou Your Majesty

Spook_ie · 17-04-2012 09:46PM #1

Well every bit helps

http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/488m-tranche-of-uk-loan-given-to-ireland-547860.html

17/04/2012 - 16:06:33
The latest multimillion-pound instalment of a UK loan to Ireland has been given to Dublin, the British Treasury said today.

UK Financial Secretary Mark Hoban confirmed more than £403m (€488m) had been sent across to Ireland as part of the £3.3bn (€4bn) bailout loan deal agreed in 2010.

He said: “The (British) Government believes it is in our national interest that the Irish economy is successful and its banking system is stable.”

Mr Hoban added that London “continues to support Ireland’s efforts to improve its economic situation”.

The release of the new money, which has a maturity date of September 30, 2019, follows Ireland’s successful completion last month of the fifth quarterly review of its programme of financial assistance from the European Union and International Monetary Fund.

The Treasury gave the cash – the third instalment – on March 28, but ministers updated Parliament today through a written statement.

Read more: http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/488m-tranche-of-uk-loan-given-to-ireland-547860.html#ixzz1sKh8d7sI

galwayrush · 17-04-2012 09:47PM

Suppose it's cheaper than getting it from the likes of Wonga....

Squidgy Black · 17-04-2012 09:49PM

Half a million will last about a week at most at the moment.

GetWithIt · 17-04-2012 09:51PM

Aaaand, it's gone.

44leto · 17-04-2012 09:51PM

Thankyou Britain, I know, you reared us till we could manage our own independence, then you let go out into the big wide world, it was a difficult parting as these things are, but now we are running back to you daddy to help pay our gambling debts.

Thank you we have learned our lesson we promise it wont happen again, don't tell ma.

Frank Black · 17-04-2012 09:52PM

Do we have to pay them back in Diddlyies?

cml387 · 17-04-2012 09:53PM

I somehow see the words "800 years" marching towards this thread with grim inevitability.

Spook_ie · 17-04-2012 09:53PM

Screw the last 800 years I wonder if Lizzy would lend me a few bob for me water meter?

galwayrush · 17-04-2012 09:54PM

cml387 wrote: »

I somehow see the words "800 years" marching towards this thread with grim inevitability.

800 Years to pay it back perhaps?:D

SEPT 23 1989 · 17-04-2012 09:56PM

She liked Cork give her that in return

tfitzgerald · 17-04-2012 09:58PM

Fair play to them . It will keep the T D 's is expenses for a week or so

ChunkyLover_53 · 17-04-2012 09:58PM

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

She liked Cork give her that in return

We're trying to be nice to the UK ffs

Sleepy · 17-04-2012 09:59PM

It would be interesting to accept it as payment for our oak

galwayrush · 17-04-2012 10:00PM

tfitzgerald wrote: »

Fair play to them . It will keep the T D 's is expenses for a week or so

It'll help with the setting up of the ( totally unnecessary )proposed water authority...

ChunkyLover_53 · 17-04-2012 10:00PM

Part of the clause includes every Stag & Hen that arrives in Dublin Airport is to be given a free Leprechaun outfit from Carrolls

deman · 17-04-2012 10:05PM

stetyrrell wrote: »

Half a million will last about a week at most at the moment.

Half a billion, isn't it? I might be wrong as I haven't got me specs with me.

davet82 · 17-04-2012 10:08PM

lets default, we can give them county louth, its only worth bout a quater of a billion anyways

PrincessLola · 17-04-2012 10:11PM

Lets not pay it back and call it reparations for the 800 years.

Chuck Stone · 17-04-2012 10:17PM

A shot of adrenaline to keep the patient alive. Dead people don't consume and pay mortgages.

Fuck that 'loan' - fuck it in the eye.

AboutTwoFiddy · 17-04-2012 10:23PM

It's nice to see that the mainland hasn't forgotten about her former colony.

Dostoevsky · 17-04-2012 10:45PM

Well, now we can keep the Irish economy going through paying back some more of the billions of euro in losses of the British financial institutions who gambled on the "Celtic Tiger".

Only in Ireland could people have such a low sense of national self-esteem (not to mention political knowledge) that they are grateful for a loan from the British state to pay back British institutional gamblers in Ireland. Yes, gamblers.

So much for the Irish trying to get away from the "thick Paddy" stereotype when some Irish think a rational state like the British one is giving money to the Irish state out of something other than sheer self-interest. Incredibly stupid, irrational thinking.

ChunkyLover_53 · 17-04-2012 10:58PM

We'll have that paid off in no time with the amount of Premiership Jerseys sold every season.

Spook_ie · 17-04-2012 10:58PM

Dostoevsky wrote: »

Well, now we can keep the Irish economy going through paying back some more of the billions of euro in losses of the British financial institutions who gambled on the "Celtic Tiger".

Only in Ireland could people have such a low sense of national self-esteem (not to mention political knowledge) that they are grateful for a loan from the British state to pay back British institutional gamblers in Ireland. Yes, gamblers.

So much for the Irish trying to get away from the "thick Paddy" stereotype when some Irish think a rational state like the British one is giving money to the Irish state out of something other than sheer self-interest. Incredibly stupid, irrational thinking.

Yeah that Sean FitzPatrick fella should realy change his name to a more British sounding one

Sound of Silence · 17-04-2012 11:01PM

Dostoevsky wrote: »

Well, now we can keep the Irish economy going through paying back some more of the billions of euro in losses of the British financial institutions who gambled on the "Celtic Tiger".

Only in Ireland could people have such a low sense of national self-esteem (not to mention political knowledge) that they are grateful for a loan from the British state to pay back British institutional gamblers in Ireland. Yes, gamblers.

So much for the Irish trying to get away from the "thick Paddy" stereotype when some Irish think a rational state like the British one is giving money to the Irish state out of something other than sheer self-interest. Incredibly stupid, irrational thinking.

It all smelt suspiciously like covert re-capitalisation.

Recently nationalised British Banks remain heavily invested in the Irish financial sector.

Either way, the Irish people won't see a penny. They will, however, foot the bill.

davet82 · 17-04-2012 11:02PM

Dostoevsky wrote: »

Incredibly stupid, irrational thinking.

like a fox :cool:

ejmaztec · 17-04-2012 11:15PM

tfitzgerald wrote: »

Fair play to them . It will keep the T D 's is expenses for a week or so

I understand that container ships full of ink cartridges are heading towards Dublin Port as we speak.

Notorious97 · 17-04-2012 11:15PM

44leto wrote: »

Thankyou Britain, I know, you reared us till we could manage our own independence, then you let go out into the big wide world, it was a difficult parting as these things are, but now we are running back to you daddy to help pay our gambling debts.

Thank you we have learned our lesson we promise it wont happen again, don't tell ma.

I dont recall the british rearing us until we were worthy of independence, I do recall so many irish men and women fighting and dying for our independence though

I also dont see why anyone should feel the need to thank britain for this loan, isnt it after all a loan with a nice amount of interest included? Its a win for the british government, our economy hopefully stabilises and they get a nice return on it, its business in the end and not something we should be thanking them for.

If we had a government with balls who looked after the interests of our nation and people in the first place and at the moment, we wouldnt be in half the mess we are, and im not running back to any former brutal regime for money, im luckily debt free so are others in the country, not our debt!

Spook_ie · 17-04-2012 11:17PM

Notorious97 wrote: »

I dont recall the british rearing us until we were worthy of independence, I do recall so many irish men and women fighting and dying for our independence though

I also dont see why anyone should feel the need to thank britain for this loan, isnt it after all a loan with a nice amount of interest included? Its a win for the british government, our economy hopefully stabilises and they get a nice return on it, its business in the end and not something we should be thanking them for.

If we had a government with balls who looked after the interests of our nation and people in the first place and at the moment, we wouldnt be in half the mess we are, and im not running back to any former brutal regime for money, im luckily debt free so are others in the country, not our debt!

You're Irish, it's an Irish debt, be thankful that mummy is lending us the money to try and get us over the slump

Notorious97 · 17-04-2012 11:18PM

Spook_ie wrote: »

Notorious97 wrote: »

I dont recall the british rearing us until we were worthy of independence, I do recall so many irish men and women fighting and dying for our independence though

I also dont see why anyone should feel the need to thank britain for this loan, isnt it after all a loan with a nice amount of interest included? Its a win for the british government, our economy hopefully stabilises and they get a nice return on it, its business in the end and not something we should be thanking them for.

If we had a government with balls who looked after the interests of our nation and people in the first place and at the moment, we wouldnt be in half the mess we are, and im not running back to any former brutal regime for money, im luckily debt free so are others in the country, not our debt!

You're Irish, it's an Irish debt, be thankful that mummy is lending us the money to try and get us over the slump

Lol if you say so

Paparazzo · 17-04-2012 11:18PM

PrincessLola wrote: »

Lets not pay it back and call it reparations for the 800 years.

Sending them Brendan O'Carroll more than makes up for the 800 years

Sound of Silence · 17-04-2012 11:21PM

Spook_ie wrote: »

You're Irish, it's an Anglo-Irish debt, be thankful that mummy is lending us the money to try and get us over the slump

Fixed that for you.

I'd Like To say A BIG Thankyou Your Majesty

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