John McGuirk

Conservative. Nationalist. Likes Cake.

Category: Fianna Fail

Quotes of the day/week/month/year/era

I don’t think any pair of quotes will sum up the situation in Ireland better than these two:
“Finding a long-term solution for Anglo Irish Bank is by far the biggest challenge in resolving the banking crisis. The sheer size of the bank means there are no easy or low cost options.
Winding-up the bank is not [...]

Comical Lenny

It all feels a bit pointless, at times, talking about the Irish situation. Earlier this afternoon I spoke to a friend of mine who is finally giving up and leaving the country – he says for good, but who knows what the future holds – due to what he described as the “absolute impossibility” of [...]

A Fianna Fail Senator on Anglo and Emigration.

I would generally find it a little crass to write a blogpost which basically consists of “I was on the radio last night and it was very interesting….”, but in this particular case I’m going to make an exception.
I was joined on the panel of the Marc Coleman show last night by Carol Hunt from [...]

Fire the lot of them.

The passport office staff are not highly skilled workers. They’re not Air Traffic Controllers. They are civil servants. Pen pushers. And their strike action is inconveniencing the public and causing a lot of people a lot of unneccesary distress.
This is not going to be a long post. These people are not doing their duty. They [...]