Isn’t it amazing how the absence of just one word appears to have landed taoiseach Enda Kenny in the proverbial?
TOMORROW, we will pay yet another huge chunk of cash to bondholders – this time about €1.3 billion.
EFFORTS to make our public representatives conform to a dress code while in the Dáil will have to wait a little longer.
IT DIDN’T take long for the goodwill to wear off.
GODFREY’S GOSPEL
According to Michael Godfrey
THIS day week it will all be over again for another year.
I DON’T know about you, but I was looking forward to something more enlightening from the state of the nation address by our taoiseach on Sunday night.
BY THE time the budget comes around next week, we will all have had time to digest its content.
IN DECEMBER 1979, I had the good fortune to travel to south-east Asia to witness at first hand the excellent work Concern volunteers were carrying out in refugee camps along the border of Thailand and Cambodia.
GODFREY’S GOSPEL
According to Michael Godfrey
FIRST we were told someone – no-one is really sure who – had mislaid €3.6 billion. Then we were told that even though the money had been found, we were still going to have to endure a €3.6 billion hairshirt budget next month.
GODFREY’S GOSPEL
According to Michael Godfrey
IF IN DOUBT leave it out. That appears to have been the message from the people regarding the change to the constitution, which would have given more powers of enquiry to the houses of the Oireachtas.