It’s raining medical cards - in the nightmares of the Fianna Fail backbench TDs.  What were they thinking?  Is the €100 million savings worth the political disaster the Government has brought on to itself?  €100 million?  It’s peanuts in the grand scheme of things - not even representing a fifth of 1 percent of all [...]

You’d think that some people would show a bit of humility.  But Sean Fitzpatrick over at Anglo Irish is not one of those people.  Okay, so during his tenure as chairperson his bank ran such a reckless, irresponsible and idiotic policy that it (and he, by extension) almost brought the country, never mind his own bank, to [...]

Well, at least the business sector was happy. Not that there wasn’t the odd whinge - business spokespersons are forever whinging. ISME, especially, was in ‘bemoan’ mode.
‘The decision to increase excise duties, particularly on petrol is deplorable and will further add to business costs. Taken together with the increase in VAT, inflationary pressures [...]

You gottahand it to Fianna Fail.  A tax package that costs those on low incomes more than those on higher incomes, cutbacks on the newly-made unemployed (that’ll teach them to price themselves out of the market), bigger class sizes, more costs the sicker you get; over the next few days as people peer [...]