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Shane Ross: Bertie 'the artist' pulls tax coup

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0000

LAST Wednesday, two brown envelopes arrived on the same day in equally threatening covers. One was from the Circuit Court, the other from the Revenue Commissioners.

Shane Ross: Mary and the little tramp

Sun, 21 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0000

MICHAEL O'LEARY is offering Mary Coughlan a simple deal. Give me Hangar 6 and I'll give you 300 jobs.

Shane Ross: Mary: muddled or muzzled?

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0000

AER Lingus still rules OK? Last Wednesday a basement in the bowels of Leinster House resembled a padded cell for the insane. Michael O'Leary has turned the lunatics in the aviation asylum on their heads.

Shane Ross: Let Patrick lead the probe

Sun, 17 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0000

PATRICK Honohan has made a dream start as governor of the Central Bank. He is already gloriously offside with the Government, his patrons. Brownie points for Patrick.

We say Goodbye... He finally left the stable -- but not without his straw

Sun, 03 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0000

BRIAN Goggin bade farewell to the marble halls of the Bank of Ireland 18 months early in February last.

Shane Ross: Paddy, the bearded banker

Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:00:00 +0000

CHRISTMAS is a perfect time for an amnesty. This year let us swallow hard and give a fool's pardon to the sinners with beards, namely the trade union guys who tried to wreck the economy.

Shane Ross: Jack's attack on trophy houses

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0000

THE bearded brethren are coming out to play. And they seem to be amateurs at the media game.

Shane Ross: Cowen waves the white flag to AIB

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0000

BRIAN COWEN carried the white flag down the steps of the Dail chamber on Wednesday morning.

CIE follows the FAS road

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 05:00:00 +0100

THOMAS the Tank Engine's eyes would pop out of their sockets at the shenanigans down in CIE's depots. The villain of the Thomas tales, Devious Diesel, would find a paradise for plunderers in Ireland's railways.

With friends like these, Minister

Sun, 20 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +0100

According to Finance Minister Brian Lenihan, the banks should be "grateful" for the taxpayer's help.

Shane Ross: The third farce in banking

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0000

WELCOME to the third farce in banking. Yes, that appears to be one of the Government's glib solutions to the banking crisis.

Shane Ross: Good riddance to invaders

Sun, 14 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0000

SHED no tears for the Halifax Bank of Scotland; but say a prayer for the 750 people that the retreating bankers are dumping on Ireland's dole queues.

Shane Ross: CIE could constipate an actuary

Sun, 24 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0000

AS I arrive at RTE's hospitality room for the Frontline programme, there are only two people present. Pat Kenny offers the usual polite greeting while there is a freeze from the other man in the room. His face, or the small part of it that the world ever sees, looks familiar.

Shane Ross: Goodbody takes a bath in AIB

Sun, 07 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0000

DID you ever surrender your savings or pension fund to the tender mercies of Goodbody stockbrokers? Or, for that matter, to any stockbroker?

Shane Ross: SFA no small-firm saviour

Sun, 31 Jan 2010 12:32:04 +0000

SHOULD small business take to the streets? As public service unions gear up to damage the economy, small business — the backbone of Ireland — is being bled dry by the banks.

Shane Ross: Taoiseach in all but name

Sun, 10 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0000

BRIAN Lenihan was born to be Taoiseach. No, nothing to do with his pedigree. Lineage once gave you a leg up in Irish politics, but no more.

Shane Ross: Three cheers for FF dissidents

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 05:00:00 +0000

WHAT a pity there was no strike last Thursday. Some of us were longing for it.

Shane Ross: The ghosts of bankers past

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0000

DID you know that Leinster House was haunted? No, not just by the ghosts of de Valera, Michael Collins and Countess Markievicz.

The superstar of the slump

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 05:00:00 +0000

THE banking meltdown has thrown up surprisingly few heroes.

Lash your FAS cronies, Jack

Sun, 11 Oct 2009 05:00:00 +0100

Dear Jack,

Congratulations on such a successful conference last week.