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End Croke Park deal, FG rebels tell Enda
TAOISEACH Enda Kenny is under mounting pressure from Fine Gael TDs to "stop pretending" that the Croke Park deal on public sector pay remains viable, the Sunday Independent can reveal.
Quinlan now lives the high life in London
Financier Derek Quinlan, who still owes over €200m personally to Nama, is living in a period mansion in London -- where the weekly rent runs to a staggering £3,463 (€4,144) -- and is driving a new Range Rover, which the Sunday Independent has learnt was bought recently for £90,000 (€108,000).
Untouched by corrupting forces
'ALL THE possibilities it had to reject are what give life and meaning to an actual character," wrote W H Auden, one of Aengus Fanning's favourite poets. He read a lot of poetry. One of our last conversations was about the American Modernist, Hart Crane, whom he had been reading because of the enthusiasm of the critic Harold Bloom.
Middle classes strangled by soaring prices
Social welfare recipients are avoiding the worst of the rampant increases in inflation, while pensioners, young families and the middle classes are being slowly strangled by rising prices, according to the latest Sunday Independent/KBC Bank Cost of Living Survey.
