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Consumer confidence hits two-year high

Tuesday February 09 2010

CONSUMER confidence surged last month, defying continuing high unemployment and economic uncertainty.

Consumer confidence at two-year high

Monday February 08 2010

Consumer sentiment is at its highest level for two years, an economic survey revealed today.

Think-tank admits mistakes in waste policy study

Monday February 08 2010

THE State's top economic think-tank has suffered a blow to its reputation after admitting that mistakes were made in its controversial study into waste policy.

Repossession of family home is just the beginning of the nightmare for many

Sunday February 07 2010

IN the High Court last November, a young couple crushed into crowded seats in the teeming court room, waiting for their names to be called from the long list of repossession and bankruptcy cases. They glanced up and smiled as Bernard Durkan, their local Fine Gael TD from Kildare, pushed open the court room door and squeezed himself into the back of the room. The couple's names were called. They got to their feet and strained through the mass of bodies to make themselves visible to the judge.

Don Gormleone lost in personal battles

Sunday February 07 2010

Last June I introduced you all to Don Gormleone. A character based loosely on our own Environment Minister, but one who seemed to leap fully formed from the pages of Mario Puzo with a brief diversion to the volumes of James Herriot to kit himself out in a sturdy tweed jacket and a nice pair of cords. Don Gormleone is a man of boundless self-belief whose schoolmaster air struggles unsuccessfully to conceal a temper of volcanic proportions and a penchant for vendettas and grudges that makes your average Sicilian goombah look like the disappointed runner-up in the Greystones ICA rhubarb tart competition.

Sparks fly over 'rubbish' waste strategy

Friday February 05 2010

A WAR of words is continuing between a leading economic think-tank and the Government over a controversial report which rubbished Environment Minister John Gormley's waste policies.

Gilmore accuses Cowen of ignoring jobless

Thursday February 04 2010

TAOISEACH Brian Cowen was accused of abandoning the jobless to look after bankers and developers as unemployment soared to a 15-year high.

Climate facts before fiction

Wednesday February 03 2010

A two-year-old claim that the great glaciers of the Himalayas will melt away by the year 2035, now proven to be false, has a special relevance in the comfortable environs of south Dublin, where a battle is raging over waste disposal.

Shades of green: the battle lines

Wednesday February 03 2010

  • JOHN Gormley says there will not be enough waste generated to fuel the Poolbeg incinerator -- the ESRI says there will.
  • Mr Gormley plans to introduce a cap or limit on the amount of waste that can be incinerated -- the ESRI says this means legally-binding targets will be missed and fines imposed.
  • If a cap is put in place, it will encourage a switch to other forms of treatment -- the ESRI says it will delay projects and add to the cost of building facilities.
  • The Environment Minister says only waste produced in Dublin should be treated in Poolbeg -- there is no reason for this, says the ESRI.
  • The minister says the amount of household waste being generated is falling because more people are recycling and composting -- the ESRI says waste generated will increase by 4pc a year from 2011 when the economy returns to growth.
  • The Government assumes that up to 70pc of all waste will be recycled -- this is "extremely unlikely to be successful or cost effective".
  • Mr Gormley wants household waste generation to fall from 300kgs to 150kgs by 2020 -- England and Wales have similar targets, but will not achieve them for 20 years, the ESRI says.

Gormley's waste plan rubbished

Wednesday February 03 2010

ENVIRONMENT Minister John Gormley's plan to deal with Ireland's growing waste crisis is today rubbished in a report by the State's leading economic think-tank.