Tag: brian lenihan
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The cloud of delusion in the silver lining of Irish recovery
This is a version of my column in the Irish examiner 11 January 2014 . Every silver lining, they say, has a cloud. Or is it the other way round? The new year has certainly got off to a bang in terms of the nascent Irish recovery. In the last week we have seen three…
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Tell us, Jean-Claude.. About that letter?
The Public Accounts Committee of the Irish parliament is unique in its committees in that it has the power to compel witnesses to attend. They can sit there and say nothing but at least they must attend. As has been widely presumed, the committee is, it appears, to hold hearings into That Night, when the government decided to…