Taking them long enough.
"Irish leader urges vote for EU treaty" Associated Press, May 28, 2012
DUBLIN - Prime Minister Enda Kenny of Ireland made a
nationally televised appeal Sunday to voters to support the European
Union’s fiscal treaty in a referendum this week, warning that rejection
would send the signal that Ireland was not serious about tackling its
deficits and was no longer a secure member of the euro currency.
That would be the best thing for the Irish.
Kenny said a “yes’’ verdict in Thursday’s referendum was essential to
ensure that Ireland could tap EU bailout funds in 2013, if necessary.
Ireland’s EU-International Monetary Fund loans are due to run out by the
end of next year, and the treaty specifies that only ratified members
could access future EU loans. “A strong ‘yes’ vote will create the
certainty and stability that our country needs to continue on the road
to economic recovery. This treaty will not solve all of our problems,
but it is one part of the solution,’’ Kenny said in his TV address to
his debt-burdened nation.
They are the ones who caused the problems!
Also see: Irish Bailout Exceeding Expectations
That's some change you voted for there, Ireland.
Ireland is the only nation among 25 signatories putting the
deficit-fighting treaty to a national vote, and critics of the
German-led push for austerity are hoping that Ireland’s voters reject
the pact.
So let me get this right: the Irish voters voted for austerity?
HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!
Treaty
architects ensured that an Irish “no’’ could not veto progress
elsewhere, stipulating that it would require formal ratification from
just 12 countries to become law in those countries. And Kenny argued
that an Irish rejection would do far and away the most damage to
Ireland’s interests.
“Only a ‘yes’ vote will give Ireland guaranteed access to Europe’s
permanent rescue fund, the European Stability Mechanism, should Ireland
ever need it,’’ said Kenny, who has insisted that Ireland should be able
to resume normal borrowing on bond markets next year.
Kenny added that Ireland’s exceptional reliance on foreign corporate
investment also made the treaty’s approval essential.
Hmmmmm.
Ireland’s tepid
return to economic growth over the past year has been driven by strong
exports from the approximately 950 high-tech multinationals, including
600 US companies, with Irish operations.
So Ireland has become a slave-wage state just like it was under Britain, huh? Some independence.
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Globe never told me how the vote went. Once again I sense a rigged election.
"Two bombs found in Northern Ireland city" by Shawn Pogatchnik |
Associated Press, May 23, 2012
DUBLIN - Residents of a Londonderry street voiced their
anger at Irish Republican Army die-hards Tuesday after police seized at
least two bombs in an apartment in the Northern Ireland city....
“Whoever
left it there, would they have left it beside their own children?’’
said Paddy McDaid....
Gerry Murray, a 78-year-old disabled retiree who was evacuated with
his wife, said the various IRA splinter gangs deserved no support from
the Irish nationalist majority in the city. “I’m angry and I think a lot
of other people will be angry too,’’ he said.
Several IRA splinter groups active in Irish Catholic parts of the
city keep trying to bomb businesses and attack police in defiance of the
2005 decision of the major faction, the Provisional IRA, to renounce
violence and surrender weapons. One group called Republican Action
Against Drugs specializes in shooting Catholics accused of involvement
in Londonderry drug dealing.
The city’s police commander, Chief Inspector Garry Eaton, declined to
speculate on the bombers’ likely target, but he said their choice of
location to store bombs demonstrated a disregard for the safety of the
community....
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I'm tired of the insults with no apologies, readers.
Also see: Catholic faith on line as church rallies in Ireland
I've stopped attending Boston Globe masses, sorry.
