IMF Dublin Diary: Dermot stopped by. He hardly spends any time in the Dáil. “It’s so depressing,” he says. “They actually eat in that awful canteen.”
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Diary of an anonymous IMF official working in the Department of Finance in Dublin with Dermot Mulhearn – former top civil servant, now a TD but planning on becoming President of Ireland because of his deep attachment to fine dining and red carpets. Of course.
IMF Dublin Diary: Dermot stopped by. He hardly spends any time in the Dáil. “It’s so depressing,” he says. “They actually eat in that awful canteen.”
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IMF Dublin Diary: I had an unsettling experience in the toilets today as I washed my hands at the sink.
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IMF Dublin Diary: Mr Howlin just called me in to the Minister’s toilet for a private conversation.
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IMF Dublin Diary: I travelled to Brussels with the Taoiseach for this morning’s emergency Euro zone summit.
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IMF Diary: There will be even less work than usual carried out in the Finance Department today. No one has time for anything but Twitter as they boycott a newspaper they’ve never bought.
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IMF Dublin Diary: I have been very moved this morning to find that the Department of Finance arranged a surprise Independence Day party for me.
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IMF Diary: My IMF colleagues are coming back for the second quarterly review of the bailout. A small part of me still entertains the faint hope that they will take me with them when they leave.
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IMF Diary: Another farce with the French in Brussels last night. I doubt now that the bailout interest rate will ever be reduced.
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IMF Diary: There is a celebratory atmosphere in the Department of Finance again this morning. I cannot figure out why but clerical officers in beachwear are high-fiving each other and drinking cocktails.
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IMF Diary: Department of Finance staff have given Finance Minister Michael Noonan a list of State assets to be offered up to the EU in exchange for a lowering of the interest rate on the bailout loan.
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