IMF Dublin Diary: Mr Howlin just called me in to the Minister’s toilet for a private conversation.
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A private conversation with Minister Howlin in his toilet
Celebrity ego fuel to revive economy and save planet
Despite all indications to the contrary, it now seems likely that a Green Party energy initiative is going to save the Government, the economy, the country and the planet.
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Cost benefit analysis of state agencies fails to find any benefit
A cost benefit analysis of all state agencies which was ordered by Minister for Finance Brian Lenihan has had to be abandoned after it could find no discernible benefit to measure cost against.
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Angry cabinet protests against Government
Traffic was severely disrupted in the centre of Dublin today as angry members of the Cabinet took to the streets to protest against the Government.
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Lenihan claims tree stump depicts Kathleen ni Houlihan
The unprecedented pressure the Government is under finally led to a split in the Cabinet yesterday when a fistfight broke out between Minister for Justice Dermot Ahern and Minister for Finance Brian Lenihan after Mr Lenihan insisted that the tree stump in Rathkeale, Co Limerick, which is alleged to depict the Virgin Mary and...
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Cabinet concern as ‘God’ and ‘Country’ square off
The rift between Taoiseach Brian Cowen and Justice Minister Dermot Ahern has widened after Mr Ahern refused to leave his vigil at the tree stump in Rathkeale in Limerick to attend a meeting with Mr Cowen over the President’s council of state meeting.
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Taoiseach banks on tree stump to save economy
The Mire has just learned that Taoiseach Brian Cowen has asked the Minister for Justice Dermot Ahern and Finance Minister Brian Lenihan to drop everything and go directly to Rathkeale in Limerick where the Virgin Mary is said to have appeared as an outline in a tree stump.
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Lenihan doesn’t fancy career prospects
Minister for Finance Brian Lenihan is said to be utterly bemused at opposition calls for his resignation over the International Monetary Fund’s bleak assessment of Mireland’s economic outlook.
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Cowen says stones will bleed
Taoiseach Brian Cowen has added his voice to calls for leopards to change their spots but has cautioned that this may be a long drawn out process. Welcoming a leading leopard’s statement that leopards who had yet to change their spots might still do so, Mr Cowen said he expected “strong and continuous participation”...
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Lenihan determined to change leopards’ spots
The Government has announced that leopards will be legally obliged to change their spots after the next general election. Minister for Finance Brian Lenihan last night said legislation to give effect to the new law will pass all stages in the Oireachtas, before the Dáil and Seanad rise for the summer recess.
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