I’m not surprised that the president of Sinn Fein, Gerry Adams wants to give up his seat in the Northern Ireland assembly and enter politics in the south. Sinn Fein have shown they are good at sniffing out opportunity,
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Unfortunately,
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The problem the Irish government faces is that anything it does to try and meet its obligations becomes counterproductive; cutting public workers’ salaries and chopping services merely pushes unemployment higher, income tax revenues lower and makes the banks’ bad debts worse. Raising corporation taxes and abolishing investment allowances to cut state borrowing kills the foreign investment that powered the former Celtic Tiger. Even an IMF/EU rescue package would run into similar difficulties.
The fear is that the holders of Irish government and banking bonds will, as part of the “restructuring” of Irish financial affairs be asked to forego some of their capital, in return for getting anything back. Holders of paper issued by Argentina, Mexico, Zaire and many other defaulters will be familiar with the process; it is not suppose to happen in a eurozone member state, even if German Chancellor Angela Merkel has suggested it was preferably to hitting the German taxpayer again. All this will threaten the stability of the euro, and may lead to “contagion”, to traumas in Portugal and Spain. The latter,
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And it was all going so well. Some of us have more cause than others to know about the Irish Diaspora,
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In the 2000s, though,
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