Sorry, but I can’t let this topic go. The Government’s NAMA has bought €77 billion worth of loans from the banks. The property relating to these loans is worth €47 billion, but we’re… more →
Worth Doing Badlytinman18 wrote 2 months ago: Sorry, but I can’t let this topic go. The Government’s NAMA has bought €77 billion worth … more →
tinman18 wrote 2 months ago: Way back in the last century, when our last recession was at its worst, I had my own business. My ty … more →
tinman18 wrote 2 months ago: So now we know. The new National Asset Management Agency is to take €77 billion in “distressed … more →
tinman18 wrote 2 months ago: Those of you who live in Ireland will be familiar with the problems currently facing property develo … more →
tinman18 wrote 3 months ago: For most of our history we Irish were a tiny, poor country on the very periphery both of Europe and … more →
tinman18 wrote 3 months ago: Last night I had the weirdest dream. I was captain of an office football team, and we were about to … more →
tinman18 wrote 4 months ago: Just three days after I mentioned 1985’s Moving Statues of Ballinspittle in my blog, the front … more →
tinman18 wrote 6 months ago: Since I drive only to the station each day, while Mrs Tin drives Tingirl to school & then drives … more →
tinman18 wrote 6 months ago: This day one year ago is where it all started to go wrong for us. All through the early part of last … more →
tinman18 wrote 6 months ago: After what was possibly the shortest career in military history, Tinson1 is no longer in the FCA. Hi … more →
tinman18 wrote 7 months ago: Here is a test. Think of a number. Double it. Add 22. Multiply it by four. Add seventeen zeros to th … more →
tinman18 wrote 7 months ago: The Government has finally decided that the two vacant Dáil seats will be filled by holding by-elect … more →
tinman18 wrote 7 months ago: If these T-shirts were real, I would so buy this one … and this one…. …and finally … more →
tinman18 wrote 7 months ago: Does anyone remember SARS? This mighty disease appeared out of nowhere in 2003 started, by the sound … more →
tinman18 wrote 8 months ago: They dominated our childhood and then, like a bunch of ungrateful Little Jackie Papers, we forgot al … more →
tinman18 wrote 8 months ago: On the day that Jade Goody has died, aged just 27, of cervical cancer, I want again to express my di … more →
tinman18 wrote 8 months ago: The Irish Times today reports that “The Department of Finance is assessing a response from Iri … more →
tinman18 wrote 8 months ago: Green Party deputy leader Mary White has suggested a one cent tax on text messages, calling it a … more →
tinman18 wrote 9 months ago: The six o’clock news has just ended. Bryan Dobson has just said to the Minister for Finance: … more →