“The government have had a good long look at nationalisation…It looked at the international market. It looks to the people who lend to the banks sees that some of them dont lend to nationalised banks”

two words company man

George Lee would never pander to that tripe

Maybe a little of Dan McLaughlin’s optimism would be an antidote in these grim times.

He could well emulate Nixon’s press secretary Ron Ziegler who at the height of Watergate had declared some inconvenient past statements as “inoperative.”

Just two gems from a May 11, 2009 speech:

“In Ireland there has been a spate of forecasts projecting a slowdown in growth, but in truth most of the current macro-indicators, (including retail sales, industrial production, foreign travel and unemployment) do not suggest any softening in the pace of growth.”

“Indeed, there are a number of economic viewpoints about the Irish economy which are often voiced but have little in the way of support from the facts. One often hears that growth is unbalanced but a glance at the data from 2001 to 2006 shows average GDP growth of 5.3%, with all components growing in a 4.5% - 5.5% range.”

http://www.bankofireland.com/press_room/latest_releases/2007/press_releases_news_111956_5.html

The obvious candidate is David Murphy, RTE’s Business Correspondent who is doing a very solid job. Apart from having the inside track, his calm reporting was an excellent foil to George Lee’s egotrips in recent months. Of course, things are so bad financially for RTE that they may not fill the senior post.

AVVERTENZA - SITO NON RAGGIUNGIBILE
In applicazione del decreto dell’Amministrazione autonoma dei monopoli di Stato (AAMS) del 2 gennaio 2007, disciplinante la rimozione dei casi di offerta in assenza di autorizzazione, attraverso rete telematica, di giochi, lotterie, scommesse o concorsi pronostici con vincite in denaro, con il quale è stata data attuazione all’art. 1, comma 50, della Legge 27 dicembre 2006, n° 296, il sito richiesto non è raggiungibile poiché sprovvisto delle autorizzazioni necessarie per operare la raccolta di giochi in Italia.

L’elenco degli operatori autorizzati al gioco telematico è disponibile sul sito istituzionale http://www.aams.it.

Beware!

No international candidates?