Today we get a clear picture of who is on the side of the ordinary people of Ireland. How these ordinary people are being drowned in debt like unwanted mongrel puppies.
President Higgins wants to see a change in the law, whereby once legislation is sent by the president for Supreme Court analysis a citizen cannot challenge it, so that a person can in future have that option.
We see clearly who profits from a financial coup like this and how the tight lipped CEO of Bank of Ireland feels he has no need to answer coherently to the citizens of Ireland.
We owe four times more than we did in 2008
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The average consumer now owes four times more than they did in 2008, stark new figures reveal.
Irish people have become buried in credit union debt and unpaid telephone, fuel and tax bills since the recession kicked in.
The figures, from the company behind the debt defaulters magazine, Stubbs Gazette, show the average consumer now owes almost €10,000 — compared to €2,442 in 2008. Those living in commuter towns and remote rural counties have been particularly badly hit.
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FINANCE Minister Michael Noonan has said he is powerless to rein in the pay and pensions of some of Ireland’s most senior bankers after it emerged that the State’s biggest bank, AIB, used some of a €1.1bn taxpayer bailout to fund former chief executive Eugene Sheehy’s estimated annual pension of €529,000.
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He felt the convention on the Constitution might consider those sections governing the President’s referral of legislation to the Supreme Court. Most difficult for him in the context was the provision whereby a matter “having been referred by the President . . . cannot then be challenged by a citizen”.
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