Tag Archives: Brian Lenihan

Brian Lenihan is an unwitting genius – he’s worked it out!

Karl Whelan, over on IrishEconomy.ie, this week picked up on something said by the Minister for Finance, Brian Lenihan TD over the [...]

NAMA. Some worthwhile reading.

I wrote back in April what my thoughts are with regards to how NAMA might actually be a good thing for some [...]

Budget 2009 – my thoughts!

The Department of Finance release 150 pages of disastrous news for the country last Tuesday evening. The country is going to be [...]

Brian Cowen – Wordling the Master Plan

In the past, I’ve put a couple of Brian Lenihans speeches through Wordle – here and here. Here’s the Wordle (*) of [...]

Keeping our banks out of the hands of private equity

There’s been some coverage recently of the banking unions calls for the Irish banks not to “fall into the hands” of private [...]

More about Brian Lenihans nominee panel for Bank boards

I posted a week or so ago looking for suggestions as to who should be appointed as the taxpayers nominees on the [...]

Who should be on Brian Lenihans nominee panel to become bank directors?

Over the weekend, I posted my thoughts on the proposal from Brian Lenihan to place his nominees onto the boards of any [...]

Brian Lenihans pointless idea to nominate directors to bank boards

I’ve been doing a bit of thinking about one of the conditions being imposed by Brian Lenihan as part of his bank [...]

I’m mad as hell, and I’m not going to take it any more

From the classic movie Network – this is four minutes that is definitely worth watching given what’s been going on in Ireland [...]

Tinkering Around the Edges – Budget 2009

That’s about the sum total of my thoughts on Budget 2009 from Brian Lenihan. Lots of messing around here and there, but [...]