Poolbeg Scams Now at €950 Million
After waiting patiently for 330 days, Dublin Diocese Developers Autocracy DDDA chose Child Rape Day to publish its dodgy 2008 accounts.
November 26, 2009: Government published Child Rape Report (30 year delay).
- November 26: Media totally focused on Child rape.
- November 26: Covanta requested construction permit for Poolbeg Incinerator.
- November 26: After waiting patiently for 330 days, Dublin Diocese Developers Autocracy DDDA chose Child Rape Day to publish its dodgy 2008 accounts.
November 27, 2009: Media still totally focused on Child rape.
- November 27: Dublin City Council granted final permission for Covanta's waste-to-toxins incinerator.
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Docklands disaster serves as warning on Nama
Mon, Nov 30, 2009
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/finance/2009/1130/1224259710165_pf.html
BUSINESS OPINION: Having two Anglo Irish directors on the docklands authority board was a big mistake, writes JOHN McMANUS
IT’S A measure of how conditioned we’ve become to failure and incompetence in public life that the revelation by the Dublin Docklands Development Authority (DDDA) that it has blown €213 million of taxpayers’ money is met in the most part by weary shrugs and eye-rolling.
The decision to publish the DDDA accounts on the same day as the Murphy report into the Catholic Church’s cover-up of child abuse in Dublin was released only adds to the cynicism.
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The Government is shortly to announce the membership of the board of Nama. If they are not up to the job, the consequences for Ireland are potentially cataclysmic. They had better do it right this time.
© 2009 The Irish Times
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