Celtic Tiger

Poor little Ireland is squeezed in the battle of the titans

Brian Walker on August 30, 2016, 1:34 pm

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The basic foundation for the Celtic Tiger and the best hope for its revival? Or a scam that makes Ireland no better than tax haven? The day of reckoning may have arrived – subject to appeal.The Commission insists that they money must be used to pay down Irish debt anyway. Ireland backs away from treating the EU Commission’s implied offer of a €13 billion windfall from Apple because of real fears that wider FDI will dry up if other foreign …

15 years on…how has boom and bust changed Lawrence Donegan’s Donegal?

Soapbox on September 4, 2015, 12:06 pm

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Conor Johnston writes about how County Donegal has coped with the aftermath of the Celtic Tiger Lawrence Donegan’s excellent ‘No News at Throat Lake’ (Penguin, 2000) about his year in Creeslough, North Donegal, not only explains why the successful journalist and musician took to living in rural Ulster and covers his time playing GAA for the local club despite no knowledge of the sport at all, but also includes his time working as a writer for the local Tirconaill Tribune …

Eat Your Children: chasing the lost unicorn of Irish citizen protest #bff15

Alan Meban (Alan in Belfast) on April 20, 2015, 1:40 pm

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“We’re not Ireland, we will resist” (Greek austerity protest chant) Has Ireland lost its protest mojo? Flatmates Treasa O’Brien and Mary Jane O’Leary bailed out of Ireland to study in London and Barcelona. Partly motivated by the Greek chant and surprised by the contrast behind high profile citizen action in countries like Spain and the lack of news reaching them from Ireland, the friends came back to their homeland and toured around in a white Transit van to make a …

IRA’s holdings built up and ruined by Celtic Tiger?

Mick Fealty on December 13, 2010, 10:54 pm

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One of the Ireland related Wikileaks revelations reveal a briefing from a Garda source to the effect that: While the IRA had been proficient in smuggling, robbery, and racketeering since the 1970s, the Celtic Tiger economic boom of the 1990s had prompted the IRA to diversify into more sophisticated business enterprises. Perhaps Lord Blackheath knows something about this? Interestingly he recently claimed in the Lords that: The IRA had five companies completely ruined. They had built the companies up as …