Enda Kenny announces deal on Anglo-Irish debt with European Central Bank

I see my comment posted... where's Icobryan's gone to? It was a sensible post.

I think Icobryan told it like it is. The import of the last Irish Budget last December is beginning to bite on us Irish residents, not to mention the bites of the Budget the year before. I checked my last payslip; it showed the Irish Govt is taking 42% of my gross salary for its Exchequer, including amounts used to pay back junior bond-holding gamblers who have no right of claim on my, or my fellow Irish workers’ income. Out of the rest that they leave me with to spend on household stuff, they take another 23% in Value Added Tax. Work out the figures, taking €1000 as a base. This cannot go on any longer… “Too much ice cream” etc… can make you sick, dependent on State hand-outs that you’ve paid for others less fortunate and unable to work for the country’s benefit at lesser tax rates. Pure Economics cannot be wrong. Something has to be done to save my adult children from their lifes' time debts to people they didn't borrow from.

The Irish sadly suffer from low self-esteem & an over inflated ego.

When is Kenny going to do something about all the idget land developers who left their debts and mercedes cars at dublin airport before they went to hide in canada the us and australia. Why should my tax dollars bail out those idiots!

I am nobody's enemy but I don't trust Sinn Fein as they have no conception of what it takes to run a country except at the point of a gun. Their concept of a Marxist/Socialist Republic does not appeal to the majority of people in the Irish State. Too much baggage. End of discussion.

I am nobody's enemy but I don't trust Sinn Fein as they have no conception of what it takes to run a country except at the point of a gun. Their concept of a Marxist/Socialist Republic does not appeal to the majority of people in the Irish State. Too much baggage. End of discussion.

I am nobody's enemy but I don't trust Sinn Fein as they have no conception of what it takes to run a country except at the point of a gun. Their concept of a Marxist/Socialist Republic does not appeal to the majority of people in the Irish State. Too much baggage. End of discussion.

I am nobody's enemy but I don't trust Sinn Fein as they have no conception of what it takes to run a country except at the point of a gun. Their concept of a Marxist/Socialist Republic does not appeal to the majority of people in the Irish State. Too much baggage. End of discussion.

I am nobody's enemy but I don't trust Sinn Fein as they have no conception of what it takes to run a country except at the point of a gun. Their concept of a Marxist/Socialist Republic does not appeal to the majority of people in the Irish State. Too much baggage. End of discussion.

I am nobody's enemy but I don't trust Sinn Fein as they have no conception of what it takes to run a country except at the point of a gun. Their concept of a Marxist/Socialist Republic does not appeal to the majority of people in the Irish State. Too much baggage. End of discussion.

I am nobody's enemy but I don't trust Sinn Fein as they have no conception of what it takes to run a country except at the point of a gun. Their concept of a Marxist/Socialist Republic does not appeal to the majority of people in the Irish State. Too much baggage. End of discussion.

Icobryan your ignorant comments on the Irish having low esteem is pathetic and typical of The ignorance of some Irih/Americans. Wopundeknee is another bumbling ignoramus.

The Irish will never learn Icobyran

Blow off some steam (with its benefits), Wounde3d Knee, but, remember, the Eastern European colonizers can be dealt out after they have sustained the bards for 400 years or so.

I read about some government guy in Ireland crowing that this would save a billion euros a year for the Irish taxpayer. I've got news for this guy. You could save a lot more than a billion euros per year if the Irish stopped paying welfare, child grants (even for children who have never been in Ireland), free schooling up to college level, extra prison places, hospital care, translation services, subsidized housing etc etc. to the hordes of Eastern Europeans who are colonizing Ireland.