EU agree to review Ireland’s debt deal - Government ceases opportunity to renegotiate “disastrous deal”

Don't hold your breath. The €32bn granted to the b*ndholders of Anglo is forever gone..Ireland is now a Corporation; that too is irreversible. Debt deal is here to stay, so that we remain a Corporation not a Republic.

The Fine Gael party are the problem not the Irish my ignorant Yankee pal.

Hi seanomelb, me ol' mate, I'm glad you are now realising that the Irish are their own worst enemy. You got it in one with your 'gutless fools'. But I really don't think you should be so brazen in alluding that these gutless fools were Irish. It could looked at as being anti-Irish or worse still; anti republican. Again someone has had a bit of trouble with that dastardly English language. Well interpreted kinvara7.

*supposed to read (the onus is on you)...

If the deal was so bad why did the gutless fools make it in the first place??

@kinvara7 - THANKS for being the unpaid editor that was so very needed here!

@Portia777, Yes , it is only paper, and it looks like the EU & the Irish ministers have begun to see it that way, too. Why make people suffer unnecessarily? It has always been the case that it is the people behind the paper who are instrumental. They may make mistakes, only they need to learn from them, not repeat them. The onus is you Michael Noonan, Eamon Gilmore & Lucinda Creighton. Go for it!

Why is Irish Central not reporting the biggest story in Ireland over the last number of days? Minister for Health James Reilly financial affairs? Very very strange.

All that nonsense over paper, which a select few gods are allowed to create out of nothing and call it money and we eejits feed the system. We must be insane.

This is very good news, but let's see what actually happens. This government has been walking a tightrope, doing all it could to justify its membership in the EU/Eurozone and to win win back the respect of Germany and northern Europe. With those things in place it always believed that it would be able to renegotiate the onerous deal. Out of necessity they have been playing the long game. Now it looks like they will score and perhaps in a few years win. At a terrible cost to the Irish people, but the long game was the only sensible course for them to take to undo years and years of damage.

Thank you Kinvara7 for making sense of that truly garbled headline. You are right, it should be "seize," not ceases.

How do you "cease" an opportunity?

seizes