Irish Government outraged over German leak of December budget plans

However, the positive take is that Germany, having only been reunited relatively recently, may be instrumental in reuniting this cute little teddy bear-shaped island, long haunted by a steady succession of carpet-bagging interlopers: Holy Roman Empire/[Unholy] British Empire etc.

Also, confirms one's worst suspicions that the European Union (EU) is in fact a Fourth Reich. The EU comprises all the former European imperial powers that were behind the global carve up that was WWI, where workign class lads were mere cannon fodder for such naked ambitions. Wake-up!

Isn't it ironic how we are now ostensibly an economic colony of Germany, the other imperial European power that the British feared we would defect to during both WWI/'II. It must be pay back for all those guns Roger Casement ran through Howth for Pearse et als 1916 gig. Dankenshun, mein Chancellor. Duetschland uber Allegemaine.

Germany now has a choke hold over Irish financial affairs thanks to some carpetbagging Irish politicians.Germany is again the major European nation,it holds the financial drumsticks and the rest are marching.Deutchland Uber alles again.

Gee, Dublin is mad, wake up Ireland, nothing is "sacred" anymore when you are part of a group and Berlin pulls the money strings. If you don't like it, get out of the frying pan that is the EU. Your previous government should have thought of that years ago. Old Dev is spinning in his grave.

Dare we see that there are collaborators in the Irish government?

Of course the Irish government does not want its status as a client state/colony getting too public.

2 world wars have started in the 20th century in europe look at history an as history has a habit of repeating itself i fear the 3 rd world war will be started in europe if the euro fails as i always said it would never work too many cultures differences even language alone important stuff gets lost in translation just look how hitler came to power twas cos of austerity measures inflicted by foreign powers thats still embeded in the german physche i feel its only a matter of time till ireland will grow a pair of b@#$%^ n leave europe n realign itself with sterling as we r an island in the atlantic ocean so we cant be centrally controlled by a european elite

gerry their sheep love being had - suffering for jesus excites them. but for self - go to hell.

A democracy is one of those quaint ideas,like the notion that a state would be governed according to the interests of the citizens.Anyone who thinks they live in a democracy needs their head examined.Well Georgie Boy I'm delighted you're finally getting the message that these deals were done behind closed doors by a small cabal of Irish shysters and charlatans.The Irish people DIDN'T know.FF has been almost destroyed by the Irish people when we found out.The amount of seats they got in the last election is a clear example of the amount of people who benefited from this German sharp practice and their greedy Irish traitors.

Thanks, George...I wear any critique from your good self as a Badge of Honour...just try to cut out the personal abuse...btw, FF are not my buddies...never having voted for them..EVER..

You're an idiot, O'Loingsigh. The ones doing the funding of foreigners are not the Germans, they're the IRISH. They're funding, as a result of the lunacy of your buddies in the corrupt and incompetent Fianna Fail party, the profligate German banks who lent money to a small cabal of Irish shysters and charlatans. Where was stern mother Merkel (what a stupid phrase, but that's par for the course with you) when the mad German banks were plying money on gangster Irish bankers? The Irish people don't owe this money. They never assented to the loans, nor benefited from them. What a load of claptrap appears every time your name pops up here.

I think this shows the true relationship between Ireland and Germany, not the 'Kenny lays down the law' non story...if German tax payers have to fund other states, they will demand more control over national budgets...not too democratic...but what's the alternative? it seems like 'stern mother Merkel' is making sure her spendthrift offsprings learn how to set and operate fiscally sound budgets...my mammy did it to me...frequently...I didn't like it then...but she was right...

Are Irish Politicians the dumbest people in history?

There's an excellent English political party called UKIP, the UK Independence Party. Some of my contacts in Ireland has said to me that they wish UKIP would organize in Ireland. Since Sinn Fein went all bourgeois, there's no party for people who want Ireland to leave the EU or at least to stand up for itself. All the Irish parties are traitors now.