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Signs of recovery boosted as Ireland beats EU/IMF deficit targets (IrishCentral)

Fri, 04 Jan 2013 04:31:19 PST

By: PATRICK COUNIHAN

Ireland’s Finance Minister Michael Noonan is laughing all the way to the European Central Bank after a surprise upturn in his treasury’s tax take.

Scandal over public service pensions continues as IMF calls time on state workers (IrishCentral)

Wed, 12 Sep 2012 05:47:13 PDT

Taoiseach Enda Kenny and Tanaiste Eamon Gilmore Over the past two weeks this column has been dealing with the scandal of state pay and pensions in Ireland I thought I was a voice crying in the wilderness for a while, but this weekend the issuebecame the top story here and the IMF waded into the argumentIt's easy to summarize the problem READ MORE

How the IMF are killing the Irish patient -- more austerity cuts are the wrong diagnosis for ailing Irish economy (IrishCentral)

Tue, 31 Jul 2012 03:46:15 PDT

IMF fail to fix what ails IrelandWhen I was about ten, I was diagnosed with asthma I was given an inhaler, one of those tubes you have to blow into to measure your lung capacity, and an amount of information and fact sheets along the lines of “So, you’ve become dust’s bitch” that would have stunned an ox There was just one problem: I wasn’t asthmatic After the initial diagnosis my health was getting worse if anything, and every time my mother and I protested as much, I was fussed around by confused doctors like I was The Six Million Dollar Technology: “We can rebuild him, we have the technology READ MORE

IMF orders Irish government to slash dole payments and make cuts to social welfare system (IrishCentral)

Thu, 19 Jul 2012 04:16:05 PDT

By: PATRICK COUNIHAN

The International Monetary Fund has ordered the Irish government to slash dole payments, cut child benefit, and take the automatic right to a medical card away from old age pensioners.

The state of play in Irish economy -- the IMF tells it like it is (IrishCentral)

Wed, 18 Jul 2012 06:01:01 PDT

People line up for unemployment benefits in Dublin last summer As you probably know, last week Ireland passed its most recent review by the IMF-EU-ECB troika of officials -- they visit us every tree months to check the nation's finances It's the humiliating part of getting the bailout They have the right to come in, examine how we're doing and tell us off to smarten up if we're not sticking to the program READ MORE

IMF urges Ireland to cut pensioners' benefits in new cutbacks (IrishCentral)

Sun, 04 Mar 2012 06:46:40 PST

By: DARA KELLY

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has told the Irish government to scrap some free benefits for the country's 480,000 pensioners to save money.

Irish construction employers meet with IMF, EU officials and ECB (IrishCentral)

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 12:36:41 PST

By: ANTOINETTE KELLY

Irish employer group IBEC and the Construction Industry Federation (CIF) have held meetings with the representatives of the EU, ECB and IMF.

IMF believes Ireland needs more support from Europe (IrishCentral)

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 05:03:15 PST

By: BERNIE MALONE

The International Monetary fund have called on Europe to provide greater support to Ireland to help the economy improve.

IMF backs Irish government’s fiscal policy with latest bail-out handover (IrishCentral)

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 04:59:44 PST

By: CATHAL DERVAN

Ireland’s attempts to recover from the collapse of the Celtic Tiger have been handed a ringing endorsement by the International Monetary Fund – along with a check for a whopping $5.5billion.

IMF appoints Dublin representative to oversee bailout (IrishCentral)

Sun, 09 Oct 2011 09:13:35 PDT

By: ANTOINETTE KELLY

For the first time, the International Monetary Fund has appointed a resident representative in Dublin to oversee its bailout program, reports the Irish Times.

Enda Kenny announces Ireland will be the first to leave IMF Euro rescue (IrishCentral)

Sat, 08 Oct 2011 08:14:16 PDT

By: ANTOINETTE KELLY

Ireland will be the first of three bailed-out euro-zone countries to wave farewell to the International Monetary Fund's rescue program, Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny told the press this week.

IMF says Ireland’s economy is doing ‘surprisingly well’ (IrishCentral)

Thu, 06 Oct 2011 05:55:16 PDT

By: DARA KELLY

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has praised Ireland’s economic progress. They announced that Ireland’s economy is performing “surprisingly well” and added that it does not need to take “dramatic” steps beyond the measures of the bailout plan.

Ireland set to 'overachieve' terms of the EU-IMF bailout, says finance minister (IrishCentral)

Sat, 30 Jul 2011 09:29:58 PDT

By: ANTOINETTE KELLY

Ireland has met or 'overacheived' on its EU-IMF deficit targets, said Minister for Finance Michael Noonan, according to the Irish Times.

IMF & EU profits $13 billion from Ireland’s economic woes (IrishCentral)

Wed, 06 Jul 2011 05:25:45 PDT

By: CATHAL DERVAN

The International Monetary Fund and the European Union stand to make a staggering $13 billion profit on Ireland’s economic woes.

IMF leaders back in Ireland to oversee bailout progress (IrishCentral)

Tue, 05 Jul 2011 04:47:19 PDT

By: CATHAL DERVAN

Just when you thought it was safe to go back on the streets of Dublin – the Bailout Boys are Back in Town.

Former IMF boss Dominque Strauss Kahn pleads not guilty (IrishCentral)

Tue, 07 Jun 2011 05:38:43 PDT

By: KARLA RODRIGUEZ

The former head of the International Monetary Fund Dominique Strauss-Kahn, has plead not guilty to the charges he is facing for sexual assault of a 32-year-old hotel housekeeper at Manhattan’s Sofitel hotel on May 14.

Accused of rape - former IMF bosses put up in $500,000 a month digs (IrishCentral)

Fri, 27 May 2011 04:55:12 PDT

By: ANTOINETTE KELLY

The former IMF chief accused of sexually assaulting a maid in a top New York hotel is under house arrest in a $500,000-a-month townhouse in the upmarket Tribecca neighborhood of Manhattan.

Head of IMF, Dominique Strauss-Kahn resigns- VIDEO (IrishCentral)

Thu, 19 May 2011 07:54:51 PDT

By: EVELYN TIERNAN

Disgraced IMF managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn has resigned as the head of the IMF after his arrest on attempted rape charges.

Minister calls for urgent inquiry into IMF bailout (IrishCentral)

Tue, 26 Apr 2011 05:27:21 PDT

By: CATHAL DERVAN

A leading Irish Government Minister has called for an inquiry into the roles of Fianna Fail big wigs Brian Cowen and Brian Lenihan in the recent bank bail-out.

Overpaid public servants targeted for crackdown by IMF bosses (IrishCentral)

Sun, 27 Mar 2011 05:22:29 PDT

By: CATHAL DERVAN

Ireland’s highly paid civil servants have been targeted by European Union bosses bank-rolling the country’s attempts to save the economy.