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Mary Robinson claims Ireland will emerge as a stronger nation from economic crisis (IrishCentral)

Tue, 15 Jan 2013 04:23:50 PST

By: PATRICK COUNIHAN

A former Irish President has claimed that Ireland will emerge ‘stronger than ever’ from the current economic crisis.

Central Bank boss says US is partially to blame for Ireland’s economic crisis (IrishCentral)

Tue, 15 May 2012 05:08:16 PDT

By: FRANK MURPHY

The Governor of Ireland’s Central Bank has been bravely waving the flag in London for further financial integration across Europe, despite the Euro zone hardships being felt by the people of Greece, Spain, and elsewhere, and in his own country, of course.

Ireland sees a major increase in suicides "by economic crisis" (IrishCentral)

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 04:13:26 PDT

By: KERRY O'SHEA

The suicide rate in Ireland jumped 16 percent between 2007 and 2009 as the economic crisis hit.

Ireland's President Michael D Higgins says intellectual crisis is worse than economic crisis (IrishCentral)

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 06:00:23 PST

Ireland's PresidentMichael D HigginsI suspect I'm the only person in Ireland taking new President Michael D Higgins seriously Truly That's the only way I can explain why his comments yesterday have received so little attentionYesterday in a lengthy (and tedious) speech Higgins said: "There is now I believe an intellectual crisis that is far more serious than the economic one, the one which fills the papers; dominates the programmes in our media READ MORE

Irish finance minister will print t-shirts saying 'We're not Greece' - Novel way to show differences in economic crisis (IrishCentral)

Thu, 23 Jun 2011 09:10:05 PDT

The Irish Finance Minister Michael Noonan has come up with a unique way to disentangle Ireland from the Greek financial crisisHe says he is considering he’s getting T-shirts printed that say “Ireland is not Greece” in an effort to distance Ireland from other debt-burdened nations“We won’t give them away, we’ll sell them,” Noonan said at an event in Dublin today Monetary Fund READ MORE

Bill Clinton on Ireland's Economic Crisis and the Road to Recovery (IrishCentral)

Wed, 11 May 2011 02:08:50 PDT

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"Most of us go back to Ireland and feel immediately at home in a way that’s impossible to describe. Most of us feel an inexpressible pride, not only in our roots, but in the fact of the peace and the fact that, even amidst this horrible economic calamity, no one is talking about getting rid of it. I want to just take two minutes and say something really serious. The success and the endurance of the peace and the continued involvement of the Irish American community, not only in the North but with the Republic as well, brings with it both a staggering opportunity and a profound responsibility to help the Irish respond in this moment of economic calamity and social and psychological chaos. We just had an enormously profoundly upsetting election change in the deck chairs of the Irish political scene. And here’s what I think: number one, there’s an economic problem, but I also think that getting through the economic thicket requires us to deal with the profound damage to the Irish psyche done by this collapse.

Bishops warn Irish economic crisis could lead to ‘incalculable suffering’ (IrishCentral)

Wed, 23 Feb 2011 04:53:13 PST

By: DARA KELLY

Twitter hashtag brings out positive thinking and reality checks in Ireland (IrishCentral)

Fri, 10 Dec 2010 01:20:06 PST

Ireland is world news hotspot for all the wrong reasons Traditional media from around the globe is declaiming on the dire economic situation, backed by a Greek chorus of social media chatter A new Twitter hashtag, #positiveireland, has surfaced, attracting a real time digital stream of good Irish economic news to counter the prevailing Celtic doom, gloom and ire (represented the video surging on YouTube linked to below) Here's a sample of what they're tweeting with the #positiveireland hashtag:“Financial services firm Citi is to create 250 jobs in Dublin and Waterford”“300 construction jobs with €37m health center”“more good news, 250 job places in Citi FS for Dublin and Waterford”“US Tech investors Vanitas on why they're moving to Dublin in spite of it all”I’ve tweeted using the #positiveireland hashtag, but triggering an economic revival is an awful lot to ask of 140 characters READ MORE

Bono strangely silent on Irish economic crisis-- is he turning a blind eye? (IrishCentral)

Thu, 02 Dec 2010 06:10:04 PST

One voice has been noticeably missing from recent debate on Ireland's desperate plightThat person is Paul Hewson,AKA BonoIt seemed anytime there was a debt crisis in the world Bono was there, arguing, pushing, delivering often on total cancellation of debtHe became a powerful moral voice for those countries that found themselves so deeply indebted they could never have dug their way out READ MORE

Bill O'Reilly gets Ireland's economic crisis all wrong (IrishCentral)

Fri, 26 Nov 2010 08:40:03 PST

'The luck of the Irish has run out READ MORE

As the economic and political crisis continue Irish gallows humor in street art heats up (IrishCentral)

Wed, 24 Nov 2010 06:15:04 PST

This piece found on a wall in Rathmines, Dublin, was stencilled by the street artist, ADW According to the Irish Street Art website he's gaining a reputation as a political commentator ADW stencilled of the Irish Minister for Finance Brian Lenihan and the Prime Minister Brian Cowen as the "Blue Brothers" is a brilliant reflection of how the Irish public see out leaders See irishstreetart READ MORE

The Wizard of Oz explains our economic crisis like a modern fable (IrishCentral)

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 03:25:12 PDT

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a modern fairy tale published in 1900, that was written by Frank Baum who loved editorial cartoons from the newspaper He used the universal symbols of his day to create a contemporary fable that explains our own financial crisis Hurricanes (socio-economic upheaval like now), the Tin Man (working stiffs dependent on oil), the strawman (farmers), the Lion (populist leader), the wizard (the pinhead "in charge"), the Wicked Witch of the East (Wall Street banks), the Wicked Witch of the West (big oil & business) are but a few of the symbols Baum used from his imagination and the newspapers to create a fantasy where an American child could go into and fix the world of finance (Oz) that is causing her aunt and uncle such worry in the real world ("Main Street" or "Kansas") Dorothy does this amazing thing by changing the way money is made READ MORE

Secrets of the Wizard of Oz and our current economic crisis (IrishCentral)

Sat, 10 Jul 2010 09:10:14 PDT

Secrets of the Wizard of Oz and our current economic crisis (IrishCentral)

Fri, 09 Jul 2010 06:55:15 PDT

New comedy satirizes Ireland's economic and identity crisis on TG4 (IrishCentral)

Tue, 13 Apr 2010 09:40:24 PDT

An Crisis is a new comedy series from TG4, Ireland's most interesting television station that you can watch for free on-line--click here to do that It's a satire that hits the bull's eye with a concept that lets a cast of great talents take the piss out of Ireland's economic and identity crisis from an arts and language office on the budgetary cutting block in Dublin "All" the dialects and languages of Ireland are used in this show to create a linguistic atmosphere full of puns, rhymes and jokes that cross borders and taboos unique to Ireland The writer Antaine Ó Flatharta began his career at the Abbey Theatre, and has uncanny skill at having the various languages spoken on the island hash it out in the one place READ MORE

Dentists and state workers clean up in Ireland as rest of us suffer economic crisis (IrishCentral)

Wed, 23 Dec 2009 11:15:11 PST

October 15, 2009, 8:52 AMLast week I brought my two 16-year-old sons (twins) for their six monthly dental check-up Amazingly, in view of all the tooth destroying garbage they eat, no fillings were necessary So apart from the careful visual check which took three or four minutes each, they had their teeth thoroughly cleaned with that high speed gizmo that dentists use which took another five or six minutes each, and they were done Relief all round READ MORE