The RTE Late Debate Heckle

[PaddyJoe]

Andreas Dombret of Buba said today in Dublin that legacy bank debt is Ireland's problem.
Meanwhile Craig Beaumount of the IMF thinks that the ESM could take on 24bn of our bank debt.
Game of pass the parcel

[Dr. FIVE]

cant listen to Tuffy

[PaddyJoe]

Must be tricky to find a sober journo in Dublin today after the awards this afternoon

[PaddyJoe]

At least an original metaphor from Cormac Lucey. He likens global economic management to "Black and white minstrels keeping plates in the air rotating on bamboo shoots"

[Dr. FIVE]

grim text

[PaddyJoe]

grim text

"Washed up 46 year listening in bed because can't afford to heat the house knowing he'll never work again.....why don't you discuss the human waste.."
There's a lot more of this recently...savings and hope are running out

[PaddyJoe]

Tuffy complaining about 'negativity' from the media. She actually said 'there is light at the end of the tunnel"
Labour heading for FF territory circa November 2010.

[PaddyJoe]

Cormac Lucey doing his PD thing on tax.

[PaddyJoe]

Aodhan O'Riordan Lab, Clr David McGuiness FF, Shaun Connolly of the Examiner.
Children's Hospital, Pensions.

[DCon]

Anglo

Eoin O Broin ‏@EOBroin

On @LatedebateRTE tonight at 10pm with @sinead_ryan @PeterMathewsTD @tasc_natoconnor on cost of IBRC, banks, allowances & pensions.

[PaddyJoe]

Is Peter saying in an incredibly convoluted way that he doesn't know what Anglo will cost?

[Dr. FIVE]

Republican paramilitaries & Richie Boucher

[PaddyJoe]

Republican paramilitaries & Richie Boucher

Tony Foley DCU, Henry McDonald of the Guardian. Keiran Allan of the SWP.

[PaddyJoe]

Sounds like Boucher went down like a lead balloon at the committee today. Humphreys says he has no personal credibility left

[Dr. FIVE]

Politicians tell of their frustration trying to get a straight answer out of Richie Boucher.