The Prime Minister of Ireland: Time and the Celtic Comeback Kid

[fluffybiscuits]

Just remembering that old journalism expression:
"Life is the magazine for people who don't read and Time is the magazine for those who don't think."

Regards...jmcc

And Hello magazine is for idiots...

[Captain Con O'Sullivan]

There's no surprise in the fact that the most obsequious eunuchs bowing in the palace of corporatism should be praised in Time magazine. It is basically Playboy magazine for the elderly Republicans who need viagra when looking at their bank book.

Next week we'll see Noonan on page 3 in the bondholders special edition of Newsweek.

[Captain Con O'Sullivan]

Time magazine has had more whores on its front cover than Bare Arse Monthly.

[ang]

Karl Whelan gives his take on the Times article - The Celtic Comeback? Don't Believe the Hype

http://www.forbes.com/sites/karlwhel...ieve-the-hype/

[ang]

Bondwatch - Letter to Catherine Mayer, editor of Time (Europe) magazine:

http://bondwatchireland.blogspot.ie/...14th-2012.html

[DCon]

Karl Whelan gives his take on the Times article - The Celtic Comeback? Don't Believe the Hype

http://www.forbes.com/sites/karlwhel...ieve-the-hype/

Whelan makes a good point that it is dangerous to be lauding a comeback in Time while at the same time hounding the EU for a bank debt deal because we are broke.

Pity Enda is more worried about cosmetics than reality

[disability student]

[quote]

Whelan makes a good point that it is dangerous to be lauding a comeback in Time while at the same time hounding the EU for a bank debt deal because we are broke.

Pity Enda is more worried about cosmetics than reality[/QUOTE]

Kenny is concerned with optics and photo opps along with his spinning masters.

[PaddyJoe]

That Time cover was nicely timed. Enda is in NY drumming up business today.

Taioseach Enda Kenny’s job of promoting Ireland as an ideal place to do business formally instigates this day.

In an effort to enhance business ties between Ireland and the United States, Mr. Kenny will spend two days in the latter country beginning today. Listed in his itinerary are a series of appointments in Cleveland and Philadelphia, following a speech at Philadelphia’s Brehon Law Society Symposium this morning.

This is already Mr. Kenny’s sixth visit to the United States since he became the Taoiseach. The recent call is highlighting the Government’s hope to acquire more foreign investments to mend the state’s struggling economy.

On this visit, the Taoiseach is primarily tasked to convey an important message to international business people and investors. He is also entrusted to endorse Ireland as an open realm for business.

From student news.ie
http://www.studentnewsie.com/enda-ke...ess-ties-9761/
Don't know what the person who wrote that piece is studying but I hope it's not journalism.
Some very ropey English there

[Captain Con O'Sullivan]

Ouch.... Is Alison O'Riordan back in town or wha?

[Andrew49]

Hard-hitting article from Eddie Hobbs.

Don't Expect a Celtic Comeback - Enda Kenny leads a Vichy government—captive externally to its creditors and internally to the unions.

On Dec. 13, 1862, they came through the morning fog, wave after wave, some of the finest fighting troops in the Union army. After earning distinctions at Seven Pines, Malvern Hill and Antietam, the Irish Brigade was asked to carry the green flag where others could not go, to secure Marye's Heights over the Virginian town of Fredericksburg.

Though glorified by the London Times, it was a hopeless charge that never should have been asked of any soldiers. The myth of the "fighting Irish" was sealed. But the reality was that the Irish were destroyed, suffering over 80% casualties on a field that had grown crops to relieve the earlier Irish famine.

The myth of Irish pluck continues today, even amid the financial crisis. Prime Minister Enda Kenny recently graced the cover of Time magazine. But according to data from the International Monetary Fund, Ireland has displaced Japan as the world's most indebted economy. Government, household and nonfinancial company debt add up to 524% of Irish GDP. (The Central Bank of Ireland uses a different basis for calculating the debt of nonfinancial firms; its estimate for total debt would be lower than the IMF's.) Funding this gargantuan load at an average cost of 4.5% would swallow nearly 24% of GDP—in other words, Ireland's entire industrial output.

Don't Expect a Celtic Comeback

[PaddyJoe]

German magazine publishers have named Kenny as "European of the Year'
Not sure what they publish.
Comics?
http://www.independent.ie/national-n...s-3271721.html

[Ogiol]

German magazine publishers have named Kenny as "European of the Year'
Not sure what they publish.
Comics?
http://www.independent.ie/national-n...s-3271721.html

the most gullible european of the year! Yes Enda, we'll do something about the debt, you just keep up the payements....

[bernadette]

the most gullible european of the year! Yes Enda, we'll do something about the debt, you just keep up the payements....

Not at all Enda is turning into a good little German. Its too bad we all thought he was Irish.

[Dr. FIVE]

European of the Year, as pictured today during a slightly important topic

[fluffybiscuits]

European of the Year, as pictured today during a slightly important topic

Probably thinking of Merkel in boob tube ....