Sunday Tribune (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
... take notice. The chief economics commentator with the Financial Times, Martin Wolf, even told the Sunday Tribune last week that Irish mortgage debt is so precarious that a mass "debt forgiveness" programme may have to be considered by the government, with banks forced to take huge hits on the carrying value of their mortgage assets thereby being forced into nationalisation...
Sunday Tribune (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
... week he gave a seminar in UCD, appeared on RTE's The Frontline, and also found time to talk to the Sunday Tribune. Extremely softly spoken, he references everything from Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations to the writings of Paul Krugman and Fintan O'Toole. He has a seemingly elephantine memory for historical and economic detail and, as a child of the depression, financial crises do not...
Sunday Tribune (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
... runs the risk of being shut out of world credit markets,'' said Wolf in an interview with the Sunday Tribune. "Ireland has to avoid becoming the next Argentina,'' he said. This was a reference to 2002 when Argentina defaulted on a large portion of its external debt. Since then it has experienced difficulty borrowing from global credit markets. Ireland is heading towards a deficit,...
Sunday Tribune (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
... to "show that the days of cosy consensus" with government are over. Writing in today's Sunday Tribune Ogle launches a scathing attack on the government, bankers and those union leaders on "six figure salaries" who he says "are not known to the bulk of their members". The Dundalk-born former train driver, who led a 10-week rail strike in the summer of...
Politics.ie (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
... up to 19% Quote: Ireland's university staff have received recent pay increases of up to 19%, the Sunday Tribune can reveal. And because the rise was due to be implemented two years ago, many top-brass and professors are currently receiving backdated payments as well. The huge increases at a time of widespread cutbacks in the education sector have been criticised by the Irish Federation...
Sunday Tribune (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Is the recession getting you down? Is the thought of the long, dark winter ahead making you depressed? The Sunday Tribune has found the perfect antidote. Ten flights to 10 different countries in the space of a month for just €130. With a bit of careful planning it is possible to jet around Europe to sunnier climes on Ryanair for the cost of two return train journeys from Dublin...
Sunday Tribune (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
'The reality is hurling has a problem and it is not player power. It is that too many administrators and coaches do not adequately know what it takes to facilitate consistent high performance in the 21st century' Sunday Tribune, November 2008 – and November 2009 AFTER today's Clare county final is out of the way, the Clare hurlers of 2009 will assemble in the coming days to discuss...
chicagotribune.com - Voice of the people (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
I take issue with Scott Stantis' cartoon in Sunday's Tribune (Editorial, Nov. 1). For Mr. Stantis to prognosticate that the Cubs will not do any better in the future than they are doing now was a low blow. The Ricketts family has great plans for the Cubs and I think, with help from others, they will do it. Maybe they won't in the first year of planning, but at least give them some time....
Politics.ie (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
Well done Sean Sherlock: Labour]Sunday Tribune - News home news/article/2009/nov/01/labour td hits out at unions over strike plan/]Labour...
Stephen Spillane (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
Today’s Sunday Tribune has an article suggesting that the Junior Certificate exams could be “axed to save €30″. Is that really a good idea though? While the Junior Cert isn’t really worth much on its own, it is a valuable testing ground for students and a practice for the Leaving Cert. I know the tests and [...]
Sunday Tribune (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
Tesco's price cut campaign has not boosted its share of the Republic of Ireland's grocery market, according to new figures seen by the Sunday Tribune. Research by specialists TNS Worldpanel shows that, in the third quarter of this year, the British supermarket giant has held its percentage share of the grocery market at 26.1% compared to the same period last year. Rival Dunnes Stores,...
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Top Story »Final Junior Cert exam likely to be in June 2012SEÁN FLYNN Education EditorTHE JUNIOR Cert exam will continue in its current, much-criticised form for three more years.One source said there was “no possibility’’ of the exam being postponed next June – in order to yield a saving of €30 million.But education sources refused to comment on a Sunday Tribune report this option was...
Sunday Tribune (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
THE cabinet is considering the abolition of the Junior Certificate exam, taken by over 50,000 secondary school students annually, as a radical cost-cutting measure in next month's budget. The sensational Department of Education proposal has been discussed at the cabinet table, according to Leinster House sources. The Sunday Tribune understands that the proposed abolition could save up...
Sunday Tribune (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
... to 100 countries, including Ireland, at a flat rate of $279 (€186.84) and last week the Sunday Tribune met Steve Kessel, Amazon's senior vice president of Worldwide Digital Media, to check out the new product. So here's how it works. The Kindle is a light, white slab with a 3.6 x 4.8 inch electronic display. It weighs 10 ounces and is just nine millimetres thick. The display...
Sunday Tribune (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
... Details of the minutes, which are from a board meeting on 8 June, were released to the Sunday Tribune under the Freedom of Information Act but the name of the company has been blanked out. At the meeting the then DDDA chief executive Paul Maloney confirmed that the original contract had been awarded on a temporary basis following a tender process "pending the outcome of the integrated...
