InformedTrades (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
June 7, 2008. Is the Celtic Tiger catching the Portuguese Flu? by Sebastian Dullien. Everywhere across Europe, one can these days find conference...
SiliconRepublic.com (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
Irish technology firm Pulse Technology has signed a €700,000 partnership with Rate Tiger to help hotels in 60 countries worldwide boost their revenues by up to 12pc.
Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
... economy - the low-tax miracle lauded by economists, neo-conservatives and liberals alike - go from Celtic Tiger to Celtic Catastrophe?The property market is in genuine crisis throughout Ireland. Yesterday, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, in its Outlook report, predicted the downturn will hit Ireland particularly hard. "Activity is contracting as...
Irish Election (Free subscription) | yesterday
They are €1billion lower than projected by Lenihan on October 14th in his budget. Already down on last years projections. The latest exchequer figures show a current deficit of 7.8-billion euro. The Taoiseach told the Dail that the figures mean that even more spending cuts will have to be made. The fact that these are the november [...]
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
... join us. This vision of a 1940s Ireland preserved for all eternity is our only hope. Now that the Celtic Tiger has let us down, we need the Celtic Revival à la Maud Gonne and Yeats to save us.Fás wouldn't do it. Getting your hair done at Solutions in West Cocoa Beach would be absolutely against trend, unless you were getting it dyed red in order to come home to be a perfect...
www.bishopdavid.net (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
Just time for a rapid pre-Christmas visit to Dublin, mainly to gather up the older generation for a spot of lunch. The Celtic Tiger has of course become something of a flea-bitten ally cat so it was interesting to find out how things were. To which one of our friends ...
Indymedia ireland (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008
its time for business to pay its share at last after their good times during the celtic tiger It was well known in political and media circles that drastic cuts in corporation would not be sustainable when the economy went into decline, however the 'spin' put out at the time was that these cuts in taxes paid by business would create greater profits and that this would mean almost full...
Times Online (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
The post-Celtic Tiger era claimed its first high-profile victim in Dublin today when the chief of a government quango was forced to resign over excessive expense claims, including hundreds of thousands of pounds spent on First Class trans-Atlantic flights, rounds of golf and visits to Florida nail bars.
LA Times (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
Ireland is in its worst recession in a quarter-century, and European Union policies are hampering recovery. When Ireland entered the world's most ambitious economic alliance -- the European Union -- more than a decade ago, the Celtic Tiger roared to life. Membership in Europe's private club, along with the subsequent adoption of the euro, lured scores of multinational companies to this...
"E pur si muove!" (Free subscription) | 25/11/2008
Last night, the Travel Channel re-aired the No Reservations Ireland episod e. Love that music! Tony mentions that Ireland, "The Celtic Tiger," is enjoying an economic boom that "would have been unimaginable a generation ago." "Liberal" that he is, Tony doesn't say why that happened (don't worry Tony, I'm still a huge fan!) but you and I know what a good part of the reason is. In case...
