Inspired by the ‘Occupy Wall Street’, a leaderless resistance movement from the United States of America, protesters from the ‘Occupy Dame Street’ have been camped out in front of Ireland’s central bank, located on Dame Street in Dublin City Centre since Saturday afternoon, October 8th, 2011. They say ‘We are the 99% that will not [...]
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On May 16th, the Euro zone’s finance ministers, during the meeting, which took place in Brussels, agreed on Portugal’s bailout. Next day on May 17th they reluctantly acknowledged that Greece’s debt might be “reprofiled”. In the saga which could be call “euro-area’s sovereign debt crisis” ” and which has been going on since 2008, one [...]
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On Tuesday 18th of January, members of the governing party in Ireland – the Fianna Fāil expressed a vote of confidence for their leader and the Prime Minister at the same time – Brian Cowen. The Foreign Ministry Micheāl Martin, who demanded a change of the party’s leadership, resigned. On Wednesday, five more Ministers quit as [...]
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On January 18, 2011 members of the Fianna Fāil party, which has been a dominant political party in the Republic of Ireland since 1932 expressed a confidence vote for the Prime Minister and at the same time the leader of the party – Brian Cowen. He’s supposed to lead the party to the early election [...]
