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    Hercules/Wallace grapples Cerberus

    “It seems extraordinary that NAMA did not know who the legal advisors to Cerberus were until after the Project Eagle portfolio was sold. Someone should be fired for incompetence”, Wallace told Village

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    Villager

    Quays, pees, pleas Years after they banned trucks from the riverside, Villager’s principal experience of Ormond Quay in front of the Village office is still really just somewhere to get run over. The gentlemen from Eircom have kindly removed the two drug dealers’ telephone boxes outside the door, so urine from the city’s drunkards can […]

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    Martyr for a cause

    A man whose body was found in the Dublin mountains on Friday 30 September had successfully campaigned to have a quarrying operation in the area closed down last year. Michael McCoy, a father of three in his early sixties, who was last seen walking his dogs in the Brittas area of county Dublin on the […]

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    Too big to fail, or even be reformed

    Since the start of the Global Financial Crisis back in 2008, European and US policymakers and regulators have blamed the international banking system for systemic risks and abuses. Regulatory and supervisory authorities have begun designing and implementing system-wide responses to the causes of the crisis. What emerged from these efforts was an explosion of regulatory […]

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