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Re: What I have actually said about property, prices and borrowing It is worth noting that the OP on that thread followed Brendan's advice to hold onto the property, despite the majority of posters advising the OP to sell.

Yup, I'm voting no precisely in the hope of forcing a general election and scuppering NAMA before it gets through. I actually voted yes last time and would generally be in favour of the treaty but this is more important than Lisbon.

Which is fair enough but is it really something the government needs to tell people? Especially a country that is practically bankrupt?

I don't work in the business full-time no. Other commitments mean I can only work part-time in the business and largely this is all that's required from me. The proprietary director in question was originally supposed to work full-time in the business but he's proved useless, so I ended up...

Thank you mcaul, this is an area very much worthy of investigation. Removing him as a director I don't believe is an issue and knowing him I doubt he'd be interested in further investment so dilution of his shareholding is easily possible. With all the usual caveats of talking to my solicitor...

Sorry I should have been clearer in this regard. I will be seeking to have him removed as a director but in a small company a sizeable shareholder has quasi-directorship rights anyway (or so I understand). Is there any way to get shut of him entirely?

Hi, A proprietary director who owns a quarter stake in a business I own majority shareholding in is proving a liability. I want him gone but he's not amenable to any kind of reasonable buy-out offer. Having invested heavily in the brand and advertising of this company, which is now starting...

A friend is living in an apartment block and he received a letter from the management company stating that they are going to let the apartment block insurance lapse due to a significant rise in the premium. I understand he cannot source his own insurance sufficient to cover just his own...

Not a question of "feeling it is okay" more a question of recognising that other countries are free to vote in whatever group of ex-terrorist scum they wish.

I guess the point is that there are few so grasping and desperate as Mary Lou.

A Fianna Fail creation you'll agree? Rates may have been higher pre-€ but we followed the trends of the time. There is nothing to suggest we would have changed the pattern of a lifetime had we refused to join the Euro ergo there's no point considering as a significant issue in the formation of...

I'm not arguing whether it was a good decision to join the Euro or not (I don't believe it was). However, the central bank showed little inclination to slow the asset bubble using the tools at its disposal so it's a stretch to imagine they would have braved bucking a GLOBAL trend of central...

I am starting to suspect this is as much a curse as a boon. The ECB repo pact (where Irish banks buy Irish sovereign bonds and repo them with the ECB for cash) creates the illusion that our insolvent banks can be kept on terminal life support. I don't think this helps anyone. Further the NAMA...

I don't know if the "other crowd" will do any better but if you don't punish politicians for incompetence and corruption, then don't expect them to stop being incompetent and corrupt. There is also the more immediate issue of NAMA. The only realistic prospect of blocking it is to get the...

Voted yes the last time, voting no this time. Whatever it takes to collapse this government.

The Dublin Bus drivers in the Harristown Depot striking over a change to the timetable springs immediately to mind as an example of a union ignoring a labour court recommendation. That was okay apparently because the labour court didn't really understand bus timetables (until they issued a...

Free up what money? Anything forgiven by the banks must be repaid by the taxpayer thanks to the guarantee. This would also unfairly punish those who were prudent and reward those who were most reckless.

Very little can be done in respect of mortgages (i.e. if interest rates start to increase) but unsustainably high wages won't help if it results in greater unemployment. In the longer term, I think we need some sort of structure to aid people in negative equity who need to move for work or...

The arguments against creating a "deflationary spiral" pertain to larger economies where many of the goods consumed are manufactured internally rather than imported. In Ireland we manufacture goods for export and import most of our consumption. So stimulus packages to boost consumption or...

Re: TEETU Eletricians Dispute (Eamon Devoy on Joe Duffy) It certainly is crazy, especially when you consider the variance of difficulty in electrical work available. Why does a guy working with PLCs or complicated automation projects get paid the same as a guy hauling cable? I don't...