As we have reported earlier in this very page, Irish Nationwide boss Micheal Fingleton go a cool 1 Million Euro bonus despite all the financial trouble besetting their company and basically all the companies in the world. Call it AIG’s fore runner. Or grandfather. Or forefather. In any case, Fingleton’s bonus is safe and we can do nothing about it except to beg him to give back the money. Finance Minister Brian Lenihan confirmed that there is no assurance that the government can ... Read More

Irish businessmen doing business with Iranians? For the longest time, Iran has been trying to get something going with their military technology. They want to have better equipment and perhaps, according to some sources, a nuclear warhead. For better or worse, they have often fallen short. However, now there is a possibility that they will be able to get their acts together with a secret weapon: the luck of the Irish. According to the US Justice Department, an Irish trading company and three Irish ... Read More

It looks like Dell computers are looking into saving more money in 2009. While it has been announced early this year that they will be cutting down jobs in an effort to save 29 Euros at the end of 2011, they have decided to save about a quarter more after analyzing the last quarter results of their finances. According to the Mayor of Limerick, Cllr John Gilligan, such announcement is a shock and painful to bear, the same has been expected. “I think Limerick ... Read More