Suspicion and mistrust still poison the bad bank's relationship with the Government, writes Daniel McConnell The brilliant Bruce Springsteen famously once said: "Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed."Since its inception in Apr

The one gombeen coin will depict Charlie Haughey, for old time's sake. The five gombeen note will pay tribute to an image of the Galway tent. Ten gombeens

It would undermine stability: DraghiMario Draghi, the president of the ECB, has refused to release the letter that "bounced" Ireland into the bailout in November 2010, because he claims it would "undermine" both the public interest and the financial stab

THIS time last year, we were in the middle of a general election campaign whose result was foreordained. We had to decide only two questions: the extent of Fianna Fail's devastation and whether the election would deliver a Fine Gael single-party governme

How to solve it? The same way you solve any other problem, using the same basic principles -- you go back to the source, then take whatever steps are necessary.Leave as

The popular broadcaster has revealed he was asked by Joan FitzGerald — the wife of former taoiseach Garret — to be Fine Gael’s candidate in that year’s Áras race, but didn’t take the request seriously. "She said I was the only person in Fine Gael who cou