genesis and catastrophe

A BRIEF GUIDE TO THE IRISH ECONOMY

1. White collar criminal Denis O'Brien bribes corrupt government Minister Michael Lowry to award him mobile phone service provision contracts for the Republic of Ireland worth a billion dollars. Michael Lowry gives the billion dollar contracts to Denis O'Brien for a price of a few million dollars.

2. Denis O'Brien sells his mobile phone company for a billion dollars.

3. A Judicial enquiry finds that Denis O'Brien bribed Michael Lowry.

4. Corrupt Fine Gael Prime Minister Enda Kenny ignores the findings of the Judicial enquiry.

5. Meanwhile Ireland's supposedly largest media group Independent Newspapers is refusing to repay its billion dollar borrowings from Allied Irish Bank. (I say 'supposedly largest media group' because actually the Heelers Diaries has a higher net asset worth than Independent Newspapers since I don't anyone a billion dollars.)

6. Allied Irish Bank goes bust because entities like Independent Newspapers are refusing to repay the billions of dolllars they owe it.

7. Allied Irish Banks is taken over by corrupt Fine Gael Prime Minister Enda Kenny on behalf of the State using public money. Enda Kenny pays billions for a bank that is worth nothing and which could have been seized by the State for nothing.

8. Allied Irish Banks Board Member Lochlainn Quinn is not required to pay any of Allied Irish Banks debts from his own billion dollar fortune.

9. Coincidentally Lochlainn Quinn is a brother of Enda Kenny's colleague in government at the time, Education Minister Ruairi Quinn who is a member of the Labour Party.

10. Lochlainn Quinn moves seamlessly to the Board of Ireland's monopoly electricity company the ESB. The catastrophic failure of AIB, the last company he steered, has not adversely affected his career at all. Although I'm told he doesn't sleep well at night.

11. Allied Irish Banks cancels Independent Newspapers billion dollar debts.

12. Independent Newspapers is taken over by white collar criminal Denis O'Brien.

13. Independent Newspapers announces that it will purchase the Celtic Newspaper group. It is not clear whether Allied Irish Banks is once more lavishing free money on Independent Newspapers or why Independent Newspapers is in a position to buy other newspaper groups while refusing to pay its debts.

14. Independent Newspapers which is owned by white collar criminal Denis O'Brien announces that it is considering buying Newstalk Radio Station which is also owned by white collar criminal Denis O'Brien.

15. While all this is going on the IRA drug dealing people trafficking child abusing mafia and their parliamentary proxies Sinn Fein, in tandem with the IRA's more recently established parliamentary front organisations the Anti Austerity Alliance, and the People Before Profit Group, sit in the wings rubbing their hands gleefully.

16. The IRA's Cosa Nostra and Chinese Triad allies are caught smuggling mobsters from China into Ireland through Dublin airport using mafia agents in the employ of the former Irish national airline Aer Lingus to bypass security.

17. Judge Liberal gives bail to the Triad and Cosa Nostra airline employees who were caught smuggling Chinese mobsters into Ireland through Dublin airport.

18. Judge Liberal refuses to extradite Ian Bailey to France where he is due to stand trial for the murder of  French film producer Sophie Toscan Du Plantier. The decision is seen by some as a sure fire indicator that elements of the Judiciary in Ireland are working for the IRA and its attendant mobs. Ask an ordinary citizen whether he thinks we should be able to extradite

19. American attempts to extradite an individual styled Eric Eoin Marques from Dublin (the FBI assert he is the pre-eminent supplier via the internet of child pornography on the planet) are now entering their fifth calendar year. Judge Liberal has spent the last five years allowing this individual to avoid facing American justice on charges of disseminating films featuring the systematic rape of children. Marques legal fees and repeated court manoeuvres are being paid for by you and me through government financing, as are Judge Liberal's fees.

20. Ireland's Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald announces that the Kinahan mob (an IRA faction) have not infiltrated the police. Her announcement removes the last remaining vestige of doubt that the Kinahan mob have infiltrated the police.

21. Irish police are crowing about a raid that has captured twenty guns from the Kinahan gang. Presumably they're going to charge the guns with all the murders and drug dealing the Kinahans are committing. A grand total of nought Kinahans remain in jail after this latest police triumph. We can only hope the cops didn't give them back their guns before letting them loose again.

22. Judge Martin Nolan has given a sentence of 18 months to Eamon Lynch for causing the death of 18 year old Shane Patton by drunkenly ploughing his car into Mr Patton's vehicle at 165 km per hour. Eamon Lynch has 483 previous convictions, including some 50 convictions for burglary and over 200 convictions for road traffic offences. After killing Shane Patton, Eamon Lynch fled to Northern Ireland. Don't they all. Eamon Lynch is originally from Derry. One wonders where he stands on those complex nationalistic issues which have given birth to the IRA skang mafia. In any case Judge Martin Nolan this week decided that the taking of Shane Patton's life was worth a mere 18 months in the clink. I would ask you to contrast Judge Martin Nolan's jurisprudence in this case with his decision to jail a Dublin fruit importer for six and a half years for the purely notional crime of mislabelling garlic as apples.

23. Parliament is the last institution of State in the Republic of Ireland to elude outright infiltration and control by the IRA. The Judges are gone. The cops are gone.

24. Parliament is falling.

25. And they are coming.