The history of the Irish people and FG/FF is of an abused wife who won’t walk away from her guttersnipe husband.

No matter how many times they break this country again and again, are exposed repeatedly as corrupt and incompetent, the majority continue to vote for them. Sympathy for the electorate here starts to whiter away after a while.

Good analogy Rob

yes indeed, he is solid at handing over the wealth of the country and solid at the 5 point plan and solid at the pre-election promises

What wealth?

obviously the eu will blow smoke up his hole when he is doing as they bid..
officially better for them officially worse for people of Ireland

Piling austerity on the most vulnerable in Irish society & cutting monies to the old & disabled is your idea of a good job. Get a grip a good job would have been to tell unguaranteed bondholders were to go & kick start Our Economy with a jobs stimulus package & not austerity as he has done.
15bn cuts in last 5 budgets & deficit reduced by only 3bn proving austerity does NOT work.

How are you judging his performance? Have not seen anything that he has achieved all small concessions have been a spin of from other countries efforts eg Spain.

Speak for yourself please, YFGer. The only thing he’s doing a solid job at is paying back every ‘red cent’ of private banking debt and driving us ever closer to default/decades of debt slavery in the process.
Meanwhile, he can’t do anything about bankster pensions paid out of public funds, but is well able to take money off blind people. What a hero.

Man the journal.ie is bad at getting its headline right.

It should read: Michael Noonan is officially better OFF than he was one year ago*.

unlike the rest of us who are now worse OFF than a year ago thanks to himself.

Vinnie
Whether or not you received any formal education I’m sure you grew up in an environment where gratuitous vulgarity (use dictionary or Wikipedia ) is unnecessary and socially unacceptable. Could you not find even small but respectable words to replace the language of the gutter. Please keep their use to where it belongs.

Thats the funniest comment I’ve see O’Reilly….

Glad it made you smile Charlie :)

@ Garry my education really Isin any of your business my business is thriving I do pretty well regardless I was in school with other who went to 4 yrs of college and great papers to show they can read and write and they are unemployed ..stop talking threw your arsehole the only thing you could fault me on is grammar a decent argument would have been more fruitful..
ps..(i don’t need perfect grammar that’s why I have a assistant) have a nice day in work IL be enjoying mine

Sure you have to smile… Where else would a failed school teacher be given the job of finance minister… And then say he’s doing a bang up job… Its a riot….

Me too, might give them all a No1 their’re worth it.If i change my mind i’ll fill a few envelopes with my No2′s instead and post it.

Yeah, you’re so right. He should have defaulted, cut us off from all sources of funding, stopped paying any public servants, destroyed the banks, wiped out everybody’s savings and plunged the economy into chaos. I take it you would have been much happier with him if he had done that.

Maybe you should check on icelands progress particularly their growth rates and unemployment. Still think mr noonan has made the right calls?

Kerry
I’m tired of your Left Wing misery inducing negativity. There is no joy in you or your life and by God you want everyone else to be as miserable as you are.
If we all promise to vote for the ULA and Sinn Fein at the next election will you warm up because you gave me daily nausea.

Garry go blow your trumpet else where. Your blindsided by your party affiliation. These bondholders should never have been paid full stop. UNSECURED for a reason except when noonans has vested interests. End of.

Garry am I factually incorrect? Is it not true that we have paid over €19 billion to bond holders this year and we will be paying the same next year if not more? I don’t really care who you vote for next election to be honest that is your own decision you make in the privacy of the polling booth.

Hmmm I always read Kerry’s posts with interest. Keep asking questions as far as I’m concerned, a relief for me to know there are people out there driven by social concerns as well as economic ones.

garrys just trolling and he is fed up of your comments boo hoo..gazza mate we are fed up of you and your grammar bull sh1t

Good man Culm. Top of the class again for grammar. It’s the rest we are worried about!

You come across as a very bitter and ignorant man Garry.

A reverse Robin Hood to be sure.

eh, voted for by 7 leading European economists. What’s bondholders got to do with it?

Everything OReilly Everything.
If he acts in the interests of the Irish people and renages on the Anglo note where do you think he’ll be in the rankings then?

He has been judged on his performance in working within the constraints inflicted as a result of guaranteeing banks/bondholders: i.e. a bailout programme. Again, what have bondholders got to do with the views of 7 prominent European economists?

OReilly if he stops paying the bondholders what opinion will these same economists of him then?any thoughts?

Norman, i’d say they’d think the gov of the day was mad to do it in the first place. But that’s not what he’s being judged on…

You seem keen on the thoughts of economists.Here’s one for you our own Colm McCarthy stated that ECB acted outside it’s remit in forcing the FF led government in gaurenteeing the bondholders(all of them).Why hasn’t the present incumbants who have been in control for 18+ months pursued a case in the ECJ.
Wether you accept it or not this country is being slowly destroyed and what we have as leaders are not imo up for the job.

Norman
Again my dear friend you either failed or were unable to properly read the published piece. The judging panel are distinguished economists……..

Garry hate to burst your bubble but me and you could never be friends.Since all articles ask the reader for a comment,opinion if you will.The above comments are my opinions as to why he got ranked 5th.I trust this clears up any misunderstanding.;-)

That’s right, paying bondholders, protecting the rich and the bankers, shafting the working poor and those on social welfare. Like Kenny, Noonan’s getting flourishing reviews and pats on his back for the outstanding job of keeping the people to the bone and the money flowing back to Europe and the bondholders.
It’s an insult to the people that these overpaid, un-vouched expense and money sucking vultures are filling their pockets at our expense and getting medals from Europe in turn.

What is worse is that there is also the usual gullible and media hypnotised electorate suckers who believe anything fed to them, this is good publicity for the rest of the broke European finance ministers that if they keep in toe these are the rewards, european wide “fame”…..ohh god…what a lovely love story between our politicians and their masters.
Say what you like people, I, like you, know nothing much than what I hear, read and research but common sense, logic and pure cop-on tells me this smells “reward to the good soldier” and nothing more.

Ask us if we rank him anywhere on any scale on a domestic level as for Kenny don’t get going…..we’ll have this chat in December again when we’ll see which of us he has decided to shred to pieces…..

I don’t agree with his approach but there is no way that that has any impact on his decision making. I find it hard to understand how you could even imagine that it does. There is enough to beat the man with rather than that ill informed pap.

He doesn’t hold any Irish bonds, they were 5k worth of German ones.

they were long term german bonds which he sold over a year ago to avoid a perceived conflict of interest in the eyes of people like your good self.

in reality there was no conflict.

Hmmm,

I think he ate all the pies as well

Looks like he passed that sandwich.

That does reflect the attitude of the the bondholders. They gamble, they loose, they ask for a refund. Bonds are speculative, not “sure things”.
Why on earth were they given that refund, and why is it still going on?
They gambled and lost. Suddenly, there is something wrong with a “free market”, eh?

He nor FG have stabilised nothing, they are continuing FF policies and surfing on the coat-tails of other Countries misery!

The fact that Irish bond yields are at their lowest rates since this crisis began, that it now looks likely that Ireland will be able to borrow money directly from those markets as opposed to having to get a second bailout and that Irish companies have actually sucessfully raised funding on the markets put the lie to your suggestion Stephen.

We may be not be out of the woods yet but compared to the financial mess that the country was in 18 months ago we are well on the way to being in charge of our own economy again.