Yes the Troika runs Ireland. As a country we should have all our flags at half mast until we regain our sovereignty. Might be big reminder for all who exactly calls the shots.

What a load of BS, this is all cloak and dagger stuff!! If the Fiscal Treaty is such an important event and requires a Yes vote, then lay it out, warts ‘n all!! Let’s debate the Treaty from both sides, instead of scare mongering which is all that is happening to date!! Clearly the Troika has a lot to hide and are reluctant to debate anything in a public forum!!

What puzzles me, is that we haven’t even voted on this fiscal treaty referendum yet, and troika and IMF and ECB are here to do the fiscal treaty, no one has even voted yet, the speech that ECB con artist gave was a load of bull sh… And a flawed speech, something ain’t right about them cancelling their speech, I think VB scared them off from previous speech, their afraid that they will be caught out, this new ECB guy, said on 14 th April that they need our money to bailout their loan banks, I smell a few rats about the place from the other side of Europe. Rita cahill

What utter contempt for democracy from the ‘Troika’, disgusting. This is not acceptable.

Both for reasons of the deeply flawed concept & dubious worth of the Fiscal Compact & the attitude of the Eurozone authorities, we need to vote NO in the referendum if we want fair respect for the Irish peoples’ interests.

The spokesperson said that while it was good to meet with people for talks in general, “now that the referendum issue is there and the timing is in place, it would not be the appropriate thing to do.”

You’d think because the referendum is coming up that they’d be willing to engage with politicians (even opposition ones). After all the politicians in question are elected representatives which can not be said about the Troika.

Now is the perfect time for debate and discussion precisely because there is a referendum coming up.

Shunning the politicians like that could be described as contempt for elected representatives!

Of course they would. Listening to their spin doctors on the radio attempting to suggest otherwise is laughable. The party is a state of disarray, they see the writing on the wall, however there is no compromise with FG and their delusional leader. Every person with half a brain, is aware Kenny is taking this country down the toilet, so why continue to play along with this charade.

Disgusting!
So these truly are our new masters.

What would James Connolly have made of this article, or the Irish Labour Party?

I guess that Michael Martin still has their mobile no’s from when he was helping hand over control of the country to them. He should give them a call, maybe ask for a job for them.

The troika are not answerable to the Irish people. They are a tiny taste of what’s to come if we ratify the fiscal and economic stability treaties

Who pays there hotel bills and expenses ? 

They answer to no one. Not even our elected representatives. Until the Irish people wake up we will continue to be frog marched into the EU dictatorship and we will have no one to blame but ourselves.

So buying a house and settling down should have been the last option , now the government want to tax me for the privilege ! We are all seen as a cash cow for the like ! I bought a house to live in worry free , no rent etc, now ” got to pay HHc , water , and what ever else can be dreamt up , talk of 2.50 euro per thousand of the value of my house , governments are a business , to make money , not to serve the people in the correct way as we are suppose to be! Tax yes, but used correctly and wisely ! Wastefulness , bureauocracy , cronyism , and a host of other ism s ! What’s happened to our rights as free men and women? Why sign away our rights to exist as such!
Water , air and right of life should be adhered too , I refuse to sign up to such a deal, cut their huge salaries, slash the quangos, slash the huge councils etc and treat the people with respect , may be then and only then ,I may pay.

Laughable really. They’re worried that their words will be misinterpreted or misrepresented over the course of the treaty campaign? And refusing to engage with opposition parties at all.. how the hell is that to be interpreted?

Blaggards the lot of ‘em

I believe that decision not to meet the Oireachtas committe is quite telling , and it would appear that they are now calling the shots already .More so than before . Fiscal treaty …..NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO ………..

Stick the fookers on a ryanair flight on the way home. That will show them hospitality. Goes to show our own goverment and TD’s are not worth their salt. The IMF is a political party and they can pull the strings when they want

the next time they come they can ‘inspect’ the tip of my boot #irishrevolution

Chickens fcuk off home.

” Give me control of a nation’s money and I care not who makes its laws “ A.M. Rothschild

Real Irish comments – default on all our debts and responsibilities. Let somebody else pay for us. We elected the government who destroyed our country so we must pay the price for electing them. They in turn promoted loose and less regulation – now we are being regulated by the EU. If we keep electing these corrupt people we will keep paying the price.

They should send them home on a ryanair flight . We now know who pulls the strings. If i was any of them TD’s i would be very embarrased .

Its disgusting…but a very good reason to vote NO in their upcoming hostile takeover bid of Ireland
These debts are not ours please don’t loose focus on that, they are German, French and UK unsecured debts that they are ensuring we pay, so we should never fly our flag at half mast for them, that’s pure capitulation.
Am I not correct in saying that Ireland always borrowed money to balance the books prior to this wholesale rape and asset stripping of our country?
I wager that we could easily borrow enough money to pay for budgets, if we give a good price for the loan any one would finance us including China, so this cashless atms threat is utter bullshit. We also have the pension reserve fund.
The imf applauded Iceland the other week ffs.
These guys should be deported from our country simple as that..

Of course they did. They don’t answer to us, we answer to them.

Be very careful on decided votes, a yes or no is better for treaty, too dangerous, letting these people who avoided a speech on referendum treaty, now avoiding to meet up in Oreictas, very strange indeed, what have they got to hide, or are they afraid the truth would reveille, they were well prepared and informed not to speak. Something very wrong here and dodgy, smell the rats,

These guys are keeping our country going – it is misplaced anger expressed here. The people responsible have ridden off into the sunset. Most of these are Politicians or bankers(regulators or lenders, gamblers). The sooner we direct our anger toward the Pee Flynn, Lowery, Bertie, planners, Ciuncillors( Oisin Quinn) and the rest of the corrupt civil servants like the city manager who bought 28 Priory Hall apartments without inspecting them. All this is why we need the Trioca to sort out our debt. The unions are also responsive for our problems and yet they walk around proud as punch – keep the Trioca here for another 10 years and our children might have a future not like the present generation.

Mini Buget …..