This is an excellent and wonderfully-written piece from the New York Times about the rise and crash of the Irish economy...in the interests of his craft the reporter accompanies developer Sean Dunne on a 3am cruise through Dublin's most famous pubs.
And this is a useful update on the plans to regenerate West Belfast and Shankill from Pádraic White, chair of the Enterprise Council, from the Irish Times.
Pádraic puts a positive spin on the public investment in the Titanic Quarter landmark project, writes Gerry Moriarty:
"Some others might have exploited this disparity to play the old negative Green Card: to complain that nationalist west Belfast was disadvantaged, while unionist east Belfast was disproportionately supported. But, typically, White's focus was on the positive. 'Support for Titanic Quarter has actually given great heart to those of us who are developing new concepts and regeneration ideas. It shows the Executive is capable of actually making decisions and that's vital, because one of the inherited problems in Northern Ireland after 30 years of direct rule is that there was a great reluctance to make decisions.'"
The article reports that £40m of public money is to go into the Titanic project, by my count the figure is closer to £55m (including £10m from Belfast City Council).
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i gcead do'd chóta a Phádraig ach ní raibh drugall ar bith ar na hAondachtóirí cinntí a dhéanamh a bhí lena leas féin.Ar theacht i gcumhacht dóibh chuir siad deireadh le Gaeilge sa Roinn Sláinte,chuir siad bac ar Acht Gaeilge, chuir siad deireadh le forbairt an "MAZE", Chuir siad na milliúin punt isteach i "gceantar na loinge nach dtiocfadh a bhriseadh" srl srl.agus níl siad i gcumhacht ach bliain amháin.A Phádraig a chroí tá go leor amaidí á spalpadh ag polaiteóirí anseo gan tusa cur leis.
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