# Financial Crisis

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State to sell 15% chunk of its AIB stake over the next six months, Donohoe announces

The plan is similar to the one used by the Government to sell part of its remaining bailout-era stake in Bank of Ireland.

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Dec 21st 2021, 8:48 AM

# Recession

FactCheck: Was Micheál Martin right to say that the banks were not bailed out in 2008?

The Taoiseach has suggested that the bank guarantee was an investment.

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Dec 16th 2020, 6:56 PM

# Financial Crisis

Macclesfield Town wound up due to debts of over €500k

The club was recently relegated from League Two after being docked points for breaches of regulations relating to the non-payment of wages.

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Sep 16th 2020, 11:43 AM

# Coronavirus

'Economic shock' of Covid-19: Some central banks cut interest rates as Lagarde raises spectre of 2008

The economic effects of coronavirus can be mitigated “if we handle it well,” according to the Bank of England.

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Mar 11th 2020, 5:37 PM

# Financial Crisis

Bray chairman O'Connor resigns but uncertainty over the club's future remains

Denis O’Connor has stepped down from his post this evening.

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Jul 19th 2017, 7:53 PM

# Reprieve

Bray Wanderers 'back in business' after securing funds to pay players

The struggling League of Ireland club have received renewed support in recent days.

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Jul 6th 2017, 5:30 PM

# Financial Crisis

Iceland's jailed bankers say they were scapegoats for the financial crisis

They’re taking their cases to the European Court of Human Rights.

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Apr 1st 2017, 8:30 AM

# freak out

One bank is telling investors to 'sell everything' as stock markets tank

Everybody’s worried about China.

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Jan 12th 2016, 10:58 AM

# plymouth rock

Inside the "unrelentingly harsh", maximum-security prison where David Drumm will spend Christmas

The Plymouth County Correctional Facility has housed infamous murderers and terrorists, and now, the former CEO of Anglo.

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Dec 19th 2015, 7:28 PM

# The Life of Bert

Bertie says crisis caused by 'Joe Soap and Mary Soap' getting too many loans

The former taoiseach has given the BBC his verdict on the cause of Ireland’s financial meltdown.

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Dec 14th 2015, 7:45 PM

# warning

Micheal Noonan doesn't know if Enda was told army might need to guard ATMs

The Finance Minister confirmed there were discussions about security at the height of the financial crisis.

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Oct 23rd 2015, 12:23 PM

# warning

Was Enda really warned that the army might need to guard ATMs?

One person says they’re “puzzled” the Taoiseach made the claim.

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Oct 22nd 2015, 6:23 PM

# bottom of the pile

These figures show Irish people lost more than anyone in the financial crisis

But it has been a good few years to be Dutch, Belgian or Danish.

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Oct 20th 2015, 12:06 PM

Voices

What happens to currencies when they die?

We pursue it, discuss it, count it and obsess over it… but do we ever really think about what ‘money’ is?

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Jul 9th 2015, 1:50 PM

# the regulator

Patrick Neary is 'deeply sorry' but the banks 'should have known what they were doing'

One TD was paraphrasing Oscar Wilde at the banking inquiry today.

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May 28th 2015, 3:55 PM

# digestives and milk

Why this economist made a late-night dash for biscuits in the midst of the banking crisis

David McWilliams says he became a defacto advisor to Brian Lenihan before the 2008 bank guarantee.

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Feb 26th 2015, 1:20 PM

# sorry y'all

We made a 'bad mistake' not predicting the banking crisis - but so did everyone else

This ESRI professor says regulators could still have stopped the financial catastrophe.

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Feb 11th 2015, 12:32 PM

# nama drama

Nearly all the assets from Nama's €17.5 billion in fire sales have gone to offshore buyers

And the bad bank’s boss says if overseas owners want to pull apart Irish businesses there’s not much he can do.

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Oct 22nd 2014, 5:12 PM

Voices

Opinion: Here I go again, back to Riyadh. My life has changed so much in just ten years...

Back in 2004, my wife and I were anticipating the arrival of our second son and I had just set up my own business. Then the financial meltdown hit.

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Jul 30th 2014, 8:30 PM

# Tell me whys

These are the questions John Bruton wants the banking inquiry to answer

Bruton wants the inquiry to focus on the reasons why the crisis wasn’t averted, not how it happened.

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Jun 23rd 2014, 4:12 PM

# trendsetters

Portugal follows Ireland's lead by going it alone as it leaves bailout

As the debt crisis deepened in 2010, it brought down Greece first, followed by Ireland and Portugal.

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May 5th 2014, 2:53 PM

# So Long

BAN THE BANKS: There's a wild theory going around that some people are starting to take seriously

What do you think? Does it sound brilliant or crazy – or both?

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May 3rd 2014, 9:15 AM

# walking free

No jail time for convicted Anglo pair, judge says prison sentences would be ‘incredibly unjust’

Pat Whelan and Willie McAteer will now be assessed for suitability for community service.

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Apr 29th 2014, 10:49 PM

# Debt

A Greek bank is to issue bonds for the first time since 2009

Piraeus Bank SA requires more than €6 billion worth of capital.

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Mar 7th 2014, 10:31 PM

# Ahern

Cecilia Ahern says Bertie ‘has always genuinely cared and always put Ireland before himself’

The best-selling author and daughter of the former taoiseach has defended her father in an interview to be broadcast tomorrow.

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Feb 22nd 2014, 9:45 AM

# NTMA

Ireland’s post-bailout return to the bond markets raised €3.75 bn

Demand for the 10-year benchmark bond amounted to €14 billion.

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Jan 7th 2014, 10:38 PM

# Courts

Three former bankers charged with €7.2 billion fraud

They are John Bowe, former head of treasury at Anglo Irish Bank, Peter Fitzpatrick former finance director at Irish Life and Permanent and Denis Casey, former chief executive of ILP.

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Dec 18th 2013, 1:51 PM

# new recording

Anglo Tapes: Drumm admits €6 billion was being sent "around in a circle"

Former Anglo CEO David Drumm can be heard admitting he knew the lender was circulating the money between it and Irish Life & Permanent.

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Sep 29th 2013, 10:51 AM

# Financial Crisis

An anniversary without celebration: It's five years since Lehman Brothers collapsed

After just barely pulling back from the precipice, industry is picking up, home prices are gaining, banks are stable and American consumers have started spending – albeit still with great caution.

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Sep 15th 2013, 8:15 AM

# The Iceman cometh

The leader of Iceland's 'Kitchenware Revolution' reckons we have a thing or two to learn about protests

Artist and musician Hördur Torfason is the man who sparked the 2008 popular protests in Reykjavik. He’s been invited to Dublin to help plan a demonstration for this Wednesday, organised to ‘lock the Government out of the Dáil’.

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Sep 15th 2013, 8:00 AM

# irish research

Can we avoid another global financial crisis?

A research team, which is being headed by Dr Stephen Kinsella, has been granted €650,000 to find out what we can learn from the global financial crisis.

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Jun 11th 2013, 6:45 AM

# Portugal

Portugal: 30,000 jobs cuts, working hours increased and pension age rises

The cuts should save an estimated €4.8 billion by 2015.

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May 4th 2013, 2:03 PM

# Stat porn

PICS: The global financial crisis summarised in five graphics

Professor Danny Dorling – once described as a “geographer royal” – says these images tell us more than we might have known.

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Apr 20th 2013, 8:45 AM

# Financial Crisis

Iceland did not need to repay Dutch and UK savers, says court

A European court ruled today that Iceland was entitled to refuse to pay immediate deposit guarantees to savers when a major bank collapsed.

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Jan 28th 2013, 3:00 PM

# adds up

17 equations that changed the course of humanity

Some you may remember from school, but some are lesser known ones – like one perfected by an Irishman which allowed for development of modern passenger jets.

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Jan 27th 2013, 11:00 AM

Voices

Column: How much has Ireland paid for the EU banking crisis?

Ireland has been declared a ‘special case’ by Angela Merkel – and these figures show exactly why, writes Michael Taft.

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Jan 15th 2013, 7:30 PM

Voices

Nick Leeson: The banks don't care so we need to look after each other

“As austerity bites to the knuckle, soup kitchens spring up around the country and children are sent to school hungry. It just seems so terribly wrong.”

Dec 27th 2012, 8:30 PM