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• Am back…

  March 31, 2010 @ 9:53 pm | by Conor Pope

  So Mexico was lovely! Did I miss anything while I was away? Do I own a bank now? I do? Deadly… er, it lost how much since October 08? 12.7bn? But that’s €20,000 a minute for 15 months! How is that even possible.

• VIP airport lounges open their doors – for a fee

  March 20, 2010 @ 10:35 am | by Conor Pope

  RIDICULOUSLY complicated airport security procedures, fractious queues, mean airlines and stupidly early check-in times have drained the joy from flying over the past decade.

  There can be few people who enjoy navigating their way through any airport – save, perhaps, those canny individuals who’ve had the foresight to secure themselves a spot in one of the airport lounges frequently used by “important people”.
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• 100 mortgages a day? I don’t think so. . .

  March 17, 2010 @ 6:25 pm | by Conor Pope

  

  Bank of Ireland have been running a campaign for a while not about how they’ve been approving 100 mortgages a day. That may well be true. But how many are they actually giving out? When we asked them they wouldn’t tell us but by our reckoning it’s probably much closer to 40 than 100. When we put that figure to them they declined to comment. Caroline Madden wrote the story for Pricewatch.

• Independents wrestle with doomsday book scenario

  @ 6:21 pm | by Conor Pope

  ARE OUR bookshops doomed? It’s certainly not looking good for them. Late last month the Irish book industry suffered its biggest casualty when Hughes Hughes went into receivership after more than 25 years in business. It cited, among other things, the high rents it was being forced to pay and the low prices online retailers were charging to lure its potential customers away.
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• The Irish Question

  March 1, 2010 @ 12:52 pm | by Conor Pope

  IN RECENT months, cash-strapped consumers have been called upon by politicians and lobby groups to think local for the sake of the nation and the chorus of food producers warning against the “Tesco-isation” of Irish society and exhorting us to buy Irish has grown increasingly loud.
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