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Who runs Ireland? / Matt Cooper.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Dublin : Penguin Ireland, 2009.Description: 320 pISBN:
  • 9781844881666 (pbk.) :
  • 9781844881666 (pbk.) :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 330.94170824 COO
LOC classification:
  • HC260.5
Contents:
Part I.The media baron -- 1.Friends in high places -- 2.Payback -- 3.His master\'s voices -- Part II.The Taoiseach -- 4.The great defender -- 5.The fund-raiser -- 6.The money labyrinth -- 7.What friends are for -- 8.Bertie\'s closest confidante -- 9.Circle of friends -- 10.A day at the races -- Part III.Tax is for the little people -- 11.Horse sense -- 12.Probably the best Minister for Finance in the world -- 13.Tax is for the young and the poor -- Part IV.They haven\'t gone away, you know -- 14.Home and away -- 15.Stay (faraway, so close) -- 16.Killmallock\'s answer to Santa Claus -- 17.Charlie\'s loyal friend -- 18.\'Still I rise\' -- Part V.Bringing down the house -- 19.House fo cards -- 20.The banks of the boom -- 21.The man who booby-trapped the bank -- 22.Going for growth -- 23.The St. Patrick\'s Day massacre -- 24.Losing the biggest bet of his life -- 25.\'Fair play to you, Willie\' -- 26.The fall of Sean Fitzpatrick -- 27.The man at the mutal -- Part VI.Playing with the big boys -- 28.The state gets into bed with the developers -- 29.Catching the development disease -- 30.Loadsa leverage -- Part VII.Two barons fall to earth -- 31.The last days of Celtic hubris -- 32.The battle for the independent -- 33.Testing times for Tony O\'Reilly -- Part VIII.The failure of regulation -- 34.The high price of giving investors what they wanted -- 35.Two humps of the same camel -- 36.A carrot rather than a stick approach -- Part IX.After the boom is over ... -- 37.Guaranteeing the banks -- 38.The price for drinking too deeply from the national cup of confidence -- 39.The NAMA cure ... as bad as the banking disease? -- 40.The view from abroad -- 41.Doing the right thing to impress the global financial community -- 42.The end of the affair -- 43.Getting the country back on its feet again -- Part X.The comeback kings -- 44.The ressurection of the beef baron -- 4.5The man they love to hate.
Summary: Having money & not having it; making it & losing it; using it & misusing it; giving it & taking it - this is the story of Ireland during the boom, described in detail in by leading journalist Matt Cooper.
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Long Loan TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone General Lending 330.94170824 COO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 209508
Long Loan TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone General Lending 330.94170824 COO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 209509

Part I.The media baron -- 1.Friends in high places -- 2.Payback -- 3.His master\'s voices -- Part II.The Taoiseach -- 4.The great defender -- 5.The fund-raiser -- 6.The money labyrinth -- 7.What friends are for -- 8.Bertie\'s closest confidante -- 9.Circle of friends -- 10.A day at the races -- Part III.Tax is for the little people -- 11.Horse sense -- 12.Probably the best Minister for Finance in the world -- 13.Tax is for the young and the poor -- Part IV.They haven\'t gone away, you know -- 14.Home and away -- 15.Stay (faraway, so close) -- 16.Killmallock\'s answer to Santa Claus -- 17.Charlie\'s loyal friend -- 18.\'Still I rise\' -- Part V.Bringing down the house -- 19.House fo cards -- 20.The banks of the boom -- 21.The man who booby-trapped the bank -- 22.Going for growth -- 23.The St. Patrick\'s Day massacre -- 24.Losing the biggest bet of his life -- 25.\'Fair play to you, Willie\' -- 26.The fall of Sean Fitzpatrick -- 27.The man at the mutal -- Part VI.Playing with the big boys -- 28.The state gets into bed with the developers -- 29.Catching the development disease -- 30.Loadsa leverage -- Part VII.Two barons fall to earth -- 31.The last days of Celtic hubris -- 32.The battle for the independent -- 33.Testing times for Tony O\'Reilly -- Part VIII.The failure of regulation -- 34.The high price of giving investors what they wanted -- 35.Two humps of the same camel -- 36.A carrot rather than a stick approach -- Part IX.After the boom is over ... -- 37.Guaranteeing the banks -- 38.The price for drinking too deeply from the national cup of confidence -- 39.The NAMA cure ... as bad as the banking disease? -- 40.The view from abroad -- 41.Doing the right thing to impress the global financial community -- 42.The end of the affair -- 43.Getting the country back on its feet again -- Part X.The comeback kings -- 44.The ressurection of the beef baron -- 4.5The man they love to hate.

Having money & not having it; making it & losing it; using it & misusing it; giving it & taking it - this is the story of Ireland during the boom, described in detail in by leading journalist Matt Cooper.

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