A conceivable, if unlikely piece of fiction which outlines a possible end to a true disaster story.
The Dublin Docklands Authority was a government quango which got involved in the property speculation game and lost 100 billion Euros of taxpayers money on one spectacularly disastrous investment site alone ( in Docklands/Ringsend)
Bertie Ahern the disgraced Irish ex prime minister has impoverished thousands of honest, thrifty citizens, some of whom have lost everything and committed suicide.
A story of how one man, by his politicised cronyism with the banker/developer/landowner complex, can destroyed the economic fabric of an entire nation.
Niamh Brennan, the DDDA's chairwoman since March, told a Dail committee earlier this month that she could not understand why the authority took a stake in the project. She said it was not fully clear what was going on behind the scenes at the time. The fall-out from the ill-fated deal is likely to continue for some time.
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cnoc1916 4 months ago
If only.....
macunfraidh 1 year ago