From kathleen barrington: Sunday, April 04, 2010
By Kathleen Barrington
The new head of the Financial Regulator at the Central Bank is to be commended for flexing his muscles. In response to fresh doubts about Quinn Insurance’s solvency ratios, he applied to the High Court for the appointment of provisional administrators to the troubled insurance [...]

From kathleen barrington: Sunday, April 04, 2010
By Kathleen Barrington
The new head of the Financial Regulator at the Central Bank is to be commended for flexing his muscles. In response to fresh doubts about Quinn Insurance’s solvency ratios, he applied to the High Court for the appointment of provisional administrators to the troubled insurance [...]

From kathleen barrington: 28 March 2010
By Kathleen Barrington
Last week, Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny published the party’s New Politics document, which includes a proposal to register all lobbyists and to ensure their activities are overseen by the Standards in Public Office Commission.Coincidentally, it was launched in the same week that Britain’s Channel 4 broadcast a [...]

From kathleen barrington: 28 March 2010
By Kathleen Barrington
Last week, Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny published the party’s New Politics document, which includes a proposal to register all lobbyists and to ensure their activities are overseen by the Standards in Public Office Commission.Coincidentally, it was launched in the same week that Britain’s Channel 4 broadcast a [...]

From kathleen barrington: 14 March 2010
By Kathleen Barrington
They say that we tend to overestimate the impact of technology in the short term while underestimating it in the longer term.I was reminded of that adage when I learned that a receiver had been appointed to one of my favourite bookshops, Hughes & Hughes, last month.The [...]

From kathleen barrington: 14 March 2010
By Kathleen Barrington
They say that we tend to overestimate the impact of technology in the short term while underestimating it in the longer term.I was reminded of that adage when I learned that a receiver had been appointed to one of my favourite bookshops, Hughes & Hughes, last month.The [...]

From kathleen barrington: 07 March 2010
By Kathleen Barrington
Al most nine years after the Cosgrave brothers agreed to purchase Dun Laoghaire Golf Club, the controversy surrounding the sale of the 78-acre site hasn’t gone away.The Cosgrave Property Group in 2001 proposed to buy the site in the south Dublin suburb in a deal that valued [...]

From kathleen barrington: Sunday, February 28, 2010
By Kathleen Barrington
Here’s a question for Hugh Cooney, chairman of the government’s Mortgage Assistance Group. Should the taxpayer be called upon to help fund the mortgages of troubled borrowers such as Twink?The actor has said that she is ‘‘actively working on a solution’’ after Bank of Scotland [...]

From kathleen barrington: 21 February 2010
By Kathleen Barrington
During 2006, I contacted a number of solicitors in a new west Dublin suburb to enquire about what sort of debts they saw buyers assuming when a property was being conveyed.One said he had seen cases where a first-time buyer couple would take out a mortgage of, [...]

From kathleen barrington: 14 February 2010
By Kathleen Barrington
When you read in the financial pages about the European Central Bank (ECB) injecting liquidity into the Irish banking market, it often means the ECB is paying ‘cash for trash’, as the Americans like to put it.And if you are wondering what kind of trash the [...]