'HORACE MCDERMOTT' KNEW IT ALL ALONG - €3.6 BILLION FOUND

Ireland is €3.6 BILLION better off than we thought!
The Dept of Finance confirmed today that an accounting error took place. Well, if we were to make use of these billions, it would be:
- the same as giving everyone in Ireland €800 in 'luck-money' for Christmas.
- the same as giving 167,000 unemployed people jobs.
- the same as the amount originally earmarked for regeneration of Limerick’s disadvantaged estates.
It's also the same coincidentally as the amount the EU/IMF say we must cut in this year’s budget.
It's all rather curious.
German officials found €55 BILLION that went unnoticed in another "error" last month.
Seriously, Horace McDermott, our fictitious good news correspondent predicted as much in the summer of 2010 when he wrote that officials found €22 million lying in a biscuit tin in Anglo Irish Bank.
Horace never imagined he should be thinking in billions. The incredible becomes reality.

Here's more about the Germans' €55 BILLION

PHOTO-REPORT from ICTU's mass rally in Dublin, Nov 27

We've posted photos from the mass rally outside the GPO on Saturday on our Facebook page.

For the record, our estimate of the numbers who took part are: 70,000 people on O'Connell Street and approx 100,000 who took part at one point or another in the march.

The speeches included powerful and well-received contributions from Siobhan O'Donoghue, Fintan O'Toole and Christy Moore among others.

Christy sang a song for Joe McNamara, about the only person who faces charges due to the banking crisis - he was the man who parked up his cement mixer outside the Dail when it returned after the summer recess.

Captions:

Top image: Fintan O'Toole addresses the rally outside the GPO.

Lower image: Minimum wage cut protesters call for the return of the Irish pound.

Photos copyleft 'Changing Ireland': - meaning you can use the photos but you must name the source.