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...More so, the letter “was sent the day after Central Bank governor Patrick Honohan appeared on Morning Ireland to say Ireland had no option but to apply for support....
...When Brian Lenihan, the former Irish finance minister, set out a rescue package for the country’s troubled lenders last March he trumpeted it as a “once and for all” solution for the banking crisis that...
...But there was a change of emphasis this week in comments by Patrick Honohan, the central bank governor....
...Patrick Kennedy says he would probably no longer be chief executive of Paddy Power if his board only looked at the bookmaker’s Irish earnings....
...However, Brian Lenihan, the Irish finance minister, has talked about “downsizing” the banks to fit the needs of the Irish economy....
...Brian Lenihan, finance minister, who set up Nama, said Mr McKillen had won on a “technical” issue. The court is due to rule on February 10 on other points of law raised by Mr McKillen....
...Mr Lenihan’s interests may best be served by Mr Cowen losing the confidence vote....
...As Mr Lenihan said on Friday: “We have not, contrary to much speculation, applied to join any facility, or avail of any facility....
...For this reason, as part of his announcement on Thursday, Mr Lenihan is expected to unveil a further state capital injection into AIB....
...Brian Lenihan, the finance minister, was roundly applauded for his no-nonsense approach....
...Because of our sustained efforts to stabilise our public finances over the last two years, our budget deficit will decline to just over 9 per cent next year, writes Lenihan, Ireland’s minister for finance...
...But Mr Lenihan said the government remained on track to meet its 3 per cent target by 2014....
...But Brian Lenihan, the finance minister, became something of a poster boy for troubled economies when he introduced apparently bold policies to cope with both problems. So what went wrong?...
...Nonetheless, Brian Lenihan, Ireland’s finance minister, told Irish radio early on Wednesday that the banks had “no funding difficulties”....
...Mr Lenihan said he was concerned at the cost Ireland had had to pay in recent treasury auctions....
...It is good to know Brian Lenihan, Ireland’s finance minister, has not lost his....
...Patrick Honohan said on Monday there had been a “certain amount of quid pro quo” involved in the negotiations on Ireland’s €85bn ($111bn) bail-out and the possibility of losses being imposed on senior bondholders...
...Nama is now a “bad word” in Ireland, Brian Lenihan, Ireland’s finance minister, acknowledged on Thursday....
...Patrick Honohan, the central bank governor, told the Financial Times on Thursday: “The minister is very insistent that the sub-debt will be sharing in the losses....
...In May last year – before he was appointed central bank governor – Patrick Honohan, said any bail-out of Anglo Irish would “have to involve risk sharing by sub-debt holders.”...
...Mr Lenihan appears to have got the message....
...Patrick Honohan, central bank governor, points out the deterioration is magnified by recent price deflation, which he calculates accounts for about a sixth of the increase in the debt ratios....
...Confirmation that Ireland would indeed seek assistance finally arrived on Thursday when Patrick Honohan, the central bank governor, told Irish radio it was likely that a package involving “tens of billions...
...The reforms build on the findings of two reports published this month – one by Patrick Honohan, the Central Bank governor, and one by Klaus Regling and Max Watson, the international banking experts....
...Ireland’s central bank governor, Patrick Honohan, added from Beijing that governments needed to convince investors that they would deliver on commitments to cut budget deficits....
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