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CURRENT AFFAIRS
Current Affairs
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Plan B:
How Leaving
The Euro Can
Save Ireland
Tom
Gilmartin
Frank
Connolly
Cormac Lucey
Au t h o r
Au t h o r
Cormac Lucey is one
of Ireland’s foremost
commentators on economic
affairs. In addition to
lecturing at UCD’s Smurfit
School of Business, he
teaches finance at the Irish
Management Institute and
Chartered Accountants
Ireland. He also writes
a weekly column for the
Irish Daily Mail. He was a
special advisor to Michael
McDowell from 2002 to
2007.
L e a d i n g eco n o m i st p r o p os es a r a d i ca l
c h a n g e i n t h e way w e t h i n k a b o u t
I r i s h s ov e r e i g n t y
The Irish economy currently exists in a state of economic
quarantine, paralysed by debt, powerless to effect its
course.
If things are to change, the course of action is clear:
Ireland must renege on its existing debt commitment and
abandon the single currency.
The political classes remain steadfast in their refusal to
consider default, but there is a viable alternative waiting
to be heard. Here, at last, it gets the airing it deserves.
Frank Connolly is a
distinguished investigative
journalist whose work
on political and police
corruption led to the
establishment of two
judicial inquiries, the Flood/
Mahon and the Morris
tribunals. He is currently
Head of Communications
with SIPTU, Ireland’s largest
trade union.
T h e m a n w h o b r o u g h t d ow n a
Tao i s e ac h a n d e x p os e d t h e g r e e d
a n d co r r u p t i o n at t h e h e a rt o f
I r i s h p o l i t i cs
A successful property developer returning from England
in the late 1980s, Tom Gilmartin had ambitious plans for
major retail developments in Dublin. Little did he know
that in order to do business in the city, senior politicians
and public officials would want a slice of the action in
large amounts of cash.
Gilmartin blew the whistle on the corruption at the heart of
government and the city’s planning system, and the fallout
from his claims ultimately forced Bertie Ahern to resign as
Taoiseach in 2008. The developer, who died in November
2013, was thoroughly vindicated in the final report of the
Mahon tribunal and the fallout from his claims.
In a compelling narrative of official wrong-doing and abuse
of office, Frank Connolly exposes the roots of the political
and the fallout from his claims.
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