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Number 2

An extract of a newsletter I get once a month. It's all great, but the thing than confuses me is that the report was made by the Bank of Ireland itself. Funny.

USA? A pauper nation. Germany? Third world. UK? Doesn’t even figure.

Ireland? We'’re number Two!

A report issued by the Bank of Ireland names Ireland as the second
wealthiest country out of 35 democratic, free-market economies, including
most of the EU nations, Canada, the U.S., Japan, incidentally, is the
wealthiest nation of them all.

Folk wisdom has it that health is wealth. Lucky for Ireland, then, that
the bank ignored Ireland’s troubled public health system in favour of
counting pensions, property and deposits.

And there’s the rub. Property represents 72pc of Irish assets. We’re
“wealthy” because of the property bubble that has now burst.

Still, a lot of people made it this past decade. There are 33,000
millionaires in Ireland whose assets, excluding their principal residence,
still amount to one million Euro or more.

Election results...ah...

Well, I'm disappointed but I know it could be no other way...
Results:
FF 41.0
FG 27.3
LAB 10.4
PD 2.6
GP 4.8
SF 7.0 (sigh)
Other 6.8

General Election Ireland tomorrow!!!!

I want to admit I've stolen some photos, but these posters are just pieces of art. And I'm not going to hide my liking for SF!

Anothe James Adam auction

Wow...so exciting!I just learned an Indewpendance auction was held at James Adams.
Sold for €390,000

Important Irish Art
James Adam Salerooms
8 December 2004

Beannachtai na Feile Padraig!

It's nonsense I didn't write anything about St.Paddy's day on this blog, isn't it...?Sorry, I forgot, everything's on juljulorjustjulia.blogspot.com! Here're some of other photos taken by my nearly Irish friends;):
God, those kids make me smile!

irish wolfhounds look as noble as ever!

Vivid girls:)

Me:)

ELECTION RESULTS HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!

Results: Northern Ireland
SEATS AT A GLANCE
DUP
9
Sinn Fein
5
SDLP
3
UUP
1
IN DETAIL
Party Seats Gain Loss Net Votes % +/-%
DUP 9 4 0 +4 241,856 33.7 +11.2
Sinn Fein 5 1 0 +1 174,530 24.3 +2.6
SDLP 3 1 1 0 125,626 17.5 -3.5
UUP 1 0 5 -5 127,414 17.8 -9.0
Alliance 0 0 0 0 28,291 3.9 +0.3
Conservative 0 0 0 0 2,718 0.4 +0.1
Workers 0 0 0 0 1,669 0.2 -0.1
SEA 0 0 0 0 1,649 0.2 +0.2
Yourself 0 0 0 0 890 0.1 0.0
Others 0 0 0 0 12,959 1.9 +1.1
Turnout 717,602 62.5 -5.5
After 18 of 18 seats declared

I'm not sure if I'm glad, but at least DUP won...I mean, no more of Mr.Trimble...And SF's making a progress as usual!