Cowen gave DDDA loan approval with astonishing haste - Hogan

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Some more details on the 2006 deal.

Irish Glass Bottle Site: How the State purchased property it already owned!

[FlyOver]

Why did Mr Cowen not spend the money on New Primary Schools or Water Treatment?

Because you can't treat your political and business cronies to a dinner party at a water treatment plant!!! The DDDA was to be FF Camelot

[Newsy]

Why did Mr Cowen not spend the money on New Primary Schools or Water Treatment?

Partly because our Education Minister wasn't fighting for such money.

[bored and fussy]

phil hogan who is he i cant place him at all is he the one that said he wouldnt take a pay cut because of personal circumstances
wish i could have said that

[bananarepublic.ie]

How Dublin’s docklands drowned in debt

It was 8am on Tuesday, October 24, 2006. In the headquarters of the Dublin Docklands Development Authority (DDDA), the commercial state body responsible for regenerating the capital’s derelict quaysides, the eight government-appointed board members were being patched through for a fateful conference-call.

That meeting provides a window onto the nexus of a golden circle of bankers, builders and politicians once lionised as fearless wealth creators and now pilloried for the savageness of the Irish recession.

[SKELLY]

And if the foregoing wasn't enough of a litany of shame, NAMA, the State "bad bank," is likely to end up holding a toxic asset, that the State's EPA declared toxic-free last month.