Comments on: Ireland's Billions Given Away For Nothing http://bocktherobber.com/2009/06/irelands-billions-given-away-for-nothing/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:35:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Darwin http://bocktherobber.com/2009/06/irelands-billions-given-away-for-nothing/comment-page-1/#comment-75323 Darwin Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:46:52 +0000 http://bocktherobber.com/?p=5541#comment-75323 Justin Keating (Lab.) had a plan to create a kind of StatOil way back in 1976. Norway were getting up to 90% royalties from the oil companies and Keating figured we'd better sort ourselves out. But something happened along the way, i.e. Ray Burke, Bertie Ahern etc. (those names seem familiar somehow). Well, I'm sure you know all this stuff anyway, but there's a nicely documented and <a href="http://www.wsm.ie/story/2187" rel="nofollow">concise history here</a>. Well worth a read. Justin Keating (Lab.) had a plan to create a kind of StatOil way back in 1976. Norway were getting up to 90% royalties from the oil companies and Keating figured we'd better sort ourselves out. But something happened along the way, i.e. Ray Burke, Bertie Ahern etc. (those names seem familiar somehow).

Well, I'm sure you know all this stuff anyway, but there's a nicely documented and concise history here. Well worth a read.

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