we are not at the end of a recession, why then tax on pensioners, cuttng benefts, unemployment rising,
the last thing we need is some supposed expert telling us nonsense.

and dont forget to blame the general public living beyond their means taking out huge debt to buy houses cars holiday homesw etc …Ireland turned into a nation of greedys every body is to balme from the government to the banks to the developers to the public greed greed and then some ….so u must all take it on the chin and get on with it ..oh and last of all the Irish social welfare system a joke ….we had the wealthiest unemployed people in the World…

Good old lyn. It was all the fault of ‘the general public’. It had nothing to do with the most powerful people around the cabinet table, in bank boardrooms etc all of whom decided how taxpayer’s and saver’s money were spent. That is brain dead stuff. WE WERE NOT TO BLAME. THE INSIDER ELITE AT THE TOP OF THE POWER PYRAMID WERE.

i was back in ireland in 2004 all the evidence then said the economy was overheating and the one size fits all euro intrest rates were too low to contain ireland and spains overheated markets you could buy the guardian newspaper and read about what was going to happen to these countries. nothing was done to slow down the crazy growth ‘in fact the government done the exact opposite and encouraged it..and the countries crashed horribly just like predicted i dont know what you can do if a governments and peoples greed leads them to ignore the evidence and destroy their country financially all i can say is you deserve everthing you have got