Time to square up to Ireland’s golden circles

IT’S been one of the worst weeks in our history. The greed of the few and the incompetence of Government and regulators have consigned us to this dreadful place.

Unfortunately, just because the IMF/EU/ECB have ridden in on their white chargers does not mean all is well now and we can diddle daddle for another while as Labour Party leader Eamon Gilmore would have us do.

It’s a horrifying thought to think that the leader of one of the parties that will almost certainly be part of the next Government believes he can sit back now and see how the land lies. Then after the trauma of an election, the forming of a new coalition government, , followed by several months of getting to grips with the detail of where we find ourselves, sit back down with the IMF/EU/ECB representatives and renegotiate the terms of our surrender.