ECB needs to take notice of people power

George Soros has probably never been to Ballyhea and neither have members of the ECB council.

The latter, in particular, should climb out of their tower in Frankfurt and catch a bus to the north Cork village. There, they could better appreciate what is happening in the Irish economic psyche at present.

If you read the international financial media about Ireland, it is referred to in glowing terms. Those wizened Irish have turned up their sleeves, accepted the hard road to recovery and leaned in to the storm of debt induced recession across their society.