Greek drama will make compelling viewing

Every adult in Ireland should learn to read Greek. They should also tune their internet radios to listen to Greek stations and take a ridiculous and disproportionate interest in all things Greek for the foreseeable future.

Here is why. The Greek people, exercising their full democratic rights, have elected a government to take a radical and extreme approach to managing the debt that hangs over their country.

The popular lines about burning the bondholders, sticking it to the troika and other plans to directly challenge the national debt in Greece are now part of the everyday narrative there.