Neil McDonnell: Trying to get champagne from a lemonade economy

We must finally acknowledge that pouring more money into unreformed public services will not improve them

Shoppers on St Patrick's Street, Cork. Picture: Larry Cummins

Irish society has settled into the delusion we can sail through life with cheap housing, great pensions, free healthcare, cheap fuel, and that someone else will pay for it all.

Spring this year promised the ending of the great pandemic but unfortunately it also brought the return of inflation, and a tragic and imperialist war in Eastern Europe.