FLEETS of limousines rolling into Farmleigh to discuss other people’s hardship. Gated communities for failed developers. Huge pension funds for disgraced bankers. New phrases we all have to learn because we think they’ll tell us something about our fate – phrases like bond markets or bond spreads. And hard cheese for poor people.

OUR future may be slipping away from us.

IT is being widely rumoured that the Government is preparing for civil disturbances in the aftermath of the budget.

HOMELESSNESS. Poverty. Hunger. Cold. Fear. Isolation. Illness – both physical and mental.

NO, no, no, no, no.

IT’S almost like the silly season was still going on.

I’M tempted to ring the Labour party and leave them a message.

THE gardaí are going to have to get their act together.

IT might seem a bit arrogant to say so, considering I want to be part of it, but I honestly believe Ireland needs, and must have, a presidential election next year.

IT might seem a bit arrogant to say so, considering I want to be part of it, but I honestly believe Ireland needs, and must have, a presidential election next year.