WHEN they are finished stress testing the banks, will they then do the people?

THE electorate are indeed fools and have been fooled by another group of politicians.

IN years when the economy was booming, very few people chose the civil service as their career of first choice.

THE ordinary people of Spain got rid of terrorist group ETA by marching in the streets in their hundreds of thousands regularly to let them know they weren’t wanted.

ON a recent sojourn to the Continent, I had the dubious pleasure of debating about Ireland’s severe financial woes with the numerous Germans I met.

IRELAND will not be going back to borrow from the markets until 2013 at the earliest, at which time the principle that both debtor and creditor (bondholder) will be obliged to share bank losses will be firmly established.

THE question is raised: should Ireland default? Let’s put the question to the people in a referendum.

SO Queen Elizabeth II wants to visit Cork.