HAVE we not had enough shame with the world laughing at us for fleecing hard working people to pay the private debts of greedy bankers?

FINE GAEL have stated in their election manifesto that they will keep “communities vibrant” by reversing the ban on the Ward Union stag hunt.

IN a recent Irish Examiner, Rajan Raghuram asked the question “Why did economists not foresee the economic crisis?” At the end of his wandering article he cites, “specialisation”, “the difficulties of forecasting” and “the disengagement of much of the profession from the real world”, as the three factors explaining collective failure.

NED O’KEEFFE states that in recent years there were too many intellectuals in the Cabinet and that none of them ever bought a bale of hay.

SO Education Minister Mary Coughlan has acknowledged that teachers beginning a career in the classroom do not have the “requisite skills” to reverse falling literacy and numeracy standards. (Feb 18).

HEARING the Minister for Finance warning that the main opposition parties getting into government would wreck the economy makes one wonder if he is either suffering from amnesia or practising to become a stand-up comedian.

THE situation where student nurses will not get paid for their work placement is deplorable, morally reprehensible and just plain wrong.

WITH reference to Rosie Cargin’s letter expressing doubts regarding the stance that Fine Gael would adopt mass burn incineration, the Combined Residents Against Incineration (CRAI), a community-based organisation that has been opposing the proposed Poolbeg incinerator, has identical concerns.

REMEMBER a few short years ago when the three main parties in the Dáil, and the Greens, littered the countryside with posters exhorting us to “Vote Yes for jobs” in that infamous referendum. The country voted “yes” and the country got redundancies.