Family goes hungry in warped republic

The following is dedicated to the building labourer who told me that — as work has dried up — his family now refers to one day a week as “the hungry day”.

As 2012 draws to a close it will be remembered as the year of no summer and the year when the ordinary people of Ireland, farmers included, continued to allow a dominant Government bend its people to its needs by the infliction of more and more pain because it knows nothing else.

There is something very warped, in my opinion, about a people who will allow themselves to be obediently led and then stripped and beaten in the name of economics. There is something fundamentally wrong with the whole idea that the many are somehow responsible for the actions of a few.