Irish politicians are belatedly addressing the homeless problem but why did it take the death of Jonathan Corrie on the Government’s doorstep to get action?

The bizarre talk about a FG/FF or FF/FG coalition serves perhaps to distract from the reality that the economy is shrinking because people cannot pay for goods and services, people are afraid of Budget 2014 and are saving to pay taxes, people have no jobs to go to and cannot pay mortgages, and people are leaving the country to find work.

As nearly any self-help book worth 10 minutes on prime time radio will assert, changing yourself is the greatest challenge of all.