I would hazard a guess that Fine Gael, TD Jerry Buttimer and myself would have little in common from politics to religion; however, standing up and speaking the truth transcends everything.

QUELLE surprise, those Greeks are abandoning their children to the not-so-tender mercies of state care, courtesy of the austerity package devised for them by people who couldn’t care less.

WE now have two Government ministers jumping aboard an already overloaded bandwagon and boasting about “saving” half a billion on welfare fraud, while saying nothing about the real scammers who not only got away with billions, but are now being handsomely overpaid by the State as a reward for their efforts.

CRASH. Bang. Wallop.

ISN’T it a joy to behold both markets and panicked politicians running around aimlessly trying to put Humpty Dumpty together again?

WHY is it that so many junk bankers and junk politicians get so upset when an “outsider” states the truth about their junk economies and junk policies?