There are two indelibly weaved strands of information highly relevant to the current standoff playing out between Greece and its creditors but which the mainstream European media isn’t currently allocating much room to the discussion of.

Criticism of the Greece government’s hard line on debt is based on the idea that Greece expects other euro-zone countries to underwrite their decades of unrestrained profligacy. This is simplistic.

SO, the thorny issue of the handsome salaries paid to RTÈ presenters raises its head yet again.