The Irish Examiner has devoted much space this year to Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa.

We live in a great old country, all the same: people being jailed for not paying €160 TV licences, others getting away with €57m tax liabilities.

THE Bord Snip report, the Commission on Taxation recommendations, a second go at Lisbon and the prospect of the worst budget in history … the people really can only take so much.