It’s Ba-NAMA-drama as Joan tries some comic relief

IT was the day we finally became a Ba-NAMA Republic.

The National Assets Management Agency (NAMA) has reduced the State to little more than a bent fence buying up the iffy goods our developer spivs can’t get rid of in the hope the shoddy items can be sold onto another mug somewhere down the line before the international finance cops take too much of an interest.

After another Moody day on the money markets — Moody’s being the credit ratings agency that downgraded a dozen of our banks from level C for crisis-hit, to Level D for definitely dodgy — Ireland needed an avenger to speak up for the little people.