Taxpayer can’t afford luxury of 9am breakfast

FOR the vast majority of families, the luxury of having breakfast just before 9am is just that — a luxury.

Much of the anger over Brian Cowen’s performance on Morning Ireland was centred on the realisation that while the vast majority of us were well into our day, the Taoiseach was not fully functioning at 8.50am.

The reality for the average taxpayer is far different. For family man, farmer and sales rep at Munster AI, Joe Tobin, his day starts well before 5am.