iPhone app reckons Ireland is all leprechauns and pubs

DEPENDING on your viewpoint, the new iPhone app which sums up Ireland as the land of leprechauns, pubs, shamrocks, and drinkers is either deeply offensive or a harmless stereotype.

Given the news about how much a little old bank called Anglo is going to cost generations of Irish people to bail out, it’s likely that today you are siding on the latter.

Back in the good old days of the Celtic Tiger (remember that?), no doubt outrage would have been vented all across every lunchtime phone in radio show in the country