A great country despite the negatives

While 66% of people feel we’re in for five years of recession, there is some optimism, reports Paul Moran

WITH anticipation towards next week’s budget similar to reaction over the weather, frozen and almost paralysed at what lies ahead, it was perhaps appropriate to capture what the nation feel about their own personal circumstances and what they believe should be done to remedy the crisis we find ourselves in.

This Irish Examiner/Millward Brown Lansdowne Opinion Poll, conducted between Tuesday and Friday of last week, directly after the intervention of the IMF and the announcement of a New Year general election, sought not so much to discuss politics, but rather to find out what the implications of these events are to the general public.