Majority of public want us to obey bailout

ALMOST half the country believes Ireland should continue complying with the terms and conditions of the EU/IMF bailout, which is one year old today.

A smaller but still sizeable number are against compliance, believing the bailout agreement represents a bad deal, according to a Red C opinion poll for the Irish Examiner.

The Government’s own performance has come in for criticism in the poll, with a clear majority of those who expressed a view believing that the Fine Gael-Labour Coalition has not done a good job of managing the economy.