Voters resigned to austerity era

Dublin’s Ha’penny Bridge over the River Liffey was thronged with commuters and tourists today as voters ushered in closer financial ties with Europe.

Migrants and their families, attracted to Ireland by a jobs boom which has receded into distant memory, hurried along crowded streets featuring an advert for the US work abroad visa, a permanent institution for many years on top of the Usit travel agent’s on the corner of O’Connell Street.