Where is the new Whitaker to save us from betrayers of our republic?

ON RTÉ’s Morning Ireland during the week, Dr Garret FitzGerald said “the crisis is a very serious one, much more serious than we ever faced”.

There is a huge gap between what the Government is taking in and what it is spending, and this is a recipe for financial disaster.

“I see no sign of either Government or opposition facing up to that,” he said. FitzGerald initially made his reputation as an economist. That may well be why Charlie Haughey called economics “the dismal science”.