Don’t blame it all on Cromwell

TRANSPORT Minister Noel Dempsey made a great speech to his party’s árd fheis last weekend. Like those hard-hitting Meath footballers of some years back his tackle is a bit behind the referee’s back, though.

He roundly condemned those bankers who have ruined our nation, accusing them of doing more damage than anyone since Cromwell.

Since Cromwell, Noel? What about Dev’s Civil War that nearly put an end to our fledging State, the same man’s Economic War with Britain, the Second World War, the near collapse of the State in the 1950s only to be rescued by TK Whitaker, or the damage that the Provo campaign did to our nation with 30 years of bloodshed and the creation of an economic wasteland.