If Lenihan fools us a third time, we deserve nothing but contempt

THERE was a frightening photograph on the front page of the Irish Examiner on Thursday of a seemingly endless line of people queuing for food at 8.30 in the morning at the Capuchin Day Centre in Bow Street, Dublin.

There were more than 700 people in the queue. It was reminiscent of the photographs of the horrors of the Great Depression.

Many of those people may have been there through no fault of their own. Others might be responsible for their own plight, but they will probably blame somebody else anyway. Such people usually do.