Public servants will strike — and strike hard — until politicians wake up and get the message

WHEN will your editorial writers give up attacking public sector workers and unions as if they were responsible for what has happened to the economy?

We are lectured almost without exception by people earning comfortable, if not exorbitant, salaries themselves of the need for us to pay for the excesses of politicians, bankers and developers.

Mary Harney, of the €400 haircut and €1,000 meal at public expense, defends Brendan Drumm who earns more than Barack Obama and then some — all paid for by us — while at the same time issuing dire warnings of the “need” for cuts for the lowest paid.