Government and media guilty of demonising the public service

THE usual suspects were lined up in recent weeks to condemn public service unions and trot out their public versus private creation in a thinly veiled apologia for those who created our economic mess.

The Government can take comfort from such sycophantic media outlets, led by our national broadcaster, or take stock of the fact that the recent public sector strike is just the latest manifestation of public anger against the direction it has chosen. Pensioners, taxi drivers, farmers, community development groups and private sector workers have all protested on the streets this year.

Are they all to be ignored?