Greece and Ireland running on empty

GREECE is the word that should rightly haunt this country. Billy Connolly tells a joke about a man on the African savannah tying his trainer laces.

He declares to his friend that his new trainers were his means of protection from lions. His bewildered counterpart points out that he will never be able to outrun a lion. Our man responds “I don’t need to outrun the lions; I just need to outrun you”.

This then, is the only difference between this country and Greece. We have, so far, managed to run faster than the Greeks from the pack of wild animals, otherwise known as currency speculators, running us both to exhaustion. The current Greek government discovered on being elected, that the previous government had deliberately falsified economic data to attempt to fool their lenders into thinking the economy was in better shape than it was in reality.