Mother England to the rescue

NOW that the British chancellor of the exchequer has said Britain stands ready to participate in rescuing the state-owned Irish banks, it is appropriate that we should recall the words of an old song.

Peadar Kearney, who wrote Amhrán na bFhiann, has left us a suitable ditty which could now be understood literally. The following two stanzas are particularly apt. Perhaps they could be sung at Fianna Fáil árd fheiseanna.

“When we were savage fierce and wild