Why not ask our cousins overseas for a bailout?

I HEAR Ireland is discussing the terms of a bailout worth tens of billions of euro.

I was near to tears last week as this news broke in England. Ireland doesn’t feature in the news very often in England, but this has changed in recent times.

I know you don’t want sympathy, but I feel sorry for you. I don’t know what to say other than you appear like a shipwrecked survivor who has been desperately holding on to a chunk of wood in the freezing waters for many a day.

However, the people who are now set to rescue you may be in a position to hold you to ransom for many years — like Somali pirates in disguise.

There are millions of Irish people or people of Irish descent all around the world who are proud of their ties to the homeland.

Can’t you put out an SOS, or a message in a bottle of sorts, and ask all those who claim Irish blood to send you some money.

I know that if everyone worldwide who is proud to be Irish, however distant, were to send €10 you would easily make up the billions without having to borrow it from Europe.

I would send you €100 today and so, I am sure, would every Irish person around the world who is hearing this news now.

It would be interest-free and given in the spirit of a gift from your own people around the world.

It’s just a crazy idea, I suppose, but I wish it would come true.

Jacqueline Cotter

Finchley Road

Fallowfield

Manchester 14 6EN

England