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.