Whether Cowen stays or goes, it’s the end of Fianna Fáil as we know it

ACCORDING to the last census there are 4,239,838 of us living in this republic.

And every single one of us is being let down by the charade that is now masquerading as the government of this country. Not just the men and women out of work. Not just the thousands of people whose only recourse is the emigrant trail.

All of us have been let down. Not for the first time, of course, but surely this is the last straw? How is it possible that anyone would want to allow these people to remain as our government for a moment longer? We are watching the death throes of a once great political movement.