Frugal Dev’s legacy wiped away by a generation of greedy gougers

THIS could be the most significant general election since 1932, which was a watershed.

It was when Fianna Fáil first came to power after almost a decade of Cumann na nGaedheal rule. There are some haunting similarities.

“The Roaring Twenties” was an era of unprecedented international boom in which laissez-faire economics dominated. Governments did not interfere in economic matters. In modern parlance laissez-fire could be translated as “light touch regulation”.