EU ‘shocked’ at Ireland’s crisis

INDIVIDUAL European Commissioners have been shocked to learn the price ordinary Irish people are paying for the crisis, Ireland’s Commissioner Máire Geoghegan-Quinn has said.

She believes Irish people should not blame the EU for the banking crisis as the economic catastrophe would have been the same even if Ireland was not part of the eurozone.

Ms Geoghegan-Quinn will address a special sitting of the Dáil on May 9 to mark Europe Day.