Building confidence - A realism based on optimism

THE results of a survey published today suggest that you are as likely to find an optimistic Irish person as you are to find a contrite banker.

Peninsula Ireland spoke to over 1,000 workers and found that almost 700 of them were worried about job security, wondering how long more they might have work to pays their bills. This is a startling figure and points to a crash in our confidence, our resilience and the bloody-minded optimism that has served us so very well in the past.

If they accurately reflect the national mood then hundreds of thousands of us are tossing and turning through the night trying to figure out what the future holds.