The beginning of radical confrontation

ONE can only hope that the Dame Street protest in Dublin is just the beginning of a radical confrontation of our country’s continued drift into mindless materialism where the rich prosper at the expense of the unemployed and the forgotten poor.

Ireland has more than enough resources to meet the needs of all, but not enough to meet the greed of the few.

We have grown to live with the corruption of politics and the inflated significance attributed to senior bank officials, judges, TDs and ministers of the state, represented by shamefully exorbitant salaries, expense accounts, bonuses and severance awards.