We’re all at sea because of the cliquish ‘powers that be’

WE demonise as ‘sharks’ the greedy financial fools who laid this country so low, but that is to credit them with too much cunning and glamour — they were just dolphins on the make.

With respect to Fungie, an unpleasant aspect of dolphin society has exposed the ugly side of the mild-mannered mammal.

Researchers have discovered that dolphins are the only non-human mammals to indulge in elite societies — and they love self-serving cliques. The inter-locking, back-slapping, deal-doing cliques of the Irish financial collapse have still to be fully exposed, but there amidst the ‘elite’ was Seán Quinn, a man so delusional, or devious, he believes he did little wrong.