Time we stopped being the good boys

Now that Germany and France have ruled out a debt deal for Ireland similar to that doled out to Greece, it is time to act.

Clearly doing what we are expected to, what our over-bearers have laid out for us, being the good boy in the class counts for nothing.

Our reputation has been re-established; we’re the pushover kid. We ask not ‘why’ or ‘why not’, but just ‘how high?’ Greece’s second bailout and debt forgiveness was to have been a once-off special deal.