Let’s focus our anger where it’s needed

RESOLUTIONS are difficult to keep, so here are two wishes instead for the new year.

Can we please have a re-evaluation of anger? Anger has been severely devalued in the course of living through the current recession. I’m talking about public anger here, the kind of anger that Brian Lenihan once pointed out was not a policy.

Everybody is angry, or so it seems. Four Angry Men have just finished touring the country, dragging their anger around with them, sating the anger of some who came to see them, fuelling the anger of others. A few years ago there were Four Other Angry Men, but there’s still apparently enough anger out there for another tour.