When is enough finally enough for a demoralised and battered public?

WHEN snake-oil salesmen wrongly describe products in order to inveigle customers into buying them under false pretences, consumers are entitled to arefund, but what happens when the pup you’ve been sold is a government?

The Coalition swept to power in 2011, vowing to restructure Ireland’s crippling bank debt, but nearly two years have elapsed without any discernible progress being achieved.

Along the way, there’s been plenty of guff, and a plethora of promises, but no action and zero results. Now, at this late stage, it remains to be seen if the Government can yet claw its way out of the hole that it has dug for itself. The omens are not good.