Ireland’s experience of austerity is being downplayed internationally

Dr Rory Hearnes’ article (Irish Examiner July 4) on the stark and brutal effects of Irish ‘austerity’ should be essential reading for all concerned Irish citizens.

The article, for the first time, cuts through government spin and bluster about the so called success of the austerity programme and the much vaunted ‘economic recovery’.

It outlines in clear, factual, irrefutable and unambiguous detail, the calamitous horrors of lopsided austerity, foisted mainly by government choice on the most vulnerable in Irish society.