Irony of being lectured by Yanis Varoufakis

It is ironic that we have former Greek Finance Minister, Yanis Varoufakis, lecturing us in this country about what constitutes a ‘paradigm of success’.

Greece has had a succession of bailouts and defaults and he himself had to resign from his job as finance minister.

I do not think, therefore, that what he says has much credibility.

His mission ‘to save European capitalism from itself’ lasted only six months and ended with Greece asking for a third bailout.

Given Ireland’s relative success in exiting the bailout when compared to Greece Varoufakis’s pontificating about how Ireland should have done things differently, as he said himself, only ‘stretches credulity’.

A. Leavy

Shielmartin Drive

Sutton

Dublin 13