Thank you for stoking the economic bubble

During the election campaign, the fact that this country had just had a lucky escape from its worst calamity since independence and could have ended up like Greece was mostly absent from the media narrative.

The fact that government since 2011 was cleaning up a mess caused by disastrous decisions made by a small number of powerful people in government and financial institutions during the pre-2010 decade of the boom was also mostly absent from the media coverage during the election campaign.

That is just a continuation of the situation in which many in the media — day after day, right through the Celtic Tiger boom — supported government decisions to triple government spending, and similar financial institution decisions to triple bank lending.