Media’s denial of seriousness of situation will only cause more pain

Michael Clifford’s article of March 26 is typical of the denial being preached in the media about the causes and seriousness of both our situation in 2010 and our present situation.

He blames it all on the fact that a century after 1916 ‘nobody wants to govern’ except ‘the Redmonites’. The fact that the Irish parliamentary party led by John Redmond has not existed since 1918 and our current problems derive from more recent times seems to be lost on him.

Firstly he ignores the fact that Ireland was bankrupted by the decisions of a small number of of its most powerful citizens during the post-2000 boom and that resulted in an €85bn bailout.