Fergus Finlay: The going may get very tough — but we’ve been here before

Ministers Heather Humphreys and Helen McEntee at Dublin Airport where they met with people arriving from Ukraine. Picture: Maxwells

WHERE has our resilience gone? How come we seem to have suddenly lost the ability to pull together? Have we just used it all up, just got exhausted?

I’m asking because suddenly I can hardly bear to open a newspaper or turn on the radio or television these days, so loud is the whinging and moaning. Farmers, truck drivers, motorists of all sorts — either they or their spokespeople are at it morning noon and night. Everything is a failure in the eyes of opposition and so-called independent politicians — not just a failure, but a colossal one at that. The next time I hear one of those opposition people saying that the Government “just don’t get it”, I’ll throw something at the television.