A year of policy failure and missed opportunity

IT has been a year since Fianna Fáil and the Green Party handed over control of our economy to the EU and IMF.

How have we fared under the diktat of the EU/IMF austerity programme?

Contrary to the positive reports from the troika and the hand- wringing from Fine Gael and Labour, it has been a year of missed opportunities, failed policies and spineless politics.