Ireland should join in calls for a European debt conference

With the rise of Syriza in Greece, it is time Ireland stopped its impoverishing debt payments and stood up for its people, writes Rory Hearne.

THE historic victory of the left-wing Syriza party in the Greek elections offers the potential of a real debt deal for Ireland but only if the Government decisively supports the call for a European debt conference. Wouldn’t it be great if the Government offered Dublin Castle or Farmleigh as the venue to hold it? Now that would be standing up for the Irish people, the Greeks, and Portuguese, who have all been pummelled by austerity in order to bail out Europe’s financial system.

We should no longer be asking but demanding, just like Syriza, an end to the immiseration and impoverishment of our population, and the holding back of our economy, in order to pay back illegitimate debt.