We’ve lost our souls in the race for prosperity
Apart from the one-in-five who are living in poverty, the vast majority of the rest are enslaved by the mighty euro. There is constant pressure and non-stop drudgery to feed the hungry ‘tiger’. But we are beginning to show the strain. Ireland has become a Godless, soulless place where our young people are drinking or doing drugs to help them forget their present and their future.
Our young men are committing suicide by the score; half the population have stress-related illnesses while the other half are living with the consequences. It’s high time that the financial institutions and our other monied taskmasters lifted their oppressive yolk, or were told by government to do so.
When the brave freedom fighters of 1916, and their predecessors, died for our liberation they surely hadn’t intended one in every five of us to live in poverty or half the population to be on medication. If they could have seen the future, perhaps they would have thought the risks weren’t worth it.
Tom Fitzgerald
Four Roads
Askeaton
Co Limerick.
