Keeping an eye on McCreevy

IN the run-up to the general election, commentators warned about the unhealthy state of the nation’s finances.

We were left in no doubt about the true position - which was, of course that the public purse was virtually empty, the contents having been squandered away in various foolish ventures. Vast sums of EU funds had vanished into thin air. Mr McCreevy was called upon by our EU paymasters to explain his mishandling of the public finances.

How right those officials were to censor him. McCreevy’s answer was to try to convince an unsuspecting electorate that these Eurocrats had no right to tell him what to do. It would be unreasonable to suppose that everything in the Nice Treaty would be to our liking.