Ireland’s finances are beginning to unravel

ON May 17, the people returned a Fianna Fáil-PD coalition

But now we know that it was by peddling a set of lies that they got re-elected. The public finances were allegedly in sound condition, free from the threat of deficit and borrowing.

There were record numbers of new jobs. If you read the packaging, we had achieved the pinnacle of our prosperity and now the challenge was to preserve it under a utopia ruled by Bertie Ahern and his team.