Optimism contagious as new era dawning

WELCOME to my third Irish Examiner article in four days. The Sex Pistols used to call it ‘cash from chaos’…

Remember New Year’s Eve 1999? Everyone was counting down tomidnight and there was a morbid fear that the computers were about to crash, the lights go dim, the planes would fall from the sky… thennothing; just fireworks, hoots and the obligatory alcoholic debauchery. Step forward to 2010, and those within the Red fraternity tried to stifle their yawns as the usual financial analysts blathered about debt, banks anddeadlines.

So there we were waiting for October 6 and … wow. I mean, just ‘wow’. We’d all of us erected some kind of cerebral barricade to deal with one disappointment after another, some more effectively than others, and now that we’ve been told the wicked witches may soon be melting those walls will not be dismantled any time soon. Ten times bitten, 11 times shy.