Madam, – In a deep depression after the undisciplined denunciations of our Government by our news media and by Opposition party leaders who abuse their positions of privilege to accuse it and (I can’t believe this!) our Taoiseach of economic treason, I gave up on it all and turned to Newsweek magazine. There, I was delighted to see (in the April 19th edition) a responsible report by William Underhill entitled “The Anti-Greece”. This article lauded Ireland for its “serious efforts” to get its deficit under control.
The president of the ECB, he wrote, had called Ireland “a role model” because of its readiness to confront “extremely difficult problems”. Unlike Greece, Ireland, he claims, can “offer honesty and the gritty resolve of its coalition government”.
Why don’t we get this message at home? Is the prophet forever to be without honour? What agenda drives these people? Are they courting economic suicide? – Yours, etc,