Sir, – Reading the newspapers, watching television, listening to radio – not to mention viewing internet forums – would bring one back to the heady days of the Celtic Tiger. According to the reports then – a time prior to the 2009 collapse and the 2010 bailout – all in the garden was rosy and the thing to do was to spend.
At that blissful time, a small number of the powerful were in charge of government, financial institutions, and so on, or were around various influential negotiating tables. They were strutting their stuff and making demands to the extent that everyone else knew their place and left them to it.
Today we have some of the same people strutting their stuff all over the various media outlets and making demands as if nothing had happened.
With the austerity of recent years, we all know to our cost what the whole Celtic Tiger episode did to all of us.
Let’s just say it did not end too well.
Do the citizens of this recently bankrupt and presently overborrowed nation not need, and indeed deserve, a bit more originality than just a rerun of the Celtic Tiger, with its emphasis on spend, spend, spend on each and every vested interest’s demands? – Yours, etc,
A LEAVY,
Sutton,
Dublin 13.