The financial crisis in Ireland

The leading article in yesterday´s issue of the Irish Times is well worth reading:

Was it for this?

IT MAY seem strange to some that The Irish Times would ask whether this is what the men of 1916 died for: a bailout from the German chancellor with a few shillings of sympathy from the British chancellor on the side. There is the shame of it all. Having obtained our political independence from Britain to be the masters of our own affairs, we have now surrendered our sovereignty to the European Commission, the European Central Bank, and the International Monetary Fund. Their representatives ride into Merrion Street today.

Read the rest of the article here:

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2010/1118/1224283626246.html?via=rel