Just wanted to make that clear after your first post, as you see something went wrong there and I had to wait a bit until the post 'took'.

Am watching the tellie at the minute to see the latest developments and the comments. There seems to be a pull towards elections before March 11.

In fairness to Cowen I think he had terrible bad luck since he took the post of Taoiseach. Bertie is still posturing as the man who brought prosperity to the country while in reality the foundation of the crisis was firmly laid under Ahern, albeit with Cowen as Minister of Finance.