" You and Jim should be getting the beers in for your mates with pigs under their arms.
"Ignoring the racist stereotyping of the Irish people for the time being" (the right really can't resists showing their true colours, can they), the Irish people, like the Greeks are still reeling from the corrupt bankers and dishonest and incompetents politicians (whatever the latter pair may have under their arms).
The Greeks seem to have a government that is prepared to stand up to European bullying - we are not so lucky and are still paying for a crash brought about by greedy bankers and corruptly compliant politicians.
Still no comment on the morality of repayment of loans going to enrich the already rich and the implications of referendums being "a dishonest betrayal".
Whether the loan is repaid ot not, the situation of the ordinary man and woman in Ireland will remain exactly the same - though the better-off may be able to slip a little more into their offshore accounts.
Jim Carroll