What recession? Just look at how politicians and officials rip you off
By Ryle Dwyer
THE essence of leadership is good example. The Government is suggesting that people should hold the line and forget about wage increases. It does not take an economist to realise that the economy is going sour. Anyone old enough to remember the 1980s can recall when our economy was one of the basket cases of Europe. We simply cannot go on living at the rate at which we are going. RTÉ had a programme recently on our highest earners and one person actually made more than €1 billion last year.
Next year will mark the 70th anniversary of the start of the Second World War and three insightful new books have already been published in recent weeks on Irish involvement. In Guarding Neutrality, Michael Kennedy suggests Eamon de Valera based Irish neutrality on the issue of sovereignty. By staying out of the war, this country finally demonstrated it was actually independent. Winston Churchill fulminated throughout the conflict that we had no right to be neutral.
Next year will mark the 70th anniversary of the start of the Second World War and three insightful new books have already been published in recent weeks on Irish involvement. In Guarding Neutrality, Michael Kennedy suggests Eamon de Valera based Irish neutrality on the issue of sovereignty. By staying out of the war, this country finally demonstrated it was actually independent. Winston Churchill fulminated throughout the conflict that we had no right to be neutral.
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