Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert 2017-04-09 07:08:57

The poster child for the Neo Con/Lib EU  austerity agenda Ireland is a deeply unequal society and that’s a continuing trend. More people in Ireland have committed suicide since 2008 via financial terrorist acts than died in the Northern Irish conflict. However, Irish politicians are posturing, jamming the Irish state broadcaster and commercial airways with the crony capitalist mantras demanded by their future corporate employers. The echo chamber is turned to full volume as no dissenting voice is heard on panel discussions or news bulletins. It’s the, ‘ this is how nice, respectable people think’, approach.

They are still aiming to jam through  privatisation friendly legislation relating to water supply,our last people owned resource . Irish Water staff continue to enjoy  large bonuses. De-funding health care to please private insurers continues apace, Closures of rural police stations, post offices and public transport routes are de rigeur in the minority Fianna Gael/Independent Alliance ruling coalition. They have the assent of the Fianna Fail opposition party in the austerity terror they are continuing to wield across the country. A whole generation of farmers are set to loose their farms held for generations to vulture funds invited in by this government. The knock on effect is closures of local businesses and dying rural communities.

Elder / Senior voters are gossiping. The post office closures affect them directly. They get their pensions and pay their bills there. They don’t do on line banking. They can’t get the bus to their local towns for hospital appointments while local G.P.s are also abandoning the sinking ship . The Elders are deeply discommoded! They and other rural voters are conflating it all and if the gossip is true, the sycophantic Fianna Fail opposition are set to loose big time at the next general election. A General Election  is always in the offing due to the flimsy nature of the current government.
Again thousands of people, from across the country, were out on the streets of Dublin yesterday reminding the politicians that they are being watched closely.

“Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty” , is often quoted at these gatherings.
Finally the penny is dropping across the population that the of Ireland, who are still in the majority.

Research:

Deprivation In The Unequal Recovery

FactCheck: You asked, we answered – suicide, austerity and the Troubles

Irish Water staff get €5k bonuses as crisis deepens

Simon Coveney to defy advice on water charges

Farmers are at their wit’s end’: Losing your land, home and income at the hands of vulture funds

139 rural Garda stations to remain shut

Post Office closures a death knell for rural Ireland

Talks between Bus Éireann and unions continue

Rural Ireland feeling isolated by cuts to bus routes

Thousands attend anti-water charges protest in Dublin