IRELAND ELECTING CENTER-RIGHT PARTY WHICH WILL CONFRONT THE EU

I'M HOPING THEY'LL GOVERN LIKE AN IRISH NATIONAL TEA PARTY:


NYTIMES: Ireland’s Ruling Party Headed for Crushing Defeat, Early Poll Shows:

In November, the country was forced to accept a humiliating and onerous $92.8 billion 67.5 billion euro international loan package that tied it to a brutal four-year austerity program. The package came with such unfavorable interest rates that some economists feel the country might be unable to afford even to service the debt.

Many of these problems can be directly attributed to poor decisions made by the government, said Diarmaid Ferriter, a professor of modern history at University College Dublin. “There has been a complete and utter lack of leadership in Ireland,” Professor Ferriter said. As for Fianna Fail, he said, “They’ve actually managed to alienate all sections of our society.”

An early exit poll conducted for RTE, the state broadcaster, had the country’s main opposition party, the center-right Fine Gael, drawing 36.1 percent of the vote - the most of any party, but short of the overall majority needed to govern alone.

IRELAND SHOULD HAVE NEVER JOINED THE EURO BY RATIFYING THE LISBON TREATY;

BRIAN COWEN AND FIANNA FAIL RAMMED IT DOWN IRELAND'S THROAT AFTER THE IRISH INITIALLY VOTED IT DOWN.

THEY GOT WHAT THEY DESERVED.

IF IRELAND WANTS TO STAGE A COMEBACK THEY NEED TO WITHDRAW FROM THE EURO - A TOUGH THING TO DO NOW SINCE THEY NEED EU AID.