The same Brian Lenihan whos catastrophic decision to blanket guarantee the banks debt imposed the biggest injustice in the history of our state on our people, and consignd a generation to debt slavery covering rich peoples gambling losses?

That guy?

Oh, and an export led recovery without growth in the domestic economy is more risk taking, and we’ve seen where that got us.

You must think people have very short memories paul

Please Paul. Brian Lenihan was without question the worst Minister for Finance that this country ever had. This was noted across the Financial world. The highly influential editor of the Financial Times, read by most CEO’s and bankers in Europe described his Govt. as the worst in Europe since WW2.

It is a bit of a stretch to try to reinvent him as a competent Minister now. Stick with the line that he did his best for FF, a loyal party man. The no’s and facts challenge every other assertion about him.

Don’t forget Too True that he also changed the legislation when Anglo Irish was nationalized so as to allow those with more than 5 million. The proposed law was that people with more than 20 million on account but who owed multiples of that would have the account frozen. Not unusual in banking. He had it removed, and hundreds of millions of Euro’s flowed out to be picked up by the tax payer, to add insult to injury he then went and set up Nama to bail out the people he just let clean out the money. He had to be told by the EU that he was overpaying for everything and to cop himself on. The man was a great patriot for golden circle Ireland, a mighty FF man but for the Ireland that we live in, he was no friend of ours, very far from it. There are countless other examples of Brian putting friends and party donors above national interest.

Ah now Fagan’s c’mon. Sure do ye not know in Ireland we don’t speak ill of the dead who destroyed our country, we give them state funerals like we did with haughey.

It is a fantasy. GNP is still going down.

It’s because of the unique nature of the Irish economy, which serves as a base for multinational companies to export into Europe. Some of the revenue stays here, most is repatriated.

Someday I hope we’ll see Fianna Failed stop trying to revise history and peddle more tripe.