True…-ish. He says the selection process is corrupt, but there’s so little detail that it is impossible to tell if he means that there’s illegal activity taking place or that it’s simply morally / ethically corrupt, according to his own personal benchmark. I’m not attacking your comment,I’d just like some more concrete information to be made public…

Said nobody ever. We all know that!!!! Bet his pension is humungous!!!!! Bless him! He can retire now!

How do you know he wasn’t? He might have been quite vocal about it internally.

AT 14:42, 2 Germans voted you down.

You do not like Germans? Why not? I am German. What did I do to you to make you bitter? Maybe you are just a xenophobe.

Oh joy. Let’s sit back want watch the moronic leftist bigotry flow in. Ironic that the Irish leftists espouse beliefs and strategies identical to those of the Red Army Faction, but at the same time never a chance for a bit of unprovoked German-baiting. Face it, the Irish leftist can only scream and shout, they simply din’t have the stones to turn their words into action. I won’t hold my breath while awaiting the liberation of the workers…

@ Moira – of uou’d just substitute the word “catholic” for the word “German” every time you opened your mouth or grabbed a keyboard, the orangemen up north would welcome you with open arms. Birds of a feather and all that…

I don’t see a German- bashing comment here, was it deleted?

Ironic karswell, the bigotry in your own comment compromised your credibility there.

Oh, Ailis, I have no credibility. That is rather the point.

Karswell, you’re just as bad as the anti-German morons. See what you did there, calling anyone on the “left” (apparently a catch all for anyone who disagrees with you) a terrorist and xenophobe?

@ Censored – You are quite right. I’m a nasty poisonous troll who takes ever available possibility to attack the Irish leftists. But then, I’m not actually a real person:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Demon#section_1
Don’t worry, I have another troll avatar who espouses socialism and snidely attacks the right, can you guess who it is?

Quite so.

And who do you think had a BIG hand in making Ireland Fook up chuck? You got it the big guys in London, Paris and Frankfurt. All the money that flooded the country where do you think it came from? Irelands bank problems is from Europes greed just to make more money. If Ireland did not take a bailout to pay back Europes banks, they would have collapsed along with the Euro.

Why focus on nationality. A minority of businessmen and politicians in Europe made decisions that hurt the majority of people in Europe. Some nations hurt more than others. But why is the nationalities of the decision makers important? It is an economic crisis caused by greed and self-interest, why push to make it look like a war between nationalities. Nothing good will come from doing this.

The people that done this have no affiliation with any country, their only affiliation is with money. Germany is just a scapegoat with history.

Mark, who had a BIG hand in this? Brian Lenihan, Brian Cowen, et al. The Bankers did what bankers do (lie, cheat, steal) but those clowns are the ones responsible for our current situation. All the rest of us, including “The Germans” are just trying to clean up the mess they created.

Yes those clowns are a big part of why Ireland is fooked, but who do you think gave them the cash to do so? Germany, France, the UK, they where the big lenders. If they did not throw money at banks and developers, Ireland would not be in the situation it is today. And the Germans are taking way to long to sort out the mess. They are only acting now because spain is in trouble, the 4th biggest economy. They ignored Ireland for the last 2 years, now maybe Ireland could get a better deal in October. They could have made it alot easier on the irish people 2 years ago with the terms and conditions on the loans and the high interest. And what about paying unsecured bondholders, Europe insisted Ireland does so and they have, now with Spain in trouble they now say maybe we should burn the bondholders especially unsercured bonds. I wonder will Ireland get the billions back it paid out in unsecured loans. LOL. definitely not.

But Derek was correct. The big lenders gave the cheap credit which caused this problem. Their nationality is not important. Censored is correct. The Irish government did not protect the Irish people. They did not do their job. Yes, Merkel did not make decisions that lowered the problem, her decisions heightened the problem. But Merkel is not the 90 million German people, just how Enda Kenny is not the Irish people. If the world is “them” and “us”, we must be careful to correctly define the “them” and the “us”. There was no referendum in Germany to decide on bail-outs, bank debts and crisis management.

Klaus i am not blaming the German people or French, it is the leaders at the top in Europe, the ECB, the I.M.F

I agree. I apologise if I misunderstood. I have read many abusive and unfair things about German people on this website, and I have received abuse on this website because I am German. It is only from a small amount of people, but it worries me if this is now acceptable in Ireland. I lived in Dublin for 8 years when I was young, and people were not so abusive as this then.

It is very unfair to blame the German people and to be abusive towards them is wrong. Ireland is a very different place today compared to 10 years ago. The majority of Irish people are angry towards the people at the top in Europe. Maybe some of the comments they leave may come across as if they are against the ordinary German people, but im sure that is not the case. I have a german neighbour from Munich she is the nicest person. Ireland is not against the people of Germany, it is the leaders at the top & the ECB they are angry towards.

This is good to hear. Thank you.