Former president Mary Robinson says Irish are 'angry' and 'hurting'

I am cynically amused by the comments of the former Mary Bourke from Ballina .Representing me as as a citizen of the Irish Republic she refused to obey common good manners and protocol when meeting with the Pope . Big deal ,thought she was making some statement of protest , not in my name ! She has proven to be an opportunist self promoter ,and actually very successful at same . That does not mean that Irish people retain any respect for her opportunism and ambition !

not while corrupt EU bought politicians are in charge.not while you have mass uncontrolled immigration,not without a cleansing of the banking system,ireland has been betrayed,bought and sold,sort them out hard.

Robinson was always a bit "plastic Irish". People seem to forget she was a "stickie" at uni. She certainly abused the system to get a leg up.She's A former member of the workers party living in an ivory tower preaching to those she abandoned,what a hypocrite.

Ireland needs to close its borders, especially to Muslims.

Don't forget we're talking here about the Mary who gave up being President of Ireland before her term was ended, because she got a "better" job abroad. Make of that what you will. Éamonn, Dublin, Ireland.

Mary Robinson was never President of the whole Irish nation, merly the part of the country over which the Dáil has jurisdiction. She bemoans the "loss of our economic sovereignth", but doesn't seem to regret the ditution of the Irish state's legal sovereignty to the E.U. In 2011 this lady refused to be the 3rd female Gand Marshal of the St. Ptrick's Day prade, an event that had occurred for almost 1½ centuries before Westminister imposed Partition on Ireland.

volunteering to dig your own economic grave is the only Irish solution she has to offer

Interesting that Robinson noted that neighborliness and volunteering are up.

That sounds a little different from the individualism touted by the second and third etc... generation so-called "Irish Americans" we hear from on this site often.

Everybody who could get a loan was buying houses. I never heard of a banker forcing anybody to borrow money. Do we always have to blame someone else for our troubles?

??? she does not care