Ireland tops European household unemployment figures according to new research

YOUR "The ESRI report remarks that Ireland had an unusually high percentage of jobless households even when the economy and employment levels were growing strongly" - says it all. They are softened up by cushy benefit payments and are dyed-in-the-wool spineless dossers who wouldn't know a decent days work if it fell on them! Cut their benefits and watch them scuttling for the sea and airports, crying Famine! Persecution!Thralldom! d'inglish did it!