It’s official – hope and happiness are running out for the Irish

I'm not surprised. With the relentless press and media reporting of how baad things are, they've finally succeeded in depressing everyone, and boosting prozac sales. My new years resolution is to stop reading the partitionist press, and embracing some positive thinking.

Cillowen.I read your comment 14 times .The one beginning "That's what friends "and ending "--was his tone".I still don't understand a word of it and can only conclude taht you scored some bad stuff last night

That's what friends are for - I always knew the connection that was and is. The propaganda that is so thick that Jews and Italians would be as bold as you please - confront Irish me, asking me what I contributed. A manager no less, in number 1 company, with brazen ridicule, telling me of the half a million (a measly sum) that was shipped to the Irish boyos in that one particular year of the freedom seekers efforts trying to fix the apartheid statelet that such souls were in. How dare they, was his tone.

That's what friends are for - I always knew the connection that was and is. The propaganda that is so thick that Jews and Italians would be as bold as you please - confront Irish me, asking me what I contributed.

peterson.If you had another brain you would have one.Try not to be an idiot all your life.Economies are much more complicated than just a divorce.Stop been a dumb American.You are Irish American so read up and get with the program.

You're unhappy? You're unhappy? Try having the dunce Obama as your president. You don't know what unhappiness is!!

Exiting the EU would be a step ahead. Germany will be running the show anyway. The British would also be wise to do the same.

We either get used to the misery, or, exit the Euro, pass a Glass Steagall law to write off toxic "assets" and implement a Hamiltonian Credit System to rebuild the physical economy. That would make everyone happy...except the City of London and Wall St...perfect solution!

Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be - Abraham Lincoln.

Stop your whining ... The whole world is over taxed, over spent, over regulated by governments. Until the bulk of governments' non-productive taxation is killed, it will be bleak for the masses, forever. Get over it, get a job, stop throwing bricks and get on with your lives. Until the G-20 reverse course and cut taxes massively and permanently , Ireland (and the US and Canada and Britain and Germany and France and ALL of the rest) will not recover. One bright spot: Mexico! Unemployment is down to 5% or less because Mexico has been stealing wealth from over the border for decades ... and nobody pays taxes there unless they are stupid enough to report income to their government.