One in three Irish families fear they will go hungry

Sad, It shows what happen when high employment promotes excessive expenditures and the denial of the possibility that conditions can suddenly change.

A little frugality for a few years certainly would have helped. I remember our outside construction workers here in the Chicago area would save a little over half their pay in the spring summer and fall every year, because when the snow fell, the jobs were done, they'd have something else to live on.

I haven't been blessed to be in Ireland since I was a kid. However, based upon what we're experienceing in the USA, & my own perceptions, knowledge, & experience both of & with world events & politics, I would say the multinational corporations pretty much have us all in a bag! Like sack of potaotes, or dung if you like, we're all stuck in the same place except for the elite few!I believe in Divine Intervention as well as being an active participant in helping miracles to come to pass. We should never give up on our faith nor should we foget what God can do thru His people in times of the greatest turmoil,oppression & tragedy. I thank God for my Irish genes & ability to never give up believing in good to prevail over evil! This means doing my part to stand my ground firmly for is true, right & just.I have prayed for our world every day since I was a little girl. I'm not giving up on the greater picture I was taught thru faith. Faith teaches us to hope & perservere. I stand with the commonn people the world over & with my God. May His will be done! May we all live to see the 2nd coiming of our Lord! It it then, & only then, that genuine truth, justice,love for one another shall reign in this ungodly mess which has made of all His creation.

I still think it's the big corporations, especially big oil and the financial institutions. All the profits go to their corporate executive officers, and with Ireland having one of the lowest corporation taxes in the world, the Irish economy has got to be harshly effected by them. Afterall, it is only a few people (CEO'S) that are ruining the global economy.

Most people don't know this, but the Irish state pays out hundreds of millions in handouts for foreign immigrants every year. If you have been looking for a job in Latvia (where benefits are about a fifth what they are in Ireland) all you have to do is go to Ireland and say you are looking for a job there. Bingo! Your welfare goes up 500%. And you don't need to live there--with RyanAir you can fly in every couple of weeks to pick up your check. If you don't fancy that you can claim public housing (almost free ) in Ireland. And you can invent a half-dozen children in latvia, and the Irish taxpayer will pay you welfare for them! And the Irish are too dumb to know why they're broke!

The people in Ireland are not the only people with these fears. Also, they are not alone in not trusting their government.

but thats the sad thing here! its not corporations here making the mess, its a small number of very powerfull people! they have set up the system so much that they cant be held for it!

Yes, what happened to real public servants, are they all just lapdogs for the corporations?

it will have to happen before the people will finally agree, that we have to get these people out of government once and for all! and try and rebuild something from the mess they have left us in!

Prices going up in the shops. Hyper inflation on its way. So called Governments stealing from social welfare recipients. Mass starvation is on its way to Ireland.

Our Government seem to be looking after the rich and forgetting about the weak in society. They have now decided that you have to pay a new tax on our home of €250. They seem to be finding new ways of taxing just to bulk up the exchequer so that they will have money to give to the Banks.

It will turn around, just hold on, it's a tough road.

Needs for a collective approach like the kibbutzim model. Does not seem incompatible with the values we hold dear.

What a shameful indictment of Fianna Fail and their mad policies! Of course many of these families facing hunger are foreign migrants. The crazy Fianna Fail policy of settling Ireland with huge numbers of foreigners has left Ireland with massive social problems.