Editorials

Disastrous government policies highlighted again

FOR over a decade successive Fianna Fáil-led governments were warned against making the Irish economy over reliant on consumption and construction. The IMF is just the latest in a long list of economists and organisations to highlight this. Finance Minister Brian Lenihan has a cheek to suggest, as he did in recent days, that no opposition parties offered alternatives during the boom years to avert the current crisis.

Loyalist decommissioning

MOVES in the past week by unionist paramilitaries to decommission weapons are to be welcomed. Removing guns that have been used to kill over a thousand people is a step forward and a further indication that politics is working and that the Peace Process is very strongly embedded.

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