We know nothing but don't know we know nothing

We in Ireland are happy to pounce on one big solution after another, writes Brendan O'Connor Dramatic times indeed. Imagine my surprise at receiving a text in the middle of a wedding in Sicily last week, telling me that David McWilliams had saved the country. Don't get me wrong, new unthinkable things are occurring every day. But saving the country? When the collective might of the Brians and the rest of them couldn't? Perhaps because I had been away, Saturday's papers -- the first Irish papers I'd seen for two weeks -- seemed strangely euphoric. The official term for the bank guarantee was "masterstroke", and people seemed to feel we were now out of the woods. And the many long, loving, detailed, blow-by-blow accounts of how the guarantee was struck seemed to indicate that, yes indeed, Macker had been involved. The... [read full story]