Our politicians so often just don’t get it. ferghalthehack
Here we are, facing the worst cost-of-living crisis in a generation, where hard-working people are struggling to put food on the table - literally.
It could be argued that the worst off is the middle income earner, who gets no social supports and has a family to raise. Let's call it the Heineken index - and we're top of the charts. In the interests of research, this columnist braved tourist trap Temple Bar this week - where a pint of Heino was €8.90 in a packed Oliver St John Gogarty’s pub.They own a club there with four bars and said a round of 10 pints there is €25. In Gogarty's he wouldn’t get three for that.
It was a historic day and Ms Von der Leyen is a great lady by all accounts. She did quote The Saw Doctors - those great Galwegian philosophers - after all.