A change in the Irish economy can only occur with a dramatic change in our political landscape.
Political leadership having the intellectual capacity of a door knob, is usually a prerequisite for change. However Ireland appears to be going through a form of transformation inertia, where the inability of a ruling party is not met with political upheaval, but a muffled whimper.
Political upheaval does not have to take the form of lynch mobs and flaming torch processions, conversely what is needed is a decent alternative. A change form a Fianna Fail government to a Fine Gael led coalition government is not an alternative, it's a deformed substitution.
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http://craigmcinerney.wordpress.com/2010/04/14/change-is-not-born-through-apathy/