Ireland has been living beyond its means for far too long
From our UK edition
Today, an Irish election takes place which has seen parties from the left, right, and centre seek to outbid each other in making extravagant electoral promises. While Irish government over-spending on vanity projects is nothing new, recently public service profligacy has risen to entirely new heights. €350,000 was forked out on a bicycle shed for parliamentarians. It seems it won't even protect their bicycles from that most common form of Irish weather: rain. Irish political leaders are extremely concerned that the incoming US President could kill the golden goose A children's hospital that was scheduled to cost €650,000 is now running at €2.2 billion, and it's still not finished.
