Grab the Nation by the Scruff of the Neck, Taoiseach, and Drag Us All to a Better Place
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FIRST, let us kill all the people who continue to suggest that Brian Cowen should make a state-of-the-nation TV appearance, like Charlie Haughey's 'tighten our belts'. We kill them gently, because we understand what they yearn for.
What they yearn for is the outward and visible manifestation of leadership. They want the comfort of hearing Big Daddy tell them it's going to be okay.See the full content of this document
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Grab the Nation by the Scruff of the Neck, Taoiseach, and Drag Us All to a Better Place
That, in the short term, everybody's going to be drinking out of jam-jars and living on bread-and-dripping, but what doesn't kill you makes you stronger and we'll come out of the bread- and-dripping years more tigerish than we were in the days of the old Celtic feline.
The reiterated longing for the Big Daddy TV appearance is deeply significant. It by-pa...See the full content of this document
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