Would you like to get?

No, this is nothing.

It is so expensive over there.

This wouldn't be enough.

Hi,

firstly you meant 85 billion, and not million?

secondly, it is the republic of Ireland that is receiving the bailout, population of about 4 million, the other figure you quote includes Northern Ireland

and thirdly, the bailout is a loan to the government, who will in turn give the money to the banks,

this is not being divided up equally amongst the general population,

it is a loan and it is expected that it will be paid back, with interest

So the banks will get the money, and then taxes will be increased on the population and services will be cut, so that it can be repaid

Hard working Irish citizen? that is rubbish, the reason we are broke is because as a people the Irish were greedy, builders, land owners, taxi drivers, estate agents, restaraunts, pubs, painters, decorators, plumbers, electricians, carpenters, the list is endless, everyone screwed everyone else, for everything they could get, and the people put up with it, now they want to boycott and protest?,

look, there's a swinging stable door, and the horse is down the road

there wouldn't be any issues if people had allowed more of the previous national debt to be paid off, instead of screaming for their penny off income tax, and electing a corrupt government in because they promised to put an extra fiver on the pension

Greed fuelled the party and the next generation is gonna have one hell of a hangover

Also going back to the punt is not an option, Ireland would have to convert all existing euro-denominated savings at a fixed rate on a given date. But savers and businesses would not wait passively for that date to arrive. The main reason for creating a new currency would be to increase the country's competitiveness by making its exports cheaper. So savers and investors would assume that the new currency would depreciate against the euro - probably very rapidly - and want to keep their savings in euros, or transfer them to another well-established currency such as the US dollar. So a prolonged, and serious debate, would cause money to leave the country,

or the could try and do it on the sly in a big bang way, tell no one and make the changes overnight, not really possible in a democracy

isn't the point that's the debit the average joe in Ireland will be landed with to prop up the german banking system?

sod the euro and devalue with the punt and feck the bankers. it will all sort it's self out after a few Guinness (Guinness being the brand name of a traditional English beer called porter)

yes it is..

Yes, its the hard working Irish citizen that will pay for the blunders and greed of bankers and politicians in Ireland and Europe

Doing ok aren't they! Who are the mugs?