Monday, 27 February 2012

The Level Pitch and The Trouble With Harry

TV show host and columnist, Brendan O'Connor has just lanced the pretense that tough times make the rich suffer right alongside the poor. In a commentary in the Irish Independent, he wonders if there two level playing fields after all?

One pitch for them.
And a much lower one for the rest of us.



Harry Crosbie has submitted a proposal to turn the 303-year-old Market House in Gorey, Co Wexford, into a concert venue known as Vicar Street South.... Now, on one hand, that's all good news, and they couldn't have picked a better man than Harry to be involved.

But... how come Harry is still off opening new venues as if he hadn't a care in the world? How come, indeed, Harry still has a holiday home in Wexford?

And doesn't Harry have another fine holiday home in the south of France too? And a grand big house in Dublin?

If you or I owed a fraction of what Harry owed, we wouldn't have a house. But Harry still seems to get to live the life of Reilly between his three homes and he gets to go on blithely pursuing new projects...

I stress I have nothing against Harry here and I suppose we need guys to rebuild the country and whatnot. But I just don't understand it all, do you? Maybe while Nama is having its big PR fightback it could explain all this to us -- why we're all wiped out but guys like Harry, despite taking stupendous risks and losing, seem to be able to get on with it......
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