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.
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...... Read Article >
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