This book is mandatory reading for all Irish people...

Tail Docker wrote: »

Perhaps more worrying than past corruption, whereby Politicians were thought to have lined their own pockets through the use of corruption, is the present situation. Past "Players" may have assisted each other in acquiring money and power but by and large, they left the ordinary people alone. They played among themselves and Big Business.

More worrying is when "people" dip deeply into the pockets of every man, woman and child, in a ruthless fashion, to promote their own, protect their own and serve their own. That's a harsher/more ruthless form altogether.

Consider current levels of Taxation/USC/Water Charges/Cuts/Asset sell-offs, Debt write-offs and suspected cronyism currently imposed....and remember, these are to bail out the Elites and settle their debts and promote their interests.

FF may have had their moments, but they have no monopoly on ruthlessness. Given the choice of Gangster, I prefer the ones who play among themselves.

Mostly true, but the recent raising of taxes and cuts to services are in the long term a good thing for everyone. As a country we must trade in the black. The private bank debt which was wrongly nationalised is actually the least of our worries with regard to budgeting.
Much like buying a 10 year old Lamborgini, it's not the purchase price which is the problem, it's the running costs that will break you. Our running costs are still much more than our income, and still will be (to the tune of billions) next year when Noonans giveaway budget 2016 comes out in a likely successful attempt to buy the next general election.
Believe me, I'm no FG or Labour apologist, if you look back to what I said at budget time that's pretty clear.

On topic: you described it well above when you said that these guys murdered Ireland.
Having read the first few chapters, it appears that they were just common thieves and blackmailers from and including the top (Charlie) down. It's shocking how blatant and straightforward they were about demanding millions not to scupper the plans of a self made honest man trying to do something good for his country which had let him down so badly as a young man.
Utterly disgusting. Whatever shred of respect I had for those thieves who were FF then has evaporated, and at the time I would have voted for some of them.