The lasting impact of austerity in Ireland, 10 years on
Updated / Sunday, 14 Mar 2021
07:00
"You can draw a pretty straight line between the bank guarantee and the rise of conspiracy theorists"
Journalist, Broadcaster.
If it doesn't seem like ten years since we played the national guessing game "Is the Troika here?", and then bounced Fianna Fáil out of government, that might be because our lives have got shorter since then.
I had been meaning for some time to fact-check ads that the Department of Health had been running online claiming that our lives were getting longer and longer. But it was just one of those things I kept on forgetting to follow up on.