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.