‘Who wouldn’t want to go back to the comforting days of partnership and prosperity’
I think that this sentiment is common throughout Irish society in general and is a key element of lack of intensity of resistance to austerity here compared to Southern Europe.
On the braying of the shills in the times etc, i’ve always felt that their increasing shrillness was a sign of their weakness and that they sense the coming ‘backlash’ as well. However rather than being conciliatory in the hope of alleviating it just pushes them to be more reactionary. A case of path dependence perhaps?