The chickens of 'coming home to roost' fame would be well advised to steer clear of this country. The roost is mortgaged to the hilt, it was overvalued in the first place, and to complete the loop of misery, no repayments are being made on it.

To be even more serious, the clever chaps who drew up the road map out of our financial crisis only ever had on objective; get the lads out of any blame for the disaster we can no longer avoid or deny. In fairness, Fianna Fáil members are quite like chickens. They wander around pecking morsels from the landscape, no matter how dirty they get in the process. They squawk incessantly without making any sense and poo wherever and on whomever they feel like.

Most depressingly of all, the overwhelming financial problems we are now facing into as a state in the months ahead were delivered onto us by people with bird brains and chicken livers. I for one am sick of people telling me that blame isn't important right now and that anger isn't a policy. It seems clear to me that if the international lending community have lost any faith they might have once had in this government of liars, and the government in turn has decided to stick its head in the sand and condemn the international lenders, then anger is all we have left. We have only one option as a people: pull these people from power as a matter of national urgency. Folks, we are in one hell of a hole. Time is running out.

If Brian Cowen is reading this, denial is not a policy; neither is attacking critics of your utterly failed strategy of putting the need to cover up your mistakes above the welfare of the Irish people.

Declan Doyle,

Lisdowney, Co Kilkenny