Tales of the Golden Circle: Ireland's not so very secret conspiracy

What if we told you that a circle of influence, in which lies the big guns of Irish politics, banking, business and media, not only exists, but exists with the full knowledge of the majority of the population of Ireland?
Would you say no, that's impossible. Would you reason that the exposure of such an elite cable of parasites would inevitably lead to immediate social revolution and the overthrow of this golden circle? Would you accuse this blog of pandering to the sensationalist gutter press stories of overly ambitious "investigative journalists"?



One law for the rich, one for the poor

 The golden circle does exist, and is unfortunately much more than the wishful fantasies of an Trinity Trotskyist. The influence of this group continues to resonate around our nation, and it is their actions that left our country open to the worst possible effects of the global downturn and corrupted any chance we had of a quick recovery.
Ireland had an abundance of SUV's, holiday homes in Turkey and up market restaurants during the Tiger years. We also had a plentiful supply of corrupt, greedy bankers. The shady dealings and narcissistic granting of high wages and bonuses to themselves make bankers like Sean Fitzpatrick, Brian Goggin and Denis Casey the architects of our economic destruction. These people including "bankrupt" Fitzpatrick, have drawn the "get out of jail free" card in recession Ireland.

Fianna Fail looked after their closest (and richest) supporters during the boom

While the rest us face wage cuts, trips to the dole que and sleepless nights worrying will we lose the house, these guys will be living off their massive pension. Former Bank of Ireland Managing Director ,Goggin will receive €650,000 a year. Former Irish Life and Permanent Chief Executive Casey left his job with €4.6 million, which included a €2.9 million payment into his benefit pension. "Bankrupt" Fitzpatrick can look forward to living off his wives €3 million, which includes part of his €3.4 million pension which is supposedly being seized.
These bankers are criminals, and there is no doubt that they exploited their golden circle connections with politicians and big business to defraud the state. But our government has learned its lesson, hasn't it? Ask John Corrigan, the new chief of the National Treasury Management Agency who has a salary of €490,000 a year, with a possible bonus of €390,000. This is in a time that your government believes it may have to cut the children's allowance to balance our nations books. NTMA was formed to manage our national debt, not to increase it!

But at least our politicians are tightening their belts now, arnt they? They have taken wage cuts, and Brian Cowen even sacked seven junior ministers last year to save money. Well it turns out Brian felt sorry for the poor dears and handed them €25,000 each to lighten the blow. Ooops!
The Golden Circle lives on. In fact, it prospers and will continue to as long as Fianna Fail or Fine Gael are steering the government of Ireland. The only chance to destroy the golden circle is to keep these two rotting abominations of Irish history out of office. The only chance to see the rise of an Ireland without corruption is to use your democratic power and vote in a new alternative.