Ireland‘s debt and soaring homelessness problem has been blamed on the EU as a leading commentator warned he feared for his grandchildren’s future.
Eamon Dunphy said the harsh measures introduced in Ireland after the 2009 EU economic bailout is causing deep and painful problems for the island.
Mr Dunphy, one of Ireland’s best-known journalists and pundits, as well as a former footballer, hit out at leaders in Brussels and Dublin in an impassioned speech on TV3’s The Tonight Show.
He said: “We must address the justice or injustices of the European establishment towards us as a society.
“We do need to recognise that the crash will never end for our grand children. There’s €200 billion of debt that we are carrying and we paid the promissory note €6.7 billion the other day.”
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And Ireland’s ties to the EU came under fire when Mr Dunphy asked why Ireland had fought for freedom from Britain when it now chained itself so disastrously to Brussels.
He said: “What on earth did we fight for our freedom for?”
Mr Dunphy said a state of emergency should be issued before passionately outlining the litany of issues effecting Ireland.
He said: “I think [Ireland should act] by declaring a state of emergency, by admitting that a country that trains nurses but can’t keep them, that a country [which] has tonight in bed and breakfast accommodation children who have to get up around six o’clock tomorrow morning to get a bus for an hour, go to school, walk the streets, come back to the bed and breakfast…
“If that is not an emergency, a national emergency… The trolleys, people, 590,000 people on waiting lists for a hospital.”
The controversial commentator, who has hit the headlines in Ireland on countless occasions due to his outspoken comments on both current affairs and sports, defended the Irish people and said it was not them but the leaders were responsible.
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He said: “I’m not optimistic about this country. It’s not the people of this country.
The people of this country are amazing in their mood, how they deal with these things, how little racism we have.
“[They avoid] all of the things that afflict countries in bad times.”