canicemcavoy
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Article by Matt Cooper that includes references to an interview with Ahern:
http://www.irishexaminer.ie/opinion...ke-that-busted-property-developer-130355.html
Plenty of people including Cooper deride Bertie for this. But I'm wondering how many people out there still accept this version of events - that Ireland's economy was fine, the property bubble wasn't a bubble at all, Irish banks were fine, and that it was all the fault of external factors.
http://www.irishexaminer.ie/opinion...ke-that-busted-property-developer-130355.html
The reality is I left this country in a state where we had low national debt, where we had full employment, low taxes and I didn’t foresee Lehman’s coming down and the rules changing," he said in an interview with RTÉ’s John Murray.
Plenty of people including Cooper deride Bertie for this. But I'm wondering how many people out there still accept this version of events - that Ireland's economy was fine, the property bubble wasn't a bubble at all, Irish banks were fine, and that it was all the fault of external factors.