But in his eyes the latter is manageable

I find me to hooves wheels badly parked cars, the worst job in the world. "In a centre of social aid to the North of Dublin, James, a young Irish engineer freshly returned from Australia, chooses to make a mockery of his situation. But he returned to the country to be closer to his family and to the University because it did not work, it looks at the next step with anguish. "I'm in the worst domestic housing construction;" "next may, if the situation is not improved, I must leave", he fears. With all these immigrants from Eastern Europe who, in recent years, the local dynamic, and which represent half of the people marching to the wickets of the administration in this Friday morning, James is one of the faces of the Irish economic crisis. In addition to part of this entire class of young people of the cru, ready to fashion the old tradition of immigration from the countries, which reawaken the nightmare of the years of misery, the manner in which he contemplates his situation well symbolizes 2010 Irish malaise. Without going to compare its current difficulties to extreme deprivation of the 1980s, the fear is bright to see erased all progress "during the years of the Celtic Tiger", as stated here, seem to refer to other countries

The Ireland is concerned and in this nation prone to unburden himself, the crisis feeds all the conversations. As elsewhere in Europe, but even more in this country beset by doubt, bankers are despised and corrupt politicians for a good for nothing. Recently, the Government well tried to burnish his advising that it had developed free of charge available to associations of charité cheese The operation seriously turned against him: pointing out that this aid already existed, the local press in violently caught to the authorities, pastichant crossing the Marie-Antoinette Queen: "they have no bread, they eat cheese!" In this hostile context, the coalition of the Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Brian Cowen might lose its majority in Parliament in very upcoming by-elections.

But what strikes the most on-site is the fear of the future While the unemployment rate exceeds the 13.5 of the population active, that emerge from severe cuts - the Government should announce December 7 EUR 6 billion to 2011, on a budget of slightly more than 50 billion, and 9 additional billion by 2014 full-year savings-, household savings rate jumped from 4 to 12 last year. In total, EUR 8 billion came thus inflating Irish wool stockings. This atmosphere morose and defeatist, some get agitated for the combattre

Meeting on November 3, at the initiative of the Ibec, the local equivalent of the Medef, major patterns of Irish groups and representatives of multinational based in Ireland tried to remotivate with this word: "Now, back to business." In the centre of the Congress of the nine brand-new business of Dublin district, these decision makers regretted that the national press depresses the nation. But with solemnity, they have also and above all their mea culpa for the excesses of the bubble years. "Then only six years separate us from the 100th anniversary of the 1916 uprising that led to independence, we want to be remembered as the generation of failure" asked seriously Sean O'Driscoll, the Director General of Glen Dimplex, a world leader in electrical devices. At this meeting vibrant calls for national solidarity will also launched, such as John Bruton: "poor countries that we in Africa repay their debts, is is away the former Prime Minister, we have the responsibility to pay and those betting against us markets will lose lots of money!"

It is clear that Irish elites, while remaining supportive of the euro, to want to be, because of their banks, in the category of cicadas as the Italy and the Greece. And, while the Ireland based his model on entrepreneurship, and, at the first signs of crisis, it has developed its public accounts flat: since 2008, it has already completed the half (15 billion) of peacebuilding efforts budget nécessaires The excesses of the bubble years are still guilty self-analysis. "In Germany, there is fear of inflation, in Ireland, that of the expulsion: perhaps is it that our citizens have bought several houses when they did not have the means", said John Bruton, in a yellow laughter.

The Ireland out yet not empty hands of the boom years. "People have savings, life is more comfortable as before, recognizes a woman of sixty years at the social centre of Dublin. There is not many homeless and not a problem of delinquency. "The country is still third in the ranking of GDP per head of the European Union. And irony of the news, the week that was announced "a bloodbath" budget, early November, the United Nations ranked the Ireland to 5 countries where it is good ties In fact, everything is not black in Ireland: tax rates remain low - it pays nothing below 30,000 euros of income - and unemployment benefits are relatively high, 200 euros per week, against 80 neighbour English At Dublin, where the recession is most felt, according to specialists, is barely the signs of the economic difficulties. For a city with a little more than a million inhabitants, there is an infinite choice of stylish restaurants, hotels cared and lively pubs. At the Italian restaurant where we led Alan Tyrell - the employer, the insurer Aviva, a decided despite the crisis to maintain European seat in the Irish capitalit does sign perhaps more larger real estate transactions in the country, as formerly. But this Saturday lunchtime customers are elbow-to-elbow and Ministers lunching with academics as if nothing had. Ten minutes away, the edge of the River Liffey business district is active. During the week, almost all floors of the buildings of glass light in the dusk and distinction silhouettes busily to all floors. Even in the turmoil, the 2010 Ireland has nothing to do with the years 1980

Tower of modernist concrete of the Central Bank, at the centre of the city, Patrick Honohan, Governor, is not to say that the population is rich enough to go through this crisis. But in his eyes, the latter is "manageable." "During the bubble years, Irish, including people like me, were paid more that was sustainable for the economy in the long term, he says.". Now they face their nominal wage reductions, which is rare. "And the pill will be even more bitter that they took"of financial commitments, such as borrowing real estate, higher than before the previous crises. "

According to University economist Morgan Kelly, who comes to sensation by publishing a catastrophic section in the "Irish Independent", more than 100,000 households have a loan