Fiddling while Rome burns

Yesterday Senator Terry Leyden used his time and energy to slag off the Irish Times for offering opinion on the appointment of Marie Geoghan Quinn to a post in Brussels by Mr Brian Cowen. At the moment Ireland is in deep recession, over 400,000 people have lost their jobs, thousands of people have been forced from their homes, thousands of children have been refused operations, and the most vulnerable in society are being brutalised by this Government for the crimes of corrupt bankers and property speculators. Terry Leyden is an unelected person who represents nobody only his own and his party's narrow interests, the fact that Terry Leyden used his position to attack a paper of record for offering an opinion on a political appointment must be a kin to fiddling while Rome burns. Terry Leyden would be better tasked to get out on to the streets of Dublin and see how the ordinary decent people of this country are being treated, they unlike himself don't have 70,000 Euro per year salary for a makey up job they don't have access to tens of thousands in expenses, they don't have cosy centrally heated offices, they don't have fancy houses and gas guzzling cars at their disposal, they don't have investments and fatted pension plans, they don't have private health care, many have nothing not even a roof over their heads. Terry Leyden is entitled to his opinion but he is not entitled to use and abuse his unelected position to put his whims before the needs of the people.