Money Matters

Matt Cooper has just published his book on the Elite group of people who brought about the boom and then the bust. Cooper who is a seasoned journalist of over 20 years tells it as it was and as it is. How people like Birty Ahern and Sir Antony O Reilly were big players in the elite group that drove Ireland during the boom years but like many others they ran from the scene once the economy crashed and left others to pick up the pieces. Cooper tells us that Brian Cowen is a man with talent yet it is a talent not seen in his years as Minister for Finance or indeed since becoming leader of the present inept Government. Cooper says himself that much of what he has written is already in the public domain yet he is the one who has joined the dots, he is the one who places the weight of truth on the shoulders of those who would like to re-write history. Cooper I think has got it write, I am sure he had and has more to say yet the legal millionaires down at the Goldmines would cause great difficulty for anyone trying to put it all out there, yet Cooper has managed to side step much of what has been kept under raps up until now. This is a book that will be on my Christmas list because of its honesty and diligent research.