The legacy of a generation of politicians may be their own death sentences...

I attended an anti property tax meeting in Tallaght some months ago. I grew up in Tallaght and still live there. In the 80s, Tallaght was the 3rd largest conurbation (nobody uses that word anymore) in Ireland after Dublin, Belfast and Cork with a population of more than 80,000! With later growth it was subsumed into Dublin and given a city postcode.

At the meeting there were about 70 people in attendance. I had not intended to speak but looking at the audience I was struck by the profile of it. I said a few words and asked for a show of hands of those below the age of 40. There were 5 people.

The most concerned group if the country are the pensioners, the grand-parents, PEOPLE WHO WERE ALREADY AT THE END OF THEIR WORKING LIVES WHEN THE BOOM HAPPENED AND WHO STILL REMEMBER THE 70s AND 80s - power cuts, queues at petrol stations, bin strikes, bomb scares in Henry St, unemployment, the emigration of their sons and daughters.

The Celtic Tiger generation and their children have never known or have too-willingly forgotten hardship. People who left college and walked straight into company cars, cheap mortgages, two holidays, eating out more than eating in...are not equipped to understand or deal with the austerity economy.

We are very close to daily news reports of family suicides (of young and old), panic emigration and potentially violent armed protest and retribution by those, like the man who write this letter, who have nothing more to lose and seek their own justice before they leave this world.

This is the legacy of our politicians ... not just those in power like Fianna Fail who set us on this course, but Fine Gael, The Green Party, The PDs, Labour and even Sinn Fein who sat in opposition on the other side of Dail Eireann and SPECTATED while our country was sold to anyone ready to purchase a ministerial signature on some treasonous piece of legislation.

Well done Bertie, Biffo, Lowry, Enda and all in Gangster House.... you were all so concerned about your political legacies, the irony is that future generations will NEVER forget what you did.