Friends, let us briefly wind the clock back to those dark, dank days of November 2010 when the country teetered on the brink of financial meltdown and when you googled IMF, Tom Cruise movies held steady at the top of the search page.
The Irish Times had a lovely little nugget yesterday detailing just what happened when the Government decided to pick up the phone and tell the rest of us about just how deep in the shit we were.
Central Bank Governor Patrick Honohan put a call into Morning Ireland to confirm we were entering the bailout programme when he was met with the dulcet tones of Sunday Game presenter Des Cahill. There is nothing particularly unusual in that as Cahill explained, saying he was often in the newsroom and often took calls but we couldn't possibly let this slide without marking it down:
“I’ve a keen interest in current affairs and in the mornings we would be shooting the breeze. He rang in. I don’t remember verbatim what he said but as soon as he said ‘it’s Patrick Honohan’ I knew it was important
A special Sunday Game was not commissioned in which Eddie Hobbs and David McWilliams are urged by Des to "take us through" just what went wrong nor was Joe Brolly offered a platform to rage against the invasion of EU bureaucrats and the destruction of our economic sovereignty.
An opportunity missed, but at least we know, when catastrophe calls, Des will pick up the phone.
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