The Taoiseach's problem is he doesn't have five months, let alone five years to turn things around.

This problem was way above the horizon last summer, while Cowen was sitting in his caravan knocking back a few and having golf lessons. If we had a series of planned measures implemented and being acted on Now, six months dwon the line from then, we might be persuaded that he had more tricks to his bag than just (inept) crisis/panic management.

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