Readers Blog: We moaned and looted while the snow fell around us
We Irish trudged through snow and blizzards during Storm Emma to ensure everyone was safe and warm.
We called the radio show, Liveline, to moan that the national services were fantastic, but our ailments were more important than the emergency personnel risking their lives to reach us.
Nobody starved, because we had huge amounts of bread stowed in the attic.
Looting is usually the last resort of deprived masses, taking advantage of a situation that gives them a perceived freedom.
Not so in Ireland.
We demolish a local store that provides a service to its environs and, more importantly, provides employment to 30 of our neighbours.
We plan this carefully and, with the compliance of friends, we even foolishly film ourselves in the act.
We don’t work. We know that we will get free legal aid, that the State will subsidise our home and our income.
We have free healthcare and travel. So, we go to jail for a few weeks. Who cares? It will not cost me a cent, but, in this welfare state, everybody will pay.
