I wasn't impressed with McCarthy, I have to say, and had really thought I would be when I heard he was going to be on.
McCarthy didn't stand a chance and fair play to him for agreeing to do it. People just didn't get it. Its like the guy who decided we could solve our €400m a week deficit by putting a levy but not a tax on property developers!!!
People know the public finances are in bits but no-one has the stomach for the fight. We can't touch the vunerable, we can't touch teachers, guards, nurses, paramedics, civil servants. We can't cut services, we can't reform work practices in the public sector.
What's left except taxation? Even if we introduce a 48% tax band like labour and the unions want, it won't even get close to €400m a week.
Like I say I am beat. I have accepted our fate!