DOZENS OF HEADLINES across every Irish Sunday newspaper call for the resignation of the head of government in Ireland. Brian Cowen was fit-for-purpose in the 1950s but in a day when one slurred word during a morning interview can cost the country billions of euro worth of interest charges, it's become costly keeping the Taoiseach in place. For the respect of the institution and for the good of the people, a general election needs to be called in Ireland. Thankfully, back bench politicians, independently elected local voices and curiously absent TDs can easily conspire to collapse the present government. The ideas are all across the Irish broadcast spectrum but more significantly, the need for a change in government is emerging in corporate boardrooms across the world. I expect evidence of that mood will emerge on Irish business pages before the December budget is proposed. In the meantime, I've a short 12-minute recap of the news, recorded while I paged through the papers.
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