The last 48 hours have been depressing.

Despite huge disaffection with the government, the disgrace that is NAMA, the bankers riding roughshod over the rules now that they’ve got their bailout, the public and private sector workers being set against each other, strikes and a nasty budget on the horizon, politicians that continue to steal our money with their expenses and get away with, a rotten economy, high unemployment, lack of opportunity in the jobs market, a property market still on the slide, sweeping corruption throughout state bodies with more revelations about FÁS, increases in crime levels, a public health service being destroyed slowly but surely by Mary Harney to bring about a two-tier system to make money for her friends in high places, a pathetic Green party helping to prop up FF to maintain their little bit of power and the basic fact that everyone in this country is going to suffer for years of a small minority swilling at the trough, the only thing that has sparked widespread public reaction of anger and outrage is a fucking football match.

How sad.