Not a revelation. Ireland had no choice at that point anyway. Now that a big chunk of Ireland’s young families have departed for Australia and Canada leaving the keys to the house on the counter at the bank, where does the country go from here?
Of course they had a choice. They could have rejected the bullying outright; they did not need the loans. Seems like everyone’s forgotten that the bullying triggered a general election so that the EU could get the kind of government that would take the loans.