Politics has never been a favourite topic of mine. However, given the political lies and cover-ups, not to mind arrogance, party before people and personal gain before national gain that we have been exposed to before and since the onset of the recession and the banking crisis, I believe everyone in Ireland, including myself, have become more politically conscious. Certainly, we cannot afford to put the type of politician into power whose immature personal qualities have been part and parcel of the major downturn in Ireland’s social and economic fortunes. What is very clear is that it was not the Fianna Fail government that landed us in such an appalling state; it was individual government politicians. It is never a system – political, social, economic or religious – that perpetuates neglect; it is always an individual. Systems are created by individuals and it is other individuals that conform and collude with a system. A system has no head or heart; how can I talk to a system that needs to be challenged and changed?