Cork woman writes impassioned and eloquent open letter to Enda Kenny

This letter perfectly sums up what a lot of Irish families are experiencing at the moment.

The letter, written by Donna Hartnett in Cork, appeared in the Irish Independent as an open letter to An Taoiseach Enda Kenny and caught the attention of Irish people. It captures the frustration, the feeling of helplessness and downright sense of abandonment so well.

You MUST read this letter to @Independent_ie today. #laststraw#Familypic.twitter.com/EPIqzSY8jV — Clarevirtually (@clarevirtually) November 11, 2014

Thousands of Irish families are going through the same thing and you sense that something has got to give one way or the other very soon. Here's the letter again in bigger format for you to read at your leisure: