The Government should support a debt write-down for Greece as it could benefit the Irish people, former rugby international Trevor Hogan has said.

Speaking a rally in Dublin on Monday in support of the Greek people, he said the media’s narrative had been that the crisis facing the people of Greece was their own fault and that the rest of Europe did not support them.

“I think in fact the majority of Irish people would like to see them get some space and some kind of a deal. The Greek people are being hammered by these demands for more and more austerity and ordinary European people see that.

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