S&P upgrades Irish debt outlook

Link Below:
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2013/0212/breaking5.html

S&P says things are getting better for Ireland, based on their past inability to forecast anything - can we believe them?

So S&P reaffirmed the credit rating. If the deal was so good . Why didn't they give a higher rating.

These agencies are paid by financial institutions for their ratings. This is not a secret. In fact they are quite open about it. Yet we still follow it like the gospel. We always were good church goers...