Sir, – Will we ever see a report on the Irish banks like the UK’s recent parliamentary report on HBOS (Business, April 5th)? Its chapter headings read like a thriller – “The best board I ever sat on”, “The price of failure”, “Conclusion – a manual for bad banking”. I don’t think the establishment has the stomach for a “full-blooded” inquiry which would make the Dirt inquiry look like a picnic.
As an alternative, our politicians could get a copy of the HBOS report and simply do a quick search/replace of names, places and dates, as I suspect that the findings and conclusions could be left unchanged. – Yours, etc,
BRIAN FLANAGAN,
Ardmeen Park,
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Blackrock, Co Dublin.