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Irish banks: sick, sick, sick to the stomach.

Dionysus · 2010-03-31 23:07:24

I'm speechless at the figures which are coming out today for what we, Irish taxpayers, will have to pay. Now, the latest, is that Anglo-Irish Bank will require, as of today, a total of €22 Billion of Irish taxpayers' money to remain viable (http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2010/0331/breaking54.html) Think about…

31-03-2010 11:07pm

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I'm speechless at the figures which are coming out today for what we, Irish taxpayers, will have to pay.

Now, the latest, is that Anglo-Irish Bank will require, as of today, a total of €22 Billion of Irish taxpayers' money to remain viable (http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2010/0331/breaking54.html)

Think about that, the concept of billion.

That's 22,000,000,000 euro. An enormous and incomprehensible sum to the vast, vast majority of Irish people. That could change every community in Ireland. Health service, you name it.

Yet nobody but nobody seems to be destined for a long, long stretch in prison, least of all the man from Drumcondra who presided over this breathtakingly sorry mess. Nobody has said 'sorry'. Nobody has had to give up their €1,000,000 bonus which they got straight after Irish Nationwide Building Society was brought under NAMA, a bonus which Michael Fingleton of INBS received on top of his €27,000,000 - €27 million! - pension. All safe. It is us who are left with it.

This post has no particular purpose other that to register my revulsion at what is happening in our society. I know for certain that there are very many Irish people who feel just as sick.

As for directing this anger: how about an investigation into Bertie Ahern for starters? Let him be the first politician in Irish history to be charged with negligence (at least)?

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#2 31-03-2010 11:10pm

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Try the Irish Economy Forum OP

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