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"Irish" Banks

Grecco · 2011-05-24 07:47:57

I think its a con job to put the word Irish or Ireland beside any of these banks. There not, there were just public traded stocks on the Isaq and Ftse thats it. Wall Street traders had as much ownership/interest in these as any trader. One things for sure, the ordinary Irish Joe soap didn't own any of it. By puttting the…

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I think its a con job to put the word Irish or Ireland beside any of these banks. There not, there were just public traded stocks on the Isaq and Ftse thats it.
Wall Street traders had as much ownership/interest in these as any trader.
One things for sure, the ordinary Irish Joe soap didn't own any of it.
By puttting the name Irish and Ireland onto these banks they are awarded some type of national protection. this is Bu11 ; they should now be renamed bank A, B,C etc then it would be easier to let them off with the wind!!:D

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