COMMENT: how we got the bank guarantee is not adequately explained

It is a pity we still don’t fully know what happened on that momentous night

Unanswered questions Pic: RollingNews.ie

And so it is all over. Questions asked, some answered, some not. Given the limitations it is hard to blame the individual members of the Banking Inquiry for producing a 456 report that doesn’t get to the bottom of everything. As an overview the report – on brief review – is better than expected in places but lacking in others.

The initial chapters of the report – looking at the failures of the ...