TV Review

‘I don’t accept that.” Slowly but surely, these four words are starting to become the national phrase de nos jours. They tumble from Brian Lenihan’s lips even more frequently than ‘‘going forward’’, ‘‘Lehman Brothers’’, ‘‘putting the country first’’, or ‘‘the issues that face us as a nation’’.

In the past fortnight alone, he has uttered them on everything from RTE radio to BBC’s Newsnight to last Wednesday’s interview with Miriam O’Callaghan on Prime ...