Banking Inquiry week 15: How Ulster Bank was saved by the British taxpayer

It was the champion of the 100 per cent mortgage and sought to challenge the pillar banks. Yet the rise and fall of Ulster Bank has largely gone under the radar

Cormac McCarthy, former chief executive of Ulster BankCollins

It was the costliest bank bailout Irish taxpayers didn’t have to pay for. The Royal Bank of Scotland needed £46 billion from British taxpayers in 2008 to keep afloat. In the ...