Will we ever see a report on the Irish banks like the UK's recent parliamentary report on HBOS? Its chapter headings read like a thriller - "The best board I ever sat on", "The price of failure", "Conclusion - a manual for bad banking".
I don't think the establishment has the stomach for a "full blooded" inquiry which would make the DIRT inquiry look like a picnic. As an alternative, our politicians could get a copy of the HBOS report and simply do a quick search/replace of names, places and dates as I suspect that the findings and conclusions could be left unchanged.
Letter published in the Irish Times on 15th April 2013.