(Today’s Irish Independent cover, top, and, above Late Debate audio)

“The State cannot handle the truth of their own involvement in the collapse of the banks. In theory that could expose the state to litigation from bondholders, shareholders, investors and anybody else who got their fingers burnt.

And when you look at what the State does when it really really wants to tackle something after Veronica Guerin’s murder, we moved in extraordinary apparatus, the Criminal Assets Bureau, multi-disclipinary teams getting in to deal with a very specific problem.

You look at what’s happened after the banking crisis, has there been anything near that political will reflected in legislation and other measures? And for me, that speaks volumes about the real committment.”

 

Irish Independent legal editor Dearbhail McDonald speaking  on RTE’s Late Date on June 25th.

State begins witch-hunt to catch the Anglo Tape sources (Fionnan Sheahan, Cormac McQuinn and Peter Flanagan, Irish Independent)

Thanks Oireachtas Retort