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OPINION:We need to act quickly to stop the rot in the banks and send out a message of change, writes Fintan O'Toole

TO UNDERSTAND the scale of the Anglo Irish Bank debacle, and the consequent necessity for a change of government, it is necessary to return to a column I wrote after the revelation a month ago of Seán FitzPatrick’s systematic concealment of his huge loans.