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Tue 02 Feb 2009Is it too much to expect the words: 'We were wrong'?

Brian Lenihan remains an avid aficionado of the Not-Our-Fault-But defence that is currently doing the rounds, writes ELAINE BYRNE.

WE ARE sorry. We were wrong. These words are without quotation marks because they remain politically homeless.