The Irish banking system is not working – and that rarely ends well
Economies grow when banks lend money, but ours have become glorified safe deposit boxes
Banking Crisis
Colin Hunt: ‘We’ve seen greenwashing. The new phenomenon is greenhushing’
AIB's chief executive on what's ahead for the lender in 2026, from AI's impact on banking to the future of hybrid working
From PTSB sale to Revolut’s mortgage entry: why 2026 is set to be busy year in banking
Financial industry faces 12 more months of change after key chapters of the crisis era closed in 2025
It’s time to sound the alarm on growing fiscal and financial risk
Rising public debt is one concern – another is how it is being financed
‘Gary took no prisoners’: egg-throwing bane of AIB bankers dies
Plus: a pub is mislocated, Irish cheese shuns Hollywood and Busáras looks in the mirror
How AIB, once worth less than its art collection, came back from the brink
Free of State ownership again, the Irish bank is now hugely profitable, but the legacy of the bailout lingers
Prominent businessman loses bid for reporting restrictions on £1bn loan fraud trial
Belfast judge dismisses Frank Cushnahan’s application
Irish Nationwide Building Society inquiry cost reaches €24.3m
Former finance director John Stanley Purcell, its final subject, fined €130,000 and disqualified for four years
‘Waning global appetite’ for new financial rules to be applied
Central Bank deputy governor said backing of ambitious overhaul of bank regulation, agreed in wake of 2008 financial crash, critical
Light touch regulation did not work with banks and won’t work for video sharing platforms like TikTok
Coimisiún na Meán’s online safety code for video-sharing platforms contains echoes of the 2008 banking crisis
Online banking: why does AIB make it so difficult?’
Clunky online services are bad enough but not telling customers what they need to know to operate them is just daft
Bankinter shows way to banks wary of setting up Irish subsidiaries
Spanish firm entering market here but not using a standalone business
Making sense of the numbers around AIB’s share purchase offer
Bank has offered to buy out legacy investors who were all but wiped out in the crash and now hold shares worth less than the cost of selling them
Why did Bank of Ireland shares plummet despite record profits?
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