Banking Inquiry

INBS chief approved top-up loan without sufficient backup, inquiry papers show

Social Democrats deputy Stephen Donnelly calls for Minister for Finance’s resignation

Shortfall among a litany of weaknesses at Irish Nationwide highlighted by inquiry report

‘It would not surprise’ Micheal McGrath if pressure contributed to minister’s illness

Eoghan Murphy said Joe Higgins planned to oppose report before even signing up to committee

NTMA advised Government of possible savings in March 2011

‘External authorities’ warned a ‘bomb’ would go off if State tried to burn bondholders

This is what accountability looks like. It’s incredibly slow and not very pretty but digging for the truth is the murkiest job in the world

Markets had factored in ‘burden sharing with subordinate and senior debt’

Report managed to land some blows but lacked killer punch

‘Solvent’ as it pertained to status of covered banks was removed from final official statement

Pearse Doherty declines to sign off on final report, calling it ‘incoherent and dysfunctional’

Committee says ECB insisted there would be no burden-sharing with bondholders

Electorate does not need banking inquiry report to decide if has quite finished with FF

Shared responsibility ‘does not mean that nobody was responsible’, says FF’s McGrath