Banking Inquiry

Anglo said it would be the most profitable bank after guarantee

Draft plan claimed bank could overcome ‘issues’ caused by crisis, inquiry told

Government denies Noonan misled Dail on burning bondholders

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

Michael Fingleton allowed £10m loan increase without approval - banking inquiry

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

Stress of crisis may have been factor in Lenihan’s death, TD says

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

Banking inquiry members clash over ‘bias’ accusation

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

Burning bondholders ‘could have saved the State €9bn’

NTMA advised Government of possible savings in March 2011

Banking inquiry: ECB says it was always transparent about role

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

Susan O’Keeffe: Banking inquiry is part of our growing up as a nation

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

Banking inquiry report a ‘disservice to the Irish people’

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

Banking inquiry: Timeline

Bank guarantee night data indicated shorter plan

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

NTMA suggested haircuts of €9.1bn on senior bondholders at banks

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

Banking inquiry: anticlimax as questions go unanswered

Report managed to land some blows but lacked killer punch

European Central Bank sharply criticised in report

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

Findings unlikely to have a huge bearing on Fianna Fáil vote

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

ECB refusal on bondholders 'left public with inappropriate burden'

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

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