Bank’s big three put in the line of fire

PRESSURE is mounting on the three top figures in AIB to appear before a Dáil committee investigating the financial scandals that have gripped the country’s biggest bank.

Chairman Dermot Gleeson, chief executive Michael Buckley and AIB Ireland boss Donal Forde are likely to be called to defend the bank’s reputation before the Dáil committee on finance and the public services.

Mr Gleeson, who was Attorney-General in the rainbow coalition government, is regarded as one of the country’s finest legal minds. The 55-year-old succeeded Lochlann Quinn as chairman last year after three years as a board member.