AIB exploring ways to further boost earnings

AIB’S top management team may be new to the job, but the message from the bank was still the same yesterday.

After delivering bumper full-year results, chief executive Eugene Sheehy and finance director John O’Donnell said they expect the bank to deliver “low double-digit” earnings per share growth in 2006.

Profits in 2005 of €1.7 billion were in line with market forecasts, but many analysts were disappointed.