It seems harder to lose AIB top job than to get it

As two banks reel in the wake of scandal, DAVID CLERKIN compares their reactions to the crises.

TO borrow a phrase from former US president Richard Nixon, who also left office ahead of schedule, we won’t have Michael Soden to kick around any more.

The Irish business world wakes up this morning to life without the Bank of Ireland chief executive, as well as Aer Lingus chairman and former AIB chief Tom Mulcahy.