Inquiries into AIB must be thorough

IT is becoming increasingly obvious to those who hadn’t realised it before now, the banks have been ripping us off for a long time.

Just how deep the rip-off has been will probably never be known. Suspicions lurk and it is difficult to know if the full extent of their power to manipulate prices and cost of services will ever be unveiled.

In the past, AIB displayed huge strategic weaknesses in their seriously misjudged purchases, ICI in particular.