Bankers must fall on their swords

BEFORE the Cowen/Lenihan guarantee runs out in September 2010 the board and chief executives, chairmen and entire boards of the six banks involved must be replaced.

They should all resign in an orderly but inglorious fashion over the next 24 months with the bulk of the resignations coming in the next six months.

These are the people that brought the Irish economy to the edge of the abyss, forced the hand of the Government to risk all our futures and, to date, these gombeens have not even had the decency to say “thank you” to Taoiseach Brian Cowen, Finance Minister Brian Lenihan, Central Bank governor John Hurley and the rest of the Oireachtas for saving their bacon.