‘Go, go, go’ the call as bank chiefs feel the heat

THE reality of the banking crisis took on a very human face at Bank of Ireland’s extraordinary general meeting held in the Savoy Cinema in Dublin yesterday.

Angry private shareholders, some who have lost their entire nest eggs to see them through their old age, shouted “Go, go go” as soon as bank chairman Richard Burrows took to the podium.

As the meeting settled down one shareholder told how a woman living in a nursing home had sold her home to pay for her long-term care.