Back with more modest ambitions

Having previously manoeuvred Bank of Ireland away from a low period as chief executive, Pat Molloy returned to the bank as governor two years ago. Kyran Fitzgerald asks if he can now pull off another rescue act at Ireland’s ‘least bad bank'

THE job of chairman of a bank is not one for the faint-hearted these days.

Pat Molloy almost found this out the hard way when he found himself the target of ace egg thrower Gary Keogh at Bank of Ireland’s annual shareholder get-together up at UCD.